Tune 6, 1003.] 
A. C A. Membership* 
The following have applied for membership to the 
A C, A: 
Central Division— Robert M. Codd, Jr., Buffalo, N. 
Y,; A. E. Davenport, Buffalo, N. Y.; Joseph A. Hall, 
Rochester N. Y. 
Eastern' Division— Theodore T. Pettingill. Dedham. 
Mass.; William E. Marshman, Lawrence, Mass.; H. W. 
Fenno, Auburndale, Mass.; Jesse E. Gray, Medford, 
Mass.; Minot T. Phelps, Manchester, N. H.; H. W. 
Walkling, West Medford, Mass.; J. A. Burdakin, Ded- 
ham, Mass.; Geo. H. Gage, Lawrence, Mass.; Edward 
B. Stearns, Lester P. Howe, Joel S. Daniels, Darwin 
J. Forsaith, Manchester, N. H. 
If 70a waot your ihoot to be aanoaaced faere lend a 
aotlce like the (oUowiagi 
Fixtures* 
June 15-16.— Union Hill Schuetzen Corps twenty-fifth anniversary 
shoot. P. Stumpf, Capt. 
June 18-20. — St. Louis, Mo. — ^Tournament under auspices of 
Central Shooting Bund. Horace Kephardt, Sec'y- 
July 6-7. — New Haven, Conn. — South JSiew England Schuetzen 
Bund annual schuetzenfest, under the auspices of the Independent 
German RitJe Company. H. C. Young, Sec'y- 
British Rifle Shooting* 
Mr. R. B. Marston, editor of the Fisliing Gazette, of London, 
writes the introduction to a recently published little book, "Mini- 
ature Rifle Shooting," by L. R. Tippins. Mr. Marston sends me 
a copy of this book, in the belief that it might be interesting to 
many American readers. It is an interesting book, well vyrilten 
and thorough; but the most interesting part of it to a Western 
American is the fundamental nature of the work. It gravely en- 
courages the inculcation of practices among the English youth 
and middle classes, which have been universal in this country 
time out of mind. In brief, it is the mission of the book to 
encourage practice with small bore rifles on short home ranges, 
either by the use of auxiliary rifle tubes Or by the "adapter," 
the still simpler system by which one makes his weapon efficient 
enough at short ranges by pushing a small steel case into the 
chamber of the barrel. The author of this book admits that, while 
in America tlie use of the .22 rifle is very general, it is little 
known in England; the rook rifle, infrequent and expensive, being 
the only counterpart of the .22, as used in America. He also 
admits t4iat the English trade has never perfected the small-bore 
ammunition as it has been done in America, and states that many 
millions of these cartridges are imported from America annually — 
a great tribute certainly to the American ammunition trade. 
The whole plea of Mr. Tippins, who is himself an expert rifle- 
man and winner of many prizes on Bisley range, is for a greater 
public familiarity with the mechanism and handling of the service 
arm. He speaks with impartial judgment of the merits and defects 
of the English military rifle, describes at length the questions of 
rifle sights, etc., in a way which would be entirely unnecessary 
in this country, and indeed treats the subject as if he were begin- 
ning something de 7WVo for his country. One could have no bet- 
ter evidence of the vast difference existing between England and 
America. Here we have vast stretches of open country, free to any 
man. We still have left at least a part of our great game. This is 
why the American man is so generally a rifleman, not so much 
now as in the past, and less so in the future than to-day; but 
still very much more of a rifleman and very much better as a 
natural soldier, on that account, than any citizen of a European 
country. These facts, as paralleled by the training of the Boers 
in South Africa, are openly admitted by the editor and author of 
the book in question. I do not doubt that the interest in rifle 
clubs which has recently been stirred up among the English pub- 
lic by the Boer war, will do something toward the advancement 
o£ skill in rifle shooting in that country. Against any such 
growth is the unspeakable conservatism of the English citizen. 
The first thing to do for Mr. Marston and Mr. Tippins is to 
break through this conservatism, if our good friend in South 
Africa has not shot through it fully. The next thing to do will 
be to get space for outdoor shooting, and then something to shoot 
at. The rifleman will learn in sport what he will never learn in 
school or gallery. The technical or expert shooting of the rifle 
range is excellent in its way, but it does not make a soldier of the 
rifleman in any degree equal with the sportsman-rifleman. The 
man educated to the chase of the big game is the best natural 
soldier in the world, especially in these days, when discipline and 
drill count for so little, and individual self-reliance and initiative 
mean so much. Sergeant Tippins does not wholly like the in- 
dorsement of the English general who says that the American 
soldier is the best in the world. The admitted necessity for his 
own boo k, h owever, is pretty conclusive proof of the wisdom of 
that same general. In so far as this book shall encourage small- 
bore rifle shooting and familiarity with firearms, which is a cus- 
tomary and everyday matter in this country, it will approach the 
old land of England to the new land of America, and to that 
extent be a benefit to the former. When it comes to the last 
degrees of rifle shooting, however, I see no hope for England 
except to send her young men over to this country for their 
final education. We will take them and make riflemen out of 
them. As to making a sportsman out of an Englishman, it never 
was and never will be a difficult process, for they take to shoot- 
ing as a fish to water, when they get the chance. As to the 
English army— and this is a pertinent comment, since the book 
in question is intended for the improvement of that army— the 
trouble with it has been that, though its officers were sportsmen 
and sometimes riflemen, its rank and file knew little or nothing 
about actual and practical rifle shooting. Poor Tommy Atkins 
could not be blamed for this. He had had little chance to learn. 
^ ^. - -r., ^' Hough. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, 111. 
[The Palma trophy is a matter of long-range shooting.] 
Charles G. Grubb, 507 \\'ood street, Pittsburg, Pa., has de- 
posited with W. S. Brown, 512 Wood street, Pittsburg, Pa., |1,000 
representing several parties, for the purpose of a rifle match 
shoot between Louis P. Ittel, of Allegheny, Pa., and J. S. 
Louder, of Denver, Colo., the match to take place within a very 
short time at the Irpquois Rifle Club's range. Mr. Ittel is the 
challenger. 
More than $5,000 is still needed to make a sufficient fund for the 
journey of the American team to Bisley, to compete for the 
Palma trophy. The preliminary tests at Sea Girt have demonstrated 
that there is team material of a very high order in point of skill. 
Fiztiifcs* 
June 3.— Brooklyn, N. Y.— Shoot of the Fulton Gun Club. 
June 2-5.— Baltimore, Md.— Third annual Baltimore County 
shoot; three days targets; one day live birds; $500 in purses and 
prizes. Hawkins and Malone, Managers. 
June 3-4.— Boston, Mass.— '1 he Interstate Associations tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Boston Shooting Association. 
O. R. Dickey, Sec'y. ^ , 
June 3-5.— Parkersburg, W. Va.— Sixth annual tournament of the 
West Virginia Sportsmen's Association, under auspices of Ohio 
Valley Shooting Association. J. F. Mallory, Sec'y. 
June 4-5.— Indiana State shoot, under auspices uf the Lafayette 
Gun Club. R. A. Livenguth, Sec'y. 
June 4-5.— South Dakota State Sportsmen's Association's annual 
tournament, under auspices of the Vermillion Gun Club. G. 
Harris, Sec'y. 
•*June, second week.— Shreveport, La.— Caddo Gun Club's tour- 
nament. . . 
June 8-12.— Ossining, N. Y.— New York State Association for 
the Protection of Fish and Game's forty-fifth annual tournament, 
under the auspices of the Ossining Gun Club. 
June 9-10.— Lafayette, Ind.— Indiana State shoot, under auspices 
of Lafayette Gun Club. 
June 9-11.— Sioux City, la.— Ninth annual amateur tournament 
of the Soo Gun Club. B. F. Duncan, Sec'y. 
June 9-11.— Cincinnati, O.— Seventeenth annual target tourna- 
ment of the Ohio Trapshooters' League. Chas. T. Dreihs, Sec'y. 
•June 10-11.— Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club's tournament. R. S. 
Deniker, Sec'y. 
June 16-19.— Warm Springs, Ga.— The Interstate Association's 
tournament, under the auspices of the Meriwether Gun Club. 
Chas. L. Davis, Sec'y. 
June 16-18. — New London, la. — Seventh annual midsummer tar- 
get tournament of the New London Gun Club. 
•June 17-18. — McKeesport, Pa., tournament. 
June 17-18. — Wilkes-Barre, Pa, — E. L. Klipple tournament. 
June 18. — West Chester, Pa., Gun Club's all-day target shoot. 
June 23-25. — Grand Rapids, Mich. — Consolidated Sportsmen's 
Association's second annual target tournament; $1,000 added. A. 
B. Richmond, Sec'y. 
June 24-25. — Rutherford, N. J. — Interstate Association tourna- 
ment under the auspices of tho Union Gun Club. 
•June 24-25.— New Castle, Pa., Gun Club's tournament James 
Atlcinson. Sec'y. « 
July 3-4. — Memphis, Tenn., Gun Club's two days' shoot. A. H. 
Frank, Sec'y. 
July 4.— Towanda, Pa., Gun Club's annual tournament. W. F. 
Dittrich, Sec'y. 
July *. — lopsham, Me. — All-day tournament of the Riverside 
Shooting Club. Fred W. Atkinson, Sec'y. 
•July 7-8. — Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club's tournament. J. O'H. 
Denny, Sec'y. 
July 8-9. — Huntsville, Ala. — ^The Interstate Association's tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Huntsville Gun Club. E. R. 
Matthews, Sec'y. 
July 8-10. — Arkansas State Sportsmen's Associzition's thirteenth 
annual meeting and tournament, under the auspices of the Jones- 
boro. Ark., Gun Club, of which Matthews is Sec'y-Treas. 
••July, second week. — Memphis, Tenn., Gun Club's tournament. 
July 14-16. — The Americus, Ga., second annual interstate target 
tournament. H. S. McCleskey, Sec'y. 
•July 21-22.— Beaver Falls, Pa., Gun Club's tournament. W. R. 
Keefer, Sec'y. 
July 30-Aug. 1. — ^Viroqua, Wis. — The Interstate Association's 
tournament, under the auspices of the Viroqua Rod and Gun Club. 
Dr. R. W. Baldwin, Sec'y. 
•Aug. 6-6.— Brownsville, Pa., Rod and Gun Club's tournament. 
Aug. 12-15. — Toronto, Ont. — Annual tournament of the Dominion 
Trapshooting and Game Protective Association. A. W. Throop, 
Sec y-Treas., Ottawa, Can. 
Aug. 18-20. — Grand Rapids, Mich. — Second annual target tourna- 
ment of the Consolidated Sportsmen's Association of Grand 
Rapids; $1,000 added. A. B. Richmond, Sec'y. 
Aug. 19-20. — Ottawa, 111. — The Interstate Association's tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Rainmakers' Gun Club. Paul A. 
Selember, Sec'y. 
•Aug. 19-20.— Millvale, Pa., Gun Club's tournament. Wm. Buss- 
Icr, Sec'y. 
Aug. 25-28. — Lake Okoboji, la. — Annual Indian tournament. 
Frank C. Riehl, Chief Scribe. 
•Sept. 1-2. — Irwin, Pa., Gun Club's tournament. John Withero, 
Sec'y. 
Sept. 2-3. — Akron, O. — ^The Interstate Association's tournament, 
under the auspices of the Akron Gun Club. G. E. Wagoiier, 
Sec'y. 
Sept. 7. — Fall tournament of the Springfield, Mass., Shooting 
Club. C. L. Kites, Sec'y. 
•Sept. 9-10. — Enterprise ^Jun Club tournament. 
Sept. 15-16. — Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club's tournament. J. O'H. 
Denny. Sec'y. 
•Sept. 23-24.— Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club's tournament. R. S. 
Deniker, Sec'y. 
Oct. 6-7.— Allegheny, Pa.— North Side Gun Club's tournament. 
L. B. Fleming, Sec'y. 
Oct. 14-17.— West Baden, Ind., Gun Club tournament; $500 added. 
Saturdays. — Chicago. — Garfield Gun Club; grounds W Fifty- 
second avenue and Monroe street. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec'y. 
•Member of Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters' League. 
Chas. G. Grubb, Sec'y, 507 Wood street, Pittsburg. 
••Members of Mississippi Valley Trapshooters' and Game Pro- 
tective Association. J. J. Bradfield, Sec'y, Vicksburg, Miss. 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for 
publication in these columns, also any news notes they 
may care to have published. Mail all such matter to 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broadwc^, 
New York. Forest and Stream goes to press on Tues- 
day OF EACH WEEK. 
Rain later— perhaps. 
Big tournaments East and West next week. 
All signs fail in a dry time at a tournament. 
It is better to have shot and lost than never to have shot at all. 
ae 
Mr. Edgar L. Klipple, of W'ilkes-Barre, Pa., informs us that he 
will give a shoot on June 17 and IS. 
Mr. A. H. Frank, secretary, informs us that the Memphis, 
Tenn., Gun Club will hold a two-days' shoot on July 3 and 4. 
The Maryland Coimty shoot, June 2 to 5, at Baltimore, Md., 
is a large affair, the estimates being that 150 shooters would 
participate. 
•S 
There is a rumor that Mr. W. R. Crosby is hiking eastward, 
and will be in time to participate in the Interstate Association 
tournament at Rutherford, N. J., June 24-25. It is said that he 
may remain in the East till he misses a target; therefore there is 
a reasonable presumption that he will be a ri/» — anent resident 
of the East 
The Hudson Gun Cluts, of Jfefsgy City, will hold its annual 
meeting at No. 642 Newark avenue, on June 5. The next shoot 
of the club will be on June 7. 
At Lakewood, N. J., May 30, on the Lakewood shooting 
grounds, Mr. H. Crowdic won the silver loving cup. He tied 
with Mr. B. Tilton on 23, and won in the shoot-oft" with a score 
of 24. 
In the race between six-man teams of Messrs. Schoverling, Daly 
& Gales and the Richmond Gun Club, at Concord, Staten Island, 
May 30, the firm team won by a score of 119 to 73. Each man 
shot at 25 targets, 150 per team. 
In a match between eight-man teams of the Olney and Clay 
City gun clubs, of Illinois, recently, the Clay City team won by 
a score of 103 out of a possible 200. A return match was arranged 
to take place on Tuesday of this week. 
•e 
Mr. L. R. Nelson, of Winchester, N. H., issues a challenge 
this week in our trap columns. He makes a good, friendly, game 
proposition for the love of sport. Perhaps Mr. C. M, Stark, of 
Dunbarton, may lock horns with him. 
The Ohio Trapshooters' League's seventeenth tournament at Cin- 
cinnati, June 9-11, is expected to be a record-breaker. Guaranteed 
purses, $1,750; added money, $300. Open to the world. Send for 
a programme to Chas. F. Dreihs, Cincinnati. 
At Tamaqua, Pa., on May 30, Messrs. John J. Fisher, of Coal- 
dale, and Thomas Fredericks, shot a match at 15 live birds, said to 
be for $200 a side. Fredericks killed 9, while Fisher killed but 4, 
which gave a reasonable line on which won the match. 
In a match between Messrs. Martin Winters and Peter Dennis, 
at 16 live birds. Winters scored 12 to Dennis' 8. It was said to be 
for $150 a side. Mr. Dennis can console himself with the knowl- 
edge that there are many other trapshooters whose name also is 
Dennis. 
•t 
An interesting target shoot was held at Richmond, Va., May 30. 
The famous trapshooters Capt. A. VV. Du Bray and Mr. T. H. 
Keller were present. In the medal contest, for the gold medal 
donated by Harris Flippen & Co., Mr. J. A. Anderson, the holder, 
was defeated by Dr. Hillsman by a score of 45 out of 50. 
The programme of the O. T. S. L. contains this paragraph 
under the head of "What You May Expect at the Cincinnati Gun 
Club Grounds": "And Arthur Gambell in all his glory, assisted 
by his referees and scorers, singing the Golden Rule." That rule 
should be in every set of rules, and Arthur Gambell would be 
one of the best of men to referee it. 
Mr. C. G. Blandford, the energetic captain of the Ossining, 
N. Y., Gun Club, touches on the forthcoming State shoot, in his 
report of his club's shoot elsewhere in our columns this week. 
The list of merchandise prizes is long and valuable, the pro- 
gramme is good, and the shooters should rally to give so much 
earnest sterling effort their enthusiastic support. 
Mr. J. A. R. Elliott will probably have an orbit about New 
York till after the Interstate shoot at Rutherford, which he will 
attend. Jim, in a sunny way, has taken to smashing targets in a 
remarkably successful manner for a beginner. He may be classed 
as one of our most precocious of joung .and rising shooters. 
Ninety-eight per cent., or 100 per cent.- is good shooting. 
At the Interstate tournament, given for the W'est Branch Rod 
and Gun Club at Williamsport, Pa., May 27-29, Mr. Luther 
Squier, of Wilmington, Del., was high professional average of 
the tournament. Mr. Neaf Apgar was second and Mr. E. D. Ful- 
ford was third. Their three days' scores and totals were as fol- 
lows: Squier 168, 160, 165; total 493; Apgar 153, 161, 171; total 485; 
Fulford 167, 152, 165; total 484. 
m 
Mr. Elmer E. Shaner, secretary-treasurer of the Interstate Asso- 
ciation, tarried a few hours in New York on Monday of this 
week, en route to Boston, whither he journeyed with Mr. Edward 
Banks via the Fall River Line, and due to arrive Tuesday morn- 
ing. Mr. Shaner looked spick and span as a June bride, not- 
withstanding the long campaign of tournament management which 
he has gone through, with such distinguished success, this sea- 
son. 
A correspondent writes us as follows: "John H. W. Fleming, 
better known as Johnny Jones in trapshooting circles, wherein he 
has many friends, has received, during the past week, a 25ft. 
launch, equipped with a two horse-power motor, which has been 
in course of construction for him since early spring. Commo- 
dore Jones, in the future, please. He and a crew of able seamen 
started on a voyage for Rockaway, and are now something like a 
week overdue." 
It 
Mr. Elmer Jones, of Bonesteel, S. D., won the Peters Cartridge 
Company trophy, emblematic of the championship of Gregory 
county, at the second annual tournament of the Bonesteel Gun 
Club, May 26. He was against some of the best seasoned talent 
of South Dakota, but made a decisive win by scoring 45 to his 
nearest oppent's 42. The emblem was held by Mr. J. F. Spatz, 
who waived his rights and put it in open competition at the tour- 
nament above mentioned. The high averages were: First, W. A. 
Leach; second, J. F. Spatz; third, T. J. Thompson. 
A correspondent writes us that "the West Chester, Pa., Gun 
Club will open its new grounds on Thursday, June 18, with an all- 
day shoot at bluerocks. \\'e shall be pleased to see all our friends 
and will do our best to make them enjoy themselves. The 
grounds are located about a mile and a half east of town on the 
Philadelphia & West Chester trolley road. The cars stop at the 
entrance. The grounds have been newly fitted up with new club 
house, porch and board walks. There are large shade trees, which 
cannot be found at most such places. The programme will be as 
follows: Five 10-target events at 50 cents, three 15s at 75 cents, 
one 20 at $1, ten pairs doubles at $1; targets 1% cents; purses 
divided by the percentage system. Shooting will commence at 
10 A. M. Lunch and loaded shells on the grounds." 
