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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Dec. is, 1906. 
Paleface Annual. 
Boston, Mass., Dec. 7.—The first annual shoot of the 
Palefaces, held on O. R. Dickey’s Wellington grounds 
to-day, proved to b'e more of a success than anticipated, 
even if the disagreeable weather conditions made out¬ 
door sports anything but comfortable. With the ther¬ 
mometer hovering around the zero mark and a northwest 
.wind worthy of "Greenland’s Icy Mountains,” it might 
have been thought cold enough to freeze out a trap- 
shooter; but the Palefaces were as hardy as their Puritan 
forefathers, and once having their minds made up, noth¬ 
ing was to deny them the pleasure derived from a day’s 
sport at the traps. 
It is a long time since such a gathering graced the 
boards of any Boston trapshooting organization, and the 
Palefaces should consider themselves highly fortunate 
in being favored with the attendance that was there and 
for an initial shoot it surely should go down as a red- 
letter day, and next year’s tournament, which will be he.d 
at a more desirable time of the year, promises to be a 
feature in itself, and give Boston a place on the map 
from a trapshooting standpoint, which has not been the 
case for some few years past. 
One of the features of the shoot was the attendance of 
High < hief T. A. Marshall, Harvey McMurchy (Chief 
High Ball), J. S. Fanning (Chief Bull Seal), J. A. R. 
Elliott (Chief Brook Trout), all of the Indians, an honor 
appreciated not a little by the entire membership of the 
younger organization, which had been put to a great deal 
of trouble in the desire to have their first efforts success¬ 
ful. The attendance was still further enlarged by the 
experts Lester German, O. R. Dickey, G. M. Wheeler, 
H. B. Temby, A. E. Sibley and Murray Ballou, all of 
whom were there from start to finish and ever ready 
with the glad hand for the new shooter, whose early 
efforts to find suitable gun, position and load are a 
source of great trouble. 
Among the amateurs, which included the majority of 
the most expert in this section, were Climax, Griffiths, 
McArdle, Roy, Gleason, Buffalo, Powel, Mayor, Faye, 
Frank, Everett, Edgarton, Keeler, not to mention a host 
of others, whose vain efforts were to smash targets, and 
then if not satisfactory to smash the handicapping com¬ 
mittee, as one shooter put it. The race for high average 
was a good one, the quiet man, Griffiths, from the small¬ 
est State in the Union, and worst part of the State to 
reach (if Buffalo, Mayor and Sibley are any authorities), 
was in the leading position, with his team mate, Mc¬ 
Ardle, the Narragansett Pier expert, only a hairbreadth 
behind. Buffalo, even with manifold duties of Governor- 
general, squad hustler, reception committee, scorer, 
puller, etc, gave a good account of himself with third 
average; his 25 straight on the last event of the day being 
an exceptionally pretty piece of work under the condi¬ 
tions that were in evidence. Dr. E. F. Gleason was 
fourth on the list, this low position for him possibly 
being due to the fact that he used only one gun during 
the programme, instead of one for each event, as usual. 
Of the special features, the 100-bird race proved to be 
just what the shooters desired, 40 shooters entering and 
completing scores. The winners proved to be of all 
classes, one of the limit shooters coming in for a second, 
and the scratch men getting their share of places with 
the rest. Willard and C. Allen scored 94 with their 
handicaps, though for a time it looked as though Steele 
and Darrah with 92 would connect for first; but the 
honors finally rested with the newly elected member of 
the Lowell Good Fellows’ Society and the hard-working 
Watertown Club secretary, and surely they deserved to 
win. Frank Letendre and Powdrell came next in line, 
the first-named tying for high scratch score with Gleason 
with a 3-target handicap making a 90, the others having 
scores of 82 and 72 respectively, and handicaps of 8 and 
18. Buckman, one of the latest Palefaces, shot in good 
form and took eighth alone, though the automobile man 
from Harvard College way gobbled ninth, one target 
less. As usual, Buffalo and Gleason had to have some 
kind of an argument and tied for tenth and eleventh 
prizes, each having a desire to do an “after-you-Alphone, 
and pardon-me-dear-Gaston” stunt, the Doctor finally ac¬ 
cepting a cup the size of a hogshead, as he thought it 
nearer the size that would hold enough' shells to do him 
for an afternoon’s shoot when there was no shoot on. 
Twelfth and last prize was tie’d for by Griffiths, Mc¬ 
Ardle, Everett, Mayor, that prince of trapshooters Dr. 
Newton from Greenfield, and A. W. Fay, whose cider 
barrel is always open to the fullest tor trapshooters, as a 
few Bostonese trapshooters can state. Everett proved 
to be the man with second sight, Newton just slipping 
the cog by an eyelash, and the cup went to the hero of 
many hard-fought Birch Brook and Harvard battles in 
days gone by. 
The Palmer trophy brought the Palefaces surely, each 
man being on his mettle, and the best scores of the day 
were made in these matches. After the smoke had 
cleared away, which it did in quick time, to say the 
least,-with the forty-mile breeze, Governor Helping Hand 
had cleaned up a raft of them and walked off with 45 
and 6 handicap, making 51. The high possible being 
48, made it so that two others, F. A. Powdrell and H. 
Powers tied with him on a total score of 48 and 49 re¬ 
spectively. The ties were not adjusted, as the light was 
not of the best at the end of the shoot, and it is ex¬ 
pected that an afternoon shoot will be held soon to give 
them the opportunity for shooting off ties. 
The Paleface high average, one of the most beautiful 
cups ever given at a trapshoot, and also donated by the 
donor of- the Palmer trophies, was won by E. C. Grif¬ 
fiths, a win that was most welcome to all, in face of all 
the difficulties the shooter had encountered during the 
day. Scores follow: 
Events: 12345678 Shot 
Targets: 20 20 20 20 20 20 25 25 at. Brk. 
Marshall . 20 19 18 IS 18 16 24 23 170 156 
Elliott . 20 19 18 17 16 18 20 25 170 153 
Griffiths . 18 17 15 19 16 19 23 24 170 151 
Dickey . 19 17 15 19 16 18 21 24 170 149 
McArdle . 17 17 13 19 19 18 23 23 170 149 
German . 19 17 15 18 17 10 20 23 170 148 
Buffalo . 15 18 16 17 16 18 21 25 170 146 
Gleason . 16 18 16 20 15 18 19 23 170 145 
Climax . 15 19 16 19 17 17 19 22 170 144 
R A F'aye. 
. 15 18 12 18 IS 19 21 23 
170 
144 
Roy . 
. 16 17 15 19 15 19 24 18 
170 
143 
Frank . 
. 15 16 19 17 16 19 18 22 
174 
142 
Powel . 
. 18 17 14 16 16 19 19 23 
170 
142 
Wheeler . 
. 15 17 16 19 17 14 22 22 
170 
142 
Everett . 
. 16 18 15 16 14 20 18 23 
170 
140 
Mayor . 
. 14 17 14 17 15 19 21 23 
170 
140 
Kirkwood . 
. 17 16 17 15 16 15 21 23 
170 
140 
Newton . 
. 18 12 15 19 17 16 20 22 
170 
139 
Powers ... 
. 19 16 14 16 12 17 21 23 
170 
138 
Pallou . 
. 16 15 14 18 14 19 19 23 
170 
138 
Chapin . 
. 16 15 13 18 17 18 19 22 
170 
138 
McMyrchy _ 
. 16 18 14 17 13 16 21 22 
170 
137 
1 .ettndre . 
. 15 17 17 15 15 18 18 20 
170 
135 
Keeler . 
. 15 17 14 17 16 13 22 20 
170 
135 
Panning . 
. 15 20 14 20 16 15 19 21 
170 
134 
Burns ......... 
. »15 16 13 17 16 15 18 23 
170 
133 
C A Allen. 
. 14 13 17 16 12 IS 20 21 
170 
131 
Reed . 
. 17 17 17 16 12 17 18 17 
170 
131 
Edgarton . 
. 19 13 12 18 14 19 16 19 
170 
130 
Buckman . 
. 13 15 14 18 15 16 18 20 
170 
129 
Powdrell . 
. 17 16 12 15 15 14 20 19 
170 
128 
Temby . 
. 13 17 14 16 10 17 21 20 
170 
128 
H-erner . 
. 16 14 12 13 17 19 16 20 
170 
127 
Steele . 
. 15 16 11 17 17 17-22 21 
170 
125 
Burr . 
. 14 10 12 16 15 18 18 22 
170 
125 
W I. Allen. 
. 13 13 14 14 15 18 17 20 
170 
124 
A W Fay. 
. 12 IS 17 14 10 17 19 16 
170 
123 
Hassam . 
. IS 16 14 15 8 13 20 19 
170 
123 
Sibley . 
. 12 13 12 18 12 15 16 18 
170 
116 
Worthing . 
. 12 16 10 13 20 16 16 12 
170 
115 
R Smith . 
. 15 15 11 13 9 12 15 20 
170 
115 
Olds . 
. 11 16 11 16 8 15 19 18 
170 
114 
Woodruff . 
. 14 13 13 13 14 12 13 17 
170 
109 
Muldown . 
. 14 11 6 11 16 15 14 20 
170 
107 
Darrah . 
. 9 13 9 15 14 18 13 16 
170 
107 
Richardson 
. 14 11 12 13 9 13 9 13 
170 
95 
Comer . 
. 11 12 12 14 8 13 13 11 
170 
94 
Bryant . 
.10 14 13 11 • 7 13 13 13 
170 
94 
Lawson . 
. 10 18 9 11 9 12 10 11 
170 
90 
Willard . 
. 15 17 13 13 19 17 .. .. 
120 
94 
Puck . 
.16 .. 17 13 19 18 
no 
83 
Sadler . 
.-.. 7 11 19 23 
90 
60 
Kawop . 
. 14 .. 23 22 
•70 
59 
Leonard . 
. 13 .. 11 21 
70 
45 
Robie . 
. 7 .. 13 17 
70 
37 
Henderson .... 
. .7 .. 12 14 
70 
33 
1 C Hopkins.. 
. 6 .. 14 17 
60 
• 37 
.20 19 
50 
39 
Hallam . 
.. 7 .... 15 
45 
22 
.14 .. 
25 
14 
Barth . 
. 7 .. 
25 
7 
.10. 
20 
10 
One hundred 
target match, handicaps, added targets: 
Handi- 
Targets: 
20 
20 
20 
20 
20 Broke. 
cap. 
Total. 
C A Allen. 
.13 
17 
16 
12 
18 
76 
IS 
94 
Willard . 
. 17 
13 
13 
19 
17 
79 
15 
94 
Darrah . 
. 13 
9 
15 
14 
18 
69 
23 
92 
Steele . 
. 16 
11 
17 
17 
17 
78 
14 
92 
Frank . 
. 16 
19 
17 
16 
19 
87 
3 
90 
Letendre . 
. 17 
17 
15 
15 
18 
82 
8 
90 
Powdrell . 
. 16 
12 
15 
15 
14 
72 
18 
90 
Buckman . 
. 15 
14 
18 
15 
16 
78 
11 
89 
R A Faye. 
. 18 
12 
18 
18 
19 
85 
3 
88 
Buffalo . 
. 18 
16 
17 
16 
IS 
85 
2 
87 
Gleason . 
. <. IS 
16 
20 
15 
18 
87 
0 
87 
Griffiths .. 
. 17 
15 
19 
16 
19 
86 
0 
86 
McArdle . 
. 17 
13 
19 
19 
18 
86 
0 
86 
Mayor . 
.17 
14 
17 
15 
19 
82 
4 
86 
Everett . 
. 18 
15 
16 
14 
20 
83 
3 
86 
Newton . 
.. 12 
15 
19 
17 
16 
79 
7 
86 
A W Fav. 
. 18 
17 
14 
10 
17 
76 
10 
86 
Powel . 
. 17 
14 
16 
16 
19 
82 
3 
85 
Roy . 
. 17 
15 
19 
15 
19 
85 
0 
85 
Burns . 
. 16 
13 
17 
16 
15 
77 
8 
85 
Powers .. 
. 16 
14 
16 
12 
17 
75 
10 
85 
Woodruff .. 
.13 
13 
13 
14 
12 
65 
9 
84 
Olds . 
.18 
11 
16 
8 
15 
66 
18 
84 
W L Allen. 
. 13 
14 
14 
15 
18 
74 
10 
84 
Chapin . 
. 15 
13 
18 
17 
18 
81 
3 
84 
Keeler . 
. 17 
14 
17 
16 
13 
77 
6 
83 
Bryant . 
. 14 
13 
11 
7 
13 
58 
25 
83 
Temby . 
. 17 
14 
16 
10 
17 
74 
8 
82 
Worthing . 
. 16 
10 
13 
20 
16 
75 
6 
81 
Hepner . 
. 14 
12 
13 
17 
19 
75 
5 
SO 
Lawson . 
. 18 
9 
11 
9 
12 
59 
20 
79 
Edgarton . 
. 13 
12 
18 
14 
19 
76 
3 
79 
Burr . 
. 10 
12 
16 
15 
18 
71 
8 
79 
Kirkwood' ... 
. 16 
17 
15 
16 
15 
79 
0 
79 
Hassam . 
.16 
14 
15 
8 
13 
66' 
12 
78 
Richardson .. 
. 11 
12 
13 
9 
13 
58 
19 
77 
Muldown .\. 
. 11 
6 
11 
16 
15 
59 
14 
73 
Comer . 
.12 
12 
14 
8 
13 
59 
6 
65 
Smith . 
. 15 
11 
13 
9 
12 
60 
5 
65 
Palmer trophies, 50 target match, handicap added 
First Second Handi- 
25. 
25. 
Broke. 
cap. 
Total. 
Kawop . 
.23 
22 
45 
6 
51 
Powers . 
.21 
23 
44 
5 
49 
Powdrell . 
.20 
19 
39 
9 
48 
Buffalo . 
.21 
25 
46 
1 
47 
Griffiths . 
.23 
24 
47 
0 
47 
Newton . 
.20 
22 
42 
4 
46 
Sadler . 
.19 
23 
42 
5 
47 
Mayor . 
.21 
23 
44 
2 
46 
McArdle . 
.23 
23 
46 
0 
46 
Olds . 
.19 
IS 
37 
9 
46 
R A Faye. 
.21 
23 
44 
2 
46 
R N Burns. 
.18 
23 
41 
4 
45 
Keeler . 
22 
20 
42 
3 
45 
Hassam . 
.20 
19 
39 
6 
45 
Powel . 
.19 
23 
42 
2 
44 
Buckman . 
.IS 
20 
38 
6 
44 
Burr . 
.18 
22 
40 
4 
44 
Kirkwood . 
.21 
23 
44 
0 
44 
Chapin . 
.19 
22 
41 
2 
43 
Everett . 
.18 
23 
41 
2 
43 
Frank . 
.18 
22 
40 
2 
42 
Roy . 
.24 
18 
42 
0 
42 
Gleason . 
.19 
23 
42 
0 
42 
W L Allen. 
.17 
20 
37 
5 
42 
Muldown .14 20 34 7 41 
A VV Fay .19 16 35 5 40 
Hepner .16 20 36 3 39 
Bryant .13 13 26 13 39 
Edgarton .16 19 35 3 38 
R Smith .15 20 35 3 38 
Richardson . 9 13 22 10 32 
Worthing .16 12 28 3 31 
Comer .13 11 .24 3 27 
Notes From a Shooter’s Game Bag. 
Charlie Allen does not usually carry a bag to a shoot, 
but his forethought to-day brought him good luck, and 
he took it home well filled with one of the best cups. 
One of the shooters, upon seeing a train coming, 
shouted, “Here comes Dr. Gleason’s guns.” Upon every¬ 
one rushing to the club house windows to see what 
caused such a remark, the announcer quietly pointed out 
the incoming freight trpin. As the Doctor usually orders 
by the case, he was not far from being right. 
One of the regulars shot a crow and the manager im¬ 
mediately gave a-lecture to the one he thought guilty, 
with the latter taking it all in good spirits. Imagine the 
difference, however, when the real culprit was found 
out, to find it had been done with the manager’s own 
gun, but luckily not his own loads. 
Roy had the misfortune to get a stray cinder in his 
eye coming to the grounds, which bothered him con¬ 
siderably till toward the end of the programme, and then 
things, were considerably different. 
Roy A. Faye had more trouble by a good deal starting 
that balky automobile of his than breaking 25 straight, 
and not half the pleasure. A forced absence of three 
years has done nothing toward injuring his shooting eye, 
as scores show. 
O. R. Dickey deserves great credit for his effective way 
of taking care of the traps, the cold weather having its 
effect on springs, etc., In ways that would make a saint 
swear; but O. R. was never at a loss what to do, and 
the delays were short-lived, as a result. 
Chief King Pin, of the Canadian Indians, was expected, 
but a trip through New Brunswick and Nova Scotia pre¬ 
vented him from testing Paleface hospitality. 
Many regrets were heard from all sides upon the non¬ 
arrival of the Haverhill guard. Miller, Tozier and George, 
neither of whom ever miss an event of this kind, espe¬ 
cially 'a shoot where their old friend Chief Bull Seal is 
to be present. 
Ray Richardson and A. W. Fay continued their good- 
natured rivalry of some time ago, but Ray admitted that 
the undertaker had him buried this time. 
G. M Wheeler left a sick bed (results of a Paleface 
meeting) to come to- the shoot, but the scores do not 
show it to any great extent. Nothing like a fer min¬ 
utes with the scatter gun to make everything “ideal.” 
Jack Brinlev and A. M. (not U. M.) McCormick 
divided honors as to see who could call the most broken 
targets before getting froze out. Tie game the result, 
though they thought that “Bob Smith skun them a 
mile,” when it came to a finish. 
One of the score boards seemed to have a faculty for 
getting mixed up, much to the consternation of manager 
and shooters, but some one stated that you could not 
expect those boys to keep going without freezing unless 
Jacob Wirth brought all his patent gun rickeys and 
fizzeys with him, which, by the way, Guvnor Helping 
Hand forgot to do, with the result as mentioned. 
One of the trapper boys complained of the dinner 
given him, and upon being called to account could only 
state that he did not get enough pie, only being able to 
get six pieces. Safe to say. he must have come from that 
pie belt near Brunswick, Me. 
Edgarton and Eager looked kind of natural, talking 
together, and it is regretted that the latter does not find 
time to take the sport up with his old accustomed vigor. 
The former, however, still continues to keep moving 
and the high average aspirants have to look out as a 
usual thing. 
Charlie Comer says, “There is no use talking, brush 
shooting hurts a man’s trapshooting. Just look at my 
score and Kirkwood’s. Ask him the reason? Fie says 
Kirk shoots too many shots in the brush for a good wing 
shot, and that accounts for part of it; but the rest, sim¬ 
ply a question, that’s all. 
One of the most popular wins of the day was Frank’s* 
in the 100-bird match, and it was a good win, too, in 
view of his score being as good as any from scratch. We 
hardly like his method of teaching his boy Everett, 
though, the way to pick the right number as well as to 
shoot. Everett, however, did a good deal of his own 
hustling, untying a straight score from his sack and 
putting it on his last 20 in the match. Not every one 
can wait till the finish to get in the prizes. ’ 
Sadler, of the B. A. A., thought he would take a day 
off, and being a member of the Palefac’es, wended his 
way to Wellington, to have a holiday. You can im¬ 
agine his surprise upon arriving to be buttonholed by one 
of the officials and given a position of cashier in the 
lunch room (a position he filled to perfection, however), 
and when he finally made his report the events were 
under headway, and ,a possible catastrophe for cup 
hunters averted. He did fortunately get into the Palmer 
matches, and gave the usual good acount of himself, 
47 being the result. 
Hepner, one of the old standbys of the Boston Gun 
Club, shot through- the programme, and seemed to enjoy 
the game the same as when he was hobnobbing with 
Leroy Woodard, for high average. A new gun, just 
received, caused a number of ciphers, but A. fi. Prom¬ 
ises well in a short time s 
The first annual banquet of the Palefaces was held at 
Young’s Hotel to-night, some sixty guests and members 
being present. 
The success of the affair was beyond the anticipation 
of the most sanguine, and together with the Association 
having just run one of the most successful shoots in this 
section only a few hours before, the young organization 
made its mark from the very offset. 
The master of ceremonies, Guvnor-General B. E. 
Smith, was the right person in the right place, ably 
seconded by his Lieut.-Guvnor, E. F. Gleason, and on 
his right Chief I.ong Talk T. A. Marshall of the In¬ 
dians. Needless to state with this amount of wit at the 
