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FOREST AND STREAM 
Jan. i8, 1913 
The Pipe of the Piping Rock 
A s AN indication of the trend of trapshooting, of 
the invasion of, and popularity in, exclusive and 
aristocratic circles, I have selected as an example 
the Piping Rock Club at Locust Valley, L. I. Of course, 
we know that among yacht clubs trapshooting is, and 
elusive in this country, is one of the wealthiest, with a 
large “coed” memhership. Its racing and hunting 
events always bring out class, both equine and human. 
Last October, a little bunch of the club impetus, in¬ 
cluding Frank L. Crocker, Jr., John 15. Dennis, Jas. FI- 
Long Island an inkling of what these gentlemen wanted 
but knew not how to get. He forthwith offered his 
services to make the best ever of the trap department of 
the ambitious gentlemen, who yearned to become rock 
breakers, without a Sing Sing address. 
Three months ago the site for the traps was selected 
with an appropriation of $3,500 voted to carry out the 
project. Thus far the gun house has been completed, 
with outgoing and incoming traps working. The ar¬ 
rangement, as will be seen in illustration, is ground 
hush traps—the aerosaucers at the pull signal come in 
or out as though coming out from the ground. Under 
construction is a tower one hundred feet high, to throw 
the mud discs overhead, English style—nowhere else in 
America is there such an arrangement; but, figure the 
Piping Rocks, the day may come when pheasant drives 
M.-MN CLUB HOUSE. 
MR. FANNING DECOYING SHOOTERS. 
has for years, been the yachtsman’s alternative—yachting 
in summer, trapshooting in winter, mere shifting from 
tiller to gun. However, in the huntsmen’s clubs, gener¬ 
ally given up to social pleasures, under guise of the 
much abused term country club, trapshooting has, with 
few exceptions, not becom.e a prominent pastime for 
members, both men and women. 
The Piping Rock Club, while not the most ex- 
Sears, Percy Chubb and Frank Havemeyer (now the 
shooting committee) got together and decided that so 
many of the Piping Rock coterie shot over traps at 
other clubs, it would be better to offer temptation equally 
attractive and keep the members at home. Somehow— 
ask the birds—one Jack Fanning, an expert in club 
formation, rejtresenting a powder company on the 
banks of the Brandywine, got from the laden winds of 
in America may be possible, and, if they are, the over¬ 
head fly will help some. 
It is rather interesting to note that out of 368 mem¬ 
bers in the club, more than sixty are in the trapshooting 
fold, and of these more than a dozen are from the 
superior fraction, or hope to be, department. These 
ladies threaten to become militant shooters; in fact, some 
already can pick their full quota of aerosaucers from 
TRAP HOUSE, SHOWING “iNIiOUNI)'’ AND “oUTBOUNd" TR.^PS. 
INTERIOR SCORE BOARD. 
