FbRfeSt AND STREAM. 
[t)Ea B, 1896. 
iro\itine Wol-k of the ofecels and committees, or in the actual 
participation in the rates. 
The very beat that can be said for the plan of catering to 
dilferent locftl interests through a change of camp site each 
^eat is that it has failed to bring in the anticipated new 
nnembe'rs, and also to counteract the inevitable disintegrat- 
ing tehdencies of age, business, social and domestic ties, and 
super-refinement of racing that are cutting doyrn the mem- 
bership list on the uppel- end. Our own belief is that the 
•case may be stated much more strongly, and that the many 
Mlures and disappointments inc'dent to the hippodroming 
scheme are mainly responsible for the loss of many of the 
best members. 
Mow to bring back the missing, to retain the present, and 
ki recruit anew, is a very difficult 'questioh-, but one on which 
the very life of the Association now depends. In our opin- 
ion the first and by far the tottst important step is through a 
reliable guarantee of a good caxn'p site and iness, prompVand 
reliable traUFp'otiation, and the attendahce of a number of 
Ihe 'old m^mbtrs. if every man who is in doubt whether to 
go agaitt to the meet or to take his Vacation in some other 
Vvay could be made to understand that he could reach the 
fcatnp easily and '^iiickly by the advertised means that the 
'c^mp grotiUd would not be A hot sand hill or a wet thicket^ 
tuat he could obtain plain and good camp fare, and that he 
'<Fould be certain of meeting A, B, C and t), if not a doi^en 
toore of his old ch'^ms. the question would soon be decided 
In this right way. If, tbo, the sailie assurance can be ptaCed 
before the new man, in place of awful tales of destitution 
and starvation at tbe hands of the caterer at Jessup's Necki 
of pillage and robbery by backmen-, eXpresfettiPn, bttatmen 
and telegraph messengers in the sattie year, of the stranding 
■and maroDnitig caused by thte Wretched launch service of the 
Brat year at WillsbbrD-, and of the stifling simoons of the 
Hudson that bl-Ought malaria to the broiling sandhills of 
Croton Point, another good man may be rescued from the 
tenhls court, the golf links and the summer hotel piazza, and 
taiight the way to the best of outdoor sports— camping and 
c^anoeing. 
As a means to this end. of perfect camp arrangements, 
the permanent camp ground stands at the head. It not only 
lessens greatly the labors of the officers through the practical 
continuity of mess and transportation service in the same 
hands, but it is an absolute bar to the wild experiments in 
location and other details that a new board of officers is too 
often tempted to make, at the expense of the Association at 
large and of every individual member who attends the meet. 
The arguments _we have advanced in the past aaainst a per- 
manent camp site are in themselves as strong as ever to-day, 
but they lose their weight when placed aide by side with 
conditions then unforeseen, but which have since developed 
to a degree that has wrought serious injury to the meets and 
to the Association at large. The positive danger of degen- 
eration into a picnic at a luxurious and fashionable camp 
ground, of the establishment of a "Ballast Island" for the 
American Canoe Association that shall rob it of all but the 
name of canoeing and camping, must now be considered 
Bide by side with other equally dangerous conditions that, 
While preserving the outdoor camp under canvas, are at the 
same time limiting the membership and attendance. 
As far as the objectionable features of over civilization go, 
they may be avoided by the selection of an isolated location, 
distant from hotels and cottages, and at tbe same time ac- 
cessible by such arrangements as can readily be made by the 
Association; and by stringent regulations prohibiting the 
erection of everything in the nature of a permanent building 
and compelling the use of tents alone for shelter. Those 
public structures which are annually built in a makeshift 
way at a very great expense, thf wharf, kitchen, mess shed 
and store as well as the floors for headquarters, can then be 
built permanently and much better — of plain and simple de- 
sign, as is suitable for such a purpose— and such grading, 
draining and other work as is necessary on almost every camp 
site may be done projjerly. To such a camp as ihis men couid 
come with a positive certainty as to the time and cost of 
•transportation, the nature of the climate and surroundings, 
the quality of the mess, and the number and character of the 
men they would meet. About such a camp, especially at 
Gnndstone Island, would spring up associations and influ- 
ences that would grow stronger instead of weaker as a man 
grew older, bringing him back each year to forget for the 
time the cares and responsibilities of life in the presence of 
old scenes and old friends. In such a home the Association 
might hope not only to retain all its present members, but to 
call back many of the old onea as they were made to under- 
stand that the A. C. A. meet of to-day was not so widely 
separated from that of long ago as has been too frequently 
and painfully apparent in recent years; and the growing rep- 
utation of such an ideal camp would call to the membership 
of the Association not only young men, but those of more 
mature age, and of such high standing as characterized its 
founders. 
The executive committee meeting is, to a certain extent, a 
miniature of the meet itself, and, like the larger gathering, it 
this year showed but few of the old members. The busincFS 
of the meeting was carried out with unusual dispatch, pos- 
sibly because the members were invited to attend the foot- 
ball match in the afternoon. The Atlantic Division made a 
remarkable record by a complete representation, notwith- 
standing the distance from Philadelphia to Toronto, every 
member of the Division executive committee being present. 
The spirit shown by the vice-commodore and purser, both 
from Philadelphia, is most creditable to the Delaware River 
canoeists, and promises well for the success of the Division 
next year. In the Central Division one member, Mr. Morse, 
came all the way from Peoria, 111., on purpose for the meet* 
ing, he being the most western representative of the Division 
and of the Association. 
The Eastern Division made no representation whatever, 
which is to be regretted ; no Division can afford to neglect 
entirly the business of the Association. It is not a little 
strange that, with itslarge membership and its long continued 
prominence in sailing, tbe Eastern Division takes small part 
in the executive work of the Association, and more than 
once has waived its turn for the commodore and meet. In 
the case of the annual meeting of the executive committee, 
the officers of each Division should make sorpe concerted 
effort to have the Division represented by at least one mem- 
ber. Out of half a dozen Division officers there should be 
at least one who can attend the meeting, or if not a proxy 
may be sent. It has happened too often that the ISTorthera 
Division has been entirely unrepresented at meetings in the 
States, £),s at New York, Boston or Alt>any; and that other 
Divisions have had no representatives at meetings in Canada. 
The annual meeting ie in no sense a matter for the one D 'vi- 
sion in which the next meet will be held, but is strictly an 
Association matter; and the Association, as a whole, should 
partioipate through the means of a proper repregentatioa ot 
every I)ivi8ion. It is, for instance, unfair to a Division that 
includes o.ver one-third of the tnembership of the Association 
that its officers take no part whatever in the business of the 
Association, and that in A year in which it should be at the 
head. 
One reason for the speedy disjiatch of the yeai-'s btlsiness 
was that there was little to be dofle. The 4uestioh of a caih^ 
site was practically settled at the theOtlslst slimtfaer; thfefe 
was but bripf discUssiOn of the hiattei: ot date, for the 
reasons that it Was geileratly recogniiied that the meet last 
year was held a little later than is desirable; and also lhat 
this year the date of the f.ull rpoon makes it easily pos- 
sible, to hold the imeet a week earlier. The only discussion 
in this connection was oyer the matter of the Trunk Line 
certificates, which extend from three days before to three 
days after the advertised dates ,of any meeting. It WaS 
considered very desirable to make some arrangetllent by 
which those who desire to take more than two Weeks' va- 
cation may have their certificates extended priot lo or aftet 
the dates of the meet. This may possibly be done By soiiie 
concession on the patt of the transportation companies. 
In the matter bf amendiiients to the constitution, racing 
rulesi etc., there wbre pi-acti'cally no |iroposals before the 
meeting^ the constitution has for some time worked very 
well iti its present , foi-m, and no material improvement has 
been suggested.. The rdcing. rules are by no means as near 
perfect, bilt still there is just now no pressing call for 
theit amehdment, and no practical proposals to that end 
saVe the one relatintr to the paddling trophy, and which 
wa^ not so presented as to be open for action 
One great reason for the speedy expedition of the business, 
for which perhaps the football game was in a measure re- 
sponsible, was the absence of wild and indefinite schemes, 
often old ones that have been tried and rejected, unknown 
to their proposers, and to the pointless and interminable de- 
bates on trivial points. It has been too often the custom at 
the meetings of the committee, both in camp and at the 
annual meeting, to waste valuab'e time in the general and 
indiscriminate discussion of more or less irrelevant projects 
and questions, the result bRing that by the time the more im- 
portant matters are reached, such as the consideration of the 
amendment to the racing rules, the day is over, the dinner 
near at hand, and the real business of the meeline: is rushed 
through in a most slipshod fashion. This year the meeting 
kept very closely to business during the whole of its single 
session 
The Toronto C. C, once one of the most active in the 
Association, has for some years almost dropped its connec- 
tion, a result due, as in the case of other Canadian clubs, 
largely to the location of so many meets far south of the 
border. On this occasion, however, it proved a most hos- 
pitable host to the Association ; its house was given over to 
the members for the meeting, the vidtors were escorted in 
the afternoon to see the great football mat^ch of the year, 
between the universities of Ottawa and Toronto, and in the 
evening the officers of the club entertained the visitors at 
dinner between 6 and 8 o'clock, A pleasing surprise at the 
dinner was the presence of Lieut.-Col Cotton, the commo- 
dore of 1893, who was opportunely captured by chance as he 
was changing trains at tbe station and carried ofit to the din- 
ner. He had just returned from a visit to England wliich 
kept him away from the last meet. After dinner all bands 
•returned to the club house for a smoking concert, an amuse- 
ment for which the T. C. C. is noted, which occupied the 
entire evening. Com. Wilkie acting as chairman. Among 
the old A. C. A. men present were Hugh Neilson, Judge 
Dartnell, E. B. Edwards and Robert Tysori. On Sunday the 
visitors were taken for a drive through the city and enter- 
tained until the evening trains, when they left for home. 
The annual meeting of the board of governors was held on 
Saturday evening. 
The weather during the two days was most unpleasant. 
After several unusually warm days both in New York and 
Toronto, Friday was cold and bleak, and on Saturday snow 
fell in the latter city to the depth ot 3in,, making the streets 
wet and sloppy, with a dull November sky above. The ex- 
perience of numerous meetings at about the same date, the 
third week in November, at New York, Boston, Toronto, 
Albany and other places, goes to show that it is later than de- 
sirable and likely to be marked by a disaareeable change of 
weather, the first real indication of winter, There is no 
reason why the meeting should not be held earlier, about the 
first week in November, when the chances are much in 
favor of warmer weather. 
May 11-14.— Oil Crrr, Pa.— Seventh annual tounatiient of tlie t^enn- 
eylvauia State Sportsmen's Aaaociatlon, tinder tbe auspices of the Oil 
City Gun Cliib. Targets and live birds. Black powder barred. Spe- 
cial event: l85 live birds per tnan, $25, $1,000 guaratiteed. Bend en- 
tries to g. 0. Reeser, gec'y Oil City, ta. 
May 17-22.- Kansas CItV, Mo.— Atnual totirnaineht of tbe Misfiottrl 
State Dame and Fieh Protefetive As&oci^tion. S^ed T. Durranti Se&f.. 
June (tiilrd Week).— CifcVKiiAinj, O.— Foiii-tb anniiai totlrnatnfefit at 
the OhamhurliD Dartrldse and Target Company. 
June 16-17.— FAijGk), IST. D.— Third annual tournament of the North 
Dakota Sportsmea's AsBociation. Targets. W. W. Smith, Seo'y. 
Calumet Heights Rifle Scores. 
Chicago, 111., Nov. 21.— The following scores were made by members 
of the Calumet Heights Gun Club in a hazy atmosphere with a change- 
able wind blowing across the range: 
Class A, SOOydi., o£C-hand, standard target, open sights allowed 3 
pointB; 
Harlan 3444431545 —40 J O Hobbs .... 4444444444 —40 
Paterson 034.33;i43.32 —28 C L Hobbs.. . ,3434444 '45 —38 
H B Black.,,. 4334444443-37-f 2-89 Davis.. 3334433333 -81-f 2— 83 
In the ladies' contest, Class B, lOOyds., ,a2cal. rifle, Creedmoor target 
reduced, Miss Ervin was the only competitor, and accordingly she 
was awarded the ladies' medil on che good score of 41 points made 
as follows; 5444443445—41. Patty. 
If you want your shoot to be announced here 
send In notice like the following: ; 
FIXTURES. 
Dec. 12.— HAcKBNSAfK, N. J.— Amateur championship of New Jer- 
sey, under the auspices of the Bergen County Gun Club. 
Dec. 23-33.— EiiizABBTH, N. J.— Ninth bi-monthly tournament of the 
Elizabeth Gun Club. First day, targets; second day, live birds. 
1897. 
Jan. 1. — Newark, N. J.— Sixteenth annual tournament and reception 
of the South Side Gun Club. W. K. Hobart, Sec?y. 
Jan, 4-5.— PBEseoTT, Arizona. — Fourth annual tournament of the 
Arizona State Sportsmen's Association, under the auspices of the 
Preseott Gun Club. Roy Hill, Sec'y. 
Jan. 20-25.— Ban Antonio, Tex.— Second midwinter tournament, 
under the management of Oscar GuessRZ $800 added. 
Feb. 27-March 11.— Hot Springs, Ark.— Tne Arkansaw Traveler's 
first grand annual live bird tournament; $10,000 in purses and added 
moneys. Souvenir programmes ready Jan 1. Address all communi- 
cations to John J. Sumpter, Jr., Box 111, Hot Springs, Ark. ' 
March 33-25.— New 'yoRii City.— The Interstate Aseoclation'e fifth 
annual Grand American Handicap at live birds. 
April 15*17.— San ASTomo, Tex, —Tournament of the San Antonio 
Gun Club. Open to amateurs only, WilJard T. Sijapson, Obftlrroftn 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for publication in 
these columns, also any news notes they may care to have printed. 
Ties in all events dre considered as divided Unless otherUiise reported. 
Mail all such mathr to B^oresi and Sir Ham. Pablishing Company, SIS 
SroadViay, Nm) York. 
Since mailing the drafts of tile proposed new riilea for ta,rget Shdot- 
ing, we have been informed that a revision of tjj^ A. S. ,A. .rules Has 
been under consideration for some time. We have also learned tliat 
the Sportsmen's Association (anent which association Elmer Shaner 
has something to say in this issue) contemplates promulgating a new 
set of trap-shooting rules. We are pleased to find that this matter 
has attracted so much attention, as it fully bears out all that we have 
claimed, viz., that no set of rules now in use are considered to be 
anything like perfect. Talking about rules: A gentleman who was, 
we believe, one of the original framers of the A. S A. rules, said to 
us the other day in defense of thoserules: "You must remember that 
there is always a point in any rules where they come to an end and 
where equity begins." We have always thought how much better it 
would be to minimize the labors of the referee, and leave as few 
points as possible to be dpclded by that oflSciai upon the "equity" 
plan. What may seem equitable to a referee and to the parties in 
whose favor he decides, very often looks just the opposite to the 
other parties in the case. Then again, no referee Is infallible. 
Charlie Grimm is after Carver; Carver wanted to challenge Roll 
for the Du Pont trophy, but found Winston's money ahead of him; 
and now Elliott telli us that Carver is after his scalp and also after 
the Kansas City Starts cup won by EUiott from Riley. Talking about 
Carver's challenge to Roll, why shouldn't Mr Buckley, Carver's 
backer, nend on his money to Mr. E. S Rice, in Chicago, and challenge 
the winner of tbe Winston-Roll match? We believe Mr. Rice would be 
just as willing to honor the challenge as, here in the East, Roll's and 
Winston's challenges to the winners of the Claridge-Malone and the 
Claridge-Roll matches respeo'ively were honored. As a matter of 
fact, whether champions or would-be champions, anybody who really 
wants a match can easily get it it he only looks in the right place and 
makes his needs known. It didn't take Parmelee and Elliott long to 
fix up their match; not a Pcrap of printer's ink was wasted in windy 
preliminaries. The simplicity of the affair was absolutely refreshing. 
In connection with a Driver and Twister in our last issue that 
touched upon the proposed reorganization of the N«w Jersey State 
Sportsmen's Association, we are glad to be able to state that the pro- 
ject is not pigeonholed, but that steps are being quietly taken to put 
everything in good shape before a meeting is called to consider the 
reorganization. The meeting will be called, in all probability, at Tay- 
lor's Hotel. Jersey City. It does seem a shame that the State of New 
Jersey— a S*^ate that can muster among its shooters such men as 
Enoch Miller, Dutchy Smith, Ferd Van Dyke, Neaf Aogar, Tom Keller, 
Justus von Lengerke, Fred Quimby, Heber Breintnall, etc.— should be 
without a State organization to look after the Interests of trap-shoot- 
ers. The game laws of the State need some looking after too; tbe 
State Sportsmen's Association could do some good by taking a hand 
in that matter and helping to unravel some of the many twists and 
snarls the late Legislature is answerable for. 
H. W. Brown writes us from Binghamton, N. T.*. as follows: "The 
attendance at our weekly shoots has been so small of late that I did 
not think it worth while to send in the scores week by week. Game 
shooting has been taking the boys' attention. While Binghamton 
cannot show any very good target shots, we have among us some 
very good shots on game. Recently Mr, Kendall made quite a record, 
scoring ten woodcock and one partridge (ruffed grouse) straight In 
cover. Another mnmber of the gun club scored nine woodcock with- 
out a miss, and at another time killed eleven partridges without a 
miss also. This seems to me like a pretty good record." We should 
say so too, and have taken ofl! our hats to our friend Mr. Kendall, and 
to that other meoaber of the gun club. If they can go out and get all 
those partridges and woodcock, small wonder they won't stop at 
home and try to break targets I 
The secretary of the South Side Gun Club, of Newark, N. J., Mr. W. 
R Hobart, writes as follows: ' The South Side Gun Club, of Newark, 
N. J., will hold thpir usual New Year's Day reception and tournament 
on Jan. 1, 1S97. This will be the South Side's sixteenth annual, and 
all shooters will be cordially welcomed. A nice lunch will be served 
at 12 o'clock, and no pains will be spared to make the affair a pleasant 
one. A feature of the meeting will be that no one will be compelled 
to enter the sweepstakes, which will be entirely optional, and tickets 
for birds will be issued which may redeemed at their face value or are 
good until used. The shooting will commence at 10 o'clock." 
Tl-e shoot for tbe Shooting and Fishing trophy now held by the 
Boiling Springs Gun Club, of Ratherford, N. J., did not come ofl last 
Saturday afternoon according to agreement; the challengers, the Cli- 
max Gun Club's team, of Plalnfleld, N. J , arrived on the scene too 
late for any chance ot the match being shot that afternoon. The 
days are very short now, and the light on the meadows is none of the 
best when 4 o'clock has struck. There is a likel'kood of a contest for 
the trophy at the Boiling Springs grounds on New Year's Day, whefi 
it is hoped that the Endeavor Gun Club will enter a team and help the 
Climax to make it interesting for the Rutherford boys. 
According to the Columbus, O., State Journal of Nov. 32, Heikes 
and Bartlett shot a race the previous day against Ed Rike and Scott 
McDonald, both members of the Buckeye Gun Club, of Dayton, O., 
and both neighbors of Heikes, whose home is at Dayton. The con- 
ditions of the race were: 100 targets per man, 50 of them at unknowh 
angles and 25 p iirs. The scores on the singles were: Heikes 4§, Bart- 
lett 47. Rike 47, McDonald 44. On doubles Heikes scored 43, Bartlett 
35 Rike 33 and McDonald 24. The combined team totals were: Helkes 
91, Bartlett 83, total 178; Rike 80, McDonald 68, total 148. 
Taylor Cox, of Joplin, Mo,, won the last medal shoot of the Joplin 
Gun Club with the score of 91 out of lOO at unknown angles. The 
other Bcres were: Sergeant 89, H. T. Leeman 86, C. M. Sumner 85. In 
Bending us the scores, Sergeant adds: "Taylor Cox is now using a 
Winchester, and is breaking nearly all the targets " Is this a genuine 
piece of information from friend Seargeant, or is it merely a joking 
reminder of the time at the Pittsburg shoot when he (Sergeant) sold 
his Winchester to Elmer Shaner for a dollar after missing — , we won't 
say how many targets? 
At the time of going to press we cannot give any definite idea as to 
the probable number of entries in Charlie Zwirlein's big live-bird race 
that commences to-morrow (Dec. 2) at Trenton, N. J. The weather 
is hardly pleasant for spe 'tators to stand around in, but it is just the 
sort of weather that puts snap and life into the birds when they are 
handled with the care and judgment they always receive when Zwir- 
lein has anything to do with them. A touch of frost in the air is not 
a bad thing for the shooters either, so we may look for some good 
seres on fast birds. 
On our way to tbe shoot at Rutherford, N. J., on Saturday last, Nov. 
28, we ran acres'* Allen Willev, once a familiar figure in trap-ahooting 
circles In this vicinity. Mr. Willey says that he has been sticking too 
close to busineps to do much shooting of late, but believes that he 
hasn t quite forgotten how to handle a gun. Looking after a theatri- 
cal company keeps him on the move all the time, but whenever he gets 
a chance he goes out and blows the oil out of bis gun and incidentally 
tries to stop drivers and twisters from five traps. 
Thanksgiving Day was a miserable one, from a weather point of 
view, In this vicinity. Not until very late in tbe day did a breeze 
spring up and start the fog that wrapped the city in a cloak of cloud, 
moving seawards. It is, however, hard to stop the boys phooting 
when they want to do so; bad weather won't do it, and as a result 
there were several holiday gatherings of a trap-shooting nature car- 
ried to a successful close on that day. 
One of the prettiest miniature specimens of the gunsmith's art that 
we have ever handled was shown to us the other day by Justus von 
Lengerke at his store, 8 Murray street, this city. The gtm was a 
double Francotte, 32-gauge, hammer, weight about SIbs., and as well 
finished as one of th^ highest grade guns. Justus bad had it made 
specially to order for bis son, now eight years old, who, under hia 
father's tuition, will be taught how to use it. 
The Missouri State Gime and Fish Protective Association claims 
the third week in May, 1897, as the week in which it will hold its annual 
tournament. As this Association always gets up a good and attract- 
ive programme, and as its annual shoots are invariably among the 
highest class of such affairs, it will he advisable for secretaries of 
gun clubs to notei tbe above dates with a view to ayoiding clashing 
vs ith the same. 
The Sportsmen's Association has taken a lease of an elegant suite of 
rooms on the tenth floor of tbe Williama Building, corner of Broad^ 
way and White street, The rooma, yf^Qh ttm wpst, will be peadf fSE 
Bfisupatjon to abowfc two weeJ^g, x 
