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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 19, 1904. 
The shooters of northern Ohio are keeping in line despite the 
approach of the hunting season. Take Cleveland, O., for a 
sample. Notices are published weekly of the shoots to be held by 
the Cleveland, the Recreation, and the Fairmount gun clubs. 
The Cleveland, O., Gun Club will hold a shoot on Thanksgiving 
Day. There will be ten events, the prizes being poultry and silver. 
Of late sweepstake shooting has not drawn so well as merchandise 
prizes. 
The Kingdom Gun Club, of Fulton, has awakened, and will 
surely prosper. Last Friday the following members put in the 
afternoon with the targets. The scores: N. B. McKee broke 30 
out of 40; Dr. H. A. Bragg 38 out of 62; R. A. Moore 50 out of 
62; J. H. Atkinson 35 out of 62; D. C. McCue 15 out of 40; 
James Ratikin 35 out of 50; Frank Gingrich 13 ou t of 25. 
Cincinnati Gun Club. 
Saturday, Nov. 12, was cloudy and cool, but there was little 
wind blowing, and some of the few members who visited the 
grounds made good scores. The main event was a series of five 
20-target shoots, the prize in each being a ticket in the Burmister 
Hotel drawing. Ten men shot the full 100 targets. Ahlers and 
Leever tied for first on 95 each. Gambell second with 91; Don 
Minto third with 89, and Maynard fourth with 86. The tickets 
were won by Leever in the first and fourth, and Ahlers captured 
the prizes in the other three events. 
Eight scores were shot in the cup race to-day, making the total 
entries 88, Faran still leading with a straight. Gambell (18) 20, 22; 
Ahlers (19) 18, 18; Harig (19) IS, 15; Williams (18) 17, 20. 
Phil was in town a few days this week, and on the 8th came 
out to the grounds and smashed a few to keep his hand in. 
F. W. Cook, who has been with the Pickering Co. for some 
time, has been promoted to salesman in the firm's sporting goods 
department. He is a member of the club, and did some fair 
shooting to-day, breaking 19 out of 29 in one of the practice 
events. 
Luther J. Squier is in town on a little vacation, and greeted 
his friends at the club to-day, but did not shoot. 
Everybody was glad to see Ackley again, and sorry that he 
had not sufficiently recovered to take part in the sport. 
John Falk was on hand and as jolly as ever, though not yet 
fully recovered from the effects of a severe cold. 
Gambell announced the Thanksgiving day programme, and it is 
a good one, as might be expected. Ten events, 15 targets each, . 
$10 entrance. Six prizes are offered. First, second and third are 
50, 30 and 20 per cent, of purse respectively; fourth, a turkey; 
fifth, Burmister Hotel ticket; sixth, dressed duck. Shooting to 
begin promptly at 1:30. Lunch served at noon. Everybody come. 
All Saturday contests during the winter will begin at 2 P. M. 
Maynard, Herman and Dr. Davis start on Monday for the 
southern part of Illinois, where they will put in a few days with 
the quail. They have engaged a guide and team, and anticipate 
great sport. 
Don Minto, Ahlers and Bell will open the quail season at 
Feesburg, O., and remain in that locality a week. The scores: 
Prize race, 100 targets: Ahlers 95, Leever 95, Gambell 91, 
Don Minto 89, Maynard 86, Williams 77, Harig 76, Andrews 67, 
Cook 61, Cottingham 41. 
Welfare Gun Club. 
At the shoot of the Welfare Gun Club on Nov. 5, twenty-four 
men took part. The large number of spectators bore evidence to 
the popularity of trapshooting among the N. C. R. contingent. 
The big event was a team match between ten men of the polish- 
ing department, and ten men from other departments of the 
N. C. R. The wind was blowing a gale, and prevented any large 
scores from being made. The first eight events were for practice, 
then came the medal race, won by Le Seur; then the team 
match, and then the closing event at 15 targets, for a 331b. turkey, 
won by D. Tibbals. 
The regular shoot of the Central Covington, Ky., Gun Club was 
held on Sunday, Nov. 5. O. H. Grau was high man with 74 out 
of 80. Ed Trimble second with 72, C. Brittfield and J. E. Schreck 
third with 71 each. H. Heidel 68, S. Robinson 65. A number 
of those present shot at 30 targets, with the following results: 
J. Wise and J. E. Schreck, Jr., first with 22 each; K. Sutton 20, 
H. Kroger 19, J. P. Heidel 18, J. Elliott 17. 
The Dayton, O., Gun Club put its medal in competition in 
July, the last contest for the season taking place on Oct. 29. 
During that time the medal has been won as follows : C. H. Cord, 
July 36 (the first contest), Oct. 8; D. Tibbals, Aug. 6; Ed. Keller, 
Aug. 13, Oct. 15; John Sirran, Aug. 20; O. H. Bailey, Aug. 27; 
M. J. Schwind, Sept. 10, Oct. 1; Ed. Rike, Oct. 29. The medal 
contests will be resumed early in March, when the 1905 season will 
open. 
Dayton Gun Club. 
The Club's third monthly all-day shoot on Nov. 11 was held 
under favorable weather conditions, the day being light and sunny. 
The last affair of the season was an enjoyable occasion, and was 
well attended, over twenty shooters taking part. The sport began 
at 10 A. M. and was kept up until dark, besides the regular pro- 
gramme a number of sweeps being shot. 
The programme consisted of twelve 15-target events and eight 
25-target sweeps were shot besides, though none of the shooters 
took part in all of them. 
Shot at. Broke. 
... 60 51 
45 39 
30 26 
15 14 
30 .26 
30 19 
15 
15 
15 
13 
9 
8 
Interesting features of the day were the close race between 
Heikes and Rike, only four targets separating them; and Schwind 
and Craig, the former breaking 147, the latter 145. These latter 
had a side bet between them in each event, and each won five 
times and were tie twice. On the last event for a $5 purse they 
tied on 14. The scores: 
Programme events, twelve at 15 targets each: 
Shot at. Broke. 
Heikes 180 167 Watson .. 
Rike 180 163 Hubler ... 
Lindemuth 180 159 Hodapp ... 
Schwind 180 147 Shirer .... 
Craig 180 145 Watkins . 
Ike 180 141 Woodburn 
La Rue - 180 129 Oldt 
Curphey 180 113 Bailey .... 
Young 180 111 Davis ..... 
Carr 120 95 
Sweeps, eight at 25 targets each: 
Shot at. Broke 
Davis 125 99 
Craig 100 91 
Schroeder 100 81 
Hodapp 100 73 
Carr 100 70 
Schwind 75 58 
Smith 75 56 
La Rue 5 53 
Rike 50 49 
Anspurger : 75" 49 
Rike was using his new gun, and broke 212 out of 230. Heikes 
shot at 230 and broke 210. Charlie Matthews, of Lewisbrarg, 
broke 43 out of 50. 
Notes. 
The Welfare Gun Club held an all-day shoot on Nov. 11, with 
turkeys for prizes. The affair attracted quite a crowd, and fine 
sport was had. The club has fine grounds, easy of access, and! 
the members are as genial a bunch of shooters as you will run 
across in a long journey. All visiting club members were enter- 
tained at dinner by the home club. 
John F. Beaver, of Dayton, and Daniel Francis, of Arcanum, 
went to northern Wisconsin for deer hunting. This is Mr. 
Beaver's fifty-fourth expedition, and Mr. Francis is also a 
veteran big-game hunter. 
Wm. H. Van Riper and son, Chas. Spidel, L. Groneweg and 
C. Long, of Dayton, have just returned from their hunt in 
Maine. Each killed their two deer. They had a fine camp and 
good weather, and enjoyed the outing immensely. 
Shot at. 
Broke. 
50 
43 
, , , 50 
43 
F. Whitacre , 
50 
39 
50 
28 
., , 25 
21 
Ike 
25 
21 
. . , , 25 
20 
25 
20 
25 
15 
Indiana State Championship. r 
Ft. Wayne, Ind. — The match for the trophy emblematic of the 
championship of Indiana, on Nov. 6, was won again by Mr. Hugh 
Clark, of Wabash. He defended it against Mr. Max Witzig- 
reuter, the prior holder. The scores were 46 and 42. A large 
and enthusiastic audience witnessed the contest. Clark killed 
23 out of the first and second 25 birds respectively. Witz scored 
22 and 20 respectively. The retrieving work of Ed. Evans' and 
Henry Tarmon's dogs was excellent. 
In the big team shoot the Wabash men were also victorious, 
winning from the Corner Club team by 3 points. The visitors, 
shot 108 out of a possible 125, while the locals bagged 105. The 
teams were made up as follows: 
Wabash — Ferrell, Shepardson, Williamson, George Abdon and 
Clark. 
Corner Club Team— Witzigreuter, A. H. Witte, Charles Run- 
dell, August Freese and Rodney Fleming. 
The match target shoot between A. H. Witte and H. Hocke- 
meyer was declared off because Hockemeyer was unable to be 
present. The minor target events, which served as prelimin- 
aries, were all good, and great enthusiasm was shown in the 
results of each race. Ferrell officiated as referee. August Freese 
as official scorekeeper, and William Wiegman as trap-puller. 
This is the last event at that place until Thanksgiving Day. 
The Wabash team was Wabash in name only. Properly it was an. 
all-state team, composed of Clark, of Wabash; Shepardson, of 
La Grange; Farrell, and Williamson, of Muncie, and Abdon, o£ 
Ft. Wayne. 
Two amusing' incidents occurred in the course of the live-bird 
race. In one instance, Ed. Evans' setter dog broke away froim 
his handler when the shooter had missed the bird. The dog ran 
out to the boundary and then started back to the score. la 
passing the traps, he scented a bird in one trap, took the trap 
rope in his mouth and tugged away at it until the trap opened, 
and then the dog gave the bird a great chase. The other feature 
that enlivened the spirits of the crowd occurred when the other 
dog, in bringing in a dead bird, stopped at the location of the 
target traps and buried the dead pigeon in the sawdust in which 
the bluerocks had been packed. Suggestions for the owner to 
feed the dog were offered. 
A. C. Spencer, of Muncie, has challenged Hugh M. Clark for 
the Lieber cup, emblematic of the Indiana championship at live 
pigeons. The race is being arranged for, and will possibly be 
held at Elwood, and possibly earlier than Thanksgiving. J. W. 
Farrell, of Muncie, has challenged Austin Flinn, of Wabash, for 
the English Hotel cup. This is a target trophy, and the match 
must be shot on the grounds of the Indianapolis Gun Club. 
A sweepstake shoot at live pigeons will be held at Muncie on 
Thanksgiving Day. This programme is about the warmest one 
that has been offered in many months, at any point in the middle 
West. 
Rochester Rod and Gun Club. 
Rochester, N. Y.— Rickman won the point in the Rochester 
Rod and Gun Club's handicap contest for the Hunter Arms Co. 
trophy. He has now won six points. Borst has won seven. The 
contest ends on Nov. 16, and Rickman still has a chance to tie 
Borst for the prize. Stewart made the best net score, but as he 
was scratch man, his 24 did not equal Rickman's 19, with his 
allowance of 6 added. The scores: 
Brk. Hdp. Tot'al. Brk. Hdp. Tot'al. 
Rickman 19 6 25 Norton 18 4 22 
Stewart 24 0 24 Borst 14 6 20 
Adkin 22 1 23 Clark 18 1 19 
Kershner 22 1 23 
The Interstate Association. 
Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 10— Kindly announce to readers of Forest 
and Stream that the annual meeting of the Interstate Association 
will be held on Thursday, Dec. 8, at which time Grand American 
Handicap matters, applications for tournaments and other busi- 
ness of importance, covering the year 1905, will be passed upon. 
Applications for the Association's assistance in giving tourna- 
ments during the season of 1905 should be in the hands of the 
secretary-manager (address 219 Coltart Square, Pittsburg, Pa.) no 
later than Dec. 3, in order that they may be brought before the 
Association's tournament committee at this meeting. 
Elmer E. Shaner, Sec'y-Mgr. 
SIDE LIGHTS OF TRADE. 
Mr. Topperwein "got busy" Nov. 10 at St. Louis, and without 
n miss broke 3,507 flying targets (the size of the targets being 
:2y 2 inches), a display of marksmanship which is truly marvelous 
.and without parallel in the shooting annals of the world. It is 
probable that his record will stand until such a time as he sees 
■fit to make another try. In this remarkable performance Mr. 
Topperwein used, as he always does, Winchester. 22 caliber grease- 
less bullet rifle cartridges and a Winchester .22 caliber automatic 
xifle. ' 
Mr. Charles Lancaster has removed to larger and more con- 
venient premises, at 11 Panton street, Haymarket, London, S. W. 
The following very pleasing information was recently received by 
liim and is self explanatory: 
British Royal Pavilion, 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 
St. Louis, U. S. A., Oct. 22, 1904. 
Dear Sir — I have the pleasure to inform you that I am advised 
by the American Exposition Authorities that the International 
Jury of Awards have awarded your exhibit a gold medal in 
Group 120. Yours faithfully C. M. Watson, Colonel, 
Commissioner-General for Great Britain. 
Charles Lancaster, Esq. 
PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT. 
New Train Service to Florida, Aiken and Augusta. 
The Southern Railway announces, effective Nov. 6, a new train 
will be put on between New York city and Jacksonville, Fla. 
Leaving New York daily at 3:25 P. M., carrying through Pull- 
man Drawing Room Sleeping Cars New York to Jacksonville 
and Augusta, with connections for Aiken, Camden and Charles- 
ton. This train will also carry Southern Railway Dining cars. 
Early in January, 1905, the elegant train so appropriately named 
the "Southern's Palm Limited" will resume service for the tourist 
season. The train is composed of the very highest class equip- 
ment, including Pullman Compartment and Drawing Room Sleep- 
ing cars, Dining cars, Club car, Library and Observation cars, 
and is operated solid between New York and St. Augustine, and 
also handling one Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping car between 
New York, Aiken and Augusta. 
A book of information descriptive of the winter health and 
pleasure resorts of the South, where the tourist or invalid may 
avoid the rigors of the Northern winter, enjoying the per- 
petual comforts of the South, is just being issued by the pas- 
senger department, and will be mailed to any address upon re- 
ceipt of two cents postage. New York office, 271 and 1185 Broad- 
way. Alex. S. Thweatt, Eastern Passenger Agent. 
Pennsylvania Railroad's Winter Excursion Route Boot. 
In pursuance of its annual custom, the Passenger Department 
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has just issued an attrac- 
tive and comprehensive book descriptive of the leading Winter 
resorts of the East, and South, and giving the rates and various 
routes and combinations of routes of travel. Like all the publica- 
tions of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, this "Winter Ex- 
cursion Book" is a model of typographical and pictorial work. It 
is bound in a handsome and artistic cover in colors, and con- 
tains much valuable information for Winter tourists and travelers 
in general. It can be had free of charge at the principal ticket 
offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, or will be sent 
postpaid upon application to Geo. W. Boyd, General Passenger 
Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. 
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