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March i, 1913 
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Pillow Gun Club. 
Pillow, Pa., Feb. 20.—Enclosed find scores of 
Lincoln’s Birthday shoot; also those of Feb. 15. Each 
shoot was at 50 targets per man: 
Feb. 12. Feb. 15. 
J R Eingaman. 40 39 
J A Bingaman. 47 46 
G L Wert. 37 44 
D VI Bohner . 39 37 
J N Buffington. 41 40 
T.\ Schaffer. 40 39 
T L Snyder . 30 29 
H C Deibler. 48 
A E Daniels. 41 
Weather conditions were ideal on both days. 
J. A. B'ingaman, Sec’y. 
Smith Gun Club. 
Newark, N. J., Feb. 22.—Contestants were so numer¬ 
ous it necessitated cutting down the 100-bird prize mer¬ 
chandise events to four series of 20 birds each. About 
4,000 targets were broken. The scores: W. Hassinger 
70, J. Geiger 74, C. Coffin 50, L. S. Page 72, J. Weiler 
71. B. Heard 62, E. Ficklen 68, M. Apgar 61, E. Town- 
ley 60, I. Castles 67, G. Edgar 68, R. Fish 64, R. Budd 
644, J. Wheaton 55, F. Ehrick, 72, J. Thornton 70, C. 
Rogers 50, James Murphy 53, W. Dickenhout 55, J. Rink 
56, John Erb 43, G. Naugle 69, J. Baldwin 70, F. Comp¬ 
ton 68, JI. S. Sindle 69, Harry Hassinger 63, F. N. 
Single 58, Charles Day, Jr., 76, C. Luckey 40. 
Day won first prize with 76; Geiger, second, with 74; 
Ehrick and Page tied with 72. On the draw the former 
won third, and Page fourth. 
Orange Gun Club. 
Orange, N. J., Feb. 22.— Thomas Dukes won the holi¬ 
day cup here to-day, getting 89 out of 100, shot in strings 
of 50 targets each. Besides the two 50-bird events there 
was a jack rabbit shoot at 15 targets. At the finish four 
gunners were tied with scores of 10, and on the shoot- 
off M. R. Baldwin and F. D. Perkins also struck into a 
tie with 9, the gunners dividing the prize purse. Dr. 
F. W. Lockwood won one of the 50-bird events with 45. 
Essex County Country Club. 
Orange, N. J., Feb. 22.—P. E. Fleller won two events 
at Essex County Country Club to-day. In the sweep- 
stake handicap he made 24, and the take-home trophy 
he won with 25. In a 50-bird event for the February 
trophy, B. M. Shanley, Jr., shooting from scratch tied 
him at 48. In the shoot-pff Shanley won with 24. Out 
of the last 75 targets thrown Shanley broke 72. 
Belden Gun Club. 
Camden, N. J., Feb. 22. —In conjunction with the 
celebration of its fortieth anniversary, the Beideman 
Gun Club to-day held its annual shoot for the season's 
prizes. Jones won the club title and trophy with 8v 
out of lOO. Patrick was second with 83 and Steward 
finished with 80. 
Courtship of Birds. 
“Of all the bird tribe by far the most in¬ 
teresting in its customs of courtship and mar¬ 
riage is the ruff. They are a remarkable ex¬ 
ample of selection by the female and it is pos¬ 
sibly from a contemplation of these interesting 
creatures that Mr. Shaw originally got his idea 
for ‘Man and Superman,’ ’’ said Dr. F. B. Kork- 
man in an address before a London college, 
according to the Standard. 
“I'he rnff is a swashbuckling bird with an 
imposing collar or ruff of feathers round his 
neck and a fascinating crest of feathers on his 
head. His whole object in life is to please Miss 
Ruff, but he plays quite a passive part and can 
only stand and wait to be chosen, and not all 
of the male birds are fortunate enough to be 
so favored. When the time for choosing comes 
round the male birds take up their position on 
a hillside and wait for the glad moment, making 
themselves look as bewitching as possible. 
“But of a colony of twenty-two ruffs ob¬ 
served only eight were chosen by the discrimi¬ 
nating females and of these only two—both of 
them very gaudy, dressy birds—were chosen 
time after time. One can only sympathize with 
the poor ruffs who were left out in the cold 
altogether and hope that they accepted their 
exclusion with some philosophy. 
“Even the London sparrow is extremely 
interesting in his courtship, although we live 
a lifetime among them without knowing it. The 
mating of the sparrows may be observed at any 
time between now and June. That sudden, fierce 
outburst of chattering which most of us think 
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