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The Shape oif the Stocfe and Handiness* 
The following is taken from tlie excellent work "Experts ori Gwns 
and Shooting," by G. T. Teasdale-Buekell. It contains many 
valuable ideas, which arc worthy of careful consideration by all who 
are learning to shoot, or all who, having learned, wish to sbooi 
better : 
Next to the shape of the rib and false brcccli, lhat of the stock 
of a gnn is of more importance to correct alignment than any other 
part of it. i\'Iaiiy people would place it first, but we think when 
they do this they arc jierhaps not talking of quite the same thing 
(IS we are. Those who shoot in any manner in which true align- 
ment between the eye, the rib and the sight is not possible will 
of course depend more on the shape of the stock than upon the 
rib. Theirs is a mechanical aim, to a certain extent, in which shape 
of stock is all-important; but the shape of the stock is always of 
great importance to quickness of aim; consequently there can be 
no first-rate shooting with a stock that does not suit the shooter. 
American and linglish shooters diifer in their views of what a 
stock should be. The former shoot with stocks far more bent than 
the English think well of. The result is that for true alignment 
the English get their heads down, while the Americans get their 
guns up. The position and style of the Americans are, on the 
average, far in advance of those of English shooters. Occasionally 
you see an Englishman who shoots in beautiful style, with his head 
and body only slightly leaning forward; but the ride is a cramped 
]iosition compared with that of the American. At the traps an 
Englishman is frequently seen who stops his birds repeatedly 
nearly on top of the trai:^, and often he does it with his head well 
up over his gun, in a position in which he sees bis rib from end 
to end. But the same man could not always shoot well in the same 
style. He could not possibly know to an inch where he was shoot- 
ing at fast-driven game, sometimes skimming the heather, then, 
again, high overhead, and next crossing in front or quartering ; or 
still another, most ditRcult of all, the quartering bird swooping 
downward. The man who puts his trust in the great number of 
cartridges he can get off from his three guns may make his bag 
on the pigeon shooter's method; but he who is not happy if his 
hag does not bear some respectable relation to his empty cases 
does not shoot exactly on the methods most suitable to the pro- 
fessional or habitual pigeon shot. 
In England it has come to be general belief that a crooked stock 
will induce shooting under the game. Ko doubt when a man has 
been in the habit of getting elevation by looking well over his rib 
at his foresight and his game, a change to a crooked stock has the 
ell'ect named. We go fm-ther, and say that a straight stoc4{ always 
comes up higher than a crooked one when a change is made from 
one to the other. Nevertheless it is all a matter of habit. There 
is no more reason for shooting too low with a crooked stock than 
there is for shooting too high with a straight one. In fact, there 
is not so much. The Americans do not habitually shoot below their 
game, nor the Englishmen above theirs; yet it would be so if 
there were any particular elevation peculiar to the different bends. 
With a crooked stock, the left hand has to be brought up a good 
deal higher than the right hand. It is the habitttal comparative 
height between the two hands that makes the shooter low with the 
stock more crooked than he has been in the habit of using, 
and soinetimes it is the comparative height which makes him high 
with a straighter stock than he has been accustomed to; bnt this is 
not always the case. We think that any shooter tised to a straight 
stock could train himself in a day to bring up a crooked one on 
the mark without any after correction of the ann. We cannot say 
that a user of crooked stocks could train hnnself to straight ones 
in a similar time, simply because the crooked-stocked man has 
probably been in the habit of aligning his game accurately, and 
tl:is might, to him, be mechanically or physically impossible with 
a straight stock. 
The bend should be just that which, when the cheek is placed 
against the stock, brings the eye into position for the exact eleva- 
tion required by the shooter's particular method. Cast-off, on the 
other hand, should, when the cheek is in position on the stock, 
bring the eye into alignment with the exact center line of the rib. 
These are two broad rules of stock-making, and after them comes 
the art of gun-making. Given a compliance with those two rules 
and yet the stock may be of a thousand different shapes. Cast-oft', 
for instance, may be in one of three places: at the comb, at the 
heel, or at the toe; and you may have a conjuitction of cast-on in 
one place and cast-oft' in the other. The peculiarities are, broadly 
speaking, the outcome of the make and shape of the shooter; anij 
as they ai-e in almost as great variety, no general rule can apply. 
But there is one rule that always applies. It is the fashion to 
build the stock with the heel much more bent than the comb. 
The reverse looks badly. This being so, when the gun is forced 
sharply backward by recoil or kick, the check catches the blow 
From the comb, because the latter is more raised than that part of 
the stock against which the cheek rests. It requires, therefore, 
merely a straight back thrust from recoil to give an upward blow 
by the stock. If the comb were more bent than the heel, this 
would be so, but, then, the result would be unsiglitly. What, 
therefore, gun-makers do is to cast off the comb, and as this 
part is always thinner than the heel and than that part of the 
stock where the cheek rests, a very little ca.st-off out of the 
straight line of stock is enough to make the backward push 
of the gun relieve the pressure on the cheek in.stead of increasing 
it. This relief has become much jnore necessary pi late years than 
it was formerly. 
When shooters thought themselves well off with twenty shots or 
so in an hour, a little blow on the cheek did not matter; but now, 
when 300 to 200 cartridges may be fired in a single drive, and 
1,000 in a day, the question is all-important, and any stock that, m 
its back recoil or kick, does not automatically relieve the pressure 
on the clieek is entirely bad. That is, it does not fit the shooter, 
and it will, sooner or later, make him afraid of his gtm, with the 
consequent bad shooting and want of confidence, ,. - 
We do not think that the angle at which the heelplate lies is 
very important. In fact we regard it as more or less a fancy point. 
Moreover, there is.verv little to be said about length of stock; 
the only rule is to have the .stock just long enough for the finger 
easily to command the first trigger, and also for it to shift easily 
from one to the other, a point in which the shape of the handle- 
is greatly concerned. It is a fact lhat the less the handle is re- 
leased in changing fingers the quicker is the repossession of control 
of the gun for the use of the second barrel. This is where the 
advantage of a single trigger mostly comes in. With one of these 
triggers the hand has not to move, or open and shift grip in order 
to get into position to pull a second trigger. The trigger and 
the trigger guard often play an important part in damaging the 
hand by recoil. Both are often made too sharp at the edge, and 
then the finger gets cut. More frequently it is simply bruised. 
When this happens to the trigger finger, it is because the first 
trigger recoils on to it when the second trigger is pulled; a first 
trigger which swings forward upon pressure from behind, will 
cure this- but when it is the second finger that gets damaged the 
cure is not so easy. A small India rubber pad fixed to the outside 
of the trigger guard is usually of some assistance in these cases, 
and there is also a sliding trigger guard made by Holland. 
What is the quality in a shotgun that we mean when we say that 
it handles well? It is not exclu.sively balance. It is a question 
that we have never been able to get a gun-maker to answer off- 
hand Indeed, we are not quite sure that we have ever received a 
satisfactory reply at all, often as we have put the question. We 
have almost given-up hope of ever having an accurate definition 
of the quality of "handiness," It is so much more easy to say 
what it is not than what it is. Gun-makmg is not one of the ac- 
curate sciences. There is a very great deal of rule of thumb in 
it and it is not all the gun-maker's thumb, either; a good deal of 
it' is the shooter's. The successful gun, or the successful fit of a 
customer must be, therefore, a compromise between the gun- 
maker's necessity and the shooter's wants. When that is exactly 
bit off the gun "handles." AVhen it is not, the gun feels a lump 
in the hand and comes up invariably too low, especially when the 
.shooter is getting tired. Some gun-makers have told ug that nice 
handling is caused by an equal distribution of weight; others have 
said by the position of the center of gravity— i. e., by the balance 
•fhe equal distribution of weight is not a very precise term, and if 
we come to analyze it we suspect it means nothing unless it means 
balance. This is precise, but it is not satisfactory. 
There are those who will tell you the exact point in a gun at 
which it should balance— that is, the spot at which the muzzle and 
the stock are apparently of the same weight and form an even 
balance if the gun be suspended by a piece of string. W e have 
never been able quite to agree that balance should be considered 
independently of the shooter, for the actual weight of the weapon 
itself has a very great deal of effect on apparent balance. It does 
not necessarily alter the position of the center of gravity, but for 
all practical purposes it does so. The proof of this is not difficult, 
the most lumbering shoulder fowling piece that clumsy workmen 
ever turn out now is a beautiful balance in the hands of the 
shooter after he has been lugging about a .577 Express The rifle 
is certainly heavy in front bv comparison, but so as the .-^03; and yet 
the difference between the two in balance is enormous. It is 
purelv dead weight that causes it, and to a great extent it is also 
dead weight that makes the difference between the balance of a 
.r.T'i rifle and a 6y2lb, shotgun. 
The muzzle of the .577 vvill always have a tendency to come up 
low in comparison with that of a light shotgun of equal bend of 
stock This, we think, pioves beyond dispute that actual dead 
weight does not alter the apparent balance. If so, it goes without 
saying lhat fhe heavier the weapon the further back will have to 
be the center of gravity, in order that the heavy gun may feel 
to balance in the same place as the lighter one, Some men are 
content with a pair or three guns all of one design. They are cer- 
tainly the most useful where the shooting is all of the same char- 
acter or does not vary much. Other men will have a 20-bore or a 
28-bore from August or .September, and will be found carrying a 
"grown-up" 12-bore of 7y2lbs. later in fhe season, and with it will 
stop an October grouse that rises at 40yds, and skims straight away 
low down, offering nothing but the stern shot to the marksman. Noth- 
ing can make the 7%lbs. as handy as the 20-bore, It is unreason- 
able to expect it; but, all the same, if the center of gravity of the 
^i^lb. gun is as far forward as that of the 20-bore, the heavy gun 
will be much less handy than it ought to be. It is obvious that 
altering the bend is the w-rong way of making two guns of dift'erent 
weights come up equally. It is a physical impossibility for two 
different bends to be brought up to the shoulder and the eye in 
the same manner. If they shoidd come up to the shoulder the 
same, then, in consequence of the different shape, they come up 
dift'erently for the eye. The eye, being in one place and the shoul- 
der in another, that they may retain the same relative positions, 
one to the other, the stock must always be of the same shape, no 
matter what the weight of the gun may be. If this is not so, the 
result will be an after correction of aim, or a second aim, which 
is so fertile of bad shooting, because it necessitates slow shooting. 
Any gun-maker can build a pair of guns that weigh the same and 
mount the same; but it is not every maker who can turn out a IVz^^. 
12-bore and a 51b, 20-bore that mount the same. The latter is 
altogether a higher art than the former; yet it is the one that the 
man of many guns most requires the fullest advantage of. 
At first sight it appears curious that any two men should agree 
about the balance of a gun, and yet they do. The man who shoots 
with a straight left arm and grasps the barrel as near the muzzle 
as he can, will be heard to agree with another shooter who grasps 
with his left hand the front of the trigger guard. We suppose that 
is because both recognize the advantage of getting the weight as 
far back as possible. ^Ve never yet heard of a gun that handled 
loo light forward (and yet there is no doubt that for steadiness a 
gun can be too light forward to shoot well). We have come to the 
conclusion, after thirty-five years' experience in the field, lhat 
''handiness" much depends upon what the shooter is used to. It 
is a common trick in some gun shops to place in the hands of a 
customer a gun a pound and a half heavier than the one the shop 
man intends to sell to him. (A try gun generally weighs as much 
as that heavier.) 'Ihe customer then at once pronounces the light 
gun "handy" in the extreme, and probably buys it, although it 
ihay not fit him in the least, That, we think, is another proof 
that "handiness"' depends greatly upon the ab.sence of avoirdupois. 
It is a curious fact that mounting a heavy gun a few times will 
have the effect of making even a too-much-bent stock on a light 
gun bring it up high, where it would have come up low but for the 
preliminary mounting of the heavy gun, W^e have already dealt 
with bend of the stock, and we think that, like it, handiness is 
much a question of habit. 
The practical outcome of this is that one should not be dis- 
satisfied with good, old guns because, one happens to like the 
mount of a friend's gun better, especially if the latter happens to be 
lighter. In order to keep our heavy guns "handy" we must, if we 
Use light ones upon occasion, change the center of gravity of the 
latter more forward than in Ihe heavy ones, so that they will not 
"mount" better than the heavy ones can be made to do. Correct 
"mount" is after all only the relative positions of the right and 
left hand to each other. That is entirely a question of habit, as we 
have explained in our remarks about bend of stock. Gravity is 
always pulling down the left hand, arid it is often assisted by the 
trigger finger. .Sir Henry Hall'ord's method of curing this bad 
habit in a pupil was excellent, and should be, if it is not, resorted 
to at the shooting .schools. But this alliance between the nerves 
of the right hand and the left has nothing to do with "mount" 
and handiness, although the shooting schools would make allow- 
ance for it, and build stocks to counteract a bad habit of pulling 
down the aim with the pull of the trigger at the instant of firing. 
Thus, in this instance, they do not cure a fault, but seek to per- 
petuate it. 
A man should certainly be able to shoot to the spot he aims at, 
not merely to the spot he thinks he aims at by means of a cheat 
in the bend or cast-off. Handiness ought to be absolutely inde- 
pendent of bend of stock. Bend and catt otT must be settled on 
their own merits, Handiness and balance are entirely apart from 
them, although one is generally confused with the other. The one 
should be governed exclusively by the case of position of the head 
in looking along the rib at objects in all possible directions. The 
other, "mount" or "handiness," depends upon balance, weight of 
metal and strength of arm, liather than change from a pair of old 
guns that have felt handy perhaps in years gone by, we would 
recommend a course of dumb-bell exercise, for there is nothing 
more certain than that the quickness of the shooter not only de- 
pends upon his nerves, but upon his muscles. It does not matter 
what superabundance of muscular development a man may have, 
he cannot be as quick with a 71b. gun as with a 5Ib, one — no, not 
if he is a giant; neither can he mount or swing so quickly with a 
iilb. gun as 'he can with a walking stick. We would no more rec- 
ommentl the 51b. gun than we would the walking stick for the pur- 
pose of filling the bag; all we wish to do is to induce the shooter 
to regard himself, on the subject of handiness of his gun, as a 
piece of machinery; for the laws of mechanics govern him as much 
as they do steam power; add to the weight, and the pace is pro- 
liortionatelv slower. In gunnery there are very good reans why 
the weiglit cannot be lessened, and for this reason a course of 
muscle-grinding is much more healthful and less costly than new 
.'ind less effective guns are. 
It is not every one who cares for the slow exercise of dumb- 
bells, and for this reason we sugggest Sandow's patent muscle- 
grinder. It has an unquestionable advantage over anything we 
know for exercising the muscles of the arms, 
'I hc shooter's legs generally get plenty of natural exercise; but 
he only finds out that his arms do not when he gets a hundred 
shots or so in rapid succession. Then it is forcibly brought home 
tn him that a course of muscle-grinding would have been a good 
Ihing. lie will not as readily notice his own slowness at individual 
shots as he will notice the armache caused by a lot of shooting in 
quick succession. Nevertheless, when the muscles feel one they 
iire unquestionablysslow for the other. 
Petw Gtm Clwb Progffamme. 
The programme of the Peru (Ind,) Gun Club's tournament, 
Nov. 6 and 7, contains the following information: 
"It was with some misgivings that we announced our first annual 
live-bird, strictlv high-gun tournament in the fall of 1900, it being 
the first tournament of the kind ever given in the West where 
the high-gun system of division of purses prevailed throughout 
the entire programme, How'ever, the splendid support given that 
tonrnanicnt, both liy the professionals and amateurs, proved 
beyond (jucstion lliat the shooters of the middle West are perfectly 
.•-atisfied that the liest shot may win, provided he is able to do so after 
being given a jiroper handicap, which will place him upon an equal 
footing with his less skillful neighbor. In offering you this pro- 
gramme, it is with the utmost confidence that we assure you a 
splendid" tournament, so far as attendance, opportunity to win 
(provided you shoot well enough), quality of birds, speed of 
grounds and management is concerned. Speaking of the manage- 
ment, Mr. Parker's name guarantees that. Our tournament is open 
to the world. All purses high guns. Everybody will be handi- 
cayiped according to his records by Mr. Parker and such com- 
mittee as he may select to assist him, and four of the local club 
will keep vou pretty busy beating us out for the money, If you 
are game, get your little gun and come to see us," 
Wednesday, Nov. 6.— Shooting to commence prom-ptly at 9 A. M. 
Events held open for 10:20 A. M. trains. Event No. 1 is at 5 live 
birds, entrance 13, two high guns for each five entries. Event 
No. 2 is at 7 live birds, entrance $5; see division of purses as 
below. Event No, •? is at 10 live birds, entrance $7; see division 
of purses as below. Event No. 4 is at 7 live birds, entrance $5: 
see division of purses as below. Event No. 5 is miss-and-out, $2 
entrance. Price of birds deducted from purses in all events. If 
three monevs. 40, 35, 25 per cent. If four moneys, 35, 30, 20, 15 
per cent, 'if five moneys, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10 per cent. If six 
moneys 25 20 20, 15, 10, 10 per cent.- If seven moneys, 25. 20, 15 
10 10, JO, I'O jier cent. If eight moneys, 25. 15, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 
per cent. If nine moneys, 25, 15, 10, 10, lO, 10, 10, 5, 5 per cent. 
It ten moneys, 25. 15, 10, 10, 10, 10, 5, 5, 5, 5 per cent, 
Thursday, Nov, 7,— Event No, 1— to warm up— miss-and-out, $2, 
birds included. Event No. 2 is at 25 live birds, ,^20 entrance, 
high gun; division of purses same as on first day, 
Jn all the preceding events nothing but strictly first-class country 
birds will be used. We buy all our birds in a Tadiua of 100 miles 
of Peru, and not a cooped or crated pigeon from the markets will 
be used. If you want to shoot good, strong birds, this is your 
opportunity to do so. 
Don't forget Charlie Stevens' big lOO-bird, $1,000 handicap race at 
Watson's in December, Come to Peru to talk the matter over 
with ("barley, and if you can kill 25 birds straight on the Peru 
grounds you can kill 'em anywhere, and you will have the price 
to enter in Charlie's big shoot. 
Bring along some target shells, as we may have time to shoot 
a few flying targets. We will also have target shells for sale 
on the ground. 
Interstate Association rules will govern, except the provision in 
Rule 22 which penalizes the shooter for opening his gun after a 
misfire. That rule is not in effect at this tournament. All events 
handicap, 26 to 32yds. » 
You may shoot a 10-gauge, but black powder is barred. This 
is for Alec Btirnison's benefit, lie has a 10-bore, but is too 
poor (?) to buy a 12, 
Ship shells, etc., to Frank Dimbar, secretary, Peru, Ind. 
Warm lunch served on the grounds. Plenty of live-bird loads 
for sale on the grounds, 2% to 3 inch shells. Live birds, 25 cents, 
deducted from all purses. You will see better birds, belter 
shooting and have more genuine fun at this tournament than you 
have ever seen or enjoyed in your life. 
A fine, large merry-go-round tent will be provided for the 
shelter of the participants. Tramp Irwin will be handcuffed, to 
prevent his vising the roof as a convenient place to pattern his 
gun, and a bodyguard, armed with axes, will be provided for 
Chief High Temper, to prevent violence being done him by the 
other members of the tribe, should by chance a streak of daylight 
get through the roof of the tent. Chief Rio Grande is appointed 
Commander-in-Chief of the bodyguard. 
IN NEW JERSEY. 
Jackson Park Gun Club. 
Paterson, N. J., (Jet. 29.— The opening shoot of the Jackson 
Park Gun Club, composed of some of the most prominent busi- 
ness men, lawyers, doctors; in fact, all lovers of the shotgun 
atound Paterson, came off to-day at their handsomely appointed 
grounds, Jackson Private Park, which is situated on the main 
road to Singac, about two miles from Paterson, and from which 
the club derives its name. They will have, when completed, one 
of the most up-to-date club grounds around this part of the 
country. They have built a handsome club house, 40 by 12ft., all 
glass front, with platform extending arotuid both ends and the 
front of the shooting house. They have at present forty-two 
lockers and giui racks, running the full length of the building, 
'In .summer time the glass windows, four in number, will swing 
up to the ceiling, and the shutters will swing up on the outside 
for sun protection and afford a most excellent view of every- 
thing. They have at present a magautrap in use. It is set up 
entirely different from any I have ever seen, It is kept in a 
small house, built for the purpose, at the side ot the club house; 
and when it is to be used it runs down a slight incline into a pit 
built for the purpose. The top of the pit is used for the screens 
to protect the man who runs the magautrap. When not in use, it 
is run back and locked tip. The screens cover up the pit, leaving 
it flush with the ground. 
They will also put in a set oE five CJcpert trap.s, to use accord- 
ing to rules governing the .same, 
I'hey will also put in a set of live-bird traps, which will be directly 
in front of the club house and at the proper distance, making 
allowance for boundaries and a 3.3yd, dead line. All the platforms 
are llnished and in place, and in fact, the only thing remaining 
to be done now is to harrow over the grounds, which are very 
large and sow the gi'ass seed, which they intend to do as qtiickly 
as possible, and get the other traps in place, 
(_)ne of the members presented the club with a 65ft. flagstaff, 
and a Hag floated to the breeze for the first time to-day. A 
finer day could not have been selected. 
The Passaic Gun Club came up in a body to celebrate the open- 
ing. It was an invitation affair, the crowd being mostly members 
of both clubs and a few friends of each, to the number of fifty. 
.Everybody was eager to examine the grounds and shooting house 
thoroughly. Everything was in fine shape. 
The shooters were particularly well pleased with the working of 
the magautrap, which worked to perfection and did a good deal 
to facilitate the shooting, 
Ed Morgan did some very good shooting, breakings 34 straight, 
and scored 43 out of 45. 
Among the visitors were ex-Freeholder Tom liyle, Wm. Stone 
H. Stone, (the veteran actor and manager), G. W. Sherman of 
Passaic, S. Wester veil. Judge Senior, Mr. Rhodes, Mr. Madden 
of Paterson, Guardian F, Fudlam, G, King, Game Warden Wm. 
Stalter, Alderman C, Wright, 
The opening event of the day was left for Capt. Powers of 
the home club to break the first 5 targets thrown from the 
magautrap, and he did himself ju.stice by doing the trick. Then 
the writer, Wm, Dutcher, had everything'rcady for the aftemoon's 
sport, which opened with a 10-bird event with Capt. Powers and 
Count Lenone, of Passaic, as assistant. The next to last was two 
picked teams, for every one who would shoot, for the price of 
the targets. 
The club furnished everything for the inner man in the shape of 
refreshments and eatables. 
There arc forty-two meniber.s paid in and thirty-five to be acted 
on next meeting'. 
Events: 
Targets : 
Lenone . . • 
E Morgan 
B Abbott 
C Wright 
C Morgan 
Stalter 
G Hopper 
Berg 
Smith 
C Morgan 
Tom Ryle 
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Team shoot, 15 targets; M^m. Dutcher referee: 
Powers 11, A. Doty 13, Wright 13, Abbott 13, J, Doty 9, Hopper 
11, Bair'd 5, McAndrews 2; total 77. 
Lenone 10, E. Morgan 13, Smith 12, Booker 13, Stalter 9, Bottyle 
9, C, Morgan 6, Ryle 8; total 80. 
Wm. Dutch eu. 
Osslntng GfHi Club. 
OssiNiNC, Nov. 2.— The following scores were lhade by the Ossin- 
ing Gun Club at the regular weekly shoot, Saturday, Nov. 2. We 
hold regular shoots every Saturday afternoon. Any shooters de- 
siring to visit us on any club day will be heartily welcomed: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 C 7 S 9 
Targets: 10 10 10 15 5p 15 I'l 111 1(( 
E D Garnsey,. 7 9 5 13 S .. ,. liJ 10 
H W Bissing 74583 9.. 55 
C G Blandford 9 .... 14 10 15 1,'. .. .. 
M Vail 3 2 5 
A Bedell S 
W Henry 
J C Barlo-.v 
Ur Snow 
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Prize events, 15 scratch, handicap allowance: 
Blandford 15 15 15 Barlow 12 7 9 
Bedell '3 ,, ,, 
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The third match between New Jcr.sey and New York teams is 
likely to be the most closely and best-contested of the series. 
Messrs. Banks and Herrington, who are attending to the pre- 
liminary arrangements, are carefully selecting the best obtainable 
team' members. There will probably be fiftden men on a side. The 
New York team contemplate entertaining their opponents at 
dinner on the evening of the match, r>ec. 11, at Interstate Par 
Li 1. Each team has one victory to its credit, and the contest 
have all been excee«iingly close, 
