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FOREST AND STREAM 
Aug. 23, 1913. 
Wesly Hogan Tournament Program. 
Wilmington, Del., Aug. 16.—In accordance with my 
duties as Publicity Agent for the Ancient and Honorable 
Order of Westy Hogans, it is now my pleasure to give 
you below a synopsis of one of the most ambitious pro¬ 
grams ever issued for any tournament. That- program 
is the one prepared for the seventh annual tournament 
of the Westy Hogans, at Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 16-20 
next, and, believe me, it is some program. 
But, first let me say for the information of any who 
may be ignorant of the 1 personnel of the organization, 
that the Westy Hogans are a bunch of trade representa¬ 
tives, organized about seven years ago, with the idea ot 
giving annually a tournament for amateurs that would 
insure the amateurs not only a good shoot, but also a 
good time. Atlantic City was selected as the place for 
the tournament, and that the selection was a good one 
is shown by the popularity of the tournaments in ques¬ 
tion. There are forty-seven members in the organization, 
and of these, Neaf Apgar is President; J. Mowell 
Hawkins, Vice-President; Bernard Elsesser, of York, Pa., 
Secretary-Treasurer. The rest of us, some of whom have 
less high-sounding titles, are just common hired men, 
who do the work we are told to do. So much for the 
personnel of the organization. 
The program, which will be ready for distribution by 
the time this appears in print, contains a long list of 
events open only to amateurs. Professionals can shoot 
' for targets only,” but cannot under any circumstances 
compete for any of the prizes or cash. Most of the 
features of previous programs have been retained, among 
them the Squier money-back system, optional sweeps 
galore, the Westy Hogan amateur championship at 
doubles, the Westy Hogan championship at singles, the 
State five-man team race, and the Westy Hogan special, 
open only to amateurs whose percentage is not higher 
tlian 88 per cent. 
The new features are numerous. The Westy Hogan 
handicap at 100 single targets, handicaps 16 to 22yds.; 
the application of the Squier money-back system to each 
day’s purses; slightly lower entrance fees for each day's 
program; distribution of twelve trophies in the Westy 
Hogan special under the Lewis class system, four classes, 
three trophies to each class, and the second contest for 
the Du Pont 18yd. amateur championship trophy. 
The application of the Squier money-back system to 
each day’s program means that a man who can only 
shoot one day will get his money back, less the price 
of targets at 2 cents each, just the same as those who 
shoot through the three days’ program. The latter, how¬ 
ever, will have the surplus from the fund to fight for, 
and last year this surplus amounted to the fat sum of 
a cool thousand dollars. The surplus is divided pro 
rata among those who shoot through the program under 
the high gun system of division, the number of high 
guns being regulated by the total amount of the surplus. 
The first five annual tournaments were held on 
Young's Pier, but the destruction by fire of that pier 
necessitated the choice of a new location for last year’s 
shoot. Venice Park, an ideal location on the meadows, 
with an absolutely all-sky background, easy of access 
from any part of the city (ten-minute trolley ride lands 
you right at the grounds), with club house and all con¬ 
veniences, was found, and the sixth annual tournament 
held there. It was such a success that, lacking once 
more a pier from which to throw the targets, the Westy 
Hogan management feels that it need offer no apology 
for the selection of the same site for its seventh annual 
shoot. This year’s shoot will therefore be held at Venice 
Park, with the experience gained in running last year’s 
tournament as an aid to the even smoother running of 
this year’s shoot. 
Taking the program day by day, practice day, Tuesday, 
Sept. 16, offers five events at 20 targets each, and one 
event at 10 pairs. Shooting on this day commences at 
12.30 P. M. 
The program for the first regular day of the tourna¬ 
ment calls for five 15s and five 20s, the latter constituting 
the State five-man team race at 100 targets per man. Also 
the first half of the Westy Hogan amateur championship 
at doubles, 25 pairs. This gives a total of 175 single 
targets and 25 pairs—225 targets all told. 
The second day’s program (Sept. 18), calls for an¬ 
other 225 targets—five 15s and five 20s, with the last half 
of the Westy Hogan amateur championship at doubles 
to finish with, the first half (25 pairs) being scheduled 
for the first day. The five 20-target events constitute the 
Westy Hogan amateur championship at singles, won last 
year by C. H. Newcomb, of Philadelphia, after a tie on 
9!) with J. B. McHugh, of Wilmington. Del. Allen Keil, 
of Allentown, Pa., won the doubles championship event 
with !H out of his 50 pairs. 
The program for the third day, Sept. 19, calls for ten 
15-target events, the whole constituting the Atlantic City 
cup event, the winner also receiving $50 in cash. This 
trophy must be won three times by any individual be¬ 
fore becoming his property. In 1910, C. H. Newcomb 
won it with 97 out of 100. In 1911, F. S. Wright, of 
Buffalo, N. Y., was the winner with 145 out of 150, and 
25 straight in the shoot-off with L. G. Richards, of 
Roanoke, Va., and A. L. Ivins, of Red Bank, N. J., 
who both broke 145 in the main event. Last year Allen 
Heil won it on 144 out of 150. 
There is really no room to enumerate all the trophies 
offered for competition, for there is a bunch of them for 
sure; but I must refer to five special trophies which are 
offered under somewhat unique conditions, that popu¬ 
lar amateur trapshooter, John Philip Sousa, the world’s 
bandmaster, being responsible for the conditions as well 
as for one of the trophies. The conditions are: 
The program as arranged for the three days, Sept. 17- 
19, calls for 500 targets, or 100 targets over each set of 
traps. A trophy has been donated as a special prize to 
the man making the high score in each separate event 
of 100 targets, but no one man can win more than one 
trophy. Mr. Sousa’s prize takes pride of place by virtue 
of the donor evolving the scheme and being the first to 
offer a prize for such a contest. Thus the Sousa trophy 
will go to the man making high score on the 100 targets 
shot at over No. 1 trap; the Shanley trophy, donated by 
Mr. B. M. Shanley, Jr., of Newark, N. J., will be shot 
for on Trap 2; the Newcomb, Smith and Lyon trophies 
will be competed for on traps 3. 4 and 5 respectively 
prizes having been donated specially by C. H. Newcomb 
H. W. Smith, of Syracuse, N. Y., and -George L. Lyon, 
of Durham, N. C. 
The program for the extra day, Saturday. Sept. 20, 
starts off with the Westy Hogan special for ”88 per cent, 
and under” amateurs, and with the du Pont 18-yd. mark 
championship. When these two events have been dis¬ 
posed of there will be the grand finale, the new event, 
the Westy Hogan handicap, open to all amateurs (as 
are all the events on the entire program, with the ex¬ 
ception of the S8 per cent, and under event), $7 entrance, 
targets included, handicaps 16 to 22yds. 
Applications for programs and further information 
should be addressed to Bernard Elsesser. York. Pa., who 
will see that you get what you want in that line. 
Edward Banks. 
Du Pont Gun Club Receives New Connable Cup. 
Wilmington, Del.—Mr. F. L. Connable, an official 
of the Du Pont Co., has donated a very handsome solid 
silver trophy to be contested for under the following 
conditions: 
1. Twenty-five targets per man over Trap No. 1, 
distance handicap, open to all amateurs who are mem¬ 
bers of the Du Pont Gun Club. 
2. Twelve “qualification contests”; the first was held 
on Aug. 2, the other eleven are to be held respectively 
on every third Saturday thereafter. 
3. There will be no Coleman du Pont spoon con¬ 
tests on the dates scheduled for the Frank L. Connable 
trophy competitions, but contestants will be classified the 
same as for a spoon contest, each class being handi¬ 
capped as follows: 
4. Class A will shoot from 22yds.; Class B from 
20vds., Class C from 18vds., and Class D from 16yds. 
5. Winners in any of the qualification contests will 
be han licapped one yard for each win, and will continue 
so handicapped during the remainder of the qualification 
contest, but under no circumstances will a contestant 
be placed back of the 23yd. line. 
6. Ties, if ary, in a qualification contest must be 
shot off on the day of the shoot or the Saturday next fol¬ 
lowing that on which said contest was held, unless the 
management of the club shall decide to the contrary, in 
which case it shall name a date and same shall be, if 
possible, mutually agreeable to all contestants in said tie. 
In shooting off ties, contestants shall stand, at the same 
marks as in the original contest. 
7. If, for any reason, the management of the club 
decides that it is inadvisable to hold a qualification con¬ 
test for the Frank L. Connable 1913 handicap trophy on 
any of the dates regularly scheduled for such contests, 
such contest shall be held on the Saturday next following,- 
and due notice of same will be given in the columns of 
the Wilmington papers. 
8. The names of the winners of the several qualifi¬ 
cation contests, together with their respective scores and 
handicaps, will be engraved on the trophy by and at the 
expense of the Du Pont Gun Club. This will be done 
in order to secure uniformity in style of lettering, so as 
not to mar the trophy. 
9. After twelve competitions have been held, and 
after the winners of same have been decided, the man¬ 
agement of the Du Pont Gun Club shall name the first 
three available Saturdays as the dates for the “final 
ownership competitions” between all those who have won 
one or more of the qualification contests. These final 
ownership contests shall be at 50 targets per man, dis¬ 
tance handicap, best two scores to count; that is to say, 
the contestant making the highest aggregate score in 
any two of the three final ownership competitions will 
be adjudged the winner of the Frank L. Connable l9i3 
Handicap trophy. 
10. The management of the club shall appoint a 
special handicap committee (other than those qualifying 
whose duty it shall be to award handicaps to the con¬ 
testants in the final ownership competitions. 
11. All other points not covered in the above con¬ 
cisions, and which may arise from time to time during 
the continuation of the series of competitions for the 
above trophy, shall be decided by the management of the 
Du Pont Gun Club. 
The Lewis Class System (Improved). 
Consolation Event Provided. 
It is generally conceded that the Lewis class system 
is, for the average amateur, a very equitable system of 
money division. 
Several weeks ago the Philadelphia Schuetzen Yerein 
gave a tournament, using this system, and it was an 
unqualified success. 
This club has decided to pull off another event on 
Aug. 23, using the Lewis class system, with the follow¬ 
ing improvements, worked out by Louis Hartmann and 
E. R. Calvin, which is in the nature of a consolation 
event: 
For example: The program calls for 150 targets, 
entrance 2% cents per target, or $3.75. The club will 
add $50. One cent per target of the entrance fee goes 
to the club. One cent per target to the purse, and J-> 
cent per target to the formation of the Consolation purse, 
to which the club will add $10 or more. 
Presuming there are thirty shooters, and they are 
divided, for purposes of money division in the main event 
into four classes, the division in each class being 5, 3, 2, 
high guns, it will be apparent that at least 12 of the 30 
entrants will participate in the money division. 
The Consolation purse will be open to the eighteen 
who did not win money in the main event, and will be 
shot off in a 25-target event, the entrance fee being- 50 
cents. One cent per target goes to the club, and 1 cent 
per target is added to the Consolation purse. 
Figuring on thirty shooters attending the tournament, 
the Consolation purse will consist of $10 or more added 
by the club, cent per target on 4,500 targets, or $22.50, 
and 1 cent per target on 450 targets, or $4.50; total $37. 
The shooters competing for the Consolation purse 
will be classified according to the Lewis class system, 
into three or four classes, as the management may elect, 
and the money divided 5, 3, 2, high guns. 
Thus, it will be apparent that either 9 or 12 of the IS 
v.ho did not get into the money in the main event will 
participate in the Consolation purse, and also that either 
21 or 24 of the original entry of 30 will shoot in the 
money. 
The purpose of the Lewis Class system has been to 
provide for a more equitable system of money division 
for the average amateur, and this is also the purpose of 
the Consolation feature above described. 
At every shoot where money is the prize, the poor 
shooters help make up the purses for the winners, and 
the idea in charging V2 cent per target additional on 
all targets in the main event, was to give the good 
shooters a chance to reciprocate and assist in making up 
a consolation purse for their less fortunate friends who 
were not money winners. 
Weston Gun Club. 
Weston, Neb., Aug. 10.—Weston Gun Club held 
their first annual picnic Aug. 10. Everybody turned out 
and had a lovely time. There were three expert shoot¬ 
ers, O’Brien, G. Carter, D. D. Gross. They all made 
good scores. Air. T. Doremus, secretary of the Du Pont 
Powder Co., was also present. Scores; 
Shot at. 
Broke 
Shot at. 
Broke 
O’Brien . 
100 
97 
Syverson . 
50 
19 
Black . 
100 
73 
Bigerstaff . 
50 
33 
Gross . 
100 
90 
L Lindercamp. 
50 
38 
Carter . 
100 
91 
G Anderson ... 
50 
40 
Yarmon . 
100 
63 
Mantel . 
50 
40 
Goucher . 
100 
87 
J O Schmidt .. 
25 
19 
Ilopke . 
100 
78 
V Jacobson ... 
25 
15 
Wostrchill . 
100 
95 
McMorris . 
25 
9 
Vlcek . 
100 
77 
A Gottberg ... 
25 
20 
Pickett . 
75 
33 
Lucas . 
25 
14 
O Lindercamp. 
75 
62 
Nelson . 
25 
14 
N A Tuverson. 
50 
33 
C Anderson ... 
25 
IS 
Jas Kadary. 
50 
36 
R Sutton . 
25 
14 
Iverson . 
50 
27 
II Yirgl . 
25 
9 
Nolte . 
50 
38 
Jas Nemee ... 
25 
19 
J. Janak, Sec’y. 
Brewster G. C. 
Brewster, 
O., Aug. 
13.- 
—Below are the scores 
made 
by the members of the Brewster Gun 
Club in 
their 
practice event, 
Aug 12: 
Shot at. Broke 
Shot at. 
Broke 
*J S Day. 
.. 100 
91 
Engleman 
. 50 
41 
Messe . 
.. 100 
75 
A Click ... 
. 50 
39 
Zurcher . 
,. 100 
76 
Bottomy .. 
. 50 
25 
Stutz . 
.. 100 
61 
Mossop .. 
. 50 
8 
Lightell . 
,. 100 
42 
Gage . 
. 20 
8 
Burns . 
.. 80 
52 
Webner ... 
. 20 
8 
Christman .... 
60 
Doubles: 
*Day . 
.. 50 
35 
Lightell ... 
. 25 
4 
W Click .... 
.. 25 
12 
^Professional. A. J. Burns, Sec’y. 
