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FOREST AND STREAM. 
INov. 10, 1900. 
Peru Gun Club. 
Peru, Ind.— i'Jie first autumn live-bird shoot o£ the Peru, Ind., 
Cun Club, which took place here on Oct. 80 and 31, was, while 
.si;jnething of an experiment on account of the manner of dividing 
the purses, certainlj' a success in every way. The attendance 
vas good, tlic weather could not have been better, barring a slight 
.-ihuwer on tlie morning of the 3Uth, ihe traps worked splendidly 
and the entries kept well up from start to finish while it is believed 
by those in attendance that for the number of birds trapped in the 
two days a better lot was never provided by a club anywhere. A 
reference to the names of the shooters present will show any one 
that- they were men capable of judging a pigeon. 
King's live-bird traps were used, set according to the revised In- 
terstate Association rules, and instead oi rop.e pulls, strong wires 
were run through small pipes along the surface ot the ground 
back to about the 26yd. score, where all the wires were conducted 
back through one large pipe to the puller's stand well back ol the 
32yd. mark. This made a quick, sharp pull in response to the 
shooter's call, and there was no possible way to see which trap 
was pulled until the trap opened, and the bird was usually out 
Jike a streak. . ,, t 
The following visitors were on hand, and nearly or quite all of 
them shot out the programme from start to finish: Emile Werk, 
Cincinnati, O. ; Rolla Heikes, Dayton, O.; VV. R. Crosby, O'Fallon, 
111.; W. A. Zink, Monticello, Ind.; Chas. B. Lamme (Butler), 
Attica; W. T. Irwin (Tramp), Chicago, 111.; M. J. Smith, Hunt- 
ington, Ind.; Fred Gilbert, Spirit Lake, la.; Chas. \V. Budd, Des 
Moines, la.; H. J. Sconce, Sidell, 111.; Elmer and Edgar Apperson, 
Kokomo, Ind.; Guy Burnside, Knoxville, 111.; Elmer E. Neal, 
Bloomfield, Ind., and Ernest H. Tripp, Indianapolis. These, with 
the home contingent, made up of Messrs. Wm. Daniels, Frank 
Dunbar, J. S. Butler (Ben), and J. L. Head, kept the entries well 
around seventeen in most of the events. Scores for the first day's 
shooting were as follows: 
First, while some little preliminaries were being arranged, 
Messrs, Werk and Heikes shot at 5 birds each to see who should 
pay for the 10. The result was a tie on 5 each, and as both were 
shooting so well, it was deemed advisable to call the race off, as 
the club had only about 1,400 birds on hand, and there was 
danger of these two cracks using them all, and there were others 
who wanted to shoot: 
First Day, Oct. 30. 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 
Live birds: 5 5 7 7 10 7 Live birds: 5 5 7 7 10 7 
E Werk, 30 4 3 5 5 7 4 F Gilbert, 32... 4 5 6 7 10 6 
R lieikes, 31... 5 5 4 5 10 6 C Budd, 31 5 5 6 7 10 5 
\V ( rosby, 32... 5 5 7 7 10 6 H Sconce, .30. . . 4 5 7 7 10 5 
J ticad, 30 5 3 6 5 , 9 5 E Neal, 31 0 5 6 6 8 6 
W Daniels, 27.. 5 5 .. 4 9 6 G Burnside, 30. 5 5 6 4 9 6 
'»V Zink, 29 5 4 7 5 8 7 Ben. 26 4 6 .. .. 5 
Jtutler. 28 3 4 6 6 10 6 E Apperson, 29 6 6.... 
'Iifliiip, 30 4 5 7 7 10 7 Ed Apperson, 27 3.. .. 
At Smith, 29.... 4 4 6 6 7 4 F Dunbar 6 9 5 
Event No. 1, 5 live birds, ?3 entrance, fourteen entries, five 
nuneys; As the purse went to high gtms, the money all went to 
straights. 
Event No. 2, 5 live birds, fifteen entries, six moneys, to high 
gv.ns : The straight scores absorbed all the purse in this event. 
Event No. 3, 7 live birds, .$5 entrance, sixteen entries, six .high 
f iU)!- to win: The straight scores paid 110.40 each, the 6s paid 
1.15 each. 
Event No. 4, 7 live birds, $0 entrance, seventeen entries, six 
high guns to win: The straight scores paid ?9.95, and the 6s $1.10 
eacli. 
Evetlt No. 5, 10 liye .birds, $7.50 entrance, fifteen entries, six 
high guns to win: The straights paid $10.70 each, absotbing the 
purse. 
Extra event No. 1, 7 live birds. ?5 entrance, class shooting, 50. .30 
and 20 per cent: Tramp and Zink took first money, $13 each. The 
6s received $2.20, and the 5s $2.10 each. 
Extra event No. 2, 15 targets, $1.50 entrance, fourteen entries, 
four moneys, 35, 30. 20 and 15 per cent. : Sconce and Neal 14, 
Crosby, Zink, Budd, Ben and Burnside 13, Gilbert, Daniels ami 
Heikes 12, and Dunbar and Smith 11 each, divided the money. 
Tramp, Crosby and Sconce were easily the best performers of 
the day. Tramp missed his first bird in the first event, and never 
did lose another this day. The bird he lost was of the unkillable 
kind, going out of No. 1 trap, and was a low left-quartering driver 
that, if not stopped quickly, could never have been stopped, as he 
was too fast. 
Crosby did not .lose a bird until his 3Sth of the day, and it died 
inside the boundary, after having flown just outside. It was a hard 
piece of luck after this ever stately and magnificent shooting ex- 
pert had cut down bird after bird the quality of which must be 
seen I0 be realized. 
Mr. Sconce lost his 3d bird of- the programme, and then ran 33 
straight, losing his 37th and 39th. He is one of the best amateurs 
at the traps, and as fine a boy as lives. 
Second Day, Oct. 31. 
The second day, Oct. 31, brought plenty of sunshine and 
Ernest Tripp, which just meant more sunshine. He is about the 
busiest man around a shooting tournament, and woe be unto the 
management of an affair where Ernest is. He had no sooner 
reached the grounds than he was unanimously elected manager of 
the whole_ shooting match, but about the time Harvey Sconce lost 
his 9th bird in the miss-and-out Ernest saw trouble ahead, and 
stated that he had all he could do to manage Elmer Neal, and re- 
signed. 
There was but one event scheduled for this day, and that was at 
25 birds, $2 entrance; high guns to win. This event had twelve 
entries,_ and was a most interesting one. The birds were even 
better if possible than the day tiefore, and it was predicted by J. 
L. Head that there would not be a straight score. This seemed a 
pretty risky assertion in the presence of the talent at hand, but 
proved a true one, as the scores will show. 
As a preliminary a $2 miss-and-out was proposed, which was to 
be at 30yds. rise, and birds extra. It drew twelve entries, and was 
a pretty race, and at the end of the Gth round had six contestants 
still in. Sometliing was said about dividing, and wWle such sug- 
Kcstion was being made some one else (who was out of the race) 
slii'gested that they must shoot until the new manager said stop. 
'M.e 7th and 8th rounds went along with Crosby, Gilbert, Neal, 
Tramp, Scorice and Budd going a merry clip, but several of them 
looking anxiously at the manager, whose cold, sinister eye told 
tliem to go on. Harvey Sconce lost his 9th, and the manager 
looked like he wanted to resign then, V)Ut when Charlie Budd lost 
his 10th and started after the manager he quit then and there, but 
first decided that the miss-and-out was finished. Tramp. Gilbert. 
Ciosby and Neal divided the $24 in the purse, and the big race 
V as on. Scores : 
G Burnside, 30 22222202*2102221221222220—21 
E H Tripp, .30 22221 221 221 2'*2*1220111120— 21 
H J Sconce, 30 22222120!2012222*2222*222— -n 
W R Crosby, 32 ]2imil21*111*I212210121— 22 
- F Gilbert, 32 222221112*2221222222222'^2— H 
C W Budd, 31 2222012122*12121211122211^23 
E E Neal, 31 2121212212221122220222222—21 
W A Zink, 29 3n*11212222110'2ll]212100— 21 
Tramp. 30 *22222122122112021222222«'— 22 
T L Head. 3 J 222222222221121*2*22*202"— 21 
R. O Heikes, 01 222222222222222102121 22^^2—2+ 
E Werk, 2S , ,.,2221222*11222112120222220—22 
Gilbert, Neal and Heikes each drew $46.25, and Chas. W. Budd, 
being fourth high gun with 23, took the remainder of the purse, 
$24.75. 
A consolation race was then proposed, and was at 7 birds. $5 
entrance, class shooting, 50, 30 and 20 per cent., and this event had 
sixteen entries. Scores: 
E H Tripp. 30 2221012-fi H T Sconce. 30 2222222—7 
T L Head, 30 122202fi^=i C W Budd 31,... 2111022—6 
y Dunbar, 27 1212211-7 ^V A Zink. 29 01*2212—5 
Ben. 26....... 1*12221-6 R O Heikes. 31 2220222— fi 
Butler. 2S..............l*->2222— K R E Neal, .31 ..2222122—7 
W Daniels. 27. ....... .*12202n—l T„mn. 30 2212021-6 
W R Crosbv. 32 ..2102112-^- F ^V>rk, 2S 01*11*1^ 
F Gilbert, 32. ........ .2222211-7 G Burnside. 30 2220212—6 
Dunbar, Gilbert. Sconce ?'id Neal each drew $6i50. the 6s each 
drew $1.95, and the is S5.20— another example of the pot luck 
system. 
The last live-bird event of il;e tournament was another $2 miss- 
and-out with birds extr?. This event had ten entries, and on the 
8th round Tripp, Cro-bv arid Gilbert divided the $20. 
A 15-target event. $1 -oO entrance, drew fourteen entries: Sconce 
with 15, and Heikes. Barnsidc. N'eal. Dunbar and Tripp with 14 
Daniels, Budd, Crosby and llilbm with 13. Head and Butler with 
12. took the money. 
Another 15-bird race drew twelve entries, and was v/on bv 
Sconce and Bud.] 15. Gilbert, Crosbj^ ^nd Purnside 14, Heikes 
and Tripp and Daniels 11. Tramp, shooting for targets only, 
scored 14 in this event. 
In all, there were 1,192 birds trapped, and there were not a dozen 
sitters. 
There was one singular feature of the tournament, viz., the ab- 
sence of the crack hve-bird shots of the nearby cities, such as 
Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit. 
This was a shooting match pure and simple, just such as most 
pigeon shooters love, yet not one of these cities was represented. 
However, the shoot was a crackerjack, and the^ boys were the 
losers by being absent. 
The Indians were in rare good humor. Good weather, good birds 
and sufficient entries to make a good shoot, and they in conse- 
quence made life a burden to J. L. Head. That gentleman was 
without a gun, his own trusty Smith having been sent to the 
factory for some slight changes and had been delayed in return- 
ing. J. L. shot every gun on the ground except Pop Ward's 
and Elmer Neal's. These gentlemen say they feel slighted. Some 
of the shooters were charitable enough to attribute Jim's poor 
scores to the use of so many guns, but Jim says privately he 
was mighty glad that gun didn't get back. He never would 
have had an excuse for missing so many if it hai 
Somewhere in the programme it was promised that there would 
be plenty of shelter for shooters. A large top to a fflerry-go-'round 
tent was procured at no little trouble and expense to provide the 
promised shelter. It was about 50 feet in diameter and ample as to 
size, but being somewhat old, had a number of small holes in the 
top, which let in plenty of light, but when the first small shower 
came the boys were surprised at the way the old thing turned 
water, though the rain was of short duration. As soon as Fred 
(jilbert saw the holes in the top he accused Tramp Irwin ol hav- 
ing been out patterning his gun. 'J'he second day during the 
big race there was a strong wind, and about every half hour a slit 
about 10ft. long would appear in the top of the tent. The Indians 
would then look up a programme, call a meeting and take poor 
Jim Head to task. Before night about all that was left ot the 
tent was the ropes and poles, and thei-e was not much left of Jim. 
What would a live-bird shoot be without Pop Werk. Always 
pleasant and congenial, no matter haw tough hig luck — how he 
did kill some of the screamers! He was tmfortunaie in drawing 
incomers, the one bird upon which he seems at all weak, and he 
always lost just at the wrong time, not being able to get his scores 
to run together. Pop makes a big shadow, but it is the sincere 
wish of the Peru boys that it may never grow less. 
And while speaking of the Peru boys just notice liow Will 
Daniels, Frank Dunbar and J. S, Butler shot live birds and stayed 
in the game. Daniels attracted the attention of the crackerjacks, 
and they all predicated for him a bright future as a pigeon shot. 
He had shot at just 10 live birds before this tournament. Dunbar 
had shot at less than 50, and Ben had never shot at a pigeon, yet 
here they were going against the hardest game in the world with 
a shotguUj and they all have some straight scores to their credit, 
too. Daniels shot m hard luck, losing his last bird in the extra 
event of the first day, and in the 10-bird race did not lost a bird 
until his 9th. Both these birds were lost just over the boundary, 
and they cost a pretty penny, too. Frank Dunbar lost his 8th 
in the same race. Here is a remarkable shooter, and is without 
question the best performer in Indiana, considering his ex- 
perience. He di\Tded several firsts. J. S. Butler is a crack Wabash 
engineer, has owned a gun less than six months, but likes the 
game and is certainly a comer on live birds, 
There may be some people shooting pigeons better than Tramp 
Irwin, but they do not go in flocks, attd the majority of them 
are less than fifty-two years of age. 
Elmer Neal had a severe handicap, being on the line with such 
veterans as Rolla O. Heikes and Charlie Budd, but he never did 
anything but saw wood, and was in the bunch in the big race. 
The three 24s in the main event have no kick coming, (jilbert, 
Heikes and Neal each lost a bird that is of the kind that absolutely 
refuses to be killed. Any men living to Icill 25 straight don't want 
to beg for any one of these three birds. 
Charlie Lamb (Butler) was a stayer, and while he, like Pop 
Werk, could not bunch his hits, he scored a straight in the 10- 
birti race. He, too, was shooting everybody's gun. 
W. A. Zink, of Monticello, is also a stayer, and is no slouch 
with his Winchester. 
M. J. .Smith of Huntington, is another all-day man, but Mike 
was suffering from a severe headache, and his scores were poor — 
Tor Mike. 
T. Bill Crosby, like Fred Gilbert, was 'way back yonder at 
32yds., but he was without question the star performer, unless it 
was Tramp T., who shot his new 32in. Smith, and he "simply 
paralyzed" the hardest of birds with his first barrel, nearly always 
using a needless second for safety. The birds he lost in the main 
event were all killed, but the birds were lead carriers, and straight- 
away twisting drivers, going just outside. 
Pop Heikes had a new single-trigger Remington, and he has 
not quite accustomed himself to her hang, but he was one of the 
24s, and had no apologies to ofifer at that score. It could hardly 
have been beaten. 
The Dago Chief Charlie Budd, as the Senior Chief present, had 
a busy time keeping his fellow members of the tribe, Messrs. 
Heikes, Neal, Crosby, Tripp and Gilbert, in line, and inaking them 
good Indians. However, Charlie was just 1 behind in the main 
race, and the only one to secure 23. ' 
Every one was sorry to hear of the accident to the Hon. Big 
Chief Marshall, and were unanimous in regretting his absence, as 
Tom was to be present to handicap the Indians. We all wish 
him a speedy recovery. 
One of the boys. Jack Cavanaugh, who never misses an event at 
a Peru shoot, was in Maine hunting moose. He was missed, as 
was Jack Parker, who has heretofore managed every tournament 
given by the Peru Gun Club. Jack is in the sunny South looking 
after a tournament being given by his company. 
Does any one know a nicer boy than Guy Burnside? And a 
steady, clever shot he is. Guy promises to give a shoot at Knox- 
ville, 111., in December, and right here stick a pin. Everybody 
is going. If being a good fellow and a sportsman has anything 
to do with drawing a crowd, Guy will have to run a shoot about 
ten days to handle his crowd. 
Poor Jim Head! He thought he was rid of the gang when the 
hacks came to take them to the hotel, and after waving them all 
a temporary good-bi' until he could see them off in the evening, 
he went in to the cashier's office, and had hardly gotten inside, 
when he was seized from behind, carried out upon the field, bound 
hand and foot and blind-folded, and stretched out upon a large 
table just ready for the dissecting broad axe or some similar in- 
strument of torture, and made to promise never, never, never again 
to allow a programme of the Peru shoot to promise ''plenty of 
shelter for shooters." His life was spared, but he was wrapped 
up in fragments of the "plenty of shelter for shooters" and there 
is no telling when he would have been released, as the Peru 
boys said they would not help him after his poor shooting, had 
not Pop Werk taken a fatherly interest in him and relea.sed him 
from his perilous (?) position. Jim says it is his tvirn next, and 
he will fix these fellows when there alone and single-handed. 
.\t 7:25 P. M. the entire party, with one or two exceptions, left 
for the Indianapolis tournament, where they will shoot bluerocks 
and .sparrows. Tliey left nothing behind but the best wishes of 
tlic I'cru people, who will always extend to them a hearty wel- 
come. , Charles Bttock, Sec'y. 
As to Gun Names and Amateofs. 
The courteous and talented gentleman who writes the interest- 
ing notes under the' caption "Heard About Town" in the New York 
Times has the following to say concernin.g the subjects of which it 
treats : 
" "If shooting at pigeons from traps is a legitimate and a gen- 
tleman's sport,' observed a gentleman at one of the clubs yes- 
terday, "why is it that so many of our men shoot under assumed 
names? .-\re they ashamed of the game, or is it because they do 
not want the fact known when they are beaten? Neither reason 
is very sportsmanlike. Take that contest for the Dupont trophy at 
Baltimore last week. Robert A. AVelch, of this city, who won it. 
shot under the name of .\rmstrong until the cup was won, when 
it became known through the public prints that Armstrong was 
none other than "Bob" Welch. The runner-up in the race was an 
Englishman. J. \Y. P.ostans. who shot as Musgrove, until it was 
ceftain that he would capture second honors. Then the news- 
paper reporters were told his right name- There are a dozen 
men who shoot about the country, theoretioally for the love of 
the sport, and who are not known to be in the employ of gun. 
ammunition or sporting goods houses, who always shoot under 
rn ass'-.mcd name. Some are known bv shooting men only by 
I'leir shootinc alias, and "-ould be horrified if their actual name 
should bet into print. One, for instance, is the brother of a 
prominent clergyman in Brooklyn, a very quiet man, whose per- 
sonalifv 's absolutely unknown to the "ten he m.eets before the 
I raps .' dozen or more times a year. He is about the only one 
1 am familiar with whose actual personalitv is much of a mystery. 
Men about town know the aliases of the merchants, banker's, 
lawyers and business men of all sorts who shoot under names 
other than their own. I do Icnow of oijp Q^st where there is ^ 
reason for the assumed name. The man had promised his wife 
that he would not take part in trapshooting after he was married. 
Yet he has kept at it, and the woman knows nothing of it 
because of his alias and his ingenuity in the invention of yarns 
to account for his whereabouts on days when there is shooting at 
the Carteret Gun Club grounds.' 
" 'Touching that same subject of trapshooting,' remarked a 
c«mpanion, 'how., is it that Mr. Welch, for example — I use his 
name only because of his recent victory for the Dupont trophy — 
can retain his status as an amateur when he rakes down some- 
thing like $600 in cash by his victory in that race? His amateur 
stattis is never questioned, though he shoots against professionals. 
If a man should make such a rake-off in a billiard mateh, a yacht 
race, a game of golf, or accept even $5 for winning a foot race 
or a boxing bout he woiild at once be declared a professional. 
Where is the distinction, and what is the difference-?' " 
"The. whole crowd gave it up." 
[Shooting is a gentleman's sport, and when a gentleman en- 
gages in it he considers that he has not thereby in the least re- 
signed his personal capacity and privileges. He is under no more 
obligation to herald his shooting doings to the public than he is 
to confide to it any other of his doings which concern only him- 
self. 
Many times a gentleman assumes a shooting name, not in the 
least because he is ashamed of shooting, or engaging in it, but 
because he considers that his doings are no concern of the public. 
Nor are shooters the only men who consider that the curious 
public is not entitled to a knowledge of their private affairs; 
as to the point of view much depends on whether one is viewing 
or being viewed.] 
Garfield Gun Glob. 
Chicago, Nov. 3. — The appended scores were made on our 
grounds to-day on the occasion of the second trophy shoot of the 
seascm. Eighteen shooters participated in the trophy event, and 
several others, coming too late to enter that event, engaged in 
the other contests of the day. 
'l"he weather was fine for shooting — a_ sharp S.W. wind blew 
across the traps, ni.nking Ihr birr'';, '."hich were art exceedingly 
fast lot, almost all left- quartering drivers. 
C. J. Wolf carried off the lionors of the daj", being the only 
one to go straight in the main event. 
The attendance was something like old times, and shooting con- 
tinued until darness put a stop to it. 
Dr Shaw, 31 2222020222— S Von Lengerke. 31, .2102012222— 8 
Mrs Shaw, 26 001*202101— 5 T Wolff, 28 1211*11210— 8 
C 1 Wolff. 27 1121111121—10 "W Northcott. 28. .1212111120— 9 
C "H Kehl, 27 1*10201111— 7 L Wolff, 28 , . .12120in211— 8 
A McGowan, 28. .. .0001012102— 5 Midglev. 28 1210022210— 7 
Dr Meek, 31 l'*2011*211— 7 C T Keck, 27 ;.2ni002?2n— 7 
T Eaton, 30 1012211111— 9 T Gardner, 29 000202010*— 3 
E Eaton. 28 0210122222— 8 T P Hicks. 31 11112211212— 9 
S Palmer, 31 '^220201222— 7 M H Shaw, 28. .. .0222220*12— 7 
Event No. 2, 6 birds, $1 entrance: Kehl 3, T. Eaton 5, Palmer 6, 
Von Lengerke 6. Hicks 5, M. H. Shaw 3, Wade 5. 
Event No. 3, 6 birds, $1 entrance: Dr. Shaw 5, Mrs. Shaw 2, 
C, J. Worn 2, H. Kehl 2. A.. McGowan 3, Dr. Meek 5, T. Eaton 
1. E. Eaton 4, Palmer 5, Von Lengerke 4. J. Wolff 4. 
Dr. T. W. Meek, Sec'y- 
Columbia Pistol and Rifle Clob. 
San Francisco, Oct. 21.— Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club had 
some remarkably fine shooting to-day. F. O. Y^oung broke the 
club's 10-shot revolver record with 9 shots in_ the 5-ring and the 
10th only i4in. away. C. M. Daiss followed him closely. Both 
Y''oung and Daiss have lowered the record of 10 best scores held 
by J. E. Gorman, with the revolver. Daiss leads Y'oung by 10 
points with 4S6 on this match — and both were confident of winning. 
Daiss used Y^oung's old combination of semi-smokeless^^ and 
Dupont's, while Y'oung switched off ^ to-day and used King's 
smokeless and semi-smokeless, with which he not only made the 
37 record, but 32 consecutive shots in the Sin. ring. The am- 
munition was crimped solid for service use. Young also used 
King's smokeless for priming in his military and fine rifle, with 
fine results. Pape tried it to-day and made 49 and 51 consecutive 
with fine rifle and later on 43 in a match with Hoadley, giving 
Hoadley 30 points. Hoadley lost, though he made 75, the best 
he has yet done in competition. Capt. Fred Kuhnle came all the 
way from Petaluma, and put up the best 50yd. average, shooting 
with .22 rifle and Peters 7-45 inside lubricated cartridges, ever 
recorded, making 206 in 100 consecutive shots, off-hand, or 1.03in, 
average from dead center The record here for 10 best scores is 
191, while his 10 consecutive are only 15 points' behind, Fred 
uses globe and peep sights, and, like old wine, improves with 
age, being sixty-five years of age. Ed Hovey led with pistol, and 
Young with military rifle. 
Scores. Columbia target, off-hand shooting: 
Rifle, 200yds.; back class medal scores: 
A I-I Pape 6 3 5 4 3 3 10 4 3 8-49 
4 53649436 7—51 
G W Hoadley 16 2 8 2 3 15 7 4 15 3—75 
Dr. H. C. Trask 106, 119, 153. 
Military and repeating rifle, Creedmoor count: 
F O Y''oung 48 46 45 45 44 44 
A H Pape 47 47 45 -14 42 
Sharp's military, open sights, 61bs. pull; pistol, 50yds.; back 
class medal scores: A. H. Pape 55, 80. 98; G. W. Hoadley 64. 
All comers' pistol medal: Ed Hovey 49, 57; P. Becker 54, 59, 
59, 60, 61, 65; F. O. Y^oung 55, 56, 61; Dr. J. F. Twist 57, 71, 75; 
G. W. Hoadlev 59, 60, 62, 62, 72. 
Twist revolver medal, all comers: F. O. Young 37, 46, 52, 60, 64, 
65, 66; C. M. Daiss 42, 46, 46, 51, 62, 64, 64, 72, 78, 79. 
.22 and 25 rifle medals; all comers, 50yds.: 
Capt Fred Kuhnle 2 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 1 3—21 
222238121 2—20 
222242213 1—21 
2 2 2 1 1 3 2 1 2 1—17 
112241123 2—19 
242223323 1—24 
1 3 52 3 1144 2—26 
112213123 4—20 
22312123-3 2—21 
3 1 22 1 2111 3—17—206 
Ed llovev 2- 143121132 — 20 
Dr J F Twist 32 31 32 35 
Record scores, .22 rifle, .50yds. : Capt. Wuerschmidt 49, 50. 
We have just received from Dr, Baker, of Walnut Hill, the 
tickets on which is registered his wonderful run on the Columbin 
target at rest shooting recently at Walnut Hill. 
Pape has demonstrated that a rifle barrel properly cut and 
manipulated with machine rest will keep on or in the lin, ring 
at 200yds., and we send congratulations from this club herewith 
to Dr. Baker for being the first man to demonstrate the posi 
sibility of inaking the possible on the lin. ring at rest shooting 
at the same distance. .\ 10-shot match will be in order. 
F. O. Young. Rec. Sec'y. 
PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT. 
A correspondent writes: "Streets, foads, landscape, river and 
harbor views bel<mg to the puhlic. Nobody has the right to 
disfigure them with signboards and posters, and no deparl- 
nient can properly give such privilege. The only legitimate 
method of advertising anything is in the papers. There every- 
body who wants to see the Advertisement knows where to find it. 
?)nd those who do not want to see it need not be annoyed by it. 
This sensible rule prevails in England, and I am- glad to see that 
i' lias been adopted by the municipal governments of Cleveland, 
Kansas City and other progressive communities. When France 
prepared to receive the visitors to her Exposition she washed 
her face of all the advertising signs and placards ivith which the 
principal points in her scenery were disfigured. New_York should 
make a similar cleaning along the elevated roads. an3 should not 
spare the "cards' that are lacked up in the cars and on the 
stations. People with things to sell have no more right to 
thrust their advertisements in our faces than thev have t© t^arr.v 
their goods about, as they used to do in the old times when a 
merchant was a peddler, Other times, other manners; and this 
an age when advertising is justly restricted to the press,"— 
K[ot?l Jlegister 
