FOREST AND STREAM. 
tJuNE 29, I9OL 
The International Trapshooting: Contest* 
Hotel Cecil, London, KiiRlaiitl, June li, —Editor Forest unil 
Strmm: The Anglo-American team race was concluded yesterdtiy 
afternoon, with result with which you have already been made 
acquainted by means of cable. From the verj,' iirst the ultimate 
outcome ot the match was scarcely in doubt. Some of the boys, it 
is true, were a little shaky occasionally because there was very 
in-and-out shooting on their part in the preliminary practice. The 
team, toOj was very short on practice, for the members of it had 
had only two days in which to get acquainted with a ground and a 
system of throwing targets that needed careful study. 
I have written you about what was done on Friday, the 7th 
inst., so shall now, tell you what was done on Saturday. As 
usual the team drove out to Hendon in a tally-ho, and put in a 
full afternoon's practice. The main event was at 50 targets, and in 
this first honors were won by an EngKshman, a Mr. "Paul," who 
scored 47, and took the whole purse, as everj'thing here is "high 
guns" to win, "one high gun" being generally considered enough 
for each purse. As the entry fee was .$2.50, with thirty-six shoot- 
ers, Mr. "Paul" netted quite a pleasant little sum. I have mis- 
laid the scores of the event, but I believe Gilbert, Fanning and 
Parmelee made 46; Tripp, who scored 24 out of his first 25, finished 
with 45; Crosby and Banks had 44, and Merrill and Palmer, another 
Englishman, had 43 each. 
The members of the Middlesex Gun Club, under whose auspices 
and on whose grounds the international 'match \vas shot, decided 
to have no practice shooting on Monday, the day previous to the 
race, as they had much to do getting ready for the shoot itself. 
The Americans, therefore, again drove out to Hendon and took 
in a pigeon shoot at the Welsh Harp grounds. Parmelee and 
Gilbert were the last to stay in with an Englishman in the main 
event Gilbert dropping out and leaving Parmelee to fight it to a 
finish! The American killed his 23d bird and won, the Englishman 
losing his bird in that round. 
The conditions were against the birds, but their quality even 
under unfavorable conditions gave the visitors some idea of how 
good they might be if everything was with them. At first the 
Americans won quite a lot of money by laying the odds on the 
gun, which were asked bv tliose who were backing the bird. Four 
and five to one were odds which were satisfactory to the English- 
men at the start, but before the end came, nothing less than seven 
or eight to one would be listened to. At one time, where there 
were eleven left in the tie, eight of that number were members of 
the American party; with the long odds last mentioned above, the 
previous winnings of their friends soon dwindled (and in some 
cases were wiped out) in short order, several dropping out in 
quick succession. As a whole, however, the boys enjoyed their 
first day \yith English bhierocks. 
The International Match. 
First Day, June 11.— This was an ideal summer day— not too hot, 
with a bright sky and brilliant sunshone. There was breeze enough 
to temper the heat and also to make the targets do some queer 
stunts at times. 
Our tally-ho left the Cecil at 10:30. which gave us plenty of 
time for preliminary practice. Two 25-target events were shot, and 
in the second one Heikes made the first and only 25 straight that 
I've seen made under the English system of shooting. The wind 
died out somewhat, and good scores were expected when it came 
to the match proper. An adjournment at 1 o'clock for lunch 
curtailed the practice work, and probably spoiled some scores in 
the match, as lunch does not as a rule make most people 'shoot 
better. Then again quite a long time was consumed m arranging 
preliminaries, such as choosing referee and judges, and regulating 
the flight of the targets. These were thrown fully up to the limit 
and "towered" in a manner seldom, if ever, seen in the States. 
There was no low flight of a target, such as so closely resembles 
the flight of the American quail or English partridge. The targets 
went skyward more after the fashion of a black duck that jumps 
from its home in reeds when the gunner comes upon it suddenly. 
Of course such a flight gave the Englishmen a better chance to get 
in their work with the second barrel, and equally of course it 
handicapped the visitors, who had never, except since their arrival 
in England, looked over a gun at targets thrown in such a manner. 
The conditions called for targets to be thrown not less than 6 nor 
more than 12ft. high, 10yds. from the traps. 
Capt. Money, who was selected as referee, tried to adjust things 
so that targets would be thrown at about a uniform height of 
9ft., but the Englishmen kept them up to the maximum. It was 
apparently so impossible to get all preliminaries arranged that it 
was finally agreed that Captains Marshall and Butt, the chiefs of 
their respective teams, should get together and mutually agree 
upon everything. Capt. Marshall did not fuss long about any- 
thing, but let the Englishmen suit themselves, being anxious 
above all things to avoid any possible friction, and also to get the 
match started. ' ... 
Winning the toss, the Captain went to the score with inpp and 
Budd as his assistants in the first squad. The English captain put 
in Messrs. Ellicott, Palmer and Paul. The "Hon. Tom" led off 
with a beautiful miss, and the game was on. As the Americans in 
the first squad only scored 47 to 53 for their opponents, the 
English started out 6 in the lead. (I have omitted to state that the 
100 targets were shot in strings of 20, squads of six men being up 
at the score: it was a walk-around in fact.) 
The second squad was made up as follows: Merrill, Elliott and 
Parmelee as TSIos. 1, 3 and 5 respectively; Messrs. Pike, Izzard 
and C. Morris as Nos. 2, 4 and 6. No change was made in the 
position of the teams as regards scores, each side adding 49 breaks 
to its total. Fanning, Heikes and Gilbert cut down the lead of 6 
to a lead of 1, scoring 51 to 46, the latter total being made by 
Messrs. Johnson, W. B. Morris and Capt. Butt. Mr. W. B. 
Crosby, the last man on the American team, broke 19 to Mr. O'Con- 
nor's 16, and the Americans were 2 in the lead at the end of 200 
targets. From this point the Americans kept on piling up the 
breaks until the scores showed that at the end of the 100th target 
for each man the American team had a lead of 65 targets. 
Crosby was easily high on the American team with a total of 93 
to his credit, Charlie Budd was second with 89, Heikes and Tripp 
tieing for third honors with 88 apiece. 
For the Englishmen F. Izzard was at the top with 87, Messrs. 
Pike and O'Connor coming next with 84 each. 
It is of special interest to note that the Britishers scored 172 
second barrel breaks, this showing that the use of the two barrels 
is of some benefit after all. Adding 172 breaks to the 199 misses, 
we get a total of 371 times in which the Englishmen used their 
second barrels, which also means that they missed on an average 
i at least out of every 3 targets with the first barrel; in other 
words, their total of one barrel breaks was only 629 as against the 
Americans' 866. 
Scores of First Match, Jonc 11. 
American Teapi 
T A Marshall.. 
E H Tripp... 
C W Budd 
F S 
F 
Paul 
Pike 
English Team. 
14 
18 
17 
15 
16—80 
17 
18 
17 
17 
19—88 
16 
18 
19 
19 
17—89 
16 
15 
18 
20 
17—86 
16 
17 
18 
15 
20—86 
17 
ir 
17 
20 
16—87 
15 
18 
16 
19 
17—85 
18 
15 
16 
20 
19—88 
18 
18 
15 
15 
18—84 
19 
17 
19 
18 
20—93-866 
17 
16 
13 
18 
18—82 
18 
14 
15' 
16 
16—79 
18 
14 
14 
13 
14—73 
17 
17 
17 
14 
19—84 
17 
18 
16 
19 
17-87 
15 
12 
16 
18 
17—78 
17 
15 
16 
17 
15—80 
13 
18 
16 
16 
10—73 
16 
18 
16 
17 
14—81 
16 
17 
14 
la 
18—84—801 
W B 'Morris 
Butt, captain 
O'Connor 
Of the substitutes, or reserves. Powers scored 84 and Banks 68 
on the American side, while Inglis scored 79 and Joynt 76 for the 
Britishers. , , , , 
From the scores given above it will be seen that, as already 
stated, the Americans won by 65 breaks, with an average of .866 as 
against .801, a very satisfactory margin when their lack of practice 
is taken into consideration. 
Guns and Loads. 
T. A. Marshall— Parker gun. Targets: S^ii". Trap shell, 3^drs. 
Dupont powder, l^Aoz. No. 71/2 chilled Tatham shot. Live birds: 
3i4in. Trap shell, 3%drs. Dupont powder, l^^oz. No. 7 chilled 
Tatham shot. r, , , 
C W. Budd— Parker. Targets: 2%m. Smokeless, 3%,drs. Schultze, 
l%oz. 71/2 chilled Tatham. Live birds: Sin. Trap, S^^drs. Schultze, 
liy4oz. 7. chilled Tatham. ^ 
Fred Gilbert— Parker. Targets: 2%in. Leader, 38grs. Dupont. l^oz. 
71/2 chilled Tatham. Live birds: Sin. Leader, S^idrs. Dttpont, l^oz. 
7 chilled latham. 
P. S. Parmelee— Parker. Targets': 2y8ni.' .A.cmc, 42grs. L. & R., 
l%oz. I c hilled Tatham. Live birds, 2%in. Acme, 45grs. L. & R.', 
P/im. 7 chilled Tatham. 
■ if - J^i- ,1'owers— I'arkcr. Targets: Sin. .Leader, dOgrs. Dupont, 
\V40x. iVn chillcn Tatham. Li\'c birJs ; ' Sin. Leader, Si^drs. Du- 
pont, IVi 7 chilled Tatham. • • . 
R. O. Heikes— Parker, l^ugets: 3in. Smokeless, 3|4drs. E C, 
Wioz. 7 chilled Tatham. Live birds: 3in. Trap, S'/zdrs. E C, I140Z. 
I chilled Tatham. . 
E. H. Tripp— Parker. Targets: 2%in. Smokeless, 314-drs. Hazard, 
IMoz. 714 chilled Tatham. Live birds: Sin. Trap, 3y2drs. Hazai'd, 
moz. 7 chilled Tatham. ^' ' - 
R. Merrill— Parker. Targets: 3i4in. Trap, .3^drs. Hazard, l^^oz. 
.71/2 chilled Tatham. Live birds: Sin. Trail, d^Mrs. Hazard, l%oz. 
7 chilled Tatham. ' ' 
B. Leroy Woodard— Paiker. Targets: 2%in. Smokeless, 3%,drs. 
Dupont, VAoz. 7 chilled Tatham. Live birds: 3in, Trap, S^^drs. 
Dupont, 1^4oz. 7 chilled Tatham. 
W. R. Crosby— Smith. Target: Sin. Leader, 44grs. E C, VAoz. 
71/2 chilled Tatham. Live birds. Sin. leader, 48grs. E C, 114 7 chilled 
Tatham. 
J. A. R. Elliott- Winchester— Target: 2%}n. ' Leader, 4flgrs. 
Hazard l%oz. 7% . chilled Tatham. Live birds: 2%in. Leader. 
43grs. Hazard, lYiOZ. 7V2 chilled Tatham. 
Edward Banks— Winchester. ' Targets : 2%in. Smokeless, Sdrs. 
E C. No. 2, l%oz. 71/2 chilled Tatham. Live birds: Same as for 
targets. 
J. S. Fanning— Smith. Targets: 2%'m. Arrow and Leader, 42grs. 
L. it R.. l%oz. 71/2 chilled Tatham. Live birds: 2%in. -Arrow and 
2%m. Leader, 42grs. L. & R., l%oz. 7 chilled Tatham. 
. Second Day, June J 2. 
The weather, which had been beautiful ever since we lauded,, 
changed considerably during the night, and rain and a cold wind 
was our lot the greater portion of the day. Early on it was fine, 
with gleams of sunshine, but several times while the squads were 
shooting in the match the rain fell almost heavily enough to put 
a stop to shooting altogether. Neither American nor Englishman, 
would acknowledge that he would .sooner get under shelter than 
stay out in the rain and wind and break targets, so the game went 
along, regardless of weather. 
Our tally-ho attracted the usual amount of attention while on its 
way to and from Hendon. On the way home the Stars and 
Stripes, which streamed away behind us, was saluted more than 
once by people who evidently were glad to see their flag. One 
young fellow on the top of a bus waved his hat most enthusias- 
tically as we came down Piccadilly. 
As a result of the retched turn in the weather, the number of 
spectators was even smaller than on the previous day, when there 
were far fewer than»!iad been expected. Inanimate bird shooting 
is not popular enough in this country as yet to draw a big crowd, 
and it is extremely doubtful whether it ever will be. From a 
spectator's point of view, the smashing of clay pigeons is too 
monotonous. 
There was again quite a delay in starting the team race. The way 
the English shoot targets is not the way we do it in America, 
where everybody is in a hurry to shoot, being afraid he won't get 
shooting enough even in the longest day. Afternoon tea, lunch 
and social intercourse are prominent factors in a day's target 
shooting over here, and truth to tell they do not go badly 
together. 
When the race did start. Capt. Mar.shall followed his own ex- 
ample, which he set the previous day — he commenced the score 
sheet with a cipher, which spoiled its looks. Tripp broke his 
target, and saved the shell, which will go back to the States with 
him, accompanied by the shell with which lie recorded the first 
tally for America in the first inanimate target match ever shot 
between representatives of England and America. Charlie Budd 
broke his target, and the race, was fairly on. Out of the first 20 
targets per man Messrs. Marshall, Tripp and Budd accounted for 
50 to their opponents' 49, and the Americans were thus 1 break 
ahead. Gilbert, 'Elliott and Parmelee were the Americans in the 
next squad, and they rJso broke 50 out of their 60, Gilbert getting 
three-fifths of the total number; the three Britishers broke 51, so 
the two teams were even with 100 breaks apiece when the first 
120 targets had been shot at. 
Heikes, Fanning and Powers, (Powers was in Merrill's place 
on the team this day) scored 55 out of their 60, Fanning breaking 
straight, thus emulating successfully the example set him by 
Gilbert in the previous squad. As the three Englishmen in their 
squad only broke 47, the American team went to the front and 
never looked back again. Crosby started with a 20 straight, and 
increased the American lead by 5 targets. 
As was only to be expected, the superiority of the American 
team being so manifest, the interest in the race lay solely in seeing 
how small or how large the margin of victory wovtld be, and 
also how the Americans would finish among themselves. Crosby 
did some great shooting, landing with 95, while Gilbert, Heikes and 
Tripp finished with 93, 92 and 90 respectively. The improvement 
in the scores over those of the previous day may be traced to two 
causes. First, the wind was not so strong as it was on the first 
day, and the extra practice was also beai'ing good fruit. In short, 
the boys were catching on. 
The scores in the race were as below, the Englishmen finding the 
target successfully with their second shell no less than 149 times: 
English Team. 
Ellicott .11111120111110012111—17 
21111101021101110111—16 
21111101112110121110—17 
11111111110101111021—17 
11012221211112111201—18—85 
Johnson 00012101111121111112^16 
11201102111112110221—17 
, , 10211100001122021201—13 
11010011111210112001—14 
21201111111111112110—18—78 
C Palmer 10100111101111112111—16 
00200000112202112220-11 
00000110000111121101—10 
(12001110112111011111—15 
11102111121211122111—19—71 
■ Pike 11111111111111111020— IS 
12120112011011011121— IC 
20211100221110201111—15 
21111000111121211121—17 
11121111111021100111-17-83 
Izzard 11111112111122111121—20 
11021211110112111001—16 
01121112112111211111—19 
1111101110111122111—17 
00211221021100111201—14—86 
Inglis 01111001101012110011—13 
21100121201101111111—17 
00210022201111001111—13 
10110111001121112021—15 
11112101011020022000—12—70 
H I Cave . . 11011111002101111101—15 
21120211102121101122—17 
00211111012100111111—15 
11111101001001111111—15 
11110111201111210111—17—79 
Tovnt 12121111111111101110-18 
11211102Umm2011— 18 
21021110111111012111—17 
21021110111111012111—17 
12101111011011111112—17—87 
Butt 10011121101211110200—14 
11011111111112001211—17 
11011011012111121111—17 
01001011121101011111—14 
01001001220101121021—13—75 
O'Connor 01122111111012010tm— 15 
■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 01211120011112111121—17 
11211102101102111101—16 
11011011110111121011—16 
0200112112211110U22— 16— SO— 794 
American Team. 
Marshall ... 01111110101111111110—16 
^ " 11011011011110101111-15 
11111111111111111111—20 
11100011011110111101—14 
11111101111111111101—18—83 
Trino 11111111101011011111—17 
01111111011111111111—18 
11101111111110111101—17 
11111111111111111111—20 
11111110111111111101—18—90 
x,„AA 11111111011111101110—17 
^" iiioiimiiiioiiiiio— 17 
11100111100111001111—14 
11110101111110101111—16 
10111111111011111110—17—81 
Gilbert 11111111111111111111—20 
iiiiiinoiiiinoiiii-i.s 
10111111111101111111—1 S 
lOOllllllOlILlimil— 17 
. 11111111111111111111— 20— 93 
Jil 1 1" f t 1 101111011110111 ion —1 6 
imiiiimniiioioi— 18 
11110111111101101111—17 
11111111110111111110—18 
11111100011111111111—17—86 
Parmelee 11010111111100101101—14 
11110110111111111111—18 
10101111111110101111—16 
11111101111111101111—18 
1 0lllllllllOllUllll^lS— 84 
TTeikes 11111111111111101111—19 
11101110111110111111—17 
11111111111011111110—18 
11111111111111111111—20 
11110111111111110111—18—92 
Fan n ing 11111111111111111111—20 
1111110111 1110111111—18 
11111100111111011111—17 
110111 11101111111111—18 
10111111110011101111—16—89 
Powers 11111011100101111111—16 
11111010111111111111—18 
11111111111110110110-17 
1 1111011100111101111—16 
1 11110111 11011011111— 17— 84 
Crosby 11111111111111111111—20 
10111111111011111111—18 
LlUllllllllllllllll— 20 
imoi 11111111 111101— IS 
1 mil 11011111111111—19—95—877 
As usual, to fill out the last squad, two substitutes from each 
team shot along, Banks and Merrill being the American substi- 
tutes, Brown and Musgrove the English. The latter will be better 
known to American shooters as J. M. Postans, who came so nearly 
winning the Dupont cup at Baltimore last fall. The scores of the 
substitutes were: 
Banks 10111111011001111111—16 
11101111111110111101—17 
01111110110011111111—16 
11011111110111110111—17 
10111111101101110111—16— 82 
Brown 02122002012110100110—12 
00000000200102110101— 7 
20010102100010020111—10 
11001011101000112121—13 
02011010100011020112—11— 53 
Merrill 1111011101011111111 1—17 
1111111111 0001111100—15 
lllllllllllOOUOlHl— 17 
11111111011111111111—19 
11111001111111111111—18— 86 
Musgrove 10110110112121121211—17 
01112012112001101012—14 
20101111100111111112—16 
10110211111112112111—18 
11002010101010101011—11— 70 
Third Day, Jane J3. 
The weather on this day was simply execrable, considering that 
It is now about the middle of June. The thermometer, according 
to reports in the daily papers published this morning (Friday), 
went down to 42! The skj' was overcast, and the wind blew like 
the mischief. Overcoats — winter overcoats — and thick rugs were 
absolutely necessary to one's comfort while driving out to the 
W elsh Harp at Hendon on the top of the tally-ho. 
Scores of course suffered considerably, but still the Americans 
kept up a capital gait, finishing with an average of nearly 85 per 
cent. Crosby again was high with 90 breaks, while Heikes with 
88 was easily second, Gilbert coming in third with S5. Pike with 
S3, C. Morris with 82 and Izzard with 80 were the only men on the 
English team to break 80 per cent, or better. The totals at the 
finish were 843 for the visitors as against 749 for the English. 
The use of the second barrel was again beneficial to the British 
totals, for the records show that 150 targets were broken with the 
.second shell. For the sake of ready comparison, I have prepared 
a table showing just what the English did with their fir.st and 
second shells during the entire three days' contest. The table will 
be found further on in this report. 
American Team. 
^^larshal I .11101111111111001111—17 
11101101101111111111—17 
11111101011111111111—18 
11111011111011011110—16 
11011011110011101111—15—83 
Tripp ■ 10111111001111111111—17 
11111111111111011111—19 
11111011111001111111—17 
00011101001110101110—11 
11111111111011011111—18—82 
Bu'dd 0111111111.1111111101—18 
11111101111010111101—16 
1 1110111111101111010—16 
11011111111101111111—18 
11110111111010110101—15—83 
Powers 01111111011111001111—16 
11110111111011110101—16 
10111111110111111110—17 
11111111011111110110—17 
11011011111111011111—17—83 
Elliott 11111111111110111111—19 
11011111111111111110— 18 
1 in looioioiiiomii— 1 5 
01100011 11 1 101111111—15 
11111011111010101111— 16— S3 
Parmelee 1 1010101111 1111 01110—15 
11111111111111111111—20 
01011111011111110111—16 
n 1 11011110111111110—17 
11010111110111101111—16—84 
Heikes 0111011Ll.»]1.11111111— 17 
lOllOllllimiUlOll— 17 
01011 110111111011111- 16 
11011111111111111111— 19 
1111111011111111111 1—19—88 
Fanni n e .11111011011011110111—16 
UllllOllOlOlOOlllll— 15 
10011101111100111111—15 
11111111110110011101—16 
11111111111111111111—20—82 
(filbert .UOllQOllllOOl 111111— 15 
■ 11111111011111011111—18 
11111111111111111011—19 
00111111101101011111—15 
01111111111101111111—18—85 
Crosbv - llllllllllllllllim— 20 
11111111110011011111—17 
nilllllllllOllllUl— 19 
lllOlOlllllllllOlUl— 17 
11101111111110111110—17—90—843 
English Team. 
jiutt ...11110010101110110111—14 
10200201010110112011—12 
11021121102112001111—15 
10211011210011111210—15 
110010020101112im0— 14— 71 
H T Cave 01011101101101110111—14 
■ ■' 11010010101111011202—13 
21111210020111112100—15 
O1010021OU011001112— 12 
02111111210112212202—17—71 
KiiinoH 11001011001011111110—1.3 
01120110110111121111—16 
11111211001120111101—16 
1221110£I201102111102— 15 
12100110111212111210—16—76 
Pil-p 01110120121212211101—16 
11121111111111111111—20 
11120110111122111111—18 
11200001111111010120—13 
10211120011111101112—16—83 
T„„,,^ 11011121111001111110—16 
^ 111002112111010<30111— 14 
11201221111110111101—17 
12121011000211121110—15 
^ 01011111111011000212—14—76 
