Ocnr. 31, 1898.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
8S9 
In New Jersey. 
AT ELKWOOD FASK. 
John L. Winston, who is repreaentlns: the Austin Powder Co., of 
Cleveland, O., has established for himself in the past quite a record in 
Western trap-shootinc circles. It he desired new fields fo conquer 
he has certainly found them here in the East. Making certain excep- 
tions, he came to New York city and expressed himself as willlne to 
meet in individual matches any and all comers. The exceptions are, 
so far as he has told us, George Work, Louis Daryea, J. P. Knapp, 
Edgar Murphy and John L. Brewer. There may be others, but at 
present we do not recall their names. 
Since his arrival he has been a busy man. Scarcely a day has gone 
by but what he has been out showing what he can do, and trying to 
find out what others can do. Several small matches have been shot, 
in which he was not by any means invariably victorious. He lost two 
small races, a 25 bird race with Charlie Z virlein and a 50-bird race 
with Gleorge "One-barrel" Cubberly. both matches being shot on 
Zwirlein'a grounds. He tied in a lOO-bird race with "Count" Langen, 
of New York, on 77 each, but eventually won on the shoot-oflf at 25 
birds per man by the score of 22-21. While speaking of the birds in 
the East and of those he shot at on Zwiriein's grounds at YardvUle, 
N. J., in particular, Winston said to us: "Eastern birds, so far as I 
have seen them, outclass our Western birds more than I ever imaeined 
could be possible. You told me I should see good birds at Zwiriein's, 
and I did. So good were they, and so much better were they than 
any I had ever shot at, that I missed 6 out of the first 14 1 shot at in 
my match with Cubberlyl" 
The birds he shot at in the match with Fred. Hopy, the score of 
which is given below, were another fair sample of what sort of match 
birds can be provided for anybody who wants to shoot a race in New 
Jersey. The match with Hoey was the first of a series of three to be 
shot the week commencing Oct. 18. The feature of these three 
matches was the condition that all should go or none, that is, the for- 
feit for all three was to be ported before the first was shot. The 
matches were as follows: Vs. Fred. Hoey, Tuesday, Oct. 20; vs. Phil 
Daly. Jr., Thursday, Oct. 32; vs. A. L. Ivins, Saturday, Oct. 24. An- 
other feature was the fact that Phil Daly, Jr., was wilUng to bet $200 
against $150 that he could beat Winston; this bet, of course, Winston 
did not let slip by him. 
THE WINSTON-HOET MATCH. 
Oct. 90.— The first of the above series of three matches was decided 
to-day at Elkwood Park. When we left New York by the 9 10 train 
over the P. E. E. for Branchport, the station for Elkwood Park, the 
wind was blowing very strongly from the southwest, with prospects 
of rain before night. There was a moist look about the sky in the 
south, and the weather bureau did not hold out very much hope of a 
good afternoon for live-bird shooting. As a matter of fact, the after- 
noon proved as satisfactory for that purpose as one could wish; the 
wind held up well, and rain kept oflf until all the early birds at least 
had gone to bed, A little rain to settle the dust around Elkwood Park 
would have been more in the nature of a blessing than a curse. As it 
was, dust In clouds rolled across Elkwood Park; so thick were these 
columns of dust and sand at times that the sun was almost shut out 
from view. The force of the wind varied, a conservative estimate 
being ttoat it never dropped below fifteen miles an hour, while occa- 
sionally it went up to thirty miles. As its direction was favorable 
for good birds, guesses at the probable score were decidedly low. 
Anything over 82 was considered good work. (Brewer, who was pres- 
ent, said that he could kill in the neighborhood of 94 *r 95, but 
then—) 
The birds were a "specially selected lot." They were provided by 
GUbert, of Philadelpbia, Mr. Gilbert, Jr., coming over to trap them 
himself. They were all-blue, but the blue .on some of them was 
almost an ebony black; and some of those black ones escaped too. 
Left-quarterers were very numerous, but thit was only to be expect- 
ed, as the traps face slightly to the north of east, while the wind was 
from the southwest; birds that faced the wind, as some of them tried 
to do, were hoverers when it came co taking the direction of their 
flight; they could not make any headway against the wind when It 
was blowmg its best. Under all these circumstances— wind, good 
birds, and, we must add, poor pulling— Winston's score of 85 was a 
good one, and stamps him as a dangerous man in a match, no matter 
who liis antagonist is. 
THE FORM OF THE TWO MEN. 
The form displayed by the two men was as different as light from 
dark. It was our first ex{)erience with Wuiston as a match-shooter 
at live birds, and we were just as much pleased with his form as we 
were disappointed with that displayed by Fred Hoey. Ot course, at 
the score Winston was deliberate; he is always tb&t way when shoot- 
ing matches or sweeps. To-day he stepped to the score, looked at the 
traps before raising his gun; then jammed the comb sharply against 
the cornplaeter he wears on his right cheekbone to protect a sore 
spot, doing tliis, as nearly as we could count, five times before calling 
"PuU." It should also be noted that he omitted purposely, and so in- 
formed the puller prior to the match, the cautionary signal "Are you 
ready?" Once the trap was opened and the bird in the air, he was 
quick enough, and used his second barrel many times both rapidly 
and effectively. There was nothing slow about liim then. 
Fred Hoey, on the other hand, was almost careless in the manner 
he handled himself at the score. He would step up to the mark, ask 
"Are you ready?" receive the reply "Ready," and follow it up with a 
sharp ''Pall." Over the sore plac« on his cheekbone he wore no corn- 
plaster; when spoken to about that sore spot and being told that it 
was bleeding, he remarked: "Let it bleed. When I was shooting in 
my best form it was always bleeding." Somehow or another, 
whether the cheek bled or whether it didn't, Fred Hoey was clean ofll 
In his shooting; his score shows that. His time was ragged in the ex- 
treme; in fact, he can hardly be said to nave had any time at all. Oc- 
casionally he would brisken up and shoot in something like his old 
form, bringing down the fastest birds with his first barrel and plant- 
ing the second with good effect before the bird reached the ground. 
On other birds, fast or slow, he would apparently give them lots of 
time to become hard, with the result that they went away altogether. 
We noticed in particular that he held on to his second barrel, even on 
driving birds, with a persistency that sometimes made it useless when 
discharged. He was slow in his swing too, shooting palpably behind 
many of the fast quartering birds, being Seemioely unable to get 
ahead of them, although he knew his fault as well as anyone. There 
was one other point we noted in regard to his change of form; that 
was a peculiar way he had of putting his gun tight to his shoulder as 
he called "PuU" and then taking it away, dropping it a little as the 
trap was opening. That little motion unquestionably gave the birds 
a start that, in the old days, they never got when he was at the score. 
Two years ago a score of 77 by Fred Hoey, no matter on what class of 
birds, would have been sometnlng for the boys to laugh at. 
THE 1,TICK OP THE ]3lRDS. 
In many matches the "luck of the birds" cuts quite a figure. To- 
day it had no effect at all on the result, except perhaps to lessen 
Winston's total; the latter had, if anything, the worst of the birds. 
Our trap score type shows that Winston had 44 leCt-quarteriag birds, 
direct and out-going; 11 drivers; 16 rieht-quartering oirds, direct and 
out-going; 27 with an incoming leadehcy and 8 hoverers. Hoey also 
drew 44 birds with a left-quartering tendency, 5 drivers, 12 with a 
right-quartering tendency, 30 that were incomers and 9 hoverers and 
towerers. Incomers were not all "puddings" to-day; left-quartering 
incomers were across the deadline in a flash, while birds that left the 
traps with the intention of becoming direct incomers, and then curved 
quickly off into ieft-quarterers, managed to get away time and time 
again. 
The birds lost by each man were: Winston: 6 left-quartering, 3 
drivers, 3 right-quartering and 3 incomers; 15 in all. Hoey; 10 left- 
quartering, 2 drivers, 4 right-quartering, 6 incomers and 2 hoverers; 
34 in all. 
The traps fell as follows: 
No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. No. 5. Total. 
Winston 28 18 14 23 17 100 
Hoey 17 32 16 25 20 100 
Wmston drew No. 1 trap 13 times in his first 50 birds, and lost 4 out 
of those 13 birds; Fred Hoey in the same 50 rounds drew No. 1 trap 18 
times and lost 5 of the 13 birds. The combined totals show 9 lost birds 
out of 25 liberated from No. 1 trap in the first 50 rounds. During the 
entire match Winston lost 5 from Nb. 1, 2 from No. 3, 3 from No. 4 
and 5 from No. 5; Hoey lost 6 from No. 1, 4 from No. 2, 3 from No. 3, 
7 from No. 4 and 4 from No. 5. 
HOW THE MATCH WAS SHOT. 
Winston won the toss, and of course elected to lead oflT. The first 
to lose a bird was Hoey, who dropped a good bird in the 3d round, 
Winston tied the score by losing a good one in the next round. Hoey 
lost a twister in the 5th round, putting Winston again ahead by one 
bird Winston's 7th was an extraordinary kind of a bird. Ic left 
No. 5 trap on the jump, turned sharply to the right as Winston's gun 
went off; then dipped to the ground and circled sharply to the right, 
but straightened out in time for him to make an easy kill with his sec- 
ond barrel as the bird made its way up wind. In the lOch round both 
men lost their birds, Winston undershooting his bird from No. 5, while 
Hoey let a towering right-quartering driver from No. 1 get away from 
him. Hoey's 13th started very slowly, but suddenly quickened )nto 
a remarkably fast bird, being well stopped with the second ban el. 
Winston's 13ib was an easy miss of a circling incomer from ^o. 
4 tleing the score. Hoey's 14th and 15th were stopped in i la 
beet style (old style), but his 18th was lost by a piece ot carekss 
work; the bird was & sitter and bad three bails thrown at it betore 
taking wfng; it fiew up wind and was as easy bird, black as a crow af 
it sat in the air, making slow progress against the wind. It looked so 
easy tJiat Hoey undershot it, the result being a goose ess on the score 
sheet. Winston then lost a slow towering bird in the aoth round, 
the score again bPing a tie. Hoey's aSd bird gave Winston the 
lead, the shooter slobbering with his first, and holding his second so 
long that the load of shot that missed the bird must have been likn a 
bullet. Result: dead out of bounds Winston hit his nexrt bird hard 
with both barrels, but too far back, the bird reaching the houndary 
before dropping. The score was tbnn aeain a tie. The 25*^h round 
saw Hoey lose a very fast bird from the fatal No. 1 trap. The score 
at the quarter pole stood 20 for Winston, 19 for Hoey. 
The second quarter saw the score a tie at the end of the 50th round. 
Winston's 97th was a low-fiying bird that was hit with the first barrel, 
but never touched with the second, the load plowing up the dust a 
yard or two behind it. Another tie! Then Hoey lost his 30th, a de- 
ceptive bird that jumped in toward the shooter as the trap opened, 
the first load going well over its back; it then pimply sat in the air, 
while the second load went apparently as much below it as the fl'"8t 
had gone over it. Winston again evened matters up by loping a bird 
dead out of bounds in the 32d round; it was a very fast le't-quartering 
driver, missed with the first, which was behind it, hit hard with the 
second, but reached the boundary. Hoey lost a Mrd in the 35'^h 
round, but once more Winston tied the score in the 37th round. His 
loss of this bird was the result of a poor piece of judgrnent, the 
shooter holding his second barrel much as Hoev did in the 22A round, 
the result being the same— dead out of bounds ju«t over the wire. 
Hoey spoiled the tie in the .38th round by losing a fast drivr from 
No 2 that was hit hard with bnth barrels. This miss Hoey followed 
up with 7 straight kills. The 41''t round Raw the score tipd with the 
loss by Winston of a hard twister from No. 1. missed with the first, 
but hit hard with the second. The 42d round saw Hoev one ahead, 
Winston drawing the counterpart of the bird juat lost, but from No. S 
trap: this time it was centered with bnth barrels, but the wings being 
good it went over the left field wire before dropping. Hoey tied the 
score in the 46 h ronnd by losing a fast, low-flying iocom«"r from 
No. 4. Winston's 46th and 50th were both extra good birds, but not 
good enough to get awav from the shooter, who was using much bet- 
ter judgment now than in the previous rounds. Thus at the close of 
the first half of the match the score was a tie on 40 kills, only an 80 
per cent, srait ! 
Again Winston gave Hoey a chance by losing his 53d and 56*h birds. 
His 53d bird probably conflrmpd the shooter in snrne of his supersti- 
tions. If any one will notice Winston he always fills his pockets with 
carefully selected shells before going to the score, In this round he 
got to the score and found that he was underweight, ns it were, being 
shnrt in ballast by just five shells Turning to the referee, he sa'd: 
"Will you kindly hand me five shells out of that box?" (desiernafing 
the particular box he meant) "1 am slightly superstitious, and w uld 
rather not turn back from the score now." The shells were handed 
to him, pocketed, and the bird, an extra fast one, went awav to the 
coop. His 56th was a poor piece of work; it was hit with the first as 
it made its way upward, but was decidedly undershot as it almost 
hovered in the breeze. Hoey's chance of a lead of 2 was instantly 
squashed by his missing his 56th bird with both barrels. Both men 
killed straight up to tbe60th rou"d, when Hoey tied the score for the 
last time In the match with the loss of a right-quartering bird that 
was bit with the first, centered with the second, then towered to the 
left, the strong wind carrying it several feet over the wire in the left 
field. Hoey's 63d was another block crow that was too fast for both 
loads, the shot from both barrels reaching the ground some feet 
behind the bird. This put Winston 1 to the good. Hopy madA it two 
when he lost a very fast bird in the 66th round, shooting behind the 
bird again with both barrels. Winston was placed 3 in the lead when 
Hopy lost a honey-cooler in the 73d round. This bird started as a 
direct incomer from No. 5 trap, flying like a streak; it swerved just as 
the first barrel went off, the gun apparently pulling off, as the charge 
of shot plowed up the ground some distance from the bird; the sec- 
ond barrel was thrown away, as the blue streak flashed across the 
line of traps. Hoey never touched his 75th bird, and the result was a 
lead of 4 for Winston at the three-quarter pole. 
Winston lost 3 birds In the last 25. His 79th put an end to the high 
run of the day— 22 straight; it was not a hard bird at all. but the 
shooter managed to plnce both his loads too low to do any ?ood. He 
then ran 15 straight before losing another. This was his 95fh, a fast 
driver from No. 1. His 98th was a driver from No. 3 that fell SOft. 
over the boundary in center field. He thus flnished the match with a 
total of 85 and 5 dead out of bounds. 
Hoey's last 95 was his poorest string, the score showing 18 kUls to 7 
misses. On his 82d bird he again pulled his gun off to all appearances, 
the charge of shot hitting the ground some feet away from the biro ; 
as on his 72d bird, this seemed to unnerve the shooter, the second 
barrel being thrown away as the bird flew across the line of traps. 
Between the 87th and 94th rounds inclusive he lost 5 birds, only one of 
them dead out of bounds. His total of 77 shows plainly enough that 
he was not the Fred Hoey of two years ago. 
The full score, showing the trap, direction of bird, and the result of 
each shot, is given below. 
One huDdred birds per man, $147 a side, 30yds. rise. Elkwood Park 
boundary (about 50yds.), Hurhngham rules. Jacob Pentz referee: 
Trap score type— Cop uright, isoe, by Forest and Stream I*ut)lishina Co. 
2414525315134844132544134 
J L Winston. ..2 330233230330221S320a3«2 3—20 
41515514415 5 5451512122543 
20222a«2332«2230«3133322 2—20 
4251431913131213185244228 
220320333223323321222233 3—23 
153434414 31341 1125 4112321 
3330322223333382382033»3 3- 
•22- -85 
Fred Hoey . 
3413151131843113483314551 
.2 303033S1033311110331«23 0—19 
3552125152333331354144342 
131303322012011322220113 2-31 
3324553244453454444455355 
111820221»22033013211033 0—19 
3141424422213555438214345 
81333102233.U30301033220 3—18—77 
WINSTON VERSUS PHIL DALY, JR, 
Oct. 22.— The Winston- Da'y match was shot to-day under favorable 
auspices. The air was clear, with quite a touch of late fall in it; it 
was, in fact, more like a day In Novtmber than an October one. The 
wind blew from the northwest, making birds quarter strongly to the 
right. 
The birds shot at to-day were nothing like so good as those trapped 
on Tuesday, but stUl they were by no means a poor lot. Themaicti was 
close and exciting throughout, and plenty of money changed hands 
during the race. The flnale was a startling one: Winston, when ap- 
parently a sure winner by one bird, dropped his last two (the 100th 
pigeon falling dead out of bounds) and landed one behind Daly, who 
thus pulled out of the flre his flrst wager of $200 to S150 that he would 
V in tue match. 
As on Tuesday, both men were tied at the half, each having 41 out 
of 50. In the first 50 rounds the score was tied no less than 5 times: in 
the 4th, 15th, 21st, 37th and 50th rounds, while in two rounds, the 16th 
and 27th, both men lost their birds. Winston never got in front ot 
Daly until the 40th round, Daly also dropping his 43d bird, and giving 
Winston the lead by S birds. Out of tue next 8 birdi* eacb, Daly 
dropped 1 and Winston 3, the score, as above stated, being a tie at 
the end of the SOch round. 
Daly was the next to lose a bird, his 52d getting over the boundary 
betore dropping. This again gave Wiuston a lead of 1, which he 
quickly reduced to nothing by having his 55:h bird scored dead out of 
bounds. From this point (the Both round) Winston never got in front 
of Daly until the latter dropped his 56th bird, giving Winston a lead 
of 1, with only 4 more to shoot at. Then came the surprise at the 
finish! During the last half of the match the score was tied three 
times— in the 55th, 94tn and 99th rounds. For a brief space Daly led 
Winston by 3 birds— in the 74ih and 75th rounds; this was quickly re- 
duced to a lead ot 1 when Daly lost his 76th and 77th birds. 
In the maiter of luck of the birds Daly was, we are told, much 
favored, the luck running steadily against his opponent. We state 
this on the authority of a thoroughly impartial Bpectator, a genile- 
man specially retained to take down the full score of this race, so that 
readers of Forest and Stream's trap columns might be abie to follow 
the matcb intelligently. 
The traps feU in the following manner: 
No. 1. No. 8. No. 3, No. 4. No. 6. Total. 
Daly IS ai 17 27 33 100 
Winston 19 24 16 88 IB 100 
In the matter of birds, Daly had 13 with a left-quartering tendency^ 
46 with a right-quartering tendency, 9 drivers, 6 towerers and 26 wiih 
an Inooming tendency, Winston's birds were 15 with an outgoing 
endency, 43 with a right-quartering tendency, 10 drivers, 7 towerers 
and S6 with an incomins tendency. It was evidently not the differ- 
ence in the direction of fiights that made the difference in the draft of 
the birds so marked; ic was the quality ot the birds themselves drawn 
by •'ho two shooters. 
With scores so low as 85-84. long runs were bound to be scarce. 
D»lv'8 double-figure runs were 23, 13 and 10; Winston's 17 and 10. A 
curious coincidence is the fact that this match began at ex°ctly the 
same time that thi m<»tch on Tuead.ay was started viz., 1:,58 P. M., 
and tha' it was finished on the same minute, viz , 4-80 P. M. To-day 
the strings of 2S each were shpt in the following time: flrst string, 40 
minutes: second striner, 35 minutes; third string, 37 minutes; fourth 
string, 37 minutes also. On Tuesday the respective times were: S3, 
36, 37 and 37 rainutPS. 
Below is the pcore in detail: 
One hundred live birds per man, SOvd'i. rise, Elkwood Park boun- 
dary, loser to pay for the birds, and Daly betting Winston $300 against 
$150. 
Trap score fvpe— copyright, VAys, hy Forest anA Stream Publishing Co. 
4512 54544514438333513 4144 
P Daly, Jr 2 280 3 1333133310033880822 1—21 
3434353433445343415 332513 
3»131 333133023«3023»3232 3—20 
11523552 15133553344235441 
3 •3322323323333322223322 2—34 
2 5 241554842 5 4135453433483 
003233333328333031«33033 3—20—86 
584 5 4S42 3 544 3 -S 33244245431 
\ ^ SST«>T^<-«-sr i X ^ r*->-^ 'v^T \ i 'Si -+ 
J L Winston. . .2 0223233332103201«331331 1—81 
11551313 234 3 4153448831515 
1»3311311033 3 8311033»33^ 0-30 
1338385125434111313435455 
1S31«21013111«313133333» 3-81 
1534322415341145513334532 
183 31»333233883 3 33233330 •-38-84 
THE WINST0N-IVIN8 MATCH. 
Oct SA.— Winston made it two out nf three to-day by defeating 
A, L Ivins, of Red Bank, N. J , over the Elkwood Park traps. The 
race was shot under preci8«ly the same conditions as to number of 
birds, etc., as were the other matches aeiinst Hoey and Daly. The 
consideration was, of course, the sura of $147 a side. 
The birds wore the best lot trapped this wpek, and this means quite 
a good dial, as those trapped on Tuesdoy were a first-rate lot of 
birds, Winston was in the lead nearly the whole match, but Ivins 
Ciujht up to him close to the fl ish, Winston winning by 3 birds. 
Ivin'? had a score of 85, with 8 dead out of bounds; while Winston 
scored 87, with 3 dead out of bounds. The strong northwesterly 
wind helped the birds very much, and caused the shooters to use 
good judgment or get le t. 
Winston's next, and only other match so far, is on Tuesday, Oct. 
8?, with "Cmnt," Langen, of Naw Y >rk, a shooter whim he has 
already defeited over these traps, In the former match, as stated 
above. Winston won bv one bird after tieing on 77 each out of the 100; 
the tie was shot off at 25 birds, Winston scoring 23 to 81. 
Edward Banks. 
at cartbrkt. 
Oct. ZZ.— The WedneFday afternoon shoot at the Carteret Club was 
well attended, eight shooters putting in an appearance at the club's 
ground-, Bayonne, N. J. Six events were shot during the afternoon, 
all mi'B-and-outs, !55 entrance. Sime good shooting was done by 
Messrs. McA.Ipin, Wright, W. W. Watrous, Ellison and Mackay. the 
latter a guest of the club. The scores given below speak for them- 
selves: 
W w Watrous*. 
Mifkaj* 
C W Holan 
Heoper 
* Mankay and Watrous missed their first birds m No. 5, but re-en- 
tered with the result shown in the above score. 
The last event was a miss and-out for a gun. The shoot-off was a 
long one, the result not being certain until the thirteenth round, in 
which Wright and Hooper both lost their birds and left E lison the 
posspssnr of the gun. Prior to the commencement of this shoot Mr. 
Ellison told his opponents that he never lost a shoot for a gun, and 
added that this was to be another win for him. His prophecy oroved 
perfectly correct. The scores were: Ellison 13. Wright and Hooper 
13, Dolan 5, Staff )rd 4, McAlpin, Watrous and Mackay 1. 
THE endeavor's merchandise SHOOT. 
The Endeavor Gun Club, of Jerspy City held a two days' mer- 
chandise shoot on its grounds Marion, N. J., Oct. 23-24, A purely 
merchandise shoot has, so far as we are aware of, never been tried in 
this vicinity. Tnis touruament must therefore be looked upon in 
the nature of an experiment, and as such it proved a success. In the 
list of entries fnr tbe lOI-target handicap races are many names of 
shooters who have never showed up at a tournament prior to these 
dates. They came to shoot for merchandise prizes at remarkably 
low entry fees. The cheapneps of the shoot, the entrance fees for 
each day amounting to only $3 70, as well as the desire to see what 
they cculd score f ut of 100 targets shot at in four 25-target events, 
drew many to the Marion traps who would not have been there had 
tbe tournament been one simply of sweeps for cash, no matter how 
low the rate of entrance might be made. 
Owiiig to this shoot being an experiment, the management was 
handicapped from the start. It had not figured on the troublecaused 
by having to shoot off tips, and there was consequently much delay 
in this respect. It was also saoly short-handed in the matter ot help. 
The absence of Carl von Lengerke, one of the promoters of the 
shoot, who was detained at home on account of the serious illness of 
his wife, was much felt As it was, the bulk of the work, in fact, the 
runnine of the shoot, devolved on the shoulders of A, R. Strader and 
G. H Piercy, botn of whom did very well under th» circumstances. 
There was on the first day an unfortunate ball-up in the cashier's 
olflce in regard to getting out the Bquad« for the 100-target race that 
caused quite a lot of delay. This was rectified on the second day, and 
the precision with which the 100-target race was shot off on Saturday, 
Oct. 34, was a pleasant contrast to the delays that markf d that of the 
previous day. This goes to show that a little practice is all that is 
needed when it comes to running a shoot of this nature. 
First Day, Oct. S3. 
A late start was made in the programme events shot to-day, it 
being apparently a mntter of Impossibility to get the Jersey boys out 
to the traps betore 11 or 12 o'clock. Thlg fact seems to have gotten 
so well known that no matter what time the programme calls for 
the first event to be started, whether it be 9, 9:80 or 10 o'clock, shoot- 
ers figure much on the following lines: "I don't suppose they'll be- 
gin tne programme before 18 o'clock; at any rate there'll be nobody 
t ere before that hour. What's the use of my being early and having 
10 wait around? ' All this is the natural result of education. Instead 
of starting the programme on schedule time, it has grown to be cus- 
tomary to shoot small extra events until two or three squads are on 
hand. It would not be a hard matter to get the boys back into the 
old track again. Advertise your shoot to commence prooiptly at 
10, 10:30 or 11 A, M., and state that >ou menn it. Commence punctu- 
ally at the hour mentioned, whatever that may be, and however many 
sbooters are on haLd. Those who come late have then only them- 
selves to thank for ic, and they will soon learn to be on time, if they 
want to shoot througii the programme. Just at present it is useless 
to commence much earlier than 11:30 for a one day or two days' 
shoot, with no added money for averages. 
To-day, the flrst of the two days' shoot, was far from a pleasant one 
in point of weather. Before the day closed rain fell heavily, while the 
ligQt atter 3 o'clock in the afternoon was very bad indeed. When the 
ies for the flrst four places were shot off it was so dark that a target 
against the sky Hoe was a cinch as compared with a low-thrown one. 
Tne entry list for the 100 target haodicap was a large one, 39 shooters 
taking part in the event. The handicaps were awarded by Jacob 
Pentz and Maj, J M, Taylor, who based their handicaps on each man's 
percentage as they km w it, and then added enough targets to bring 
him as nearly to the 100 mark as possible. Of the four men who tied 
on 100 each (the highest possible). Schortemeler shot at 11 of his 13 
extra targets; Dutchy at 10 of his 15 extras; Sianoefc at 14, and Stan- 
brou?h at his whole allowance of 13, the latter having to break his 
last 8 targets to get into the 100 hole. The scores in this event were 
follows: 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No. 3, 
No. 4. 
No. 6. 
.2333 
2133218?* 
18283?^ 
81231 
!?• 
220 
20 
3338883 
Si-. 
30 
30 
222322323 
0 
18338 
18832 
2110 
10 
110 
28210 
.2i20 
20 
3133333 
28^^ 
30 ^ 
2223 
121232322 
21 ?• 
18183 
139«1 
,,83«) 
2320 
1211330 
10 
21111 
0 
183323118 
31333. 
13« 
21818 
