June 21, 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
793 
You and a Remington Dealer 
Ought to Get Together 
Y OU will be buying ammunition to-day or 
to-morrow—shot shells for trapshooting or 
metallics for target work. It would pay you 
to look into the whole ammunition question. 
One thing you will find universally true, 
whether it is the alert dealer you are talking 
with, or the keen sportsman of your section. 
The better qualified a man is to speak authorita¬ 
tively the more surely you find his interest centered 
on REMINGTON as the live issue of the ammuni¬ 
tion world to-day. 
You will find, too, that the dealer who is making 
the biggest dent in the ammunition business of your 
community is the one who is specializing in Reming- 
ton-UMC—who carries a full and representative stock. 
Talk to your dealer. Remington-UMC is the ammunition 
you want. See that he can give it to you—the load you need 
for the kind of game you are after: Remington-UMC shot 
shells and metallics, not only for Remington-UMC shotguns 
and rifles, but for every standard make of arm. 
Remington Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Go. 
299-301 Broadway, New York 
our request, aiid sincerely hope our efforts will be of 
some value to every one who gets a copy of this num¬ 
ber, which, we are' certain, will be practically every 
one interested in trapshooting, both registered and un¬ 
registered shooters. 
WINNERS OF G. A. H. TO DATE. 
1900 .74 entries 
Held at Interstate Park, N. Y., June 14. 
R. O. Heikes (22yds.) winner, 91 ex 100. 
1901 .75 entries 
Held at Interstate Park, N. Y., Tu;ie IS 
E. C. Giiffith (19yds.) winner, 95 e.c 100. 
1902 .91 entries 
Held at Interstate Park, New York, May 8. 
C. W. Floyd (18yds.) winner, 94 ex lOO. 
1903 .._..192 entries 
Held at Kansas City, Missouri, April 16. 
M. Diefenderfer (16yds.) winner, 94 ex 100. 
1904 .336 entries 
Held at Indianapolis, Ind., June 23. 
R. D. Guptill (19yds.), winner, 96 ex 100. 
1905 .352 entries 
Held at Indianapolis, Ind., June 29. 
R. R. Barber (16yds.) winner, 99 ex 100. 
1906 .290 entries 
Held at Indianapolis, Ind., June 21. 
F. E. Rodgers (17yds.) winner, 94 ex 100. 
1907 .495 entries 
Held at Chicago, Ill., June 20. 
Jeff L. Blanks (17yds.) winner, 96 ex lOO. 
1908 .362 entries 
Held at Columbus, O., June 25. 
Fred Harlow (16yds.) v/inner, 92 ex 100. 
1909 .457 entries 
Held at Chicago, Ill., June 24. 
Fred Shattuck (18yds.) winner, 96 e.x 100. 
1910 .383 entries 
Held at Chicago, Ill., June 23. 
Riley Thompson (i9yds.) winner, 100 ex 100. 
1911 .418 entries 
Held at Columbus, O., June 22. 
Harvey Dixon (20yds.) winner, 99 ex 100. 
1912 .. entries 
Held at Springfield, Ill., June 20. 
W. E. Phillips (19yds.) winner, 96 ex 100. 
There never has been a repeat, and we predict a new 
name will be added to the list this week. 
Where the C. A. H. Will he Shot. 
HISTORY OF THE N. C. R. GUN CLUB, DAYTON, 0. 
(I'rom Forest and Stream, March 1, 1913.) 
Late one Saturday afternoon in April, 1909, three 
tired but happy snipe hunters sat on a log in the Big 
Beaver Swamp, resting from their tramp through the 
swamp. They had shot a few of the flavory jacksnipe, 
but, best of all, they had fully enjoyed the pleasure and 
companionship of several hours in the glorious outdoors, 
with the warm sunshine, green grass and wild flowers, 
the many robins, thrushes and other song birds chirping 
and flying back and forth, and the fresh, balmy air of 
spring (nature at her best). How their red blood had 
tingled whenever a wily jack rose suddenly from some 
grassy tuft, and with a shrill “skack” darted away like 
a flash on his zig-zagging course across the swamp. 
These men—Harvey L. Monbeck, Fred W. Oswald and 
W. F. MacCandless—employees of the National Cash 
Register Company, were regretting the fact that it was 
the last Saturday afternoon of the open snipe season, 
and that they could not be together outdoors for any 
shooting until the next fall. Suddenly the idea oc- 
cured of forming a shotgun club to shoot clay birds 
on Saturday afternoons. Harvey had taken a very active 
part in trapshooting for over sixteen years. Fred was 
also a well-known amateur shooter with several years’ 
experience on the firing line. “Mac”- had never shot in 
any bluerock shoots, but he recalled how, when a boy 
of twelve, he had once or twice crouched in a large 
box and loaded an expert trap while some men “boomed” 
at the targets with black powder shells. However, for 
years he read and admired the scores made by “Pop” 
Heikes and other leading shooters. They talked of plans 
for a club all the way home, and the next week they be¬ 
gan trying to interest the shooters among their fellow 
workers. On Thursday evening, May 29, Monbeck, Os¬ 
wald, MacCandless, C. A. Sheets, W. G. Souders, Frank 
Oswald, J. S. Neff, W. C. Breen, E. Allen, J. L. Shrop¬ 
shire, C. B. Wert^ and G. R. Schoenberger met and 
organized a club; as they were all employees of that com¬ 
pany, they named it N. C. R. Gun Club. Each of these 
twelve men contributed $1 to the first treasury fund to 
buy loaded shells and targets. The officers chosen were: 
President, Wertz; Captain, Monbeck; Secretary, Sheets; 
Treasurer, Fred Oswald. On the following Saturday 
afternoon. May 22, the club’s first shoot was held, using 
tv/o expert traps, which Monbeck had owned for several 
years, the company having readily granted permission 
to- place the traps in their field at a safe distance from 
the baseball diamond. Then three more members were 
secured, and each of the fifteen contributed $1, and a 
second-hand blackbird trap was bought. From then on 
the membership fee was made $2, so that all members 
would be on the same basis. 
It had been the company’s policy for years to assist 
and encourage its employees in clean, manly outdoor 
sports, and they made several baseball diamonds, tennis 
courts, and a cinder track for foot racing, furnished the 
equipment and kept everything in fine shape for use on 
Saturday afternoons, holidays and summer evenings. The 
company did these things because they not only liked to 
see their people happily enjoying these games, but they 
also- felt sure that such recreation would make them 
healthier and more efficient workers. So they gladly 
built a trap house, firing line and small shelter house, 
with seats around the sides, for the gun club. 
The first part of June, Sheets and Oswald resigned 
their offices of secretary and treasurer. W. F. Mac¬ 
Candless was then elected secretary and treasurer, and 
has been kept in that office ever since. When he ac¬ 
cepted the office he told the members that “it was his 
hopes and aim to help them build up a gun club that 
would win the respect and esteem of all follo-wers of 
trapshooting throughout the United States, become one. 
of the most popular and best-known clubs, make this 
finest of all manly sports more popular, hold the Ohio 
State shoot, and finally secure the coveted privilege and 
honor of holding the greatest of all shooting events, the 
Grand American Handicap. His ideas were instantly and 
unanimously approved and the club made this stand¬ 
ard their goal. He also received the club’s approval of 
his suggestion to publish only the best scores of any 
and all shooters taking part in their practice shoots and 
to omit them entirely if they broke less than four-fifths 
of their targets. That policy brought many beginners 
into the sport, and been deeply appreciated by expert 
amateurs, when they had a “bad day over the traps.” 
