OCT. 10, 1896.] 
FOREST AND STREAM^ 
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Hy Thurman (6). 
LandiB (B). 
WH W{8), 
Harlow (14). 
Swiveller (15) , 
Duke (12) , 
Coldren (8), 
Remsen (12). 
147 (5). 
Burton (10). 
Anderson (10). 
Kinzer(15). 
Moyer (16). 
A L Hoffmeister (14) . 
GFNesbitt(6). 
Wellington (11). 
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THIRD DAY, OCT. 1. 
This was a day of periods of warm sunahine interspersed with cold 
and ttireatening skies that made the target shooting harder than ever. 
BoUa Heikes's work in the Parker Brothers' event, the 100-target race 
In which he scored 97, was something that could hardly be duplicated. 
That event is given special notice below. 
In the State events the American Wood Powder trophy for three- 
men teams was the main event. In the table run below No. 5 was a 
merchandise event. 
The team race is treated of elsewhere. No. 5 was a merchandise 
prize event. Scores: 
Events: 1 !S 3 4 5 Events: 1 S 3 4 5 
Targets: 15 20 15 20 25 
Slear 15 13 11 .. 17 
Henry 15 10 18 24 
Ritter 19 12 18 20 
Fry 13 .. ,. 20 
Denny 14 9 17 21 
Fuller 14 13 10 23 
W H W 18 13 20 24 
Stroh 23 
Addis n 81 
Conway 16 
Moyer 20 
Coldren 21 
Targets: 15 80 15 20 25 
Duke 13 15 13 19 20 
WelUngton 9 17 11 17 23 
Corcoran 8 16 11 13 21 
Brewster 11 18 14 16 22 
Learning 6 15 14 18 15 
Burnham 11 16 14 14 22 
BP Life 12 Ifi 11 14 22 
Burton 12 14 13 14 19 
Nesbit 12 16 13 19 20 
Anderson 12 16 12 17 20 
Landis 13 17 12 16 22 
Thurman 13 18 14 15 21 
SulUvan 12 17 12 20 25 
THE THREE MEN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP. 
The contest for the trophy donated by the" American Wood Powder 
Co. for the three-men team championship of the State was a pretty 
one, four teams entering tor the event, Tne Keystone Shooting League 
continued its good team work of the previous day and walked oH with 
this trophy also. That young member of tbe State Sportsmen's Asso- 
ciai ion, the Florist City Gun Club or Philadelpoia, went to the score 
and took second place, being defeated by only 5 breaks for th trophy. 
The conditions of the event were; 25 sii g es, known traps and angles, 
and 5 pairs. Detailed scores were as b low: 
Keystone Shootiog League. 
W H Wolstencroft 1111111111111111011111111—24 
11 11 11 11 10 — 9—33 
Landis 1111111101111111111111111-24 
11 11 01 11 11 — 9—33 
Hy Thurman 1111101011111101110110111—20 
11 11 10 10 01 — 7—27—93 
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Anderson llllllOlllllUlllOlllllOl— 22 
11 11 11 10 11 — 9-31 
Burton 1111111111011110111111111—8.3 
10 10 10 10 11 — 6 -29 
8 P Life. . . , , 1110111111110111001111101—20 
11 11 10 10 11 — 8—28—88 
Harrisburg Shooting association. 
Sullivan 1101111011111101111111111-22 
11 01 11 11 11 - 9-31 
Brewster.. 1101111111111110111011101-21 
11 11 10 10 11 — 8—29 
Wellington 0111111011101110110111101-19 
11 11 10 10 10 — 7—26-86 
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Stroh , 1111101111111011111111111—23 
11 11 11 11 10 — 9-32 
G F Nesbltt , 1111001111111111101110111—21 
10 11 10 11 11 — 8-29 
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The programme for the open-to-all set of traps was the same as 
yesterday's. The 100-target race and its special features are men- 
tioned elsewhere. Below is a table of the scores in the 
Events: 
Targets: 
Heikes 
Bartlett . . , ; 
Edwards 
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Money........... 
Duke 
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Brewster 
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18 3 Events: 
SO so so Targets: 
18 18 19 Coldren 
18 18 17 Wellington 
14 s;0 18 Remsi-n 
16 15 18 Denny 
18 19 17 W H W 
15 18 17 Ritter 
20 15 14 Wanda i,,,,.^-. 
12 13 . . Fuller 
18 17 19 Malone 
20 17 17 Longneeker 
18 18 18 Henry 
13 12 12 Macbeth i 
18 17 18 Corcoran..,.,, 
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THE CONTEST FOR THE PARKER QtTN. 
The 100-target handicap event for the ownership of the gun donated 
by the firm of Parker Bros., of Meriden, Conn., vras a special feature 
of the programme of open events for this, the third day of the shoot. 
The handicapping committee was the same as that which officiated in 
alike capacity yesterday and aI«o on Tuesday; it was composed of 
two members, Jacob Fentz and Elmer E Shaner, both being non-con- 
testants. The rule that no shooter could score more than 100 targets 
was adhered to, and as a result there were four ties for first place and 
the gun. The shoot-off of the tie was a very pretty piece of target- 
shooting, the fo"r men breaking the targets in great shape. 
The feature of this race was RoUa Heikes's 50 straight on his first 50 
tareets, aod H. P. "Du Pont" Collins's 85 straight in the third round 
of 25, When Collins broke his last target in the 25, pandemonium 
reigned for a few minutes, all who were not shooting having come up 
to witness the finish when it began to be rumored around the grounds 
that '-Collins is going straight down there." His startling change of 
form was a fruitful source of conversation for the balance of the day 
and a great part of the night, while his right hand must have ached as 
a result of the handshaking he had to go through. 
Squad No 1, Elmer Shaner's "awkward squad"- Heikes, Bartlett, 
Edwards. Howard, Von Lengerke and Capt. Money— did some good 
team work in this race, breaking 544 out of 600 shot at. The squad 
lost only 10 targets out of the first 150, and only 12 out of the second 
150, breaking 278 out of 300. In the second half of the race tne squad 
lost 34 targets of the 300 shot at, breafeing 266, an average of 88 6, and 
making an averagt* for the whole 600 of 90 6. Rolla Heikes's 97 had a 
good deal to do with it, the rest of the Equad finishing their lOO targets 
as follows: Bartlett and Von LangerRe 91 each, Howard 89, Capt. 
Money 88, with Edwards low man with 87. Harry Dill (Henry) broKe 
93 out of his 100, and attributes his ultimate loss of the gun to nis hav- 
ing to change loads owing to his running out of shells. Remsen shot 
well again to day, and was second to Heikes at the end of the first 
half with 48 out ol 50. He fell down on the last 50 just when he looked 
like a sure tie man, breaking only 43 and, with hia handicap, landing 
3 targets short of 100. Fuller Worden made good use of bis handicap 
of 20 targets, and came within 1 of making 100. 
The result of the handicap race, in series of 25 targets, unknown 
angles, is given below, the figures in the column marked "handicap" 
giving the totals broken out of the handicap allowances: 
I8t25. 2d 25. 3d 25. 4th 25. Hep. T'l. 
H Landis (8) 23 23 23 25 6* 100 
Henry (14) 23 24 24 22 7» 100 
Capt Money (14) 24 20 23 21 12 100 
Dick Swiveller (IS) 23 22 23 21 11* 100 
Fuller (20) 20 22 19 20 18 99 
JSSRemsen (7) 24 24 22 21 7, 98 
RO Heikes (0) 85 25 23 24 .. 97 
J von Lengerite (6) 24 23 22 22 6 97 
John Coldren (8) 22 23 21 24 7 97 
WHW(8) 23 23 23 20 8 96 
Duke (13) ..22 23 18 83 10 96 
Hy Thurman (6) 21 S2 33 24 5 94 
Sullivan (7) 23 20 23 Si 6 94 
Howard (4) _ 23 24 22 20 4 93 
W H Burnnam (12) 21 20 21 22 9 93 
BF Smith (15) ....21 18 19 22 13 93 
B A Bartlett (0) 23 24 21 24 ,. 92 
FS Edwards (5) 21 • 28 23 21 5 92 
Wellington (11) 20 20 23 19 11 92 
Brewster (II) 31 16 21 20 11 89 
J O'H Denny (30) 23 17 17 20 11 88 
Burton (11) Si 21 17 20 7 87 
Anderson (12) 18 17 SI 20 10 86 
Fry (20) 80 18 18 16 14 86 
H P Collins (20) 17 12 25 20 10 84 
Slear (14) 17 16 18 18 13 82 
* Lflndis only shot at 6 of the 8 extra targets, Henry at 9 of the 14 
allowed him, and Swiveller at 11 out of the 18 he received as his handi- 
cap allowance. * 
Tne four men tied with 100 each shot off at 25 targets per man, with 
no handicap allowince. Aa will oe seen, Hsnry lost his 85th target, 
thus tieing again with Landis, the latter winning on the second shoot- 
off. The scores made in the first shoot make the excellent total of 93 
out of 100: 
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FOURTH DAY, OCT. 3. ' ^„ 
This was the last day of the shoot, and as usual it was devoted to 
live birds, the two State events— the L. C Smith trophy for three men 
teams and the Wiliiamsport trophy for the individual championsnip 
of the State— being the main features of the programme. On the 
open set of traps a series of miss-and-outs, $2 entrance, were shot off, 
the failure in tne supply of birds alone putting a stop to the shooting. 
It was a lovely day, with a wind that aided the birds. The fine 
weather t '.mpted a great many people to leave the city and come out 
to the grounds, tbe result being that there was one or the largest 
crow ds present that we have ever seen at a shoot. There were not 
many ladies among the crowd, the comparatively inaccessible loca- 
tion of the grounds having probably a good deal to answer for in that 
respect. 
The contests for the two trophies above mentioned were watched 
with great interest, the enthusiasm reaching a high pitch in the pro- 
longed shoot-off for the Wilhamsport badge between J. Thurman and 
Brewster. The 
li. C. SMITH TROPHY FOR THREE-MEN TEAMS 
was competed for by four teams, representing respectively the 
Luzerne County Sportmen's Club, the Harrisburg Shooting Associa- 
tion, the Keystone Shooting League, and the Independent Gun Club, 
ot Reading The Luzerne C!ounty men won the trophy with the score 
of 39 out of 45, each man shooting at 15 birds; the Harrisburg team 
and the Philadelphia team tied for second place. W. H. Stroh, of the 
winning team, was the only man of the twelve who shot in this con- 
test to score his 15 birds. Tne scores in detail are given below, the 
flight of each bird being shown by Forest and Stream's trap score 
type. We are enabled to show the fiight of the bu-ds through the 
courtesy of G. WelUngton Jones, managing editor of the Harrisourg 
Call, who acted in the capaoiiy of official scorer in the State events, 
and who ftu-nished us with a duplicate of the scores, showing the re- 
sults as follows: 
Trap score type— Copyright fS96 by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
Luzerne County Snooting Association. 
W H Stroh 2 222a5i 1 l l 221 1 2 1—15 
G F Nesbitt, 
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George Addison i 3 1 OaSsil 0 280 2 2 1—18—39 
Harrisburg Shooting Association. 
Harlow .....3 120111111 11113-14 
Brewster <i 1203103121312 2—13 
Henry. 
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Keystone Shooting League. 
W H Wolstencroft 1331131833102 3—14 
Landis , 2 llll»1203313l 3—13 
HyThurmnn 2 1122«20130310 2—11—38 
Independent Gtm Club, of Reading. 
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John Coldren 3 1313333833011 3—14 
B Harrison .,, .0 1 3 2 1 1 3 1 3 3 3 0 1 a 8—13 
Moore 0 0»30000 »00u0»0— 1—28 
Team races do not attract quite as much interest as individual 
matches do. There is something in a man-to-man contest that is not 
to be found in a team race, and that something seems to catch the 
crowd, the contest for the indivioual championship attracting much 
more attention than the above race. 
Sixteen entries were made tor 
THE WILLIAHSPOHT TROPHY, 
and . Qf that 16 two— Joseph Thurman, tbe father of Harry 
("Father Time") Thurman, of the Keystone Shooting League, and 
Brewster, of the Harrisburg Phooting Association— were tbe only ones 
to make 15 straight. The birds were a good lot as a whole, mere than 
half of them being excellent flyers that made the boys do their best 
work to score them. At times one came ncross a crate of birds that 
were only medium, but as a rule there was noi bing to complain about. 
Under such conditions, therefore, it was somewhat a matter of luck 
us to what sort of a bird one drew. We noticed instances of the sort 
more than once. W. H. Burnham, of York, drew a succession of 
three or four hot ones, chocolate-colored birds, that put an extin- 
guisher on his hopes of wearing the diamond badge. E. F. Slear, of 
Bunbury, was another instance of the same kind. He is only a begin- 
ner at the sport, as we were informed, but his work was that of a 
more experienced man. His flrst loss was caused by a dark-blue bird 
that was calculated to beat many a crackerjack; he hit it hard with 
his flrst barrel, but failed to locate it soon enough with his second 
barrel to enable him to use his shell effectively. M. M. McMillan, of 
Mahanoy City, the winner of the badge last year, again shot well, 
and only fell down on a bird that anybody might have treated just as 
he did. 
The shoot-off Was a long one, but was full of exciting incidents. The 
two shooters were types of different styles of shooting; Mr. Thurman 
being a slow shot and very effective with his flrst barrel; Brewster 
was quicker, and needed his second barrel much oftener in the early 
part of the tie than his sixty-three-year-old opponent. It often hap- 
pens that people who are interested in a shooter are so deeply en- 
grossed in his work and the birds he draws that they do not form as 
accurate an opinion of the run of the birds as an impartial spectator 
might be expected to be able to do. We beard several remarks made 
that Brewster drew much the hardest birds in the shoot-off, and it is 
a fact that he drew a larger proportion of outgoing birds than his 
opponent did But the difference in the run of the birds was really 
very slight, and much of the apparent easiness of some of Mr. Thur- 
man's birds wa« due solely to the deadly effect of his flrst barrel, 
which time after time closed up his birds without leaving a kick in 
them. The score of the shoot-rff shows 11 one-barrel kills for Thur- 
man and 10 for Brewster, but Thurman used his second barrel seven 
or eight times when it was really unnecessary. 
The tie was shot off at 5 birds. The flrst series resulted In a tie, 
each man killing his 5. The second bird of the next series of 5 that 
fell to Brewster's lot was an easy one, a circling incomer to the left; 
much to the surprise of everybody, he lost it, and put Thurman one 
ahead. The next two rounds resulted in kills for both men, and then 
Mr. Thurman got up to kill to win. As he rqse from the campstool 
he was sitting on he said: "This settles It." As it turned out he was 
wrong, his bird getting away from him; Brewster then had to kill to 
tie, and he did it in good style. The next two series of 5 birds were 
shot and the score was still a tie, with the destination of the diamond 
badge an uncertainty. Each man had a narrow escape in those rounds. 
Brewster had a bird that ftll within 15in. of the open boundary, but 
was safely gathered by the shooter. A few rounds later Thurman 
had a much narrower escape, his bird dropping almost on the line, 
where it ttood facing outward, with lots of life in it, and its head cut- 
ting an imaginary line drawn between the two boundary flags; Thur- 
man walked the bird in a little to make more sure of it, as although 
its wing was gone, it was a lively pigeon yet; he then gathered it in, 
and the crowd cheered the veteran as he came back to the score. 
Brewster's 22d bird in the ties fell dead out of bounds, and cost him 
the badge and the title of champion Uve bird shot of the State of 
Pennsylvania, both of which are now the property of Joseph Thur- 
man, a member of the almost invincible Keystone Sliooting League, 
of Philadelphia. To win those honors he had to score 39 out of 40 
birds, Brewster losing two, one of them dead out of bounds, out of 
the seime number shot at. The scores in this event were as below: 
Trap score type— Copyright, iS96, by forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
J Thurman, 1 1312211111222 2—15 
H Brewster 2 2223818823238 3—15 
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Hy Thurman ,.,.,..1 12113212»2118 8—14 
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J M Runk 2 31231 0281 1333 3—14 
E F Slear .1 3 1 1 1 3 1 3 3 0 1 3 1 1 J— 14 
John Coldren 3031211111282 3 3—14 
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*GFNesbitt , l 101813 3 18103 3 3—13 
E J Adams 3;!j82t/1233308«3 2—18 
George Addison .3 13 2 •0231 131 38 u— 12 
JO'HDenny ,. 2 0188301101118 0—11 
Harlow 313310 1, 1000133 8—11 
Wellington 3 2211000110122 2—11 
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B Harrison ....8 8 202000102202 3—9 
* Nesbitt's 3d bird was lost, owing to the safety catch of his gun not 
being adjusted properly. 
The tie was bhot off in series of 5 birds. It took 25 birds per man 
before the tie was decided. Scores and fiight of birds were as follows: 
No. 1. No. 8. No. 3, No. 4. No. 5. 
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THE MISS-AND-OUTS. 
Some excellent work was done on the upper set of traps, where ?2 
miss-and-outs were shot all day. The boys would have kept on shoot- 
ing an hour and a half longer had the supply of birds not been ex- 
hausted Harry Thurman did some good work, running 42 straight 
on this set. Hayward and Howard, both Baltimoreans, shot well in 
the morning, while Denny struck a streak in the afternoon: 
No. 1. 
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Money 0 
Wellington 1122. 
Bartlett 211132 
Henry ,,...0 
Harry Thurman 0 
Hayward 12110 
Macbeth 20 
Howard 318113 
Brewster 10 
Heikes 828882 
Malone 811120 
Smith 20 
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Coldren 8110 
Macbeth 80 
Hayward 1888110 
Smith 133;;888 
Hy Thurman. ,.i 181 1813 
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BarOett 31219' 
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