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FOREST AND STREAM. 
'[March 2, 1901. 
It is conceded by all that Tramp Irwin simply outshot himself 
at this tournament. ■ His work was consistent throughout and far 
above the average. 
Rolla Heikes, Herbert Taylor, R. E. Price, C. E. De Long 
arid the writer composed the handicapping committee for the live- 
bird events. • ■ 
Chris Gottlieb, besides shooting a great pate,' also won the 
local cocked hat championship during the ^^^eek. There are not 
many things, by the way, that this genial Kansas Citian does not 
know how to "make a hand at." 
Ed Fulford, Tom Marshall, Ernie Tripp and Elmer Neal sent 
personal regrets, each being unavoidably detained by pressing busi- 
ness from attending this shoot. 
Thanks to the liberal added money, this was a paying tournament, 
and no one lost anything on the programme who shot consistently 
S3 per cent, or over, although targets were charged for at the rate 
of 3 cents each. The entry was at no time large enough for bird 
money to cover the amount of the added purse. 
Capt. A. H. Bogardus visited with the bovs on the grounds 
several times, and talked over "the good old days." 
Dr. Williams' trained retrievers did good work in several of the 
live-bird events. 
Mr. C. E. De Long was compelled by illness to give up shoot- 
ing on Wednesday- He has his new single trigger action now 
about perfected, and it was tested to good advantage on the 
grounds- this week. 
Killed a Carrier Pigeon. 
In the accumulation of retrieved birds at the Indianapolis. Ind., 
shoot Mr. Fred Gilbert found one with the number and tag of a 
homing pigeon on one foot. The reading was "1899-Y-120." Mr. 
Gilbert has the tag in his possession, and will send same to the 
owner of the bird if claimed. 
F. C. RiEHL. 
The Qeveland G«n CUsh Co. 
Cleveland, O., Feb. 23.— Our president is a good shot when he 
gets started, but he is a slow starter. He still thinks his new load 
is a great winner. 
J. I. C. attributes all his misses to his loose rib, but the rib 
on his gun is very firm. 
Lannert made the highest score in the 40-bird handicap race. He 
walks vfery erect ever since; but, poor Henry, some one stole his 
cap, and he started for home to tell his troubles, when some one 
found it. He is happy now, and wears a Tom Johnson smile. 
If Stevens wovild shoot more often he might learn how. 
Red Wing lost his nerve in the 40-bird race after he lost 4. birds 
in .the first 10. That is why he withdrew. 
Harris, the prize winners are thankful you shot so poorly, but 
some of us feel sorry for you. 
Bob, if you don't shoot better Franklin will defeat you in the 
live-bird tie. 
Where was Forrester? 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 
Targets: 10 10 15 15 5p 15 Targets: 10 10 15 15 5p 15 
Hopkins 8 5 7 11 5 10 W Tamblyn 7 5 7 11 8 10 
Elliott 7 10 10 13 5 11 Robert 5 6 8 7 4 5 
Harris 7 S1211 7 8 Egley 3 8 7 13 6 12 
Franklin 7 S 9 12 4 13 Ward 5 7 8 5 7 7 
Lannert 5 6 10 9 . . 10 Ashford 3 S 8 10 5 6 
J I C 6 5 5 10 3 4 Stevens 6 5 7 4 .. 7 
Talmage 3 0 1 1 0.. Vacker 10 11 8 10 
Goss 9 9 Burton 7 12 1 7 
■Red Wing 10 7 12 12 9 12 Nutt 9 7 4 11 
Bob 6 7 9 iO 8 13 Cleve 8 2 12 
No. 7, handicap prize shoot: 
Hopkins 1101110100110111110111111101111110011111—31 
Elliott 1111101111110111010010010110100111001100—25 
Harris 1110111111111011100111101101111101011011—31 
Franklin .-..>. v. 1011111110011111111001110101111110001101—29 
Lannert 1111111111101011111001111111111111011011—34 
J I C 0011000001111111110110011111011111100111—27 
Winters 1001010111001010101010001101011111101111—24 
Gladden 0011101111001011011110110101110111000111—26 
Red Wing lllOllOOlOw 
Bob , 00110110111W3101110111100001011111110011— 25 
W TambljTi 0110111111111010100111111111001010000001—25 
Robert 1100110100100011110101100000100010111001—20 
Egley 1100110101011100111110110111011110001001—25 
Ward OlOOlOOlOUOOlOlOOlOllOOlOUOOw 
Ashford OOlOlOOOlOOlllOOlOOOlOOOUlOOOw 
Stevens 1111010001101001000100110110110100000001—18 
Vacker 1111011001010011011000001010110100111000—20 
Burton 0001001011100000010000100100001111011111—17 
Nutt 0110110011110001111011001111101100011111—26 
Cleve „...■ 1101001101111001110110101111101111111110—29 
Wirls 0111101100111011110001101011000110100001—22 
F C Harbaugh 0101010110111111011101 110000111111001100-25 
Dott 0101011001001110110010111101111110000011—23 
Brown 1101101100010011010101010111000010000011—19 
Wall 1101111100101111101000010011101001101001—23 
Hogcn 1110011001011110001111111111101011110101—28 
M E B 1010011110111110000111110000111100000010—21 
W H S 1110011001001110011000101001100011010011—20 
Payne 1011010100100010000000000111110001011111—18 
Percell 0001001000011101010000110011010011110001—17 
N orth 0011101011110100100111111101111011000000—23 
White 1111100101011011101111110100110001100010—24 
Lannert, Hopkins, F. C. Harbaugh and Nutt each won prizes. 
The following are scores for the remaining prize; same was won 
bv Payne: 
J ' I C 11110010101111000100001 1 0011100000001011—19 
Gladden 1100000110111111110111011001101111101110—27 
Harris 101101100111111100100101111111111 1001101—28 
Vacker 1110000111101100111001110000 w 
Elliott , llllllllOmOOllOllOw 
Winters 1001110111100000101000111101110110100011—22 
M E B 0100101111010001001100101011101000001011—19 
Wirls 0011000011001000110011100011110100001111—19 
Percell 1110011010100001110011011001100111001011—22 
Payne llOOlllOOOOlOllOlOlimillOlllOUOlOOlOl- 25 
Hogen 001011111 1111111111110111111111110101101— 33 
Burton lOlOOlOOOOOOOOOOOllOw 
W H S 0010011011010000111100001001101000000010—25 
Franklin 1101011001111001000110111111111000110011—25 
W Tamblyn 0111010011110111100010001100011001111000—21 
The English Challenge Match. 
As THE active shooting season of the year draws on apace, interest 
is revived and talk is live!}' on the circuit as to the prospects for the 
success or failure of the project, first announced in the Forest 
AND Stream last August, for the sending of an American team of 
ten men to shoot a challenge match with a like English team, on 
the grounds of the latter. The terms of this proposed match have 
been fully explained heretofore and would not be changed in an im- 
portant particular. The only point of doubt has been as to the 
ability of the promoters to agree on details that would bring the 
matter to a focus. 
The writer has seen the proceedings of an informal meeting held 
recently in New York, at which this subject was thoroughly dis- 
ctissed. It was learned on inquiry that the companies employing 
the men who would probably compose the American team are as a 
V/hole favorable to the enterprise, and several firms have signified 
their willingness and desire to back their representatives in every- 
thing necessary for the trip. This is but natural, and was to have 
been expected, but the matter has never until now progressed to 
the point of such formal recognition. Mr. Paul North, of the 
Cleveland Target Company, who was the original promoter of the 
idea, is still working to bring about the match, and it is now 
thought that within a few weeks at the most the question whether 
to go or not will have been determined. An injustice seems to 
have been done our English cousins in the presumption that they 
were not anxious for the match. From latest reports it appears 
that they are not one whit less confident of being able to win than 
v/as indicated in their first informal proposal for a match; and it is 
a matter of history that with the Americans the only question has 
been from the start as to who would be the lucky ones chosen to 
represent their country on the team. Among themselves, of 
course, the boys realize that it must not be a matter of personal 
predilection, but that the ten best men, most truly representing 
the game in this broad land, must be selected. Yet even this is a 
puzzling and extremely difficult task, when the land boasts hun- 
dreds of shots any one of whom would perhaps be competent to 
hold up his end in the big race. 
But all these points can be disposed of, and will be adjusted 
when the time comes. The match, if pulled off, will do more to 
advprfise smj hfms into public favor the miinly sport of trap- 
shooting than anything that has taken place on either side of the 
water within the past decade. I have personally been informed by 
half a score of individual shooters that if the thing is a go they 
propo.se to be of the party, each on his own hook and at his own 
expense, as a pure matter of national pride. 
F, C. RiEHL. 
National Gun Club. 
Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 2.3.— Herewith are the scores of the 
menthly live-bird shoot of the National Gun Club, held on the 
22d inst., at National Park. It was a very cold, disagreeable day, 
the birds lively, and the shooting far below the average, espe- 
cially in the first event, as there was not a straight score made. 
In the second event five contestants were more successful, J. L. 
Scott, Uno, Rehfeld and Crane making straight scores. In the 
miss-and-otit Clark, of Milwaukee, was the successful candidate. 
_ Mr. Clark is a new member of the National Gun Club, and is 
just beginning to shoot live birds, and is handicapped in his 
shooting by reason of his being blind in his right eye; but his 
scores show that it is a good thing for the other members of the 
club that he is not blind in both eyes, or he would kill everything 
shot at. He is one of the coming shooters of the National Gun 
Club. 
Geo. Crane, uf Racine, another new member, is one whose 
shooting so far has been such that the crack shots of the 
country will find him no mark should they run up against him. 
I might mention many more in this gun club who are coming 
to the front very rapidly as live-bird shooters. The scores: 
Regular monthly prize shoot: 
ColUns 1102211201—8 Bogart 0212220220—7 
Thomas 2100211122— S Reed 1122211010— S 
Klapinski 1121101222—9 Clark 1220222220—8 
Sherer- 1021110011—7 Case 1222121101—9 
Deiter 0212222222—9 Bush 2201222202—8 
Scott 2010205111—6 Johnson 1202202010—6 
Stuth 0020222012—6 Crane ..; 1121012222—9 
Weaver 0000002200—2 Uno 1022212112—9 
Rehfeld 0010112222—7 Jay Ell 0022322122—8 
Sweepstakes : 
Crane 2122221122—10 Scott 1222112111—10 
Weaver 1112100220- 7 Klapinski 1201112122— 9 
Thomas 1220220210— 7 Collins 1021112122— 9 
Rice 2100000002— 3 Case 1221110201— 8 
Clark 2221222021— 9 Uno 2211211112—10 
Jay Ell 1122222222—10 Rehfeld 2211222211—1.0 
Miss-and-out: 
Scott 222122210 Thomas 1111122202 
Clark 212121222 Worth ,....021100 
Uno 0 Collins 1110 
Weaver .,0 Rehfeld 2 
Feb. 18.— On Feb. 15 H. S. Blake, of Racine, and L. Collins, of 
Milwaukee, shot a second match of 25 live birds, the first one 
having been shot in Januar\% at which time Mr. Collins defeated 
Mr. Blake, who shot under the name of Scott in both matches. 
At the same time E. E. Rogers, of Milwaukee, shot a match of 
25 birds with Geo. Crane, of Racine. The result will be seen by the 
score following. 
Mr. Crane had some hard luck toward the last of the game and 
did not shoot in his usual form, but taking it all in all the shooting 
was very fair. After the matches there were sweeps, in which J. 
I. Case scored 8 out of 10, Gumz 9, Clark 8, Klapinski 7, Johnson 
7. Blake 8, Crane 8, Thomas 10, J. L. 9, Thomas carrying off first 
money, Gumz second (J. L. shooting for the birds only), Case, 
Clark, Blake and Crane dividing third money. 
In first sweep of miss-and-out Reed and Gu/iiz divided money. 
In the second sweep Clark took the money. Third sweep Reed 
took the money. Fourth sweep Clark won, 'Reed missing his 11th 
bird and Clark killing. 
The regular monthly shoot takes place on the 22d inst., at 
which time a large attendance is expected. 
LiNDLEY Collins. 
Boston Gisn duh* 
Boston, Feb. 20.— The Boston Gun Club's sixth serial prize - 
shoot was held on their grounds to-day at Wellington, and was 
attended by shooters from Brockton, Pascoag and Lynn, as well 
as the home contingent. The shooting was a decided improve- 
ment over previous trials in the present series, and was an evi- 
dence that the windy day practicing we have had lately had done 
no harm. Leroy's shooting, all from the 31yd. mark, was a 
feature, and though starting with a 5 and a 6, soon got down to 
real business and broke 37 out of the last 40, incidentally breaking 
28 out of the 30 in the prize match, the highest score made in 
the present series. Griffiths was not so very far behind, having to 
his credit a 25 in the match, and also securing high average for 
the afternoon. The club's lady representative was a welcome vis- 
itor, and shot in two or three of the events just to see whether the 
16-gauge, with its .small ounce of shot, was as good as it used to 
be. It evidently was all right, as some of the long shots that suc- 
cum.bed to a well aimed charge could tell. \'Ve hope to be favored 
wit'n her presence a good deal more at later dates, when the 
weather will be just a little more comfortable for the sport of 
trapshootmg. ' 
Scores below. Event 11, 5 pairs; all others, 10 unknown: 
Events : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 
Baker, 17 9 6 7 5 7 7 
Lerov, 21 5 6 9 9 10 9 
Griffiths, 19 10 7 S 9 7 9 10 
Worthing, 16 9 9 7 6 8 8 8 9 9 10 6 7 8 
Leonard, 16 10 9 9 8 6 7 10 9 
F H, 16 7 8 5 7 6 6 4 5 8 7 
Sellman, 16 6 6 7 9 7 
Nichols, 14 6 4 
Benton, 14 6 2 3 
Palmer, 16 1 1 3 4 1 0 4 .. 7 4 
H J K, 1.4 3 5 4 
Ford, 16 3366655456 
Horace, 18 8 .. 8 7 6 8 8 9 S .. 
Spencer, 18 S 7 9 6 6 8 7 10 .. 
Henry, 16 2 
Fredericks, 14 3 
Prize match, 30 singles, unknown; distance handicap: 
Leroy, 21 lOlllllllllllllllllllllllOim— 28 
G riffiths, 19 1111101 11101111011101110111111—25 
Horace, 18 lllOUllOllOllllOllllllOlllOOl— 23 
Worth ing, 16 111110101111101111010000111111—22 
Leonard, 16 111010111111110100011011111001—21 
Spencer 18 111010010101101110101111111.1.00—20 
Baker, 17 011101001010101101111101111010—19 
Ford 16 000011001011000000100111100110—12 ^ 
Palmer, 16 000000100000000100000001110000— 5 
Secretary. 
Ossining Gun Club. 
Sing .Sing, N. Y., Feb. 24. — Herewith find scores of the Wash- 
ington's Birthday shoot of the Ossining Gun Club: 
Match, 15 live birds; Blandford and Hall allowing 2 extra birds 
and conceding 4yds. : 
I T VN'ashburn, 26 0122112100000012— 9 
W P Hall, SO 221210002022020 — 9 
Dr E B Sherwood. 26 .... .1022211202102200— U 
C G Blandford, 30., .200022022222222-11 
Tie 5 birds; allowing 1 bird and standing at same mark: 
Washburn 02210—3 Sherwood 010212—4 
Blandford 22222—5 Hall 20000 —1 
The match was won by the 1 bird allowance. The pair of goo- 
goo eyes to Hall's credit in the shoot-off were the result of a badly 
bruised arm. 
No. 1. No. No. 3. 
I TalliMan, 30 00120—2 22121—5 220 —2 
A L Burns, 28 00120—2 22121—5 220 —2 
W' S Smith, 26 02100—2 
F Valentine, 26 .....00110—2 02212—4 
E D Garnsey, 27 00111—3 20000—1 
C Blandford, 30...... .... 22222—5 2222-4 
R Kromer, 26 .... 22021—4 
C Lent, 27 02202—3 
I Washburn. 27 12020—3 0 
W Clark, 26 21020—3 
A Rohr, 26 0 
Nos. 1 and 2 were 5 live birds. No. 3 was miss-and-out, re-entry. 
Clay birds: 
Events: 123456789 10 11 12 
Tartrets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 5p 
I Washburn 6 5. 3 .. 7 7 6 .. 6 
E N GitrnBey,,.,,,,.., 6 6,. .. 3 .. 6,. 
A Burns 3 5 ., 6 6 5 5 .. 3 4 8 .. 
I Tallman ^ 8 9 10 7 7 8 
C Blandford 6 8 4 6 3 
ED Garnsey 4 7 
F Valentine 5 4.. .. 4 
IC Sherwood , 4 
S Mullin 6 
1/ Sherwood 8 
W Coleman .■ 5 4 
K McAlpin 5 '7 .. 6 .. .. 
I) Rrandreth 7.. 8.. .. 6 
E Acker 4 .. 7 .. 
\V Vilas 6 8.. 9 9 .. 
S Macbeth 4 
W Clark 4 
W Fisher 5 5 .. .. 
A .-Xtchison 4 1 .. 
W Huff 4 7.. 8.. 7.. 3 
C Washburn 3.. 11 
R Brandreth 7 .. 6 
A Rohr 2 .. 
C l.ewis 3 8 7 6.. .. 
J Keenan 6 4.. 
!•■ Partelow .. 0 .. 
C. G. B., Capt. O. G. Club. 
Florists* Gun Club. 
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 19.— Fair light and a strong wind were 
the conditions as to weather which the contestants encountered to- 
day at the Florists' Gun Club's shoot. There was a large entry for 
the -Eisenlohr prizes, which are the most valuable ever shot for by 
the members of this organization. Twenty targets, expert rule, 
rapid fire, and 20 targets, unknown angles, and 5 pairs of doubles 
were the shooting conditions. 
At the expert rule, W. H. Wolstencroft made the high score, 
breaking IS, Mrs. Park, W. K. Park, George Anderson and E. 
.\. Massey scoring 17. At the unknown angles, Anderson and 
Wolstencroft tied for first place with 19 breaks, Wolstencroft 
m.issing his first target and then breaking 19 straight, Mrs. Park 
coming into second place with 18. At the doubles, Park, Wol- 
stencroft and Hallowell scored 9 out of 10. With the handicaps 
added to the score, Park, .Anderson, Massey, Sheeler and Dr. 
.Smith scored a possible 50, receiving 3 points each. 
The feature of the tourney was the remarkably fine work by 
Mrs. Park, making one run of 10 straight at expert rule, breaking 
1.8 out of 20 unknown angles, and scoring a run of 15 straight 
and breaking 8 out of 10 doubles. 
The semi-monthlj' high gun contest for the club's champion- 
ship medal at 50 targets resulted in a win for Wolstencroft with 
the score of 46, Anderson second with 44. Among the visitors 
were C. F. Gramlich, of the Allentown Shooting Association. 
Mr. Gramlich was here looking after the interests of the State 
Sportsmen's Association's next annual tourney. The scores follow: 
Expert Un- 
Rule. known. Doubles. Hdcp. Total. Points. 
Dorp 10 9 3 16 38 
Bell 12 13 7 14 46 
Webster 11 9 6 19 45 
Parsons 16 16 6 9 47 1 
Umholtz 5 9 2 ..' 16 
Clark 5 9 1 20 35 
Mrs Park 17 18 8 .. 43 
Park 17 17 9 10 53 3 
Hull 12 16 6 .. 34 
Anderson 17 19 8 9 53 3 
W H W IS 19 9 3 49 
Eisenlohr 10 16 6 11 43 
Kramlich 13 12 9 .. 34 
Pechin -.7 10 5 .. 22 
Westcott 9 11 5 19 44 
Massey 17 14 7 14 42' 3 
Whitaker 10 14 6 14 44 
Reichard ,.. 6 6 3 .. 15 .. 
McKaraher 11 13 5 16 45 
Barrett 13 14 7 13 47 1 
Sheeler 13 14 4 20 51 3 
Smith 15 17 7 14 53 3 
Hanse 10 10 4 20 44 
Hallowell 16 16 9 7 48 2 
Westmount Gun Clue. 
Montreal, Feb. 23.— The regular weekly shoot of the West- 
mount Gun Club came off to-day on the club grounds. It was a 
typical Canadian winter day — two feet of snow, bright and cold, 
— with a strong cutting west wind that helped the flight of the 
targets that flew, when untouched, at least 75yds. from the trap. 
This kept the scores down below normal. The first event was 
the most interesting one, as it was for the handicap trophy, and 
between N. P. Leach and the Kynock expert, Hansen. The men 
sold at even money. N. P. L. would have been the favorite but 
for the fact that he had a new, untried gun. 
.Niext Saturday, March 2, Cleghorn, the Parker crank, will have 
a try for the trophy: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 Events: 12 3 4 
Targets: 20 10 20 10 Targets: 20 10 20 10 
N P L 18 7 16 7 Cleghorn, 20 8 .. 8 
Hansen 17 . . 13 . . Kennedy 6 17 . , 
Elliott 7 15 .. Hutcheson 6 13 8. 
Lewis 7 .. .. Isles 6 9 3 
W Galbraith 6.. 8 Hamilton 8 13 7 
James 5 5 . . Routh 6 13 4 
Nash, 18 8 16 8 Hall 8 11 .. 
Galbraith, 20 6 .. 8 S. 
Millbrook Gun Club. 
MiLLBROOK, N. Y., Feb. 20, — gun club was organized liere 
Feb. 6 with forty-two charter members. As soon as the club gets 
control of the o'resent grounds they will erect a club house 12 by 
20. and will shoot under the Sergeant system, bluerock expert traps. 
The grounds have a sky background. 
Tlie first monthly shoot took place on Feb. 16. The following 
scores were made: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 Events: 12 3 4 
Targets: 25 25 25 25 Targets: 25 25 25 25 
I Tallman 25 25 24 25 Lake 18 20 18 20 
Sheldon 16 20 20 .. Allen 12 .. 15 .. 
Kellev 19 21 23 28 Blinn 10 
Foster 23 23 23 .. Gross .. 21 
Baldwin 17 23 13 21 Tompkins 18 
Hicks 16 17 . . . . Coon 3 
Russell 14 14 18.. D Tallman 23 
Sipperly 15 . . 13 . . A Tallman 14 
Ollivet .- -.17 
F. J. Tompkins, Sec'y. 
Richmond Gun Club. 
Silver Lake Park, S. I., Feb. 22.— The scores made to-day at 
the shoot of the Richmond Gun Club are as follows: 
Events: 123456789 
Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 25 10 10 15 
G Bechtel 6 7 5 5 6 14 5 6 9 
T Schoen 5 6 5 4 7 12 4 ^10 
A A Schoverling 76667 13 568 
F W Schovei-Hng 89675 16 558 
J Fack 4 5 10 
E Meurer 5 
F Crystal 4 .. .. .. .. 
A. A. Schoverling, Capt. 
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