FOREST AND STREAM 
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THE SOUTHERN HANDICAP. 
The Interstate Association’s Ninth Southern Handi¬ 
cap Tournament will be held at Roanoke, Virginia, 
May 12, 13 and 14, under the auspices of the Roanoke 
Gun Club. 
The city of Roanoke was chartered thirty years ago. 
Its charter became effective in 1884. Every shot fired 
at the Ninth Annual Southern Handicap Tournament 
will be regarded as a “pull” in celebration of this birth¬ 
day event. 
Roanoke, “The High Gun Town,” has grown some¬ 
what since 1884. The population at that time was 
five thousand. Fifty thousand people are now living 
within its community lines. From acorn to oak—watch 
Roanoke. 
At the end of 1913 Roanoke banks had on deposit 
about eight and one-half million dollars. The product 
of enterprises here approximated for the year seventeen 
million five hundred thousand dollars. Ten million 
dollars and more was distributed by the pay-roll route. 
The city’s total tax levy is nearly forty million dollars. 
Building permits are issued at the rate of a million 
dollars and over per year. In 1913 the community’s 
bill for building was one and one-half million dollars. 
And there is electricity and water and climate and 
comfort. And there is "outh and energy and hope and 
determination. And there is a future and “a reason.” 
In 1914 Roanoke is the third largest city in Virginia. 
The goal has been set at seventy-five thousand in 1920. 
Ir will be reached. The trap was set in 1884. Someone 
said “Pull!” Opportunity appeared. A record was 
smashed and we are now in “The Gun Town.” 
Opportunity is the Only Knocker in Roanoke. 
The Roanoke Gun Club, as hosts upon the occasion 
of the Ninth Southern Handicap Tournament, severally 
and individually, places itself at the command of its 
guests. The Roanoke Gun Club is an old club, and has 
given many large and successful Tournaments. It is 
an incorporated organization and is a progressive Asso¬ 
ciation. Its members, by their personal efforts, will 
endeavor to send all visiting sportsmen home with the 
conviction that in this event they have attended one of 
the most comfortable and enjoyable Tournaments ever 
held in the State. No city in the country can offer 
greater conveniences for a large shooting Tournament 
than Roanoke, and the club members are sure that the 
people of no other city will extend a more cordial wel¬ 
come than you will meet here. The sportsmen who 
attend the Tournament will have the pleasure of shoot¬ 
ing before as intelligent and appreciative audiences as 
they ever met. 
Roanoke never makes a failure of a public event 
and the interest the people are faking in the coming 
Tournament insures those sportsmen who attend that 
they will carry away with them many pleasant memories 
of the city. The various organizations of Roanoke, 
including the Chamber of Commerce, the Retail Mer¬ 
chants Association, the Jobbers and Manufacturers 
Association, the Builders Exchange, etc., join the 
Roanoke Gun Club in extending a welcome to the Handi¬ 
cap visitors and in a desire to contribute to their 
pleasure while here. 
The hospitality of old Virginia is proverbial the 
world over, and all who have had the good fortune to 
experience it say: “It was a true report that I heard 
in mine own land of thy acts, and thy hospitality.” 
DIVISION OF MONEYS. 
Regular Program Events and Double Target Event— 
Rose System, ratio points, 5, 3, 2, 1. 
Optional Sweepstakes on each separate event ($1.00 
entrance)—High Gun System, one money for each five 
entries or fraction thereof. 
NOTE.—If there are not fifteen or more entries in 
the $1.00 Optional Sweepstakes they will not be figured 
and the money of those who have entered will be 
refunded. 
Optional Sweepstakes—The $5.00 sweepstakes on 
each day’s program, and the $5.00 sweepstakes on the 
three days’ program will be High Gun System, three 
moneys for each ten entries or fraction thereof. 
NOTE.—If there are not ten or more entries in the 
$5.00 sweepstakes they will not be figured and the 
money of those who have entered will be refunded. 
The Special Event at Double Targets, the Optional 
Sweepstakes, the Preliminary Handicap and the Southern 
Handicap, are separate from the Regular Program, and 
it is optional with the contestant whether or not he 
makes entry for them. The Squier Money-Back System 
does NOT apply to the Double Target Event, the 
Optional Sweepstakes, the Preliminary Handicap and 
the Southern Handicap. 
MONDAY, MAY nth 
Practice Day 1 P. M. 
Five Events of 20 Targets Each, Entrance $1.00 Per 
Event. 
Rose System 5-3-2-1. 
Sweepstakes Optional. 
The Squier Money-Back System Does Not Apply to the 
Above Events. 
THE COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, CUP. 
The Columbus Board of Trade, in conjunction with 
the citizens of Columbus, Georgia, offer for competition 
a silver loving cup, the value of which is $500, under 
the following conditions: 
The trophy is to be known as “The Columbus, 
Georgia, Cup,” and the competition is to be open to 
amateurs only. 
To be eligible for the trophy a contestant must shoot 
in all events called for by the program of the Tourna¬ 
ment, the Southern Handicap, Preliminary Handicap, 
and Double Target event included, and the contestant 
making the highest average shooting in all of said 
events is to be credited with one win of the Cup. 
The trophy is to be contested for at Southern Handi¬ 
cap Tournaments only, and it is to become the absolute 
property of the contestant who wins it three times. 
DAILY ENTRANCE FEES. 
First Day. 
Entrance in Regular Events . 
Special Event at Double Targets . 
Optional Sweeps on Regular Events . 
Optional Sweep on the 150 Targets . 
Optional Sweep on the Three Days’ Program 
$10.00 
2.00 
10.00 
S-oo 
5.00 
$32.00 
Second Day. 
Entrance in Regular Events .$ 7.00 
Preliminary Handicap . 7.00 
Optional Sweeps on Regular Events . 5.00 
Optional Sweep on the 100 Targets . 5.00 
Third Day. 
Entrance in Regular Events .$ 7.00 
Southern Handicap . 10.00 
Optional Sweeps on Regular Events . 5.00 
Optional Sweep on the 100 Targets . 5.00 
NOTE.—Contestants may shoot for “targets 
in any or all events and be eligible to win any 
trophies. 
$24.00 
$27.00 
only” 
of the 
FIRST DAY, MAY 12th. 
Events and 
Number of 
Targets. 
1— 15 Targets 
2— 15 Targets 
3— 15 Targets 
4— 15 Targets 
5— 15 Targets 
6— 15 Targets 
7— 15 Targets 
8— 15 Targets 
9— 15 Targets 
10—15 Targets 
Tuesday. 
Regular 
Program. 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Optional 
Sweepstakes 
Extra. 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
Entrance $1.00 
150 Targets Total-$10.00 Total_$10.00 
Optional Sweep on the 150 Targets .$5.00 
Optional Sweep on the three days’ regular program 
events, a total of 350 targets .$5.00 
The $1.00 extra entrance for the Squier Money-Back 
System is included in the $10.00 Regular Program 
entrance. 
Squier Money-Back System Losses Paid Each Day. 
SPECIAL EVENT. 
25 Double Targets .Entrance $2.00 
OPEN TO AMATEURS ONLY. 
Manufacturers’ agents, paid representatives, etc., 
may shoot in the above events for “targets only.” 
SECOND DAY, MAY 13th. 
Wednesday. 
Events and Regular Optional 
Number of Program. Sweepstakes 
Targets. Extra. 
1— 20 Targets Entrance $1.40 Entrance $1.00 
2— 20 Targets Entrance $1.40 Entrance $1.00 
3— 20 Targets Entrance $1.40 Entrance $1.00 
4— 20 Targets Entrance $1.40 Entrance $1.00 
5— 20 Targets Entrance $1.40 Entrance $1.00 
100 Targets Total.$7.00 Total.$5.00 
Optonal Sweep on the 100 Targets .$5.00 
The $1.00 extra entrance for the Squier Money-Back 
System is included in the $7.00 Regular Program en¬ 
trance. 
Squier Money-Back System Losses Paid Each Day. 
19 14 SOUTHWESTERN HANDICAP 
OKLAHOMA CITY, APRIL 14-16, 1914 
“ Steel Where Steel Belongs ” 
Win High Amateur Average 
Harvey Dixon, of Oronogo, Mo., led the amateur field with his score of 
32@ out of 350 
thereby living up to his reputation won as winner of the 1911 Grand American Handicap and other victories almost innumerable 
in all of which PETERS SHELLS contributed to the successful results. 
At the Oklahoma City Tournament Mr. H. Wilson, of Parsons, Kansas, was 2nd High 
Amateur 327 ex 350, and Mr. L E. Reid, of Enid, Oklahoma, 3rd, 325 ex 350. Mr. 
Reid was also 2nd in the Southwestern Handicap, 87 ex 100 from 20 yards in a sand 
storm. Mr. Reid shot PETERS—the most efficient ammunition made. 
The Peters Cartridge Company - Cincinnati, Ohio 
Branches: NEW YORK NEW ORLEANS SAN FRANCISCO 
