Feb. 8, 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
187 
Public High School Competition. 
Washington, D. C, Jan. 28.—The results of the 
third rifle shooting match between the public high school 
rifle teams for the new national trophy are announced 
by the National Rifle Association of America, under 
whose auspices the shooting is being carried on: 
Iowa City High School retains its lead by defeating 
the De Witt Clinton High School of New York, 956 to 
917; Baltimore Polytechnic High School defeated the 
Brookline, Mass., High with a score of 793 to 439; Deer- 
ing High, of Portland, Me., defeated the High School of 
Commerce, New York city, with a splendid score of 
954 to 858; Morris High, of New York, with a score of 
914, won by default from the Stuyvesant High of New 
York; Eastern High, of Washington, D. C., with a 
score of 813, won by default from the Southern High, of 
Philadelphia, whose team was compelled to withdraw 
from the League matches owing to the opposition of the 
school authories; Business High, of M'ashington, D. C., 
with a score of 811, defeated the Utica, N. Y., Free 
Academy, whose score was 769; Portland, Me., High de¬ 
feated Springfield, Mass., “Tech,” 920 to 896; Salt Lake 
City High defeated the Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., High, 
921 to 896; Susquehanna, Pa., High defeated the Manual 
Training School, of St. Louis, Mo., 841 to 580; Manual 
Training, Washington, D. C., defeated the Tucson, 
Ariz., High, 875 to 763. 
The best individual score of the match was made by 
Everett Hoover, of Iowa City, whose score was 97 stand¬ 
ing, 98 prone; total 195 out of the possible 200. 
Woman Rifle Shot Issues Challenge. 
London, Feb. 1.—To prove her contention that 
women are the equal if not the superior of men in rifle 
marksmanship. Miss E. Fenton, secretary of the Im¬ 
perial Rifle Club, has issued a challenge to select a team 
of ten women to compete with an equal number of men 
on a miniature range. 
Miss Fenton claims that the results at Bisley, since 
many of the shooting competitions there were thrown 
open to women, have shown that women do just as well 
as men with the rifle, and furthermore they do it with 
less practice than their male competitors. She instanced 
the last meeting, when one woman made a “possible” at 
300yds., and another divided the prize m an open event. 
The Ladies’ Bisley, too, has greatly increased the 
interest in rifle shooting by women. “Many women,” 
said Miss Fenton, “become high-class ‘marksmen’ almost 
without practice, a circumstance which does not apply 
to men. 
“So far as I can see, a woman’s nature naturally fits 
her for shooting. Shooting does not require strength; 
it needs steadiness and coolness. Every one knows that 
women are superior to men in a crisis; and it is be¬ 
cause our nature is more phlegmatic that we make better 
shots. In addition, of course, there is the fact that we 
drink less alcohol.” 
Zeftler Rifle Club. 
New York, N. Y., Feb. 1.—The following scores 
were made on Jan. 28: Conditions, 50 shots, 10-shot 
strings, possible, 250: 
A Begerow . 226 231 232 240 232—1161 
T Kaufmann . 242 248 246 246 247—1229 
F Hecking . 239 237 234 233 236—1179 
Dr Leavitt . 234 230 238 241 240—1183 
H M Pope . 244 249 247 249 247—1234 
O Smith . 244 244 243 243 238—1212 
C Zettler . 237 243 246 241 244—1211 
L P Hansen . 242 240 231 242 243—1198 
ADIRONDACK CAMP-FIRE. 
Continued from page 166. 
landing net under him, and in a moment lay in 
the creel in the boat a beautiful trout. He was 
dotted with spots of brightest vermillion, his 
fins rosy as a sunset on that August, edged with 
a fringe of creamy white — a prize I was proud 
of. After securing some of his smaller relations 
we closed our record for the day with nine trout. 
The open season for deer was now on. They 
do not feed on the shores in the fall or open 
season as they do during the summer. They 
were up on the high hardwood ridges, and one 
who is not familiar with the woods, or has not 
been fortunate enough to have a good guide 
who knows his business, sometimes has to work 
hard to get his quantum of game. In this my 
luck has been remarkably good We had hunted 
a few days without success, until one misty day 
Ed thought of a small spring bog at the foot 
of a ridge. We arose early and took a position 
on a game trail leading to the bog, and patiently 
still-hunted for a big buck, whose footprints we 
had seen in the soft mud surrounding the marsh, 
and our patience was rewarded by hearing some¬ 
thing moving on the trail that first sounded like 
a hedgehog or a quill pig, as the guides call them, 
and while the sound indicated something ap¬ 
proaching, it did not get any louder, but pres¬ 
ently a fine handsome buck deer came into full 
view. I measured his antlers with my eyes, knelt 
on one knee, took quick steady aim for his 
shoulder, and pulled the trigger He fell in¬ 
stantly, shot through the heart, and stretched his 
graceful form at the foot of a large beautiful 
yellow birch tree. It was early in the day, and 
we were about an hour’s tramp from the lake, 
so we carried him down the trail he probably 
had gone over many times before. 
We would like to have lingered longer amid 
these scenes, but having obtained everything we 
were in search of, including excellent health and 
buoyant spirits, we very reluctantly bid farewell 
and returned to the dusty city to look up the 
needful and chase the fitful and elusive dollar. 
If you were to go over that territory now, 
you would find signs posted on many of the trees 
and along the road. The possession is now vested 
in a millionaire sportsman of international repu¬ 
tation. 
That Forest and Stream is read with more 
than ordinary care by sportsmen is proved by its 
growth. Its increase in circulation has continued 
right through the summer months. 
Coming: 
Philanthropists' Number 
Valentine Number 
Ilusbandettes’ Number 
and 
That Awful Number 
Will send to any address for a two 
cent stamp, a copy of the 
Miniature Edition. 
Printed in colors, 
full of the best 
things of 
Life. 
A 
/ Enclosed 
find One 
/ Dollar (Ca¬ 
nadian $ 1 . 13 , 
Foreign S 1 . 26 ). 
Send Life for 
three months to 
EVERY TUESDAY 
ALL NEWS-STANDS 
TEN CENTS 
.V 
.ID 
.'T 
/ Open only to new snhscriher.s : no snhscription 
/ renewed at tlihs rate. This order innst co:ne 
/ to us direct: not through an agent or dealer. 
LIFE, 80 West 31 , New York 
ONE YEAR S5.00. (CANADIAN, S5.52, FOREIGN, S6.04) 
