598 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Nov. 8, 1913. 
Jersey Ci<y G. C. 
Jersey City, N. J., Nov. 1.—This being the first day 
of the duck shooting season, most of the boys must 
have gone out looking for some of them, as very few of 
the members were at the regular Saturday shoot of the 
Jersey City Gun Club.. The wind was blowing a good 
stiff breeze from the south, and gave us the best sport 
we have had for some time, as the fellow that could hit 
one of those ducking rightquarterers and then smash one 
to the left that seemed to go up nearly a mile, felt that 
he was doing something, and you can bet he was, for 
old reliable Dave Engle was high for the day with an 
average of 76 per cent, and when Dave gets down there, 
you. can imagine the trouble some of the rest of us are 
having trying to make our scores half way decent. 
] ‘ixon was high. Engle and Dixon also 1 tied for the first 
leg on the Du Pont trophy, with 22 each, counting 
handicaps. This trophy will be shot for during Novem¬ 
ber, December and January, and we hope to see a lot 
of members compete for it, as it is a very attractive 
article. The scores follow, in strings of 25: 
Kcarnev . 19 21 19 20 11 13 20 .. .. 
Haas . 38 20 15 15 18 21 15 15 19 
Engle . 20 16 19 21 20 . 
Currie . 14 13 13' 11 14 16 18 14 .. 
Dixon . 20 13 23 17 . 
Everett . 14 10 11 17. 
Jietherington, Jr . 18 13 19. 
Williams . 15 16 11. 
Jones . 12 10 8 8 . 
Drown . 7 6 2 8 . 
_We wish to remind the shooters in this section of the 
U. S. A. and those who may be only spending a short 
time in New York and vicinity, that we are open each 
Saturday afternoon, rain or shine, and will be glad to 
see strangers whenever the opportunity offers, and will 
guarantee you will feel right at home, as soon as you 
get your eyes on some of the old-timers, members of this 
club, who have been shooting clay targets ever since 
they were first made. 
Kentucky G. C. 
The tournament held on Oct. 28, at Dayton, Ivy., was 
a nice shoot, and was prevented from being, as adver¬ 
tised, a “Heap big target shoot” only by the weather. 
In this respect the club was up against it. The sky 
was covered by heavy, leaden clouds, which threatened a 
downpour at any moment, and during a portion of the 
day there was a cold, drizzling rain, conducive neither 
to comfort nor good scores. There were thirty-one ama¬ 
teurs, mostly from out-of-town, and three professionals 
present, and all shot through. The program seemed a 
popular one, and under better weather conditions would 
have undoubtedly drawn a much larger crowd. As it 
was, the purses paid very well, and the high men had 
no reason to be dissatisfied with the amounts paid to 
them by the cashier. 
The program was at 150 targets, in two races, total 
entrance, $15. The first race at 100 targets, in five 20- 
target events, .$10 of the entrance money applied to this 
race, and was divided 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent, in each 
event, the purse amounting to $49.60. There was also) a 
$5 optional sweep on the 100' targets, and seven of the 
contestants went in on this, making three moneys, 50, 30 
and 20 per cent. 
The second race was at 50 targets, shot in two 25- 
target events, $5 of the entrance money applying to 
this, making a purse, after deducting one cent per target, 
of $139.50, which was split into nine moneys, and divided 
high guns, 25, 17, 14, 11, 10, 8, 6, 5 and 4 per cent. This 
was a handicap event, the handicaps, 16 to 22yds., being 
based on the scores in the 100-target race; 96 or better, 
22yds.; 94 and 95, at 21yds.; 92 and 93 at 20yds.; 90 and 
91, at 19yds.; 88 and 89 at 18yds.; 85 to 87, at 17yds.; 84 
and under, 16yds. 
The events were shot over two new Ideal-Leggett 
traps, installed for the occasion, and which worked 
without a hitch. 
The office was in charge of O. J. Holiday, the pop¬ 
ular trade representative, and he made good in this 
position, as he does when demonstrating on the firing 
line. Manager H. R. Irwin had perfected all arrange¬ 
ments, so that there was not a hitch from start to finish. 
Shooting began at 9, and the last squad was through 
in the Handicap about 3 o’clock. At the conclusion of 
the 109-target race, a halt was called, and all hands 
gathered in the club dining room to enjoy the excellent 
dinner served by Mrs. Taggart, wife of the superin¬ 
tendent. 
In spite of the poor light, some good scores were 
recorded in the first race. F. C. Koch, of Phillipsburg, 
was high amateur with 96. H. T. Strother, Winchester 
Ky., gave him a hot race, finishing only one target be¬ 
hind him. C. Dimmitt and H. N. Smith, of Morrow, 
tied for third on 94, and were closely followed by W. I. 
Spangler, Circleville, with 93. The professionals were not 
in the same class with the amateurs this time. R. L. 
Trimble was high on 91, and J. S. Day and L. J. Squier 
88 each. 
In the Handicap, amateur honors went to W. H. 
Railey, Midland City, O., who broke straight in the first 
25, and finished with 48 from 18yds. He is one of the 
old-time shooters, and was a familiar figure at the shoots 
of the old Independent Gun Club thirty odd years ago. 
His “come back” was worth $34.85 to him in this event. 
H. Stegeman was second with 47, and was followed by 
five in the 46 hole, and a couple of 45s. J. S. Day was 
high professional with 49, Squier and Trimble 43 each— 
the latter from 19 and the others from 18yds. H. T. 
Strothers won a Du Pont general average trophy, his 
score being 138, the last 50 targets being shot from 21yds. 
Duckham and Ike Brandenburg tied for second high on 
137, and W. I. Spangler was third with 136. J. S. Day 
was high professional with 137; R. L. Trimble next on 
134; L. J. Squier 131. 
In the 100-target race, $1 for each amateur shooter 
was set aside for high average money, divided 60 and 40 
per cent., with the condition that ties on high score 
should shoot-off for first money, the losers to divide 
second money. 
Manager H. R. Irwin and Capt. G. W. Dameron are 
arranging for a turkey shoot, to be held on Nov. 25, 
and everyone taking part will come pretty near getting 
some part of a Thanksgiving dinner, as prizes of 
chickens and ducks will be given in addition to the 
“turks.” 
One hundred targets: 
*T 
S Day. 
... 88 
T 
H Clay, Jr. 
... 87 
H 
R Irwin. 
... 90 
H 
Stegeman . 
G 
W Dameron. 
... 83 
H 
Hildinger . 
... 77 
C 
D Coburn. 
... S9 
F 
E Koch. 
... 96 
C 
T Stevens. 
... 87 
W 
I Spangler. 
... 93 
L 
J Squier. 
... 88 
W 
H Hall . 
... 89 
Ed 
Voris . 
... 85 
K 
11 Bruns. 
... 89 
11 
Strother . 
... 95 
1 
Brandenburg .... 
... 9l 
H 
E Furnas . 
... 68 
V 
B Smith. 
,... 82 
Handicap, 50 targets: 
Yds. T’l. 
T II Clay. 
. 17 
37 
C T Stevens... 
. 17 
42 
H Stegeman ... 
. 16 
47 
Dameron . 
. 16 
46 
Hildinger . 
. 16 
39 
Furnas . 
. 16 
43 
W B Smith.... 
. 16 
31 
Folkerth . 
. 16 
36 
Schindewolf ... 
. 16 
37 
Willey . 
. 16 
39 
Voris . 
. 17 
35 
Leever . 
. 17 
46 
*Day . 
. 18 
49 
Coburn . 
. IS 
42 
*Squier . 
. 18 
43 
Bruns . 
. 18 
46 
Nemo . 
. 18 
45 
Bailey . 
.. IS 
48 
Ed Cain . 
, 91 
R Folkerth _ 
, 78 
Nemo . 
88 
W H Bailey.... 
, 88 
A Porter . 
. 92 
*R Trimble .... 
. 91 
S Leever . 
. 87 
IT Duckham ... 
. 92 
F Schindewolf 
. 81 
C H Wagoner 
. 90 
C Dimmitt _ 
. 94 
R Gaskill . 
. 91 
IT N Smith. 
. 94 
L H Gambell., 
. 89 
J E Schreck.... 
. 89 
D H Willey..., 
. 80 
Simpson (40) .. 
. 32 
Yds. 
T’l. 
Gambell . 
. 18 
46 
Schreck . 
. 18 
39 
Irwin . 
. 19 
40 
Hall . 
. 18 
43 
Brandenberg .. 
. 19 
46 
Cain . 
. 39 
38 
*Trimble . 
. 19 
43 
Wagoner . 
. 19 
42 
Gaskill . 
. 19 
44 
Spangler . 
. 20 
43 
Porter . 
. 20 
40 
Duckham . 
. 20 
45 
Strother . 
. 21 
43 
Dimmitt . 
. 21 
42 
H N Smith .... 
. 21 
41 
F Koch . 
. 22 
39 
Simpson . 
. 22 
31 
Chicago Gan Club. 
Chicago, Ill., Oct. 26.-—Twenty-seven members took 
part in the third annual championship of the Chicago 
Gun Club, E. Silver winning the title for 1913, and the 
beautiful trophy donated for this event by Thomas M. 
Sullivane. After shooting a qualifying round of 25 
targets, the sixteen high scores were paired, the names 
being on a slip which were drawn from a hat, and in 
most cases they were very evenly matched, especially 
Seelig and Dickerman, both 300-pounders and equally 
good shots. 
First round after qualifying: Shaw defeated Wolfe, 
25 to 21; Eck defeated Clark, 21 to 16; Silver defeated 
May, 22 to 12; Knmmerer defeated Goode 23 to 21; Mac- 
Lachlan defeated Thomas, 24 to 22; Seelig defeated Dick- 
erman 24 to 22; Baxter defeated Kennicott 23 to' 22, and 
W. A. Davis put Miller out of the running, 22 to' 21. 
Second round; Eck defeated Shaw, 21 to 19; Silver 
defeated Kammerer, 23 to 20; MacLachlan defeated Seelig, 
24 to 20; Barto defeated Davis, 24 to 23. 
Third round: Silver defeated Eck, 24 to 22; McLach- 
lan and Barto tied on 25 straight, and in the shoot-off 
Barto defeated MacLachlan, 23 to 22, which left Silver 
and Barto for the final round, and in which Silver 
won high laurels by going straight to Barto’s 24, both 
shooting in splendid form, centering most of their targets 
and grinding them to dust. Silver showed that he has 
the staying qualities, as he is one of our young shooters 
who has been coming to the front with rapid strides 
and winning from one of the most steady shots in the 
trapshooting, world. 
O. W. Crocker won the consolation event for those 
who did not qualify in the championship shoot, the 
prize being a silver watch fob. 
President Doc May made the presentation speeches, 
and he tried to outdo himself in presenting to Joe Barto 
the beautiful diamond-studded challenge medal, given 
by IT. E. Dickerman, and to be contested for during 
the coming year by the club members, it becoming the 
property of the member winning it the most number of 
times during the year. Now, who will be the first to 
challenge Barto for the medal. 
Championship event: 
H Wolfe . 
. 22 
21 
C E Shaw. 
. 24 
25 
19 
P H Clark. 
. 23 
16 
Tohn Eck . 
. 23 
21 
21 
22 
E Silver . 
. 22 
22 
23 
24 
C W May . 
. 21 
12 
B L Kammerer . 
. 22 
23 
20 
C' P Goode. 
. 22 
21 
D E Thomas . 
. 23 
22 
A F MacLachlan. 
. 22 
24 
24 
25 
22 
C R Seelig . 
. 23 
24 
20 
IT E Dickerman . 
. 23 
22 
H Kennicott . 
. 25 
22 
T I! Barto . 
. 22 
23 
24 
25 
23 
W A Davis. 
. 21 
22 
23 
P Miller . 
. 22 
21 
Consolation event: 
1 H Shrigley . 
16 
16 
O W Crocker . 
17 
23 
22 
A Lino . 
20 
15 
F C Young . 
16 
18 
14 
Mrs Fetherstone . 
8 
17 
C A Frazer . 
20 
18 
17 
A O Davis . 
17 
21 
19 
C A Hardy . 
21 
18 
T W Keller . 
15 
22 
18 
L A Bell .. 
16 
20 
A Moore . 
19 
20 
Oct. 25.—Followin; 
Targets: 
O P Goode . 
O W Crocker . 
W D Starinard . 
W F De Wolf . 
H J Foster . 
E Silver . 
E J Green . 
are scores made to-day: 
50 50 50 25 50 
. 42 46 41 .. ..' 
. 39 34 35 .. 34 
. 40. 
. 36 30 37 .. .. 
. 40 45 16 .. 
. 42 49 . 
. 4 
50 
25 
18 
42 
24 
Oct. 26.—The following practice and regular club 
events were shot to-day: 
F G Bills. 48 .. 
H E Dickerman . 46 .. 
W A Davis . 45 .. 
H C Kirkwood . 45 
O P Goode . 44 
B L Kammerer. 43 
C W May. 35 .. 
J W Keller. 30 34 
L A Bell . 29 .. 
I) E Thomas, 21. 
P Miller, 17. 
IT Wolfe, 18. 
F Davis . 13 
H Kennicott, 22. 
G E Shannon. 
II I Foster. 45 .. .. 19 
C A Hardy. 23 
A Moore . 41 .. .. 15 
W I. Elliott . 31. 
A Lino . 12 
H Paradis . 17. 
C Gardner . 22. 
A Simms . 19 . 
16 .. 
17 .. 
24 42 47 
.. 39 
20 42 
43 
22 
Youghiogheny Country Clab. 
Saturday afternoon, Nov. 1, in spite of the rain, 
the traps at the Youghiogheny Country Club were going 
full tilt, and the shooters got some good practice, pre¬ 
paratory to the opening of field shooting for rabbits, 
quail, etc., next Saturday. Following are the scores of 
some of those who shot: 
Events: 
Cornelius . 
Canning .. 
Wickert. 
Sword . 
Thompson 
Heisey .... 
Dr Ballard 
1 2 3 4 5 
19 19 17 17 21 
13. 
15 14 . 
17 15 14 .. .. 
18 21 22 .. .. 
.. 21 12 18 .. 
.14 
After the shooting of the regular 25-bird squads, as 
noted above, the shooters, in order to get some better 
field practice, took position immediately alongside of the 
trap house, and with gun down, called the birds. By 
this method the shooter had no way of knowing in what 
way the bird was going, and with gun down had to: get 
it to his shoulder and to shoot practically the same as a 
bird flying from the grass in the field. Of the 20 birds 
first shot at in this way, Cornelius got 12, and Dr. Heisey 
got 11. 
Shooters then took position about 25yds. from the 
trap house with their backs to the trap, taking birds at 
practically head-on or slightly to the side in their 
flights. This proved a very interesting and a very good 
practice for the field. Dr. Heisey shone above the other 
shooters in his ability to break birds under this trying 
method. It might be explained that Dr. Heisey, in 
nearly all of his shooting used a 16-gauge gun against 
12-gauge used by the other shooters, which explains some 
of his lower scores. 
Columbus G. C. 
The Columbus Gun Club will hold an up-to-date 
turkey shcot on Thursday, Nov. 20, beginning at 10 
A. M. sharp. Traps open for practice from 8 A. M. 
till 9:45 A. M. The program will consist of 150 tar¬ 
gets in ten 15-target events, handicaps from 16 to 20yds. 
A good old-fashioned time. Something for everybody 
to take home. Entrance for the day and program, $4. 
Dandy fish fry at noon, and targets included. 
There will be fifteen fine turkeys to the first fifteen 
high guns, divided high gun system. Five geese to the 
fifteenth to twentieth high, and five ducks to the 
twentieth to twenty-fifth high, inclusive. For all entries 
over twenty-five there will be extra prizes in proportion. 
A fine aluminum basting and cooking spoon will be 
presented each man shooting the program through, for 
his wife. 
The Perry Township String Band will furnish turkey 
trots and all their new compositions for the amusement 
of the guests. A fine goose will be awarded the first 
fellow getting a program that sends in the correct guess 
of the actual number of shooters that will attend this 
shoot. Your friends and their friends are cordially wel¬ 
come to attend this turkey jubilee. Address Fred Shat- 
tuck, 2100 West Fifth avenue, Columbus, O. 
Nemours (L&dies) G. C. 
Wilmington, Del., Oct. 29.—To-day was the last 
shoot for the silver trophy, a sterling silver watch fob 
that was donated to the club by the 1 Sporting Powder 
Division of the E. I. du Pont Co. The contest for 
trophy extended over eight regular shooting days—four 
high scores out of eight to count. Miss Hammond was 
high and was awarded the fob. She was pressed hard, 
however, by Miss Carson, Mrs. O. B. Clark and Mrs. 
W. A. Joslyn. Scores, 25 targets, were as follows: 
Class A—Miss H. D. Hammond 20, Mrs. W. A. Joslyn 
14, Miss J. P. Hirst 11, Miss M. V. Moody 11, Mrs. O. B. 
Clark 6, Miss M. V. Lannan 8, Miss B. V. Carson 17. 
Class B—Mrs. F. W. Wilson 5. 
Class C—Mrs. Harry White 8, Mrs. Harry J. Stidham 
33. 
Class D—Mrs. McCready 17. 
