FOREST AND STREAM 
T 95 
Aug. 4. 1906.! 
Moore . 
.23 
19 
21 
21 
22 
23 
23 .. 
152 
Huff . 
. 25 
25 
25 
25 
25 
20 
23 .. 
168 
Harrison . 
. 21 
16 
22 
20 
18 
19 
19 .. 
135 
Wright . 
. 14 
14 
21 
18 
19 
22 
21 21 
129 
Burgess . 
. 21 
17 
18 
21 
77 
Hawthorne . 
13 
18 
15 
46 
Dr Poineaux . 
11 
15 
C C Carter. 
10 
10 
14 
Dr Nelson . 
14 
14 
White . 
13 
17 
16 
Link . 
19 
15 
15 
18 
13 
Bibb . 
0 
16 
17 
Scott . 
17 
McMurdo . 
19 
11 
12 
10 
13 .. 
Warwick Gun Club. 
Warwick, N. Y.—The Warwick Gun Club held its 
monthly shoot on Friday, July 27. The following are the 
scores: 
Events: 123456789 10 11 
Targets: 10 15 15 15 15 15 15 
Hendrickson . 6 8 12 10 9 7 . 
Markley . 7 12 11 11 12 14 13 4 2 4 .. 
J N Williams. 5 12 12 12 12 12 9. 
Tuthill . 9 11 12 10 10 12 13 6 6.. 7 
Wright . 6 9 9 10 7 4 6. 
Kendig . 8 13 8 12 12 9 12.. 0.. .. 
Lines . 9 12 11 13 12 12 9. 8 
Dunning . 8 7 12 10 11 12 3 0 5.. 
Edsall .. 12 13 11 12 5 5 .. . 
On July 6 the annual meeting of the club was held 
and the following were elected officers: John B. Rogers, 
President; Howard G. Pierson, Vice-President; Dr. A. 
W. Edsall, Secretary; Thos. Welling, Treasurer, and W. 
S. Lines, Captain. The prospects are very bright tor 
this season’s sport. In August the annual clambake will 
be held, also the monthly shoot. Shoots will be held 
each month as long as weather will permit. 
John B. Rogers, Pres. 
The Amateur Clay Bird Shooter. 
While the conditions existing in the States and Eng¬ 
land are not quite parallel, it is safe to say the raison 
d’etre of the sport or pastime—as you will—was the same 
in both countries. There can be no doubt as to the 
serious bar to the popularizing of clay-bird shooting the 
handicapping system in vogue here is. Why in the 
world the Clay-Bird Shooting Association, which is the 
power in this country, will persist in insisting upon the 
continuation of a system which has so thoroughly 
demonstrated its futility, is well nigh beyond human 
comprehension. More than likely the explanation is found 
in the fact that the practical shooting element in its 
functionaries are conspicuous by their absence. There 
are many factors contributing toward the difficulties 
handicapping committees have to face. Among these 1 
may mention the men who rig their scores prior to a big 
event, men who select the competitions in which they 
will shoot, committee men who will not hesitate to give 
themselves the benefit of the doubt in a decision as to 
their points, and last, but not least, the alleged sports¬ 
man—that chef d’oeuvre of clay-bird shooting—the chronic 
grumbler, who no sooner reaches the grounds than he 
worries the scorer or secretary as to his number of points, 
or absence of them, as the case may be, and finds fault- 
with every one he fancies has been treated more gener¬ 
ously than he. To the latter class I would say, “Gen¬ 
tlemen, shoot more and talk less.” You will then find 
your scores improve, and you will command more respect 
among your shooting friends, and you will the sooner 
get on scratch, where you will not have to bother about 
your points. I have noticed, too, that those who send 
up such a plaintive wail as to failure to win not in¬ 
frequently romp home with a real good trophy, which 
they rarely equalize by a substantial return in the way of 
a prize to the club’s frequently meagre list. This is not 
as it should be. There are too many who are on the 
make, and they are not by any means confined to pigeon 
shots. The ^majority of pigeon shots do shoot for what 
there is in it; a different spirit should pervade the en¬ 
vironment of clay-bird shooting clubs. Who in the world 
takes a shoot in the country to make money out of it? 
No one but the exploiter we hear of occasionally. So let 
it be with us, and it is possible, if the clubs would but 
take up the matter seriously, for I do not believe that the 
matter cannot be contended with. Mr. Harry Newton 
advanced a good idea as to the establishing of two classes, 
called, say, A and B class, A-cIass to consist of scratch 
and one-point men. B-class two or more points—thus two 
classes of competitions could be held at the weekly meet¬ 
ings. It would be advisable to eliminate the present 
absurd system of scaling the handicaps. It must be 
patent to every one that a man doing 60 per cent., another 
doing 69 per cent., and both having the same points, is a 
gross injustice to the man doing 60 per cent. One way 
out of the. difficulty would be to count each miss or kill 
as ten points either for or against the shooter; a finer 
discrimination can thus be made and a closer handicap 
framed than is at present possible. This, of course, does 
not, and cannot, take into consideration the personal 
equation, resulting in off-days or rigging of handicaps 
already spoken of. The system of monthly adjustments 
of handicaps as at present in vogue is bad, as it may be 
based on much or little shooting, and not infrequently 
works an injustice to the regular shooter. Not infre¬ 
quently . a man only appears once or twice a month, 
shoots in .selected events,, shoots, we will say, badly, 
secures a long start for the next month, turns up reg¬ 
ularly, selects his events, shoots well, outclasses for the 
time regular attendants, yet does not seriously affect his 
handicap points, as a few judiciously distributed losses 
will soon neutralize his previous winnings. Watch the 
scores; you will soon see what I mean. The very best 
handicapping I have ever known is that done by Mr. 
J. Back at the Gun Club of England events. He frames 
the handicaps on the day of the meetings, and it is a 
cpmmon thing to find four or five in the ties, and I have 
yet to hear any one who has been dissatisfied with his 
handicapping. The Clay Bird Shooting Association would 
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