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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Aug. 18, 1906. 
powder trophy, 28 out of 30. The boys feel proud of 
their scores, as there was a strong wind. 
The Quincy, Ill., shooters had an outing Sunday last 
and indulged in practice shooting. 
Riverside Gun Club was organized at Petersburg, Va., 
last week, and will engage in friendly matches with other 
clubs. The executive committee is composed of F. W. 
Jones, T. J. Holden, H. B. Hunter, Joseph Smith and 
Joseph Plummer. 
The East End Gun Club, Davenport, la., is now on 
the boom. A picnic was held Aug. 12, and no doubt a 
good time was had, as the Davenport boys know how 
to arrange these gatherings. Beside they were assisted 
by many of the old members of the Cumberland Club. 
A new gun club is being organized by the devotees 
of the shotgun at Princeton. Ind. Regular meetings will 
be held just as soon as the traps can be installed at the 
fair ground. 
The Audubon Gun Club', Clinton, la., held a shoot 
last week at which outsiders were expected to show 
them a thing or two. 
Columbus, O., Gun Club. 
Columbus, O., Aug. 11.—A fine shoot was enjoyed 
Saturday afternoon at the Columbus Gun Club. Boys 
are getting ready for the tournament on Wednesday, Aug. 
15, when Chillicothe and Circleville teams will be here 
and a big time had. Everybody is enthused over the 
fine new rifle and pistol range. It is a great thing to 
hear the high power rifles, with the sing of the bullets, 
and the marker with the colored disks to signal the 
result of the shots. 
Geo. Buchanan was high in the Peters trophy race, 
and H. E. Smith was high in the Hunter Arms Co. 
trophy. 
Mr. Jesse Smith is still champion rifle shot. 
All members of the club expected to help entertain, 
Wednesday, Aug. 15. Scores: 
Events: 
Targets: 
Buchanan . 
H E Smith.... 
123456789 10 
10 10 10 10 15 25 25 30 20 25 
.. 10 7 .... 13 23 24 24 13 21 
.. 8 10 .... 14 20 21 28 18 23 
. 22 21 28 1 5 .. 
VVeiner . 
.. 87.. 
.. 9 18 17 26 .. .. 
.. .. 20 19 26 13 .. 
J T Wells. 
Whisner . 
..897 
8 9 20 18 29 .... 
Lacey . 
..878 
9 10 21 22 25 .. .. 
..10 9 .. 
.. 14 22 . 
7 11. 
..877 
8 11. 
..788 
9. 
..780 
8 12 20 19 . 
Peters trophy 
shoot, 50 singles: 
Per 
Per 
Broke. Cent. 
Broke. Cent. 
Buchanan . 
..47 
94 
Weiner 
.35 70 
II E Smith. 
..41 
82 
Holman 
.39 78 
J H Smith. 
..43 
86 
Hunter Arms 
Co. 
trophy. 
30 singles 
and 10 pairs: 
Buchanan . 
.37 
74 
Wells . 
.33 66 
II E Smith. 
..46 
94 
Holman 
.39 78 
J H Smith. 
..43 
86 
Mountaineers Gun Club. 
Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 8. —The Mountaineers en¬ 
tertained two welcome visitors at their club shoot yes¬ 
terday, in the persons of Col. J. T. Anthony and Mr. J. 
M. Hatcher. As the time for our big tournament ap¬ 
proaches, it is nothing unusual for some of the trade to 
drop in on us, and we assure them all a hearty welcome, 
none more so than the above-mentioned genial sports¬ 
men whose presence added greatly to the afternoon’s 
pleasure. 
We have every reason to believe that we will have a 
good attendance at our tournament, Aug. 28-29, and we 
extend a cordial invitation to the lovers of the cleanest- 
of-all sports and promise to give all who may honor us 
with their presence the very best we have in the coop. 
Following are the scores, made under rather deceptive 
weather conditions. The last 15 targets consisted of a 
two-man team race for suppers, which reesulted as fol¬ 
lows : 
Hatcher .15 Sauls .11 
Plummer .14—29 Goodlake ..13—24 
Anthony .13 
Webb .13—26 
Scores at 100 targets: 
Hatcher .93 
Anthony .89 
Webb .89 
Goodlake .87 
Plummer .87 
Sauls .80 
Grant .73 
Martin .72 
Morrison .63 
Mountaineer. 
Lebanon Gun Club. 
Lebanon, Pa.—A very interesting live-bird shoot was 
held this day on the grounds of G. S. Trafford's Cross 
Keys’ Hotel, at N. Cornwall. Many prominent shooters 
were assembled from all parts of the State, including 
Nat Ressler, of Lancaster; V. Williams, of Atglen, and 
W. C. Grube, of Lancaster. Ressler was high gun by 
killing straight, closely followed by Trafford, Grube, 
Williams, Clymer. 
A fine dinner was served by the genial host S. G. Traf¬ 
ford, who spared no effort to make the gathering a 
pleasant one. Scores: 
No. 1 was at 9 birds, $5 entrance. No. 2 at 15 birds, $10. 
Ressler .222222222—9 222222222222222—15 
Trafford .222222222—9 222222222222220—14 
V Williams .222222222—9 222220222222225—14 
Clymer .212112112—9 211221210222222—14 
Grube .211101221—8 211111222221212—15 
Tebb .211221222—9 022121212202022—12 
Miss Rieker .021122222—8 122122222222200—13 
Kissinger .210212112—8 222211122222220—^13 
Duffy .002211211—7 211200211202220—11 
Eborpy .021101222—7 211221002202220—11 
Wright .021022102—6 222011022020102—10 
H. Schmell, Sec’y. 
Oradell Gun Club. 
Oradell, N. J., Aug. 11.— The scores made at the 
Oradell Gun Club shoot are as follows: 
Events: 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
Targets: 
15 
15 
15 
15 
15 
15 
15 
15 
C Westervelt . 
. 14 
12 
10 
12 
10 
13 
W J Sorter. 
. 12 
13 
14 
11 
13 
i2 
10 
P Moeller . 
. 7 
12 
14 
9 
13 
12 
10 
F Westervelt . 
. 12 
12 
12 
8 
9 
8 
J )r Downs . 
. 12 
11 
11 
12 
i2 
12 
10 
i2 
A A Hegeman. 
. 10 
11 
12 
10 
13 
12 
F 11 Lewis. 
. 14 
13 
14 
12 
14 
14 
i3 
i3 
W Westervelt . 
. 9 
10 
12 
10 
W L Yoecker. 
. 11 
8 
8 
9 
ii 
H P Fessenden. 
. 10 
ii 
12 
13 
ii 
12 
10 
i2 
Townsend . 
. 10 
15 
11 
11 
13 
A C Ackerman. 
. 14 
13 
11 
12 
13 
13 
12 
W Banta . 
. 11 
8 
9 
9 
J Bender . 
13 
12 
10 
1 W Winters. 
. 15 
14 
14 
i3 
14 
i3 
Milay . 
. 12 
Miles . 
7 
11 
1 E Waite . 
4 
10 
8 
Corneline . 
3 
I 7 Ackerman . 
8 
Vreeland . 
10 
10 
10 
F Myers . 
8 
12 
10 
11 
G Myers . 
8 
8 
9 
Van Buskirk . 
13 
12 
ii 
8 
9 
Speth . 
11 
14 
12 
11 
14 
C Stelling . 
11 
7 
10 
C P Post . 
8 
11 
Wilkerson . 
11 
11 
6 
ii 
Ohle . 
7 
11 
8 
F Adarman . 
11 
C Sterling . 
11 
Springfield Gun Club. 
The Springfield, Mass., Shooting Club will hold one of 
their popular all-day tournaments at targets on Labor 
Day, Sept. 3. The programme calls for 200 targets; $16 
entrance in sweeps, $25 added to the purses. All shoot¬ 
ing will be from 16yds. Targets will be thrown from two 
sets of expert traps, arranged Sergeant system. Inter¬ 
state rules to govern all events. Lunch will be served 
in the club house. Loaded shells for sale on the 
grounds. The shoot will be held rain or shine, the shoot¬ 
ing stand being under cover. Professionals and paid 
experts will be allowed to shoot for targets only. Shoot¬ 
ing will commence promptly at 9 o’clock and continue all 
day. To the amateurs making highest averages, shooting 
the entire programme, thirty merchandise prizes will be 
awarded. These prices include fish-rods, silk umbrellas, 
hunting suits, rifles, boxes of cigars, cigar case, pipe, 
walking sticks, dress-suit case, reel, dictionary, pocket 
knife, etc. Winners select their prizes. Ties to be shot 
off in 10-target events, and if a tie then exists, miss-and- 
out to decide. High guns to win. Purses divided Rose 
system, four moneys, less thn ten entries, three moneys. 
Targets included in all entrances at 2 cents each. To 
reach the grounds take Indian Orchard or Palmer car to 
Red House Crossing; cars leave the city every fifteen 
minutes. Ship guns and ammunition prepaid to C. L. 
Kites, secretary, 416 Main street, and they will be de¬ 
livered on the grounds free of charge. Sweeps optional; 
any one may enter any event and shoot for targets only. 
A very attractive programme has been gotten out. which 
may be had by addressing the secretary. No time or 
expense has been spared to make this shoot an enjoyable 
one. and any one attending may be assured of a good 
time and all the shooting they want. 
C. L. Kites, Sec’y. 
Tarantula Tom — Why did Bill plug th’ tenderfoot?” 
Lava-Bad Pete — It all come o’ Bill’s distressin’ ignor¬ 
ance o’ legal terms. 
T. T.—How ’uz that? 
L.-B. P.—Well, Bill owed th’ shorthorn some money, 
an’ was sorter slow about payin’. So the stranger writ 
him a letter sayin’, ‘‘I will draw on you at sight.” An’ 
Bill thought that meant a gun play, so when he meets 
up with the stranger he draws first. It was a misunder- 
standin’.—Cleveland Leader. 
“Hey!” yelled the stevedore, “handle that gun powder 
careful.” 
“W’at’s wrong wid it?” demanded Finnegan and Flan¬ 
agan, who had hold of it. 
“Don’t you know,” replied the stevedore, “that some 
o’ that same powder exploded last year an’ blowed up ten 
men?” 
“Shure, that couldn’t happen now,” replied Finnegan, 
“fur there’s only two of us here.” 
“Dere am one thing moh Ah want to say befoh de 
congregashun am dismissed,” said Parson Whangdoodle, 
as he fixed his gaze on the contribution plate before him, 
“an’ dat am to suggest dat certain membahs ob dis flock 
git together an’ adapt a speshul brand ob button, so as 
to make de collecshuns moh uniform.”—Chicago Daily 
News. 
A case was to be tried on the charge of selling impure 
whisky. The night before the case came off the defend¬ 
ant went around to the judge’s house. 
To the man at the door, he said: “Here’s a bottle of 
whisky I want your master to try.” 
“My master never tries anything but a case,” pomp¬ 
ously replied the butler.—August Lippincott’s. 
The Summer Man — Anything worth catching in that 
lake? 
Hotel Proprietor — Well, rather. There are four heir¬ 
esses in bathing right now. 
'Rifle 'Range and Gallery . 
The Bisley Meeting. 
One of the most successful meetings held at Bisley was 
brought to a conclusion by the winning of the King’s 
prize by Capt. Davies, of the Victoria and St. George’s 
Rifles, who is also secretary of the North London Rifle 
Club. The very high position which the winner occupied 
in the second stage of the shooting for the King’s is 
sufficiently sLown bv the fact that he only lost the silver 
medal on shooting off a tie. This raised his aggregate 
for the first two stages to a level which enabled him to 
approach the final stage with a most useful score to his 
credit. No one among service rifle marksmen practices 
more consistently than Capt. Davies at the longer ranges. 
He is in the habit of competing in match rifle competi¬ 
tions with the service rifle, whereby he is able to show 
that a good man shooting with open sights reaches the 
tyro level of shooting with match sights. Capt. Davies made 
splendid shooting at the 800, 900 and 1000yds. distances, 
which represent the final stage of the King's prize. He 
is a first-class marksman by instinct and training, besides 
practicing assiduously during the whole of the target 
shooting season. His victory may be regarded as a 
well-deserved reward, not only for his never-failing in¬ 
dustry in practice, but for the many services he has 
rendered to the cause of rifle shooting generally. 
The presence of Prince Arthur of Connaught at the 
prize distribution gave most of the Bisley riflemen an 
opportunity of seeing for the first time the member of 
the royal family upon whose shoulders a very large share 
of public work of this character must fall for some years 
to come. In speaking to the assembled competitors he 
was able to bring in a very appropriate reference to the 
tac r that in the course ot his recent world's tour he had 
had an opportunity of meeting at their headquarters 
many of tne colonial representatives from outlying por¬ 
tions of the British Empire. He very naturally empha¬ 
sized the hope that Bisley would always be visited by 
teams oi r.no-men from every possible section of the 
King’s dominions. 
Among the more spectacular events of the Bisley meet¬ 
ing the Lords and Commons match must certainly take a 
high position. Considering the personnel of the two 
Houses of Parliament, it is astonishing that neither 
seems to include a single member who regularly engages 
in rifle shooting as carried on at Bisley. The Duke of 
Wellington certainly made a score which proves him a 
marksman of the front rank; but his skill was no doubt 
acquired during the period of his active connection with 
the army. There are many peers on the council of the 
National Rifle Association, and some of them, like Lord 
Waldegrave, have done a large amount of target shooting 
in years gone by. Sir Ilenrv Fletcher, as a member of 
the House of Commons, is also well known as a shot to 
the older generation of marksmen, but no member of 
either team occupies quite the same position which 
Major Fremantle would have done had he succeeded in 
obtaining a seat at the last general election. High 
scoring was accordingly not to be expected from a body 
of gentlemen to whom target practice is at best only an 
amusement of the past. It is, nevertheless, a most en¬ 
couraging aspect of the problem of extending rifle prac¬ 
tice throughout the country that a party of men regu¬ 
larly engaged in public functions of one kind or another 
should be able, after a short course of practice, to make 
an average of scoring which shows far more than mere 
competence to hit the targets at 500 and 600 yards. Sir 
Henry Fletcher, although not a shooting member of the 
House of Commons team, is to be heartily congratulated 
on the personal interest he has shown in reviving a con¬ 
test of such unexampled interest. 
The dearth of high scores in the revolver shooting 
during the earlier part of the first week of the meeting 
gave place suddenly to the usual abundance of possibles. 
The new location for these ranges is already voted a 
great success. There have been more competitors’ en¬ 
tries between the times set down for their more im¬ 
portant engagements. Revolver shooting is, moreover, 
one of the few branches of marksmanship which the 
onlooker can properly follow during the actual shooting, 
each shot on the target being clearly visible from the 
firing point. The transference of the revolver ranges to 
a more frequented part of the camp thus facilitates the 
collection of a small crowd to witness the performances 
of any well-known shots who may be firing. 
One cannot but regret that match rifle shooting fizzled 
out, so to speak, after the first week’s programme had 
been completed. There was no dearth of shooters, but 
instead of meeting them at the ranges, entering and re¬ 
entering until a satisfactory score had been put up in 
one or other of the unlimited entry events, they were 
to be seen disconsolately killing time in various odd 
places. This, at any rate, applies to those who had not 
entered for the service rifle competitions. The whole 
trouble arose out of a new regulation, which barred 
shooting in certain events during the easy conditions pre¬ 
vailing during the hour or two just preceding sunset. 
In the Doyle and Eandco, for instance, no shot could 
be fired after 5 o’clock. Shooting concluded an hour 
earlier for the Wostow. The daily announcements denot¬ 
ing the target accommodation available made it clear 
that the ranges were mostly otherwise engaged till 
4 o’clock or later. There is no need to enlarge upon the 
loss of time and disappointment which were occasioned 
by this curious overlapping of regulations. The evening 
is a pleasant and convenient time for shooting, and, for 
the present at any rate, it seems as though the efforts 
made to correct one difficulty have produced worse 
troubles elsewhere. 
In commenting on the regulations governing the meet¬ 
ing, mention was made cf the unfortunate disappearance 
of the 2in. central in the 100yds. target. When the mat¬ 
ter was looked into it was found that the printed matter 
was in error, and that the stock of targets ordered for 
use at the meeting was the same as in the oast, thus 
overcoming what seemed likely to cause trouble. There 
can be no doubt that the time has fully arrived for en¬ 
deavoring to standardize the targets to be used at mini¬ 
ature distances. Any attempt to arrive at satisfactory re¬ 
sults by arithmetical reductions of the 200yds. target for 
