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FOREST AND STREAM 
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The Season’s Roll of Honor 
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Being a partial list of successful 
amateur shooters and their year’s 
triumphs 
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R. H. Bruns, Indiana State Tournament, tied for 2d 
highest 1912 Amateur Record. 
Vassar Cate, Southern Handicap. 
Frank Campbell, Western Handicap. 
H. P. De Mund, Arizona State Tournament. 
F. G. Fuller, Wisconsin State Tournament. 
J. R. Graham, Illinois State Tournament; Individual Clay 
Bird Championship of World at Olympic Games. 
Jack Jewett, Minnesota State Tournament. 
V. W. Johnson, Mississippi State Tournament. 
W. T. Laslie, Alabama State Tournament. 
Wm. Lloyd, Oklahoma State Tournament. 
A. M. Messner, Michigan State Tournament. 
C. N. Newcomb, Westy Hogans’ Championship. 
C. F. Nelson, Handicap Championship of Colorado, Wyo¬ 
ming and New Mexico. 
W. E. Phillips, Grand American Handicap. 
C. H. Parker, North Dakota State Tournament. 
Dr. L. G. Richards, Virginia State Tournament. 
Wm. Ridley, highest 1912 Amateur Record. 
Geo J. Roll, tied for 2d highest 1912 Amateur Record. 
R. L. Spotts, Maine State Tournament. 
Moroni Skeen, Utah State Tournament. 
J. E. Taylor, North Carolina State Tournament. 
Ed. Varner, Nebraska State Tournament. 
Wm. H. Varien, California-Nevada Tournament. 
S. G. Vance, Amateur Championship of Canada. 
J. P. Wright, Arkansas State Tournament. 
Harry Whitney, Kansas State Tournament. 
J. P. White, South Dakota State Tournament. 
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If we are to continue adding money, I think that 
the Squier money-back system is the most equitable, 
and one which pleases the greatest number of shooters. 
We might consider some modification of this system by 
applying it to money division other than the Rose system. 
I would like to see this worked out. Think it is some¬ 
thing that should be looked into to determine if it 
could be applied to the various systems, for example, 
percentage, class. Jack Rabbit, etc., etc. I also think that 
perhaps it would be well to consider the division of the 
surplus accruing in the Squier money-back at each 
tournament on a class basis. 
My foregoing suggestions may not be at all practical, 
at the same time they are thoughts of mine and sug¬ 
gestions which have come to me from the field. I think 
they are worth looking into, particularly since it is our 
desire not to appear to be taking an arbitrary position in 
the conduct of the many tournaments held annually in 
this country. 
Would also suggest that in the event the Post- 
Season tournament is not continued and a so-called 
"classy affair” is not substituted for it, that we estab¬ 
lish the Interstate Association Southwestern Handicap 
tournament, to be given in addition to the present sub¬ 
sidiary events, and that this tournament be given in the 
southwestern part of the United States, embracing the 
territory of say Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and 
Texas. 
I could not well conclude this report without com¬ 
menting on the loss to our Association and to trap¬ 
shooting in general if Mr. Shaner should decide to leave 
us at this time. I have had considerable team work 
with him during the past year. I know that he is always 
working for the cause, his standing among the sportsmen 
is an invaluable asset to us, and we do not want to 
cripple our organization by losing his valuable services. 
I hope the committee which was appointed to look into 
Annual Report of Elmer E. Shaner, Sec’y-Treas. 
Interstate Association, for the Year 1912. 
Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 30, 1912. 
To the President, Officers and Members of 
The Interstate Association: 
Gentlemen—The record of another year’s activities is 
presented for your consideration in this my annual re¬ 
port. Our accomplishments, failures, hopes and am¬ 
bitions are herewith outlined and your careful and 
earnest perusal of the same is requested. The statistical 
data, giving operations in detail o^ the Secretary- 
Treasurer’s office, will be found on separate sheets 
herewith inclosed. 
In presenting my report this year I crave the pleas¬ 
ure of saying at the outset that this marks my twentieth 
year as the active head of the Interstate Association. 
Surely you will pardon me for taking a glance back¬ 
ward and scanning in short measure the two decades of 
strenuous duties. 1 only regret that I cannot take up 
your time in bringing to your memory a few of the 
many pleasant incidents of that period, together incident¬ 
ally with some trials and tribulations; but I assure you 
the latter are ever dissipated when one thinks of the 
marvelous success that has crowned our score of years. 
Therefore, to my mind, this is a momentous occasion in 
the history of the Interstate Association. It commemo¬ 
rates the inaugural of a step that placed American trap¬ 
shooting on the plane of glorious sports. Compare the 
recreation in 1892, the year of our origin as the gov¬ 
erning body of trapshooting, with to-day. A glance will 
convince you that from a chaotic pastine, purely local in 
its workings, trapshooting has become a universal sport, 
flourishing in every State of the forty-eight, and is con¬ 
ducted on systematic lines with the registration of tour¬ 
naments, conservation of records and a dozen and one 
branches that go toward making our sport and organiza¬ 
tion national institutions. Place the popularity and con¬ 
duct of our sport alongside that of other American 
diversions, and it will not suffer by comparison. It is 
founded on a sound basis, its permanency cannot be 
questioned, and generations to come will profit by the 
work we established. It is indeed a pleasant matter to 
look back to twenty years ago, when we realize that 
within that period a useful and powerful organization has 
been built up, and from a very small beginning we are 
now in a position to reap reward for the labors per¬ 
formed by those who have guided our affairs so carefully, 
so svstematically and so successfully to where we now 
stand. 
OUR POLICY. 
One year ago it was my duty to bring to your atten¬ 
tion the fact that we had made a radical change in 
policy, viz., the adoption of the Squier money-back 
system. This plan then had only been given the test of 
a season, but its hearty acceptance by the trapshooting 
realm had been made manifest. Tile year just closing 
has given another emphatic endorsement of the system, 
ar.d leads me to say that it has come to stay; in fact, its 
superiority over any yet in vogue is so pronounced that 
I question whether we even should consider a change in 
policy at this time. Unbounded success bespeaks its 
merit beyond any shadow of doubt. It is true that the 
plan is not perfection, nor does it please everybody, but 
it is unquestionably the best method so far advanced 
and is “doing the greatest good for the greatest number”; 
therefore, why think of a change? Opponents when 
driven to the wall for a reason, simply fall back on the 
oft-repeated argument of the fair sex—“because.” They 
can offer no tangible plan as a substitute. 
IN GENERAL. 
At this juncture a pleasant duty confronts me. I 
desire lo make mention of the fact that a large share of 
credit for the excellent year is due to our estimable 
president, Mr. J. T. Skelly. Without anv disparagement 
whatever, I am anxious to go on record as saying that 
no chief executive has been a better right-bower in the 
twenty years of my service. Mr. Skelly, being thor¬ 
oughly familiar with trapshooting, was able to aid me 
by both deed and counsel in the mastery of pitfalls and 
discouragements, that arose during the season. I cer¬ 
tainly feel free to say that should any praise be dis¬ 
tributed, our worthy president is entitled to the lion’s 
portion. He deserves it in every sense. It would cer¬ 
tainly redound to the best interests of the Association 
if Mr. Skelly could be induced to accept the reins for 
another year. 
In accordance with a resolution adopted at the last 
annual meeting, invitations to become members of the 
Association were extended to the United States Cartridge 
Co., Selby Smelting & Lead Co., Baker Gun it Forging 
Co., the Marlin Firearms Co., the Ithaca Cun Co., Yon 
Lengerke it Detmoid, Schoverling, Daly it Gales, New 
York Sporting Goods Co., Robin Hood Powder Co., 
Sportsmen's International Cartridge Co., and the Liberty 
Cartridge Co. This resulted in the United States Cart¬ 
ridge Co. becoming a member early in the year, and 
others will follow. The application for membership of 
the Selby Smelting & Lead Co., of San Francisco, and 
the Hercules Powder Co., of Wilmington, Del., will be 
passed upon at the coming annual meeting. 
The A. H. Fox Cun Co. was dropped from member¬ 
ship in April. 
One of the most pleasing features of the year was 
the formation of new State organizations in Delaware, 
Michigan, Georgia, and California-Nevada, with Oregon 
probably in line in the near future. A new trapshooters’ 
league was also formed in central Pennsylvania. 
An interesting feature of the year was the consolida¬ 
tion of the two Missouri State organizations under the 
name of the Missouri State Trapshooters’ Association. 
REGISTERED TOURNAMENTS. 
There is no doubt that the trapshooting world is well 
satisfied with our registered tournament plan. An in¬ 
crease in 1912 over 1911 of more than 40 per cent, in 
number of tournaments registered is fully indicative of 
this thought. Applications were received in such num¬ 
ber that our registered tournament fund, contributed 
early in the year, was exhausted before the season was 
three-quarters over. It was necessary to appeal to our 
members for a replenishment of this fund. They came 
forward most generously, and we were thus able to 
contribute to tournaments in sections that had not re¬ 
ceived their full quota in the early allotment. The num¬ 
ber of applications rejected during the season, for rea¬ 
sons other than not complying with the rules, was so 
small that it is really not worthy of mention. As to 
those refused for non-compliance of rules, the principal 
fault lay in their failure to comply with the time limit 
for making applications. While on this subject it is 
appropos to say that the period is passed when thirty 
to sixty days are sufficient to work up a tournament. 
