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FOREST AND STi=l£:AM. 
tJoNE 20, 1963. 
New York: State Shoot < 
The forty-fifth annual convention of the New York State 
Association for the Protection of Fish and Game was held under 
the auspices of the Ossiriing Gun Club, June 9 to 12, inclusive. 
Considering that the Ossining Club took up the matter of the 
State tournament on March 7, after the Schenectady Gun Club 
was forced to abandon it, due to inability to secure new ground' 
after losing the old grounds, the Ossining Club did remarkably 
well, and the members deserve much praise for their industrious 
efforts and material influence which brought forth such good 
results. The list of merchandise prizes which they secured was 
long and vahtable, and the club itself presented a beautiful medal, 
vali:ed at $100, for the winner of the Association championship. 
In short, no efiort was spared to promote the interest of the 
shooters in any particular of the programme. Mr. C. G. Bland- 
ford, captain of the Ossining Gun Club, devoted much personal 
attention, time 'id effort to the preliminaries, as well as assisting 
in the managei. '^nt of the tournament. All the members en- 
deavored to p^ak? tbc visitors welcome and comfortable. 
Mr. Charlc A. North was manager, besides having expert 
supervision of \ \c three magautraps which furnished the target 
throwing plant. ' .Mr. Amos Bedell acted as cashier. Mr. John J. 
Terwillinger acted as compiler of scores. The referees were Messrs. 
N. Tuttle, Frank Burdick and Wm. Smith. Scorers, Messrs. H. 
Lawson, G. Billington and Wm. Lawrence. 
The manufacturers' representatives contributed much to the 
success of the tournament, both in numbers, participation and 
good-fellowship. There were the following named representatives: 
Capt. A. W. Money, A. H. Durston, W. Parker, T. H. Keller, 
Harvey McMurchy, J. T. Skelly, J. Mowell Hawkins, J. Cameron, 
G. R. Ginn, E. Banks, H. H. Stevens, T. E. Doremus, E. D. 
Fulford, Neaf Apgar, Gus Greiff, G. R. Schneider, Sim Glover, 
H. S. Welles, Ben Norton and J. R. Hull. 
The magautraps were set quite wide apart, one in front of the 
club house, and one respectively to the right and left of it. The 
ground sloped from left to right, and a wealth of trees in the 
middle distance made a trying background. This, combined with 
swift targets, made difficult conditions. 
While it was a good tournament, it had only a remote State 
significance. The really State events, the ones with traditions 
and associations, evoked but little interest. The Dean Richmond 
trophy, valuable in itself, doubly valuable from its associations, 
had the least possibly entry that would constitute a competition, 
namely, two teams. That which should in fact have been the star 
feature of the competition was the weakest. The loss of interest 
in this one-time great event is not to be looked for in any lack 
of appreciation of the trophy itself or of its significance in the 
matter of competition. The real cause is to be looked for in the 
decay of the Association itself. The Dead Richmond trophy is 
now a mere cup, uncared for officially, stripped of all prestige 
since the Association has become a convenient fiction, and even 
its conditions unknown and forgotten. 
The four-man team championship had only four entrie^s, two of 
which were of the local club, and the other two were formed on 
the spur of the moment. There was no organized, premeditated 
designs upon the team championship of the State of New York. 
The annual meeting was called for Monday afternoon, but was 
postponed till the following evening. The vice-president, Dr. E. 
B. Sherwood, presided. Twenty-two clubs were represented, ten 
of which were new members. When the minutes of the previous 
meeting were read, Mr. E. Banks objected to them on the ground 
that they did not contain Mr. L. H. Schortemeier's notice that 
he would ask to have New York city considered as one county 
by the State Association. This was brought up later by Mr. 
Brigham in the form of a motion that New York be considered 
as one county. Inasmuch as there were no records of the Asso- 
ciation present showing the conditions governing the trophy, no 
action was taken. Mr. Harvey McMurchy was appointed a com- 
mittee of one to rediscover the conditions governing the trophy, 
and report thereon at the next meeting. 
Mr. Fred D. Kelsey put in an application on behalf of the Buf- 
falo Audubon Gun Club for the next State shoot. The meeting 
unanimously consented to it. 
A few remarks now concerning the inefficient manner in which 
the Association affairs are conducted are pertinent. At Interstate 
Park, L. I., at the annual meeting of 1901, held Sept. 10, Judge C. 
Ferguson presided. "Attention then was called to the fact, both 
by Judge Ferguson and Mr. H. L. Gates, that the New York 
State Association existed in name only. A committee was ap- 
pointed to draft a new constitution and by-laws, and to report 
thereon at an adjourned meeting on the following Friday, at 
which meeting the new constitution and by-laws were formally 
approved and adopted. The new constitution gave the club an 
actual existence. 
Notwithstanding that the State Association had a new constitu- 
tion and by-laws, when the meeting of the next year took place 
no one knew where a copy of the new constitution and by-laws 
could be obtained or what they were, fhe delegates were groping 
officially in the dark. No minutes of the previous meeting were 
in evidence, and there were no reports of officers. The meeting 
as an Association meeting, was entirely inoperative. The dele- 
gates then accepted the constitution of 189S as it appeared in the 
programme of that year as their authority. This was clearly 
aibilrary and illegal; but what could they do else? Men who 
were never elec'ed as officers were accepted and fulfilled the 
functions of officers. At that meeting Mr. L. Schortemeier gave 
notice, and it wai stated to be a notice a year in advance, accord- 
ing to the conititution, that he would bring up the matter of 
considering New York city as one county. Now, at the meeting 
at Ossining there is the same absence of responsibility, the same 
absence of records, the same absence of knowledge concerning the 
affairs of the State Association, and the same contempt for a 
body which has an existence in name only. This year there was 
the same old uncertainty concerning the conditions governing the 
Dean Richmond trophy, and the competition for it may have been 
right or wrong, no one knows definitely. 
The records of the State Association are year by year becoming 
more uncertain, more imperfect through a combination of loss 
and negligence, so that in the near future the Association will 
not have even the dignity of being a good supposition. 
The State Association, to have any force, prestige and identity, 
should have an individual existence of its own. It should have 
its own independent officers. In short, some remarks made in 
Forest and Stream apropos of the meeting of 1901 are equally 
pertinent now, and are herewith presented: 
"The new constitution and by-laws were much needed, for as 
theretofore conducted the New York State Association had a 
vague identity. The officers of the club which gave the shoot 
were the officers of the State Association, so that as the shoot 
changed from place to place year by year, and as local officers, 
more or less unfamiliar with State interests, were in authority, the 
Association rapidly lost all State significance. The only link which 
held the present to the past was the Dean Richmond trophy, and 
even concerning that fine trophy, valuable in itself, its traditions 
and its associations, there were many differences of opimon con- 
cerning the conditions which govern the competition for it. The 
new constitution and by-laws are not yet so broad, nor the legisla- 
tive machinery so complete as the needs of the Association 
demand. 
"First of all, the State Association must have some .State in- 
terests; it must have the power to safeguard its interests, and it 
must have its legislative and executive machinery so complete that 
It has an actual existence always. The .State Association has but 
one event at present which lias either dignity or interest, the 
Dean Richmond trophy. The Association should add to this an 
individual live-bird championship, an individual target champion- 
ship, and a team target championship. There is a so-called team 
target championship at present, but there is no trophy to com- 
memorate a victory of it, and while in theory it is a team cham- 
pionship, in practice it is merely a team sweepstake, in which the 
moneys are divided much as in other sweepstakes, with such 
prizes as the local club chooses to offer. The State Association 
should provide a trophy for each championship, to be contested 
year after year much after the manner of the Dean Richmond 
trophy, thereby giving itself some good reason for being in ex- 
istence at all. To keep a proper supervision over its own affairs, 
the Association should add a programme committee to its other 
officers, whose duty would be to supervise the programme of the 
State events, and require the club holding the shoot to live up to 
the constitution and by-laws of the Association. Furthermore, the 
by-laws of the Association and the conditions governing the State 
trophy or trophies should be published in full in the programme 
of every Association tovirnament, so thit they might be a matter 
of common knowledge, instead of being, as at present, a matter 
of vague tradition." 
The Baldwinsville.Gun Club, the winner of the Dean Richmond 
trophy this year won under the conditions prescribed by the 
management, and are in no wise included in these remarks on the 
trophy. Nor is the club involved in them, for these uncertain 
conditions have existed for years, and that fiction of trapshooting, 
the New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and 
Game — a glaring misnomer in itself — has done nothing to settle 
the uncertainty. Rather it has made a tangled matter still more 
tangled. 
Paid representatives and professionals shot for targets only, or 
could enter regularly in the open events, figuring in the 
division of first money only or programme average money. 
Five per cent, was deducted from events 1 the first 
day, Nos. 1 and 10 the third day, and No. 1 the fourth 
day for five highest averages in the State events, exclusive of 
merchandise and handicap events. The Rose system governed. 
Five ten-dollar gold pieces were given to the five shooters making 
the five highest averages in the open events of the pro&ramme. 
Dinner each day was served in a tent on the grounds. A silver 
cup, presented by Robt. T. Dennis, was given to the professional 
who made high average in the open events, and a $40 gold medal 
presented by F. Potter, was given to the shooter making the highest 
average in the State events, merchandise and handicaps excepted. 
June 9, First Day. 
There were fifty-seven shxjoters in the different sweepstake 
events. No. 1 was at 25 targets, $3 entrance. All the other sweep- 
stake events were at 20 targets, ?2 entrance. The Rose system 
governed the division of the moneys. 
No. 10 was the State event, 25 bluerocks, handicaps 14 to 22yds., 
entrance ?2.50, for a silver cup presented by Jacob Ruppert. Dr. 
J. L. Weller, of Rochester, won it with a perfect score. Mr. 
Charles G. Blandford made a run of 62 on this day. Mr. J. 
Mowell Hawkins was high average in the expert class. Mr. 
Edward Banks was second. Mr. R. J. Borden, of Schoharie, was 
high man in the amateur class. 
Events : 1 
Targets: 25 
Tallman 21 
Walburg, 16 22 
Schorty, 18 19 
A L Burns, 16 22 
Blandford, 19 24 
Dr Martin, 18 20 
Hopkins, 16 19 
Geo Stephenson, 15... 18 
Frank Stephenson, 15 20 
C Lockwood, 15 16 
Morris, 18 20 
Dalley, 17 24 
Marvin, 16 18 
Meagher,. 16 19 
Mayhew, 18 17 
Stewart, 18 20 
Weller, 16 20 
Byer, 18 21 
Glover, 19 23 
Fulford, 19 24 
Kirkover, 19 20 
Banks, 18 23 
T H Keller, 16 21 
Whitehouse, 16 17 
F D Kelsey, 19 24 
Doremus, 16 18 
Valentine, 16 
H J Borden, 17 
Lewis, 16 
F Tompkins 17 
Dr Gardner '. 
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C Floyd, 18 21 
G Piercy 
G Hagendorn, 16 16 
Tolsma 1'^ 
A Christian, 17 22 
Paddleford, 15 18 
Palmiter, 15 21 
G ,Swan 
Apgar, 19 21 
Stevens, 17 19 
Skelly, 19 23 
Hawkins, 20 
Schneider 19 
A Durston, 15 1' 
J Hyland, 16 
Grief 
MoMurchy, 19 •• 
Van Allen, 18 23 
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Washburn 
John Henry 
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G B Hubbell, 16 
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The weather was warm and pleasant. Straight scores were not 
numerous. The list of entries was noticeably larger than on the 
first day. About seventy-four contestants participated in the 
different sweepstakes. 
As on the first day, there were eight open events, besides the 
No. 1, merchandise shoot. 
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Dr Martin 23 
F Stephenson 21 
G Stephenson 16 
Morris 22 
Dalley 20 
Marvin 22 
Meagher 17 
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Byer 22 
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The merchandise event, at 25 bluerocks, entrance $5, 50 cents 
extra to those who shot off in the ties; ties miss-and-out. Five 
classes of ties were provided. In the 24 class, L. C. Palmiter won 
the Parker gun. In the 23 class, C. G. Blandford won the Rem- 
ington gun. In the 22 class L. V. Byer won the Lefever gun. 
In the 21 class, F. B. Stephenson won the Syracuse gun. In the 
20 class, Travers was first. In the 19 class, Bissett was first. 
The scores in the shoot-off follow: 
Ties on 24: Palmiter 14, Christian 13, Knowlton 3, Tallman 2, 
Floyd 2, Smull 1. 
Ties on 23: Blandford 3, Hopkins 2, Dr. Martin 0. 
Ties on 22: Byer 13, BidcU 12, Morris 5, Washburn 5, Schorty 
3, Tompkins 2, Stewart 1, John Henry 0, Marvin 0. 
Ties on 21: F. Stephenson 15, Kirkover 14, Mayhew 10, Kelsey 
5, Borden 3, Bradley 2, Clark 2, Weller 1, Gardner 1, Rider 0. 
Ties on 20: Travers 7, Piercy 6, Kromer 2, Dalley 0, Burns 0. 
Ties on 19: Bissett 4, J. Hyland 3. 
In the expei-t merchandise class Mr. Edward Banks won the 
L. C. Smith gun, as follows: E. Banks 24, E. D. Fulford 23, 
J. T. Skelly 23, N. Apgar 23, J. M. Hawkins 23, H. Stevens 22, 
H. McMurchy 20, S. Glover 20. 
June U, THttd Day. 
The weather was clear and warm. There wa^ a sultriness in the 
temperature which made much discomfort to the contestants. 
There were ten events on the day's programme. No. 1 was a 
State event at 25 bluerocks, $3 entrance, six moneys, all ties 
divided. Nos. 2 to 9 were each at 20 bluerocks, $2 entrance. No. 
10 was a State evait at 25 bluerocks, $3 entrance, six moneys: 
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Targets: 25 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 25 
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Skelly 21 19 17 18 18 20 .17 19 19 24 
Hawkins 22 19 18 18 18 19 '20 20 19 24 
Stevens 18 16 16 15 18 14 '18 17 16 21 
Schneider 18 17 16 14 15 18 16 14 13 20 
Hopkins 19 19 18 IS 17 15 19 19 16 22 
Tallman 20 17 15 17 19 12 19 19 17 23 
Dr Martin 17 15 16 17 19 12 ' 16 17 19 22 
F Stephen,son 17 19 16 16 15 16 15 16 12 18 
Floyd 20 18 15 17 18 11 16 18 20 23 
Morris 24 15 12 17 19 17 18 17 15 22 
Dallev 19 16 14 19 17 17 19 16 15 22 
Marvin 23 17 19 16 17 14 18 19 13 14 
Meagher 18 14 14 19 18 15 15 13 13 17 
Mayhew 20 18 19 19 17 18 18 16 19 21 
Stewart 18 18 18 20 16 19 19 16 18 22 
Weller 17 13 12 15 16 15 17 18 13 21 
Byer 24 17 19 20 19 20 18 17 17 19 
Glover 22 15 22 
Fulford 19 19 19 17 15 14 19 17 15 18 
Blandford 17 18 17 16 17 16 14 14 17 24 
Borden 23 18 16 16 20 18 l6 15 16 22 
Doremus 17 16 15 12 12 16 15 15 10 20 
Bissett 19 18 20 19 17 17 19 18 18 
Ball 14 15 16 13 17 15 16 17 19 22 
McMurchy 24 15 16 18 15 17 16 15 16 22 
Banks 20 19 18 18 18 17 19 18 17 23 
Van Allen 22 17 16 17 20 17 18 19 16 23 
Kirkover 18 19 18 14 10 14 16 18 19 24 
Kelsey 21 19 15 19 17 19 18 19 19 23 
\V Parker 16 19 15 14 17 12 14 14 13 21 
Goetter 17 12 10 12 12 14 12 11 10 20 
Swan 14 15 6 10 8 
G Stephenson 15 13 17 15 13 
Sidway 15 16 12 14 13 
Smull 19 17 17 20 16 15 15 15 .. 19 
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Hubbell 15 
I Hyland 16 
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Davis 7 15 
June 12, Fourth Day. 
A heavy downpour of rain fell during the morning. The heavy 
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