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[April 23, 1898. 
Boston Gun Club. 
Wellikgton, Mass. — Another beautiful day graced the Boston 
Gun Club's prize series Wednesday, April 13. Over twenty shoot- 
ers assembled, and regardless of an atrocious wind that was as 
squally as it was strong-, some very good scores were made. Upon 
arrival at the grounds, where the full effects of the gale were felt, 
as the shooters trod board walk and platform, it was considered 
by some a waste of ammunition to try and shoot, but the en- 
thusiasts set abovit their preparations with not a moment's de- 
lay, and only two or three actually displayed the white feather. 
Under these circumstances some of the scores show up all the more 
surprising. In the previous twelve shoots of '98 series, where the 
conditions have been much more favorable, the match doubles 
have never aspired to such a gala performance, but explanations 
were voted unnecessary, and scores accepted for all they were 
worth. 
The positions on prize match received a severe shaking, and 
with the final contest booked for next week interest is keen, and 
rivalry sharp. Events in detail as follows: 
Events: 12 3 
Targets: 10 10 6 
Gordon, 17 8 9 3 
Miskay, 18 8 8 8 
Lerov, 21 6 8 3 
Woodruff, 17 7 7 3 
Eastman. 16* 8 6 4 
Taft, 16 6 6 4 
Taflf, 16 5 5 2 
Benton, 14 4 5 2 
Gore, 16 4 7 3 
Muller, 16 6 7 4 
Horace, 16 8 6 3 
Nickols, 15 5 ■ 4 3 
Wheeler, 16 
Spencer, 18 
1-iollis, 16 .. 
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and 7, pairs; 10, reverse. ^„ , 
Thirteenth contest, individual prize series, 21 targets, 10 known, 
5 unknown and 3 pairs. Distance handicap: 
Horace l..^....... Ill 1111111—10 11011-4 111110—5—19 
Gordon iiimuio- 9 louo-s n ii ii-e-is 
Miskay 1101111101- 8 11111-5 11 11 10-5-18 
Lerov . : 1111111011- 9 11101— 1 10 10 11-4-17 
Woodruff nOUOOOll— 6 01111-4 
Taft 1111011101- 8 11010-3 
Eastman 1111101111- 9 10011-3 
Snencer 0100110101—5 10110—3 _ 
Hollis . 1111111011- 9 10001-2 10 10 10-3-14 
Wheeler 0101111111- 8 01001-2 11 10 10-4-14 
Bacon lOlUllUl- 9 10101 ' ""^ 
Benton lOllUOlOO- 6 
Brown 1011101111-8 
Taff ....1100111110- 7 
Wilson 0110111100— 6 
Underbill 0110001001- 4 01011-3 
Team match, 40 targets, 10 known, 10 unknown, per shooter. 
Distance handicap: „ „ 
Eastman 1111001110-7 
Taft 1011111010—7 
Horace 1111110111-9 
Miskay lHOlllOlO-7 
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Sofencer 1011111101-8 
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Boston. 
Pera Gun Club's Tournament. 
Peru Ind April 11.— The sportsmen of Indiana and surround- 
ing States should not forget the second annual amateur totunajnent 
of the Peru Gun Club, to be held at Peru, Ind., on April 2 < and 
28 1898. This club is one of the original members of the Indiana 
Trap-Shooters' League, and was the first club to hold a tour- 
nament upon dates sanctioned by that organization, which is now 
composed of twenty-two strong clubs, with an individual member- 
shio of nearly 500 shooters. The tournament mentioned was held 
at Peru, on April 28-29, 1897, and was one the largest and most 
successful amateur tournaments held in the Middle West last 
year, a full account of which appeared in Forest and bTRE.^M 
at the time. This year, as last, the club has secured the services 
of Mr John Parker, of Detroit, Mich., the popular representative 
of the "Peters Cartridge and King Powder companies, and who 
stands without a peer as a manager of shooting tournaments 
Besides a number of other improvements, the club has just put 
in a magautrap, which with bluerocks will be used at the coming 
'^°A™large" attendance is expected from the fact that their tour- 
nament last year gave such universal satisfaction to those in 
attendance, who, to a man, expressed a desire to attend just such 
another event upon the same grounds this year. There are about 
250 amateur shooters who reside withm a radius of 100 miles ot 
Peru, the majority of whom can leave their homes on the morn- 
ing of the first day of the tournament and reach Peru in_ time lor 
the first event. In addition to this, the railroads entering 1 eru 
are making a reduced rate for this occasion. j -n i 
Programmes are now in the hands of the printer, and will be 
out shortly. Sportsmen who fail to receive copies should address 
Mr F. A. Haimbaugh, Peru, Ind. All amateur shooters are 
hereby extended a cordial invitation to attend the second annual 
amateur tournament of the Peru Gun Club. Charlie Koss. 
Dansville Gun Club. 
Daksville, N. Y., April 8.— The Dansville Gun Club held its 
regular practice shoot to-day. The feature of the day s sport was 
the shooting of C. Eschrich, who broke 90 per cent, of his targets, 
the highest average made yet by any shooter on the club s grounds. 
The shooting all around was better than heretofore. The club s 
average was raised to .597 per cent. Surely the magautrap, is 
a success, and the bluerock the best target, as the following 
scores indicate: 
Events- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 
Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 15 10 10 15 3p 10 10 10 10 10 10 
1 4 
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Hoffman 3 5 
C Eschrich 10 9 
Fattes 6 5 6 
Bailey 5 3 4 
Fenn "7 6 5 o *t ax o d 
McWhirter 5 7 9 6 7 8 5 5 12 
Rail 0 3 1 3 8 7 7 4 5 
Tompkins 8 7 4 11 
Willey 7 4 7 5 6 .. 7 
La Eayteaux 8 3 4 10 
Miller 8 4 7 9 
F Eschrich 1 5 5 
Fenstermacher 7 
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WiLLEy, Sec'y. 
Piedmont Gun Club. 
Piedmont, W. Va., April 11. — The members of the Piedmont 
Gtm Club were both surprised and pleased to have Wm. Adolph 
Weidebusch, one of our charter members, who now resides in 
Scranton, Pa., to stop over for a day with us, and tell us all about 
how he come to miss that first bird in the Grand American Handi- 
cap. As a matter of fact, his presence called for a little shoot, 
that being the only real way to entertain a trap crank. 
The small turnout is accounted for by the boys being engaged 
in arranging for a hop, which, by the way, was the real drawing 
card to Adolph. 
The following scores were made: 
Shaw 110111110111111111101111011111—26 
lllllllllOHlHllllllOOlllllOl— 26— 52 
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Cross ,. 
Newbufgh Tournament, 
The tournament of the Hudson River Trap-Shooters' League, 
held on the grounds of the Glenwood Gun Club, at Newburgh, 
N. Y., April 14 and 15, commenced the series of the League's 
events of the season. It was the consensus of opinion that it 
was a mistake to hold a two-day League tournament, as the mem- 
bers did not turn out with the early alertness and constant at- 
tention to the competition which a one-day tournament would 
secure. 
The grounds are excellently arranged for the club purpose. 
They are on the top of a hill. The shooter faces a sky back- 
ground, and at the same time a beautiful perspective of hill and 
vale, a ridge of mountains giving a very substantial finish to 
the far distance. While the targets as a whole were not diffi- 
cult to negotiate, there were enough difficult flights to tax the skill 
of the best and make a falling oft' in averages if there was any 
carelessness or inattention. To the left of No. 1 set of traps 
the grounds sloped down hill, and a target following down this 
decline was many times overshot, as was a target undershot which 
went rising to the right. 
Mr. J. B. Rogers was manager of the tournament; Mr. E. J. 
Loder, of Peekskill, was cashier, and Mr. Lewis refereed most 
of the time on the first day. 
Among those present was J. P. Hull, of Meriden, Conn., repre- 
senting Parker Bros.; T. B. Ogden, Warwick; the three brothers, 
L, A. S., and D. N. Tallman, the latter of VVilmar, Minn.; Dr. 
H. P. Mason and H. P. Dain, of Peekskill; T. and T. Rhodes, 
of Marlboro, and many visitors. Mr. Thos. H. Keller, of the 
Peters Cartridge and King's Smokeless Powder companies, ar- 
rived on the_ evening of the first day, and the welcome that the 
popular T. K. received was but little short of an ovation. Maj'or 
J. M. Taylor also arrived on the evening of the first day. No. 1 
was a magautrap; No. 2 was a set of three traps. Bluerocks were 
" THURSDAY, FIRST DAY. 
The programme of the first day had ten events, varying in the 
number of targets from 10, 15 to 20, and the total entrance fee 
for the ten events amounted to §13. The money was divided ac- 
cording to the Rose system. Manufacturers' agents and non- 
members of the League were barred from the regular event purses, 
but were permitted to shoot for the price of the targets, 2 cents 
each. 
Following are the scores of tfae first day: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 
Targets : 
Banks . . . 
Waters 7 11 17 13 
Hull 9 13 16 15 
Ogden 10 12 17 14 
Hoppenstadt 8 9 15 12 
T Tallman 10 13 16 14 
'Lines 8 12 15 12 
W M Stanbrough 7 11 15 11 
D Tallman 4 9 14 8 
Henderson 8 13 18 12 
Taylor 11 13 9 
Wood 14 14 11 10 14 
E K Dickson 18 13 
Lewis 
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Mason 13 
Roosa 
Dain 9 11 8 16 
T Rhodes 12 14 10 17 
T Covert 7 . . 9 17 
E V Covert 7 12 6 13 
J Rhodes .. .. 12 8 19 
Fuller 2 .. .. 
A Miller 14 
Carr 11 
SECOND DAY, APRIL 15. 
The weather was cold and rainy, with a heavy northeast wind 
blowing. The attendance of shooters was small. Most of the 
shooting was done on the second set of traps. 
An extra event, the King's Smokeless Powder Co.'s event, 15 
targets, Sergeant system, was shot off' at the close of the tovuma- 
ment, with the following result: 
Hill 111111101110111—13 T Tallman 110110111111111—13 
T Wood 111010100110111—10 j Wood 000111000101011—7 
lloppenstedt ..110010111111011—11 Henderson ....011101111001111—11 
In the regular events, the programme of which was much the 
same as that of the first day, the scores made were as follows: 
Events: 12 3 456789 10 
Targets: 10 15 20 15 10 20 15 15 10 20 
5 6 7 8 9 10 
10 15 20 1 5 10 20 15 15 10 20 
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Hull 9 13 18 10 
Keller 8 14 16 10 
J Tahman 9 13 18 13 
Henderson 7 12 14 9 
Hoppenstedt 6 9 13 9 
Gibb 5 9 .. .. 
Tavlor 10 .. .. 
Hill 11 11 
Averages for two days were as follows: Hull, first, .8433, $11; 
J. Tallman, second, .8166, $10; Henderson, third, .8066, $9; Stans- 
"brough, fourth, .7666, ?8. 
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Buffalo Audubon Gun Club. 
Buffalo, April 16. — The scores of the Audubon Gun Ch\\ 
weekly shoot, held on the club's grounds to-day, are given belo 
No. 4 was the badge shoot. If. D. Kirkover winning in Class 
E. N. McCarney in Class R, J. A. Kennedy in Class C. 
Mr. C. S. Burkhardt distinguished himself by straight scores 
three events: 
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15 15 15 25 15 20 15 
E C Burkhardt 13 12 22 12 17 
R H Hebard ' .• 11 12 8 11 10 6 
C S Burkhardt 11 15 13 19 15 15 15 
Swiveller 10 10 12 15 10 15 .. 
Talsma 13 .. .. 10 .. .. 12 
R H Hebard, Jr 7 10 . . . . 9 . . 
J J Reid 11 17 12 17 . . 
P G Myers 10 18 14 15 11 
Geo Zoeller 13 
Tacobs 
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U E Story 17 . . . . 11 
Porter 15 
McCarney 17 
D Kerew 
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Wastiington Park Gun Club. 
Kansas City, Mo., April 6.— Seventeen members of the Washing- 
ton Park Gun Club faced the traps W'ednesday, April 6, and 
three of them — Wright, Jarrett and Elliott — tied for the prize cup 
on 15 straight. Elliott and Wright forfeited. The score: 
C E Wright.... 222222222222222— 15 P Francke 222222222012100—12 
N Tarrett 212222121121212—15 T A Fcrnkas. .112021010111122— 12 
Elliott 221111112122122—15 F W Planck. .110011110121122— 12 
T Winters 201111121111121—14 W A Laidlaw. .110112210112100— 11 
W S Allen.... 022211112110222— 13 W F Bruns. .. .202122211201002— 11 
L W Scott.... 122122111222100— 13 C P Fairman. .221212000122220— 11 
C W Barker.. 222012121110211— 13 T D Dickinson.021200202012010— 8 
N Beach 111022112121021—1.3 Payne ...022011010202200—8 
N Kellev 012211211020222—12 
W. F. Bruns, Sec'y. 
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Milwaukee Gun Club. 
Milwaukee, Wis., April 14. — ^W^e are making preparations for 
the largest and grandest tournament ever held in Milwaukee. It 
will be held during the Milwaukee Carnival week, June 26, 27, 
28, 29, 1898. 
We will issue about 2,000 very fine programmes and will send 
them to every shooter all over the entire country, and especially 
to secretaries of all gun clubs. The programme will be in 
book form and contain about sixty pages. 
We wish to state that we are so fixed as to use two sets of traps 
at the same time and not interfere wit}; each other; a magazine 
and a set of five electric traps. „ 
S, Mr Du Vai, 
956 Winchester street, Milwaukes, 
In California. 
RedlakdS: Cal., April 15.— Preparations have- been made for a 
match shoot between teams from the Riverside and Redlands 
gun clubs at an early date. Our club held its two medal shoots, 
the first being the postponed shoot. In this Gillis won first 
place, smashing 23 out of 25 fast-flying bluerocks. In the other 
shoot Knight and Stewart tied on 22, Knight winning in the 
shoot-off. The shooting was done from a magautrap. 
Reelfoot. 
No notice talsen of anonymous commtmicatlons. 
John M., Newburgh, N. Y.— Open season for trout from April 
16 to Aug. 31, inclusive. 
Allentown, Pa.— We do not know where j^ou could find blood- 
hounds now, none being advertised. 
J. L., Jersey City. — You will find some trout fishing on the line 
of the Ontario & Western Railroad, Fallsburgh, N. Y., in Sullivan 
county, is a good point. 
Carpenter, N. Y.— All the trout streams on Long Island are 
preserved. You will find good salt-water fishing at points marked, 
on the time tables sent you. 
T. J. K., New York. — Sunday trains for Broad Channel, via 
Long Island Railroad and Thirty-fourth street, East River, leave 
at 5 A. M. Boats and baits near station. See time table sent 
you. 
C. M. K.. New York. — Good Adirondack fishing will be found 
in Lincoln Brook and French Brook, near Bloomingdale. Take 
an assortment of light and dark flies. 
Meeks, Jr., New York. — We do not know of any book on 
Adirondack camps except the "Guide to the Adirondacks." You 
might with advantage write to E. E. Sumner, Saranac Lake, N. Y. 
W. P., Milton, Ont.— Would you advise the planting of black 
bass fry in the middle of June in a large pond in which there are 
other fish, including a few black bass? From some allusions to 
artificially raised black bass which I have noticed in the Forest 
AND Stream I feel doubtful about them, though perhaps I mis- 
. understood what I saw. The fry of which I speak are bred at 
Toronto and sold at $1 per thousand. Ans. Stocking with arti- 
ficially raised black iiass has been successful in numerous in- 
stances, and we would advise you to put through the proposed 
project. 
N. _S. F., Allegheny, Pa. — While out for a ramble in the woods 
of River View Park on March 19 I turned up a short piece of a 
log, and found clinging to the under side, which was slightly 
hollowed out, a large black butterfly. When I removed him he 
was apparently dead. His three pairs of legs stuck out like dry 
brush. After handling him for a few moments I noticed that he 
began to hold slightly with one claw. He soon was holding with 
all six, and after being carried for half a mile and being in a 
room of ordinary temperature for about seven minutes he threw 
open his wings, and in a moment more he was able to fly to the 
whidow. We opened the window and he sailed out into the 
sunshine. There was no chrysalis or sign of one where I picked 
him up; so he must have lived through the winter. Would be 
glad to hear if there have been any other such finds in this 
latitude. Ans. This was probably an instance of • hibernation. 
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fourths days' board at that place, and good to return direct by 
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For itineraries and full information, apply to ticket agents; 
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A New Catalogue for Anglers. 
Messrs. Charles Plath & Co. have just issued their catalogue 
of fine trout, bass and salmon flies, and of rod-makers' and fly-tyers' 
siippHes, which seems to contain figures and prices of about every- 
thing required by the angler. The display of hooks and artificial 
baits is especially large. Besides these, there are, of course, rods, 
reels and fly-books in variety, as well as all sorts of fishing rod 
mountings, together with all the immediate accessories of salt- 
water fishing, and a variety of rubber goods. The catalogue, which 
is one of great interest to the angler, will be sent to any applicant 
on receipt of ten cents, which will be deducted from bill on first 
order, making the book free to buyer. — Adv. 
In South Africa, 
A SUBSCRIBER in Rhodesia, South Africa, who missed his New 
Year's number of Forest and StTjeam, writes under date of March 
1, the letter reaching us April 16: "I am deeply grieved to see you 
start the new year and the first number of your fiftieth volume so 
badly; grieved for my own sake, for it will be fully three months 
before I can fully know what it contains. I send in twenty miles 
for my post every week, and next to letters, the Forest and 
Stream is the most prized and eagerly read of my mail matter. 
Of Interest to Fishermen and Canoeists. 
An unequaled array of plea^nt retreats for the sportsman, where 
fish in greatest variety abound, is to be found along the line of 
the Lehigh Valley Railroad. All interested should send 4 cents 
in stamps for copy of "Hunting and Fishing on the Lehigh 
Vallev." to Chas. S^ Lee, Gen^y^l Passenger Agent, Philadelphia, 
Pa., Dept. F5.— Adv. " 
Sportsmen's Exposition Souvenirs. 
The Directors of the New England Sportsmen's Association have 
provided themselves with copies of the Forest and Stream 
illustrating the Exposition among the souvenirs p{ that 
very pleasant'inemoried event, 
