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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jak. 16, 1897. 
Grand Americany Handicap. 
BLKWOOD PARK SELEOTBD. 
The classiflcatlon and tournament commitfee of the Interstate As- 
sociation had an important task set it when the mntter of the choice 
of grounds for the Grand American Handicap nf 1897 was placed in 
its hands. Manager Shaner was appouited a committee of one by 
the above committee to visit certain grounds and report on their de- 
sirability or otherwise. Mr. Shaner, as aU-^ady stated in Forest and 
Stbeam. visited the three race tracks near Ehz'abeth, N. J.- WaverJy, 
Linden and Dwyer's— and also the new grounds at Elkwood Park, 
N. J. 
In his report, banded tn to ttie comiiifttee on Tuesday, December 
23, manager Shaner stated that the only places suitable for the pur- 
pose of holding the above shoot were Dwyer's track and the Elkwood 
Park grounds. The committee decided' to visit the two grounds 
named and inspect them, and set Tuesda.y, Dec. 29. as the date for 
the visit of inspection. Later, when it was found that this date was 
unfavorable for certain of the committee to attend, another date 
was fixed— Thursday. Jan. 7. 
The classification and tournament coipmittpe is composed of the 
following: Irby Bennett, Chairman; Noel E. Money, Justus von 
Lengerke, Paul North and J. L. Lsquin.secretary of the Association. 
dwybb's track. 
On Jan. 7. as agreed upon above, the committee, with the excep- 
tion of Paul North, left New York by the 10:10 A. M. train over the 
P. R. T?., and first visited Dwyer's track. The committee was ac- 
companied by manager Shaner. Messrs. Zwirlein and AstCalk met 
the committee on its arrival. 
Elizabeth can be reached in forty minutes from New York. One 
minute's walk from the depot is the track of the electric cars, that 
run to within a shf^rt five minutes' walk of the race track. Ordina- 
rily cars run every ten minutes, and it takes about ten minutes from 
the depot to the end of the line near the track. Given the closest 
connections possible, and it would take an hour to get to the entrance 
to the track. From the entrance to the main buildings, in from, of 
which the middle set of traps would have to be located, is about 
another three minutes' walk ; perhaps not so much. 
The inclosure itself is as perfect a natural shooting ground as one 
could wish to see any where. For a target tournament such a loca- 
tion could r:ot be surpassed. Eight or ten cets of targets could be 
placed in a straight line without either inconveniencing the other. 
Shooters would face about E.S.E., and every target would have a 
sky background. As soon as Noel Money saw it, he said: "I wish 
we'd seen this ground before we gave our tournament last year." 
Taking it altogether the committee was most favorably impressed . 
with the advantages offered by locating the handicap on these' 
grounds, and so openly expressed itself. It was, of course, under- 
stood that much would have To be done in the way of preparing for 
the comfort of 'hp pl-opter?, in cBse (he weather during the Grand 
' i' t / ti "^, 'ci'^' ^a-.- .V.' . ' 
ELKWOOD PARK ARB ITS NEW SCOOTING GROUNDS. 
American week was unfavorable. Shooters know— none better — 
that temporary arrangements, however good, are at the best unsat- 
isfactory if the weather is bad. It was its experience in this matter 
in the past that made the Intetstate Association so careful this year 
in the selection of its grounds for the Grand American Handicajj. 
ELKWOOD PABK. 
The committee left Elizabeth on the 12:46 P. U. train for Branch- 
port, a station on the New York & Long Branch R R. Both the P. 
R. R. and the C. R. R. of N. J. run trains over this road, tickets being 
good either way on trains of both roads. The great drawback to Elk- 
wood Park has always been, to our way of thinking, its distance from 
New York. By rail it is Hfty-flve miles; trains take one there in one 
and one-half hours from the Nev/ York side of the ferry. As last 
year, trains will be stopoed during the shoot at the crossing where 
the highway from Branebport crosses the railroad track at the upper 
end of the park. The crossing is plainlv shown in tbe accompanying 
illustratien. If you walk to the grounds you can do it in ten minutes 
easil.y. If you ride, five minutes will cover the distance. 
(Note.- This year the Elkwood Park management guarantees to 
carry all shooters free from the tra'n to the club house.) 
To return to the «-isit of the committee: Tbe day was the loveliest 
imaginable for tbe time of year. Of course both "Dwyer's track and 
Elkwood Park showed at their prettiest. The new club house stood 
up prominently on the top of the rise where the new grounds are 
located. It at once attracted all eyes. An inspection that was some- 
thing more than thorough was made of this club house, trap pits, 
etc And there was much to see and admire. If there are any more 
perfectly arranged shooting grounds or any that are more perfectly 
equipped, we couldn't name them in a month of Sundays. If Chim- 
mie Fadden was a shooter, and if he was to visit Elkwood Park's 
new grounds, he'd use his favorite expression to give vent to his feel- 
ings on the point: "They're outer sight." And Ohimmie would be 
perfectly accurate. 
In oar issue of Oct. 31, 1896, we gave a very full description of the 
grounds as we saw them then. As we saw them on Jan. 7, 1897, it is 
not putting it much too strongly to say that our breath was taken 
away. On Oct 20 all was in embryo; no club house stood there; not 
even its foundations had been begun; pegs marked its limits, that 
was all. On Jan, 7 the club ho"se was practically complete Steam 
was passing through the radiators, making it warm throughout; 
painters were putting their last toucbe.". to it, the coloring chosen for 
the inside decoration being a very pretty shade of red. Outside it is 
white, with ''yellow trimmings " Carpenters were busy la^^iog the 
board walk around the building, while a strong rail and wire fence 
bounded the board walk, absolutely preventing spectators from 
crowding or annoying shooters at the score. 
The puller's house, sunk slightly in the ground so as not to obstruct 
the view from the house, was inspected ; also the house for the ref- 
eree and the scorer. Alongside the Htter's house was the dog han- 
dler's house and cold storage pit, as it were, for the dead birds. The 
retrieving is all done by dogs, and neither dog, handler nor dead 
birds being visible to the spectators or shooter until the dog is re- 
leased to retrieve a bird. Some practice work was had to show how 
fast the birds -could be trapped when shooters were ready at the 
score for their turns. As stated in our issue of Oct 31, all trapping 
is done from below ground. The committee went underground and 
saw the trapper at work— only one man is wanted at each set of 
traps, and as he put it to us, he has a "picnic." 
A miss-and out was started to give a practical illustration of the ' 
workings of traps, etc. The miss-and-out had 7 entries: Money, Von 
Lengerke, Soistman, Bennett, Daly, Japhia Van Dyke and Edwards 
(It is not necessary to state who won the pot; perhaps some of the 
others might not hke it mentioned ) Nine times out of ten the trap 
that had been sprung was loaded and ready for business before the 
dog had the dead bird in its mouth; and the dog was not a slow one 
by any means. 
The traps are those known as the Mott disappearing traps. They 
are unquestionably harder to shoot over than the Eng traps, from 
the fact that they disappear instead of falling over with a clatter. 
But the act of disappearing causes quite a racket, and in addition a 
bell that acts as a "starter" attracts a shdoter's attention to the trap 
almost as well as the clatter of an opening King trap. 
THE committee's decision. 
After inspecting everything, lockers for shooters, and all other ac- 
commodations, the committee decided that if Messrs. Daly and Chan- 
frau, the managers of the grounds, would sign the contract to be 
mailed to them the following day, there was no further question be- 
fore it as to where the Grand American Handicap of 1897 should be 
shot. In making such decision, we think the committee only acted 
as they were instructed to do; to find the best and most desirable 
oeatioh for holding the Grand American Handicap. 
LAST tear's discomfort. 
p tjjpge, tbe^ were many, who swffertia tfie ^if^cospfprt^ that 
attended the shoot at Elkwood Park last year, can rest assured that 
!jhis year the Interstate Association has taken every precaution to 
guard their interests. It i^^ too premature to make any announce- 
ment in this is.sue as to just what the management of Elkwood Park 
will do to absoluely secure tbe comfort of the shooters who will be 
Its gu<=sts. Manager Shaner is now at work on the programme, and 
it will soon be in our hands and in the hands of the shooters of this 
country The reading matter in that programme will contain abun- 
dance of interesting data as to how things will be werked this year. 
Personally we can say that, under the circumstances, we should 
have adjudged the committee unworthy of the confidence reposed 
m it had it decided anj;^ other way after once seeing the grounds at 
Elkwood Park. On this point we are satisfied that shooters them- 
selves will agree with us when they see the grounas. 
As stated above, one of the greatest drawbacks to Elkwood Park is 
Its distance from New York. The claim is a good one and had a great 
deal of weight with the committee when it came to the actual choice 
of grounds. But there was a decided set off to this disadvantage. It 
can easily be figured out that with the increased facilities for shoot- 
ing off events rapidly offered by the ■ clover leaf " sets of traps, to- 
gether with the undergrotmd system of trapping, etc . it is perfectly 
possible to finish the Grand American Handicap in one day with a 
list of 100 shooters. Last year it took about 1„*)00 birds to finish the 
race; with three sets of traps that means Just about f 50 birds for 
each set of traps, with over six hours to do It in ; 100 birds an hour is 
ordinary match work with ordinary apphances. At Elkwood Park 
it will be easily possible to beat that rate, even in a big sweepstake 
like tbe Gi-and American Handicap. 
Each shooter will start at No. 1 set of traps and shoot a bird on 
each set of traps, and then retire until his turn comes to shoot his 
next 3 bird.s. Thus anybody who is fortunate enough to stay in until 
the 25th round has been shot will have fired at 9 birds on No. 1 set of 
traps and at 8 on each of the other two sets. With shooters at the 
score with any degree of promptness.it can readily be seen that the 
Grand American Handicap can be run off in one day if the entries do 
not amount to more than they did in 1896. 
A OOtlNTlSB attraction. 
On Saturday, Jan. 9, we had a talk with Mr. Charles Zwirlein. In 
the course of conversation he stated positively that a counter attrac- 
tion, with good and solid monetary attraciions in the shape of added 
money, would be held at Dwyer's track on the same day as the 
Cffncl American Handicap. We sincerely hope that Mr. Zwirlein 
and Mr. Astfalk wUl do nothing of the kind, as we feel that such a 
policy would be not only hurtful to the sport itself, but would also 
be almost suicidal, aa in all probability both events would be some- 
thing like direct failures through the effects of such clashing of in- 
terests. Edward Banks. 
IN NEW JERSEY. 
BOILING SPRINSS GUN CLUB. 
Jan. 2,— The detailed score made in the Boiling Springs Gtm Club's 
regular monthly shoot, held so-day, w as as follows, W. H. Huck 
leading the band with 48 out of 50: 
F Van Dyke (0). . .11111111111111111111111100111111111111110111111111-47 
P Adams (3) OlllOlOlOlOllO.OlllUimilOlOlOlOllOlOniinuilO-30 
100 J 
37 
R Marville (15), , .11110110101111011111011011111110100110101111111001—37 
101000001110011 _ 7 
44 
A A Hegeman (7).11101111011011111100111111011101100011011000101111— 34 
1101110 5 
39 
W H Huck (0). . . .11111111111111101111111111111011111111111111111111-48 
G E Qrieff (0)... .11111100111111110011110111100111110110111111011111-40 
K Frank (0) llllllOOlllOlOlllOlllDOllOillOOllOllllllOlniOOIl- 36 
F S Edwards (0)..111111111101111111100Ul]0111]lli]110001011111ll01-41 
J A Paul (0) 11101111111111011010111101111111010101111101011111-40 
T Barron (5) 11111111110101011111010111111111001110111111111111-42 
mil _ 5 
B James (5) 11111101111110110111011111011110101011111011001011- 38 
10110 _ 3 
C R Wise (0) llllllOlOlOlllllllllllllllllOlillOllllllllOlliniO-43 
E Jeannerette (6). 01111110011011001011101111001110111111101101011101-35 
000100 _ X 
36 
Brown (15 IfOlOlOOOOllOOOlOOOOlOlOOOOOlOOOOOOOlOlOOllOOlOOOO- 14 
OOOOlOlOOOlOOOl _ 4 
18 
W M Harding (4).01011111110101101011100010001101110110100011111011-.31 
1110 _ .3 
34 
AVOBK DEFEATS DAVIS. 
Jan. 5.— George Work and J. H- Davis, the latter a member of the 
Riverton Gun Club, of Philadelphia, shot a race io day on the 
grounds of that club at Rive' ton, N. J. The conditions were 100 
birds per man, 30yds. rise, SOyds boundary. The birds were a fast 
lot, the strong somberly wind helping them away from the traps ata 
great rare. Work shot in poor form, bis score of 83 not being up lo 
his standard by any means He seems just now to be shooting gen- 
erally away below his average for the past few years. The fact that 
he only scored one double-figure run, 10, shows "that there was some- 
thing wrong with the way in which he pointed his gun. Davis made 
a lower score than Work, losing the race in the last 25 birds; he had 
two runs of double figures, both 10s. Davis started in the lead with 
2-i to fO at the end of the first i5; he increased his lead to 4 bu-ds at 
the end of the 50th round, the scores standing then Davis 43 to 
Work's 39. Although Work only scored 31 in the next 25, he gained 
3 birds on his opponent, who could do no better than score 18. This 
left Davis 1 bird in the lead at the end of the third d5. Work's score 
of 8a in his lap t string was far too much for Davis, who made his 
lowest total for a string of '25 in this match, 17. This left Work 
the winner of the match by 4 birds, the scores standing as shown 
below: 
George Work 3i22I2220.2»2232238203202— ?0 
■ 210i0*«2^2«22.2220323?222— '9 
303222 22»22 1 2-i22«a0223.i3- 21 
22U'2«12a203 22032232321 1—3?— 83 
Junius H Davis 2113221111003211130231113—22 
. 2221«12ni:«ll C2232111P«-ai 
n21003l52«20-00222i'in0i-18 
00 .'23320»1 33332022 .01S0.3— 17-78 
FORESTER GUN CLUB, OF NEWARK. 
Jan r.— The New Year's Day shoot of the Forester Gun Club was 
not largely attended. Too many shoots were on hand for this day in 
thev'ciuity of Newark, and that fact no doubt had much to do with 
the number of shooters present at our grounds to-day. Along list 
of events, fO in all. were shot off. Nos. 1, 2, 5, 7, Q, iv,'l6 and 18 were 
at known traps and angles; Nos. 4 and 19 at unknown angles- Nos 3 
6,8.10,13,16 and 30 at reversed order; Nos. 11, Maud 17 at expert 
rules. Scores were as below: 
Events: 
0 Smith 8 4 6 . . 
D Fleming.. 9 6 9 7 
Winans 6 5 8 3 
Jewell 9 6 3 
J James.... 
C Hedden., 
Cumrnings. 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 
9 8 
.. 4 
9 9^. 
6659 10 988 
7 6 9 8 7 
993 10 9868 7 777 
5 
. - fl 5 7 7 . . . . 6 . . . 
6 79 89688958 '9 
..►.5 6 6 7 6 
5 3 3 8.. 4 . 
Jan. 9. -The following scores were made to-day- by members of 
the Forester Gon Club, of Newark- 
Events; 133456'J'8 9 1011131314 
Dr Cumrnings 65 7 7R98 10 378G4 7 
P Sinnock 7 8 5 7 8 7 8 10 9 in.. 
Jewell 7 .. '.I 8 8 5 8 ,. " " *" 
Winans 8 5 3.. 3 6 5 6 5 " 
J James 9 7 7 5 0 8 10 7 9 '6 's 
' Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13 and 14 were at known angles; Nos. 3 6 and 
9 at expert rules; Nos, 4, 8 and 12 at reversed ord^r. ' 
H. E. Winans, Sec'y. 
BOILING SPRINGS VERSUS ENDEAVOR. 
Jan 9 —One of the closest and most interesting team rapes ever shot 
in this vicinity was dedided this afternoon on the grounds of the 
Boi'ing Springs Gun Club at Rutherford. The Endeavor Gun Club 
of Jersey City, put a ten-men team m the ffeld against a team of the 
home club and suffered defeat by just two breaks, the scores stand- 
ing 195 to 193 in favor of the home team. This match settled the 
series bett^een the two clubs, as ttj.p Boiling Springj» CJub defeated 
ttie sn^eftTor Qlflb on iif! ojn groutida ftl Mftrion 111 flrsti 
match. Scores in the team race to-day did not rule high, but the 
work of everybody was generally even. 
The gathering to-day was quite a representative one for a New 
Jersey team race. Among those present were: Justus and Carl von 
Lengerke. of the firm of Von i^engerke & Detmold, together with 
Gus Greiff and Theodore Baron, from the same store; Ed. Taylor, 
of the Laflin & Rand Powder Co.. and Marshall Herrineton, of W-A 
fame; Neaf Apgar, the new Austin 'graduate; Tom Keller and Eddie 
Collins, both of them talking and shooting King's Smokele.ss; Piatt 
Adams, Colin Wise, W. M Harding, C. F. Lenone, Charlie Hebbard 
(of tbe W. Fred. Quimby Co.); George Pier, y and his son Louis, A. 
R. Strader, H. P. Fessenden, etc. From out of town were Elmer E, 
Shaner, almost minus a voice, of Pittsburg, Pa., and Ben. O. Bush, 
of Kalamazoo, Mich. Mr. Shaner kindly consented to act as referee 
in the team race, despite the weakness of bis vocal chords referred 
to above. He had a "good eye" with him, and that made up for all 
deficiencies in lung power. (As a matter of fact Elmer had a very 
bad cold indeed.) 
The weather could not have been more delightful, and had the old 
order of things prevailed the scores would have been much higher. 
Four new springs on the bluerock traps sent the targets much further 
than has been customary on these grounds. The backgrotmd is a 
perfect one, all sky, and it was only necessary to gauge the speed of 
the targets correctly and get well ahead of the qnarterers. Some of 
us found difficulty in doing this. Tom Keller and Ed Taylor were 
both suffering from rheumatism (not gout), so some allowances must 
bemade for their totals. (This statement is made gratuitously and 
was not solicited !) Justus von Lengerke tried a new gun that he 
found on trial did not suit him, the pistol grip not fitting correctly his 
crippled right hand. 
The scores made in the team race are given below in detaU, the 
conditions being 25 targets per man, unknown angles: 
Boiling Springs. 
WHHuck 1111111011111110111111111-23 
Neaf Apgar v.^^..^.*..;. 1101011111111111111111101-23 
P Adams 0111111110011110111111111-21 
T Baron 1110111111110110111011111-21 
S S S^*"'^ 1110110111111100111101111—20 
C O Hebbard 1101111111011101111011011—20 
T H Kellar 1111110110101111111100101-19 
O R Wise 1101111001111011101110011-18 
Dr De Wolfe. 1011111010101111100111100-17 
J A Paul 0110101000111011010110111— 14— 1?5 
Endeavor. 
EOollins 1111111111111111101111101-23 
G H Piercy 1011011111111111111111110-22 
F S Edwards 0010110111111111111111111-21 
M Herrington ,...,..,,1111111100100111111011111—20 
Ed Taylor .0111110111110111011111111— 20 
C von Lengerke 1111101111011010110110111—19 
A R Strader 1010011111111101011110111—19 
J von Lengerke 1001111011111100110101111-18 
L Piercy 1000111110010101111111010—16 
H P Fessenden OOllllOOllllOllliOllOroiO-15— 193 
A record of all the events shot during the afternoon is given be- 
low, every event being at unknown angles. No. 6 was the team race 
and No. 11 was one of the "after dark" shoots, the referee and scorer 
having to go down to the trap house to judge breaks and misses, it 
being almost too dark to see the targets: 
Events: 1S3466789 1011 
Targets: 15 15 10 15 15 26 15 20 10 25 25 
Edwards ]3 14 10 14 11 21 15 19 8 33 20 
Apgar 15 13 9 12 11 23 13 17 9 . 
Taylor 13 11 7 .. 14 20 18 
Bush 11 10 6 8 10.. 14 17 8 20" 
Keller 12 13 7 11 12 19 II 17 8 .. ,. 
Fessenden .,.,..........',„,,... 6 .. 5 .. . 15 
Herringten..,.. 12 9 8 13 .. ?0 11 's i9 "' 
Adams 10 11 10 11 10 21 13 16 10 
Hebbard , li 13 8 12 8 20 
Collins , , 12 .. . 21 
GPiefCi^ 9 11 14 i2 12 17 10 21 30 
Greift T'.. .......... .. 8 .. .. 20 14 .. , 
L Piercy 4 12 .. IB ,'. .' 
James .. .. 7 .. .. , 
*-l^ L B ,,^ J . ,, 10 11 9 18 .. , ,. .. ... 
Baron 9 15 14 2113 18 619.. 
Huck .... 6 13 12 J3 15 16 8 20 
De Wolfe 5 10 1117 8 15 10... 
Paul 8 ., 14 13 .. 6 .. .. 
Wise 9 1117 & 14 6 22 22 
Frank 10 .. .. 8 11 6 .. .. 
Billings 8 .. 10 .. 6... 
Count 7 .. 6 8 e .. .. 
CVL 19 14 17 .. ., 
Strader 19 10 8 8 14 i. 
Harding 12 14 4 h 13 
Brown 3 2 12 
W. S. EDKV VKRSUS H. EDEY. 
Jan. 9.— As a result of the New Year's Day shoot at the Westmin- 
ster Kennel Club, a 100 bird race was shot to-day on the grounds of 
the Carteret Gun Club, at Bayonne. On New Year's D y Harry 
Edey scored S3 out of 24 from the ?7yds. mark and won the Kennel 
Club's cup; W. S. Edey, his brother, stood ataoyds. and retired in the 
6th round. To day's race was shot under similar conditions as to 
rise, W. S. Edey conceding his brother Syds. ; the conditions called 
also for a 91yds. boundary. Had the usual boundary of 50yd3. been 
adopted, W. S. Edey's score would have been 87 to his brother's 81. 
Carteret is becoming famous for the fast birds now trapped on these 
grounds, and to-day's lot were no exception to the rule. The light 
was good, but there was no wind to help the birds. Considering 
everything, however, the scores made were decidedly creditable. 
Below are the totals: 
W S Edey C<9) 2?223f0>'?2OJ1129a9"02103— fO 
• 31 222?21 133 1332292 '23133- 24 
1101 2232222S22"0'"OnOO ?228- 1 8 
9J0.2 2 0i2S23f03 3102 '^3- iO-8i 
H Edey (37) S3;03vl231-S0 1' 03«i' 03J1— '• 0 
! oo.'sr30'«i3ioioiii3r^3i5'— 18 
01 322 ^321 0033201 -A 0 1 1 3230 -1 9 
e333I2«103111131231113132— 21— 78 
NEW year's DAY AT OAKWOOD INN. 
Jan. 1.— New Year's Day did not bring out many shooters at the 
Oakwood Inn traps, near Elizabeth. Aaron Woodruff' and Nate Ast- 
falk made a good race of it for first honors, Nate finally beating 
Woodruff out by 5 misses to 6 Scores: 
No. 1. No. 3. No. 3. No. 4. No. 5. No 6. 
Woodruff (31)... 213i'0- 4 03330- 3 01133- 4 210-2 20132—4 11111-5 
Mulvaney (38)... 25231-5 03012- 3 11002- 3 021-2 S3120-4 11210 4 
Astfalk (30) 21238- 5 19103—4 13331- 5 121-3 P3122-4 01121-4 
No. 7: A. Woodruff and Mulvaney 5, Astfalk 4, N. Woodruff 3 
No, 8: A. Woodruff 5, Astfalk 4, Noah Woodruff 2, Mulvaney 1. 
Cobweb Gun Club. 
New York, Jan. 7.— The members of the Cobweb Gun Club did not 
turn out in much force to day, but several guests arrived on the 
grounds quite unexpectedly, making the afternoon a pleasant one 
for all. McDonnell won the Class A medal; A. Elliott the Class B 
medal; Dittmar the medal in Class C, and. Thompson the Class Z 
medal. Scores: 
Club shoot. Tie. Club shoot. Tie. 
GEGreiffCA) 21111—5 100 WPurdy(B) I.IIO— 3 w 
McDonnell (A) 12112—5 201 T Hughes (B) 21001-8 2220 
NApgar(A) 100 w Dittmar(C) 02200 - 3 .... 
E Miller (A) 11311—5 200 H Miller (0) 20100—2 
FAKerker(A) 11212-5 G Thompson (Z) OOOOl— 1 , 
A Elliott (B).,. 21010-3 1111 
Two miss-and-outs were shot as below: 
No. 1. No. 2. No. 1. No. 2. 
147 i3332-o 233« -3 Hayward 120 —2 21123121—8 
Cramer 21320- 4 21112230-7 N Apgar 12113112-8 
a E Greiff... .13131- 5 11022121—8 
Geo. W. Thompson, Jr , Sec'y. 
New York State Shoot. 
Auburn, N. Y., Jan. 9 — Editor Forest and Stream: Please mention 
in Fixtures that Auburn Gun Club claims the second week in June 
for the tournament of the New York State Sportsmen's Association; 
82,000 cash guaranteed, besides a large list of guns and other good 
merchandise. We intend to give the biggest and best lot of open 
sweeps, no handicap and nobody barred, that has ever been given in 
the Bast. We hope to have a large attendance of the tournament 
shooters from the West and South and the Eastern States, and have 
claimed above dates to be in line with the Cleveland bhoot and 
Pennsylvania State tournament. C. W. Tvttle, Sec'y. 
The FoBSSf St^ah is put fo pre^ each toeek on Tuetday 
Correspondent i»2«n^ /or'jntftlicatton AonM reach w at 
