March is, 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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The Sportsmen’s Show 
“O HE has been,” or to be more Shakespearean 
and less eloquent, the Sportsmen’s Show, 
nineteenth edition, has taken place. The 
title called for international trapshooting tourna¬ 
ment and sportsmen’s show. The trapshooting 
end of the caption was ample, and here we delve 
in a metaphorical forest, for in our mental mouths 
the taste lingers, but the general complaint con¬ 
cerning the “Sportsmen’s Show’’ end is like the 
remark of Oliver Twist—"I want some more.” 
This feature was woefully lacking. Finan¬ 
cially the show was eminently successful—the 
most remunerative in 
years — which means, 
of course, there was 
a goodly attendance. 
After a round of the 
Garden, and a quick 
one at that, the crowd 
wafted down to the 
traps, where for hours 
they packed. At the 
ring side were seen 
many prominent clay 
disc exterminators, 
who failed to qualify, 
rooting for brother 
club members, push¬ 
ing No. 8 chilled shot 
through the calcium 
atmosphere for high 
gun honors. 
Among the amateurs 
noted in the paddock 
were: Jim Alker, of 
Manhasset Bay Y. C.; 
Joe Donovan, a Du 
Pont medal holder, 
from Siwanoy; J. F. 
James, of Crescent; 
Dan McMahon, of 
New York A. C.; 
Tom Lenane, Jr., R. 
L. Spotts, Jr., who 
had the satisfaction 
of seeing his father 
run 123 straight un¬ 
finished and win the 
indoor championship 
with 100 X 100, beat- 1770. 
ing high professional Erecicd by k 
W. B. Darton by 7; 
Fred Howard, a one-time top notcher, for New 
York A. C.: Bill Short, Tom McCahill, Eugene 
Crowe, B. M. Shanley, Jr., Tom Kelly, the big 
noise in Hudson Gun Club, reached by the tube; 
Louis Law'ton, George Fred Pelham, rosy and 
cheerful as usual; Jessie Thorpe, the infant 
prodigy from Siwanoy; Z. C. Offut, who stum¬ 
bled over the thirty-second parallel and failed 
to qualify; Doc. Currie, one of the mainstays 
of Siwanoy; J. H. Finch, wdio when he can't 
shoot at home, goes any distance to burn pow¬ 
der; and—well, what’s the use, almost every 
shooter was there. 
Among the representatives on the rail were: 
Teddy Doremus, of Du Pont; John Skelly, Ed. 
Banks and Bill Hammond, of Hercules; Carl 
von Lengerke, of. “If they’re black, that’s us,” 
and his cousin Ernest; T. H. Keller, of the 
yellow boys and son Tom, L. R. Lewis, T. A. 
Davis, O. R. Dickey, and most everyone else but 
Lester and Fred. 
Some sensational shooting was done, particu¬ 
larly Ralph Spotts, as graceful a gunner as one 
could wish to see, and a shooter from the ranks 
of the beyond question amateur, of which there 
are mighty few, although outside college athletics 
an amateur is as hard to find as a snake in 
Ireland. As Bozeman Bulger says, there are 
some paid amateurs. However, to return to our 
mutton and all wool scores, H. H. Stevens ran 
success. Dave Abercrombie insisted on helping 
the management improve the ceiling decoration 
by shooting his casts through the filmy firmament, 
while Editor Miller angled for the Remington 
cubs, accurately placing his bait behind the cage 
of the twins. 
There was a great tendency among bait ex¬ 
ponents to snarl, but when one considers the 
location of the pool, it is not to be wondered 
at that artistic angling was at a premium. It 
was interesting to note the popularity of the 
only real camp in the show, the Forest axd 
HUNTEH’S CAMP. 
'OREST and Stream Publishing Company, of New York, in Lansdowne Ravine, Centennial Exhibition Grounds, Philadelphia. 
1870. 
161 straight and 246 x 250—some calcium shoot¬ 
ing. Al. Brickner, of Newton, N. J., a veteran, 
sturdy and cool, ran fifty straight on Friday. 
J. A. R. Elliott, one-time world's champion live 
pigeon killer, broke fifty straight Monday and 
forty-eight Wednesday. Sim Glover got three 
48’s, a 47 and a 45 for 236 and second high for 
wads only. W. B. Darton won top pro berth 
with 97 X 100, one more than old Bill Crosby 
could master. In the team shoot. New York 
wadded Philadelphia properly with 469 x 457. 
Three hundred and twenty-five shooters toed 
the scores, and only such efficient management 
as that of Luther Squier could have put this 
bunch over a single trap satisfactorily. His work 
was beyond criticism and commendable. 
Way up in the balcony a baker’s dozen Wal- 
tonians cast fly and bait, mostly with indifferent 
Stream encampment. Trapshooters and game 
shooters made -this camp their headquarters and 
many an old trapper’s yarn was unfolded under 
the Forest and Stream canvas during the week. 
A considerable contrast is shown in the illus¬ 
trations, the first of which shows the Forest and 
Stream encampment at the Centennial in 1876, 
the second picture being that of the Forest and 
Stream camp at the 1913 show. Trap scores 
follow: 
Daily pri7e to am.iteur making highest score in 
qualifying rounds, re-entry score not to count: 
Thursday, 82 entries— Score. 
N. I.. Herrick, New York. 47 
Friday, 140 entries— 
A. B. Brickner, Newton, N. J. 50 
Saturday, 150 entries— 
C. T. Summerson, New York. 48 
Monday, 128 entries— 
F. B. Stephenson, Brooklyn. 49 
