Feb. 14, 1903.] 
FOREST* AND STREAM. 
139 
Pigeon Shootmgf. 
Argument Before tfac Fish and Game Committee of tfie 
Legislature of New Jersey at the State House, Trenton, 
N. J., Feb. 2, 1903, fay J, Haraer, of the 
Riverton Gun Club, 
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Commiti.ee: 
Gentlemen— I receive no fee on this occasion. One of my 
friends has just said— jestingly, I hope— that this probably repre- 
sents the value of my services before this committee. However 
this may be, I appear before you because I am interested m the 
subject and because I believe the weight of the ai-gument will be 
found to favor our side of the question. I am an all-the-year- 
round resident, a voter and tax-payer of this State, and am there- 
fore vitally interested with you, gentlemen, in the work of our 
Legi.slature. I am also here, as you know, to speak for this dele- 
gation of men who protest against the passage of any act which 
will prohibit pigeon shootnig in this State, but \vho will gladly 
welcome any reasonably restrictive measure looking toward its 
legislative control. 
Mr. Chairman, I ask you to look into the faces of this delega- 
tion of gentlemen — representative business men — and tell me if you 
discover there any startling evidence of brutality. They may 
not all be handsome, I do not claim this; but 1 am permitted to 
assure you, sir, there is not a wife-beater in the parly, nor a man 
who would be guilty of needless cruelty under any circumstances. 
For the people who are agitating this subject, who desii"e to 
prohibit pigeon shooting, we have the greatest respect. 1 do not 
suppose there is a man in this delegation who has not, at one 
time or another, been a liberal contributor to their various funds 
for the prevention of cruelty; indeed, 1 feel sure there is not a 
man here who would not do his utmost for the proper advance- 
ment of their most worthy cause, but — and there is a but, Mr. 
Chairman — there is room lor a wide ditTercnce of opinion as to 
what constitutes actual cruelty. In my judgment there should 
be a broad line of demarcation between moderation and fanaticism, 
and I still have hopes that these antagonists may come together 
with some reasonable compromise measure which will enable 
you to properly draw that line. 
As long as there is life on this planet there will be sufifering, 
there will be cruelty. It is a part of the general plan, in the 
adoption of which we had no voice. There is a certain amount 
of sufTering we must all endure, men, birds and animals alike, if 
we are permitted to live. To live is to suffer. 
Until we become vegetarians we must take the lives of the 
lower animals that we ourselves may live. 
The gentle hoiisewife, who, in the performance of her duty, 
chops otT the chicken's head, or the butcher who kills the beef 
to provide your dinner, is guilty of an act of cruelty; but it is 
the sort of cruelty, gentlemen, which was foreordained when the 
world began. 
Whenever I have criticised another man for doing something 
which he thoroughly ttnderstood, but which I did not, I have 
found there is nothing quite so embarrassing as an ultimate 
ascertainment of the facts. Our friends, the enemy, have, as yet, 
no reason for any such embarrassment, for they have absolutely 
lao knowledge of the facts, and I beg they will understand that 
I intend no discourtesy by this remark. 
As an illustration of how little they know — ^how little they have 
investigated, allow me to draw your attention to this point. Almost 
every speaker upon their side of the question, every publication 
upon this subject they have ever issued, has condemned pigeon 
shooting for its alleged brutality, and praised field shooting as a 
fair and manly, humane sport. 
The very bill you are now asked to consider exposes the broad 
and deep foundation of misinformation upon which it is con- 
structed, for it draws the same distinction, and in express terms 
states that "nothing in this act shall be held to apply to the 
shooting of game." 
Now what are the conditions surrounding these two forms of 
sport? I have been a devotee of both for more years than it is 
pleasant for me to admit. I am what our opponents would doubt- 
less consider a hardened sinner; but upon this subject, at least, 
Mr. Chairman, I think I speak from actual knowledge, and I 
know I speak from long experience. 
My estimate of pigeon shooting as conducted at the clubs — and 
I assure you, sir, it is a most careful one — my estimate is that 
about 90 per cent, of the birds are painlessly killed and quickly 
gathered; not within the boundary, it is true, but within 100 yards 
of the trap— 90 per cent. These birds are dead, and unless it is a 
crirtie to kill for food, domestic birds raised for that purpose, no 
charge of cruelty can attach to that 90 per cent. About 5 per 
cent, of the birds are missed and fly away totally unharmed. 
Now, wdiatever may have been the intent, even the most violent 
of our opponents will not claim that an act of cruelty has been 
actually committed by the man who has shot at a pigeon which 
he has failed to hit. This, then, disposes of 95 per cent, of the 
birds without cruelty, and leaves still unaccounted for about 5 per 
cent. These are the birds which are hit, but which, being still 
able to fly, are not instantly gathered. Now at all properly 
equipped clubs there are flocks of pigeons flying around the 
barns; four-fifths of this remaining 5 per cent, of birds— the in- 
jm-ed— are promptly decoyed by these flocks back to the barns, 
there to be instantly dispatched by attendants employed for this 
purpose. This accounts for 99 per cent, of the birds without 
cruelty, and brings us, gentlemen, to the unavoidable conclusion 
that there is but one per cent, of cruelty in trapshooting, the 
sport which our opponents condemn for its alleged brutality. 
Now let us turn for a moment to the subject of field shooting, 
which these gentlemen praise as a fair and manly, humane sport. 
In the field we all know that the poor shot kills and gets very few 
birds, but cripples and injures a large proportion. He inflicts the 
maximum of cruelty by reason of his lack of skill. But let us not 
take the poor shot — let us instance the fairly good quail shot. 
I he fairly good shot will kill and gather about 50 per cent, of the 
quail at which he shoots, he will miss about 10 per cent., but he 
will cripple and injure about 40 per cent. These ara the birds 
which show little sign of injury, but which fly away to suffer and 
recover, or to suffer and to die, as the case may be. Forty per 
cent., gentlemen. Forty per cent, of cruelty in field shooting, 
which our friends describe as a fair and humane sport, one per 
cent, in trapshooting, which they arraign for its brutality. Forty 
to one, gentlemen; but let us not stop here. The generality o'f 
men will have ten to twenty days of field shooting as against one 
day of trapshooting, and in order to reach a fair coniparison, you 
must therefore multiply this forty by ten or twenty, but what's 
the use? There is no comparison. The one sport is humanity 
itself compared with the other. Indeed, Mr. Chairman, I have for 
years been so impressed with the cruelty of field shooting that I - 
have many times thought I must eventually be driven to abandon 
it altogether and confine myself to shooting pigeons at the trap, 
where I can be surrounded by all the modern appliances for the 
prevention of cruelty. 
The attitude of these self-confessed game shooters toward pigeon 
shooting reminds me of the couplet regarding those who — 
"Compound for sins they are inclined to 
By damning those they have no mind to." 
Let us suppose, Mr. Chairman, that a poor shot, by practicing 
at the trap, where there is the minimum of cruelty — about one 
per cent.— so perfects himself as to become an expert in the field 
that he is thus able to reduce his field shooting cruelty from 40 
per cent, to say 30 or 20 per cent. Has not his trapshooting ex- 
perience served a good and useful purpose? Has it not in his 
case greatly reduced the sum total of cruelty inflicted? 
These figures, gentlemen, are not mere phantoms of my brain. 
They are susceptible of proof, and will be corroborated by any 
man who will investigate. They have, been confirmed by legal 
decision. 
The celebrated case of the Commonwealth vs. Lewis in the 
Pennsylvania State Supreme Court (Pennsylvania State Reports, 
No. 140, page 2G5), was decided substantially upon these lines. 
The learned Chief Justice (Paxson) not only held in substance 
that there was no appreciable cruelty in trapshooting, but that the 
sum total of cruelty inflicted was greatly diminished by reason of 
the skill acquired at the trap. This decision has been looked upon 
as so conclusive and so fair that there appears in the thirty-third 
annual report of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Animals (19(10, page 17) the following words: 
"Two men were arrested in the spring for shooting and wound- 
ing pigeons, and the question is often asked why we do not stop 
the shooting of pigeons for sport? The answer to that que.'^ti'^n is 
that the Supreme Court of this State has decided that shooting 
pigeons by authorized gun clubs is lawful, and our experience is 
that no reputable gun club will permit an injured bird to suffer." 
There can be no harm in the killing for food of domestic birds 
and animals raised for the purpose. 
Let me repeat this point, for it is the meat of our argument in 
more ways than one: 
There can be no harm in the killing for food of domestic birds 
and animals raised for that purpose, ' ' " 
Every pigeon shot in a match serves a useful purpose — ^the 
killing— the sport is merely incidental. The club of which I am 
a member has for many years had a regular contract for the sale 
of all its dead birds. The flesh is used for Jtnunan food, the 
feathers ar? an article of commerce. 
There is one firm in this country which uses, I am informed, 
for millinery decorations alone, the feathers from upward of 
1,000 pigeons every day in addition to an enormous quantity of 
those of other domestic fowl. This is a point for the Audubon 
Society, whose excellent object is the preservation of otir feathered 
songsters. - This enormous quantity of feathers, furnished by the 
pigeon shooters of this country, does more to preserve the lives 
of our song birds than all the members of all the societies put 
together. To be consistent, to carry out its stated object, gentle- 
men, the Audubon Society should be represented here as the 
champion rather than as the opponent of pigeon shooting. But, 
to return to our pigeons. These pigeons so killed and so used 
fulfill the object of their existence. They die that the scheme of 
life may go on. There is no waste, and where there is no waste, 
where is the needless cruelty? 
Mr. Chairman, it has been gravely charged here to-day that 
pigeons are tortured in order to make them fly faster. Whatever 
may have been the custom in the past, allow me to assure you 
this cuStom does not now prevail at any of the clubs, and during 
my long recollection it never has prevailed there; and there are 
two conclusive reasons why it should not. 
The first reason is that sportsmen, as a class, are kind-hearted 
men, devoted to the freedom of outdoor life — men whose blood is 
red, whose lungs contain oxygen — lovers of nature, worshippers of 
sunshine, and withal, so gentle and so kindly; so fond of domestic 
animals that they would not permit needless cruelty in any form. 
But the second reason is, after all, the material one, and the one 
which will commend itself to your cooler judgment. 
It is that cruelty to the birds would lessen their value by dimin- 
ishing their strength. Pigeon shooters want none but the best, 
the strongest, the healthiest birds that can be procured, and 
these cannot be obtained if cruelly is permitted. They therefore 
require that the birds shall be well fed, well housed and receive 
in all cases the most careful attention. 
As has been brought out by the questions of Mr. Samuel P. 
Rotan, the gentlemen on the other side admit that the present 
laws provide adequate punishment for cruelty, that a pigeon 
shooter can be slopped if he oversteps the line. Ihis being so, 
is it not rather a singular proposition to ask legislative action 
ia such sweeping form to furnish that which is already at their 
hands? 
In refutation of the claim that crippled birds severely suffer, it 
has been stated here that such birds frequently begin lo eat imme- 
diately upon falling lo the ground, thus showing them lo be more 
intent upon their food than upon their suffering. Time does not 
permit me to cover this point further than to say that I have 
personal knowledge that, strange as is- tlxis statement, it is ab- 
solutely true. 
I will not consume your time by repeating what has been so 
forcibly said by my Newark friend, Mr. J. Seaver Page, upon the 
subject of stealing upon deer and shooting them down, as W'as 
admitted to have been done by one of the speakers upon the 
other side, or of luring the bull moose by an imitation of the 
female's cry. No trapshooting can approach this in cruelty. 
Neither have I time to enlarge upon the playing of fish with rod 
and line, the using of live bait, or the keeping of fish alive as 
long as possible for the market. Field shooting and all these 
things, it seems to me, should be attacked before approaching a 
sport containing so small a percentage of cruelty as is to be fotind 
in pigeon shooting properly conducted. 
Mr. Chairman, I am aware that I am talking too long, but 
there are one or two thoughts upon this question still in my 
mind which I want to transfer to yours; I hope, therefore, you will 
bear with me a few moments longer. I have said nothing regard- 
ing the industry which you would destroy if you were to prohibit 
this sport — the industry of raising and selling pigeons. There are 
others here who will cover this branch of the stibject, and doubt- 
less prove to you by statistics that this industry is of such impor- 
tance to the State as to demand your fostering care rather than 
your antagonism. True, it is not a multi-millioned trust, having 
wealthy and influential officers, a powerful and persistent lobby 
and talented and expensive counsel. It is simply an humble 
industry conducted by the_ plain people — the farmers of this 
State — but, notwithstanding its poverty and its apparent lack of 
potential influence, I believe, gentlemen, you will wisely con- 
clude that it is entitled at your hands to protection, not de- 
struction. To prohibit this sport is to destroy this industry. 
Furthermore and finally, gentlemen, and I am sure you will be 
glad to hear that word finally— furthermore and finally, pigeon 
shooting is now chiefly done under the auspices of clubs formed 
for this specific purpose. The club for which I speak has com- 
plied with all the provisions of the law. It has become a lawfully 
incorporated body of law-abiding citizens, banded together for a 
lawful purpose. The State in granting their charter has in effect 
said to them, "Gentlemen, you may do this thing; it is right; it 
is just; it is proper." Acting tmder this lawful authority, thus 
lawfully obtained, this club has expended over |30,000 in a property 
and plant for the lawful pursuit of this lawful sport. This property 
—this industry — this corporation of the Slate of New Jersey, will 
become absolutely valueless in the event of the prohibition of this 
sport. I do not believe popular clamor can have obtained any 
such hold. I do not believe this legislative body can be induced 
to take any such unfair and unwise action. 
This sport has been followed without restriction up to the 
present time. I believe our lawmakers agree that it is a serious 
question to pass laws in prohibition of long-established customs 
of the people. The delegation I represent, as has previously been 
stated, will gladly welcome any movement tovi'ard a proper regula- 
tion of the sport, and are prepared to unite with their friends of 
the other side in endeavoring to present a bill which shall meet 
the objections made and yet not cause the grievous damage which 
would result from the total prohibition of this sport. 
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I thank you for your very patient 
and courteous attention. 
Ossining Gun Qufa. 
OssiNiNG, N. Y. — The inclosed scores were made at the regular 
shoot of the Ossining Gun Club, Feb. 7. The main events to-day 
were 25-target affairs, for silver cups, one a handicap cup to be 
won three times to retain, and the other a scratch cup to be won 
a like number of times. There were altogether fourteen partici- 
pants in the first event, five of whom, with their handicaps of 
misses as breaks, made clean scores. In the second event, C. G. 
B landlord got one win with a score of 23, Kromer being second 
with 20. Scores as follows: 
In extra events, Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6~^were made Jan. 31: 
Twenty-five-target handicap event: 
Brk. Hdcp. Tot'l. Brk. Hdcp. Tot'l. 
D Brandreth....l8 4 22 W Coleman 22 2 24 
Hans 22 3 25 A Rohr 16 13 25 
W Clark 17 3 20 E Becker 17 6 93 
C Blandford 22 0 22 G Edgers 8 10 IS 
"^Bruin 18 S 25 G Hubbell 14 6 20 
W Fisher 20 4 24 J Keenan 18 8 25 
R Kromer, Jr.,. 21 4 25 
Tw^enty-five-target scratch event: D. Brandreth w.. Hans 19 W. 
Clark 19, C. Blandford *Bruin 17, R. Kromer, Jr., 20, W. Cole- 
man 16. 
* Shot along. 
Extra events: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Events: 
Targets: 10 10 25 10 10 10 Targets: 
Hans 8 10 Kromer 
Clark 6 Coleman .. 7 . 
Fisher 9.... 8 3.. Becker g 6 
Blandford 10 . . 21 7 10 . . Bedell %" 'h'h" 
Brandreth 7 7 Hubbell li 9 § 
Bruin 7 9 Foley 6 10 3 
Next cup shoot Lincoln's Day, 12th inst. C. G. B. 
1 2 3 4 5 6 
10 10 25 10 10 10 
Qncinnati Gun Qub, 
CINCIN^'ATI, O., Jan. 31.— The second contest of the C. G. C. 
cash prize series had contestants, handicaps and scores as follows- 
Squier (20) 44, R. Trimble (21) 43, Ahlers (20) 43, Randall (18) 43' 
Harris (18) 42, Faran (18) 42, \^an Ness (18) 42, Sleinman (17) 40 
Medico (16) 40, E. A. Randall (15) 39, Dreihs (16) 38, Osterfeld 
(15) 37, Barker (18) 36, Coleman (18) 35, J. B. (16) 35, Parker (18) 
34, Corry (17) 34, Willoughby (15) 34, McB. (16) 33, Falk (17) 32 
Ackley (14) 32, Block (18) 31, Roll (17) 31, Jack (15) 31, Herman 
(16) 30, Boeh (14) 24, Watterson (14) 23. v y , 
Trap Afotind Readingf* 
Reading, Pa., Feb. 7,— Harry W. Weidner and Harry E. Saylor, 
two well-known trapshooters of this city, met in a 25-target match 
at the Reading Base Ball grounds to-day. Saylor won the match, 
breaking 23 lo Weidner's 22. A very large crowd of sportsmen 
witnessed the match, and a considerable amount of money changed 
hands on the result. 
York, Pa., Jan. 29.— An all-day shoot was held at the grounds of 
the Yijfk City Gun Club to-day. Ihere was n good attendance, and 
notwithstanding the fog and gloom, some good marksmanship was 
displayed. The principal events were as follows: 
Live-bird contest for championship trophy of York county be- 
tween Michael Lauber, holder, and Mac Miller, challenger, was 
won by Miller killing 22 out of 25 birds. Lauber killed 10 out of 
Ihe 25. 
Target contest for championship target trophy of York county, 
100 targets, between Allen M. faeitz, holder, and Eli Spangler, 
challenger. Spangler broke 70, Seitz broke 40. 
Target contest for the club championship target trophy, 50 
targets; open only to members of the club. Nelson McSherry 
won, breaking 38 and missing 12. The others in this event scored 
as follows: Spangler 34, iVlorningstar 31, Sweigert 33, Alvin 
Reist 29, Grove 30, Miller 30, Bush 24, Seitz 24, Deardorff 21, 
Lauber 19. 
During the afternoon a series of target events were held. 
West Chester, Pa., Jan. 29.— At Plumsock to-day Daniel Regester 
gave a big shoot with poultry as prizes. The following well- 
known marksmen were present: Daniel Regester, Taylor Sellers, 
Clyde Rogers, W. D. Biddison, Eugene Hickman, George Bald- 
win, Arthur Rogers, J. G. Riggs, Taylor Biddison, John Sill, 
Samuel Kirk, Benjamin Holland, Clift'ord Thomas, Howard Green 
and others. 
Targets were used, and the rules of the matches were miss-and- 
out. 
The leading contest was between Clyde Rogers and George 
Baldwin. Each broke 12 targets in succession. Both missed the 
next target. The seventeenth target Rogers missed, and Baldwin 
was the winner. Rogers won in another contest from Eugene 
Hickman. 
Cnarlisle, Pa., Feb. 5. — The Carlisle Gun Club will give an all- 
day shoot on the grounds, Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 23. The programme 
has thirteen events at targets, a total of 200 shots, at a cost of 
.$13, two events at live birds, one at 10 birds, $5, and one at 8 
birds, $4, will be shot; $5 to high average, and $3 to low average 
should fifteen shoot through target programme. All targets from 
magautrap. Paid experts for price of targets only. Dr. J, G. 
Fickel, R. E. Shearer, C. F. Dinkle, committee. 
Lansdale, Pa., Jan. 27.— An interesting match at 50 live birds 
each for $100 was shot on the grounds of the Flourtown (Jun Club, 
Flourtown, this afternoon. It was won by Henry Hart, of Flour- 
town, R. Blank, of Norristown, being defeated by only 2 birds. 
The shooting was remarkable. Several handicap shoots were de- 
cided, with E. P. Rotzell as high gun, he killing 18 straight birds. 
The scores of the match shoot follow^: 
H Hart .22220222202222222222220221121022221121122002222222—44 
R Blank 2220021121122*22222022122220021112200221111imiU.— 42 
Sweepstakes: Rotzell 20, Hart 18, Green 18, West 16. 
Pottslown, Pa., Feb. 2.— (Jne hundred live birds were shot on 
the Shuler Shooting Club grounds this afternoon between two 
teams, Joe Nettles and his sixteen-year-old son, Roy Nettles, on 
one side, and Joe Keen and IT. Seidel on the other. Each man 
shot at 25 birds, The score: Joe Nettles 22, Roy Nettles 24: 
total 46; Joe Keen 24, H. Seidel 20; total 44. 
The Nettles won the $50 stake. Young Nettles killed all his 
birds with one barrel. Dustee. 
Dallas Tournament. 
Dallas, Pa., Feb. 6.— The tournament of the Dallas Gun Club, 
held to-day, w^as a success. No. 1 event had twentv-one entries. 
The main event, a live-bird handicap, was the third of the pro- 
gramme. Thomas Eley, from 32yds.; Charles Webber, 30yds., and 
W. P. Thompson, 2Syds., tied for first with 5 straight. Dr. Weida, 
Norris, Petlebone, Raub and Shultz tied for second, all 30yds, 
with 4 out of 5, and Eley, 32yds., and Booth, Hart, Wendel, Con- 
rad and Mason, all 27yds., tied for third with 3 each. 
In the fifth event, a trap-and-handle match, each shooter stood 
at 21yds., gun below the elbow. There were sixteen entries at 
$3.75 each; four live birds per man. This event was won by Thos. 
Eley and Charles Webber, each Idlling 4 straight; second prize 
was divided by Schultz, Allen, Norris and Reese, with 3 kills each; 
third money was won by Wendel, with 2 kills out of the 4. 
Events: 
Targets : 
C D Wall 
B B Schultz..... 
Conrad 
W'eida 
Dearfass 
Yapple . . . 
Pettibone 
12 3 
4 5 
10 10 15 10 10 
8 .. 10 
5 9 
4 8 12 
9 6 10 
"9 
5 3 9 
7 .. 
4 .. 8 
7 .. 9 
'3 
3 5 15 
9 8.. 
'9 
7 10 ., 
7 7 
4 4 
8 7 9 
6 .. 
5 5.. 
7 .. 
6 ,. 
4 .. 9 
9 .. 
4 
1 .. .. 
7 .. 
8 7.. 
S .. 
Events; 
1 2 3 4 5 
Targets : 
Dendal 
10 10 15 10 10 
... 4 6 
Hal leek 
Kane 
Shaver 
Davis 
Hildebrandt . . . 
Thompson 
Allen 
8 
.V. .. 4 .. 4 
4 -. 
6 7.. 
Hallcck 
Live birds, §3.75 entrance, 50, 30 and 20 per cent 
Elev. 32 ^mm c„i,,.tt_ in 
T Eley, 32 
C Norris, 32 
.20201—3 Schultz, "30 21101-4 
.11022—1 Conrad, 30 11020—3 
II pS[Lne:-30 Mason;-3i 10012-3 
P Raub, 30.. 
™— 1 Allen, 30 02010-2 
• • • -ifiM 30 • • . . . ^. 00102-2 
Kipple, 30 01221—4 Plaight, 30 10000-1 
G Hart, 30 02011-3 Thompson. 30 121U-5 
Dendall 30. 01012-3 Hildebrant, 30 OlOOl^I^ 
Dr Weida 30 02112-4 Leavenworth, 30 111111-4 
Webber, 30 22211—5 vj-j-u— * 
and'20 pir^cen?-''^^'' ^"'^ ^^'^^ entrance, 50, 30 
C Norris W 1101-3 Elev : llii_4 
Schultz"" ::::::::: g oendie oiis^l 
Yaggle '. 
Reese 
••• .'.■.'.■.■.■•.Oiod-l Fratddin' 0100-1 
J^ooth 0000^0 Wall 
.0010—1 Allen ! 0111— 3 
.OICO — 1 Conrad 0111 5 
4M~:? Kipple _ 1001— 3 
Pettibone 1110-3 Hughes 
Haight llin-3 Trainer 
■"iason 1110—3 
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Nonpareil Gun Club, 
Watson's Park, Burnside Crossing, 111., Feb. 7.— FoUowinsr are 
the scores made at the shoot of the Nonpareil Gun Club to diyf 
Club shoot, 50 targets: Barto 39, Young 30. a-iy. 
Troisdorf trophy, 25 targets: Barto 17, Young 16. 
Sweepstake, 25 targets : Ibarto 14, Young 17. Watson. 
The programme of the Grand Carnival shoot, under the auspices 
IJ}^ ^ Trapshooters- ani Game Protic fve 
OrWs La *Feb%o"pi A% ^i'y . J^rk Gun Club, at Nevv 
I'^A r"- ■^'^^ provides ten events; two at 15, 
A^fi *^' ^"^^ entrance ba.*ed on 10 cents per target 
4Se^l W5"%o'an.?'4\ ' ' «>"S'P°"ds with the ^umber^o 
taigets, .fio, $^0 and $25. Five hundred dol ars w 11 be added to 
prL''ramme-'^''"&^'df ^^'^^em. ^ The following is taken from the 
programme. lirst day, event 7, individual troohv shoot onpn 
to any member of the Mississippi' Valley TrapshSs' and Game 
Protective Association. Second day, event 7, Three-man team fr^JJ^ 
MpLm"' '''ri'^' "^^™bers of the A:ssociati^! Ev™nt T 
>fJ.nf= "t^^T^i ^"'^P^"^^ cup trophy, open to aH partil 
cipants. Third day, five-man team race, no entrance, open to anv 
lue participants actually resident m one place, $50 to w nnin^ 
team, with optional sweepstake. Average prizes, $25, $15 and $10 
Even events will be shot over expert system of 'traps ; odd events 
over magazine trap. A handsome silver trophy w-Hl be avvarHed 
he expert making high average. Lunch on Irounds each dav 
Grounds open for practice Thursday, Feb 19 Mardi r ,e " 
Carnival rates will prevail on all rail^iads entering New Jrilans' 
so be sure to ask for them. Standard loads will be for slle on the 
grounds. Ship guns or ammunition to L. Gerteis cMt^in 7iq 
Perdido street, and apply for any information to P^rcTs Bell 
City Park Gun Club, New Orleans La or T t' 
Bradfield, Secretary of the Mississippi ValIerTrapshooter.'-^;„-H 
(J3ffle Prot?9^;ive Association, Vicksbm-g, MisT" ^ " 
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