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FOHEST AND STREAM. 
St» Louis Shooting: Assoeiation. 
Me. Geo. Munson, of St. Louis, sends us the foliowmg con- 
cerning the forthcoming tournament of the St, Louis Shooting 
Association: 
Everything is hustle and bustle at Du Pont Shooting Park, in 
St. Louis, these days, as Superintendent J. A. Corray has a big 
gang of men at work preparing the grounds, erecting a new 
club house and placing new traps, so that everything will be in 
tiptop shape when the shooters arrive to compete in the twenty- 
second annual shoot of the Missouri State Game and Fish 
Protective Association, which will be held JVlay IB to iVlay 20 
under the auspices of the St. Louis Shooting Association. 
On Saturday, iVlay 13, Mr. Rolla Heikes, of Dayton, O., and 
Mr. J. E. K-iley, of Kansas City, will shoot a matich at 100 live 
birds at Du Pont Park. The amount of the side bet has not been 
decided on as yet, but it will not be less than $100 or more than 
$250. the loser to pay for the birds. Mr. Heikes, is one of the 
best-known sportsmen in the country, and is regarded as one of 
the best shots in the land. Mr. Riley is an old resident of Kansas 
City, and has been for years considered one of the best shots in the 
live-bird shoots, in the West. Without any practice, Mr. Riley de- 
feated a field of forty-five for the Kansas City Star championship 
cup in 1896. J. A. R, EUiott, immediately challenged Mr. Riley 
for the cup and defeated him. Mr. Riley was vice-president of the 
Missouri State Game and Fish Protective Association in 1886, and 
has been an ardent admirer of the rod and gun ever since. Mr. 
Heikes has defeated a great many men who have said more 
about their shooting ability than Mr. Riley, but he says he has 
never entertained a harder shooter than this man from Kansas 
tity. 
This match between Messrs. Heikes and Riley will inaugurate 
the new Jive-bird traps that are being placed in position at Du 
Pont Park. These traps will be a decided novelty to every 
sportsman who attends the May tournament. . They are the in- 
vention of Mr. E. D. Fulford, of Utica, N. Y., who is not only 
a first-class man with the shotgun, but also a skilled mechanic. 
These traps are made of very heavy steel. The pigeons are put 
in from an underneath trap, the trapper boys and pigeons being 
in a pit Oft. deep and 60ft. long. The operation of each trap is 
controlled by a lever, the slightest movement of which opens 
the trap, making it lie perfectly flat on the ground and leaves the 
pigeon exposed to view in an instant. The noise of the traps scares 
the pigeon, and he, seeing daylight all around him, takes wing 
immediately. 
Pigeons that would be slow flyers in ordinary traps are fast 
birds when trapped by this new system. It approaches as nearly 
as possible to the flight of a bird in the field upon •which 'the 
hunter has come unexpectedly, and while perfectly fair to the 
shooter, is also fair to the bird. 
The improvement in ammunition and guns has been so great 
in the past ten years that high scores have become possible to 
a great many amateur shooters. Trap-shooting clubs throughout the 
country have recognized this fact and have handicapped the shooter 
by placing him at a greater distance from the bird than was 
formerly the practice. In former years 28yds. was considered a 
proper distance for an expert shooter, but nowadays 30yds. is 
the place where most experts stand, and some are placed as far 
back as 32yds. This does not seem like much of a handicap, but 
as it makes the pattern of the load very much larger, so that 
the l3ird may escape through it and it lessens the penetration of 
the shot. A bird may be hit with seven or eight pellets of shot 
and still have strength enough to fly over the boundary line, 
whereas if the shooter had been closer to him the shot would 
have gone clear through the bird, and would of course have 
stopped his flight immediately. 
Mr. W. V. Reiger, who has been engaged to officiate as referee 
at the May shoot has been official referee of the Missouri State 
Game and Fish Pi-otective Association for a number of years. 
Mr. Reiger is quite a modest man, with a clear eye and a cor- 
rectness of decision of which few can equal. His decisions are 
never questioned, and this insures to the Association that the 
live-bird contests, as well as the target programme, will be con- 
ducted in a perfect manner. 
Mr. J. J. Hallowell, of Phoenix, Ariz., has accepted the position 
of manager of the May tournament. Mr. Hallowell does not need 
an introduction to m.iny shooters of the country, as he has 
traveled extensively all over the United States, shooting his 
way to the front at all times. Mr. Hallowell learned to shoot 
oft the back of a bucking broncho on the plains of Arizona, and 
probablv has few equals as an off-hand revolver marksman in the 
land. He is a typical Westerner in appearance, being almost a 
giant in size, and has the physical ability as well as the nerve 
to make his ruling stick as manager of the coming shoot, should 
there be any occasion for such treatment. 
ON LONG ISIJUSTD. 
Centerdale Gun Citib. 
Centerdale, R. I., April 15. — Our second medal shoot brought 
good weather and a good crowd to-day. Everybody was pleased 
at the handicapping, as the scores were all very even. A three- 
cornered match had been arranged between Root, Bain and 
Reiner, but at the last moment Griffith was taken in, and he won 
out, with Reiner second. It was a fine day to shoot, and some 
of the boys who do not generally shoot verj' well did excellent 
work. Our traps worked fine to-day, as we have overcome previous 
hitches. Below- are all the scores : 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 
Targets: 10 10 10 10 25 10 Targets: 10 10 10 10 25 10 
Reiner 7 8 7 10 .. .. Parker 7 .. 
Slade 8 7 8 7 17 . . Remington 19 . . 
Griffith 4 7 8 9 .... Repeater 8 
Phetteplace ... 9 5.. 8.. .. Collins 5 
McCormick 7 6 5 6 13... Harris 7 
Inman 7 7 7 10 ... . Webster 5 
Sweet 8 .. 5 .. Arnold 7 
Lister 3 .. .. Evans 6 
Francotte 16 
Medal handicap race: „ . 
Points. Points. 
Griffith, scratch 20 .. Norton, 10 10 .. 
Slade, 5 23 3 Sweet, 7 22 2 
Inman, 5 21 Arnold, 6 ....22 2 
Phetteplace, 6 24 4 Remington, 5 ..,..^.-..20 
Francotte, 4 25 5 Root, s ...21 1 
McCormick, 7 20 .. Sheldon, s 21 1 
Bain, s 23 3 Evans, 7 23 3 
Reiner, 2 20 
Special match race, 75 birds: 
Griffith .22 24 22-68 Root 23 20 19-62 
Reiner 21 22 22-65 Bain 21 18 19-58 
Sherbrooke Gun Club. 
Shekbrooke, p. Q., April 19.— The Sherbrooke Club has come 
out of its winter shell and started practice in earnest, preparatory 
for the prospective series of matches and tournaments. Shooting 
has been going on for two months in a spattering way, with an 
attendance of anywhere from two to six. But now Joe and his 
gang has quit exercising Widow Green's fox and settled down to 
business, and last Saturday there was a fairly representative turn- 
out. Five hundred targets were thrown in the course of two 
hours and a half, and enough of them broken to show that as 
soon as the boys get limbered up a little they will be in con- 
dition to challenge Montreal for that League cup. A match is on 
between Craig, the present holder of the Provincial championship 
cup, and Goodhue, though the date is not arranged yet. _ The 
main event ahead of us is our grand annual, on July 1, Dominion 
Day. open to all amateurs, and we are going to try to break our 
record this year. 
We hope to see all the old faces, and many new ones on that 
day, and will do our best to make it pleasant for them. The 
boys are going to Westmount's shoot on May 24, and several 
of them to Bellows Falls in June, to the Interstate, and any- 
where else within a reasonable distance, where a shoot takes 
place between now and July 1, and their business will be to shoot 
and whoop up our "annual." C. H, Foss. 
WasWogton Heigbts Gun Club. 
New York, April 19. — ^The scores of the Washington Heights 
Gun Club made at their new shooting PTOunds, at Fred Loh- 
bauers. Trogg's Neck, Westchester, on Tuesday, April 18, were 
as follows: 
H Forester. 28 2222222212—10 V Mehler, 28 0020002000— 2 
R Romer, 27... 00202**101— 4 E StefFens, 28 ..12001*1111— 7 
H W Oliver, 26.... 0001 020210— 4 F S Ober, 25 0001022*10— 4 
E Doeinck, 28 **20222222— 7 C Schaeffer, 28. 1110110010— 6 
G Nowak, 28 22*022 222— 8 A Dietzel, 28 0101121001— 6 
T H Voss 30 110*22*111— 7 J A Belden, 28 1222022201— 8 
F Trostd, 28 ..0212*2*110—6 
Sheepshead Bay Rod and Gun Club. 
Sheepshead Bay, L. I., April 20.— Twenty-two shooters faced the 
trap at tlie Sheepshead Bay Rod and Gun Club's shoot, all of 
whom were confident of carrying ofi' the honors of the day. The 
fir.st 12 birds met the ground, but the 13th man, Col. Geo. 
Tappen, started the goose egg rolling until there were but two 
men left with clean scores, killing their 7 straight. In the shoot- 
off Mr. McKane killed a difficult right-quarter bird, which made 
his opponent slightly nervous, causing him to miss his 10th bird. 
Those who shot 12-gauge guns stood at 2?yds.; 10-gauge, 27yds. 
'Mr. Ira McKane won the shoot-off and the badge. 
I McKane 1112112—7 G Morris 2020112—5 
F Lundy 2U22221— 6 G Tappen 0111012—5 
T Osborn 2200201^ W Lundy 22u2U2a— 5 
J Burns 1102102—5 D Martin OOlllUl— 4 
H Montauw, Jr 112210—6 R Smith 0002010—2 
Frank Lundy.,.., 1022101—5 W Boyle 0100000—1 
A Soeller .....1000100—2 J Voorhies 0121222-6 
H Williamson 1111111—7 T Pillion 22U0110— 4 
H Kromka 2^00022— 4 A Fransioli 20110 0—4 
H Koch U211U1— 6 T Elfers 0010202—3 
F Fricken 2020120—4 Wm Biddle 1111120—6 
Shoot-off for the badge: 
I McKane 211 H Williamson 110 
Emerald Gun Gub. 
Brooklyn, L. I., April 18.— The monthly shoot of the Emerald 
Gun Club took place to-day, Dr. O'Connell, J. S. S. Remsen, 
E. J. Clark and E. O. Weiss killed straight. The scooss follow: 
G B Hillers, 28 2U0221122— 9 J J Pillion, 28 2121*20110— 7 
E O Weiss, 28 2122221221—10 G K Breit, 25 0020000020— 2 
C W Billings, 28. ..2*2*210111— 7 C Stuetzle, 25 012^001201— 6 
Dr G Hudson, 29.2*21221112— 9 Dr O'Donohue, 25.2212011121— 9 
E J Clark, 29.. 2221122212—10 G Ellerhorst, 25. . ..0210000210— 4 
Dr O'Connell, 29... 211222222— 10 B F Amend, 28. .. .0222*22222— 8 
H P Fessenden, 28.220022**02— 5 O Brown, 28 0011101*22— 6 
R Regan, 25 1200121012- 7 C Rathjen, 28 1111*0001— 6 
W Joerger. 28 2210*0212*— 6 C Wigger,28, guest. 0001001210— 4 
S M Van Allen, 29.0222222022— 8 T Short, 28 11*2*11221— 8 
F Durr, 25, guest.. 2022*21221— 8 J Gallin, 25. ...... ..0020102020— 4 
G Brown, 28 2201001000— 4 W Catton, 28 1110201012— 7 
J'H Moore 28 1120100111— 7 T Codey. 25 0100**2111—5 
E A Vroome, 29. .. .212111 202— 9 J Woelfel, 28 0*02002U2— 5 
A Scheubel, 28..... 1121110112— 9 Dr Groehl 25 0000200220— 3 
Dr Hillman, 28. .. .1212212201— 9 J S S Remsen, 29.1121211222—10 
Sweepstakes, 5 birds, $25: 
Dr O'Connell 22*22—4 Wigger 21210—4 
Remsen 22 22—5 Stillman ...21211—5 
Short 21011-4 Hudson 02221—4 
Breit 00201—2 Billings 11112—5 
Amend 20022—3 Donohue 11120—4 
Scheubel 12112—5 Moore 0*211—3 
Brooklyn Gun Club. 
Brooklyn, L. I., April 24. — On Saturday last we had a rattling 
good shoot; sixteen shooters tried for the prizes. Event No_. 4 
(handicap misses as kills) and 7 are prize events, the prizes being 
100 loaded shells. Nos. 5 and 6 were ties. 
The first prize was won by W. T. Lane, he having to shoot 
off three times for it. The second was won by E. Brinton, of 
Philadelphia: 
Events: 123 4 5678 
Targets: 15 15 25 10 10 25 25 
Remsen 13 15 19 13 0 . . . . 19 23 
Babcock 6 11 19 15 4 17 
Brinton 13 12 19 15 4 9 6 23 21 
Skidmore 11 11 14 14 4 7 .. .. 16 
Taylor i... .... 10 .. 12 15 5 7 .. 20 14 
Scheubel U .. 20 15 4 8 .. 18 19 
Hopkins n . . 19 15 3 8 . . 21 28 
Laney 11 .. 23 20 
Billings 17 10 3 .. .. 19 19 
Letts 12 4 8 15 
Lane 11 15 15 4 9 9 .. 19 
Dr Creamer . . . . 14 15 5 5 . . . . 17 
Asmus 15 15 5 9 6 .. 13 
Dr Kemble 20 15 2 8 .. 21 21 
Smith 27 7 3 . , 17 16 
Ben Ali 15 2 6 22 21 
David 17 17 
Geo. B. Paterson, Sec'y. 
Ne'w Utrecht Gun Qub. 
Woodlawn, L. I., April 22.— Members of the New Utrecht Gun 
Club turned out in force this day to take part in the last pigeon 
shoot at Woodlawn. Twenty-five merchandise prizes were dis- 
tributed among the members winning in the different events. 
Events Nos. 1 and 2 were miss-and-outs, with one prize in each 
event. No. 3 was 3 birds, then miss-and-out, with three prizes. 
Event No. 4, same, with five prizes. Events Nos. 5 and 6, same, 
with seven prizes m each. 
In event No. 3 F. A. Thompson, Hegeman and Gaughen had a 
hot race, Gaughen finally dropping out on a strong quartering 
driver in the ISth round. In event No. 5 O'Brien and Horn had 
to shoot off for seventh prize, as they both dropped their birds 
on the 9th round, O'Brien winning. 
Louis Piercy shot along as guest. The club will secure new 
quarters and resume pigeon shooting in September. Scores of the 
day given below: 
No. 1. No. 2. 
W F Sykes * 210 
A A Hegeman ...v... H 0 
F A Thompson 1* 10 
W 11 Thompson ..,:..:4... 2112 
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J N Meyer, 27.. 
C M Meyer, 29.. 
P E George. 28. 
Dr Shepard, 27 
S B Seymour, 27. 
H Horn, 26 ..... 
Dr Dell, 26 
J Lott, 28 
J H Hallock, 27. 
G Piercy, 29...... 
L Piercy, 27 
Dr O'Brien, 27.. 
C Furgueson, 30. 
C Furgueson, Jr. 
C Fleet 
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Danvcrs Gun Club. 
Danvers, Mass., April 20.— The Danvers Gun Club held their 
first shoot of the season on Patriots' Day; bluerocks, 16yds. rise, 
three angles. Following are the scores: 
J w Babbitt iinioimmoiiiiioiiiii— 22 
E H Langdon.......... llllinillOOlinilllOllOl- 21 
A F Killam 1110110011111111111101101—20 
G Martin. r.ju^. 01 10011111111011110100101—17 
F G Brown ......7117^.... 1110000011100110101111111-16 
G Voor i......." 1001110110110001111111110—17 
H Tavlor ..................1001111111101111110100001—17 
E Wiles 1111001111110000101001111—16 
Wenthwortli . 1111110100010111000000011-13 
D Brown .' .0000101001010100111101110—12 
J. W. Babbitt. 
After the M. W. & Co. handicap contest on April 21, at Watson's 
Park, Burnside, 111., Mr. Silas Palmer shot with an extraordinary 
degree of skill in the miss-and-outs and practice shoots, killing 60 
live birds out of 61, and making a straight run of 53. 
Bfoekton Gun Club. 
Brockton, Mass., April 19. — ^The first shoot of the season was 
well attended. The squally wind played jinks with the targets, 
allowing but one straight score, although several ran to 9 o. k. 
Then, well never mind! the older ones will do better. It seemed 
too bad for beginners to face such hard conditions, yet eight 
tried to shy shot to break the very deceptive targets,, and all 
of them say they can do better next time: 
Events; 123456789 
H S Wood 4 79666879 
Wm Woodard 9 7 8 6 5 
Leonard 345154576 
Allen 778978967 
Grant 5 8 7 8 
Murdock 6 7 5 6 5 4 
Stork 3 4 5 6 5 3 
Remington 4 
Cook 4 6 4 3 4 4 1 ., 
Thomas 5 5 6 9 3 6 4.. 
Grant 7 6 5 6 .. -. .. 
Thompson i> 2 7 6 5 5 6 .. 
Donoghue 4 6 7 6 8 .. 
Everett 5 .. .. .. .. 
Taylor 7 7 8 8 .. 10 .. 
Worthing 5 8 7 6 7 .. 
Ward 7 9 7 .. 
Thayer 2 4 .. .. 
Manuel 5 
Packard 2 ., S 
Bishop 3 2 
Hobson 0 .. 0 
Stanley 7 6 
Berry 1 .. 
Ames , . . . . . . 0 
A. A. Barrett, Sec'y- 
The West Virginia State Sportsmen's Association. 
SiSTERSviLLE, W. Va., April 15. — Editor Forest and Stream: I 
see that dates for the tournament of the Ohio Trap-Shooters' 
League has been changed to June 21, 22 and 23, so as not to 
conflict with the dates of the New York State tournament 
at Buffalo. It was suggested in one of last week's papers that these 
people would in all probability change the dates for their shoot, 
and the same paper advised that they be particular to see that 
they did not jump out of the frying pay into the fire by claiming 
dates already claimed by other shooting organizations. As June 
20, 21 and 22 have been claimed by the West Virginia State 
Sportsmen's Association for their annual tournament at Wheeling, 
W. Va., and a notice to this effect published in all the sporting 
papers under "Fixtures" for at least two months, it would seem 
that our friends across the river did not look, into the matter of 
claimed dates very thoroughly, or else do not consider we West 
Virginians of very much importance. I am advised that our annual 
at Wheeling, June 20-22, will have in the neighborhood of $500 
added money, besides a great number of valuable merchandise 
prizes, and a very attractive programme will be ready for the 
mail early in May. As we had hoped to send a good delegation 
to represent us at the tournament in question across the way 
aiid have them come to see us, we regret exceedingly that they 
shsuM have selected conflicting dates. Would it not be a good 
idea for them to look again and make another little shift? 
West Virginia has already entered a full squad at Buffalo, 
the same at Cleveland the week following, and will wind up the 
three weeks' shooting at Wheeling, June 20-22. Arrangements have 
been made whereby they are to be squad No. 1 in each of these 
three tournaments, 
Ed. O. Bower, Sec'y-Treas. 
No notice taken of anonymons commimlcatlona. 
A carrier pigeon marked W W 21 was found dead in the 
Mohawk River by Mr. Courtney Netherway, April 15, near Little 
Falls, N. Y. 
I*UBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT. 
Gettysburg, Luray^ and Washington. 
PERS0fiALI.Y CONDUCTED TOl'R VIA PHNNSVLV,.\NJA RAILROAD, 
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has arranged for a five- 
day personally conducted tour to Gettysburg, Luray and Wash- 
ington on May 6. ■ A full day will be spent at Gettysburg, three 
hours at Luray, affording ample time to make the tour of the 
wonderful caverns, and two days at Washington. 
The party will be under the guidance of one of the company's 
experienced tourist agents. A chaperon, whose especial charge 
will be unescorted ladies, will also accompany the party through- 
out. Round-trip tickets, including transportation tor the round 
trip, hotel accommodations at Gettysburg and carriage drive over 
the ' battlefield, luncheon, transfer and admission to the Luray 
Caverns, luncheon, transfer and hotel accommodations at 
Washington, and dinner going and supper returning, at Broad 
Street Station in connection with tickets from Trenton and points 
east thereof, will be sold at the extremely low rate of $25 from 
New York, $24 from Trenton, $22 from Philadelphia, and propor- 
tionate rates from other points. 
For itineraries and full information apply to ticket agents; 
Tourist Agent, 1196 Broadway, New York; 789 Broad Street, New- 
ark, N. J.; or address Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger 
Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia — Adv. 
The advertisement of Sixteen Island Lake presents unusual 
attractions to anglers who may wish to take their families with 
them for a long summer's outing. In addition to the advantages 
set forth by Mr. Lawlor, we are at liberty to state that his lease 
has nine years more to run; that it permits him and his sub- 
lessees to cut building timber within his reserve, and guarantees 
compensation to him and to those claiming .under him from 
any subsequent lessee of the lake for improvernents made during 
his lease. Mr. Lawlor owns in fee three principal islands in the 
lake, and there are others which might be purchased outright from 
the Crown by one one who desired to make a permanent summer 
home on the lake. This body of water is only about two hours' 
from Montreal, and close connections are made with trains from 
southern points, so that it is not only possible for one to reach 
the lake quickly from New York, but also to get in less than 
twenty-four hours' provisions or anything else that may be desired 
from any central point. — Adv. 
Throughout the world the name Sheffield, England, has long 
stood for the best-known cutlery, and Joseph Rodgers & Sons, of 
all its manufacturers, are perhaps the most famous. They turn 
out of their factories carving knives and forks, table cutlery, 
scissors,- razors, hunting and bowie knives, pocket cutlery, etc., 
and thus their goods have an especial interest for Forest and 
Stream readers, who in their outings, need, above all things, good 
knives. At the present time, when a discussion of the best form 
of hunting knife is going on in our columns, this matter is one 
of especial interest. Messrs. Alfred Field & Co., 93 Chambers 
street, are the United States agents for Messrs. Joseph Rodgers 
& Sons, and in another column tell something about these goods- — 
Adv. 
The Harv-ey & Watts Company, who manufacture the Mallinck- 
rodt« ventilated patent tobacco pipes, announce that hereafter 
they will use on their pipes the short perforated stems and paper 
tubes, such as are used in the bent pipes unless the longer 
stems are especially desired and called for in the order. This 
new description of tobacco pipe has already achieved a great degree 
of popularity among smokers Who use the pipe, whether in doors 
or out. — Adv. 
The success attained during the last angling season by the 
aluminum fish phantom justifies its further exploitation this 
season. The Phantom may be used either as a troll or for casting, 
and for the latter purpose a light stiff rod and a free-running line 
are required. The manufacturers claim that it is an extremely 
killing bait, and that it may be used with equal effect in fresh and 
in salt water. — Adv. 
