FOREST AND STREAM. 
(March i6, 1901 > 
WTuly 17-18.— St Marys, W. Va.—Fiftli anmial tournameiit of the 
^est Virginia State Sportsmen's Association, under auspices of 
VVest Virg-inia Gun Club. Mallory Brothers, Mgrs. 
July 23.— Dexter Park, Brooklyn, L. 1.— Annual clambake and 
handicap merchandise shoot at targets. Eugene Doenick, Sec'y- 
Newark, N. J.— South Side Gun Club target shoot every Satur- 
day afternoon. 
Chicago, in.— Garfield Gun Club's live-bird trophy shoots, first 
and third Saturdays of each month. Grounds. West Monroe street 
at Fifty-second avenue. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec'y. 
CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK. 
interstate Park, Queens, L, I.— Two miles beyond Jamaica, on 
L. I,_ R. R. Trains direct t© grounds. Completely appointed 
shooting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or private 
practice. Cafd and hotel accommodations. 
April 1-5.— Interstate Park, Uueens. L. I.— The Interstate As- 
sociation's ninth annual Grand^ American Handicap Tournament 
at Live Birds. 
June —.—Interstate Park, Queens, L. I.— Forty-third annual 
tournament of the New York State Association for the Protection 
of Fish and Game. 
Monthl;r contest for the Dewar trophy till June, 1902; handicap; 
25 hve birds; $5 entrance. First contest took place June 20, 1900. 
Interstate Park, Queens, L. I.— Weekly shoot of the New 
Utrecht Guti Club— Saturdays. 
INTERSTATE ASSOCIATION CONTESTS. 
Elmer E. Shaner, Manager. 
_April^ 1-5.— Interstate Park, Queens, L. I.— The Interstate Asso- 
ciation s ninth annual Grand American Handicap tournament at 
live birds. Edward Banks Sec'y-Treas., 318 Broadway, New York. 
April 17-18.— Jacksonville, Fla-— The Interstate Association's 
touroainent, under the auspices of the Jacksonville Gun Club. B. 
W. Sperry, Sec'y. 
May 8-10. — Memphis, Tenn.— The Interstate Association's tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Memphis Gun Club. 
June 19-21.— Cleveland, O.— The Interstate Association's tourna- 
ment under the auspices of the Cleveland Gun Club. 
July l-2.--Sherbrooke, P. (J., Can.— The Interstate Association's 
tournament under the auspices of the Sherbrooke Gun Club. C. 
H. Foss, Sec'y. 
July 10-11.— Jamestown, N. Y.— The Interstate Association's 
tournament, under the auspices of the Jamestown Gun Club. Dr. 
C. Rawson, Sec'y. 
July 23-26.— Interstate Park, Queens L. I.— The Interstate Asso- 
ciation s second Grand American Handicap target tournament; 
H.OOO added money. Edward Banks, Sec'y-Treas., 318 Broadway, 
New York. 
Aug. 7.-9.— Providence, R. I.— The Interstate Association's tour- 
nament under the auspices of the Providence Gun Club. R. C. 
Root. Sec'v. 
Aug. 21-22.— Auburn, Me.— The Interstate Association's tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Auburn Gun Club. L. A. Barker. 
Sec'y. 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for publication in 
these colwmns^ also any neivs notes they may care to have printed. Ties 
on all events are considered as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail 
all such matter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company ^ 346 Broad- 
way, New York. 
h.. W. Tinker, of Providence, R. I., famous in the trapshooting 
annals of a past school, died last week. He defeated both Ira 
Paine and A. H. Bogardus when th?y held the center of the stage 
in their zenith as shooting wonders, ilis favorite style of shooting 
was according to the Rhode Island rules, gun below the elboNv. 
His last conspicuous participation in a public contest at the traps 
was at the Interstate shoot given under the auspices of the Provi- 
dence Gun Club, July 19,-20, 3899, and although he was then well 
along in years he broke 21 targets out of 30. ' Of him, in Fokest 
AND Stream's report, A'lr. Edward Banks wrote as follows: "The 
Old Guard was represented by Ned Tinker, one of the best-known 
trap shots of Rhode Island in the days when gun below the 
elbow and 21yds. rise were the thing, with live pigeons for targets. 
Ira Paine and Mr. Tinker were giants in those days, and the 
latter's scores in the first two events on the first day show that 
Mr. Tinker's blue eyes have not forgotten how to look- along- a 
gun barrel, although the sight may not he as clear as it was when 
feathers flew. Mr. Tinker is well thought of by the Providence 
Gun Club; he is its solitary honorary member." 
It seems that the Indians, the new fraternity of the trapshooters, 
htive a solemn ritual, and that all candidates are subjected to it to 
the end that their worthiness and stanchness are properly tested 
beiore they can properly be classed as braves. At Chicago, the 
famous naval man behind the gun, Admiral A. G. Courtney, was 
a candidate in searcli of membership, and was being just put 
through the form where his socks were turned down over his 
shoes and he was being led, blindfolded, round the tables and 
through the doors and then seated. A glass of water was handed 
to him. He was commanded to drink it and name it. At the 
first taste he shivered and said in disgust, "I never was good 
at naming these French drinks," whereupon he was elected to 
full membership by popular acclamation. 
The tournament programme of the Newell Gun Club, of Newell, 
Ta., can be obtained of Mr. H. G. Hall, the club's secretary. It 
tersely sets forth that the tournament date is March 21; strictly 
amateur; targets 2 cents; live birds 12^2 cents; purses divided 40, 
30, 20 and 10 per cent. ; magautrap rules. Annual shoot May 1, 
2 and 3. Eleven events are provided, of which seven are at targets, 
four at live .birds. Two of the latter are at 10 birds, $5; one at 
7, $3; one at 15, $7.50 entrance. The target events are one at 10, 
four at 15, and two at 20, $1, $1.50 and $2 entrance. 
The recent team shoot between New York and New Jersey has 
demonstrated that a competition which has new features, when 
properly backed, will have a strong and earnest support. The 
same men facing the same proposition week after week and 
™9hth after month do dot need to compete to learn the results. 
W ith a new proposition and therewith the element of uncertaintiy 
new interest and effort are evoked. There is more trapshooting 
skill in America to-day than ever before, but, in a majority of 
instances, they have nothing new offered in the way of competition. 
At least, instead of offering the same events over and over again, 
changes could be made, team shoots one week, sweepstakes the 
next, trophy events the next, etc., much to the acti^^ty of the 
sport. 
On Saturday of last week, at Interstate Park, in the continuous 
match, the crackerjack squad being at the score, there was ex- 
traordinarily quick action. Heikes, Gilbert and Banks missed on 
the first target; Fanning went out on his second, and Leroy 
tarried but a moment longer, retiring on his third. Eight targets 
were sufficient to put out the entire squad at that time, but the 
scores will show that such a happening is rare enough to class 
as an event. 
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Mr. E. L. Greenin, of Westwood, N. J., informs us that the 
Westwood Gun Club, of which he is secretary, has erected a new 
club house on its grounds. It was decided at a meeting on 
March 2 to hold its regular club shoot the third Saturday of each 
month. Mr. V. Van Buskirk, was elected captain of the club. 
The organization is in a very promising condition at present, new 
members being constantly added to the roll. 
Mr. John Watson, Grand Crossing, Chicago, HI., writes us as 
follows: "To give the shooters from the West on their way to the 
(irand American Handicap a chance for some jtraotice, I will give 
a two days' shoot — March 28 and 29— commencing at 10 .\. M. each 
day. I'rogramme: Ten birds, entrance $.'i, divided .W and -1.1 per 
cent; 15 birds, entrance $8, divided 40, ;'.r. and 2.t per cent. Same 
both days; Handicaps 28 to 31yds." 
In our advertlsrtng_ columns, Mr. E. D. Fulford, of Utica, N. Y., 
calls attention to his celebrated live-bird traps, which have been 
adopted bv many of the leading trapshooting Associations of 
.-Kmerica. "Besides his celebrated automatic traps, he manufactures 
portable traps, a set of which can be installed in five minutes. 
Concerning them, for further particulars address Mr, Fulford, 
The Carlstadt Gun Club, of Carlstadt, N. J., w'as organized on 
March 7. Officers were elected as follows: President, Theo A. 
(iemp; Vice-President, Chris Niederer; Secretary Henry Krug; 
Treasurer, George Frank; Captain, Wm. Rasmus. There is a large 
membership. The club shoot will be held every Saturday. The 
club holds a meeting on the first Monday of every month. 
No. 1 squad in the championship 100-target race on Saturday, at 
Interstate Park, did a remarkable thing. It broke 124 out of 
125 targets when up to shoot at the last 25 of the 100. The squad 
consisted of Messrs. Crosby, Gilbert, Heikes, Fanning and Par- 
melee, the latter missing his 19th target. It was very careless. 
The following has been communicated to us: "Alexander Stein, 
of the well-known firm of Conrad Stein Sons, has purchased a 
battle axe of the firm of Schoverling, Daly & Gales at their ex- 
hibit at Madison Square Garden, intending to send same to Mrs. 
Carrie Nation, inviting her to come here and try same." 
In the chamiiionship contest at 100 targets, on Monday of this 
week, at Interstate Park, Messrs. Parmelee, Crosby, Gilbert, 
Heikes and Fanning each broke his first 25 straight, making 125 
for the squad without a miss. Gilbert continued as he began and 
broke 100 straight, making thereby a perfect score. 
Owing to the objections of residents whose domiciles -were ad- 
jacent to Madison Square Garden, the Roof Garden tournament 
was adjourned to Interstate Park on Friday of last week. No 
shooting, further than a start, was done on Thursday, the shoot- 
ing being stopped at 11 :15 A. M. .v 
The Union Gun Club, of San Francisco, Cal., whose programme 
for the year 1901 we publish elsewhere in our trap columns, re- 
cently elected oiticers a? follows: President, Fritz VValpert; Vice- 
President, M. J. Iverson; Secretary-Treasurer, Wm. Janssen; 
Captain, C. M. Wollam. 
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Mr. J. L. Head, of Peru, Ind., writes us that the Peru Gun 
Club's fifth annual amateur tournament will be held at Peru, Ind„ 
May 7, 8 and 9. Two days at targets for amateurs, and one day at 
live birds, open to all. Mr. J. L. Head is the president, Mr. 
Chas. Bruck, secretary. 
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On Thursday of last week the return match between Messrs. 
J. Stubbs, of Frenchtown, and J. Hagey, of Hellertown, took 
place at Greisemersville, near Allentown, Pa. The first match re- 
sulted in a tie. This match was at 47 birds. The scores were 
.Stubbs 41, Hagey 38. 
The California Wing Club recently elected officers as follows: 
President, Dr. S. E. Knowles; Vice-President, Edw. Donohue; 
Secretary, C, C. Nauman; Board of Directors, the officers, with 
C, H. Shaw, O. Feudner and F. Vernon. 
ON LQNG ISLAND. 
New Utrecht Gan Club. 
Interstate Park, L. 1-., March 9.— There was a good attendance 
ot stiooters, and excellent shooting was the rule, as the scores 
will show^ 
Event i\o. 1, birds, club prize *Indicates no bird allowance. 
Tfndicates miss as kill: 
T Shoot-ofl. 
J P Brown*, 29 1222221—7 * 
Dr Wynn* 29 2111112—7 121222211 1 
Jack, 29 2122222—7 1* 
H *-ryn* 28 2122211—7 2222211222 
G \\ Hagedorn* 28 1211221—7 111110 
C A Ramapo*t, 27 1122022-6 
E H Lott, 28 , .....2221111—7 1221121111 
Event No. 2, 7 Jjirds^ for club iJrize. -^Indicates no bird allow- 
ai-ce: 
T Shoot-ofT. 
4t t- 2121222—7 22120 
1222111—7 12* 
G W Hagedorn 2111111—7 1212111222 
C A Ramapo 2222222—7 222222212* 
E H Lott 2111221—7 22211* 
S ^'V^l"* 28 2222222-7 221120 
W F Sykes*, 29 2222222—7 2222* 
W H Hamilton*, 30 1121111—7 
■ Mr. G. W- Hagedorn won G. W. H. medal. 
Ten birds, for club prize. *Indicates no bird allowance, tln- 
rlicates miss as kill : 
L Brown*, 30 1221w S B Jayt, 29 21222m0w 
Dr Wynnr, 28 2122121121-10 W F Sykes*t, 29..222220w 
T H Jack*, ZQ 2211212222-10 W Hamilton*, 30. .2112112211-10 
H Rrynt, 28 1122000120— 6 
Five pairs: Dr. Wynn, 2.5yds., 6; J. H. Jack, 27yds., 7; H. Kryn, 
25yds., 6; G. W. Hagedorn, 26yds., 8; S. B. Jay 26yds., 4- C A 
Ramapo, 25yds., 4; E. H Lott, 26yds.. 7. 
Crescent -Athletic Club. 
Marcli 9.— The March cup had nine contestants to-day, and of 
these G. G. Stephenson, Jr., scored the limit of 50, with the as 
sistance of 3 of the 4 targets allowance, therefore actually scoring 
47, a 94 per cent, gait, and a most excellent performance. The 
scores: 
March cup, 25 targets expert traps, 25 targets iriagautrap; handi- 
cap allowances: 
H B Martin. 
C A Sykes... 
Deft panel, 15 targets, expert traps; handicap allowances; D. C. 
Hopkins, 4, 15; W. W. Marshall, 4, 15: G. Stephenson, Jr., 1, 14; 
H. B. Martin, 1, 13; F. B. Stephenson,' 0, 13; H. C. Werleman. 5, 
13: Dr. J. J. Keyes, 2, 11. 
Shoot-oft", .'•.-ime conditions: Hopkins 13, Mar.shall 11, 
— Expert— 
— Magautrap — 
Grand 
Hdcp. 
Total. 
Hdcp. 
u 
Total. 
Total. 
2 
25 
25 
50 
2 
25 
1 
24 
49 
3 
24 
3 
25 
48 
8 
24 
3 
35 
49 
<i 
•2i 
S 
24 
48 
4 
25 
2 
23 
48 
1 
23 
1 
20 
43 
6 
18 
5 
25 
43 
7 
18 
6 
20 
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Union Gun Club. 
On the first Sunday of each month-^March 3 to Sept, 1, inclusive 
—on the San Francisco Trapshooting As.sociation grounds. Ingle- 
side, the following events will be shot. Take Mission street 
electric cars: 
Warm Up— Ten-Bird Match —High guns to win. Entrance to be 
named by captain. 
Club Shoot, 25 Birds.— Not more than one score to be made up 
during the season of seven shoots. Club offers $S money, divided 
into 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent; 20 breaks and over will constitute 
first class; 16 to 19, inclusive, second class; 12 to 15, inclusive, third 
class; below 12, fourth class. Ties to shoot off at 10 birds or 
shooter's option. 
Club Hanidacp Match.— Twenty-five to thirty Iiirds, entrance 50 
cents. Handicap to be governed according to scores made m 
club match. Winners of medals to wear same each month. Medals 
to become the property of members winning same the greatest 
number of times during the season. Gold medal, over 68 per 
cent. ; silver medal, below 68 per cent. Ties to shoot off at 10 
birds or shooter's option. Handicap to be done as follows: Give 
11 and under 5 birds; give 12 to 15, inclusive, 3 birds; give 16 to 
19, inclusiye, 1 bird. 
Ability Handicap Medal.— Entratice 50 eent.s, 20 to 30 birds. 
Shooters handicapped according to ability. Possible 20 birds. 
Medal to become property of shooter winning same the greatest 
number of times during season of seven shoots. Ties to shoot 
off at 10 birds or shooter's option. 
Special Medal at 10 Birds.— End of season, for shooters who fail 
to win prize in club or handicap shoot. Shooters to enter this 
match must take part in five club events. 
Outsiders' and Members' Match. — Entrance ,50 cents. Handicaps 
20 to 25 birds, 20 breaks or over being possible. Club will add 
money at each shoot. Purse to be divided into 50, 30 and 20 per 
cent. Other matches to be arranged by the captain. All shooters 
are invited to participate in any club or other event for birds 
at the rate of 2 cents a bird. Practice shooting from 9:30 to 
10:30 A. M. Regular Club events at 10:.30 A. M. 
On March 31, June 30 and Sept. 29 this club will have three live- 
bird handicap shoots at 12 birds, on the San Francisco Trapshoot- 
ing Association grounds, Ingleside. 
Unioh Gun Club. 
Mr. Franklin Stearns, of Richmond, Va., is steadily coming to 
the front as a skillful and successful trap shot. On Thursday of 
last week he shot two 50-bird races with Mr. W. A. Hammond, at 
Richmond, the first for the championship of Virginia, the second 
for the championship of Richmond city. In the first contest he 
won by a score of 45 to 43, losing 3 dead out. In the second there 
was a tie on 41, and in the shoot-off both had scored 10 when the 
supply of pigeons gave out, and further competition was postponed 
to Wednesday of this week. 
In his "Century of Chinese Literature" H. A. Giles tells this: 
"A general was hard pressed in battle and on the point of giving 
way, when suddenly a spirit soldier came to his rescue and en- 
ab'ed him to win a great victory. Prostrating himself on the 
ground, he asked the spirit's name. "I am the God of the Target," 
rep.iuu itie spirit, "And how have I merited your godship's kind 
assistance?" inquired the general. "I am grateful to you," an- 
swered tlie spirit, "because in your days of practice you never once 
hit me." 
The New Utrecht Gun Club, of Newark, and the Riverton 
Gun Club, of Philadelphia, have arranged a club team match, 
fifteen men on a side, each man to shoot at 25 live birds from 
the 29yd. mark. The match will take place at Riverton, March 
22, to he followed by a return match at Interstate Park some time 
in April. The difference between 29yds and 30yds. is so slight that 
the latter, being a standard of the best performance, would seem 
to be the more desirable from an outsider's point of view. 
The Baltimore Shooting Association will be represented at the 
Grand American Handicap by twelve or more of its members. 
There is evidence on every hand that this great national event has 
lost none of its keen interest to the shooting fraternity. In- 
cidentally, those who are at the G. A. _H., who contemplate at- 
tending the Baltimore shoot and desire information concerning it 
will have a good opportunity to interview its representatives and 
meet a fine lot of gentlemen sportsmen. 
The programme of the Baltimore Shooting Association's annual 
spring tournament will be issued about March 20. The dates, April 
9 to 12, inclusive, follow conveniently after the Grand American 
Handicap for the shooters who contest therein to attend the 
Baltimore shoot, of which the first two days are at targets. $100 
sdded "^ch dav. Also $500 are guaranteed in the Maryland Hawli- 
Kap, The address o£ the secretary, Mr. J. M. Hawkins, is P. O. 
ISox 454, Eaitimoje,- Md, 
Mr. Ed Bergen, of Grand Rapids, Minn., won the H. C. Hirschy 
trophy in the last shoot on March 2 at Intercity Park, Minneapolis, 
Minn., with a score of 24 out of 25. The next contest for this 
trophy will take place at Grand Rapids, Minn. 
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We are informed thai on March 15 at Bunn's Hotel, .Singac, 
N J., a match will be shot at 100 live birds each for a purse of 
$200i between A. Doty, of Patcrson, N. J., and E. A. Dickson, of 
Ntwburgh, N. Y., commencing at 1 P. M. 
]\Ir. B. G. Cushman, the secretary, informs us that the Silver 
Lake Gun Club, of Bellefontaine, O., will hold its fourth annual 
tournament June 13 and 14, rain or shine, and that the preparations 
are in charge of a hustling management. 
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The fifteen-men team match between the National Gun Club, of 
Milwaukee, and the Garden City Gun Club, of Chicago, at .Mil- 
waukee, March 2, was won by the former by a score of 190 to ITlj' 
each contestant shooting at 15 birds. ^ . 
The Crescent Gun Club, of Chicago, HI., announces its annual 
spring tournament at targets to take place at its grounds, Cali- 
fornia avenue and Forty-seventh street, April 36-28^ Mr. John 
S. Boa is manager. 
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On Tuesday of last week Dr. Geo. D. B. Darby defeated Mr. 
C. E, Geikler in a lOO-bird race, 28yds., on the grounds of the 
Keystone Shooting League, at Holmesburg Junction, Pa., by a 
score of 90 to 85. - ' 
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Mr. John S. Wright has postponed his shoot from March 4^ to 
March 20, owing to the Roof Garden tournament liaving been 
transfereed to fnterstate Park. .Shooting will commence at 10 
o'clock. 
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Mr. Louis Erhardt, at the shoot of the Metropolitan Gun {J-lub, 
St. .Joseph, Mo., held recently, won high average with 170 out of 
180 targets, ari average slightly over .944 per cent. 
The Oceanic Rod and Gun Club will hold its regular club con- 
test at targets on March 18. Targets $1..50 per 100. Mr. J. H. W. 
Fleming (Johnnie Jones) is secretary, 
Bernard Waters. 
; Excellent Nerve. 
An eScchange preserits the following: 
"A Chicago daily contained a paragraph recently that awoke 
mingled feelings of pity, disgust and sorrow. It was about a 'live- 
bird shoot,' the reward being a certain cup. Two men shot 20O 
live birds. The loser was a 'trifle nervous'; his opponent 'dis- 
played excellent nerve.' Reverently, we wonder what God thinks 
when he sees men made for His glory using their wondrous 
powers thus — slaughtering His birds, wasting time, money and 
life in ignoble contests and sowing the seeds of death in their 
souls. 'A trifle nervous'! Strange that the delicate nerves, God- 
strung, do not quiver and shrink and snap when called on to do 
such acts of cruelty and debasement. But so fearfully and 
wonderfully are we made that the murderer's hand obeys his will 
and nerves consent to their own eternal undoing. May God 
strengthen the nerves and hearts and hands of women everywhere 
to such heroic resolve that they shall leave no task undone that 
may tend to the restoration of man to his glory as the 'imaee 
of god'!" 
[When Robert Burns, the poet, tuned his voice lugubriously, riot 
to say whiningly, and sang tnat "Man's inhumanity to man makes 
countless thousands mourn," he, according to the more refined, 
modern, thinkers, should have substituted the name of pigeon for 
that of man. "Oh, it was pitiful!" And yet those pigeons no 
doubt were made Into some very excellent potpie, and people of 
sad features and somber thoughts have been known to eat pigeon 
potpie with a reasonable degree of relish, without any over-cwrious 
questions as to whether the contents therein were killed with a 
shotgun or the firm grip and twist of the cook. It might be hinted 
that in resperct to veal, mutton, beef, chickens, etc., the same 
apathy is manifested as between the stomach and meat as food, or 
even as between the meat and the killer. Also it may ' be 
suggested as food for thought that the thousands of men who 
acquire skill at the traps serve their country in good stead in 
time of war,] - 
The West "Virginia State Sportsmen^s Association, 
..SlSTERSViLLE, W. Va., March 9. — At a meeting of the West Vir- 
ginia State Sportsmen's Association, held at St. Marys to-day, it 
was decided to change the dates for our fifth annual State tourna- 
ment from June 11 and 12'"and July 17 and 18. The tournament will 
be held at St, Marys, "W. Va., under the auspices of the West 
Virginia Gun Club, on above dates, and programme telling all 
about it will be ready for the mail in due time. Besides a number 
of valuable merchandise prizes, there will be $250 in cash added 
to the purses. j 
If you will kindly give its ihs usual notice under coming events 
we shall be greatly obliged, Ed O. Bower, Sec'y, 
