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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec 17, 1904. 
Executive Committee: Mr. Irby Bennett, Chairman; Messrs. 
W. J. Bruff and Eugene duPont. 
Tournament Committee: Mr. Irby Bennett, Chairman; Messrs. 
Paul North, A. C. Barrell, H. McMurchy, VV. F. Parker, T. H. 
Keller, J. T. Skelly and J. Howard Marlin. 
Club Organization Committee: Mr. Thomas Hunter, Chairman; 
Messrs. T. H. Keller, A. H. Durston, C. N. Markle and Chas. 
Tatham. 
Tiophy Committee: Messrs. A. W. Higgins and E. S. Lentilhon. 
After the stockholders and board of directors had held their 
respective meetings, the Tournament Committee went into session, 
Mr. Bennett in the chair. All the members were present except 
Mr. H. McMurchy, who was represented by Mr. Thomas Hunter 
by proxy. 
The minutes of the meetings held Jan. 2, March 4 and June 21 
were read and approved. 
Applications for the Grand American Handicap of 1905 were 
read, the applicants being Indianapolis, Kansas City, Denver, 
Cleveland, Sandusky, O., and Put-in-Bay, O. Each application 
was accompanied by recommendations and set forth the advan- 
tages of their respective claims. Mr. E. H. Tripp was granted 
permission to address the meeting in behalf of the claims of 
Indianapolis. After an animated discussion lasting for a con- 
siderable length of time, it was finally decided to hold the Grand 
American Handicap of 1905 at Indianapolis, Ind., on the grounds 
of the Indianapolis Gun Club, some time during the month of 
June. 
On motion of Mr. Skelly, seconded by Mr. North, it was de- 
cided to change the form of application for entry in future Grand 
American Handicaps to read "white male citizens." 
Manager Shaner presented a long list of applications from 
gun clubs for tournaments to be given during 1905 under the 
auspices of the Interstate Association. From the number pre- 
sented several were chosen as desirable points, and the Secretary- 
Manager instructed to make the necessary arrangements. The 
points selected will be announced at a later date in the columns 
of the sportsmen's journals. 
After considerable routine business was transacted, the meeting 
adjourned at 5:30 P. M. Elmer E. Shaner, Sec'y-Mgr. 
WESTERN TRAP. 
Cincinnati Gun Cub, 
The weather on Dec. 10 was not the best for sport at the traps. 
The day was cold and snowy, the ground covered with a white 
carpet, and the shooting conditions hard. In spite -of this, there 
was a very good attendance at the grounds, and a 100-target 
race was shot, and also two two-man team races. The practice 
was light, owing to the cold, the members being more comfortable 
by the big stove than at the score. 
In the 100 : target race Gambell was high with 85, and was the 
only man to make a straight 20. Maynard gave him a close run, 
finishing with 84. 
In the team matches Gambell and Shadwick defeated Peters and 
Barker. Shadwick was high in the first match with 47. Gambell 
second with 46. Neither Peters nor Barker shot in anything like 
their usual form. 
The members were much pained to learn of the serious illness 
of Thos. A. Logan (Ackley), who has never fully recovered from 
the sickness which attacked him on his return from his duck 
hunting trip this fall. 
Ackley is a sportsman of the old school, and one whom it is 
a pleasure to know. He is thoroughly conversant with shooting 
of every kind, and has hunted in many sections of the country. 
As an angler, he has also made a reputation, and enters into 
the sport with the same enthusiasm he shows for shooting. 
Always with a kind word for those he meets, and always ready 
to impart to the amateur any desired information from his vast 
store of knowledge of guns and field sports, l.e is sadly missed 
from the weekly shoots of the club, and many are the wishes 
for his recovery. He has always been identified with organizations 
having for their objects the protection of game or the furthering 
of trapshooting interests, arid has always given freely of his time 
and strength. He was one of the first members of the famous 
Cuvier Club, and for years was corresponding secretary. As a 
member of the old Cosmopolitan Gun Club, he worked hard to 
keep the organization together. That he may soon resume his 
place in the club, and at the firing line, is the hearty wish of 
every man who has met him. 
The day's scores follow: 
One hundred target race: 
Targets: 20 20 20 20 20 Total. 
Gambell 
Maynard ...... 
Herman .................... 
Williams ................... 
No. 86 
Barker *. 
Shadwick .................. 
Block .... 
Linn 
Heffler .................... 
Foley - 
Willie Green ............... 
Brown 
15 17 15 20 18 85 
16 15 16 18 19 84 
15 14 17 16 16 78 
13 14 13 18 17 75 
11 16 16 16 15 74 
......... 16 17 14 18 16 81 
........ 19 11 15 17 11 73 
......... 15 15 11 17 14 72 
......... 14 13 16 15 14 72 
........ 15 13 13 17 13 71 
........ 13 16 13 12 13 67 
......... 13 13 14 14 12 66 
........ 7 10 8 10 14 49 
Team shoot, 50 targets, for the targets 1 
Gambell 46, Shadwick 47; total 93. Peters Si Barker 39; total 73. 
Team race, 25 targets, for the targets: 
Gambell 21, Shadwick 20; total 41. Barker 22, Peters 13; total 35. 
Springfield (O.) Gun Club. 
At the shoot of the Springfield Gun Club, held on Dec. 3, ten 
men were in attendance. Four 25-target events were run off, and 
some good scores were made, in spite of the hard weather condi- 
tions. Young was high gun with 92. Henderson and Strong tied 
for second on 85, and Foley was third with 80. Johnson and 
Green finished next with 74 and 70 respectively. Snyder and 
Poole shot at 75 targets each and broke 66 and 61 respectively. 
Morgan broke 26 and Thompson 14 out of 50. 
Notes. 
J. Bailey Morlidge, city engineer; Lew M. Krebs, Superintend-'' 
ent of Public Parks, and Ralph Wendt, all of Newport, Ky., put 
in two days hunting in the southern part of the State, and re- 
turned with 77 rabbits and 24 quail. 
James Sheets, of Springfield, returned home after a nine days' 
hunt around De Graff. He had fair sport, killing 55 quail. Last 
year, in this locality, he found twenty-one bevies. 
Phil Wentz, Jr., Dayton, on the last day of the season suc- 
ceeded in getting two rabbits, but saw no quail. 
The fine weather on Dec. 7 was too big a temptation for some 
of the members of the Rohrer's Island Gun Club, of Dayton, to 
resist, and they went out to the grounds for a little shoot. The 
club house, as usual, was full of good cheer, and the boys made 
some excellent scores. Heikes was high man with 96 out of 100. 
Oswald second with 90. Hanauer third with 81. Oldt 80, Kette 
and Miller tied for fifth place on 79. 
Mr. Rolla O. Heikes went to Cleveland on Dec. 10, where he 
met his son, and the two will go to New York to close up the 
year's business. They will then return to Dayton for the holiday 
season. 
Jack Finley will hold an all-day target tournament at Salem on 
Dec. 15. The prizes will be ducks and turkeys. 
The turkey shoot on the range of the Eaton Rifle Club will be 
held on Dec. 21. 
An enthusiastic meeting of the Welfare Gun Club was held at 
the Arcade on the evening of Dec. 6, and a permanent organiza- 
tion effected. Officers: C. C. Rayburn, President; Elmer Redelle, 
Secretary; Gus Thompson, Assistant Secretary; Geo. Edeter, 
Treasurer; Captain, W. I. Spangler, Quartermaster; Messrs. Ray- 
burn and Bradshaw, Squad Hustlers; A. Million, Cashier; Mr. 
Kanmacher, Clerk. After the election considerable business was 
transacted, which will promote the interests of the club in every 
way. The club made a most enviable record during the short 
time it was running the past season, and every effort will be 
made to make the next season most successful in every respect. 
The club has excellent grounds, level and with sky background, 
two sets of traps, with shooting shed at each score, and all situated 
only a few minutes' ride from town, or within easy walking dis- 
tance. 
The big match between W. I. Spangler, of the Welfare Club, 
and Harry Oswald, of the Rohrer's Island Gun Club, will take 
place on Dec. 17, and the prospects are good for a big crowd. 
The club proposes to have a turkey shoot, team match and practice 
shooting on the same day, one set of traps being reserved for this. 
C. H. Cord has just returned from a trip to Barber county, 
Kans., where he enjoyed excellent sport, finding quail, jack 
rabbits and cottontails plenty. He says the shooting is mostly 
in the open, except that there are occasionally a few cottonwoods 
and willows along the creeks. The birds are usually found under 
these cottonwoods and willows, and in branches of wild plums, 
which grow about waist high, and furnish good cover for the 
quail. He had his pointer puppies Sam and Major with him, 
and shot over them every day for two weeks, and they did grand 
work. The residents treated them in royal style, and if near a 
farmhouse about dinner time they just had to go in and eat, and 
on those Kansas farms they live well. The chief objection to a 
hunt in Kansas is the long, tiresome journey there and back. 
The party bagged 300 quail, 60 jack rabbits, 6 ducks and a lot of 
cottontails. 
The Paintersville, trapshooters held an all-day shoot on Dec, 8 
for turkeys and cash prizes. Bo nasa. 
The Dixon Measures. 
Glady, Randolph County, W. Va., Dec. 9.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: In your issue of Dec. 10 an inquirer asks about the 
Dixon measures; a doubt is expressed whether any such had an 
existence as associated with the name Dixon. For the information 
of yourselves and readers, I will say I have in my possession one 
of Dixon's patent flasks. It has stamped on the brass top "James 
Dixon & Sons, Sheffield." I have owned it for nearly fifty years- 
bought it when I first began to shoot, then a boy of about fifteen 
years. The inner part of this flask is of copper, I think, and 
the outer side is very neatly covered with hog skin. It is now 
in as good and serviceable order as when I first got it, save only 
its rather antique appearance, caused by age and continual service. 
In muzzle-loading days it was my constant companion when out 
with my gun. Although I now use a breechloader, and have for 
several years past, still, I frequently use the old flask in loading 
my shells, as it has a very good and serviceable graduated 
powder measure on its top, with a perfect cut-off that never yet 
has failed. If Enquirer will turn to page 92 of "Frank Fores! er's 
Manual for Young Sportsmen," he will find the Dixon powder 
flask and Syke's patent double-lever shot pouch, which, he states, 
is also manufactured by Dixon, of Sheffield, both described; and 
on same page will also see a cut of both those useful implements. 
By the' way, Messrs. Editors, can you inform me whether 
"Frank Forester's Manual for Young Sportsmen" is out of 
print or not? 
["Frank Forester's Manual for Young Sportsmen" is out of 
print. The questiori? raised by Enquirer was not as to the exist- 
ence of the Dixon imnlements, but to the personality of Dixon. 
Who was Dixon?] 
IN NEW JERSEY. 
Montclalr Gun Club. 
Montclatr, N. J., Dec. 10.— Notwithstanding the snowstorm 
prevailing this afternoon, eleven men showed up at the weekly 
shoot to-day, and while weather conditions were not very favor- 
able, some very fair scores were made. 
Event 1, a handicap malch, 25 targets, for the prize of a silver 
loving cup, presented by Mr. C. L. Bush, for best scores made 
during December, left Winslow in the lead with a score of 24. 
Event No. 2, miss-and-out, was won by Babcock, who took home 
a box- of shells. Events 3 and 4, 25 targets each, handicap, were 
won by Crane and Wallace, who each captured a box of shells. 
There will be shooting. on the grounds of the club on the morn- 
ings of Dec. 26 and Jan. 2. 
Scores of Dec. 3: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 Events: 1 2 3 4 5 
Targets: 25 25 25 25 Targets: 25 25 25 25 
Cockefair 20 6 18 19 .. Kendall 21 0.212123 
Bush .20 0 19 21 20 Winslow, 7 24 0.22 .. .. 
Geo Batten, 2. 20 2 22 22 .. Wallace, 5 17 .. 22 24 15 
Babcock 21 7 17 .. 19 Moffett 13 19 22 20 
Baldwin ........... 12'.. 12 15 .. Allen ............. 10 .. ... 3 .. 
Crane, 3 ........... 16 3 23 .. 17 
Handicaps apply only on events 1, 3 and 4. 
Edward Winslow, Sec'y. 
Goose Creek Gun Club. 
New York, Dec. 4.— The Goose Creek Gun Club opened its 
yearly shoot on their grounds at Goose Creek, Jamaica Bay, on 
Dec. 4. Nearly all of the members were present to inaugurate 
the season, although the grounds were not in the best of shape, 
and the weather conditions not the best. Still, a fairly good 
score was made. The shooting will now be a fixture every Sun- 
day until late in March, when the gun will be put aside and the 
fishing tackle will take its place. The club regrets its loss 
through the withdrawal of one of its charter members, one of its 
best marksmen, Emil Steffens, by reason of his recent purchase 
of a holding at Quogue, L. I. It is quite impossible for him 
to give proper attendance to the club affairs, and he was obliged 
to withdraw. He, however, will be a frequent visitor to the club 
affairs. 
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SIDE LIGHTS OF TRADE. 
The calendar for 1905 issued by the Bangor & Aroostook Rail- 
road, is ornamented with an illustration of a hunting scene which 
is quite common in the vast area of country tributary to that 
line. Two hunters, in the midst of a forest, have brought a 
moose to earth. . 
The Harrington & Richardson Arms Co., Worcester, Mass., 
have issued a beautiful calendar for 1905, which will be sent free 
to applicants. It bears a beautiful illustration in colors, the 
subject being a huntress in shooting costume equipped with 
dog and gun. It is both useful and ornamental. 
PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT. 
A call for proposals for canvas leggings has just been issued 
by the Isthmian Canal Commission of Washington, the material 
to be U. S. standard 15-ounce cotton duck. The quantity re- 
quired is 2G0 pairs in three sizes, and blanks containing specifi- 
cations may be had by application to the Isthmian ' Canal Com- 
mission, Washington, D. C, or to this office. The proposal in 
duplicate must be received at the office of the Commission at 
Washington not later than 10:30 A. M., on the fourth day of 
January, 1905, where they will be opened in public. 
BAKER GUNS SHOOT HARD 
and are SAFE. 
They are noted for this wherever known, and that is 
almost everywhere. Ask the man who owns one. 
Fine Trap and Medium Field Grades, $25.00 to $200.00 and up. 
Inquire of your dealer or send for full descriptions. 
BAKER GUN AND FORGING CO., 
Cor. Liberty & School Sta., BATAVIA, N. Y. 
SPECIAL PRICES. 
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Cash with orders. Single 100 at same rate. As these low prices are 
only offered to introduce our hand-loaded shells, we reserve the right 
to withdraw above quotations at any time without further no. ice. 
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New York. 
