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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Dec. 29, 1906. 
DEAL GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB SHOOTING HOUSE. 
The Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association has 
already outlined plans for the State shoot, to be held 
at Lebanon, Pa., May 20-24, 1907, under the auspices of 
the Keystone Gun Club. Competition will be open to 
the world in other than State events. On May 22 and 
24, merchandise events will be held. The total value 
of the two events will be $2,000. Mr. John A. Bollman, 
Lebanon, is the Corresponding Secretary. The Lebanon 
Valley Fair Association, North Cornwall, have been 
secured. Two events, the Thomas J. Bollman memorial 
handicap and the Keystone merchandise event, will be 
added to the programme. Mr. Luther J. Squier, of the 
Dupont able staff and a famous expert in tournament 
management, will manage the tournament. 
There is in several sportsmen’s journals much dis¬ 
cussion of ways and means by which sporting goods 
dealers can successfully meet the encroachments of the 
great mail-order houses. Those houses were built up 
by judicious advertising"methods, and are continued in 
business by like methods. They are magnificent testi¬ 
monials to the fact that it pays to advertise. A 
dealer who mopes and does not advertise is one of the 
first aids to the mail-order houses, whose competition 
is considered so serious. The true remedy is to meet 
the competition or, its own ground. If a dealer’s goods 
are good, better and best, let the public know the fact. 
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Watson’s Park, of Chicago, famous in the annals of 
America’s trapshooting contests, will be sold at public 
auction at an early date, and will cease to exist as a 
tested ground. It was the scene of many well con¬ 
tested matches and tournaments, and the best marksmen 
that America produced have displayed their skill in 
competition within its boundaries. Progress is merciless 
in claiming its own. The new shooting park, now being 
constructed at 123d street and Michigan avenue, will be 
incomparably superior to the old Watson Park, and is 
the cause of the final passing away of the latter. 
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We are informed that a series of three'matches has 
been arranged between the Baltimore, Md„ Shooting 
Association and the Keystone Shooting League, of 
Philadelphia, the first one to be held on Saturday of 
this week. The second is to be held at Baltimore, on 
Jan. 5, and the third to be held on neutral ground, if 
the prinicipals so decide, and on a date to be determined 
later. * 
Mr. F. B. Stephenson won the leg on the December 
cup at the shoot of the Crescent Athletic Club, held at 
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Dec. 22. He scored. 24 out of 25 
from scratch. The three best individual scores of the 
month determine the winner. Mr. J. H. Ernst is now in 
the lead with a total of 69. F. B. Stephenson is second 
with a fotal of 67. 
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The scores of the Deal Golf and Country Club, pub¬ 
lished in this issue of Forest and Stream, are further 
testimonials to the popularity of trapshooting as a feature 
of golf and country club pleasures, Besides its whole¬ 
someness as a sport, it is one of the few branches of 
recreation which show 'a profitable balance at the close 
of the season. 
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The North Side Rod and Gun Club, of Paterson, N. J., 
announce a shoot for New Year’s Day. Competition will 
be started at 10 o’clock. Refreshments will be served free 
to all contestants. At the shoot on Saturday of last 
week, Mr. Joe Spaeth was high gun. In event 3, H. 
Becker scored 18 and was second to Spaeth. 
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At West Chester, Pa., Dec. 20, the third tri-club shoot 
between the West Chester, Avondale and Coatesville 
gun clubs was won by Avondale Club, which thus be¬ 
came the winner of the Dupont trophy. 
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There will be a special miss-and-out sweepstake at 
Point Breeze, Philadelphia, $2 entrance, for a set of 
harness or $40 in gold. There also will be sweepstake 
events. 
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The December cup contest of the New York Athletic 
Club at Travers Island, Dec. 22, resulted in a tie between 
Messrs. Debacher and Kuchler, each scoring the full 50. 
Kuchler won in the shoot-off, by a score of 24 to 23. 
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Forest and Stream went to press on Monday of this 
week, because Tuesday is a holiday. In consequence, a 
number of communications are necessarily held over till 
our next issue. 
At the all-day shoot held at Plumsteadville, Pa., Dec. 
18, the two famous experts, Messrs. Lester German, of 
Baltimore, and Mm. II. Heer, of Concordia, Kans., tied 
for high average on 127 out of a possible 135. Mr. H. 
Buckvvalter, of Royersford, was second with 126. 
Bernard Waters. 
Boston Gun Club. 
Boston, Mass., Dec. 19.—The Boston Gun Club first 
shoot for 1907 was held at Wellington to-day with nine¬ 
teen shooters present to do justice to the seven events. 
Conditions being first-class, the scores were most dis¬ 
appointing, and not one of the shooters thought other¬ 
wise than that it would take a 90 per cent, score to take 
high for the afternoon. Dickey’s 81, however, was the 
right score in the right place, with Muldown close up, 3 
targets less. In the class matches the winners proved to 
be Dickey, Muldown and Nelson,'each having a clear 
lead on his nearest competitor. Scores: 
Targets: 15 10 15 10 15 15 20 Av. 
Dickey . 13 8 14 8 13 12 13 , 81 
Muldown. 14 6 13 6 13 12 14 78 
Griffiths . 13 10 12 7 9 9 16 76 
Gleason . 11 7 15 6 10 14 12 75 
M heeler . 11 8 10 9 12 8 14 72 
Frank . 13 9 14 6 8 10 11 71 
Hassarn . 10 7 13 6 8 12 15 71 
Roy . 12 8 14 6 6 14 10 70 
Burnes . 9 7 13 8 8 11 12 68 
Buffalo . 14 8 12 8 6 8 11 67 
Comer . 11 9 13 5 8 6 14 66 
Nelson .. 9 7 12 6 12 8 9 63 
Sibley . 12 6 11 6 7 7 13 62 
Fay . 11 5 7 5 8 9 14 59 
Kawop . 12 5 12 4 7 8 8 56 
Powdrell . 7. 6 8 3 4 4 4 36 
Kirkwood .•. 11 9 11 8 11 .. 17 78 
Powers . 12 7 10 11 13 70 
Woodruff . 5 6 8 3 2.... 36 
Class A. 
Hdcp. 
Dickey .21 13 12 13—38 
Gleason .21 10 14 12—36 
Griffiths .21 9 9 16—34 
Roy .-..21 6 14 10—30 
Frank .19 8 10 11—29 
Buffalo .19 6 8 11—25 
Class B. 
Muldown .16 13 12 14—39 
Hassarn .18 8 12 15-35 
WTieeler . 19 12 8 14—34 
Powers ..18 10 11 13—34 
Burnes .18 8 11 12—31 
Fay .16 8 9 14—31 
Comer . 18 8 6 14—28 
Sibley .17 7 7 13-27 
Class C. 
Nelson .16 12 8 9-29 
Kawop . 17 7 8 8—23 
Povvdrell . 17 4 4 4—12 
Alert Gun Club. 
Phillipsburg, N. J., Dec. 20.—This day opened up 
with a snow and rain storm, the worst ever witnessed in 
this section, and in consequence ruined what would have 
been one of the largest tournaments held on these 
grounds. Even with the storm taken into consideration, 
a great many shooters were present (some shot and some 
did not open up their gun cases). The. officers of the 
tournament had not the least idea that any one would 
be on hand, but yet the boys seemed to have remem¬ 
bered how they are'treated at this club, and came, think¬ 
ing the storm might not continue during the whole day. 
Even if the shooters present did not have a good time 
back of the scatter gun, they had the satisfaction of hav¬ 
ing a good .old-fashioned sauerkraut lunch, which every¬ 
body enjoyed. Among the professionals present were 
Apgar, Glover and Welles. The amateurs present from 
out of town were Skeds, Ritter, Adams, Wilson, Mc¬ 
Dowell, Neff and Meyer. 
For the professionals, Glover landed high average. In 
the amateur .class, Frederick, df Easton, Pa., took high 
with 178 breaks out of 200. The shooting done by Mr. 
Fredericks during the whole programme was the best 
ever seen in this section, with the weather taken into 
consideration. Mr. Skeds, of Wilkes-Barre, in the 
finish up of the tournament, had the finest run ever 
made over these traps, he having broken 106 out of 109 
targets, missing only 3 targets, and had a straight run 
of 58 targets. 
This club will hold on its grounds this coming spring 
the New Jersey State shoot, and from now on* will pre¬ 
pare for same. No doubt this shoot will be conducted 
on lines that will make same the largest and finest ever 
held in the State of New Jersey. 
The following are scores of the second annual holiday 
target tournament: . 
Shot at. 
Brk. 
Shot at. 
Brk. 
Glover ...., 
.200 
158 
Meyer .... 
.155 
119 
Apgar .... 
.185 
124 
McDowell 
..*..... 85 
57 
Welles _ 
. 60 
45 
Raub, Tr. . 
. 80 
51 
Frederick . 
.200 
178 
Ritter .... 
. 60 
42 
Skeds . 
.200 
162 
Neff . 
. 65 
28 
T Young '. 
.135 
94 
Adams .... 
. 45 
28 
Wilson .... 
.130 
98 
Raub, Sr. 
. 20 
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Edward F. Markley, 
Chmn. Tournament Committee. 
Deal Golf and Country Club. 
Deal, N. J., Dec. 15. —The Deal Golf and Country 
Club is making a special feature of trapshooting during 
the winter months. We are indebted to Mr. H. D. 
Goods for the photograph of the new club house, re¬ 
produced herewith. The gentlemen portrayed are well- 
known trapshooters of New Jersey. Mr. Feigenspan, a 
few years ago won the Brooklyn Eagle cup against all 
comers, and was conceded to be one of the n^ost skillful 
experts. 
The weather conditions were pleasant. 
Events: 12345678 
Targets: 25 25 25 25 25 15 25 25 
t W Lembeck, 3 . 21 18 21 23 22 20 8 19 
W C Shanley, 16. 1 8 .. 10 7 8 1 5 
C W Feigenspan, 0 . 22 21 23 24 22 21 12 24 
J M Byrne, 12. 16 11 .. 12 13 12 2 14 
H D Goode, 4. 24 .. .. 15. 
Handicap events were shot as follows: Lembeck (3) 
broke 25 straight; Feigenspan (0) 24; Goode (4) 25; 
Shanley (16) 22; Byrne (12) 25. 
Ten targets: Byrne (5) 10, Goode (1) 9, Lembeck 
( 0 ) 8 . 
Twenty-five targets: Lembeck (2) 20, Feigenspan '(0) 
22, Goode (2) 25, Shanley (18) 24, Byrne (9) 25. 
New York Athletic Club. 
New York, Dec. 22.—A cold, drizzling rain and a 
muiky sky were unfavorable weather conditions for 
good shooting or fair attendance, at the weekly shoot of 
the New York Athletic Club to-day. 
The contest for the December cup resulted in a tie 
between Messrs. Debacher and Kuchler, having handi¬ 
caps of 14 and 16 respectively. Kuchler won by one tar¬ 
get ir, the shoot-off. The real feature of the shoot, how¬ 
ever, was the excellent scores from scratch, as will be 
noted in the events following. 
December cup, handicap, 50 targets: Debacher (14) 50, 
Kuchler (16) 50, Billings (0) 42, Hamlin (10) 33. 
Shoot-off, 25 targets, handicap: Kuchler (8) 24, De¬ 
bacher (7) 23. 
Trophy No. 1, 25 targets, handicap: Billing (0) 23, 
Debacher (6) 22, Kuchler (8) 22, Hamlin (5) 10. 
Trophy No. 2, 25 targets, handicap: Billings (0) 24, 
Kuchler (8) 23, Debacher (7) 23, Hamlin (5) 14. 
Trophy No. 3, 25 targets, handicap: Debacher (7) 25, 
Kuchler (8) 25, Billings (0) 20, Hamlin (5) 19. 
Shoot-off, same conditions: Debacher 25, Kuchler 25. 
Shoot-off, same conditions: Kuchler 25, Debacher 22. 
Trophy No. 4, 25 targets, handicap: Kuchler (8) 25, 
Debacher (7) 22, Billings (0) 20, Hamlin (5) 20. 
