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Royal St. Lawrence Y, C 
Dorval— Lake St. Louis. 
Saturday, July 30- 
The second series of trials of the Royal St. Lawrence 
Y. C. was sailed on July 30 in variable winds, moderate 
to a calm. Only three boats started, as crews could not 
be made up for Glencairn and Strathcona. The times 
were : 
1st leg. 2d leg. Finish. Elapsed. 
Manitou 4 08 35 4 14 15 4 22 0(1 0 30 50 
Duggan 4 10 40 4 14 35 4 22 15 0 30 35 
Speculator 4 14 10 4 18 45 4 26 15 0 34 25 
1st leg. 2d leg. Finish. Elapsed. 
Duggan 4 55 25 5 01 05 5 10 00 0 33 30 
Speculator 4 55 51 ■ 5 01 20 5 10 50 0 34 25 
Manitou 4 56 35 5 01 55 5 11 33 0 33 15 
1st leg. 2d leg. Finish. Elapsed. 
Duggan 5 35 20 5 41 00 5 51 10 0 31 55 
Speculator 5 35 50 5 41 41 5 52 05 0 33 ti5 
Manitou 5 37 00 5 43 10 5 54 15 0 35 10 
Com. Jarvis, R. C. Y. C, has been invited to sail one 
boat in the trial races, but declined, owing to pressure 
of business. 
Burgess Y, C. Open Race, 
Marblehead — Massachusetts Bay. 
Saturday, July 30. 
The Burgess Y. C. attempted to sail its annual open 
regatta on July 30, in a light breeze followed by a 
heavy thunder squall. The 18-footer Duchess capsized 
while running off under jib alone, her crew being taken 
off by the Eastern Y. C. committee boat. The yacht was 
afterward brought into Marblehead Harbor by her crew, 
with her bowsprit broken. All the other starters gave 
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The Revolver, 
The revolver, in its present form, is not the result of 
the invention of any one man, although Col. Colt was the 
first to make it a practical weapon; but rather the re- 
sult of a long series of evolutions from the old single- 
barrel pistol. 
When the pistol was first made it was soon found 
[that there was need of a way to fire several shots in 
rapid succession, long before such a pressing need was 
felt in the rifle. 
The pistol is only used, as a rule, at close quarters; 
so if the first shot is a miss there is no - time to re- 
load to take another shot. 
Double-barreled pistols and then three, four or more 
barreled ones were in consequence made, but in the 
early stages these barrels were all made of the full length 
of the pistol, and each barrel loaded as a separate pistol. 
The double-barreled ones had a lock for each bar- 
rel, the three-barreled ones were often made with 
the barrels one below the other (the double barrels be- 
ing either horizontal, or more rarely vertical to each 
other). 
When more than three barrels were used, they were 
generally grouped in a cluster round a solid core, never, 
or hardly ever, with a center barrel surrounded by 
others, as this would present a mechanical difficulty in 
firing the center one. 
I remember, some years ago, seeing a French pin 
fire revolver which fired twelve shots. The chambers 
in the cylinder seemed in a double tier, with two bar- 
rels, one for the inner circle and the other for the outer 
circle, but I did not have a chance to examine it closely 
as to the construction. 
In order to fire the various barrels of the pistol, one 
of the earliest forms had a firing pin, which was put op- 
posite the cap of each barrel in succession (this was not 
possible in the wheel and flint lock days). Another form 
ftas to have the hammer come opposite each barrel in 
I:urn, first moved by hand, and later by mechanism, a'uto- 
l.natically; this form was used in flint locks, and is re- 
gained in some modern pistols and multi-barreled rifles. 
The first actual revolver had the barrels revolve so 
is to come opposite the hammer in turn. This was found 
mechanically weak, so the revolving cylinder with 
':h ambers coming opposite a barrel common to all in 
urn was evolved, and this, with modifications, is 
he form of all modern revolvers. 
The reason the original idea of a set of barrels was 
.bandoned for a cylinder with chambers opening on to a 
barrel common to all is the following: 
At the first glance it would be thought that the former 
>lan is the best. A barrel complete in itself shoots not 
mly harder (owing to there being no escape of gas, 
uch as unavoidably takes place between the barrel and 
ylinder of the latter plan), but more accurately (as there 
« no joint between the cylinder and barrel). Never- 
heless the cylinder revolver is not only lighter, owing 
0 there being only one barrel instead of several, each 
he whole length of the pistol, but it can shoot much 
tiore accurately. At the same time, each barrel of the 
'pepper box," as the old revolving barrel pistol was 
ailed, shot individually better and more accurately.. 
The reason of this seeming paradox is as follows: 
Any one who has shot or regulated a double-barreled 
ifle knows how difficult it is to get the two barrels to 
hoot parallel, both horizontally and vertically, to each 
ther; each barrel may shoot perfectly in itself, but when 
oined together one barrel will be found, to shoot higher 
nan the other, or they will shoot across or away from 
ach other. Fixing the two barrels mechanically parallel 
3 each other is no use, as, there being no more resistance 
p the recoil where the barrels touch each other, they 
hoot away from each other (or apart), and they can only 
e regulated by hand at great expense and trouble. If 
■his difficulty is found in double barrels, it is infinitely 
icreased as the number of barrels is increased. In fact 
do not think any amount of regulating can make four 
r more barrels shoot together. 
I For this reason the revolving cylinder has been almost 
Iniver sally adopted, in spite of the varying escape of 
las inevitable, and of the fact that the chamber occa- 
^onally does not come opposite the barrel, owing to 
fouling or dirt getting into the action. If there is ah 
extra escape of gas at a shot, it makes that shot weaker, 
and consequently low, and if the chamber does not quite 
come round far enough, a shaving is taken off a side 
of the bullet, causing irregular flight and an inaccurate 
shot. In my opinion the revolver of the future will have 
an arrangement for making the connection between the 
chamber and barrel gas tight during each shot, so as 
to make it as accurate as a single-barrel pistol. The 
cocking arrangement also needs improvement. It has 
either to be cocked by hand, causing loss of time, and 
what is more important, loss of aim; or tt is cocked by 
the trigger, which latter plan, though more rapid, gains 
rapidity by loss of accuracy, as it is impossible to "hold" 
011 to the object and at the same time lift the hammer 
by the trigger. There ought to be some wav of the 
revolver cocking itself by the discharge; this cocking 
only to take place when wanted. 
A revolver with these two improvements would be, in 
my opinion, superior to any repeating pistol, as it would 
balance properly, which no repeating pistol I have seen 
does, and would be of much more compact shape. Also 
the stock should be more in line with the barrel (like 
the duelling pistol), instead of below it, as so many 
revolvers are made, especially those of the "bull dog" 
pattern. 
The way revolver shooting is practiced in the Western 
States of America is the only real way to learn to shoot 
a revolver. In this country revolver shooting is prac- 
ticed as a sort of game, like croquet, tennis or golf. 
I personally do not think the deliberate sort of shoot- 
ing of much use. The only useful practice is rapid shoot- 
ing and a moving series of competitions, as a revolver 
is only used for war or self-defense at extremely short 
range and in very rapid firing. 
There are many enthusiasts who make good spores at 
small stationary bull's eyes, and are constantly improving 
at that sort of skill, who could not hit even the outer 
edge of the target if called on to take a snap shot from 
either on foot or horseback. 
In all shooting competitions, as in fact in all com- 
petitions which were originally intended to be practiced 
for some useful purpose, there is a constant and seem- 
ingly inevitable tendency to drift into unpractical lines, 
and a development in just that direction which is useless 
for all practical purposes. 
In racing it gets into breeding racing "machines" 
which cannot carry a child's weight; in pigeon shooting, 
clay bird shooting, and rifle shooting, it only teaches a 
knack for those particular sports, which is of no use 
in the field. In the same way revolver shooting at sta- 
tionary targets spoils a man's handling of a revolver. 
_ If I had to train a man to shoot a revolver for prac- 
tical use, I would rather take one with good eyesight and 
a steady hand, who had never fired a revolver before, 
than some of our crack revolver prize winners. The 
former may learn to shoot properly; the latter never. I 
consider the Series 3 (rapid firing, six shots in tv/elve 
seconds), which the National Rifle Association have 
adopted at my suggestion, a very practical revolver 
competition, but unfortunately very few men enter for it, 
preferring the stationary targets. 
As revolver shooting clubs have to study the likes and 
dislikes of their patrons, it seems inevitable that revol- 
ver shooting will have to continue on the same old 
unpractical lines of deliberate shooting at stationary 
targets. — Walter Winans in Encyclopaedia of Sports. 
The National Schuetzenfest. 
Since the competition in the National Schuetzenfest was con- 
cluded, now nearly a month ago, Forest and Stream has been 
endeavoring to obtain the official scores. In the first week we were 
informed by the secretary the scores were being prepared by him 
and his assistant, and the former assured the representative of 
Forest and Stream that the scores published by the daily press 
and such weekly papers as published them were entirely erroneous 
and unreliable. The second week the plea then was that the 
assistant was incompetent, and had made many errors; that some- 
scores were entirely missing, and that therefore the president of 
the Association had issued strict orders not to give out any scores 
till further orders. Still, each time the secretary, Mr. Roedel, 
faithfully promised that Forest and Stream would have the 
scores the following week, and that finally they would certainly 
be forthcoming last. Saturday. Calling then as per appointment, 
the secretary curtly informed the representative of Forest and 
Stream as follows: "I cannot let you have them. It is against 
my orders." Then turned his back and resumed work on the 
scores, as he had been working on them betimes for weeks, with 
indefinite prospect of ever ending. 
The hundreds of riflemen who participated in the Schuetzenfest 
have a keen interest in all that truthfully pertains to that com- 
petition; also the public at large would have been pleased to have 
the correct scores both for perusal and reference; but all this 
counts for nothing against the official pomposity and self-import- 
ance of a president who inferentially considers that the office was 
specially created for him to air his whims and exalt his vanities 
therein, to which the calm procrastination of the secretary is ably 
supplemented. 
This will explain why the correct scores have not appeared in our 
columns. We have the assurance of the secretary that no correct 
scores have been published. So masterful have been the officers 
of the Schuetzenbund in inaction and egotistical secrecy concern- 
ing the scores that they now have ceased to be a matter of in- 
terest as a news feature. 
Cincinnati Rifle Association. 
The following scores were made by members of the Cincinnati 
Rifle Association, at their range, July 24. Conditions 200yds , 
any rifle, at the German ring target. Gindele #as declared hi°-fi 
cockalorum with a score of 212 on the king target. Nestler 
was high on the honor target with a score of 63. Payne's 223 
was high for the Uckotter trophy. Weather very warm, and a 
tricky wind prevailed. Payne shot King's semi-smokeless: 
King target: 
Gindele 22 IS 22 21 19 22 20 23 24 21—212 
Weinheimer 23 22 16 19 10 1.5 22 18 7 17—169 
Payne 23 19 19 23 18 16 24 24 19 25—210 
Nestler 23 18 20 20 1 9 24 20 22 21 19—206 
Topf 16 21 18 15 13 12 16 17 18 21—170 
Simon 20 18 15 21 23 19 14 15 13 19—177 
Drube 12 16 19 23 24 14 21 14 20 24—187 
Lux 14 15 6 13 1 22 16 11 25 23—146 
Hasenzahl 22 15 22 14 2: 9 16 18 10 24—177 
Strickmier 19 23 21 16 16 21 23 19 17 19—194 
Honor Target. Special Scores. 
Gindele 21 19 22—62 219 206 202 
Weinheimer 19 10 15—44 ^-178 169 167 
Payne 23 18 16-57 223 212 208 
Nestler 20 19 24—63 202 191 191 
Topf 15 13 12—40 187 186 171 
Simon 21 23 19—63 1S4 170 165 
Drube 23 24 14—61 189 188 183 
Lux 13 1 22—36 149 152 147 
Hasenzahl 14 21 9—44 19S 207 195 
Strickmier 16 16 21—53 1'9 187 184 
Phaller ,, ,, 128 133 ... 
If you want yottf shoot to fas announced heie send in 
notice like the following: 
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Fixtures, 
Aug. 3-4. — Worcester, Mass. — Tournament of the Worcester 
Sportsmen's Club. Targets. 
Aug. 4-6. — Baltimore, Md. — Ocean City midsummer tournament; 
two days at targets; last day at live birds. James R. Malone, 
Manager. 
Aug. 9.— Hobart, Ind.— All-day shoot of the Hobart Gun Club. 
C. M. Townsend, Sec'y. 
Aug. 18-11.— Sherburne, N. Y. — Two days' shoot of Sherburne 
Gun Club, at targets. L. D. Branard, Sec'y. 
Aug. 10-11.— Duiuth, Minn.— Central Gun Club's sixth annual 
tournament; targets. E. C. Maxfield, Sec'y. 
Aug. 11.— Marlborough, N. V.— Trophy shoot, Hudson River 
Trap-Shooters' League, on grounds of Marlborough Gun Club. 
J. B. Rogers. Manager. 
Aug. 13.— Bound Brook, N. J.— Central New Jersey League shoot. 
Mr. U. G. Tingley, Sec'y. 
Aug. 17-J.S.— VVatei ville, Me.— Tournament of the Interstate As- 
sociation, under the auspices of the Waterville Gun Club. E. 
T. Wyman, Sec'y. 
x A, U S- 17-18-— Warsaw, Ind.— Lake City Gun Club's tournament. 
J. S. Campfield, Sec y. 
Aug. 17-18, — Canton, 111. — Nineteenth annual tournament of the 
Canton Gun Club. J. C. Thompson, Jr., Sec'y. 
Aug. 23 : 26.— Detroit, Mich.— Tournament of Michigan Trap- 
Shooters' League. W. H. Brady, Sec'y. 
Aug. 24.— Warwick, N. V.— special shoot, Hudson River Trap- 
Shooters League, on grounds of Warwick Gun Club. J. B. 
Rogers, Manager. 
Aug. 24-25.— Minneapolis, Minn— Tournament of the Minneapolis 
Gun Club. G. T. McGraw, Sec'y. 
Sept. 5.— Meriden, Conn.— Fourth annual Labor Day tournament 
of the Parker Gun Club. C. S. Howard, Sec'y. 
, Se Pt- 5-6.— Reading, Pa.— Mt. Penn Gun Club's merchandise and 
intercounty trophy shoot; targets. 
Sept. tS-S.— St. Paul, Minn.— st. Paul Gun Club's twenty-first an- 
nual tournament at Minnesota State Fair grounds during fair week. 
J I. C. Lawrence, Sec'y. 
Sept. 6-9.— Kansas City, Mo.— Schmelzer Arms Co.'s fifth annual 
tournament; targets and live birds. 
Sept. 7-8.— Kingston, N Y. — Tournament of Hudson River 
.League, on grounds of Kingston Gun Club. 
Sept. 7-8.— Haverhill, Mass.— Tournament of the Interstate As- 
sociation, under the auspices of the Haverhill Gun Club. Geo. 
F. Stevens, Sec'y. 
Sept. 7-8.— Sidell, 111.— Sidell Gun Club's tournament; targets 
only. H. J. Sconce, Manager. 
Sept. 21-22.— Cleveland, O.— Cleveland Gun Club's eighteenth 
annual tournament. J. R. Donnelly, Sec'y. 
Oct.. 4-6.— XMewburgn, N. v .—West Wcwburgh Gun and Rifle 
Association s fall tournament. 
Oct. 12-13.— Greensburgh, Ind.— Greensburgh Gun Club's tour- 
nament W. Woodfill, Sec'y. 
Oct. 18-20.— Nashville, Tenn.— At Belle Meade Stock Farm; $500 
added. 
Oct. 18-21.— Belle Meade Stock Farm, near Nashville, Tenn.— 
Two days at targets; two days at live birds; $500 added. 
Postponed. 
. .—Portsmouth, Va.— Tournament of the Interstate Asso- 
ciation, under the auspices of the Portsmouth Gun Club. W. 
N. White, Sec'y. 
1899. 
April 11-13.— Elkwood Park, Long Branch, N. J.— The Inter- 
state Association's seventh annual Grand American Handicap 
tournament. 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for publication z» 
hese columns, also any news notes they may care to have printed. Tiee 
in all events are considered as divided unless oherwise reported. Mail 
all such matter to Forest and Stream Publish ng Company, 346 Broad- 
way, New York. 
Miss Annie Oakley grows in popular favor each year. This 
season she has added some new features to her Wild West ex- 
hibitions of skill with the shotgun. Buffalo Bill's Wild West 
arrived in Chicago recently, and in a column notice of that event 
the following was devoted to Miss Oakley: "Annie Oakley is 
especially interesting this year. She wears a jaunty doll skirt 
habit of military blue, trimmed with silver braid and lined with 
white pique, from under which flutters the most fascinating as- 
sortment of lingerie, which might fill with envy the top tray o£ a 
ballet girl. Annie's aim is unerring, and she has some saucy 
antics added to her soubrette part of the gunning which are 
mischievous and attractive. Aside from her usual feature of the. 
show, Miss Oakley does a charming bit of haut ecole, riding upon; 
a spirited brown broncho, which dances and bows and maneuvers 
prettily and dangerously, with Annie holding the whip and spur 
over him in a most learned way. She wears a dark blue costume, 
long as the plainswomen ever wear them, and she is accompanied 
by a bevy of rancheras, who sit in the saddle as comfortably as 
home-made ladies do in a rocking chair. Annie bethought herself 
of a ride in the procession yesterday, and for her courtesy re- 
ceived a drenching from her vaquero hat to her pearl-buttoned 
leggings, but it did not worry her any except to 'muss uo' her 
tent." 
Mr. Thomas P. Hicks has annexed the Chicago challenge trophy 
to his possessions until such time as it may be captured by some 
other shooter — not an easy proposition by any means. Mr. Hicks 
is a good class shooter, and is likely to give any contestant a 
warm competition for it at any time. In the contest for it last 
Saturday Mr. Hicks won it, defeating Mr. A. C. Paterson, who 
has heretofore held it against all comers since it became a matter 
of contest. Patti shot at 25, standing at 30yds., and missed one 
bird. Hicks shot at 27, also standing at 30yds., though he was 
allowed a yard less by the committee. Patti shot his other matches 
well, but he was also lucky in being sometimes against very weak 
competitors. It is better for the prestige of the trophy that it 
remain longer in competition, and have more association with 
well-contested friendly struggles for its permanent possession, 
and such there now will be before it is taken from Mr. Hicks, 
who is able to give a competition worthy to he sought, as has Mr. 
Paterson given. 
On Friday, Sept. 9, the day following the Interstate Associa- 
tion's tournament at Haverhill, Mass., O. R. Dickey, manager 
of the Boston Shooting Association, with grounds at Wellington, 
Mass., just outside lioston, will give an all-day shoot, assisted 
by Elmer E. Shaner, of the Interstate Association. At this shoot 
Mr. Dickey proposes to have a popular programme, comprising 
about four lb-target events and two 20-tuiget events, with four 
25-target events interspersed. The four 25-target events will con- 
stitute a 100-target event, the main prize in which will be a cup 
to the winner. Each 25 targets will be a separate event, with a 
fixed entry fee, or with an optional sweep attached to it. Mr. 
Dickey's shoots are always well managed, and as everybody can 
always get plenty of shooting and plenty to eat at the Wellington 
grounds, this tournament, coming as it does right on the heels of 
the Haverhill shoot, ought to be well attended. The programme 
will be out shortly, and anyone can get a copy by addressing Mr. 
Dickey, Wellington, Mass. 
The term "added money" is many times a misnomer as used 
in trap-shooting events. When the shooters are taxed a higher price 
for targets in order that the "added money" may be forthcoming 
it is money then which simply is guaranteed. Money so raised 
comes mostly from the weaker shooters, the ones who are in the 
third or fourth places in the money, or who do not win at all. 
It is a tax on them in the interest of the good shots, and a tax 
from which they receive no benefit whatever. Besides the sweep- 
stake moneys, it is an additional amount set apart for the good 
shots. 
Little Rock, Ark., was again fixed upon as the place for the next 
Arkansas State tournament. 
