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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 4, 1901. 
WESTERN TRAPS. 
A Shoot to a Fifiish at Last. 
Chicago, III., April 20— There was formed in the city of Chicago 
this week a trapshooting club, made up of shooters who are out 
to shoot, who are not afraid of each other, and who really intend 
to shoot to a finish. When you come to thmk of it, this is about 
as big a piece of trapshooting news as has happened anywhere m 
the country for lo! these many years. Just stop and count upon 
your fingers— and it will take less than one finger to do it— how 
many actual finishes in club or tournament shoots you have seen 
in the last five years. Not one finish, except in individual matches 
where only two shoot, and maybe you were not sometimes sure 
• about it then. Certainly you never saw a finish at the Grand 
Atnerican Handicap, which, big as it is. and important as it is, 
is scaled down so a good many can get into the money. J ohn 
Watson gave a championship trophy one time. Ihere was no 
finish, for three men divided before the tie was shot out. Ihe 
trophy meant nothing. Follow out the history of all the cham- 
pionship trophies that you know anything aoout, and see now 
many really mean a high gun finish, one man out of the whole 
field. It is likely that you cannot count very many such, if you 
knew all the history of them. As to the average semi-social trap 
club, the high gun idea is more or less impractical for obvious 
reasons. Yet it would seem that somewhere in America one ought 
to be able to find a shoot-off match which is a shoot-ott, a nnish 
which is a finish, and a high gun which is a high gun. John 
Watson and I will go a great many miles to see such a fanislv 
If the idea developed, so that eventually we might have a (jrancl 
Prix here in America, just as we have a Grand American Handicap, 
methinks a good many would go a good way to see it, and it would 
be something curious enough to be put under a glass case, and be 
worthy of gate money. 
The Nonpareil Gon Clob. 
The name of this new Chicago shooting club is the Nonpareil 
Gun Club. It starts off with twenty-one members and a lirnit set • 
at twenty-five. The first intention was to limit the membership to 
twenty. The matter was suggested by Charlie Antome, and has 
been under discussion for some time. The meeting of organiza- 
tion was held yesterday at the store of Von Lengerke & Antoine, 
J, H. Amberg in the chair, J. L. Alabaster secretary. Mr. 
Antoine read a letter which he had sent out to different gentlemen, 
most of the recommendations of which were embodied, in the rules 
adopted by the club. A committee of three was appointed by the 
chair to draft by-laws along such lines, and to report at the next 
meeting, Messrs. J. L. Alabaster, S. Shaw and R. Kuss being ap- 
pointed as such committee. It was decided to hold the first shoot 
on the first Saturday in May, and thereafter to take up the date of 
the last Saturday in each month, the shoots to be at Watson s 
Park, which could not be secured for the ensuing week, ihe tol- 
lowing officers were elected by acclamation: President, J. 
Alabaster; Secretary-Treasurer, E. L. Harpham; Directors, Ala- 
baster and Harpham ex-officio, and L. WiUard, S. Palmer, O. 
^There'^mlyXe some extra sweeps beside the capital event of 
each monthly meeting, but these sweeps will be shot high guns 
strictly. The main slate for each month ts scheduled as follows. 
Each member shall pay $10 a year, making a total pool of ?/0U. 
which $200 shall be shot for in quarterly prizes of $50 per quarter, 
all shoots to be held monthly at 15 live birds per jnan, two scores 
of the quarter only to count, this allowing the absence from one 
shoot during the quarter. The quarterly prizes of $50 to be 
divided, $25 to first, $15 to second, $10 to third.. Shootmg to be 
strictly high guns. Ties to be shot off to a finish, miss-and-out. 
All events of this club to be high guns and shot to a finish.^ 
The little purse of $50 does not mean a whole lot of money to 
anybody, especially since it means two or three afternoons but 
it does signiV a great deal. We have gone through the handicap 
dea JrettI thoroughly out here, and have tried almost everything 
else in order to stimulate the lagging Chicago "^'"^st in trap 
matters. We have no pigeon matches here,.and our club shoots 
have resolved themselves into pleasant social shooting schools 
rather than red hot shooting matches. This new idea of a /^if " 
gun club, therefore, is certainly a very appeahng one,, and the 
format on of the Nonpareil club is one of tfie most promismg and 
interesting bits of news we have had for many and many a 
moon out here. It certainly does look as though we were to hnd 
out who is our best Chicago pigeon shooter. . „„„„ 
There has been a little talk started about gettmg some manu- 
facturer to contribute a cup or trophy for this club. N.o .doubt 
there would be a good many manufacturers eager and willing to 
do thil but it is fo be hoped that nothing ,kind will be 
introduced into the Spartan-iike rules of this club^n^ Uiat w^l 
stick to the self-respecting and high grade course which it na. 
mapped out for itsel?. ThI old idea of the merchandise prize was 
a Hnlerine remnant of the old idea that a trapshooter was dif- 
facnt'Trom other mortals, and that everybody ' ° ^^'^^P^"!]^ 
to touch his form and to do him honoi by ^^ay of R'^te. silk 
umbrellas, bread tickets, and quarter pounds of tea Ihe sport 
in America is old enough to be beyond that sort of thing, t-et 
us hope that we shall have one club in which no man asks cups or 
bre'id tickets or odds of anybody else, where everybody shoots for 
U r other fellow's money a^ well as his own, shoots at the same 
score and shoots plumb down to a finish. If .this be the case, ana 
U H shall con tiniie to be the case, then Will it indeed appear that 
theSSicient dreams of John Watson and mysel have come true. 
Inciden aUy we shill se'e a little ginger injected into a sport which 
of late vears has in this vicinity been all too gmgerless. 
° It was determined to limit the membership first year to twen^y^ 
five members. Out-of-town shooters are not tarred The foUovnng 
is the membership at date: R. Kuss, L. WiUard, bUas raimer, 
H O Stone O Von Lengerke, Charles Comley, T. L Alabaster, 
Geo Roll, J B. Barto. D. E.'Shaw, M. E, White, Milwaukee, 
wis'- W B. Leffingwel, E. L. Harpham, E. S. Graham F. W. 
Mvrick C R. Stephens, Moline, 111.; J. E. Pumphrey Columbus. 
H.' S: Blake!^Racine, Wis.'; J. A. Amberg. J. k. Graham, 
Long Lake, IlL 
Milwaukee— Garden JZity. 
The Milwaukee Gun Club will send a. team of fifteen men to 
■meet a Garden City Gun Club team of like number at Watson s 
Park I week From to-day. When the. Chicago team went to Mil- 
waukee it got everlastingly trimmed up, and the Chicago boys 
are a swearing horrible revenge this time. 
April 27.— At this writing the team contest between fifteen of the 
best trap shots in Milwaukee and a like number, chosen from the 
belt talent of the Garden City Gun Club, of this city, is u? progress 
at Watson's Park. At 3 o'clock nothing definite had come m re- 
garding the race, though the local sentiment runs to the effect that 
'^As^was^'Lticip^ed, the Chicago learn succeeded in defeating 
their Milwaukee brethren in the fifteen-men team race, but it was 
by so small a margin that it left no glory for the local nien and 
proved that the final race between the team of the Milwaukee Gun 
Club and that of the Garden City Gun Club, of Chicago, which is 
to be shot at Racine, Wis., some time in May, is apt to be a very 
close thing, with the odds, if anything, in favor of the Cream City 
boys. The defeat the latter sustained here to-day is by no com- 
parison so decisive as that they gave the Garden. City boys when 
they were the visitors at Milwaukee. The showing made by the 
Milwaukee team to-day was unexpectedly strong and they well 
nigh overcame the advantage the Chicago men had from being 
acquainted with the Watson grounds. 
There was only one straight made out of the thirty sh09ters, 
bv M E. White, of Garden City. Low score of 10 was made by 
O'Brien, of Chicago, and Sayle, of Milwaukee. The birds were 
brisk, and shooting conditions very pleasant. 
Great Carson Day. 
The Carson family was strictly in it at the weekly contest of the 
Chicago Gun Club to-day. Dr. C. W. Carson took the medal in 
the 15- target handicap, and his father, "old Doctor Carson, as he 
is sometimes called in contradistinction from his son, won m the 
25-bird event, with added handicap. The weather to-day was simply 
ideal, the first pleasarit Saturday for an age. . 
TenlYcars. 
To-day is the tenth anniversary in business of the firm of Von 
Lengerke & Antoine. It hardly seems so long ago as that that 
these two young men came to Chicago. They have surely pros- 
pered, as do all good persons in this glorious climate. 
Garfield Averages.- 
The regular target season of Garfield Gun Club opens a week 
from to-day, the first Saturday in May. The club has printed a list 
of percentages for the season of 1900-1901 in the trophy events 
only, the record reading as below: 
Shot .Shot 
^ ^ at. Killed. Av. at. Killed. Av. 
5 I^HSs- 60 56 .933 Mrs Dr Shaw... 60 44 . 733 
Dr Liddy 10 9 . 900 A E Midgley.. 40 29 . 721 
Dr O'Byme ... 10 9 .900 H N Delano... 60 43 .716 
Von Lengerke.. 30 27 . 900 C P Richards.. 10 7 . 700 
Dr Shaw 1,30 115 .884 J Workman.... 10 7 .700 
T P Hicks 70 59 .842 W A McHic... 10 7 .700 
Dr Ma thews.... 100 84 . 840 M H Shaw 10 7 .700 
Dr Meek 140 112 . 800 W A Stuchlik. 10 7 .700 
I Wolff 10 8 .800 P McGowan..., 10 7 . 700 
S Palmer 60 ^ 48 . 800 L Wolff 40 27 .075 
L Thomas 60 4S ,800 A Marshall 40 26 ,650 
•L%?/''i'"8' 10 8 .800 A McGowan.,. 40 32 . 640 
M M Nusly.... 40 32 . 800 E W Eaton, ... 60 31 .020 
J McDonald.... 60 48 .SOO Dr Graves 10 6 .600 
j; G §.^™^'"''-''l*'0 79 , 790 E W Cook 10 6 .600 
A ^ion 140 110 .785 C T Keck 80 47 .587 
A D Dorman...70 54 . 771 J Gardner. 40 53 . 575 
W P Northcott.20 15 .7.50 C H Kehl 70 39 Ml 
Dr Huff 30 22 . 733 C J Wolff .30 16 .533 
First prize, Dr. Shaw, 93 per cent.; second prize, Dr. J. W. 
Meek, 92 per cent.; third prize, T. W. Eaton, 90 per cent.; fourth 
prize. Dr. A. A. Mathews, 87 per cent. 
E. Hough. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, 111. 
Garfield Gun Chh, 
Chicago, April 20.— The fourteenth and last live-pigeon shoot of 
the series was held on our grounds to-dav. Dr. Meek, from the 
31yd. mark, and F. G. Barnard, 30yd. mark, tied for first honors, 
both going straight. 
The birds were a mixed lot; not enough real screamers among 
them to keep a shooter guessing and wide awake all the time. 
The series ends with Dr. Shaw winner of first prize. Dr. Meek 
second, T. W. Eaton third, Dr, Mathews fourth. There was a 
difference of but 5 birds between high man and fourth man. 
No. 1. No. 2. 
Dr Shaw, 31 2122222101— 9 2*2120—4 
Sanford, 28 0101122100— 6 020200—2 
Dr Keck, 27 20100100*2— 4 
Dr Kehl, 26 2002111010— 6 *O*O0O— 0 
P McGowan, 28 21110021*1— 7 210112—5 
A McGowan, 28 21100122*0— 6 100102—3 
Dr T Eaton, 30 2*11201112— 8 110*11—4 
Ten-bird sweeji: 
Barto 0222202222— 8 Rust 0211010211—7 
Amberg 2112022222— 9 Gillis 10120*1101— 6 
I^evi 0102202222— 7 Felton 1212022112— 9 
Five • birds : 
Barto 22222—5 Rust ....11111—5 
Amberg 11121—5 
Williamson vs. Graham. 
April 15.— Dr. Williamson and J. R. Graham shot a match at 
100 live birds per man, for .$200 a side, losing man to pay for. 
tlie birds. The day was clear; light wind from left to right, out- 
going: 
Dr Winiam.son .2202211212212211221122211—24 
2022111212122221222102022—22 
2222*22221122222221220222—23 
2202122222222222022220222—22—91 
.1 R Gi-.ih.nm.. 222222222222222222*222222^-24 - 
, 2222222222222222222222220—24 
0222222222222*22222202222—22 - 
222222222222222222222222*— 24— 94 
Ten birds, $5 entrance: two moneys, 60 and 40 per cent.: 
F Gilbert 2222222222—10 Clark 0222000222— G 
Rogers 0212210112— 8 Williamson 2222222220— 9 
Alabaster 00210w E S Graham 2022022222—8 
Thomson 1111120210— 8 J R Graham 2220222122—9 
Roll 2222202202— 8, Scott 1101102022—7 
Bush 2020122220— 7 Clemp.son .....2222222222—10 
Gilbert and Clempson divided first; Williamson aAd J. R. Graham 
divided second. 
April 18. — Lipham vs. Hill, 35 birds per man: , 
Upham 11121111011112111120112111122111121— 33 
Hill 112022112021.11112221111210120121121—31 
Ravelrigg. 
April 27.— The fifteen-men team shoot between the Garden City 
Gun Club, of Chicago, and the National Gun Club, of Milwaukee, 
was shot at Watson's Park, Chicago, to-day, and resulted in a 
victory for the former. Each man shot at 15 birds. The scores: 
Milwaukee. " 
Rogers 011222110220102—11 
Crane ^ 202222222022222—13 
Meixner .201222221121221— 14 
Potter 022221222222120—13 
bird's eye view of th£ finish, g. a. h., 1901. 
Photo, by Hebrert Dressel. 
Dr Meek, 31 .1211122111—10 1122*1—5 
Dr Kuss, 31 2*22222222— 9 222222—6 
W Northcott, 28 2012100022— 6 022202—4 
Dr Mathews, 29 1122012012— 8 212221—6 
Dr Huff 28 221002222*— 8 
Dr Barnard, 30 2112111222—10 
No. 1 was the trophy event. No. 2, 6 birds. 
Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec'y. 
Chicago Gun Club. 
Chicago, April 20.— The Chicago Gun Club held its third regular 
weekly shoot to-day, and talk about wind! The heavy-weights were 
the only ones that could stand to the score. ^ 
Seven events were shot, of which Nos. 2 and 4 were the main 
events of the day. Lem Willard won high gun trophy, and A. 
Walters second trophy in weeklj' bird handicap. 
Trophy event at 25 targets: 
Broke. Hdcp. lotal. 
Willard 1111111110111111111110111—23 1 . 24 
Dr Carson....-;.. 0111001110101110111111011—18 1 19 
Dr Miller 1101011111111101011101111—20 2 22 
R B Mack 1100111111110101011010110—17 5 22 
A Walters 1111001011111010101101101—17 6 23 
*G Roll..... 1111111101111111111111111—24 .. 24 
T L Tones .1111001000000111111000000— 11 7 18 
Airs Carson 1100110110011100111001000—13 7 20 
*C P Richards 1101001111111110111101111-20 .. 20 
Shelly ■....1110001010011000110001011—12 7 19 
*Pollard llOOllUlOOnOOOllOOOllOl- 14 .. 14 
*Visitors. 
Lem Willard high gun trophy: A. Walters wins, with handicap. 
Handicap distance trophy, 15 targets: 
Willard 18.. imillOllllOlO-12 
Dr Carson, 18. . . . .• 111110100001011- 9 
Roll 18 111111111111111— lo 
Dr Miller 'ik '. • 110111111111101-13 
Mack 16 111111101111111-14 
Walters 16' "" • milllOlOlllll— 13 
Tones 16 111110100010011- 9 
Mrs Carson,' "ie". IIOOIOOM^^ 
Shpllv 16 ...... 1 110110110101111—11 
Richards ' ih , 111101111111111-14 
Pollard, 16. .: :::::::::: oiiiiiioiiiim-is 
Blue Jeans. 
Tfap at Watson^s Patk. 
Audubon Gun Club. 
Burnside Crossing, 111., April 20.— The club event had four con- 
testants. Amberg, the only scratch man present, was high with 
11 out of 15. 
aiiHs 1 001201022220*100 - 8 
B sseil 2.V." ,■■ 2100200002200*2 - 6 
Fulton ^ " 10120101*11012*001-10 
Amberg d 21222220*212020 —11 
Cantillion ; 222020222222202-12 
Hunniwell 122012122210211—13 
T I Case 2121011*2222221-13 
'Sayle : 120120002202222—10 
Kaplinski 122*22222222022—13 
Blake ..212220212222222—14 
Rehfield ". 001201121122022—11 
Busch 222022202222222—13 
Thomas 222202022222222—13 
Schushirt 2112111021222*2—13 
Collins 211011211102022—12—188 
Garden City. ' 
Comley 212222222122021—14 
Adams 102222210221211—13 
Dr Miller 011211202m*ll— 12 
Pumphrey 121121221102111—14 
O'Brien 02*102202212220—10 
L C Willard 22122122U22210— 14 
M E White 222222222222222—15 
Barto 222202202202220—11 
Amberg 222022222222222—14 
Alabaster 2*022222*212222—12 
Palmer 0222*0022222112—11 
Wells 202022011222222—12 
Steck 222222022222122—14 
Roll 2022*2222220222—12 
A Kleinman 120220222122012—12—190 
Ten-bird sweep, entrance $5, three moneys: 
Palmer 2020022211— 7 Alabaster 2202202221— 8 
1011222212— 9 Roll ...2222020122—8 
2022000022— 5 Cantillion 2222212222—10 
Blake 0221222220— 8 
Martin 1212202202— 8 
..2021120021— 7 Levi *212221220— 8 
-. 0200w 
,...0220122112— 
1021102011— 7 
Willard 
Barto ..f,., 
3Iiller 
Pumphrey 
Steck .... 
Case 0022000202— 4 Rust 
Rogers 0120110221—7 
No. 1 was 7 birds, $3; Nos. 2 and 3, miss-and-outs, $3: 
No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. 
Palmer 2222222—7 0 220 
Cantillion 0222222-6 22222* 22222220 
Willard 01111*1—5 12121111 12222221 
Roll ....2121202—6 22122211 1211120 
Alabaster 22*2222—6 22112220 11121111 
Ten birds, for birds: 
Cantillion 2221111112—10 Palmer 2221*22220- 8 
Wollaslon Trap Club. 
WoLLASTON, Mass., April 27.— The weekly shoot of the Wollaston 
Trap Club was held this afternoon. 
Events 1, 2. 3 and 5 were 10 targets, at unknown angles. Events 
4, 8 and 9 were 5 pairs. Event 6, 10 targets, reversed, and event 7, 
unknown traps and angles. The scores: 
Events: 123458789 
Elwell 5 7 6 8 8'.. 4 5.. 
Whitmarsh 7 8 5 7 10 7 3 4 4 
Baker 8 7 9 3 8 
Barry 656567386 
Muldown • 2 4 5 .. ., 
