140 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. 13. 1897. 
Shot at Broke. Av, 
part. Ellis, Norton and Arforfc are the ones whose names do not ap-- 
pear in the list: these shot only in one event. 
FOUBTH day's SCORES. 
Events: 1 8 3 4 5 6 7 
Gilbert 20 IT 19 19 18 17 ?0 
Fulford 20 n 30 20 19 18 46 
Heikes. 18 16 io 21 IS 19 48 
Trimble 14 18 20 19 19 ' 0 47 
Grimm 20 --O is 19 16 16 46 
roster ■ 18 19 19 45 
Powers 17 18 - 0 18 IT 19 4'i 
Monroe 17 18 20 18 17 la 46 
Winston 18 17 18 19 18 19 <•& 
VanDyKe..,. 19 18 19 17 18 18 41 
Partington 20 17 17 T8 ,. .. .. 
Sexton 18 19 18 17 17 IK 44 
Toung..... 16 19 18 16 17 '8 47 
Glover 19 17 '7 18 18 17 44 
Tripp 18 17 19 17 14 17 48 
Robinson.. Ui IS IS 13 16 18 SO 
Murphy 19 19 19 ■'8 17 I'' 4i 
Jackson 17 17 18 19 19 '7 42 
Bartlett 16 8 '6 18 18 19 44 
Whitworth, ...... .... 16 19 20 1-=; Iti 16 42 
Calhoun 18 18 17 20 18 1H 4' 
Merrill. ,.iit... .>.....'. 19 '6 15 '9 20 19 40 
Serseant..... 17 19 14 i8 6 '8 45 
McMurchy 14 18 14 14 20 I9 48 
George 18 18 18 16 6 '9 4) 
Parmelee. 20 16 18 12 18 19 44 
Pie'y. 14 17 18 18 0 17 43 
Willard r 17 17 
Moore..,.- 18 iB 17 18 '9 15 43 
I.inderman 15 18 1 0 6 16 4i 
Parker 18 17 '6 6 1 '0 44 
L"ach 17 1 > 1 le 1' 1 43 
GupgsRZ . , 17 16 19 16 1 i 16 '4 
Mcnormack 1'14! 
F<»urole 19 14 13 Ki 17 17 
Dickey.... 18 1« 1 ' '6 18 18 <<0 
Wirt., ., 15 '0 -il 1- 1-. 16 37 
Looml<5 17 15 1' 18 15 17 41 
rritzer 17 1 15 1« in 17 43 
Mackie 17 15 19 15 n 17 4l 
Norman 17 15 16 15 18 14 ri 
Cooper 15 15 18 17 1^ 15 40 
Beeb 18 16 1- 16 16 13 40 
Morse ..... .... ...... !■< 15 18 li 17 I'i 41 
W Miller 18 17 18 14 16 14 41 
U W C 15 an i:j 16 li 16 3i 
Elliott 16 14 15 18 IR 15 4) 
Corneit 17 1~ 14 20 15 13 37 
Taylor 15 14 13 16 16 17 37 
Funk 16 10 11 15 17 17 43 
Sedam 15 9 17 IS 15 15 39 
Brucker 14 14 17 13 14 18 ., 
Beckham 17 W . .. , 
Keller If' 16 17 16 14 14 35 
Hallowell v.-.iVi, 14 13 13 16 16 18 36 
North ........ 15 18 16 1^ . .. 30 
Weller 14 16 19 16 10 13 . . 
Fritz..... 16 13 18 13 17 17 39 
Evans 15 14 14 
Hutchiaer.. 12 16 12 1^ 
Kpnnard,Te£ 13 .. 17 
Hddreth 13 9 .. .. 
Sumner 13 14 13 11 
Settle ...4.,,...,. 16 14 14 18 
Huichings..,...;..^^,.. 13 11 .. .. 
Pete 
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153 
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158 
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88.2 
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88 2 
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149 
87.6 
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87 6 
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87 G 
170 
148 
87 
170 
148 
87 
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148 
170 
147 
86 4 
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86.4 
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84.7 
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83 5 
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82.3 
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82.3 
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139 
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170 
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79 4 
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128 
75.8 
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71.5 
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114 
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67.6 
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66.6 
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110 
64.1 
170 
93 
54.1 
11 14 13 10 8 10 
Fifth Day, Jan. 30. 
After s'Tdays of bad weather one would naturally supyjose that the 
weather man would take some compassion on the shooters and at 
least elve Them one fair d!»y. But ttii se who entertained any such 
anticipations had them speedily blasted, for of all the bad weatber 
the shooters experienced rhis was the worst. About 10 o'clock it be- 
gan to drizzle, and this soon turned into a steady rain that afterward 
became dreochiog. In avery short time all those wlio were exposed 
to the weather were soaked to the skin, there not being any protection 
at the scorn. 
The programme consisted often 20- target races, with several unfin- 
ished events carried over from the day before. Ttiis made a big day's 
shooting, but one that could be accompiis> ed if an early start was 
made and the weather did not interfere. Owing to the beavy rain it 
was decided to discontinue for the day after 7 events had been shot, 
but here again a contentious few objected, claiming that the.v had not 
come all the way to Texas to sit around and watch it rain. Still none 
of the kickers shot it out, but very prudently stayed under the shelter 
of the bailding. The shoot continued, and as the entries kept falling 
off it was possible to finish by dark. The last event had only 31 
entries. 
The water bad submerged the wires of the battery and they became 
short circuited. Hence it became nece.«sary for Pa'ul North to mount 
his iron horse himself and trip the birds by hand when the shooters 
called ••Pull." Oscar Gupssaz performed a like duty at the other trap, 
and these two looked more like two drowned rats than human beings 
when the shoot was finally over. In addition some of the help em- 
ployed by the management rebelled on account of Che rain and re- 
fused to continue work, so Joe George was forced r o act as scorer, 
while Albert Steves performed the duties of rr'feree, and some of the 
more compassionate shooters also rendered thek- assistance in 
various capacities. The events were finished at last and the (iianage- 
ment heaved a sitih of relief. They had kept all their promises and 
fulfilled all their obligations to the shootert, but vvere unable to over- 
come the elements 
The average? show Heikes first with 93, Fulford secona with 91 
McMurtjhy and Glover next wi'h 90.5. McMurchy shot in somt-thing 
like his old-lime form, hui^ it was vei'y imprudent to shoot in such 
weather, especially after being as sick as he was two days ago. The 
added money to-day amonnttd to fSJn, $59 in each event. 
Despi'e the Oi.:aereeable weather fifty-nine .shooters took part in 
the events of the day. Settle, Krug and Hildreth failed to make an 
average of 60 per cent., and their names are not in the table below, 
FIFTH day's SCOHES 
Events; ^ 183456 7 8910 Shot at. Broke. Av. 
Heikes. ,„..,,.'.. SO 19 19 18 '30 19 16 17 19 19 
Fulford. 18 19 17 17 17 19 18 18 )9 
McMarchy 18 16 19 18 19 18 19 10 17 18 
Glover, 18 19 19 18 30 19 19 16 18 15 
Grimm 17 16 18 15 20 19 19 19 20 16 
Bartlett 17 19 19 '6 19 14 20 17 18 18 
Piety 17 19 18 18 18 16 17 17 18 18 
Parmelee ..i... 18 16 17 18 17 SO I6 18 19 15 
Leach...... 18 16 19 16 20 17 17 16 17 17 
Trimble 20 18 17 19 18 17 16 16 17 15 
Gilbert 19 16 20 16 17 17 16 15 IS 18 
Moore 19 18 18 13 17 16 16 
Parker iO 16 19 13 14 17 18 20 18 16 
Lbomis 19 17 17 17 18 17 17 16 14 17 
Merrill 18 18 15 15 20 13 19 18 14 19 
Jackson 19 17 18 12 16 18 18 18 18 14 
Van Dyke 20 19 30 18 18 13 15 17 13 14 
Miller 18 16 16 18 IH 14 17 16 17 16 
Sedam 18 18 18 15 19 13 
Elhott 17 19 17 17 13 15 17 16 18 17 
Young,. 20 16 19 16 18 17 17 16 17 10 
Calhoun 19 16 17 16 18 15 18 16 19 17 
Sereeant 17 19 19 16 13 IS 19 16 17 17 
Dickey 30 16 13 16 18 15 18 17 18 14 
Monroe 19 19 18 16 14 15 14 
Linderman 13 16 17 16 19 15 16 18 19 15 
Guessaz ............ 16 16 14 17 18 17 16 14 19 16 
George.............. 17 17 16 18 18 13 16 13 14 11 
Fritz 17 19 16 11 17 16 18 14 ., ., 
Norman 14 16 12 19 17 17 17 
Mackie..... 16 18 18 14 16 12 18 .. .. .. 
Powers 19 17 18 15 17 13 14 14 16 w 
Winston 19 16 16 15 16 13 
Sexton 16 18 11 17 17 14 17 16 16 16 
Wirt 17 15 15 15 15 16 Iti IS 15 15 
Hallowell 17 19 17 16 14 17 18 13 13 13 
Tripp 15 16 17 16 16 16 18 11 w .. 
Mtirphy..,, 16 18 16 15 w 13 li 16 .. .. 
Beck 19 15 19 20 18 14 IS 16 14 . . 
Cooper.............. 18 15 1? It 1,1 13 li 
McC.irmack...^....,, 17 15 15 12 15 15 
Whitworth..,,...... 13 15 13 9 14 8 19 IB 17 14 
U M C. 18 14 15 10 16 , .. ., 
Hrucker 16 l-i 13 17 16 13 w 
Funk. 17 14 16 12 17 16 17 16 .. 11 
Morse 15 16 17'll 11 ., ., 16 . . .. 
France 13 18 11 15 
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181 
90.5 
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90 5 
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179 
89.5 
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177 
h8.5 
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88 
30O 
174 
87 
21)0 
173 
8ri.5 
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173 
86.5 
100 
173 
86 
l40 
130 
85.7 
200 
171 
85.5 
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84.5 
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168 
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200 
168 
84 
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167 
83.5 
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167 
83.5 
180 
100 
83.3 
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166 
83 
200 
166 
Kl 
200 
166 
83 
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165 
83.5 
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165 
83.5 
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115 
82.1 
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164 
82 
200 
163 
81,5 
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163 
81.5 
160 
128 
80 
140 
113 . 
80 
140 
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180 
143 
79.4 
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95 
79.1 
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76.5 
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107 
76.4 
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151 
75 0 
140 
104 
74.4 
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89 
74,1 
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147 
73.5 
100 
73 
73 
130 
87 
73.6 
180 
139 
71.7 
120 
86 
71.6 
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57 
71.5 
160 
114 
71.8 
180 
1:18 
71,1 
140 
99 
70.7 
ISO 
84 
70 
100 
70 
70 
81 
65 
P8.7 
80 
54 
67 5 
160 
106 
66,3 
120 
77 
64.1 
Cornett 12 17 16 .. 13 W 18 12 13 . 
ASteves ........... 16 14 15 12 16 n 18 11 14 . 
Hutohings. 15 Ifi 15 16 11 13 13 
EobiDson. 17 17 13 11 1412.. . ... 
Foster 15 17 16 9 13 ,. , 
Fsurote 16 14 10 
Oritzer 13 10 15 16 
Plumber 10 11 13 11 18 15 17 13 . . . 
Kennard.Tex 11 14 12 12 .. ,, .. U 17 . 
ITEMS OF INTEREST. 
Never have we seen so many sick sboiter.s at a tbiirnament ! Char- 
ley Budd and Dr. Carver fared the worst. Charley arri^^ed on Friday 
and was able to prac' ice a little, but was taken down Sunday and was 
never able to shoot a eun during the tournament. He left for home 
on Feb. 1 still very sick; Grimm accompanied him, and under his care 
he should be able to make the trip. Charley hopes to be well enough 
to return to Hot SpriDg.s in time for the bit? handicap 
Dr. Caryor had to go to bed irnmediately and was never able to 
visit the grounds. We saw the Doctor Monday at the Government 
Hill Club'« shoot and he appeared rather thiu. He intended to de- 
part for Chicago the next day and had given up the idea of going to 
Hot Springs. 
Totn Norton also belonged to the bard luck crotvrt; he was sick all 
the time the shoot was in progress, but managed to shoot in one 
event, the E. C, cup race. 
Grimm. McMurchy, Dr. Britton and several others were al'JO on 
the sick list part of the time M-^Mnrchy very imprudently shot on 
several day) v.-hen he should have remained at the hotel. 
.John J Sumpter, ,Tr., was on hand with a supply of programmes 
and a few of the souvenir badgps that he proposes to srive to those 
who attend his shoot. Of course he was tellinar what a good earae 
he had prepared for the boys. Some people don't eat turkey, and 
that's why the programme did not please everybody, so all of them 
will not be at the feast, esppciailv the sure thing cro "d. 
Ou Saturday at preliminary practice Oillpert broke 9 targets out of 
100 
Chan Powers irore a nice new shooting suit escciaUy designed for 
the occasion, and also sho" a brand new P I rRer gun, 
XJ M C. as is hahitual with him, wasn't, saying much, bttt tie 
knew just how many were shooiins- U. iU. r, eroods, and then fo vary 
the monotonv he went ou^ and b-oke a straight 
Paul r- orth shot like a novice for'several days. Then he changed 
guns, using Fulford'.s single barrel Francotte, and with it he managed 
to keep in the money ri.ght along, and floallv made a straight. 
There we two Kennards at the sboot. neither of whom knew the 
other was in existence. The one was from E igland and 'he othfr a 
Texan. To designate one fmm the other they were dubbed English 
Kennard and Texas Kennard respectively, 
Witt was unfortunate in scoring 15s; h" scored this number of tener 
than any other shooter, and as the 15s only eot fh for mone.y twice, 
it was not a very remunerative hole. On the fourth day he developed 
quite a streak, however, getting two straights together and making a. 
run of 51 straiaht 
On the fourth dav of the shoot a very sinsulnr occurrence took . 
place A flock of sandhill cranes fl^w high over the shootinggrounds, 
and as soon as the .s;hooters perceive! them they opened fire on them, 
.though they anpeared to be far out of reach of any shotgun Capt. 
Bartlett, as soon as he saw them, cut a shell so that it would act as a 
concentrator, as did Glover. After a number of shots had been fired 
at them the crowd was amazed to sea one of the birds begin to 
totter, collapse and fall to the ground dead The distance this bird 
was killed -'as variously estimated at l.'O up to 'JSOyds. Such a shot 
seems incredible, but this was witnessed by m"re than a bund ed 
.people. The charge of shot had struck it .iust at the base of the 
neck and had severed the jusrular vein and the wind pipe, but had not 
broken the neck; a large rageed hole was torn in the skin. As soon 
as the bird fell considerable contention arose as to who had fl'-ed the 
fatal shot. Glover proclaimed very loudly that he hud performed 
the wonderful feat, while Capt, Bartlett was equally convinced that 
he had fired the fatal shot, and to substantiate his statement one in- 
dividual avers that he saw the snell in its tligbt, and also saw it strike 
the bird. Furthermore, the color of the shell wai red, and everybody 
knows the color of a Leader shell, while that of a Trap (the kind that 
Glover was using) is green. Be this as it may, the skin of the crane 
is now stretched over a dummy in Cr^tzer Bros ' store. 
It will be a surprise to a great many to see that John Conner only 
shot on the first day. He was called home by telegram, and his 
case was not one of gunshyness, as lack of form never causes him to 
quit. 
In the fu'ure Frank Parmelee will be known as Li Hung Chang. 
This is the result of having his hair cut and wearing a crusher. 
Van Dyke missed a gooii chance to make a killing; on the last day 
in the second event he ran 19 straight und then dropped hi< last one. 
It eventually turned out that this bird was worth about $.50, for no 
one made a. ^traight 
Ralph Trimble was the lusky fiaaii at tli*» shoot, noliwithstanding ■ 
that Heikes outshot him by at least 4 pir cent. Ealph quit about 850 
ahead of Roll. 
The Qi^vernment Hill Club, an organization composed of the oflScers 
stationed at Port Sam Houston, got up an informal little shoot Mon- 
day afi;ernoon for the entertainment of the shooters who were yet in 
the city. It being a beautiful day, all those who remained accepted the 
invitation. The follo.vins were present: Heikes, Bartlett, Elliott, 
Trimble, Dr. Weller, Glover. Taylor, D.yer, Mackie. Keller, Robinson, 
Tripp, Beck Cooper. Winston, Dr. Carver, Teudiek, Scone, George 
and myself. Capt. Foster ann Lieut. Whitworth seem to be the mov- 
ing spirits in the club, and all those who attended spent a very pleas- 
ant afternoon. 
We are authorized to state that fofar.as the Big Three are con- 
cerned there «ill be no more midwinter shoots at San Antonio. Tbey 
claim not to have developed any briHtles, but Know when they have 
enough. 
If the bird that, has beej producing the single standard eegs in 
Texas has been stilled, there is no one to blame hut a few narrow- 
minded, conteniious shooters whose kicking propi^nsities h ve 
thorouKhly disgusted the Big Three, Financially the shoot was not 
a success, and in addition to their time and labor they will have to 
make up a deflcierjcv. This they do not ol)iect to, but t hey do not be- 
lieve in being censui'ed for things they could not overcome. 
After the tournament quite a number of the shooters went down to 
the coast to shoot ducks. M.-. W. W. Peabody. Jr., took down in his 
special car Richard Merrill, Chan. Powers, William Settle, Frank 
Parmelee and Oscar Gue.ssaz 
Hildreth, of the Winchester Arms Co., did notaret Into the money 
very often, but this gave him little concern. What interested him 
most was the number of pumps in use at this shoot. 
PAtJIi H. LiTZKE. 
John F. Weiler Gun Club. 
Allbktown, Pa,, Feb. 3.— The John F Weiler Gim Club, of this city, 
held its regular si oot to-day on the grounds of the Duck Farm Hotel. 
The scores made in the different events were sliot under unfavorable 
conditions, ^now falling all the time. Below are the results in to- 
day's events: 
S Weiler 11111101111101111101110tll01011111100011111010nOl— 38 
H A Acker OlOUOUiro OIOll 111111011101110111 1 10110110000000-31 
LG Grammis llllOlOOlOOOOOOlOIlllOOlOOIOiniOlOOUllOiOill 1000-37 
O Oriesemer lOinooOl OOI lOtnOlOI 10100011 101 11 1 lOOOTOOlOi'lOlloi— 3-2 
F MiHer , 01 1001 1000 lOlOOOlO 1001 0 1 1 1 10 1 101 1001 '"000, OWI 0 11 01—21 
B Jeam lOOlllOOOOOOOlOOiOOllOOOOOlOOO'JOJOOlOGO 30010010011—13 
The above event was shot as two events at S5 targets each. A 
sweep at 5 live birds per man resulted as follows: 
JF Weiler i2113-5 S Weiler 012-31-4 
O H Acker 2U02— 4 0 Kramlich ir20^3— 4 
A Griesemer 101'21 -4 A S Weiler 1^103- 4 
Ed Mmnich. Oi!ll-i— 4 B Meyer 10121—4 
The medal event resulted as follows: 
O H Acker 1010I1£)11110'011111111111— SO 
C Ho he , 00 1 1 1 0000000 1 0 1 000 1 lOOOO I — 8 
C Kramlich ... lOlOlO 101110010101101110-15 
AS Weiler tOllOl 01110011111 1103101—15 
Ed Minnich liiltiOlllHOIlllllOOr 001-18 
C Erdman ■. . ., OOOOOniroo'OOIlOllOOlOOlO— 7 
Ed Jeaues, ....,,>.., , ...11 000 01 0 0011 lOtOI ■ 01—13 
A Griesemer, ' OllOOO O'-O 00 OOOKOOUl— 9 
H Ack.r 0 0 000000000000000000001— 1 
Fred Miller ....lOlOOlllUlOOlOlniOOl 000 -11 
O Oriesemer ,...0 00000110 OO'IO'O 000010 - 4 
S WeiUr 0111101101001101110111111-17 
A. Grib&kmkb. 
Boston Gun Club. 
Welmngton, Ma«s , Feb. 3,— The inclemency of the weather to-day 
prevented t.'ie usual attendance at the Boston Gun Club's grounds. 
A terriilc wind blew the entire afternoon and the shooters present 
were kept tolerably busy endeavoring to do three things at once: 
retaining their equilibrium, their head gear and pointing their gun in 
presumably the riyht direction. Ttiat a successful combination was 
not effectetJ the toUowing scores will bear testimony to, yet: all eon- 
soled themselves with the fact that some of the misses were escus 
able. All are anxious to try again and only wait for a fine day to 
prove that the expected improvement, like Christmas, is coming. It 
only required a snow accompaniment to recall two occasions of a 
3 5. 
8 9 
1 3 
$ . s 
2 ' "8 
3 8 
1 
year ago, when the shoots were held in out-and-out blizzards. Hence,i 
there was something to be thankful for. Shooting as follows: 
Events: 1 3 3, 4 5 6 7 8 9: 
Targets: B B 10 S e 10 S 6 6, 
Ha'ris (15) 4 1 7 4 
Shaw (15) 2 1 4 3 
Payne ('51 1 0 1 % 
Williams f15) 1 ,. , ^ 
Greener (1.5) , , ' 8 :8 ' 
Dennison (15) 6 ^ 
Miskay(17) 3 4 
Need ham (15) ^ , 2 
Horace (!,>).. , ..... 
Events 1, 2, 3 and 6. known angles; 4 and 
and 9, pairs. 
Second contest, handicap prize series, 31 targets, 10 known, S un 
known and 3 pairs: 
Shaw (1,5) i.. 1111011111-9 
Miskay (17) 0111111101-8 
H-MTis(51 , 1011001100-5 
D^'ncis^n ('5) ,, .,iiioonoono-3 
Payne (I5i OlOOdflOlOO 3 
Horace (1.5) 10OO1OOOifl-3 
N!=edham (15)..,.. 1010010010 -4 
Williams (K-i) 0001000100—2 
Greener wiilidrew. 
0 
4 
2 
1 
3 
2. 
3 
3 
2: 
7, unknown -angles; -6, a 
01100—2 
10101-3 
inoi— 4 
01011-3 
10 10 11-4-15 
10 11 00-3-14 
00 00 00-0— 9 
00 00 11-2— 8 
11110—4 00 10 10-2- 8' 
10011 3 01 00 10 - 2 - 8 
OOflOO-0 00 10 11—3 - 7 
11011—4 00 10 OD-1— 7 
Audubon Gun Club. 
BirmrAi.o, N, Y , Jan. 3", The regular weekly shoot of th'^ Buffalo 
Audubon Club was held to-day und^r perfect weather ronditiois for 
target shooting The attendance f^lt 'be effects of the favorable' 
weather and was exceedingly eood. Th" scores in all the events 
ruled high, and in the medal shoot L W Bennett made a. clean score 
of 25, winnins the CI 'ss A medal for the thir-l time and ad(iing an-i 
other Tiofch to hisscore rf wins for thf^ '■stra'gtii'-coore" trophy 
ff N Aide-rm in won B ria»s t ada-Pi and W. H Woodbury won C 
n»iss. The fMii- h ece- 1 " as i he mon'hly ci'p sbont, which is a han- 
dicap aflfiir, hand caps runsinEr from Starg-ets to, 3 target", of which 
no shoote' can becedi ed «i'h more than 2.5 There w*^ re five ties in 
this event— f"rrest°r, AH. Zoeller. L. Frle«, E Reinecke and Wm. 
Hines, Jr. In the shoot-off Ala. Zoeller won, rnaking a clean score Of." 
16 straight 
Scores were as follows: 
Events: 1 2345 (STS 
Targets: 10 15 35 c s IS IS 10 SO 
E C Burn- 
bardt ... 9 14 ?3 24 12 13 8 17 
Norris 7 15 21 23 10 13 10 16 
C S Burk- 
hardt ... 7 13 SO 22 10 13 8 ,, 
Forrester.. 7 16 25 ia 10 .. . 
Svvope 6 11 2> 34 13 15 10 15 
Stacy 9 n 20 21 14 14 9 15 
Waif, 6 13 21 29 10 11 Gil 
Sandy 10 15 "33 9 9 7 13 
G Zoeller.. .. 12 19 E6 10 13 7 .. 
B I'alsma.. 5 .. 20 t3 
21 24 13 11 9 18 
17 22 12 
81 26 .... 10 .. 
Evetds:' 
Targets : 
E Reinecke 
Hammond. 
A Coombs. 
1 8 3 4 5 6 7 8- 
10 15.^5 ca. 15 15 10 SO, 
E W Smith. 
J E Lodge. 
L Bi-niiett. 
18 -28 . .. . .. 
21 22 12 .. 
14 27 .. 
17 ?3 11 13 
6 15 
16 
17 20 . . - . 
So .. 14 13 
9 18 
17 fo 
17 18 10 12 
7 10 
Alderman , 
W Storey. . . . 
W Bines,,Tr .. 
E McC'ney .. 
10 19 14 9 
Woodbury. .... 16 ,. 8 10 
J Beck .. 10 8 
McCarney 
1 idler 13 8 5 
Skiro 12 14 
9 19 
6 .. 
Cobweb Gun Club. 
New YoBE, Feb. 4.— Below are the scores of our montTily live-bird 
shoot. The day was bright and clear, with a light breeze blowing. 
O ^ inff to the ground being covered wilh snow white biri^s were very 
hard to see. In the tie for the class V medal, the tie being shot off at 
3 birds, Mr. Barker won with 2 to President Bage's 1. Scores were; 
Tie. 
1211« 
11112— B 
Medal Shoot. No. 1. ' No. 2. 
Gus Greiff (A, 30) 13'^31-5 21128-5 Iv.sa- 4 
CZorn(A, 30) 20131—4 122S^2— 5 ..... 
E Milb r (A, 30) imi 3 
P F McKeon (A, 30). .. 0.201-2 11210-4 •1131-4 
C Dornelly (B. 88) 22J-22-6 01110--3 
A Elliott ( B, 2^) J2S32-4 11310-4 
G Barker (C. 27) OflO— 3 00-21 1—3 
A C Bage (C, -31) 20300-2 
G W Thompson (Z, 25^20011— 3 .... 
R lTugh°s (Z. -351 01200—9 
J Dnncaii (Z. 25' 0«'«»-l . ..... 
C Walters (Z. 35) ••0(l»-0 
*WCashan( 5) 00200-1 ..... 
*JM Baker (30) 21230- 4 21131— & 
* Guests. 
Two matches for the price of the birds were shot as follpws,' 
McKeon settling In the first match and Baker in the second': 
First match: -i 
Ca-^han 1111000311- 7 McKeon.. .lC»l«0i22w- 
Second match: <« m nij = 1,: 
Greiff 1118213231—10 Baker. . .•, ; . v?.''. . .\''."h<S131302122- 0 
G. W. THOMP.SON, .Jk , Sfec'y, 
dtLtXeioix Rifle Club. 
OiELBTON, Mich,, Fehj l.— TbeCarleton Ride Club holds bi-monthly 
shoots at its range in this citv. These ^shoots are held .on the first 
and third Tuesdays in every month. At our last shoot, held under 
superb weather conditions, with the exception of an irregular wind! 
that bothered the shooters a little, some fine scores were made. J. 
Orion and L Richards each made 30 consecniive bullseyes on the 
American standard target, 8in, bull, 200yds. Scores were: 
Members' record, rest match: 
J Orion .10 9 1" 
12 11 9 
L Richards 9 il 9 
8 12 8 
JasOshorn. 7 6 9 
7 6 8 
All comers' off-hand match ; 
.Toe Foye 2 9 5 8 7 
John Smith 9 7 3 4 8 
Frank Ross 7 4 6 9 5 
10 
8 9 
9 U 10 
8 12 9 
7 10 8 10 
7 11 7 
9 12 10 
8 
9 
9 
9 
9 12 12—105 
9 12 9- 
9 11 10- 99 
12 9 11- 9« 
8- fc; 
9 8 
7 11 
7- 
7- 58 
4- 57* 
5- 55, 
^nswetf to i^ams^andfinh. 
No iiOtlce taken of anonymona communicationfi 
Ij, B, M , Canada.— The ifnport duty on firearms brought into the 
United States is 80 per cent,, ad valorem. 
W. S. L.— The record tarpon is probabljr Senator Quay's fish of £631b«. 
We shall print the others very shortly m our angling columns, 
Antokee, Toledo, O.— From dme to lime much interesttng infor. 
mation has aijpeared in .your columns in regard to venomous rep 
liles. Not knowing much about these creatures, though sometimes 
hunting in their domains. I would like very much to know how heavy 
a leegiog or bootleg should be to resist the fangs of a rattler or coi- 
lonmouth. Will some brother of the field and woods having knowl 
edge on this subject kindly inform me through these columns? Ans. 
Ordinary leather or canvas legaings wUl be a protection. 
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