April 2, 1904.I 
FORfiSt ANt) STREAM. 
April 27-28.— Americus, Ga.— The Interstate Association's tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Americus Gun Club. il. 3. 
April 28.— Brunswick, Me., Gun Club's Fast Day shoot. G. M. 
Wheeler, Sec'y. . . 
April 30.— Princeton, N. J.— Team shoot: Princeton University vs. 
Crescent Athletic Club, of New York. 
May 3-4.— Wabash, Ind., Gun Club tournament. 
•May 3-4— Derry, Pa., Rod and Gun Club. , ^ 
May 3-5.— Junction City, Kans.— Kansas State Sportsmen s Asso- 
ciation annual tournament. E. L. Wetzig, Sec'y. 
May 4-5.— Rochester, N. Y., Rod and Gun Club spring tournament. 
May 4-5.— Nashville, Tenn.— The Interstate Association's tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Cumberland Park Driving 
Club. Charles Eastman, Sec'y. 
May 7. — New Haven, Conn.— Intercollegiate shoot. 
May 11-12.— Springfield, O., Gun Club's target tournament. Geo. 
Morgan, Sec'y. .... 
May 11-13.— Spirit Lake, la.— Iowa State Sportsmen's Association 
tournament. T. Burmister, Sec'y. 
May 12-13.— Wilmington, Del.— Wawaset Gun Club annual spring 
tournament. W. W. Foord, Sec'y. 
May 16-18.— Southern Trapshooters' Association's thirteenth tourna- 
ment at targets, under auspices of Vicksburg, Miss., Gun Club; 
$500 added. J. J. Bradfield, Sec'y. 
May 16-21.— York, Pa.— Tournament of Pennsylvania State Sports- 
men's Association, under auspices of York City Gun Club. 
N. M. McSherry, Sec'y. 
May 17-18.— Dubuque, la., Gun Club's fifth annual amateur target 
tournament. A. F. Heeb, Cor. Sec'y. 
May 17-18.— Dallas, Tex.— The Interstate Association's tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Dallas Gun Club. E. A. 
Moselv, Sec'y. ^ . , 
May 17-19.— Davenport, la.— Cumberland Gun Club s annual 
amateur tournament. W. F. Kroy, Sec'y. 
May 18.— Boston, Mass, Gun Club annual team target shoot. H. 
Kirkwood, Sec'y, 23 Elm street, Boston. 
May 18-20.— Columbus, Neb.— Nebraska State Sportsmen's Associa- 
tion's twenty-seventh annual tournament. G. A. Schroeder, 
Sec'y. . r, .... 
May 19-20.— Oklahoma City.— Territorial Sportsmen s Association 
fifth annual tournament; $300 added money. J. C. Clark, Sec'y. 
May 20.— Charlotte, N. C, Gun Club tournament. 
May 21. — Princeton, N. J. — Princeton University vs. University of 
Pennsylvania. 
May 23-25.— Houston, Tex.— Texas State Sportsmen's Association 
tournament. 
May 24-25.— Marshalltown, la.. Gun Club two-day target tourna- 
ment. 
May 24-25.— Mt. Sterling, Ky.— Kentucky Trapshooters' League 
tournament. Frank Pragoff, Sec'y, Louisville, Ky. 
*May 25-26. — Brownsville, Pa., Rod and Gun Club. 
May 25-26.— Shamokin, Pa., Gun Club Spring shoot. S. C. Yocum, 
Sec'y. 
May 28-30. — Butte, Mont. — Montana State Sportsmen's Association 
eleventh annual tournament at targets; $500 added. C. H. 
Smith, Sec'y. 
May 30. — Newport, R. I.— Aquidneck Gun Club's third annual 
tournament. J. S. Coggeshall, Secretary, Box 9, Newport, R. I. 
May 30.— Albany, N. Y.— West End Gun Club tournament. H. H. 
Valentine, Sec'y, 
May 30. — McKeesport, Pa. — Spring tournament of the Enterprise 
- Gun Club. Geo. W. Mains, Sec'y. 
May 30.— Ossining, N. Y., Gun Club Decoration Day target shoot. 
C. G. Blandford, Capt. 
May 31. — Dayton, O — Rohrer Island Gun Club spring target tour- 
nament. W. E. Kette, Sec'y. 
June 1-3. — Watertown, S. D. — South Dakota State Sportsmen's 
Association tournament. F. J. Cory, Sec'y. 
*June 7-8. — Ligonier, Pa., Rod and Gun Club. 
June 7-9. — Sioux City, la. — Soo Gun Club's tenth annual amateur 
tournament; added money. W. F. Duncan, Sec'y. 
June 8-10.— Huntington, W. Va.— West Virginia State Shoot. F. 
H. Merrick, Sec'y. 
June 13. — Middleton, Wis., Gun Club tournament. Frank L. 
Pierstorff, Mgr. 
June 14-16. — Akron, O. — Ohio Trapshooters' League target tourna- 
ment. G. E. Wagoner, Sec'y. 
June 14-16. — New London, la.. Gun Club midsummer tournament- 
Dr. C. E. Cook^ Sec'y. 
June 14-17. — Warm Springs, Ga. — Target and live-bird tournament. 
Chas. L. Davis, Mgr. 
June 1.5-16. — Battle Creek, Mich. — Tournament of the Michigan 
State Trapshooters' League. L. K. Forscythe, Sec'y. 
♦June 15-16.— Millvale, Pa., Rod and Gun Club. 
June 15-17. — Lincoln, 111. — Illinois State Sportsmen's Association 
tournament. James Davis, Sec'y. 
June 21-24. — Indianapolis, Ind.— The Interstate Association's fifth 
Grand American Handicap at targets. One thousand dollars 
added to the purses. Elmer E. Shaner, Secretary-Manager, 
219 Coltart Square, Pittsburg, Pa. 
June 27-July 2. — French Lick Springs, Ind. — Tournament of the 
National Gun Club. $500 added money. John M. Lilly, Pres., 
Indianapolis. 
July 4. — Brunswick, Me., Gun Club all-day target tournament. .G.'' 
M. Wheeler, Sec'y. 
July 4. — Richmond, Va.— East End Gun Club annual rherchan- 
dise shoot. J. A. Anderson, Sec'y, 
July 4-6. — Winona, Minn.— The Interstate Association's tournament, 
under the auspices of the Winona Sportsmen's Club. Oswald 
Leicht, Sec'y. 
♦July 6-7.— Kane, Pa., Rod and Gun Club. : 
July 8-9.— Wausau, Wis. — Wisconsin League' of Gun Clubs' State 
tournament. H. G. McCrossen, Sec'y. 
July 12-14.— St. Paul, Minn., Rod and Gun Club amateur handi- 
cap tournament. J. L. D. Morrison, Sec'y-Mgr. 
•July 13-14.— Scottdale, Pa., Rod and Gun Club. 
July 19-20.— Shamokin, Pa., Gun Club midsummer shoot. B. C. 
Yocum, Sec'y. 
July 19-22. — Cincinnati, O., Gun Club annual handicap; 
July 27-28.— Grand Forks,_ N. D.— The Interstate Association's 
tournament, under the auspices of the Grand Forks Gun Club. 
W. M. Ferguson, Sec'y. 
Aug. 10-12.— Brantford, Ont.— Dominion of Canada Trapshooting 
and Game Protective Association's fourth annual tournament, 
A. B. Cutcliffe, Sec'y. 
Aug. 15-20.— Buffalo, N. Y.— New York State shoot. 
Aug. 15-22. — Indian tournament; place determined later. 
Aug. 24-25.— Hot Springs, S. D.— The Interstate Association's to«r- 
nament, under the auspices of the Hot Springs Gun Club. ■ H. 
A. Gayhart, Sec'y. 
•Aug. 25-26.— Tarentum, Pa., Rod and Gun Club. 
•Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters' League tournaments. C. 
G. Grubb, Sec'y, Pittsburg. 
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 Broadway,. 
New York. Forest a,nd Stream goes to press on Tues- 
day OF EACH WEEK. 
Mr. Frank E. Butler informs us that Annie Oakley (Mrs. F. E^, 
Butler) has made a satisfactory settlement with certain Massachu- 
setts newspapers for a libelous publication of some months ago, 
after one judicial decision was made in her favor. 
From May 28 to 30, inclusive, are the dates fixed upon for the 
eleventh annual tournament of the Montana State Sportsmen's As- 
sociation, to be held at Butte. The competition will be at targrets, 
and $500 will be added. The secretary is Mr. C. H. Smith, Butte. 
The Princeton University trapshooting team will be in active 
competition in April and May. It will engage in team contests 
as. follows: April 23, University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; 
April 30, Crescent Athletic Club, of New York, .at Princeton,; May, 
21, University of Pennsylvania, at Princeton, and on May 7, the 
Intercollegiate contest is fixed to take place at New Haven, 
Mr. J. H. Slutesman, '05, was recently elected captain of the 
Princeton team, vice Mr. Pierce Archer, '04, resigned. 
On some Saturday afternoon iti April, the third team match 
will decide the supremacy of either the Ossining Gun Club or the 
Schenectady Gun Club, each having a win to its credit. The 
ccntest will take place on the grounds of the Poughkeepsie Gun 
Club. 
The beautiful trophy, emblematic of the eastern amateur indi- 
vidual target championship, to be shot for under the auspices of 
the Sheepshead, L. I., Gun Club on April 6, is on exhibition in 
the window of Messrs. Sehoverling, Daly & Gales, 302-304 
Broadway, New York. 
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The Aquidneck Gun Club, of Newport, R. I., has installed its 
traps, etc., on new grounds. The club has fixed upon May 30, 
Memorial Day, as the date for its third annual tournament. Pro- 
grammes will be ready on May 1. The secretary is Mr. J. S. 
Coggeshall, Box 9, Newport, R. I. 
The Highland Gun Club and the North Camden Gun Club, at 
Gorgas Station, Pennsylvania, March 26, held a fifteen-man team 
ccntest, 25 targets per man, the Highland team pressing the 
Camden team closely by the narrow margin of 33 targets. Scores: 
Camden 209 to 236 out of a possible 375 targets. 
The Trenton, N. J., Shooting Association announces a big 
merchandise shoot, to be held on April 23, on the Interstate Fair 
grounds. Entrance fee, cost of targets. Three sets of traps. One 
handsome prize for best professional average. Send luggage to 
E. S. yVpplegate & Co. Mr. J. R. Taylor is general manager. 
Lieut. H. Sauer, of the firm of J. P. Sauer & Son, after a visit 
of several months in the United States, chiefly in New York, 
returned to his home, Suhl, (jermany, 'iuesday of this week, on 
the S.S. Kaiser VVilhelm der Crosse. He was so pleased with 
America that he contemplates another visit next year to the 
United States. 
The programme of the New Haven Gun Club's twenty-ninth 
annual tournament, fixed to be held on Friday of this week, pro- 
vides fifteen target events, 10, 15 and 20 targets, totals of 190 tar- 
gets and $15.33 entrance. Shooting commences at 9 o'clock. 
Targets 1% cents. All shooters are invited. Mr. John E. Bassett 
is the secretary. 
In a twenty-one-man team contest at Narberth, Pa., between 
teams of the Narberth Gun Club and the Meadow Springs Gun 
Club, 25 targets per man, the scores were 264 to 203 out of 525, in 
favor of the Narberth team. High man, Roberts, broke 19, and 
low man scored 5, so that the extreme possibilities of the con- 
test were not strained to the utmost. 
Mr. Edward Banks, now of Wilmington, Del., was a visitor in 
New York in the early part of this week. He was enthusiastic 
■in his description of his new domicile. As we remember it, he 
could shoot magnificent, toothsome shad from his back dobr, and 
seine targets within a convenient distance landward. Still, he 
had some pleasant words for this restful town. New York. 
Mr. T. H. Keller, of the Peters Cartridge Company, is due 
in New York from his recreative ocean voyage some day this 
week. The season of March gales peculiarly appealed to him for 
an enjoyable, benignant journey ., afloat, which, to the landsman 
who views things differently, would seem about equivalent to re- 
pose on a bucking bronco. May his shadow never grow less. 
The Legislature of New Jersey adjourned recently without pass- 
ing the ;anti-trapshqoting pigeon bill, the purpose of which was 
to entirely prohibit the shooting of birds from- the traps. This 
may be construed as a rebuke to the professional humanitarians 
and the sensational journals which seriously impeded legislation 
in New Jersey on important business matters by keeping before 
the Legislature an anti-shooting bill which relatively was insignifi- 
cant in importance. 
The , Hudson Gun Club, of Jersey City, N. J., announces two 
shoots for April, the first one to be held on April 3. For the 
main event of the second shoot; on April 17 a prize contest at 
100 targets is on the programme. A hand-painted stein, donated 
by one of the club members, will be the reward of the winner. A 
distance handicap will govern. No entrance fee, and everybody is 
eligible. Targets, I1/2 cents. Mr. Jas. Hughes, 831 Pavonia 
avenue, is the secretary. 
The seventh contest of the live-bird series at the Point Breeze 
race track, Philadelphia, on Saturday of last week had fifteen con- 
testants, and of these, Mr. A. A. Felix was alone on an individual 
pinnacle of excellence, having killed all the 10 birds straight in the 
presence of the other fourteen who had not. He further ac- 
centuated his superiority by defeating Murphy in a 10-bird match 
by killing them all, and yet the race was close, his opponent 
being only 2 behind. 
New Orleans, La., recently manifested • some disapproval of live 
pigeon shooting at the traps, through the action of the Board of 
Directors of the Louisiana State Society for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Animals. The Board considered such shooting un- 
necessary and a violation of the State laws, and it adopted a reso- 
lution to instruct its counsel to take measures to prevent pigeon 
shooting. This action was in the main evoked by a match at 100 
pigeons at New Orleans, between the famous sportsmen Messrs. 
Norvin T. Harris and R. E. Saucier, for $100 a side on March 5. 
'The scores were: Saucier 81, Harris 72. The. agent of the Louisi- 
rana State Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals inter- 
posed to prevent it, but he failed in his purpose. This, of course, 
•only incited the society to greater effort. 
Barring the little tiff between Russia and Japan, concerning 
■which the Associated Press Board of Strategy destroys one 
:navy or the other each day and restores it intact the next day 
■for future consumption, shooting has been very dull during 
1904 up to the present time, considered from a general viewpoint. 
It is notable also, as it concerns shooting at the traps, that no 
»ne this year yet bas discovered and pijblisbed a system governingr 
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the division of the moneys whereby in a contest each participant 
divides first money, wins it alone, or at the worst saves his 
entrance fee unimpaired. In the past, the general activity in 
practically testing how an infallible system worked to make a 
winner out of a loser, made activity in sweepstake matters till it 
was gravely determined that, nevertheless, some shot better than 
others and won, or else there was the paradox that where all 
were winners all were losers. 
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The programme of Messrs. R. S. Elliott & Co.'s first annual 
target interstate shooting tournament, to be held at Kansas City, 
Mo., April 26-29, is now ready for distribution. First two days 
are at targets; the other days at pigeons. April 25 is practice 
day. The target programme is alike each day— ten events, 20 
targets, $2 entrance, $10 added. To professionals and amateurs 
respectively, $25 for high average, two moneys. April 28, Inter- 
state amateur five-man team shoot, 20 birds, entrance $25; op- 
tional sweep, $10. Rose system, 7, 5, 3, 2; $100 cup to the win- 
ning team; cup subject to challenge for one year, redeemable by 
R. S. Elliott & Co. at their next annual tournament in 1905 at 
$100. April 29, individual amateur interstate challenge cup, 25 
birds, $20 entrance. Rose system, 7, 5, 3, 2. Professionals may 
shoot for money only; any one may shoot for the cup, entrance, 
price of birds, $6.25. Cup redeemable under same conditions as 
team, cup. Also merchandise prizes, competition open to ama- 
teurs only, will be the subject of target competition. 
Bernard Waters. 
Aquidneck Gon Club. 
Newpobt, R. I.— The club members celebrated their farewell to 
the old grounds on Wednesday v/ith the regular semi-monthly 
badge contest. Nine faced the traps, and the resultant scores 
were fairly good as a whole, Manchester annexing another win 
with 43. 
The day was a delightful one for March; every one felt it good to 
be out of doors. 
The matter of new grounds has been, in the hands of a commit- 
tee for some weeks. A selection of a lot has been made, and 
the club house and traps are now bound thither. The new loca- 
tion is on . Bliss Mine road, a trifle longer walk from the trolley, 
but still no further from town. The old five-trap system will be 
retained, it being found impossible to use two sets of traps, as: it 
was hoped to do. Now that the matter of new grounds is 
settled, arrangements can and will be made for the third annual 
on May 30. 
Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 Total. 
Manchester 10 8 9 8 8 43- 
Hughes 6 8 8 9 9 40 
Alexander g 7 g 9 7 39 
Peckham 7 g g 9 7 39 
Bowler 7 7 g 7 7 34 
Powel ■ g 6 5 6 8 33 
P"ng , 8 7 4 6 8 33 
Macomber 3 3 4 6 7 23 
Griffin 5 g 11 
The third annual tournament of the Aquidneck Gun Club will 
be held on Memorial Day, May 30, when it is hoped the success 
of form.er tournaments will be repeated. Programmes will be 
ready about May 1, and may be had on application to J. . S. 
Coggeshall, Secretary, Box 19, Newport, R. I. , 
Tippecacoe City. 
The Tipp City Fish and Game Protective Association was or- 
ganized on March 15, at Tippecanoe City, O., with the following 
officers: John Rohrer, President; H. J. Harshberger, Vice-Presi- 
dent; Frank D. Nunlist, Secretary and Treasurer; Directors, Geo. 
Fry, W. F. Bennett. The club started with thirty-three charter 
members, and proposes to look after game interests in their local- 
ity. They are deeply interested, want the laws enforced, and will 
do all possible to that end. They will also work for the restocking 
of the streams with fish. 
The Tipp Gun Club, of Tippecanoe City, met with a severe 
loss in the death of the secretary, Mr. H. E. Brier, and has done 
no shooting for over two months. Probably when the weather 
becomes settled the sport will be taken up again. 
Bo NASA. 
Trap at Pinehurst. 
PiNEHURST, N. C— The weekly contest at the traps at Pinehurst 
had a 60-target contest for the main event. "Ihe targets were 
divided into 30 singles and 15 pairs. 
Mr. M. H. Wilson, of Cleveland, with a handicap of 8 targets, 
won with a net score of 41. Mr. A. E. Lard, of Washington, 
D. C, scratch, was 38. 
Other scores, handicaps added, were: C. A, Lockwood, New 
York, 24; Arthur C, Ketcham, New York, 23; Edward C, Hoyt, 
New York, 22; J. D. Wescott, Union City, Pa., and J. Howard 
Edwards, Brookline, Mass., IS. 
Two 10-target events followed, Mr. Lockwood winning the first 
with 8, and Mr. Wilson the second with 9. 
Dubuque Gun Club. 
Dubuque, la., March 26.— The Dubuque Gun Club held its 
seventh weekly trophy shoot on Friday, March 25. A strong 
north wind made the flight of targets very erratic and assisted 
materially in reducing scores. Each man shot at 50 targets. 
Scores: 
Class A: J. O'Brien '15, A. J. Schmid 40. 
Class B: A. Y. McDonald 36. 
Class C: Ed. Ryan 39, H. Michel 38, Dr. ,B. Michel 36, J. 
Murphy 36, J. McDonald 28, J. B. lies 26, H. Knoernschild 25.' 
F - M. Jaeger, Sec'y. ■ 
For New Hampshire Sfcooters. 
W'iNCHESTER, N. H., March 28. — The championship trophy, the 
handsome cup given by the Peters Cartridge Company to the 
State of New Hampshire, is on exhibition this week in Mr. O. H. 
Sleeper's window, Exeter, N. PI. 
The present holder of this trophy is Mr. L. R. Nelson, 
Winchester, N. H. The trophy is subject to challenge at any time 
by any man in the State. 
It is a very handsome cup, one' that all lovers of trapshooting 
should see and take an interest in. L. R. Nelson. 
Cleveland Gun Club. 
The prize package shoot of the club held on March 19 at 40 
targets, was attended by a big crowd, and was an interesting 
affair. The scores: Jack 36, Hall 35, Eadie 32, J. F. 31, Cannon 
SO, Hopkins 28, North 26, Fitz 20, Mack 26, Battles 26, Klint 24, 
Bigelow 22, Hull 22, Freeman 17, Purcell 12. 
Shoot-off of ties on 26, 20 targets: North 15, Mack 12, Battles 9, 
Fitz 8. 
