Oct. 34, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Programmes and Tournaments. 
In the course of a year Fokest and Sthkah receires some 250 to 300 
prograinmes of tournamentB for trap-stiooters. As a matter of 
course, and in accordance with the old proverb of "Many men, manv 
minds," there is a great variety of styles in these programmes. We 
are not speaking of typographical or artistic styles: with them we 
have nothing whatever do, and outside of some little benefit to adver- 
tisers in those programmes it really matters very little how the pro- 
grammes are gotten out. A neat little boot or pamphlet, good paper, 
clean and artistic, presswork— such things go a long way toward 
making a programme attractive, and therefore of more intrinsic 
Talue to advertisers who have paid so much a page for a notice in the 
programme. What we are about to deal with is the variety of styles 
in the composition of a programme. 
When a club first decides on holding a tournament it generally 
appoints a tournament committee whose duty It Is to carry that club 
safely through the quicksands and shallows of a shoot, much as a 
pilot is taken aboard an ocean steamer for the purpose of bringing It 
safely into port. If the ship is wrecked, the pilot fs blamed; and in 
like manner, if the tournament is a failure, the tournament commit- 
tee is given fits by the balance of its fellow-members. There is a sav- 
ing clause in both instances: If the elements— an act of God, as it 
were— are the cause of the wreck or failure, mitigating circumstances 
may be pleaded. 
TOtJBNAMBNT COUMTTTBES APPOINTKD WITH CARK. 
Gun clubs, as a rule, recognize the importance of the duties of the 
tournament committee, and the chairman of the meeting at irhich a 
motion is made to appoint a tournament committee is careful to 
appoint only such men as are well known to be in sympathy with the 
movement and full of enthusiasm for the good cause. Gun clubs, 
like kindred organizations, are unfortunately too often the victims of 
cliques. In such cases the appointment of a tournament committee 
is a ticklish matter, and the chairman of that committee .should be a 
man of tact— one capable of handling the body of men he is chosen to 
oontrol. The size of the committee depends largely on the size of 
the club, and the tournament It contemplates holdiug. As a rule a 
committee of from three to five members is large enough, but we 
would suggest the latter number in all cases wherever possible. 
Three make a quorum to five, and such a number is almost always 
easy to get together. 
We will suppose that a committee has been appointed "to report on 
the advisablity of holding a tournament at the nest regular meeting" 
of the club. The duties of each member of this committee would be 
to see personally all the members of the club he can call on or meet 
and ascertain their views on the point; then get together, compare 
notes and prepare a report. If it is favorable and is adopted, a 
motion would be in order, under the head of new business, to appoint 
a committee to carry out the views of the above committee. This 
would be a "tournament committee." 
CONFLTCTING DATES. 
When deciding upon dates for your tournament, scan carefully the 
list of forthcoming events in our Fixtures column and avoid all 
possible chance of a conflict of dates. Claim your dates well ahead; 
be first in the field and thus, by courtesy, obtain a prescriptive right 
to those dates. 
During the past twelve months we have had more than one instance 
of the unfortunate results attached to a conflict of dates. Of course, 
it is perfectly right and proper that two gun clubs, with 1,000 or 1,500 
miles between them, should hold shoots on the same dates. Such 
tournaments would not affect the attendance at either the one or the 
other; that is, not to a serious extent, unless one of them happened 
to be one of the large tournaments on "the circuit." 
The months of May and June are favorites with promoters of tour- 
naments. While there is always a danger of conflicting dates in any 
month of the year, there is far more danger of such a mishap occur- 
ring during those two months than in the whole of the otner ten. Our 
advice is: Watch the Fixtures column closely and avoid trouble. 
Passing over for the present all the other duties of this tournament 
committee, such as arrangements for holding the shoot, the soliciting 
of advertisements to pay for the cost of printing the programme, 
etc., we will now deal with the most important duty of all— the com- 
position of the programme. 
A CHANOK TO GET EVEN. 
The old days, when it was only necessary to state in Forest anb 
Stream that such and such a club was going to hold a shoot in order 
to get a crowd of shooters together, have gone by. The boys get a 
lot of shooting nowadays, and are very chary of going far away from 
home to meet others in front of the traps. Gun clubs were scarce 
then; they are numberless now, and all of them hold weekly or fort- 
nightly shoots which afford lots of sport. Times were good then; 
they are hard now, and the boys have to stick to business very close, 
with but few five-dollar bills to throw away without a chance to get 
even. That's the point: The chance to get even I To draw a good 
attendance at any shoot you must give the Doys a chance to get even. 
The outlay of a man who is not paid to attend tournaments is consid- 
erable, even before he gets his gun out of its case and fires a shot. 
First there is his railroad fare; he should always get a return ticket, 
80 that he may be sure he won't have to walk Home. Next, there is 
his hotel bill and othpr daily expenses, which cannot be figured at less 
than S3 per day, or say $10 for a three-days' shoot. His shells are a 
big item; he will require 600 or 700 for a shoot of this size. At $2 per 
100, a low figure, there's gl3 to §14 gone again. If the programme 
calls for 175 or 200 targets, ne must put aside from $17.50 to $20 more 
for each day. Taking the lowest estimate in each case, and figuring 
his railroad fare at $10, we have an outlay of $84.50. To get even he 
figures that he must draw out of the purses at least $.30 per day to 
cover contingencies. Unless he shoots an abnormal gaic (that is, for 
him), say over 90 per cent, each day, he cannot hope to do it unless 
the- e is a substantial sum of added money to shoot for. The conse- 
quence is that when i here is no such sum of added money offered he 
stays away, and lots more do the same, with the result that the tour- 
nament is a practical failure. 
THE OBJECT OF THE TOURNAMENT. 
Another point for a tournament committee to consider is the ob- 
ject for which the tournament is being promoted. We hold that no 
lournament should be given with a view to making money for the 
club. Individuals, as a matter of speculation, can do such things; but 
we are of the opinion that it would be worse than infra dig for a club 
to attempt to do it. For a gun club to go to work, got up a pro- 
gramme, iuvite SQOOters to their grounds, talk about giving them a 
good time and lots of shooting— in fact, jolly them along, with the 
ultimate view of making money out of them — would be something 
more than an error of judgment; at least, that's our way of looking 
at it. As we said before, "Many men, many miads," or, as the French 
trap-shooter would say, "Chacun a son gOMt." 
A club run on economic principles, wim weekly or fortnightly shoots 
bringing in a steady revenue, added to the yearly dues, ought to be 
suflaicient income to carry a club along from year to year, make all 
necessary repairs and renew stock, etc. Cut loose from all Ideas of 
making money out of your tournaments, and you will then stand a 
good show of taking rank among the best clubs m the country^ The 
shooters who have been your guests will go away -with the knowledge 
that they have not been up against a brace game, and you will have 
little trouble in the future in getting them to came again. There is also 
a certain pleasure in acting host that is yours, but remember it always 
costs money to act the part of a host when business interests are at- 
tached to it. 
THREE CLASSKS OP TOURNAMENTS. 
That brings us to the next point. The size and wealth of a club 
will have a good deal of weight in deciding the question as to what 
sort of a tournament shall be given. There are really three classes of 
tournaments: the "open-to-all, no handicap," the "amateurs only" 
and the "open-to-all, experts handicapped." The inducements held 
out to draw a good attendance of shooters at tournaments of the first 
and of the last class should be on the same lines. Tournaments for 
amateurs only are hard things to handle, and few men have the capac- 
ity for carrying such shoots to a successful termluatlon. 
Of the first class of tournaments we can recall many Instances of 
really successful shoots: Knoxville, the inaugurator of large added 
money shoots; Memphis, the E. C. tournamencat Quttenberir, the Du 
Pont shoot at Cincinnati, the midwinter shoot of the Big Three at 
San Antonio and a host of others. At all of these a big amount of 
added money was hung up ; the boys thought they saw a soft ihing 
and went to these shoots time after time; there was a chance to get 
even. A few got big money, some got even ; but the large majority 
got it in the neck! "Set tney'd go there again— every time. They 
know very well that everybody cannot win, but they are willing to 
take chances of being among the chosen few. If no big amount of 
added money had been offered at such shoot?, the attendance would 
have dwindled down to the usual "three squads, more or less." 
BIG MONKTT- BIG SHOOT. 
If you want to hold a big shoot, therefore, don't run away with the 
impression that it is only necessary to advertise your shoot in the 
columns of the sporting papers, annou»cing a moderate sum of added 
money. Tournament shooting on a large scale Is a business as well 
as a sport, and you must handle it in a business-like manner if you 
wish success. Tournaments for sport only are touched on later. 
If a tournament has ever been held where a large amount of added 
money was announced, that was not a success in point of attendance, 
we have yet to hear of it. Whether such tournaments do as much 
good to the cause of trap-shooting as smaller ones do is another 
matter altogether outside the question, and cannot be discussed here. 
The f aet remains that if you hang up solid inducements you'U get the 
boys to come and shoot. They'll come a long way too. You remem- 
ber the old story about the way the vulture drops apparently out of 
the skies when a head of stock dlesf That's its meat I Well, it's 
much the same thing with a good purse of added money and trap- 
shooters, only the division of the spoils is not so equitable in the latter 
case as in the former. 
Tournaments of the third class, "open-to-all. experts handicapped," 
really require more thought and care in preparation than the simple 
"open-to-all, no handicap." The Hazard tournament at Cincinnati 
and Paul North's tournaments at Cleveland belong to this class. At 
the Hazard tournament held last May shooters were divided into two 
classes, experts and amateurs. The former class was composed of 
shooters who had made a record of 86 per cent, or better in a tourna- 
ment; these men shot at unknown angles from known traps. "Ama- 
teurs" were those who had never made a record of 85 per cent, or 
better in a tournament; these shot at known traps and angles. At 
Cleveland this year Paul North introduced a new handicap, one de- 
vised by Judge Lindsay, of Knoxville, Tenn. This was the scheme, 
shooters classi'ying themselves: In the first event each day every- 
body paid in S3; winners of first money in this event paid $4 as en- 
trance money in the next event they shot in ; winners of second money 
paid ?3.50; winners of third paid g3; winners or fourth paid $3 56; 
winners of fifth and all who had not made a place in the event, S3. 
This handicap was a sliding one, shooters classifying themselves in 
each event according to their shooting in the previous race. The 
handicap is a good one, but is somewhat complicated for rapid work 
in a cashier's oflSce, until the cashier becomes thoroughly acquainted 
with the system. 
The above are two methods of handicapping that have been adopted 
at recent large tournaments. At both shoots there were solid monetary 
inducements to attract the boys. At Cincinnati fhe Hazard Powder 
Co. added $2,000 in cash to the purses; at Cleveland Paul North (the 
Chamberlin Co.) threw all bluerocks free of charge, practically an 
addition of $600 to the purses if 20,000 targets were thrown during 
the three days of the shoot. A sum of $770 was also added to the 
purses. 
From the above figures it will be seen that neither R. S. Waddell, 
of the Hazard Powder Co., nor Paul North, of the Chamberlin Co., 
were of the opinion that a crowd of shootgrs could be gathered to- 
gether without adding money to the purses; in other words, they 
realized that a handicap alone would not make a shoot 
If, then, you want to hold a big tournament, you must add cash to 
tJie purses, rememberhig that the attendance will be in exact propor. 
tion to the amount of added m*ney. 
RAISING ^DDKD MONET. 
There are different ways of raising added money. First to be con- 
sidered is the sum that may be obtained from the sale of targets. 
This of course will vary, but if you decide to add $1,000 in cash and to 
run two sets of traps, 30,000 targets for a three days' shoot would be 
a very moderate estimate, especially if you take into account the 
S,500 to 3,000 targets that should be thrown on "preparation day." At 
3 cents each the 80,000 targets would bring in $900; of that sum $350 
or $400 should be taken as cost of targets and expenses of the shoot. 
This would leave fully $500 for added money. You will then have to 
consider the raising of the additional $500. It is castomary to figure 
on ''making" a good sum out of the advertising in programmes. We 
don t like that idea at all, and have heard many manufacturers and 
dealers of sporting goods speak of it in unfavorable terms. Several 
firms, however, put aside a certain sum of money every year to be 
expended in "taking a page" in programmes of large shoots, and as 
long as this is done we suppose that the advertisements in pro- 
grammes will be looked upon as a source of revenue Many pro- 
grammes that we have received this year have undoubtedly been the 
source of much profit to the clubs that issued them. We know of 
one that netted $350 as per the report of the tournament committee. 
This programme, However, was the result of energetic work on the 
part of the sub committee appointed to solicit advertising, the efforts 
of the sub-committee being most generously met by the different 
members of the club that had anything that could be advertised. In 
other words, many of the members of the club opened their purse 
strings and donated so much to the fund for added money. Adver- 
tisements in programmes of tournaments calling attenticn to certain 
brands of powder, shells, different makes of guns, etc., probably do 
bring a return to the advertiser ; we beUeve that in a measure this is 
unquestionably so. It is also to the interest of sporting goods dealers 
and manufacturers to foster trap-shooting tournaments, and on that 
ground alone the soliciting of Advertisements for programmes may 
be excused. Still it does look as If the request for an advertisement 
was somewhat after the order of a request for a rake off on the profit 
of shells, powders, etc., consumed at this shoot. 
Suppose that you decide not to solicit any advertising, desiring to 
get out a plain programme that will just lell the facts and call atten- 
tion to the "$1,000 added. " The club's exchequer should be good for 
something and could be counted in; remember "it's the club's treat!" 
A canvass of the club members should also result in the addition of 
many $5 bills to go into the added money fund. Certain parties who 
will be directly interested in the coming of the visitors will no doubt 
subscribe to this "entertainment tund" more liberally than others 
who have only the welfare of the club and the success of the shoot at 
heart. Add the $500 calculated to be raised from the price of the tar- 
gets to the amounts from the club's exchequer and the members' sub- 
scriptions. If this does not amount to $1,000, secure the raising of the 
balance required by "guarantors"; that is, ask any members of the 
club who may be willing to do it to "guarantee to pay a proportionate 
sum of the balance Of the $1,000 adflod money not raised by the sale of 
targets and the funds above mentioned." If $1,000 is added to the 
purses m any shoot, there'll be little, if anything, for the guarantors to 
make good; the 30,000 targets would be increased by some thousands 
If that amount of money is offered. 
The above would be the method of raising added money that we 
should suggest to a club asking information on that subject. We 
don t expect that many people will agree with us on this point, as it is 
a hard matter to break away from all old ties. We do think, how- 
ever, that thousands of trap-shooters will agree with us that visiting 
shooters should be treated as guests, not as breadwinners for the 
benefit of the home club. 
THE 3-OENT TARGET A STUMBLING BLOCK. 
The 3-ceDts-a-target Will probably be a stumbling block to some of 
our criiics They wiU say possibly: "If you treat visiting shooters as 
guests, why rob them of nearly 2 cents more than It costs to trap and 
buy the targetsF" Gentlemen, this is Bo rok'ks^ ; every shooter who 
comes to such a tournament as above suggested knows that 3 cents a 
target will be deducted from the purses; the programme tells him so. 
Ke also knows that it will take every cent of profit derived from the 
sale of targets to make good the amount of added money. The charge 
of 3 cents a target may therefore be described as a compact between 
the club and its visitors. 
mone,y ? 
programL _ 
per day for targets cuts no figure in comparison "witii The laTger 
amount of added money offered in lieu of targets at half price " 
So much for artded money as a factor in securing a good attendance 
at shoots of the "open-to-all" kind. For an amateurs' shoots experts 
barred, you will have to add money to draw a crowd; for, say what 
you will, the amateur is after the long green just as much as his more 
expert brother; the only trouble is that he doesn't.get it so often or 
in such quantities. 
EXPERTS OR AMATEURS. 
Trap-shooters may be divided into two classes— experts and ama- 
teurs. Mr. Waddell's definition of the two classes is a good one- All 
who have a better average than 85 per cent, in any tournament are 
experts; the others are amateurs. Both classes contain men who are 
considered as professionals by many shooters, though to our mind 
men who can be rightly classed as professionals are found only in the 
expert class. 
The most important duties to be performed by the tournament 
committee are the question of, and raising of, the amount of money 
(If any) to be added; and the sort of shoot to be given, whether open- 
tq-all or not. Once these matters are fixed, the rest is comparativelv 
easy work. ^ ' 
The style of shooting has to be determined. We believe in a varied 
programme of events at known traps and angles; at unknown angles- 
and at traps pulled in reversed order. Our Idea in advocating a vari- 
ety of styles is to do away with the monotony of pounding awav at 
one style of shooting. Tnen again, known traps and angles lets all 
the boys m; many shooters who are not quick-sighted enough to 
make a good score on unknown angles can come to the front when 
a known angle event is started. We are well aware that many people 
will say at once: "I can't shoot known angles as well as lean un- 
known. Perhaps that is so in some cases, but we assert that nine 
out of ten men can make better, that is, higher scores at known traps 
and angles than at unknown angles, if they will only pay as strict 
attention to their shooting at one style as at the other. Known angles 
are more monotonous than unknown angles: one has to plug away 
all the time; once relax the tension and the fatal skip comes Re- 
versed order is good practice for crossing shots, while the' start 
which the straightaways get from Nos. 2 and 4 traps makes a shooter 
learn to be quicker on that most deceptive of all targets, the straight- 
away. How often one hears it said after a man has broken a straieht- 
away: "I could break 1,000 hke that." How many shooters can 
break 100 straight, or 50, or even 25f 
HAKE THE SHOOTING VARIED. 
Our advice therefore is: Make the styles of shooting varied, and 
do away as far as possible with the reproach on target-shooting that 
it is so mechanical and monotonous. A good scheme is to run on a 
side set of traps a few extra events at expert rule and at pairs. We 
don't believe in incorporating such events in a programme where 
there is average money offered, as it is hard to get one's fellow mem- 
bers at practice shoots to do anything in this line. The styles of 
shooting are too hard for them; they don't make big enough scores 
at thenj, and they are slow, delaying the game; in fact, a fellow can't 
shoot often enough to please him if there are many of such events 
shot during the afternoon's practice. 
The length of a programme is an important matter to consider, and 
much depends on the amount of added money and the number of seta 
of traps already decided upon. If a large entry is expected, that Is, 
if a large amount of money is added to the purses. 160 to 175 targets 
18 ample for a day's work. If there are more than 175 targets on the 
programme it would be fair to except the last affair from considera- 
tion In the matter of average money. This would be particularly so 
in tournaments held early br late in the season when the days are 
short; otherwise those who shot in squads No. 1 and No. 2 would have 
a great advantage over those who shot in the last squads, when the 
light would be manifestly poorer and the targets harder to locate 
than an hour previous. 
AVEBAQK MONEYS SHOULD BE "hIOH GUNS." 
The mention of average money brings us to a most important 
feature, perhaps the most important feature in the whole programme 
yet on i that is too often overlooked. Average money for each day's 
shooting and average money for general averages bring the boys out 
early and keep them shooting. Daily averajges we consider a wise 
provision because a good man may fall down one day and shut him- 
self practically out of all chance for the general average moneys. If 
there are daily averages as well, he will go to bed and dreatn of 
straights witliout end, and be on deck early next morning, anxious to 
redeem him.selt and "get a place." 
In apporiioning average moneys be sure and always state plainly 
that they are for high guns. A division of average moneys on 
the old and mequitable system in use for class shooting prior 
to the advent of the Rose system should not be thought of 
Under that system we should again have the anomaly of a man 
who had broken more targets than another receiving a less reward 
for doing 80. Make the average moneys, therefore, high euns all 
the time. 
"INFORMATION FOR SHOOTERS." 
To make your programme complete the page of "Information for 
Shooters" should always include the following it«m8: Where to ship 
guns and shells; how to reach the grounds; the headquarters for 
shooters— that is, the hotel for the boys to stop at where a special 
rate has been secured. A commercial rate, it nothing better, can 
always be secured for shooters, especially where the distance of the 
grounds from the hotel precludes the chance of going to the hotel for 
dinner or lunch. 
If possible go to work and obtain a special rate over the railroads 
running into your town or city and state that fact in your pro- 
gramme. A matter like th it has quite a bearing on the attendance 
at your shoot. It is just so much saved from the original flitlay re- 
ferred to above. 
The secretary's name and address should always be given. In order 
that any inquiries in regard to further information that may be de- 
sired can be sent to him This is perhaps a small matter, but like 
many others it helps to make a harmonious whole. 
We have about disposed of the programme and can now 1;urn to a 
few hints on the preparatory work for the tournament. 
AMPLE AOCO.VMOOATION IS NECESSARY. 
If the weather is likely to be warm you can scarcely have too much 
shade in the shape of tent flies, etc. If tne tournament is to be held 
in weather that is doubtful take care to have plenty of warm shelter 
for the shooters. There is nothing more disagrf eable than to have a 
crowd together into a small space where the air is bad, and where 
non-smokers have to swallow tobacco smoke second hand. Chilly 
hands and damp, cold feet make poor scores, and poor scores make 
the boys disgruntled and apt to hick. Shelter them well from heat 
cold or wet, and they'll not forga^ yoa. Don't leave anything to' 
chance, but cover your retreat, as it wore. At the scores have a good 
solid platform, or something that is equally good, a well-beaten track, 
and shelter the shooters at the score from the rays of the sun or from 
the rain. The expense of these luxuries is not much, while the luxu- 
ries themselves mean a great deal to your guests. 
OFFICIALS MUST BE CAPABLE. 
Tour referees should be men with good eyesight, a thorough 
knowledge of the shooting rules, and backbone enough so as to do 
away with all chance of their being "worked." Members or your own 
club, men who are fond of shooting, but who perhaps do not shoot 
well enough to attempt shooting through the programme, are the 
very best material you could select from which to choose your ref- 
erees. Blackboards as weil as manifold scores should be kept In- 
struct your referees that "the blackboard goes all the time," and see 
that It does "go." Shooters can see their scores being chalked up on 
the blackboards, while no one except the manifold man himself knows 
what he is doing to the scores; he may be one or two men behind and 
no one any the wiser. The positions of blackboard scorers and man- 
ifold men can be easily filled with suitable parties. 
The trappers are a very important feature at all tournaments We 
recommend the employment of men in the place of boys all the time- 
they cost a little m.-re, it is true, but they soon pay for that extra 
cost, by better work. It is a severe strain on a boy to set him to trap- 
ping targets for two or three days, and sooner or later boys become 
careless and full of the old Harry. They are harder than men to keep 
in order, and the balks that often result from their work are very try- 
ing to everybody's temper. Employ no trapper under nineteen or 
twenty years of age, and put each set of Wrappers in charge of a mem- 
ber of that set. Make him a kind of captain over the others and 
make him responsible for the good behavior of his regiment. 'Pre- 
miums for good work at a tournament of ten go a long way toward 
insuring good and quick trapping. 
The cashier's department should include the following staff- 
Cashier, assistant cashier and entry clerk, and a squad hustler A 
good manager knows that one of the secrets of success in running a 
tournament is to have the cashier's oflice in the hands of capable men 
A "ball-up" in that department is something that must be avoided at 
all hazards. The cashier and his assistant should therefore be men 
who can keep their heads, take entries correctly, and pay out prompt- 
ly and accurately. This sounds easy, out ideal cashiers are scarce 
For a squad hustler we would suggest that you pick a man with a 
strong voice, tireless feet, a good memory for faces, and, if possible 
an acquamtance with a majority of the shooters whom you expect at 
your tournament. He should also be good-natured, witn plenty of it! 
There is nothing more annoying than to go down a line of shooters 
calling for one man, and on your return to the end you started from 
have a shooter look you mildly in the face and ask: "Are you calline 
me?" And this happens every day. 
GOOD MANAQKRS ARE FEW IN NUMBER. 
The position of manager is the hardest post of all to fill properly 
He is the general who directs everyching, and who should have coin- 
plete and absolute control in all matters pertaining to the running of 
your shoot. Managers are bOrn, not made; and unfortunately there 
are very few good managers of tournaments on top of the earth It 
you have nobody in your club who is capable of taking charge of' the 
shoot, and of denying himself all the pleasure that may be derived 
from taking part in the sweepstakes, go elsewhere and secure the 
services of some outside party, A manager who shoots can run a 
tournament, and run it well; but there are one thousand and one 
things that are constantly demanding his attention, and if he shoots 
at all he nearly always shoots poorly. We assert this as an axiom - 
No man can do both things well at the same time-work and shoot 
The question of paying your help is another thing. We say pay' all 
the help you can, and pay it well. A paid man has to be attending to 
his business, and you nave control over him; a volunteer Is anoSier 
article altogether. Ho requires delicate handling, and that's some- 
thing he won't always get at a shoot, large or small, 
LUNCH AN IMPORTANT FACTOR. 
Before leaving for good the subject of large tournaments, we would 
call your attention to one other point— the luncheon provided at the 
grounds. Asa rule, the privilege of serving lunches, and too often 
the privilege of running a bar, is farmed out to somebody, the club re- 
ceiving a stated sum for the same. Just as sure as that somebody 
pays something for the privilege, just so surely is he going to try and 
get even, as he has a perfect right to do. Shooters do not mind pay- 
ing a high price for an article so long as it is worth the money biit 
they do object to paying Delmonico's prices for something on the 
Bowery oraer of things. Select your caterer for qualities that endear 
him to the hearts of your epicurean citizens, and ask him to take 
charge of that part of the tournament that relates to the aatisfyins 
of your guests' inner man. This is another little matter, but It counts 
largely in the ultimate success of your shoot. 
MERCHANDISE SHOOTS. 
So far we hava treated only of matters concerning the runninu of 
large tournaments. By large tournaments it must be understood 
that we mean tournaments where a good amount of cash is added to 
the purses. There are other large tournaments, such as those pro- 
moted annuaUy by Lou Erhardt, of Atchison, Kansas, where a great 
proportion of the purses are merchandise, and where amateurs alone 
are allowed to compete for those prizes. In coniunctlon with the 
amateur programme, a schedule of events open to all waa a feature 
of these shoot*. The successful running of such tournaments re- 
