£40 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 21, 1963. 
Omaha Ttap. 
DKfAHA, Neb^ March 16^ — For years Omaha has been one of the 
shooting centers of the United "States, and ten years ago it was 
noted for the frequency of its big trap events. Then there was a 
season of several years' inactivity; but after this rest tlie pastime 
broke out with more vigor than ever, and to-day there is probably' 
no city or State in the country that compares with Omaha and 
Nebraska for the number and importance of its trap tournaments. 
There are now no less than six or eight regularly organized clubs, 
in the city, and over half a hundred in the State; and bigger 
crowds assemble at the weekly shoots and more targets are 
atomized and more pigeons killed than there used to be in a 
month. For this condition of things much credit is due to the 
Omaha Gun Club, one of the oldest shooting organizations in the 
country, and to the State Sportsman's Association. The Omaha 
club was organized nearly forty years ago, and originally it was 
styled the Omaha Sportsman's Club. That was in the good old 
days, when Yank Hathaway, Gen. George Crook, John Petty, G.^ H. 
Collins, George -A, Hoagland, Byron Keed, Judges B. E. B. Ken- 
nedy, and George B, Lake, t)r. Peabody, John Withnell, Howard 
Kennedy, Dick Withnell, Henry Homan, Al. Patrick, Major 
Sackett, W. H. S. Hughes, Goodley Brucker, William Preston 
and John J. Hardin and scores of others, now difficult to recall, 
were the active members. The club had a large general member- 
ship, composed of the most prominent professional and business 
men — as . it is to-day— and as they were all practical and en- 
thusiasti<; followers of the field, it took but precious little induce- 
ment even at that early date to interest them in friendly com- 
petitions^ at the trap. In those days trap tournaments were new, 
and the .regular weekly shoot was attended by the full member- 
ship, while the spectators who assembled to witness the sport ran 
up into the hundreds, while to-day the lookers-on are chiefly com- 
posed of the shooters themselves. In the old days the rivalry 
between the contestants was always at fever heat, and the average 
scors made then, with black powder, soft shot and hammer guns, 
incredible as it may seem, were up to those of the px-esent day. 
Along in the '70s, I have seen Frank Parmelee— who, by the way, 
has just moved to Rockport, Tex., where he will engage in the 
poultry business, and who since his boyhood has occupied a 
premier position among the crackerjack trap shots of the world — 
and John Petty, Hal Penrose, J. J. Hardin, Billy Townsend, 
Billv Brewer, H. B. Kennedy, Charlie Williams, Johnny Thomp- 
son,' Goodley Brucker, Taylor Sprigg, Dick Metz, D. T. Stubbs, 
Clark Ellis and a dozen others run their scores up well into the 
90s in every 100 live-bird or artificial target shoot in which they 
took part. In the 25-target shoots, which were the regular weekly 
club shoots, Parmelee, Petty, Hardin, Penrose, Williams and 
one or two others more often emerged from the fray with straights 
than they did with broken records. 
It is extremely pleasing to note that to-day there seems to be 
more than a full restoration of the activity of the days of he 
old lang syne. The preservation of the old Omaha club in tlie 
perfect vigor of its youth, the splendid organization of the Dickey 
Bird Gun Club; the Taylor & Williams Yellowstone Gun Club; 
the Prairie Gun Club; the South Omaha and Council Bluffs gun 
clubs, and the Rifle Club, are all robust organizations, and very 
much alive, and putting forth extra efforts this spring to make 
Omaha a shooting center second to none in the country. Their 
initial shoots this spring, despite the generally inauspicious- 
weather, indicate that this much-desired end is to be surely at- 
tained, and that this health-promoting and life-prolonging diver- 
tisement is to take rank with the most popular pastimes of the 
day. , 
The Omaha club at present has a roster of seventy members, 
with J. P. Smead, President; W. P. McFarlane, Vice-President; 
W. D. Townsend, Secretary, and Goodley Brucker, Treasurer. 
They shoot everv Saturday afternoon. The Dickey Bird Gun 
Club is a younger and large body, with George Nicholsoiij, Pres- 
ident; Walter F. Kinnear, Vice-President, and George Toozer, 
Secretary and Treasurer. The Yellowstone Gun Club has a limit 
of thirty members, and Fred Hoye is President. The South 
Omaha Gun Club at its last census had sixty members, and the 
Council Bluffs Gun Club about the same number. The Omalia 
Rifle Club, with fifty members, was recently organized, with Dr. 
J. C. Whinnery, President; Joe Barton, Vice-President, and Fred 
Carter, Secretary and Treasurer. The Omaha Mallard and Mer- 
ganser clubs are principally duck shooting organizations, although 
thev pay considerable attention to the trap. , _ ■ , -u- 
O'maha also has a game and fish protective association, with H. 
S McDonald, President, and Council Bluffs has just organized 
a similar body, with E. C. Brown President, and a membership of 
over three hundred. Their one aim is to break up the illegal 
fishing that has been practiced on most all Iowa waters from time 
immemorial, and they are preparing for the building of a modern 
club house at Lake Manawa, formerly famous for its black bass. 
On the Trans-Mississippi trapshootmg tournaments' spring cara 
there are many good things, beginning with the joint shoot of the 
North Platte, Buffalo Bill and Grand Island gun clubs, which will 
be held at Grand Island April 1, 2 and 3, the first two days to be 
devoted to targets, ten events each day, and the last to the third 
shoot between the All-Nebraska and Omaha, South Omaha and 
Council Bluffs ten-man teams, 100 live-bird race. The two teams 
have already met twice, the rural shots skinning their metropol- 
itan rivals both times; the first in October last by a margin ot 
5 birds, and the second last month by a margin of 4. Both shoots 
were held on the Omaha Gun t:iub grounds. The teams are: 
Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs— W. D. Townsend, cap- 
tain; Tom Grant, Dick Kimball, Fred Montmorency, G W. 
Loomis, Charlie Lewis, Billy Brewer, Dorsey Burgess, Ired Good- 
rich and Ed Hafer; All-Slate-Georse L. Carter, captain; Dan 
Bray, Syracuse; C. D. Linderman; Weeping Water-G. A. 
Srhroeder, Columbus; State Game Warden George B. bimpkins, 
Lincoln; Gus Seivers; Grand Island-Frank Baird, Herman; W. 
H. Illian, Albion; Fanner Burke, Elgin, and Martm Diefendcrfer, 
Wood River. Then follows the Geneva, Neb. Gun Club s meet, 
March 25 and 26; the St. Joe, Mo., Gun Club shoot April - to 10; 
the Grand American Handicap, Kansas City April 14 15 l(i ana 
17- the Nebraska State Sportsman s annual, Lincoln, April 
31'and May 1; the Kansas State shoot, Co'icordia Kaits , May 
1 2 and 3; the Iowa State shoot, Osceola. May 19, 20 and 21, the 
Sioux City Gun Club shoot, June 9. 10 and I L ^^^^^ Gkiswoi-d. 
ON LONG ISLAND. 
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Crescent Athletic Qub. 
Bay Ridge, L. I., March 14.— There were nineteen contestants 
in the second contest for the March cup, and of these Mr. W. W. 
Marshall and Dr. H. O'Brien tied on a full score. Saturday of 
this week is the day fixed upon for the team contest between the 
Crescents and the Boston Athletic Association Gun Club, for a 
trophy purchased jointly by the two organizations. The members 
of the visiting team arc considered to be Messrs. C M. Howell, 
W L. Hill, George E. Clark, R. W. Dennison, D. W. Edwards, 
Dr S A Ellis, T. F. Baxter, Daniel Hallett and J. H. Daggett. 
The weather was pleasant and a large programme was shot, in 
which there were numerous ties. The scores follow: 
Cup shoot, 50 targets: 
Hdcp. Brk. Tot'l. Hdcp. Brk. Tot'l. Total. 
2 i l/^f^-- ::::: i fo 1 I i i 1? 
F p. 4eDhenson 2 2 24 2 23 25 49 
^ I led?ord" Jr.. i i 2 20 22 4 
W W Marshall 5 20 25 5 20 25 50 
n C Bennett 4 11 lo 4 21 25 4U 
M R VanTerveer 4 17 21 4 21 25 46 
FHIott ... 3 18 21 3 22 25 46 
VV HagedVrn.:: 3 20 | 3 19 22 45 
W J McConville 4 18 22 4 19 23 45 
H C Werlemann | 19 25 8 15 23 48 
Dr O'Brien 1 ?2 I ?« II 4S 
G W xMeeker.- 5 20 25 5 18 23 48 
TT n MpqH 7 Jl 18 7 10 II oo 
I M PaTiner 2 20 22 2 19 21 43 
T CHoDkf^S .. 4 20 24 4 17 21 45 
nr Sfives . 2 13 15 2 19 21 36 
A R^ Rhett 4 17 21 4 17 21 42 
^ w pafmen:::::::::::::: 3 21 24 3 20 23 47 
TTanHiran shoot 15 targets; G. G. Stephenson, Jr. (1) 15, Fish 
(if 14 F ^B Stephenson^l)'l5, BedforcT (1) 14, Marshall (.3) 14. 
Bennett (2) 10, Vandervecr (2) 14, Lott (2) 13, Hagedorn (2) 15, 
McConville (2) 15, L. M. Palmer (1) 12, Hopkins (2) 15, Dr. Keyes 
1) lOr McDcrmott (3) .15, A. W. Palmer 13, Werleraan (4) 9, 
t)r O'Brien (2) 15, Meeker (3) IS, Rhett (2) 10. ^ ^ „^ , 
cihoot-off 15 tareets: G. G. .Stephenson 0) H, F. B. Stephenson 
(if 15? Hagedorn^2) ISJ. McConJlle (2) 12 Hopkins (2) 15. Mc 
Dermott (3) 15, O'Brien (3) 15, Meeker (3) 13. 
Shoot-off, 15 targets: F. B. Stephenson (1) 15. McDermott (3) 
14. O'Brien (3) 13. Hopkins (2) 11. 
SrScplJSJpMriS^l^, MarsWl 7. V^aderycer U. Hagedom 
12, L. M. Palmer 13, Hegeman 14, A. W. Palmer 12, Sykes 9, 
O'Brien 13, Voorhies 9, Chapman 9; total 134, 
F. Stephenson 14, Bedford 13, Bennett 12, Lott 12, McConville 
10, Hopkins 13, McDermott 9, Raynor 10, Werleman 6, Meeker 
13, Mead 9, Keyes 13; total 133. 
Trophy shoot, handicap, 16 targets: G. G. Stephenson (1) 14, 
Fish (1) 14, F. B. Stephenson (1) 15, Bedford (1) 14, Marshall (3) 
15, Vanderveer (2) 15, Bennett (2) 15, Lott (2) 15, Hagedorn (2) 
9, McConville (2) 16, L. M. Palmer (1) 14, Hopkins (2) 15, Hege- 
man (2) 13, McDermott (8) 11, A. W. Palmer (2) 14, Blake (5) 12, 
Sykes (2) 13, Werleman (2) 13, O'Brien (3) 12, Meeker (3) 9. 
Shoot-off, 15 targets: F. B. Stephenson (1) 16, Marshall (3) 14, 
\'anderveer (2) 14, Bennett (2) 10, Lott (2) 13, McConville (2) 16, 
Hopkins (2) 15. 
Shoot-off, J5 targets: F. B. Stephenson (1) IS, McConville (2) 
12, Hopkins (2) 10. 
Handicap, 15 targets: Dr. Keyes (1) 15. Hopkins (2) 12, O'Brien 
(3) 15, Werleman (4) 11, Sykes (2) 15, Chapman (4) 14, Marshall 
(3) 12, Rhett (2) 9, A. W. Palmer (1) 13, Lott (2) 15, Bedford (1) 
12, Fish (1) 14. 
Shoot-off, 15 targets: Dr. Keyes (1) 11, O'Brien (3) 13, Sykes 
(2) 11, Lott (2) 15. 
Brooklyn Gun Club. 
bluerock targets from four magautraps run by electric motor; 
shad dinners; most beautiful shooting grounds in the State. 
Anything else? Yes. Come and see the greatest shoot ever given 
in this State. V. V. Dorp, Sec'y. 
2728 NoRtH Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
shoot of the Brooklyn Gun Club 
The weather was pleasant. The 
Brooklyn, L. I., March 14.— The 
last Saturday, was well attended 
scores follow: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 
Targets: 10 10 10 15 15 15 10 15 10 15 10 10 10 15 
Welles 7 7 9 12 7 14 8 12 3 12 8 7 5 12 
Borland 6 5 7 11 U .. 6 .. .. 8 7 
Frost 6 4 5 .. 8 10 
Wright 7 6 9 9 12 8 8 9 5 7 8 
Schneider 9 6 7 12 15 15 7 9 . . 10 10 9 .. 10 
Loebel 9 8 6 9 7 7 6.. 5.. 6 
Hitchcock S 7 5 8 7.. 8.. 7 8.. .. .. 8 
Mohrman 5 7 3 8 8 . . 4 . . 5 . . 5 5 . . . . 
Hausleiter 7 .. 4 9.. 5 5 8 5.. 4 6 .... 
Eckley 7 6 5 10 
Anderson 2 3 5 8 8.. 5.. 5.. 
Hughes 5 4 3 5.. 4 3 4 
Marlborough 2 3 3 4 .. 4 .. 4 
Bond 2.. 2 4.. 3 
Winkler 2 3 2 3 .. 3 .. 4 
Osterhaut 5 6 7 7.. 7 
Checseborough 7 
Newton 3 .. 6 6 
Greene 4 
Mineola— FreeporU 
Mineola, L. I., March 14.— The third and last contest of teams 
from the Mineola- A. C. and the Freeport Gun Club took place 
on the grounds of the former to-day. Victory rewarded the ■ 
skill of Mineola, the scores being: Mineola 84, Freeport 79. There 
were five men to a team, 25 targets per man. With this win 
Mineola won two out of the three contests. The scores: 
Mineola Team. 
E Gildersleeve 11111111101011] 1101011101-20 
\V Simonson 1010101000111010111111011—16 
W Seaman 0100011110011111111110010—16 
G HouRhton 0000111111001110111101001—15 
E Schmidt 0110100011010111111110111—17-84 
Freeport Team. 
F C Wilks 1111111111111111101111111—24 
F Easner 0001000001010001011100000— 7 
C F Sprague 1101001110101101011110001—15 
C T Ryder 1110111101001000111111111—18 
G Greiff 0011100111010111101111000—15—79 
Ten targets: Greiff 5, W. Simonson 7, T. Ryder 9, T. Sprague 
S P. Murphv 4, F. C Willis 9, G. Houghton 2, E. Schmidt 7, 
M. Scally 8, F. Gildersleeve 10, W. Seaman 8. „ , „ 
Ten targets: Simonson 5, Ryder 9, Sprague 8, Murphy 3, 
Willis 9, Houghton 5, Schmidt 7, Scalley 6, Gildersleeve 7, Sea- 
roan 6. 
Emerald Gwn CI«b. 
New York, March 10.— Herewith please find the record for 
the past year, March, 1902, to March, 1903, of the Emerald Gun 
Club. The annual meeting was held on Thursday at 8 P. M. 
at the house of Dr. C. V. Hudson. The club was organized 
twenty-two years ago this month, and is now entering the twenty- 
third year of its existence. It has been an active organization at 
all times during this period, shooting from eight to twelve times 
a year. Nothing but live birds have been used, and many prizes 
have been contested for. Its team has won the team champion- 
ship at targets and the last Dean Richmond trophy contest, shot 
for at live birds in the State of New York, at the meeting of the 
N. Y. S. A. P. F. and G. The club donates Trom its treasury 
more ' cash for prizes each year than any other club in this 
vicinity, and the handicapping is on the point and rise basis, thus 
allowing a B or class man to win the highest point average. This 
is the fourth year Schortemeier has won the average prize, and 
his coming yfear's handicap is 33yds. The club will shoot at 
Smith Brothers' grounds, Newark, which are being enlarged 
the coming year. . , ^ -.r -n -j 
The following officers were elected: Patrick J. May, President; 
L. H. Schortemeier, First Vice-President; Henry C. Koegel, 
Second Vice-President; Thomas Short, Recording and Financial 
Secretary, and the old reliable John H. Moore as Treasurer, a 
position he has held for many years. 
The balance in the treasury is satisfactory, and the usual 
amount of cash was voted for prizes the coming year. The value^ 
of cash prizes and merchandise the past few years averaged some 
$200. The cash prizes are given on condition that the member 
purchases a memento or souvenir or something pertaining to the 
sport. The shooting day is the third Tuesday of the month, ex- 
cepting the months«of July and December; and any shooter in 
the vicinity is welcome to participate, but or course is not 
eligible to prizes. . -mt u m 
The first shoot of the year took place appropriately on March 1/. 
Record of Emerald Gun Club of New York at live birds, sea- 
son March 1, 1902 to March 1, 1903; average to count in eight or 
more shoots, winners can select only one prize, point average: 
— Handicap — 
Yards. Points. Shot at. Killed. Pomts. Avge^ 
J Fischer... 
Dr Pludson. 
J H Moore.. 
'A Schoverlii 
F J Kali.... 
T Short 
V May 
II C Koegel 
W' Hassenge 
W Catton... 
H Chasmer.. 
H Voehring 
R Regan 
W Sands 
Al Scheubel. 
H Dressell.. 
N V Gunthe — 
Average prizes: First, Schortemeier, $20; second, Schoverling, 
^^Point'priSt^FirS, Fischer; second, Corbett; third^^Hausman. 
The Florist's Gun Club. 
Philadelphia, March 12.— The thirteenth annual tournament of 
the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen's Association will be given 
under the auspices of the Florists' Gun Club, of Philadelphia, on 
ll eir grounds at Wissinoming, Pa., May 18, 19. 20 and 21, at flying 
taroets- and Keystone Shooting League grounds, at Holmesburg 
Junction, Pa., May 22 and 23, at live birds. 
We offer State shooters guaranteed purses; daily average, high 
and low euns; general average, high and low guns; adde4 mopey 
to pursef for 66 to 80 per cent, men; 70 per cent, is sure to 
win some money; a tax purse for those who shoot through the 
three davs' open amateur events, 100 shots a day, and fail to win 
hick their entrance; absolute trophy in each team match; in- 
dividual prizes to team winners; individual trophy to winner of 
^tlfe average- added money in all State events; two grand mer- 
chandise handicaps; op??! amateur sweeps; manufacturers agents 
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Cincinnati Gun Club. 
Cincinnati, O.. March 7.— The seventeenth contest for the 
Troisdorf medals resulted as follows: Rike (20) 45, Randall (16) 
45, Lindsley (16) 42, Corry (16) 42, Leever (17) 42, Hawk (16) 42, 
Ackley (16) 41, Ahlefs (21) 41, Van Ness (16) 41, Maynard (19) 41, 
Barker (18) 40, Block Cl8) 39, E. Trimble (17) 39, Medico (16) 39, 
Nye (16) 39, R. Trimble f21) 38, Linn (15) 38, McB. (16) 38, 
Capt. (16) 38. Coleman (19) 38, Falk (18) 37, Brown (16) 37, Gam- 
bell (20) Williams (16) 23. 
Randall, Van Ness and Medico's handicaps were 20, 19 and 
18yds., respectively, but they preferred shooting at the 16yd. mark, 
their scores in the medal not counting. 
Ed Rike paid us a visit and made high score from 20yds., 
breaking his first 30 straight. 
The day was a miserable one to shoot, rain stopping the shoot 
time and again. However, it did not keep the crowd from 
coming out. 
Van Ness and Gambell have started a series of ICO-target races, 
one to take place each week and the total in 500 to count. Re- 
sult of first race: Van Ness 89, Gambell 87. 
March 11. — Gambell and Dell Gross decided to test their skill at 
the traps last week, so after kidding the former at Schuler's one 
night recently a match was made and shot at the club grounds. 
The weather was ideal, and good scores were made by both con- 
testants; in fact. Gambell shot "like he used to years ago," and 
put up the good score of 95 to 93 for Gross. 
The following day a three-cornered match was shot between 
Gambell, Gross and Ahlers, the first»named winning by 2 targets. 
Scores : 
No. 1, match at 100 targets. 18yds.: Gambell 95, Gross 93. 
No. 2, same: Gambell 89, Ahlers 87, Gross 87. 
March 14.— The fourth contest for cash prize had scores as ap- 
pended. Medico shot at 16vds. ; regular handicap, 18yds.: 
Medico (16) 44, Barker (17) 43, Maynard (18) 43, Block (17) 42, 
Gambell (18) 42, Jack (15) 42, Acklev (1.5) 41, E. Trimble (17) 41, 
Corry (17) 41, Rike (18) 39, Ahlers (20) 39, Steinman (18) 39, 
R. Trimble (22) 38, Van Ness (IS) 38. McB (15) 37, Faran (18) 37, 
Linn (15) 37, Capt. (16) 35, Falk (17) 35, Coleman (17) 35, J. B. 
(16) 35, Roanoke (15) 28. 
Colt Gun Club. 
Hartford, Conn., March 14.— The Colt Gun Club held their 
first medal shoot of the season to-day. The weather conditions 
were most favorable for the sport. Mr. Holister, who has success- 
fully held the medal since last fall against all competitors, was 
forced to relinquish his grip on it to-day in favor of Messrs. Hub- 
bell and Hermann, who tied for first at 22 each. In the toss up 
Plermann won, and the prospects are that he will hold it for 
another season. The scores in full were: 
Events: 12 3 Events: . 12 3 
Targets: 25 25 25 Targets: 25 25 25 
Hermann 22 13 12 Warner 18 15 . . 
Hubbell 22 . . . . Edgerton 19 15 . . 
Holister ■ 21 14 . . Stone 15 9 . . 
Alger 20 14 .. Seifert 17 10 .. 
McFetridge 21 Wander 14 11 .. 
Cook 20 ... . 
No. 1 was the medal contest. R. McF. 
lmwet§ to ^orteB^ondfiniB, 
No notice taken ot auonymons oonunnnloatlona. 
G. H. A., Boston, Mass. — 1. When leaving the ground or tree, 
is the flight of the ruffed grouse always accompanied by the roar 
of wings, or is it sometimes noiseless? 2. What constitutes a 
noiseless flight — that is, is it by scaling, or is it a noiseless beat 
of the wings? 3. Under what conditions does a ruffed grouse 
"whistle"? Ans. — 1. The flight is sometimes noiseless. 2. When it 
sails with outspread wings. 3. Generally when it is disturbed, 
though the noise could not properly be termed a whistle. 
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Mr. T. H. Keller writes us that in "the annual competition for 
the indoor rifle championship. New York city, Feb. 28 to March 7, 
the conditions called for 100 shots at 75 feet, position off-hand, on 
the German ring target. The championship was won this year 
for the second consecutice time by L. P. Ittel, of Pittsburg, Pa. 
Not one of Mr. Ittel's 100 shots was placed outside the bullseye, 
and his score of 2,457 points was a remarkable piece of marks- 
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