JuLV 28, 1900.] 
FOREST AND STREAM, 
70 
On tlie Pwll of tli^ Tflgfg^f 
There is always trouble of one sort or another when a womaii 
meddles with those things which do not concern her sex. 
Obviously, carbines were none of Miss Mivart's concern. If 
she felt that she had to play with firearms slie should have kept 
to Flobert rifles. Nothing would do, however, but that she must 
learn to shoot a carbine, and the result was that the whole post 
rose up and cut Burton, to a man, so that there was no peace for 
him aiiy loiiger in that regimeht and he had to seek transfer fa 
another. There were other results, also, but they come further on. 
Some thought that what Miss Idivart did was done on purpose 
and some thought that it was a piece of idiotic silliness. The lat- 
ter based their argument upon the general frivolousneSs of hei' 
ways and upon the innocency of her round, blue eyes. The fof- 
mer held to the belief that Miss Mivart was one of those women 
favorites of fortune who look greater fools than they are. They 
Baid, with a certain show of reason, that Georgia Mivart was a 
cliild of the service and not an importation f)(pm civil life. She 
had been born in a garrison and had played with rows of empty, 
green'rimmed cartridge shells at an age when most little girls 
play with paper dolls. She had hummed snatches of the bugle 
calls before she could talk, and the person she had admired the 
niost and obeyed the best for the first dozen years of her life had 
been Kreutzer, Capt. Mivart's tow-headed striker. A few yearn of 
boarding school back East could not have obliterated all of that. 
Besides, the veriest civilian, who has never come nearer to a 
carbine than to watch a Fourth of July militia parade, rnight rea- 
sonably be expected to know by intuition that in a tatget prac- 
tice competition every trigger has got to pull just so hard, what- 
ever the regulation number or fraction of pounds may be. Other- 
wise) it is plain that the nearer you come to a hair trigger the 
better your aim will be. 
However, whether Miss Mivart was fully aware of what she was 
doing, nobody ever knowsj unless, perhaps, it was Greville — and 
he, like Zuleika; never told. But Burton had a bad time of it, and 
all his beautiful score went for worse than nothing at all. That, 
though, was the end. And the beginning ought to come first. 
The beginning was when Miss Mivart undertook to learn to shoot 
a carbine. 
There was a target practice competition going oil at the post— not 
one which was of any interest to the service, or even to the 
department at large; just a little local aiTair, devised to keep up 
the esprit de corps of the troops and to lighten the montony of 
life. There were three contests, one for troops and companies,^ as 
such; one for individual privates and one for the officers. This 
last was to finish off, and then there was te be a big hop. 
Every one knew from the first, when Burton and Greville shot 
with their troops, that the officers' competition would lie between 
them. This made it interesting in more ways than one, because 
the rivalry was not confined to the target range, but extended to 
the winning of Miss Mivart's hand and heart, and every one be- 
lieved that this would settle a matter she did not appear to be 
able to settle for herself. Not that she was to blame for that. 
Any one, even a person niuch more certain of her own mind than 
Miss Mivart was, would have been put to it to choose. 
They were both first lieutenants and both cavalrymen and both 
good to look upon. Burton was fair and Greville was dark, but 
she had no fixed prejudices regarding that. She had often said 
so. Also, both wei'e as much in love with her as even she could 
have wished, and were more than willing that all the world should 
see it— than which nothing is more pleasant and soothing to a 
right-minded woman. 
The rifle contest lasted ten days, during which time the air 
hummed with the ping and sing of bullets over on the range and 
with the calls of the markers in the rifle pits. Only scores and 
records and bets were thought and talked about. 
Miss Mivart herself had bet, with all the daring wickedness of 
a kitten teasing a bettle. She even went so far as to bet on both 
Burton and Greville at once. The adjutant undertook to explain 
to her that that was called "hedging' and was not looked upon ' 
as altogether sporty. Miss Mivart was hurt. Was it really dis- ' 
honest, she wanted to know. The adjutant felt that he had been' 
unkind. He hastened to assure her that it was not — ^not dishonest 
in the least; only that it took away from the excitement of the 
thing to a certain extent. Miss Mivart smiled and shook her 
head. No, she didn't think that it did, because, of course, she 
knew herself which one she wanted to have win. The adjutant 
admitted that that might possibly be just as interesting for her- 
self and the fortunate man. And which was he, if he might ask? 
Miss Mivart shook her head and smiled again. No, she didn't 
think he might ask. As the man himself didn't know, she could 
hardly tell any one else just yet, could she? She had her own 
ideas about fair play. 
"I can shoot a carbine myself," she told the adjutant, with her 
cleft chin proudly raised, "and my shoulder is all black and blue. 
Mr. Burton is teaching me." 
"Ohl" said the adjutant, "and what does Grevelle think about 
that?" The adjutant was married, so he was out of the running. 
"Mr. Greville is teaching me, too," said Georgia, "and here he 
comes for me now." 
Burton was safe on the target range, over behind the barracks. 
Miss Mivart and Greville went in the other direction, by the 
back of the officers' row, over in the foothills across the creek. 
Greville nailed the top of a big red pasteboard box to the trunk 
of a tree, and Miss Mivart hit it once out of sixteen times — when 
she V/&S aiming at the head of a prairie dog at least 20ft. away to 
the right. The other fifteen shots were scattered among the foot- 
hills. 
Then her shoulder hurt her so that she was ready to cry. Gre- 
ville would have liked to have her cry upon his own shoulder, but as 
she didn't he did some fancy shooting to distract her. He found 
a mushroom can and threw it into the air and filled it full of holes. 
She had_ seen Burton do the same thing that morning with a 
tomato tin. In fact, from where she sat now, on a lichen-covered 
rock, she could see the mutilated can glittering in the sun over 
beyond the arroyo. So she thirsted for fresher sensations. 
"I'll tell you," she .<;aid to Greville, as he held up the mush- 
room can for her to inspect the eight holes he had made with 
five shots, "let me loss up your hat and you make a hole through 
the trade mark in the crown." 
It was a nice, new straw hat. Greville had sent East for it and 
it had come by stage the day before. It had cost him, express 
paid, $4.75. This, too, at a time when anything he had left after 
settling his mess and sutler's and tailor's bills went into stick 
pins and candy and books and music and riding whips for Miss 
Mivart. But he took off the hat and gave it to her without even 
a lingering glance at that high-priced trade mark within. And he 
felt that it was worth four times ?4.75 when she picked up the tat- 
tered remains at last and asked if she might have them to hang 
in her room. 
Then she looked down at her grimy hand and considered the 
first finger, crooking it open and shut. "I think it's going to 
swell," she pouted. "That is a perfectly awful trigger to pull." 
Greville did what any man might have been expected to do. He 
caught the hand and kissed it. Miss Mivart looked absolutely un- 
conscious of it. She might have been ten miles away herself. 
Greville therefore thought that she was angry, and his heart was 
filled with contrition. Yet he was old and wise enough to be a 
first lieutenant. He walked beside her back to the post in a 
state of humble dejection she could not understand. 
The next morning it was Burton's turn. Greville was over on 
the range now, vamly trying to bring his record up to where 
Burton's was. This time Miss Mivart fired at a white paste- 
board box cover and hit it three times out of twenty. She was 
jubilant and so was Burton because she was making such progress 
under his tuition. 
"That's an easy carbine to 'shoot, isn't it?" she asked as they 
wandered home. "It isn't at all hard to pull the trigger." 
Burton glanced at her, and she met his eyes innocently. "It's 
just like any other trigger," he told her. 
"Yes, of course. And is that the very same carbine you use in 
the competition— the one you shot with yesterday and will use 
this afternoon when you finish up?" 
He told her that it was. 
"Well," she said, complacently, "I think I'm doing verv nicely, 
don't you? I hit the target three times and my first finger doesn't 
hurt a bit — this morning." . 
That afternoon the competition came to an end, with Burton a 
good many points ahead of Greville. And that night there was 
the big hop. It had been understood from the first that the man 
who won was to take Miss Mivart to the hop. So she went over 
"With Burton and gave him one-third of her dances. Greville had 
another third, and the rest were open to the post at large. 
Greville did lot look happy at all. It was not the target record 
he minded. He never thought about that. It was having to go 
down the board walk to the hop room behind Burton and to 
■watch Miss Mivart leaning on his arm and looking up into his 
face from under the white mists of her lace hood. He was not 
consoled at all when she looked up into his own face even more 
sweetly at the beginning of the second dance and whispered that 
she was "so sorry." 
Now. as the second dance had been Greville's the third was 
Burton's. That was the way it had been arranged. As the band 
b9gm tl^p \\ait^i JSJj^s Mivart stood beside GreyiUe in tti^ center of 
quite a groufj. The fiOfSdilfirtdittt officer was in the group, so was 
Burton's captain and so was the adjutant. There were some 
fethers as well and also sortie women. Miss Mivart may have 
chasfeil that position or it may simply have happened so. 
Any wav, just as the waltz started. Burton, light hearted and 
light footed, came slipping and sliding over the candle waxed 
floor and pushed his way into the midst. "Ours," he said, tri- 
umphantly. ... 
But Miss Mivart did not heed him at once. She was telling 
theiii all how she had learned to shoot a carbine as well as any 
e, find they, the men, at any rate, were hanging on her words. 
'Mu Greville taught me," she said, "and so did Mr. Burton." 
his was the first either had known of the other's part in if, and 
they exchanged a look.) "They taught me with their own car- 
bines, too. The very same ones they used themselves in the com- 
petitiott. But I shoot best with Mr. Burton's carbine. He must 
have fixed Ms ttiager to pull more easily; it was almost like, what 
do vou call it, a liaif trigger?" 
She looked about for an answrer, and saw on their faces a stare 
of stony horror and surprise. They had moved a little away from 
Burton, and the coramandine officer's steely eyes were on his 
face. The face had turned white, even with the sunburn, and 
i5urton's voice was just a trifle unsteady as he spoke: 
"This is our dance, I think, Miss Mivart," he said. 
The innocent, round, blue orbs looked just a little coldly into 
his. "No," she told him, "I think you are mistaken. It is Mr. 
Greville's dance." And she turned and laid her hand on Gre- 
ville's arm.— Gwendolen Overton in San Francisco Argonaut. 
WESTERN TRAPS. 
Barto— Graham, for the Dtipont Trophy. 
Chicago, III., Julv 20.— The race yesterday at Watson's Park 
for the Dupont trophy between J. B. Barto and E. S. Graham 
turned out something of a suix^rise. The defender, Mr. Barto, 
Would ordinarilv be expected to kill at least over 40 birds in a 
string of 50. He, however, fell down to 38^ and Mr. Graham, 
shooting a very consistent race, won out with the score of 44. 
The traps fell "in a singular way, Barto not drawing No. 2 trap 
once in his first 31 birds. Graham made a bad start, missing his 
first two birds, but he then rallied and killed 19 straight, reaching 
the half-way turn with 22. Barto missed his 6th and 14th birds, 
the score being a tie at the latter point, and Graham taking the 
lead after the 19th bird. From that time on Barto never headed 
him, and got but IS birds out of his second 25. Graham gathered 
well, and shot on out steadily. He lost in his second string his 
gth, 13th and 23d birds; but of these two were killed dead out of 
bounds, as were two out of the first three misses, so that he really 
killed all his birds but two. Barto lost dead out of bounds 5 birds, 
but his shooting was not up to his average gait, and not good 
enough to win in the company he had. Barto drew No. 1 trap 
eight times; No. 2, nine times; No. 3, eleven times; No. 4, twelve 
times; No, 5, ten times. Graham drew No. 1 trap, eleven times; 
No. 2, eight times; No. 3, seven times; No. 4, twelve times; No. 5, 
twelve times. The birds were good, for the season. Weather con- 
ditions good. Score: 
Trap score type— Copyright, 1900, by Forest and Stream Pub. Co. 
444544. 3 4168. 0 8158814434854 
J B Barto 2 2221*2122222022120 2 0220 2—20 
(I 1451152542852282321281522 
If 20202220112222*2212=»*022 2—18—88 
S Graham, 
2441218135534481245245548 
\ \ \ N i \ i N N t T7 T \/ -) (^T* r*^^ t r*^' 
...0 02222222222222222222022 2- 
■22 
'I 
I 15 8 2 2 4 5 2 5 115 5 4 1114 15 15 8 4 4 
f, 22222222202220222 2 2 2220 2 2— 82-44 
pPTTwi-^'i'^' I — I E. Hough. 
Hartford Buildikg, Chicago, 111. 
Illinois GtJn Clofa. 
I' 
Springfield, 111., July 19. — The scores of the regular weekly club 
contest are appended. All events were shot over a magautrap. A 
puffy wind blew in the shooters' faces, making the targets erratic 
in flight. The sunlight was glaring: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 IS 
Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 20 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 
B Wilson 9 10 10 9 10 8 , 
A Wilson 6 9 8 .. 7 ...... 
Richardson 4 9 8 9.. 7.. 9 6 8.... 7 6 6 
Workman 8 7 9 9 . . 7 10 . . 
E S Scott 1 2 5 7.. 3 
A W Butler 8 8 .. .. 8 10 .. 8 .. 9 .. .. 
Hall 8 8 10 9 10 10 9 19 8 
Stickle 9 7.. 9 10 8.. 7 9 7 9 9 
Day 8 .. 6 6 7 7.. 3 .. 8 
Little 5 .. 5 3 .. 3 6 
Dr Kerr 4 8 6 5 .... 8 8 9 8 8 10 
Mrs Butler 6 
C Schuck i 5 4 2 
C Schuck, Jr 4 1 1 
Whitney * .. 9 
.Smith 6 49 5 5 
No. 11 was at 10 pairs. 
Chas. T. Sticrie, Sec'y. 
Chicago Gun Club. 
Chicago, 111., July 21. — The scores made at the shoot of the 
Chicago Gun Club to-day were as follows. In the first event, at 
25 targets, scores were made as follows: Mrs. Carson 11, A. W. 
Adams 19, O. J. Buck 2, R. B. Mack 14, Veitmyer IS, Dr. 
Morton 9, Ed Steck 21, F. P. Stannard 24. J. G. Lovell 19, Corn- 
well 16, Goodrich 21, Pumphrey 15. 
Medal shoot, 25 targets: 
Mrs Carson OOlllOlOllOlOllOUOllllia-lC 
A VV Adams 0111110011111001111111111—20 
O J Buck 1111111011111110111111111—23 
R B Mack .0111101110110110111101111—19 
Veitmyer 1110101110111111111101111—21 
Dr Morton 4 lOllOlOlOllOOOlOllOUllll— 16 
Ed Steck 1111111111111110111111111—24 
F P Stannard 1101111101111111111110111—22 
J Lovell ". 1001110100111111010111110—17 
Mrs Howard OOOOOOOOIOOOOIOOOOIOOOOOO— 3 
Cormvell 1111111101011111111001101—20 
Goodrich OllOlOOlOimillllOOmOl— 17 
Pumphrey 1111011111100111111001111—20 
A T Whitman 1111110101111111110111111—22 
Handicap cup, 25 targets: 
Mrs. Carson, 5 001110111011001110111011111101—21 
A W Adams, 2 OUlllOlllllllllllllOlOllll —23 
O T Buck, 3 0111111111011111111110001011 —22 
R B Mack, 3 lOlllOlOllllllOlllllImilU —24 
F P Stannard, 0 1111011111111110111111111 —2.5 
Ed Steck, 0 lUllUlllllllllOllllllOl —23 
J G Lovell, 5..- 010010110111001110111001011101—18 
VV H Cornwell, 4 11011101001011111111111011111 —23 
L H Goodrich, 1 llOlOllOOllOOllUmOOllll —IS 
A T Whitman, 3 0111101101100111111011101111 —21 
A W Adams llllllllOlllOllOllllIl —19 
Monthly trophy; Mrs, Carson U, O. J. Buck 10, R. B. Mack 12 
Veitmyer 11, Dr. Morton 10, Ed Steck 13, J. G. Lovell 9, W. H. 
Cornwell 12, Pumphrey 14. 
Garfield Gun Club. 
Chicago, July 21.— The appended scores were made on our 
grounds to-day on the occasion of the twelfth trophy shoot of the 
season. 
The day v/as an ideal one for shooting. The only drawback on 
our grounds was a heavy smoke bank from the city, making a 
very deceptive background. 
R. Kuss carried oif the honors of the day, and incidentally with 
it Class A medal, by breaking 24 out of 25 in the tronhv pven(- 
Dr. J. W. Meek, W. P. Northcott, Thos. Eaton, T. L. Smedes 
and S. E. Young tied for Class B medal on 22. 
J. D. Pollard won Class C medal on 21. Other events were 
.-iw'eeostakes and team shoot: 
Br J W Meek 1111111111110101111110111—29 
C F Keck 0001001100101101010100101-11 
W P Northcott... lllllllllllllOmilinOOl-29 
L Thomas lllllllOOlOllllllll] 00101—1 5 
c H Kehi mmimmommiom-il. 
J D Pollard imOOUlOTllllOlllllllll— 21 
J Wolff t immiooooiimoomm— 19 
C P Richards i..,....,iiiioiimiiooimmiiii-22 
R Kiiss imioiiimmmmiiii— 34 
Lorenz .....«.w 
Christie OOOOOlllllOOllOllOlUmi— 15 
F Wolff .,..1011101111011011001110000^15 
Haggerty ......i ......w 
T L Smedes , 1111111010111111110111111-23 
T L Eaton 1011111111111101111110111—22! 
A McGowan 1001101100111011000110111—15 
S E Young iiiimiiiiiimoiiiooiii— 22; 
A Hellman 0111100100110001011110100—12: 
Brabrook IHIOIHIOIIOOIDUIOIOIOI— 17 
Five tied for Class B medal. 
The following sweeps were also shot: 
Events; 1 2 3 4 Events: 12 3 4 
Targets: 15 10 15 5p Targets: 15 10 15 5p 
Dr J W Meek 9 .. .. F Wolff 5 5 .. .. 
Keck 8 3 7 2 Haggerty 4 3 .. .. 
Northcott 14 8 15 8 Smedes 13 9 12 8 
Kehl 7 6 10 6 Eaton ..13 811 6 
Thomas 11 6 10 6 A McGowan .... 7 8 .. .. 
Pollard 13 7 13 8 Ralph 13 
T Wolff 11 8 12 6 Polly 12.. 5.. 
Ifichards ..14 9 12 7 Young 9 12 B 
Kuss 1 410 15 .. Hellman 9 U 6 
Lorenz 6 4 .. .. Brabrook 12 7 
Christie 8 5.... W Kuss 9 
Team race: 
R. Kuss 12, Dr. Meek 13, Smedes 10, Eaton 9, Hellman 13, 
Brabrook 14, W. Kuss 10. Baker 5; total 86. 
Northcott 14, Young 12, Richards 15. Pollard 13, Thomas 12, 
A. McGowan 10, Kehl 7, Baker 5; total 88. 
Dr. J. W. Mkwc. Sec'y. 
Trap at 'Watson's Park. 
July 17. — To-day the following events took place: 
J. B. Barto vs. J. H. Amberg, 25 birds, for birds: 
Barto 112212222112211121121ml— 25 
Amberg *112211011112122112122*2*— 21 
J. R. Graham vs. E. S. Graham: 
E S Graham , 212221221222222I222S20123— 24 
J R Graham :. 2222222122222220211222222—24 
Audubon Clwb shoot: 
J Crow. 1211011121*2020—11—4—15 
Wells 112111212111120-15—1—15 
Tie on 15: • 
Crow 11211 U121 Wells Sllll 22220 
JPracticc event * 
Middleton *. > . . . ; 122222120011111*202211110—20 
Dr E Doepf •00101111121121 
Dr Cubbins ....100111001222022 
Dr Church 00001 
Dr Van Hook 20*0*121020020 1 
Dr F Doepf 20**110011 
Mississippi Valley Notes. 
T ir^^y^*- ^'"'^ ^^^^ initial tournament for the year on 
July 15. This club is a thrifty organization of over fifty members 
and has nice grounds just across the Illinois River from the city, 
where the boys gather once a week for a few hours of the keen 
enjoyment which this pastime affords to its devotees. Giving 
tournaments is something of a new feature with the Pekin boys, - 
but that they know how to run a tourney as well as to shoot 
was thoroughly demonstrated on this occasion. White flyers 
were thrown from three expert traps on the Sergeant system, 
and although the day was unfavorable, the shooters being 
often interrupted by rain, and steadily hampered by a strong wind 
blowing across the range, five contestants landed with a mark 
of 90 per cent, or better for the day. Money was divided on the 
old class system of 50, 30 and 20, and Jacob Hoff won the big pot 
of the day, $16, for a clean score in the only 20-bird event of the 
programme. The scores: 
Events: 123456789 10 U 
largets: 10 15 15 10 15 20 15 10 10 15 15 
Baker 8 15 14 10 12 17 13 9 10 15 14 
Riehl 10 12 14 9 13 18 15 10 10 14 14 
A Connor 9 14 13 8 15 17 14 9 9 13 14 
Burnside 10 12 14 9 14 17 15 10 10 13 15 
Hellman 9 12 12 6 13 16 12 9 8 14 12 
Tulton 9 10 10 10 15 19 15 9 10 14 14 
W Hoff , 7 8 9 6 13 18 12 9 10 11 12 
Thompson 8 13 13 9 13 17 14 9 9 14 .. 
W'lson 9 9 12 15 8 7 8 10 10 
I Hoff 11 8 13 20 14 9 10 12 13 
Shot 
9 10 18 14 8 10 12 15 
8 12 
8 10 8 17 16 
6 15 15 
10 
8 10 
9 .. 12 
8 14 .. 
6 .. 12 
4 .. .. 
12 
8 ..14 
9 6 
5 10 
4 
6 .. 
9 .. 
8 8 
11 
8 . . 15 13 
emm 13 
Burns 6 11 
Eynatten 
Ruhack • 10 .. 
Dr Frank 11 10 12 14 10 
Whiffen 7., 8 10 
H Connor 11 8 11 
Portman 14 .. 13 18 
Scheffler « 7 7 
Phillips 6 '7 .. 
Scharf 5 .. 
Leach g 13 
Strick 6 10 i4 
Orth 7 .. 
Jacobs 8 .. 
Reisinger 7.. .. 
Tavlor 2 
D Grant , .. ., 7 14 13 
P Grant 9 10 . . 
Simmons .... 8 12 17 
Leisey 8 13 16 . . 
Shoff 9 
Jaeckel 8 12 '. '.' 
Rath 8 
Bush .. .. 3 .. ..' ** '\ 
P G Grant., ! !! !I 6 !.* 
Crammond 1 I , ', 
'T-i; ""y""s "'^i civciagc wiiu IX Kins to nis credit. 
«7 Qi*" 1^*=" resolved itself into a contest at 25 live birds 
$7.50 entrance three moneys, Monte Carlo boundary. The Krds 
were fast, and the sc9res, under the conditions, very creditable 
The figures are here given: •' ^"^^'taoie. 
Soenrer 222222*2221222**2222-17 
B?aice 2122222221*22221122^19 
Dr Cla;ke .pi21222221I0010w 
Chase 11222221222210221222-19 
Pend 2222202112212222*222-18 
Hansen^ 222222222220*2212222-18 
SelSv 21ini011120100212l*-15 
Alexand;; 10121112022012210122-16 
^i'^^r — ' — • • *2121121102222211212-18 
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137 
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150 
139 
.926 
150 
135 
.900 
150 
139 
.926 
150 
123 
.820 
150 
135 
.900 
150 
125 
.830 
135 
119 
.880 
125 
98 
125 
110 
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109 
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55 
110 
81 
95 
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75 
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46 
28 
30 
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25 
55 
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Park, St. Louis. 
Trap at Wissinoming. 
July 21— Mr. John K. Starr, at the request of a nnmhpr r,f 
local shooters, gave a target shoot to-day on ?he ground! of the 
Florists' Gun Club, at Wissinom ng. Pa The main . 
100 targets, handicaps from 10 to 2o1;•ds.^$2.i''en^"nce,"u^gets in 
the occasion.''"''^ ^^'"^ ^ ''^'"'^ "^^^e speciflly for 
The weather was swdtering hot and this no doubt deterred 
many shooters from attending. A few sweepstakes were shot and 
then the main event was begun. Banks, Hallowell and W H W 
were put at the 20yd. mark. The latter withdrew at the "so^h 
round. As Banks and Hallowell began to shoot their last str.W^ 
of 25 a terrific thunder storm set n. The •strnno- 1,,^ 
straight away from the shooters, the lightning iXl a'^armingfr 
and the consequence _ was their scores dropped materiallv m^' 
H. Ridge won the prize with the very excellent score nf flfi f 
the 19yd. mark. The scores: ^"^""^^ °^ ^om 
Harris, 12 20 22 21 14—77 Anderson. 18 2^ 99 91 in o» 
Bell. 14 24 23 24 18-89 Fisher, 16.. . 22 in M ^^io 
Banks, 20. ^ 21 24 22 18-88 Edwards, 17 H 29 ?7 JL^a 
Hallowell. 20 22 21 19 16-78 Mink, 18. . 21 H 11 lf~^ 
V H W. 20 19 19 BisbiAg, 12 22 IQ ^ ^~^r, 
J^idS*^. 19 2" S4 24 24-96 Par-^on^ W/;//,:::!! 17 20 
