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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 22, 1901. 
The Intefnational Tfapshootets. 
Hotel Cecil, London, .June 1.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
There is very Jittle of material interest, from a trapshooting stand- 
point that can be written about the trip of the American team 
across the Nortti Atlantic from New York to Liverpool in the 
year of 1901. Daddy Neptune was really on his best behavior, and 
did not bother the Canadian of the Levland line to any great 
extent. 
The day we started, Sunday, May 26, raiii made things unpleas- 
ant and kept the crowd under cover for the balance of the day 
after leaving Sandy Hook. During the night a dense fog came up 
(or down) and the Canadian's whistle was a familiar sound for 
the next twenty-four hours. The sea, however, was smooth and 
no one had any reason to complain of mal de mer. 
The following brief extract from the log of Captain Hill, our 
skipper, tells what we did each day, and what kind of weather 
we met with: 
May 27, 277 miles; light southerly winds with dense fog. 
j\Iay 28, 303 miles; brisk souUiweat winds with smooth sea. 
May 29, 312 miles^ light sijuthwest winds becoming easterly, 
with a head sea. 
May 30, 299 miles; light easterly winds with a head sea. 
May 31, 304 miles; light easterly winds and head swell. 
June 1, 304 miles; brisk northerly winds; sea smooth. 
June 2, 308 miles; brisk northerly winds; sea smooth. 
June 3, 311 miles; fresh southwest winds, moderate sea, wiUi 
rain. 
June 4, 306 ittileg; fresh soiithwe^t "Winds, becoming northerly, 
with heavy rain. 
June 0, 31-5 miles; light easterly winds, btcoming southeriy, with 
fog. 
The last entry given above refers to the twenty-four hours end- 
ing at noon on Wednesda)', June 5. There were thus 155 miles 
to be covered before we could tie up in the Mersey at Liverpool. 
Fog kept us back, and a misty rain fell nearly until dinner time, 
6 P. M., when it brightened up over Ireland and the sun came 
out, our pilot coming aboard just east of Holyhead on the north 
coast of Wales in a blaze of sunshine that was a great relief after 
the monotonous fog and rain of the day, during which the wliistle 
of the Canadian made things wretched once more. 
The pilot brought us that day's Liverpool paper telling of the 
mishap to Constitution, which naturally had the entire sym- 
pathies of the crowd. The number of tlie pilot boat was 1, thus 
causing grief to those who wagered a week's pay on the odd 
numbers. 
We sighted the Kghts of Liverpool about midnight, or a little 
before and tied up shortly afterward. The tender came to us 
between eight and nine the next morning, and we disembarked 
from the Canadian, parting with the captain and his entire crew, 
from the skipper fCaptain HilU, Mr, Rigby (chief steward), down 
to Archie, the lengthjr lad who held the dual position of deck 
steward and officer of the smoking room, not without feelings 
somewhat mixed in ch^aracter. The ship herself is as steady and 
as comfortable a boat as crosses the ocean; it takes a gale to move 
her, and even then she rolls with such an easy motion that it 
needs must be an interior out of kilter that succumbs to the 
unpleasantnesses of seasickness. In the heavj'' quartering sea of 
the 4th there were but few vacancies at table for each meal; and 
no case was serious enough to be called a real layout. 
Some of the boys felt a little squeamish occasionally, but even 
then they met their trials with a stiff upper lip and a jest. Fred 
Gilbert, the cliief jester of tlie bunch, and the ladies' man par 
•excellence, was responsible for what I consider to be the best 
thing said during the entire trip. One morning, early in the trip, 
lie was not feeling exactly like a morning_ glory and made no bones 
•of his trouble; like some others, he preferred to eat his breakfast 
•on deck. While promenading he met Captain Hill, who said to 
Jiim! "Well, Mr. Gilbert; how do you feel this morning? What 
•do you want for breakfast?" Fred's answer was: "Captain, if 
you'll just give me a few kind words and an orange, I think 
that'll do me all right." 
Pools were sold on the daily runs for a couple of days, but 
■Captain Money and Heikes, who were in partnership, broke up the 
■game by winning both pools, netting about |225 each. Then ordi- 
nary "hat pools" were tried, but as the ladies did not win, their 
husbands took but little interest in that game "and it died a nat- 
ural death. Various amusements were in vogue in the smoking 
room, and on rainy days the sign of "standing room only" could 
have been hung out with a perfect regard for accuracy. 
Rolla Heikes and Leroy, with banjo and violin, gave us lots 
of music, while Mr. Homer Lind, a tenor with a tuneful voice, 
kindly gave material aid in getting up and carrying out a concert 
that was held in the saloon and was well attended. Mr. Emil 
Werk also contributed much to the pleasure of the voyage, being 
ever ready to take liis part in anything that was going. All in 
all, a more congenial crowd could not have been gotten together 
on shipboard. 
Adam Heilman, of Pekin, 111., and Jack Fanning were the 
authorities on things nautical, Mr. Heilman in particular being 
a very encyclopedia when it came to referring to incidents of the 
voyage. He swept the sea constantly with his glasses, and not 
a vessel nor a porpoise escaped his notice. 
One pleasant feature of the trip was an afternoon tea given 
specially for "The Indians," the ship's chef baking a rich and 
decidedly edible cake, on the frosting of which aijpeared in pink 
the sentence: "Success to the Indians." In honor of the occasion, 
and to show their appreciation of such sentiments, the Indians 
broke up every game that was in progress in the smoking room 
and attended in a body. Before the session closed, the chief 
steward, Mr. Rigby, the instigator of the tea, was brought before 
"Chief Long Talk" (Tom Marshall^, who, while thanking him in 
the name of the Indians for favors bestowed, called the attention 
of those assembled to the fact that the team was not a team of 
Indians, but that there were some Indians on the team. It was an 
ail-American team, he said, the Indians being merely an organi- 
zation formed for social and religious purposes. The afternoon 
tea was a success in every respect. 
The landing at Liverpool was attended by no discomforts, and 
the custom house officials showed a degree of courtesy that was 
especially pleasing and satisfactory. Very little baggage was 
examined, and what was opened was examined with care and the 
articles displaced put back in practically their original positions. 
Paul North was not on hand to meet the team as had been 
expected, but his absence was explained by Mr. Izzard, a member 
of the English team, who came to meet us and told us that "The 
Only Paul" was laid up at the Cecil with a sore heel. With the 
price of hansom cabs so low, and with London "penny 'busses" 
running everywhere, not a member of the team can yet under- 
stand how Paul got a sore heel. It is better at the time of writing, 
but Paul on crutches is an unusual sight. 
The Great Western Railway officials had arranged everything 
for the transportation of the team, their friends and baggage, to 
Birkenhead, a city just across the Mersey from Liverpool, and 
two saloon carriages were set apart for their use on the trip to 
London. The sun shone brightly and the trip was much enjoyed, 
the party going straight through to London, no stay being made 
in Chester, as was at iirst intended. 
The first day in London was passed quietly, the boys going out 
to the grounds in a tally-ho about 2 o'clock. The distance from 
the hotel to the grounds is about eight miles, and as at present 
arranged — if the weather continues as fine as it is now— a tally-ho 
will take the party out each of the days of the match. I have 
not as yet an idea of what the scores were this afternoon, but a 
fairlv official report says the boys shot "like a lot of dubs," a sen- 
tence that is not so very encouraging. Before I close this letter 
I will try and give something more definite as to the afternoon s 
work, not having been able for certain reasons to get out to 
the grounds myself. , ^ , . , , , . 
Mr. R. A. Welch and Mrs. Welch called at the hotel this 
morning, Mr. Welch, indeed, being on hand last night. Clarence 
Nauman has been doing such good shooting that he has got all 
the Englishmen afraid of what may be in store for them when the 
team proper begins to get in its work. 
Saturday morning, June 8.— While the shooting- of the members 
of the team yesterday afternoon was not quite up to standard, it 
was good eno'ugh to be entirely satisfactory. Chan Powers started 
off with 20 straight, and Fred Gilbert also made a straight during 
the afternoon, but 19 out of 20 was not made very often, the 
background being hard and the lay of the ground deceiving. Be- 
yond the traps the ground slopes away, so that targets appear 
to be rising much faster than they really are. Mr. Joynt, a mem- 
ber of the English team, was present, and shot along. He gave 
it as his opinion that we would have a walk-over, the shooting 
he witnessed being a revelation to him. As one of the boys 
put it later on in the evening, the shooting was also a revelation 
to each member of the team— it was so much below average. 
The work done was curiously in-and-out, for after Powers had 
broken his straight he dropped about 8 or 9 out of his next 20. 
Fanning too, started off well but did not shoot up to form later 
on. As t was not out at the grounds I can say but little, all being 
based on information received from those who were there. 
To-day we leave the hotel at 12:20, as shooting begins at 1:30, 
a programme of sweeps being aiTanged for the afternoon; aU 
events are high guns. One of the events is at 50 targets, and it 
looks probable that the bulk of the purse in that event will go 
to the team. 
It has been arranged that the team race shall be shot in squads 
of five men, the English shooting in two squads by themselves, 
and the Americans in squads by themselves. As there are twelve 
men on our team, it will be necessary to select ten from that 
number and name them before the match commences, but the 
other two will also shoot along, the team for the next day being 
selected from the ten high scores on the list of twelve. Who 
will constitute the "ten" is something our captain has not decided ■ 
upon as yet. or, if he has, I have not heard of the makeup. 
Brieflets as Postscripts, 
Captain Money made an excellent parson, and conducted the 
service in the saloon on Sunday last in a manner that would have 
won him a generous round of applause had it not been for the 
solemn nature of the ceremony. 
Dick Merrill, who missed the Canadian, got to England ahead 
of the party, taking the North German Lloyd boat to Southamp- 
ton. His banjo was on board, but of course was silent, much to 
the regret of everybody. 
An elaborate programme of music has been arranged for the 
benefit of the spectators at the international shoot. 
Chan Powers discovered a box of twenty-five shells in his bag- 
gage, so he, CJilbert and Fanning gave an impromptu exhibition 
of shooting at lumps of coal, etc., from the after part of the main 
deck. Eeverybody appreciated the brief diversion, and though some 
misses were made, the applause was hearty. Captain Hill in par- 
ticular was much impressed. . Edward Banks. 
Middlesex Gun CIub» Welsh Harp, Hendoo, N W. 
Programme of music to be performed by the Anglo- Viennese 
Band during the Anglo-American match for £1,000. Conductor, 
Mr. Howard Aynstey. 
Tuesday, June II. 
1. March. "Onkel Sam" Manas 
2. Selection, "A Runaway Girl" Jones & Monckton 
3. Walzer, "Qne Folic de Pesth" Camilla 
4. Morceau Mignon, ■"Salut d'Amour..-. Elgar 
5. Overture, "The Bohemian Girl".-, , .i . .> Balfe 
fi. Walzer, "Wiener Luft,".. Ziehrer 
7. Czardas, "Stynienne" Michiels 
Interval. 
S. Marsch, "LJnter dcm Siegesbanner'i Von Blon 
9. Walzer, "Fin de Siecle" Waldteufel 
10. Selection, "The Messenger Boy" Caryll 
11. Maypole Dance '. ..J. E. We^t 
12. Walzer, "Sur la Bleu Donau". ,Strauss 
13. Overture, "Dichter und Bauer",.. F. von Suppe 
14. Galop, "En Vite"... Aynstey 
God Save the King. 
'Wednesday. J«ne 12. 
1. March, "Washington Post" Sousa 
2. Walzer, "HofbaU Tanze" Fetras 
3. Overture, "Raymond" Thomas 
4. Gavotte, "Summergold". Wareing 
5. Walzer, "Pinkante Blatter" Czibulka 
6. Selection, "The Belle of New York" fCerker 
7. Indulo, "Magyar Nepdal" Kohout 
Interval. 
8. Marsch, "Schonfeld" Ziehrer 
9. Selection, "San Toy" Jones & Monckton 
10. Walzer, "Lieberstraumme" Erll 
11. Salonstiicke, "Die Erste Kuss" Schmelling 
12. Overture, "Les Coronnes des Diamans" , Auber 
13. Walzer, "Morgenblatter" Strauss 
14. Marsch, "Flottenparade" Eilenberg 
God Save the King. 
Thursday, June 13, 
1. March, "El Capitan" ,.- Sousa 
2. Selection, "Merrie England" Binding 
3. Walzer. "Fontaine Lumineuse" Waldteufel 
4. Ballet Suite, "Song Dances" No. 3 VV. Bendall 
5. Overture, "Tancredi" Rossini 
6. Walzer, "Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald" Strauss 
7. American Sketch, "Down South" Myddleton 
Interval. 
8. March, "With Sword and Lance" Starke 
9. Walzer, "Wiener Berger" Ziehrer 
10. Selection, "The Casino Girl" Englander 
11. Lieder ohne Worte Mendelssohn 
12. Walzer, "Sobre las Olas" Ro.sas 
13. Selection, "The Mikado" Sullivan 
14. March, "Kaiser Friedrich" , .... .Friedermans- 
God Save the King. 
The lateroational Trapshooting Contest. 
The great international trapshooting contest, between ten-man 
teams of American and English shooters, for $2,500 a side, was 
won by the American team in three contests, June 11, 12 and 13. 
On the first day, the weather conditions being unfavorable for 
good scores, the results were: Americans, 86G; English, 801. On 
the second day, Americans, 877; English, 794. In the first 60 on 
the day, Crosby scored 58, Gilbert 56, Fanning 55, Heikes 54. The 
English team scored 794. A high wind and a dull sky were the 
weather conditions of the third day. Crosby broke his first 20 
straight and 17 out of his second 20. Tripp scored 36 out of his 
first 40, and Elliott 37 out of his first 40. The totals of the day 
were: Americans, 843; English, 739. This decided the contest. 
The result was received with a show of the best of feeling, the 
ladies waving American and English flags. Speeches were made 
by the Hon. T. A. Marshall for the Americans, and by Captain 
Butt for the English. Sweepstake shooting was arranged for Fri- 
day and Saturday, and a live bird match for Monday of this 
week. The press dispatches mention that the English sportsmen 
arranged a special contest between the Americans at Hendon, last 
Saturday, the trophy of which was a valuable cup. The condi- 
tions were 25 targets. Messrs. Fred Gilbert and C. W, Budd tied 
on 23. In the shoot off Gilbert won. Messrs. W. R. Crosby, 
R. R. Merrill, R. O. Heikes and C. Powers tied on 21. In another 
event, for a second gold cup, between Americans and Englishmen, 
Messrs. W. E. Crosby and B. Leroy Woodard tied on 14 out of 
15. In the shoot off at 15, the scores were: Crosby 14, Woodard 
13, A live bird competition was arranged for Monday of this 
week. 
The conditions of the international match were: $2,500 a side, and 
the winner of three in five contests to be declared the winner of 
the match and stakes. All gate receipts to be equally divided 
between the two teams. Teams to consist of ten men on a side, 
and each team to have the privilege of using an unlimited number 
of substitutes in the series of contests, but no change to be made 
in any one contest. Each contest to be at 100 targets per man, or 
1.000 per team. Targets to be thrown not less than 40 yards nor 
more than 60 vards; and not lower than 6 feet nor higher than 10 
feet. Each American contestant allowed the use of one barrel 
only; English contestants, two barrels. 
In a contest for the E. C, cup, emblematic of the target cham- 
pionship of New Jersey, which took place at I'reehold last Satur- 
day. Mr. C. W. Feigenspan, the holder, was defeated by Mr. E. I. 
Vaiideveer bv a score of 35 to 33 out of a possible 50. 
In the international match, between ten-man teams of American 
and English trapshooters, best three in fiive matches at 1,000 tar- 
get per team in each match, the American team was victorious in 
three straight wins, on June 11. 12 and 13. On the first day the 
.scores were: American team, 866; English team, 801. Second day: 
.•\mcric.m team, S77; English team, 794. Third day: American 
team 843; English team, 739. Total for the American team, 3,586. 
out of a possible 3,000. Total for the English team, 2,334 out of a 
possible 3,000, a difference of 252 targets. The American team 
averaged 862 per cent; the English 778 per cent. 
Painting The Lily, 
The New York Journal of June 13 contains an editorial on the 
recent contest between Messrs. Duryea and Morfey, or, rather, it 
is what might be called a heart-to-hcart talk, with one side doing 
all the talking, and also furnishing the heart. As an instance of 
the general depravity, Mr. Hearst in tlie one-penny heart-to-heart 
talk aforementioned, says: "At the same time some American 
and Engli.sh savages were enjoying themselves in a similar way 
in London. One W. E, Crosby, of Illinois, succeeded in killing or 
mortally wounding 95 birds out of a possible 100." 
Mr, Hearst did not )cnow that Mr. Crosby was shooting at inani- 
mate targets in London, but such a trifle in respect to a matter 
of fact is of no importance to him when writing on a matter of 
sentiment. 
Mr. Hearst, however, is not without Charity and dogmatic 
philosophy, for he continues: "These things are not signs of indi- 
vidual depravity, but merely indications of a low state of devel- 
opment. Of course, if Thomas W. Morfey and Louis T. Duryea 
and W. E. Crosby had finely organized minds, and could picture 
to_ themselves the sufferings of a bird that flutters into a bush 
with a broken wing and lies there in agony all night, to be put 
out of its misery, perhaps, by a rat in the morning, their hideous 
sport would be as revolting to them as it is to other people." 
Passing over such a novelty as "a bush with a broken wing," 
and an imaginary rat which devours an imaginary bird, let us 
consider an editorial in the same journal of June 15, on "'The Girl 
Thief and the Struggle for Existence." Behold, Mr. W, R. Hearst 
seated at his desk, in forgetfulness of what he had written two 
days before. He says: "Scientists prove that the animal creation, 
exclusive of man and his protected animals, lives in a constant 
state of warfare. For every anim,-il there is some other that seeks 
its death. The eagle kills the hawk, the hawk kills the smaller 
bird of prey, the falcon kills the kingbird, the kingbird destroys 
smaller birds, these destroy insects, the insects destroy plants, the 
plants choke each other to death in their desperate struggle, for 
moisture and light. To a superficial investigation this system of 
constant struggle and violant death seems most atrocious. It 
would almost lead to the belief that nature is ruled by the spirit 
of evil. But careful investigation of conditions under which the 
animals live and die proves that there exists no such sj^stem of 
cruelty as would seem to be indicated. On the contrary, it is the 
very struggle for life in all animals that lends interest to life. 
There is an intense exhilaration, excitement and delight in flight 
as vvell as pursuit. The fox flying before the hounds is as excited 
and as deeply interested as the man who struggles to make a run 
with a football under his arm. There is the same physical excite- 
ment and pleasure in the flight of the bird pursued. There is 
every reason to believe that animals below man are absolutely 
ignorant of the nature of death, and death, when it comes to 
them, is so sudden and violent as to be practically painless. Mil- 
lions of animals all doomed to violent deaths suffer far less than 
the one human being who dies in bed, perhaps after weeks of 
agony." 
Then this inconsistent closet philosopher concludes as follows: 
"How marvellously is displayed the wisdom of nature, which 
transforms violent deaths of billions and billions of creatures from 
suffering to actually pleasant excitement, followed by almost in- 
stantaneous annihilation." 
Mr. Hearst for one penny assures his readers that the pigeon 
suffers untold agony of mind and body when shot by a man, 
and that the man who so shoots is in a low stag:e of development. 
All other animals enjoy being pursued and killed, and are, as 
nature made them, in a high stage of development. 
Plowever, dismissing such school boy trash as too trifling for 
serious argument, it may be remarked that if the pigeon shooters 
of America and of the world are in a low stage of development 
simply because Mr. Hearst feels a bit squeamish on the subject, 
as becomes a lily of the valley, then many doctors, laAvyers, clergy- 
men, capitalists, noblemen gentlemen, thousands of them, are 
so classed. It is possible, however, that being mostly polite and 
sensible people, they may not tell what they think of Mr. Hearst's 
stage of development. 
As Others See Us. 
The American team which is to try its luck with a representa- 
tive team of English clay bird shots sailed for this country on 
May 25, but is not expected to arrive here until Wednesday or 
Thursday of next week, which will materially shorten the time 
available for preliminary practice. Mr. Paul North has already 
arrived, and is naturally hopeful that his fellow countrymen will 
succeed in dusting down the Britishers to perfection. We must 
confess, however, that although the American team is a very 
strong one, and has many points in its favor, the affair does not 
appear to us likely to be an easy walk-over for either side. It is 
true that our friends across the water have been able to get to- 
gether a very strong team, and in this respect they have a much 
bigger field to select from. Proof of this may be gathered from 
the fact that one firm in America m.akes over forty million clay 
birds per year, and there are three or four other lactories turning 
out a very large number. Clay bird shooting must therefore be 
very popular in America, and it would be surprising if under such 
circumstances exceptional shots were not here and there to be 
found. The conditions of shooting in the two countries are, how- 
ever, somewhat dissimilar, and the difference may operate in 
favor of the English team. To wit, the English shooter stands at 
a greater distance from the trap than the American; the birds are 
sprung much more swiftly, and by the time the shooter has got 
on, the bird is a considerable distance from the gunner. Again, 
the American must kill with his first barrel or fail to count, 
whereas the Britisher has a barrel in reserve. Considerable inter- 
est is being centered on the meeting, and most of the Americans 
in London having been advised of the event will turn up to "bar- 
rack" for their comrades. We trust that English sportsmen will 
not be lacking in their patronage, but that they will turn up, too, 
in goodly numbers to support their kith and kin. — Shooting 
Times. 
So aotioe taken ot anonymuuit eummuitlcatloiiB. 
Jos.— I have more than once seen quoted or mentioned Grouse 
in the Gunroom." What is it?— a poem, sketch, story, or picture? 
The ideas the sentence gives rise to are attractive. 1 have seen 
a picture of a dog looking reminiscently at gun. Is that it? 
Could you not print it, if a sketch or poem? Ans.: We do not 
know it. Some reader may. 
Shell Lake.— Mr. H. J. Rodgers, of Marshalltown, Iowa, writes 
asking information regarding the fishing, hotel rates, etc., at 
Shell Lake, Wis., which is described to him as an excellent place 
for pike, pickerel and black bass. 
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