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'July is, 1905 .] 
Ohio Riflemen, 
U The June medal shoot of the Twin Valley Rifle Club was held 
jsi Jesse Johnson’s woods three miles south of West Alexandria. 
1 he medal was won by Chas. W. Matthews on a score of 44 out 
If 48. The shooting was offhand, 100yds., 4 shots. The medal 
as won by J. Johnson in December, January, February and May. 
bner N. Clemmer was the winner at the March and April 
mtests. At the June shoot J. W. Lesher and J. Johnson were 
pcond, with 43 each. Following the medal contest came the 
)-shot match for money prizes, shot in five 4-shot events, pos- 
ible 48 in each, possible total of 240. G. W. Izor won with a 
ptal of 222, his best 4-shot score being 46. This match was won 
1 April and May by Jesse Johnson with 222 and 223. 
^ , The Outing Rifle Club, of W. Milton, O., has a fine range and 
large membership. The officers are W. S. Kessler, President; 
j’shas. Chase, Secretary. Their shoots are at 100yds. offhand and 
jblOyds. muzzle rest. 
u Ihe Outing Rifle^ Club, of W. Milton, held their tournament 
(l]n July 4. The wind blew a gale all day and interfered with 
^,ie scores as well as the comfort of those in attendance. The 
!t(jioot was at the military range on Stillwater River, and all con- 
j.gtsts were at 200 yds., offhand and rest, any rifle and sight ex- 
ept telescope. Five money prizes in each event, 3 shots, pos- 
ble 30. In the oflhand match first prize was won by D. W. 
bnes, 23; second, H. Arnett, 18; M. F. Hampton, 16; Dr. H. 
Pearson, 16; J. C. Anderson, 10. The muzzle rest match had 
lirty entries. Five prizes, 3 shots, possible 36. W. F. Jay was 
igh with 31. J. A. Vore and W. E. Pearson tied for second 
29. J. F. Liddy, C. A. Getzandiner, John Spitter, Dr. H. R. 
‘ 'earson, 27 each, D. W. Jones 26, W. Schwartz 25. 
The July con est for the Gratis Township Rifle Club’s medal 
'as well attended. A strong wind during the greater part of 
le day cut down scores materially. In the offhand match at 
30yds., 4 shots, possible 48. Jesse Johnson tied with G. O. 
hismer on 42, and in the shoot-off the former scored a center 
1, while Chrismer scored 11. Johnson stands well in the list 
f winners of other clubs, but this is the first time he has 
iptured the medal of this club. Other winners of the medal 
re: January, C. Glage, 45; February and June, M. Pence, 46, 
March, J. W. Lesher, 46; April, G. O. Chrismer, 45; May, I. 
tiver, 47. The usual five events of 4 shots each, possible 48, 
J ossible 240 for the 20 shots, followed. Five money prizes in 
' , ich event and four prizes in the aggregate scores. Winners of 
le aggregate prizes were J. Johnson, 217. He also won first in 
ie first and third events with 46 and 46. Second, G. O. Chrismer, 
[.5; J. W. Lesher, third, 211; G. W. Izor, third, 206. In the sec- 
nd event J. W. Lesher and G. W. Izor took first and second 
ith 45 and 46. In the fifth event Lesher and F. Chrismer took 
_;cond and third on 44 and 44. In the fourth event A. U. 
lemmer took first with 46, G. O. Chrismer, second, with 43. 
I The monthly cup contest of the Dayton Sharpshooters will be 
jBeld on July 20 and is open to members only; 200yds., muzzle 
n-.st, 5 shots, possible 120. Adolph Schwind is the present holder 
‘"f the cup having won it in May and June with scores of 108 
id 104. On the same day matches, offhand and muzzle rest, 
ill be arranged, open to all, with money prizes, and the best 
lots from W. Alexandria, Eaton, Lewisburg, W. Sonora, Engle- 
ood, and W. Milton will compete. 
The Fourth of July shoot of the Englewood Rifle Club was 
eld on their own range for cash prizes and the medal. The 
inditions were 100yds., 4 shots, Standard American target, center 
[Mr. J. W. Bell, I. G. C. Secretary, in charge of ammunition at 
S G. A. H. Mr. Bell is at the left in window. 
', possible 40. Few center shots were made, and the scores were 
w owing to high wind. Lester Leiber won the. medal in his 
•St four shots with 36. He was also high for the day scoring 
;8 out of a possible 250 for twenty-five shots. Kerr was second 
gh with 177 out of a possible 260. 
The weather conditions were ideal at the June medal shoot 
the Outing Rifle Club of W. Milton. The club proposes to 
ect a house and put in concrete pits for the targets on the range 
St across the Stillwater River from the town. The offhand 
latcli, first and second prize medals, 100yds., 4in. black center, 
Ishots, possible 48, was won by D. W. Macy with 42. The sec- 
id prize medal was won by John Spitler after shooting off a tie 
1 40 with Pres. Kessler. J. C. Anderson was also in the tie, 
ft could not remain to shoot off. Bench rest match, 200yds., 
center, 8 , 9 and 10 in the black, 5 shots, possible 50, for prize 
[edal and club championship. D. W. Macy was the winner on 
(score of 48, equaling A. Kessler’s winning score of March 22. 
|ie two scores were similar in work, three 10s and two 9s each, 
li each also, the 10 s could be covered with a silver quarter and 
e two 9s with a dime. The champion list of the club is as 
Hows: February 1, J. W. Cussino, 44; Feb. 22, S. Macy, 45; 
arch 22, A. Kessler, 48; April 26, J. Spitler, 50 (a perfect score); 
ay 10, \V. F. Jay, Jr., 47. Winners of the offhand contest first 
jlize medal are: Feb. 1 and 22, Dr. H. R. Pearson, 34 36; 
* arch 22 and June 28, D. W. Macy, 35 42; April 26 and May 24, 
'. H. Kerr, 45, 43; May 10, Paul Bridenbaugh, 44. 
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I Fixtures* 
ly 12. — Brooklyn, L. I. — John Wright’s merchandise shoot; 
li added money. John Wright, Mgr., 318 Broadway, New York, 
t ly 12-13. — Manning, la.. Gun Club second annual amateur tour- 
.t nament. R. A. Rober, Sec’y. 
t ly 12-13.— Menominee, Mich. — The Interstate Association’s tour- 
t; nament, under the auspices of the Menominee Gun Club, 
t W. W. McQueen, Sec’y. 
July 12-14. — Betterton, Md. — Malone’s eleventh annual summer 
tournament; $200 added. J. R. Malone, Mgr., 2671 Pennsyl- 
vania avenue, Baltimore. 
July 17-18. — Charlottesville, Va. — Charlottesville and University 
Gun Club sixth annual money and merchandise shoot. G. L. 
Bruffey, Mgr. 
July 18. — Sisters ville. — West Virginia Gun Club. Ed. O. Bower, 
Sec’y. 
July 22. — Chicago, Ilk, G. C. tournament. C. P. Zacher, Secy. 
July 22. — East Rutherford, N. J., tournament of the Boiling 
Springs Gun Club. Address Hugo Brugmann, Rutherford, 
N. J. 
July 24-,;5. — Winnipeg, Man. — Industrial Exposition Annual. J. 
A. Lindsay, Sec’y. 
July ,24-28. — Brehm’s Ocean City, Md., target tournament. H. A. 
Brehm, Mgr., Baltimore. 
July 28-29. — Newport, R. I. — Aquidneck Gun Club tournament. 
Indianapolis Gun Club House. 
Aug. 2-4. — Albert Lea, Minn. — The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament under the auspices of the Albert Lea Gun Club. N. 
E. Paterson, Sec’y. 
Aug. 8-9. — Morgantown, W. Va.— Monongahela Valley League of 
West Virginia fifth tournament, under auspices of the Recre- 
ation Rod and Gun Club. Elmer F. Jacobs, Sec’y. 
Aug. 8 . — Bergen Beach, L. I., Gun Club monthly shoot. H. W. 
Dryer, Sec’y. 
Aug. 8-10. — Grand Rapids, Mich. — Consolidated Sportsmen’s Asso- 
ciation fourth annual tournament. 
Aug. 10-11. — Carthage, Mo. — The Missouri and Kansas League of 
Trapshooters. Dr. C. B. Clapp, Sec’y. 
Aug. 16-16. — Chattanooga, Tenn. — Mountaineers’ Gun Club tour- 
nament. 
Aug. 16-18. — Ottawa, Can. — Dominion of Canada Trapshooting and 
Game Protective Association. G. Easdale, Sec’y. 
Aug. 16-18. — Kansas City, Mo. — The Interstate Association’s tour- 
nament, under the auspices of the O. K. Gun Club. C. C. 
Herman, Sec’y. • 
Aug. 17-18. — Dalton, O., Gun Club tournament. Ernest F. Scott, 
Sec’y. 
Aug. 17-19. — Chicago, Ilk, Trapshooters’ Association fall tourna- 
ment. E. B. Shogren, Sec’y. 
Aug. 18-19. — Audubon Gun Club of Buffalo, N. Y., tournament. 
Aug. 22 — Somerville, Conn., Gun Club individual State champion- 
ship tournament. A. M. Arnold, Sec’y. 
Aug. 22-25. — Lake Okoboji, la. — Indian annual tournament. Frank 
Riehl, Sec’y. 
Aug. 26. — Newport, R. I. — Mullerite Gun Club on grounds of 
Aquidneck Gun Club. A. A. Schoverling, Mgr. 
Aug. 29-31. — The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the 
auspices of the Colorado Springs, Colo., Gun Club; $1,000 
added money. A. J. Lawton, Sec’y. 
Sept. 4. — Auburn, N. Y., G. C. annual Labor Day tournament. 
Knox & Knapp, Mgrs. 
Sept. 4. — Meriden, Conn. — Parker Gun Club all-day shoot. H. L. 
Carpenter, Sec’y. 
Sept. 4 (Labor J)ay). — Fall tournament of the Springfield, Mass., 
Shooting Club; $50 added money. C. L. Kites, Sec’y. 
Sept. 4, Labor Day. — Fairmont, W. Va., Gun Club sixth regular 
monthly tournament of the Monongahela Valley Sportsman’s 
League of West Virginia. W. A. Wiedebusch, Pres. 
Sept. 4. — Lowell, Mass., Rod and Gun Club Labor Day' shoot. 
E. J. Burns, Sec’y. 
Sept. 4-6. — Lynchburg. — Virginia State shoot. N. R. Winfree, 
Sec’y. 
Sept. 5-8. — Trinidad, Colo. — Grand Western Handicap. Eli Jeffries, 
Sec’y. 
Sept. 15-17. — San Francisco, Cal. — The Interstate Association’s 
Pacific Coast Handicap at Targets, under the auspices: of the 
San Francisco Trapshooting Association. A. M. Shields, Sec’y. 
Sept. 18-20. — Cincinnati Gun Club annual tournament. . Arthur 
Gambell, Mgr. 
Oct. 3-5. — New London, la.. Gun Club shoot; $500 added. Dr. 
C. E.. Cook, Sec’y. 7 
Oct. 10-11. — St. JosMh, Mo. — The Missouri and Kansas League of 
Trapshooters. Dr. C. B. Clapp, Sec’y. t 
Oct. 11-12. — Dover, Del., Gun Club tournament; open ; to all 
amateurs. W. H. Reed, Sec’y. 
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 and Stream goes to press on Tues- 
day OF EACH WEEK. 
Messrs. Knox & Knapp, Mgrs., announce their annual Labor 
Day tournament, Sapt. 4, at Auburn, N. Y. 
The Montclair, N. J., Gun Club has suspended shooting during 
July and August, owing to the absence of members. The next 
shoot of the club will be held on the first Saturday in September. 
The Monongahela Valley Sportsmen’s League of West Virginia 
will hold their next shoot at Morgantown, W. Va., on the grounds 
of the Recreation Rod and Gun Club, Aug. 8 and 9. The first 
day will be League day; the second, Club day. 
Mr. A. A. Schoverling writes us as follows: “All-day shoot of 
the Mullerite Gun Club on the grounds of the Aquidneck Gun 
Club of Newport, R. I., on Saturday, Aug. 26. Full particulars 
from Mr. P. H. Powell, Newport, R. I., or A. A. Schoverling, 
secretary, 2 Murray street. New York.’’ 
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The Chicago, Ilk, Gun Club announce a tournament for July 22. 
Fourteen events at 10, 15 and 20 targets, entrance $1, $1.50 and 
$2. High averages $10, $7.50, $5 and $2.60. Class shooting. Tar- 
gets, 2 cents. Shooting will commence at 10 o’clock. No bang, 
no 0, unless a fair target is refused. Address all communications 
to the Secretary) C. Zacher, 221 Fifth avenue, Chicago. 
Mr. E. H;. Taylor was high professional at the tournament of 
the Monongahela Valley Sportsman’s League of West Virginia, 
July 4, held on' the grounds of the Mannington Gun Club. He 
scoied 140 out of 175 targets. First high amateur average was 
won by Mr. C. P. Kinney, 169 out of 175; second, J. F. Phillips, 
155 out of 175. The League five-man team contest for the Peters 
trophy was v/on by the Mannington team, with 107 out of 125. 
The opening tournament of the West Virginia Gun Club, Sisters- 
ville, Vv. Va., July 18, has a programme of fourteen events, each 
at 15 targets, $1.60 entrance. Totals 210 targets, $21 entrance. At 
the conclusion of the sweepstakes, there will be a five-man team 
race, 25 targets per man, for the team championship of the Ohio 
Valley Sportsmen s League. The high individual score will con- 
stitute the individual championship. At this meeting an associa- 
tion, to be known as the Ohio Valley Sportsmen’s League, w'ill 
be formed, and it is desired that the clubs of Steubenville, Mar- 
tin’s Ferry, Wheeling, McMechen, New Martinsville, St. Marys 
and Parkersburg will send representatives, and teams if possible. 
Shooting will begin about 9:30 o’clock. Rose system will govern. 
n 
A clay target has been invented in England. It is described as 
being similar to the ordinary clay target, but hollowed, so as 
“to contain a bunch of bright-colored worsted, to which a small 
weight is attached, and this is kept in its place by a small card 
disk. When the clay bird is struck by the shot the weight at 
once drop3_ to the ground, and the colored wool plainly indicates 
the exact distance from the shooter at which the bird is killed. 
As a test of skill and to obviate the disadvantage which arises 
when ordinary clay birds are used, and the gradual slackening of 
speed facilitates hitting them, the lawn over which the clay birds 
are projected from five traps in the usual way is divided by three 
semi-circular boundaries, so that the birds when hit must fall into 
one or other of the intermediate spaces, and those which fall 
nearest to the shooter score the highest number of points.’’ The 
colored wool stuffing recalls the feather filled glass balls of the 
ancient Bogardus and Paine days, when to break the glass ball 
was to make the feathers fly. Or, the Best tin pigeon days, few 
but merry, in the ’80s. The tin pigeon was so constructed that a 
piece of tin, held by a flange to the underside of the target, and 
Mr. R. R. Barber, of Paullina, la., winner G. A. H. and 
P. H., 1905. 
attached to the rim of it by a chain, fell out and hung pendulously 
when the target was hit, then bringing the target to the ground 
promptly. This new idea thus is one which was obsolete in 
America years ago. 
Bernard Waters. 
Kingston, N. Y., July 4.— The 
held to-day, scores are appended: 
Events: 
Targets : 
Moore 
Short 
Kingston Gan Club. 
Kingston Gun Club shoot was 
E J Snyder 
Layton 
Myer 
A Johnson 
C Hume .. 
loyd 
Boice 
No. 3 was a 
Kingston. Each 
New Paltz Team. 
Snyder 22 
Hasbrouck 14 
Du Bois 18 
Strong 18 
Cassidy 14 
Layton 17 
Weed 16 
Slater 23 
Hasbrouck 14 
F Slater 18 
Moore 21 — ^195 
1 2 4 5 6 
7 
Events : 
12 4 
5 
6 
7 
10 15 15 15 10 10 
Targets : 
10 15 15 15 10 10 
7 13 12 10 . . 
, , 
T Mahoney . . . 
.48.. 
9 12 10 7 7 
9 
Strong 
. 4 11 11 
9 
. . 
9 12 10 6 6 
8 
W eed 
.398 
7 
9 13 13 13 10 
7 12 8 . . . . 
8 
W Hasbrouck. 
. 6 12 13 
.777 
9 
8 9 12 9 . . 
W Weston 
. 8 13 . . 
5 12 9 10 . . . 
Slater 
. 9 14 14 
7 9 10 8 .. 
, , 
L Hasbrouck . 
. 7 12 . . 
5 10 6 10 6 
8 
J Panzerella . 
.56.. 
5 6 8 8 7 
7 
J Carpenter . . 
.79.. 
9 
. . 
97.... 6 
8 
Logan 
. .. 7 .. 
8 11 10 12 7 
6 
Van William . 
9 
9 12 13 11 7 
9 
Freer 
4 
6 12 13 11 8 
fi 
8 
Smith 
9 
9 
12 -man team 
man shot at 
match, between 
25 targets: 
New Paltz 
and 
Kingston Team. 
Schaffer 18 
Hume 21 
Smith 21 
Short 14 
Johnson 20 
Myer 8 
Waston 19 
Kenyon 13 
Minard 10 
Lawrence 8 
Freer 16—168 
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