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WESTERN TRAP. 
Cincinnati Gun Club. 
The attendance on Dec. 9 was a little more like old times, fifteen 
• members shooting in the Oakley trophy. Williams finished high 
: with 45. The day was a mixture of fog and smoke until about 
, noon, when it cleared off nicely, but with a strong wind which 
I kept the boys guessing about the targets. Galt, of Barberton, O., 
I was a visitor, and landed in second place with several. Little prac- 
tice shooting was done. Halvershora is a new man at this game, 
and when he learns to shoot at close range instead of letting the 
f targets get out to the fence, his scores will look better. 
' In a team ra.atch Gambell and Harig did good work for their 
; teams, breaking 47 each. There will be nothing special for Christ- 
i mas Day, but Gambell promises something about New Years, 
j The weather ■ was fine ’ on Dec. 3, and several of the members 
f visited the grounds, the following shooting their scores in the 
: Clement’s trophy contest: Harig d9vds.), 25, 21 — 46; Bonser (17), 
i 23, 22—45; Gambell (16), 22, 20— 42; Dick (16), 22, 17—39; Miles (16), 
17, 14— 31’.’ 
Just to keep the boys going, and give them a chance for some 
easy money, Gambell offers another of his “sure things,” as fol- 
lows: He says, that from now on (Dec. 9) he will give $5 to any 
i member breaking 26 straight targets under the following easy con- 
i ditions. All stand at 16yds. ; entrance $1, which includes targets, 
j and must be paid in advance. No less than four entries received 
at one time. Squads must have not less than four, nor more than 
five shooters. Squads must continue shooting until all competitors 
1 . have missed. Re-entries will be allowed, and money refunded for 
targets not shot at, for a miss up to and including the fifth 
. target. Entries in this case may be made when the event is 
i finished. No more than one re-entry will be allowed a con- 
testant in the same event. No allowance made for targets not 
: shot after the fifth target. Competitors must see that their squads 
1 are thoroughly familiar with the rules before going to the firing 
line. 
A. E. Donally, “Captain,” will become a benedict on Dec. 12. 
His friends — and he has a host of them — will all wish him and his 
bride many years of happiness. The couple will start for Florida 
I after the ceremony, where they will stay a month, 
i Following are to-day’s scores: 
Ackley trophy, handicap, 60 targets: 
Williams, 19. 
46 
Bullerdick, 18 
38 
Maynard. 20. 
-.... 44 
Tones, 17 
38 
Harig. IS . . . 
44 
Mieninger, 16 .... 
37 
Galt. 16 
44 
Herman, 17 
36 
Leever, 16 . . . 
44 
Pfieffer, 16 
34 
Black, 16 
43 
Holzhofer, 16 
28 
Ahlers, 20 . . . 
39 
Ackley, 16 
28 
Roll, 18 
39 
Team race. 
50 targets: 
Gambell 
24 23— 47 
Bullerdick 
21 17—38 
Gait 
23 21— 44 
Harig 
.... 24 23— 47 
W'ilkams 
23 21— 44 
Mavnard 
.... 20 19— 39 
Roll 
22 18— 40 
Herman 
.... 21 21— 42 
Totals 
92 83—175 
Totals 
.... 86 80—166 
Ohio 
Notes. 
\ Several members of the “Millionaire” Hunting Club, an organi- 
: zation across the river from Cincinnati, left the other day in 
I their launch, the Leo J., for Green River. They are all good 
\ wing shots, and should return ■with plenty of game. In the 
; party are Messrs. Wm. Telford, Wm. Thomann, Ben Vastine, 
Charles Hickey, Chas. Schlehorst and Wm. Hanlon. 
New records are being made every day, and the following is at 
the head of all hunting records without question. Dick Hart, a 
local sportsman of Petersburg, Ind., established a new record 
for wing shooting on Dec. 6. He saw a flock of wild mallards 
flying over the western part of town. He ran into the house, got 
' I’.is gun and brought down twenty-two ducks at one shot. 
I J. E. Clark, superintendent of the Indianapolis Gun Club, and 
1 Jack Abrams, of Indianapolis, were quail hunting in Brown 
J county this season, when they ran across three big timber wolves, 
. and after a hard fight captured one alive, which they brought 
1 home with them on Dec. 7, in order to prove their yarn. The 
j wolf is as large as a setter dog and put up a hard fight. 
1 C. H. Cord, of Dayton, has just returned from his annual 
j hunting trip, and reports a fine time. While he was away, a party 
took a fancy to his pointer, N.avahoe Chief, and and carried him 
' off from the kennel; but he was recovered in a few days. 
The Greenville Gun Club is doing nothing in the shooting line 
at present. The annual meeting will be held after Christmas, and 
plans laid for the next season. 
Charley Matthews, of Euphemia, one of the best-known trap and 
' rifle shots in southern Ohio, was out quail hunting with his 
young Irish setter Duke. The dog located a number of quail 
1 and Charley killed the limit, and made a number of his Dayton 
. friends happy when he divided. 
■ M. J. Schwind and James McConnell, popular trapshooters, of 
Dayton, have been taking in the turkey shoots at Union, Phillips- 
' burg and the Stock Yards, and incidentally they gathered in 
fourteen of the gobblers. They are talking of going into the 
poultry business, and will shoot a match at 100 targets to see 
which one has the bunch. In one of the contests Schwind and 
McConnell each broke 40 straight, the former finishing with 94 
per cent, and the latter with 92 per cent. They are sure enough 
shooters. 
\I'. T. Wellman, president of the Mt. Washington Grin Club, 
Cincinnati, presided at the club’s annual dinner on Dec. 7, which 
was held in the Colter Cannery, the large canning vats serving as 
tables. .Sixty-five members were present. The dinner favors were 
clay pigeons, with fanciful drawings of the club’s latest shooting 
match, and were prepared by Geo. H. Hartford. 
The New Lebanon and Dayton gun clubs are preparing for 
C hristmas shoots, with turkeys, geese, ducks, beef and pork as 
priics, Ollier clubs in the valley will also be in line, 
• 
It is said that the Greenville Gun Club will hold a Christmas 
shoot, but nothing authoritative has been given out. 
Capt. Ben Downs, of the Springfield Gun Club, enjoyed hunting 
on every day of the open season, and had fine sport. He bagged 
sixty-three quail, an average of four and a half per day, and had 
quail for his 6 o’clock dinner every day of the season. 
Arthur Humble, of Dayton, made the record for that city 
during the hunting season. He killed sixty-eight quail and 148 
rabbits. It is sure that good sport may be had in that locality 
if the sportsman has good dogs and knows where to go. 
Harry Engle, a member of the Rohrer’s Island Gun Club, of 
Dayton, met with the loss of his pointer dog Sport while on a 
hunt in Kentucky. The dog became entangled in a barb-wire 
fence, and while attempting to free himself, worked against a 
barb which entered his breast and pierced his heart. He was one 
of the best field dogs in Dayton. 
Hunters report that they found quail more plentiful during the 
last part of the season in the vicinity of Dayton. This is ac- 
counted for by some on the theory that the hunters erred in 
working the cover during the pleasant days, when the birds re- 
mained in the open feeding grounds. The latter part of the sea- 
son was stormy, with rain and snow, and the birds then sought 
the thicker cover and were found in large bevies. This insures 
plenty of birds for breeding next spring. 
From the nature of the discussions in the Farmers’ Institutes 
last winter, it is believed that a well organized effort will be. 
made early in the session of the next Legislature looking to the 
enactment of a law forbidding the killing of quail for five years. 
This will be fought not only by those favoring a shorter period 
of prohibition, but by many sportsmen who wish an open season 
every fall, as now provided. 
The Montgomery County Fish and Game Protective Club held 
a meeting in Dayton on Dec. 6 and elected the following officers 
for the coming year: Edwin Bert, President; Chas. E. Pease, 
Vice-President; J. F. Campbell, Secretary; W. N. Kuhns, Treas- 
urer; Executive Committee: B. E. Seitner, Hon. O. B. Brown, 
H. G. Protsman, E. T. Hardy, B. F. Hershey, H. M. Altick, Dr. 
D. W. Greene. After the transaction of a large amount of routine 
business, a committee was appointed to look after fish and game 
legislation at the next meeting of the Legislature. This com- 
mittee was instructed to co-operate with the Fish and Game Com- 
mission in the matter of a revision of the laws now governing 
these matters. Another committee was appointed to make arrange- 
ments for a smoker to be given the members of the club. some time 
in January. Several new members were admitted. 
In Other Places. 
.S. G. Leonard and wife, H. J. Drout, F. E. Taylor, Phillip 
Moletor and Wilber Oliphant, of Kinsley, Kansas, were in attend- 
ance at the shoot at Lamed last Monday. 
With a high wind blowing directly in their faces, the members 
of the Will County Gun Club, Joliet, 111., participated in their 
weekly shoot last Sunday. 
George Russell won the handicap race at Bradford, Pa., last 
Saturday with 21 out of 25 from the 18yd. limit. 
The Kinsman Gun Club, Ashtabula, Ohio, held their Indian 
summer shoot on last Thursday. 
The Central and the Highland gun clubs, of Duluth, Minn., will 
be merged into one club. W. J. Webb, of the Highland Club, 
has been the moving spirit, and he is quite elated; as the new 
membership will be not less than 215. 
T. S. May has won the medal at the last shoot of the Great 
Bend, Kansas, Gun Club, and now will wear it for keeps. 
The annual pigeon pie supper, given by the Lexington, Mo., 
Gun Club, was enjoyed by the members of the club and a large 
number of their friends Thursday last. There were one hundred 
birds in the pie and the members numbered sixty. And thus the 
season and the birds were brought to an end. 
The Greely, Colorado, Gun Club held a team shoot on Thurs- 
day, Nov. 30, and the losing side was taxed for an oyster supper. 
The New Lancaster, Kan., Club held a shoot last Thursday. 
It was their initial effort. 
Mullens was the only member of the Lead, S. D., Gun Club to 
attend the shoot last Sunday, but he did not send in his scores 
to the secretary and it did not count on the trophy. 
The report comes from Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, that shooters get 
much pleasure out of their meets at the traps. 
Mr. Hern, of the Penn Gun Club, Norristown, Pa., made a 
straight score of 25 at their last meeting. Plover 23, N. F. G. 20, 
Shambough 19, Drake 16, Matcher 16, Eusinberg 13, Steiner 9. 
A gun club with five members has been organized at Burr 
Oak, Kansas. Joe King is the ca;)tain. 
At the county shoot held at Exira, la., last Thursday, Dr. 
Brooks, of Audubon, won the medal, while Kirk Knox won the 
first money. Scores, 24 out of 25. 
The Benton Ridge, Ohio, Gun Club spent a few days at the 
Lewiston reservoir last week. 
D. O. Heathman won the trophy put up by the Lexington, 
Mo., Gun Club for the past season. At their last shoot, K. R. 
Hammer, William Shacklett and Dr. T. B. Ramsey tied with 9 
out of 10 birds. 
Ben. T. Williams, William Newkirk and Tobe Reeves, of 
Murphysboro, 111., won the beef at the shooting match held there 
Saturday last. 
The regular shoot of the Balmy Beach Gun Club, Toronto, 
Canada, was held Saturday with a fair turn out of members and 
visitors. 
The Spokane, Wash., Rod- and Gun Club is getting ready for 
the winter schedule of shoots. It is customary for the club to 
hold tournaments for the championship during the winter, and 
the first shoot will be held first of the month. 
The contestants who were present at the Highland Gun Club 
were compelled to shoot on a sliding scale. Those who won a 
turkey were set back two yards, and that gave the others a 
chance to win. 
Harvey S. Reen, Henry Miller and C. F. Jenkins, of Las 
Animas, Col., escorted members of the Pueblo Gun Club to the 
Blue Lakes, where they bagged 82 ducks and 60 rabbits, 
A. Topperwein while at El Paso, Texas, visited local gun elub 
grounds and gave a fancy exhibition with the rifle. The shotgun 
men were blazing away at live birds, Bulwer and Rand each 
getting 24, and Shelton 23. Stevenson and Vilas were the others 
who participated in the shoot. 
The Rantonl, Ilk, Gun Club sports the name of Royal, and 
in order to entertain Mr. A. A. Funk, an old member, a, shoot 
was held there on the day preceding Thanksgiving. 
Those of the DuPont Powder Company engaged as salesmen 
lately met at Indianapolis, where they were given a sort of post- 
graduate course in the handling and selling of explosives. 
The Kendallville, Ind., Limited Gun Club held a shoot at 
their grounds Thursday last. Many of the Goshen shooters were 
present, and a good time was reported. 
President Schruman, of the Cornell Military School, Terre 
Haute, Ind., has made a strong plea as an encouragement for 
minor sports in favor of a gun club. It is hoped that it will he 
as sport as lacrosse and cricket. If there is anything that a 
student in a military academy needs to become preficient in, it 
is the use of firearms. 
The gun club at York Haven, Pa., has gone into winter 
quarters. Many of the members were factory men, part working 
in the day time and others at night, so that it was difficult to get 
enough together at one time to make the shoot interesting. 
Ihe Fort Side Giin Club, Norristown, Pa., held the opening 
shoot for the fall season on their new grounds, and it provided 
an interesting event, as the targets used were live birds. It is 
reported that everything points to a very successful season, and 
the new club will hold live-bird .shoots frequently. 
The Batavia, Ilk, Gun Club have finally awakened from their 
slumbers of the past summer and held a meeting. It is to be 
hoped that there^ will be some matches held there during the 
winter months. Shall be pleased to chronicle same at any time. 
At the weekly shoot of the Houghton, Mich., Gun Club, held 
last Sunday, the attendance was limited, owing to the many 
members who were out deer hunting. J. H. Rice and J. J. 
Lealand won the handicap match, and the cup was v-on by R. M. 
Edwards. 
Another new shooting club has sprung up. This time it is 
Mediapolis, la., that claims the honor. The new club made a 
beginning by starting out last Thursday, with a shoot for a 
beef, four shoats and some ducks and geese, and so the club 
hopes to interest most of the scatter-gun artists living in its 
vicinity. 
Dr. Carl Hogen, of Silver City, N. M., has completed arrange- 
ments whereby lie will become European representative of the 
DuPont Powder Company. 
All the Iowa shooters were invited to participate in their annual 
Ibanksgivmg shoot by the Parkersburg, Iow,a, Gun Club. At 
lea.st, that would be indicated by the programme issued, which 
invited everybody to come who was large enough to shoulder a 
gun. 
At Moorehead, Iowa, where there were apportunities for win- 
ning fowl as .prizes, all were invited to bring their best gun. 
The South End Gun Club, Reading, Pa., held an interesting all- 
day match on last Friday. All the events were ten targets. Some 
of the best scores were made by Messrs. Dicker, Herbein, 
Gerhart and Yost. 
A local Missouri paper comments thus: “Much fault is found 
with the new game laws of Missouri, which discriminates against 
the people at large and is in favor of gun clubs.” This is mis- 
leading, as anything that is good for members of gun clubs is also 
good for all the hunters who live in the State. If reference is 
made to taxing those who live in another State, why then that 
is in favor of those who live in the State. 
’Way out in Mayor Hodge’s town, Olathe, Kansas, there has 
been an uprising of the trapshooters. After several years of lay- 
off, a number of the “old boys” betook themselves to the south 
side of the city, and tliere proceeded to shoot at 14 pigeons. 
Blackburn, Thiel and Dent got 11, Hollenback 10 and McIntyre 8. 
The North Side Gun Club, New Allbany, Ind., will give a shoot 
next Thursday at Schonhof’s place on the Paoli Pike. 
A shooting match is announced for Thursday next at Solon, 
Iowa. There will be lunch served on the grounds. 
The West Point, Iowa, Gun Club will hold a shoot at the fail- 
grounds, Thursday of the coming week. Shooting will start at 
9 o’clock and continue throughout the day. 
All amateurs were invited to take part in Thursday of this week 
shoot at Grinnell, Iowa, when the Grinnell and Brooklyn clubs 
were to hold a team shoot. 
Elmer Deisene, L. C. Rairdon, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, at- 
tended a shoot at DeGraff last (Ihursday and came home proudly 
bearing three turkeys. 
After -many moons, the Castle Gun Club, Belvidere, Ilk, has 
come forth and held a shoot on, their grounds near the corset 
factory. W'e shall be pleased to hear more from Belevidere in the 
future. 
Hargemeiser Park, Green Bay, Wis., was the scene of a team 
match on Thursday last between the members of the Bay Gun 
Club. Some time in the near future the winners will feast at the 
expense of the losintg side. 
Miss Grace Butler, Ralph O’Neil and Glenn Baird, of Urbana, 
Hk, were present at a ball given by the Homer, Ogden, Ilk, 
Gun Club. 
H. W. Cadwallader is traveling through Iowa and giving some 
interesting rifle and shotgun exhibitions. Last week, at Tama, he 
shot a tie with A. W. Mounsdon, 32 ont of 36. 
It is to be regretted that the hunters at Forest City, Iowa, held 
a hunt on Thanksgiving day, and with 30 to 40 men scoured 
the country for game. These side hunts deserve to be abolished 
unless crows only are killed. 
Last Thursday at South English, Iowa, a large gathering of 
local sports saw Chas. L. Holden win the match of lOO targets 
for $50 a side from Will Ridley. The so»re was very close, 91 to 
90. There will probably be another match soon. 
Amnng the many “turkey” day shoots, we ’ mention that of 
San Jose, 111. 
Brenham, Texas, is alive to the interests of the shooters of 
the southwest; $1,500 will be given. Professionals will be barred 
from all save one or two events. Nervy Alf. Gardner is the “king 
bee tournament manager of the great sauthweet. 
