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WESTERN TRAPS. 
Tfap Mattets at the Twin Cities, 
Chicago, 111., May 25.— Dr, Bill, of the Intercity Shooting Park, 
which accommodates the lovers of the gun who live at Minneapo- 
lis and St. Paul, sends a big bunch of shooting information from 
his part of the world, covering events for the past two weeks, from 
Avhich it would indeed seem true that trapshooting is gaining m 
favor in the Northwest. He states: . 
"On Thursday of this week the Minneapolis Gun Chib held its 
regular weekly shoot here. The attendance was not up to the 
standard, as the day was very hot and sultry. The old standbys 
of this club are trying their best to increase their shooting num- 
bers, and no doubt will do so before long. The work of Mrs. 
Johnston, Johnston and French is of high class, showing great 
improvement from the first of the year. 
"On Monday, the 13th, a squad of five came over in the afternoon 
and kept the traps going until dark. The best shooting of the 
day was done by Thompson, of St. Paul, who scored 94 out of 100. 
"On Tuesday, May 14. Messrs. Coff Dunn, Emerson, Andrews 
and Hunt shot a 100-bird race for the dinners, with Hunt low man 
and Emerson high man." 
Thursday, May 16.— Minneapolis Gun Club scores were made as 
below: 
Club diamond badges: Johnston 17, Mrs. Johnston 7, French 19, 
Danz 18, Mick 13, Thompson 12, Spear 10, Brown 15. 
French wort ' senior badge, Danz won junior badge, Mick won 
amateur badge. „ -r- , 
Schlitz diamond badge: Johnston 23, Mrs. Johnston 22, French 
20, Danz 16, Mick 13, Thompson 22, Spear 19, Brown 13. 
Johnston won badge. 
Val Blatz diamond badge: Johnston 11, Mrs. Johnston 13, French 
10, Danz 12, Brown 17, Thompson 11, Mick 7, Spear 7. 
Mrs. Johnston won badge. 
Paegel diamond badge: Johnston 21, Mrs. Johnston 20, French 
23, Danz 18, Mick 17, Thompson 22, Spear 22, Brown 23. 
French won badge. , " 
Saturdav, May 18.— St. Paul Rod and Gun Club.— This was the 
largest attended of any club shoot of the season, forty-one shoot- 
ers participating. The interest taken by this club is phenomenal. 
They continue to add interested shooters to their list, and expect 
by June 15 to have fifty regulars here each Saturday. The untiring 
energy displayed by the club's able president, Paul Hanser, and 
the secretary, A. E. Perry, assisted by Messrs. Morrison, C. 
Hanser, Joe Henrv. Paul Gotzian, Jacob Danz, Chas. Thompson 
and Chas. Seibi'ook, shows what can be done for a club if they only 
hustle. The shooting of Morrison, Hanser, Gotzian and Wilkin- 
son is of very high order. Morrison yesterday broke 15 pairs 
.straight as a fitting climax of his day's shooting. Scores: 
St. Pa«I Gon Club Cop Race. 
Events: 12 3 
Gotzian, 4.... 25 20 17 
Danz, 5 24 18 20 
T C 2 24 20 21 
P Hanser, 3 25 23 22 
*Prediman 17 19 21 
Perry, 5 22 19 13 
Spear, 6 1 21 13 22 
Thompson, 3 24 23 22 
Morrison, 0 25 25 24 
Thomas, 7 14 19 16 
Henry, 4 15 16 18 
Robertson, 10 25 13 15 
*Switzer 22 21 21 
*Gooch 21 21 21 
Thorp, 2 21 19 19 
McKay, 2 23 .22 23 
Irie, 5; 17 12 15 
Wilkinson, 2 18 25 23 
*Lee 12 15 19 
Dezotell, 5 25 19 17 
Carl, 7 23-15 20 
Somers, 8 24 21 21 
Fanashon, C 24 18 19 
Defiel, 4 IS 18 20 
White, 7 23 11 18 
Novotny, 4 21 20 21 
Brown, 4 25 23 25 
Alberts, 7 - 16 12 21 
*Bevers 22 23 22 
«Bli<!S .'. 15 19 20 
*Marsh 18 14 12 
*Simpson U- 6 4 
*Thayer 19 21 20 
*Bonner • 8 12 11 
'Grain 11 14 14 
♦Baker 12 14 20 
*Neeley . 17 21 20 
*Vanny 6 11 12 
*Gloss 20 21 18 
nVhipple 13 17 17 
Handicap allowance applies to first event only. 
*Visitors. 
Nonpareil of Chicago. 
The Nonpareil Gun Club, of Chicago, whose inaugural shoot 
recently furnished so interesting a variation of the club shooting 
programme in this city, holds its second shoot to-day at Watson's, 
and will henceforth, claim at that parkr the date of the last Satur- 
day of each month. It is anybody's race in this club at any event, 
and great interest attaches to these contests, the scores of which 
go forward from the ground. 
Michigan Trap Shooters' League. 
The first annual tournament of the Michigan State Trapshooters' 
League, under the auspices of the East Side Gun Club, of Saginaw, 
begms next week, May 28-30, with two days at targets and one at 
live birds; ?300 added. There will be two magautraps, and two 
squads will shoot at the same time. This will be a warm little 
proposition, and Mr. John Pop, president, and John M. Messner, 
secretary, will have a large contingent of visitors, who, it is need- 
less to say, will all bs satisfied. 
Too Much Lemonade. 
Mr. H. C. Hirschy, well known among all trapshooters, is in 
town to-day on his way from Springfield to his home in St. Paul, 
Minn. Mr. Hirschy is still feeling some slight effect from the 
case of lemonade poisoning which he w'ith others sustained at the 
Springfield grounds. The beverage was made in a galvanized 
iron pail, and it came pretty near knocking out the whole com- 
bination. Harry Dunnell and Chris Gottlieb were both taken 
violently ill, and Mr. Hirschy himself was for a time unable to 
walk. one was to blame for this little accident, which might 
occur at any time. In .the Western towns, where everybody lives 
out of tin cans, it is a common matter of caution on the part of 
camp cooks never to allow a can of tomatoes to stand in the tin 
for more than a few minutes after it is opened, as the action of the 
air and the acid of the fruit upon the tin results in a compound 
which may be mildly or dangerously poisonous. It would be 
unwi'c iV'r trapshooters to forsake lemonade entirely for other 
bever,n!^i_s on account of the little incident at Springfield. 
E. Hough. 
Hartford Buildikg, Chicago, 111. 
Garfield Gun CTub. 
rlTicago, May. 26.— The appended scores were made on our 
i-'v .unds to-day on the occasion of the fourth trophy shoot of the 
Season. Notwithstanding the very uncomfortable day for target 
shooting, fourteen members came out to participate, and con- 
sidering the conditions the scores were quite fair. The wind blew 
from the northeast, directly across the traps and was so cold that 
the shooters almost all wore coats while shooting, and several 
wore overcoats. S. E. Young won Class A medal. Dr. Meek Class 
B medal, and P. McGowan Class C medal on scores of 21, 20 and 
20 respectively. 
Fourth trophy event: 
Dr J W Meek 1111101110111110011111101—20 
T. D. Pollard 0011000110111111111101011—17 
T. McDonald 0000011000111111110111100—14 
A. M cGowan '. 1001101111111010111100101—17 
P McGowan 1011110111110111111110011—20 
E W Eaton 1100100011111000011110101—14 
T Eaton 1011111111110110001111111—20 
T A Hagerty OOlOOOOllOOlOOOllllOOOlW— 10 
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F G Barnard .1001010101111101010111111—17 
A Marshall 1101101101111001100110111—17 
M E Bowers ^...-^^ 1011111110101111101110011—19 
S E Young 0111011111111111110111110—21 
W A Jones 1011010011101000110110111—15 
Dr HufT 0111011110011011001010010—14 
Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec'v. 
Nonpareil Gun Clufa, 
Watson's Park, Chicago, May 25. — This club shoots down to the 
three high guns— no divide. Shoot No. 2 was the main event at 
Watson's Park, 15 birds, $5 entrance. The scores: 
Dr Shaw 220222222222222—14 
R Kuss 02*w 
M White 222222002222222—13 
Comley 012121120210211—12 
J Graham 22022222222220*— 12 
E S Graham.. 222222212221*02— 13 
G Roll 22121*211121221—14 
Ties on 15: 
Palmer 22212 
Ties on Hi 
Shaw 12'* 
Alabaster 012222121222022—13 
Amberg 02222222212*212—13 
Dr Miller 22012120101*010— 9 
S Palmer 122222122222212-15 
J Barto ......212201101221001—11 
L Willard 112221122212212- 15 
Willard 22220 
Roll 
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Same day, 25-bird match, for birds: 
Street . . . . ! 112022001022111001022201*-16 
Oliphant *1020112*1022011122l:i0022— 17 
Ten-bird match, for birds: 
Street 0021212000— 5 Oliphant 10'>0002200— 3 
Miss-and-out, entrance $2, birds extra: 
Alabaster 22220 
Willard 2122222 012222221222 
Kuss 1222220 
Comley 0 
Dr Shaw 2211210 
G Roll 2111112 2 
Amberg 0 
Barto 1211121 011112111210 
Palmer 20 
Wade 22* 
Hoxie 212120 
Miller 20 
Same <is above; Roll first. Palmer second, Willard third: 
Palmer 2222 
Ploxie 2210 
Willard 2211 
Wade 0 
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Comley 0 
Roll 2212 21112 
Barto 0 
Alabaster 10 
Amberg 0 
Four men up, 5 birds each, two low scores to pay. Roll and 
Palmer paid: 
Roll 10121221222* Alabaster 11222 
Palmer 22202210 Willard 212202211121 
Same as above. Roll and Alabaster paid: 
Roll 101210 Willard ..11211 
Palmer 202222 Alabaster 20*10 
Cliicago Gun Cluh. 
Chicago, May 25. — Herewith find scores of the Chicago Gun 
Club's weekly shoot. Quite a number of the boys were at Spring- 
field. The State shoot is on, and of course was the drawing card. 
Dr. Carson won the weekly trophy handicap in birds. He shot 
scratch, breaking 23. Bowles won second trophy, 5 birds allowed 
him. Dr. Carson also won the distance handicap monthly trophy, 
shooting at 20yd. mark after shooting out Bowles at 18yds. 
Next week we expect the regular attendance. 
No. 3, weekly trop'ny handicap, 25 birds: 
Broke. Hdcp. Total. 
W^alters 1011001110100001100110111—14 
Bowles 0011011111001111011111110—18 
Dunbar 1001010100111111110101111—17 
R B Mack 1011110101111111010110111—19 
Dr - Carson 1101111111111101111111111—23 
Shelley 1111111011001010010010101—16 
Jones 1101000111000001101000101—11 
Dr Morton OOnOOOllOlOllOlOlOUOOOO— 11 
Von Lengerke 0100011111011111011110111—18 
Borroff 0111011101111000110101011—16 
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No. 5, monthly trophy, handicap rise, 15 birds: 
Walters, 16 lOOOOOOUlllHl— 9 
Dunbar, 16 , 010001100110100—6 
Shelley, 16 lOlOOOllOOOOOOO— 4 
Jones, 16 111001111010100— 9 
Bowles, 18 .1011111011 11011—12 
Mack, 18 001111110010110— 9 
Von Lengerke, 18 .....010111011101101—10 
Borroff, 18 100110011111111—11 
Dr Carson, 20 022220011111111—12 
First tie: 
Bowles, IS 1001110101-6 Dr Carson, 20 1110111111-9 
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Fitchbwfg: Rifle and Gttn CIttfc. 
FiTCHBURG, Mass., May 24. — This proved a very windy after- 
noon, and most of the boys did very good work, considering it 
was blowing a gale most of the time. Several of the Gardner and 
Leominster men came down to get in a little practice for the 
prize five-man team shoot between Gardner, Leominster and 
Fitchburg, which is to commence next Wednesday afternoon on 
our grounds. 
The scores on May 17 were: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 
Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 25 10 25 10 10 15 op 10 
Hood 8 - - • - - - 
Sawin 7 
Crabtree 8 
Knight 6 
Leland 9 
Wood 2 
Wilder 8 
Taylor 7 
Cutler 8 
Burbank 9 
Esty 4 4 6 5 
Hawkins \- 2 
Lamb 4 4 6 
Churchill 6 6 4 
Dwight 8 8 14 .. 21 
Donovan 16 10 15 
Russell 9 15 . . 20 
Dix 5 16 . . 15 
Rob 
Bell 8 .. 4 
George 
Scores made on May 22: 
Events: 
Targets: 
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8 9 
9 7 
9 8 
8 7 
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Turney 1 3 .. .. 5 , 
May 22. — The first leg of the triangular prize team shoot between 
Gardner, Leominster and Fitchburg was pulled off this afternoon. 
The weather conditions were as nearly perfect as possible. This 
was the first of six sho6ts — two to be held in each town, five men 
on each team, 50 shots per man. The prize is a very beautiful cup. 
Fitchburg won the first shoot, breaking 210 out of the 250 shot 
at. Leominster was second with ^3 broken, and Gardner third 
with 192 broken. The highest score for Leominster was made by 
Rice, who went out with 49 out of his 60. Cutler was high man 
for Fitchburg with 48 breaks. Knight was high man for Gardner 
with 43 out of his 60. With all the men in form, these clubs are 
very closely matched, and it will be a matter of whose day it is 
to win. Several others tooTc part in the shooting before and after 
the match. 
Match shoot, Leominster, Gardner and Fitchburg: 
Leominster. 
Rice 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111101111111—49 
Andrews ....11111110111110111111110001001111001101111111101101—38 
Burbank . . . .011111110111111011111111111101111011 10111011111101— 42 
Gates 10101110111111101111111111011111100101101101000010—35 
Farrar 11110111110011111111111101110111010001101011101111—38—203 
Gardner. 
Paine 11111110111110111111110001001111001101111111101101—38 
Leland 01111011101111101101100101111010011110100111100000—31 
Lenoir 01111111.1101011.11101100101111111111111011111100101—39 
Knighl 10110101111011011111011111111110111111111111111111—43 ' 
Sawin 10101111111111101111011101101111101101101111111111—41—192 
Fitchburg, 
Taylor 10011011101111111011111111110111111111110101111111—42 
Russell llOllllllllllllOlimmillOOllllOimiOOllOlOllll— 41 
Cutler 11111111111110111111111111111111111011111111111111-48 
Converse . . .101100011001100011101100111110] 1110111111011111111-35 
Wilder 11111111111111000111111111111101111111110011111111-44r-210 
I. O. Converse. 
_^ — 
Ascheobrocdel Gun Club. 
New York, May 25. — Below please find report of our last club 
^hool, held Friday, May 17. Five events, 10 targets each: 
Events : 
Targets 
Wagner 8 
Ruhlender 5 
Spargur 0 
Wiegner 5 
Siemers 6 
1 2 3 4 5 Events: 1 2 3 4 5 
10 10 10 10 10 Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 
8 2 5 7 2 Heidelberg 1 3 4 5 2 
6 6 3 6 Baier 3 5 4 2 0 
1 1 1 1 Moeslein 3 1 5 5.. 
6 4 2 4 Walters 1 2 3 3 5 
3 5 3 3 Macdonald 0 3 113 
Owing to a strong wind, the scores look very poor, which they 
really are, with the exception of the score of our secretary. His 
score is not poor at all. To the contrary, it is so good that he 
could never duplicate it, unless our friend Jack Spargur would 
accommodate him. Still it is hard to convince a man when he 
does not want to be convinced, and therefore our secretary has 
been trying ever since to find the reason why it was thusly. First 
he blamed the wind, then the traps, then a gun that he was using 
for the first time. He also blamed the cartridges. In fact, he 
blamed every one and everything but himself. 
The truth of the matter is — and no one knows it better than the 
writer— he was too stuck up. Heretofore he used to walk the dis- 
tance between the cars and the shooting grounds, a matter of three- 
quarters of a mile or so. He always said that he could make a laet- 
ter score were it not that he was tired walking such a distance, 
carrying a gun and a lot of cartridges. This time he thought he 
would get ahead of the others, and therefore engaged the help of 
one of his friends, who is the happy owner of a horse and buggy, 
to drive him to the grounds. All the way over he was happy in the 
anticipation of what a great score he would make. Nothing short 
of 45 out of 50 would do. with an occasional 10 straight hits thrown 
in. Alas! how pride comes to its fall. The first ten shots he fired 
were straight misses, and h^s total score was 8 out of 50. No 
wonder he disappeared in the woods after the trouble was over, and 
was not seen again for several days, which accounts for the late- 
ness of this report. One occurrence is worth mentioning. Two of 
our members, whom I will designate by their initials only, fell into 
a discussion as to the identity of a bird whose notes they laeard 
in a neighboring tree. H. said it was a sparrow hawk, while W. 
was sure it was a robin. H., however, was so certain that his 
knowledge of natural history — and especially the ornithological 
branch of it— was superior to that of \V. (although it is rumored 
that he does not know the difference between a jacksnipe and an 
ostrich) that he (jJiered to bet $10 that he was right. The bet was 
taken up immediately, but now the question arose how to settle it. 
To shoot the whilom songster was not a matter so very difficult 
even for a member of our club, who, as a riile, finds it a hard mat- 
ter to hit any game smaller than an elephant. But as it was 
thought that one of the birds was a robin, and shooting it meant 
breaking the law, it was out of the question to do so for any law- 
abiding citizen. Still, H. being convinced that it was not a robin, 
and not seeing any particular harm in shooting a sparrow hawk, 
went up to the tree in the style of an aboriginal Indian, which 
he had learned by attending some Wild West show, and planted 
a shot where he thought it would do most good. To the surprise 
of every one, an old crow, which had been dead several months 
and which in its mummified state had wintered in a crotch of the 
tree, fell before the hunter's feet, while two birds, scared nearly 
to death, flew out of the tree, at too great a speed for any one 
to tell if they were two robins or two sparrow hawks or one of each. 
So all bets were decleared off, and H. was sentenced to buy the 
wherewithal to quench our thirst, which had fjecome great during 
the excitement. , 
E. Macdonald, Sec'y. 
■Winchester Gun Club. 
Detroit, Mich., May 18.— Another windy day kept down the 
scores at the regular shoot of the Winchester Club, although 23 
was apparently easy for Lewis in Class A, and no one disputed his 
right to the medal. 
Class B medal, like the America Cup, seems hard to lift; no 
one in his class could see Warner's 18, and he still smiles. 
Class C is developing some good ones. Brown winning the 
medal with 12. 
In a little event at doubles Lewis afforded considerable pleasure 
by shattering 5 targets, singly; thrown as nearly simultaneously as 
possible by the magautrap at 14yds.— surely a very creditable 
performance. 
The scores: 
Events : 
Targets: 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
10 10 10 10 10 10 25 
Warner 9 . . . . 9 4 . . 18 
Hitchcock. ... 6 9 5 10 
Lewis 7 10 .... 23 
Shiell 8 9 .. 9 7 19 
Brodie 7 5 .. 2 .... 16 
Clare 6 9 5 17 
Toll ......... 3 .. 4 .. 5 5 5 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 25 
Wren 17 
Cox 5 . . 9 .... 10 19 
Babcock 4 . . 15 
Rickham 6 2 
Randall 6 U 
Brown 2 1 ........ 12 
Pluntington.. 7 9 .. 5 
The next meet will be the Decoration Day tournament, with 
sweeps, under the Rose system, and merchandise prizes! An 
attractive programme has been arranged, and every effort made 
to make the day a pleasant one. The latch string will be out to 
any stray shooter. 
May 24.— Following are the scores of the Winchester Rod and 
Gun Club, made May 23. We had ten shooters out to try the clay 
birds. Some very good work was done for the fourth shoot of the 
season. Three clean scores were made. All events were at 10 
birds, unknown angles, over our new magautrap: 
Events: 123456789 10 
Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 
F. Lesure 5 
L Nelson 9 
W Burbank 9 
J Dickerson 5 
H Swan 4 
E Ellis 8 
Parker i 7 
L Gale ' 8 
W Young 3 
Putman 
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10 
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Ossining Gun Club. 
.. 7 6 5 
L. R Nelson. 
Ossining, N. Y., May 25.— Herewith please find scores of the 
Ossining Gun Club, made at the regular weekly shoot on May 25. 
A gusty wind, accompanied by a drizzling rain, cut down the at- 
tendance — likewise the scores: " 
Events: 
1 
J C Barlow 7 
Peters 9 
C Blandford 5 
S Mullen 
D Brandreth 
W Fisher 
Prize contest : 
6 
3 
10 
Peters 11 
Peters 11 
Barlow 12 
Barlow 12 
Shot at. Broke. 
9 
6 
10 
10 
Shot at. Broke. 
Blandford 10 7 
Brandreth 11 g 
Brandreth 11 y 
C> G, JB» 
