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THE LONDON CLAY BIRD CLUB. 
A Novel Trap Shooting Contest. 
The London Clay Bird Club was formed in October, 
1913, shooting being carried on under the same methods 
as adopted in the U. S. A., chief of which is the use 
of one barrel only. The club has been very successful, 
and on every Saturday afternoon a good number of 
members have taken part in the various competitions. 
The club was founded by Mr. A. G. Rickarby. and it 
was his trip to the states and to the Annual Sports¬ 
man’s Show that gave him the idea to put the Ameri¬ 
can methods of trap shooting into practice in an Eng¬ 
lish Club. It is interesting to note that the majority 
of the members of the newly formed club are well- 
known miniature rifle shots of Great Britain, several 
being international shots. The cost of shooting to the 
individual in the new club is remarkably cheap, as 
will be seen from the following figures. Birds are sup¬ 
plied at yid. each, and the club supplies cartridges at 6s. 
per 100. Each man fires 30 competition shots, in strings 
of 10, without any preliminary practice, and the club 
charges him the sum of 3s. 4d., which includes the cost 
of 30 cartridges, 30 clay birds, and entries for five com¬ 
petitions. The annual subscription is 7s. 6d. Exactly 
four months’ shooting shows the club’s balance sheet at 
£20 to the good. 
How does this cost compare with the cost of trap 
shooting in the states? 
Members can, of course, continue their shooting after 
having fired their competition series, but it will be seen 
that the idea of making the first 30 shots count for com¬ 
petition allows the man who can only afford the sum of 
3s. 4d. to have equal chances with his more fortuna'e 
brother who may be able to spend ten times as much. 
There are, naturally, other special shoots during the 
afternoon, but the members are not encouraged to over¬ 
do it. 
Very keen interest is being taken at the present mo¬ 
ment in a novel trap shooting contest, invented by 
Mr. A. G. Rickarby, and it is just possible it may be 
interesting to trap shooters in the states. The competi¬ 
tion is called a “Race Round England” and rules gov¬ 
erning the contest are as follows: 
A large map is posted in the club hut, upon which 
there are sixty towns round the coast, numbered from 
one up. 
Competitors are allowed twenty shots at twenty birds 
on a Saturday afternoon, and a drawing pin with his 
name attached is pinned to the town shown on mao. 
At his next shoot he goes on from the town he last 
shot. 
At various spots on the map there are “penalty* 
towns, and if a competitor finishes up on one of these 
he must return to a town some distance back. This, 
therefore, puts everybody on an equal footing, in that 
there is an element of luck in it, which adds greatly 
to the fun of the shoot. 
The competitor who can get round the map first wins 
the shoot, and second and third also secure prizes. 
We give a reproduction of the London Clay Bird 
Club’s map herewith, with the penalty spots shown, and 
the penalties imposed are as follows 
A competitor finishing at No. 11, Skegness, returns 
to Boston, 10. 
Field Dog Stud Book 
An Authentic Register of Names, 
Colors, Ages, Pedigrees, Sex and Field 
Trial Winnings of Dogs on the 
American Continent 
THE FIELD DOG STUD BOOK registers 
all breeds of dogs. Fee $ 1 . Enrollment of Lit¬ 
ter, fifty cents. 
PEDIGREES. —Certified copies of Pedigrees, 
showing four generations, on handsome litho¬ 
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ledger paper, $1; six generations on ledger 
paper, $2. 
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Book, now ready; price, $ 2 . 
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A competitor finishing at No. is, Bridlington, returns 
to Boston, 10. 
A competitor finishing at No. 19, South Shields, re¬ 
turns to Scarboro, 16. 
A competitor finishing at No. 25, Barrow, returns to 
Berwick, 20. 
AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 
Atlantic Division. 
The annual dinner of the Atlantic Division of 
the American Canoe Association was held on 
Saturday evening, February 7th at Lu Lu Tem¬ 
ple, Philadelphia. 
There were fifty in attendance, representing 
sixteen clubs. Vice-Commodore Elmer B. Ayres 
presided and a number of the A. C. A. officers 
and veterans were present. 
Speeches were made by H. Lansing Quick, 
president of the Board of Governors; Irving E. 
Dorland, a former commodore of the associa¬ 
tion; C. Bowyer Vaux, A. C. A. No. 33, one of 
the charter members, and Ho Hogan, Brooklyn 
Canoe Club, and others. 
A. P. McArthur, of Philadelphia, gave some 
of his fine recitals of Kipling, and Oscar Tyson, 
Knickerbocker Canoe Club, entertained with 
original poems. 
The purser, W. H. Logan. Jr., made a plea on 
behalf of the committees of future events of the 
year that the members answer circulars promptly 
in order that the committees may know for how 
many to make preparation in arranging for the 
camps, cruises and mess. He also requested the 
clubs to send him items of interest and of hap¬ 
penings through the year in order that the offi¬ 
cial organs, Forest and Stream and In the Open, 
might have all the canoeing news. 
After the dinner about twenty of the men 
went to the Red Dragon Canoe Club, where they 
remained over night. 
HUNTER SHOOTS NINE-FOOT TUNA. 
A monster tuna nine feet five inches long, and 
weighing 799 pounds, was captured by means of 
two charges of buckshot in the Mira River, near 
Sydney, N. S., and incidentally the huntsman 
broke all tuna records in those parts. The big 
fish was trying to break a hole in the ice on the 
river when a hunter, Joseph McLellan, who was 
crossing the Albert bridge, noticed the disturb¬ 
ance. When the tuna came through he dashed 
himself halfway out of the water, and McLellan 
let him have both barrels in the gills. The tuna 
headed blindly for shore and landed high on 
the beach. 
