534 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Oct. 26, 1912 
Post Season Tournament 
Cincinnati, O., Oct. 15-18 
The third Post Season tournament of the Interstate 
Association was held at Cincinnati, O., under the 
auspices of the Cincinnati Gun Club, on Oct. 15 to 18 
inclusive. The club's grounds are located at Rosedale, 
across the river, about thirty minutes’ ride from the 
center of the business district of the city. The grounds 
include about forty acres, ample for a tournament of the 
largest proportions, and are equipped in a strictly up-to- 
aate manner. A fine club house, with large verandas, 
affords a pleasant resting place for shooters between 
squads, and the dinners furnished by Mrs. Gambell have 
acquired a widespread reputation among the trapshooters 
for their excellence. The club is one ot the oldest in the 
country, and on its grounds have been held some of the 
largest club tournaments ever held. The superintendent, 
Mr. Arthur Gambell, is thoroughly familiar with the 
needs of the shooters, having been connected with the 
club for some years in this capacity, and being a shooter 
himself of no mean ability. It is needless to mention 
that everything possible was done to make the visitors’ 
stay a pleasant one. 
Roger Davies, the club secretary, attended to the 
arrangements for the office work and other necessary 
details, and certainly did the work in first-class style. 
The office was the nearest to what such a place should 
be that the writer has ever seen at a tournament, and it 
would be hard to mention a detail tending to make the 
work go smoothly, that Davies had not provided for. 
The field force, an important part of the machinery 
of a tournament, was well selected, and every member 
did the duties of his position in a manner above criti¬ 
cism. The events were pulled off over three traps, 
placed in a straight line, and were only a few yards from 
the club house, being reached by concrete and cinder 
paths. 
At No. 1 R. Ward was referee, and J. Breaton scorer; 
No. 2, Arthur Gambell and Len Shepard alternated as 
referee; W. Collins, scorer; No. 3, W. J. Randall referee, 
J. Concannon, scorer. John Braunagle acted as squad 
hustler and made himself useful in various ways. 
The trade was well represented, there being present 
at times during the week, in addition to the professional 
shooters, Messrs. F. B. Clark, J. M. Barr and O. S. 
Lawrence, U. M. C.; R. L. Trimble, Winchester; Messrs. 
Du Pont and Higgins, Du Pont Powder Co.; W. Kep- 
linger, W. R. Chamberlain, L. H. Fitzsimmons, O. J. 
Holaday and C. A. Young, Peters Cartridge Co. 
The office was in charge of Luther J. Squier, which 
insured the prompt and accurate payment of the moneys 
at the close of each day, if the winners desired to cash 
in. The office assistants were D. IT. Eaton and A. A. 
Hoffman, of Cincinnati. Elmer E. Shaner, secretary- 
treasurer of the Interstate Association, was of course 
present and in general charge of the tournament. The 
shooters all know him. and know that with him at the 
head they will get absolutely a square deal, that the 
rules of the competition will be impartially enforced, and 
that there will be no favorites played. His retirement 
from active participation in the management of tourna¬ 
ments would be an irreparable loss to the interests of 
the trapshooters, and it is to be hoped that that time is 
still many years in the future. 
The attendance of shooters was a disappointment to 
the management. No large crowd was expected, the re¬ 
quired qualifications making this impossible; but it was 
thought that out of the 179 amateurs eligible, at least 
75 would show up. It would almost seem that the high 
class shooters prefer to attend where there are fewer of 
their own class among the contestants. This tournament 
should be the crowning event of the year, and a win 
here ought to far outrank one at the G. A. H. or any 
other tournament of the season. The professionals rvho 
were eligible, twenty-seven in number, were all present 
with the exception of seven. 
The weather was of the finest until the last day, which 
was rainy and disagreeable. Those present were unani¬ 
mous in their praise of the arrangements made for their 
comfort by the Cincinnati Club, and declared that it was 
the most enjoyable tournament they had attended. 
Practice Day, Oct. 14. 
The preliminary program was started to-day under 
most auspicious conditions. The sky was clear, and 
there was just a suspicion of autumn crispness in the 
air, enough to make active sport a pleasure, and a seat 
in the sun not uncomfortable. There was not a breath 
of wind stirring, and none of the misses could be at¬ 
tributed to the erratic flight of the targets; they were 
the result of a plain case of not pointing right. Every¬ 
thing was in readiness for the opening event long before 
the shooters began to arrive at the grounds. 
There were thrown during the afternoon 7,050 targets. 
The attendance was even a little beyond expectations, 
fifty shooters entering, and all but six going through 
the program of six 25-target events. The first event was 
started promptly at 1 o’clock, according to the accepted 
order of things when Elmer E. Shaner is on deck, and 
at, 3:30 the last squad finished in the sixth event. A 
fine lunch was served in the club house. This was an 
unlooked-for feature of the day. but Mrs. Gambell took 
pity on the hungry shooters, and set out a most appetiz¬ 
ing spread, to which they did full justice. The first 
event started at 1 o’clock, and at 3:10 the traps W'ere 
clear for the team race at doubles, which was finished 
at 3:55. W. R. Crosby captured professional honors 
with 149, breaking the first 75 straight, and then missing 
the 76th, when everyone had him marked for a long run. 
He saved the 74th as a starter for Tuesday. Fred Bills 
gave him a close race, breaking 99 in the last 100 and 
going out with 147. Then came J. M. Hawkins with 
146 and W. H. Heer and C. G. Spencer with 145 each, 
'ihe former scored 97 and the latter 98 in the first 100. 
The amateurs put up some nice scores, but were not 
keeping' pace with the pros. Al. Heil was first with 
147, breaking 98 in the last 100: \V. I. Spangler started 
off with a straight, and finished in second place with 
143. Bart Lewis came next with 141, and Harvey Dixon 
fourth on 140. The contestants in the team race, Fred 
Gilbert and L. S. German vs. J. S. Day and H. D. Free¬ 
man, were lined up back of trap No. 2, as soon as the 
regular events were finished, and had a crowd keeping 
tab on everv shot. The race was an exciting one, as 
had been predicted, and the result was not certain until 
the last move. At the finish of the first 25 pairs, Gil¬ 
bert’s team was one to the good. In the second round 
first one and then the other team had the advantage, 
but toward the last Freeman struck a streak of hard 
luck, and the finish showed Gilbert and German 3 tar¬ 
gets ahead. 
J. S. Day was high man in the match with 90. It 
was a hot race with Gilbert, who broke 89. I he match 
was refereed bj' G. K. Mackie, with I. H. Clay acting 
as judge and Len Shepard official scorer. 
O. S. Lawrence, one of the most popular trade rep¬ 
resentatives who visits this territory, was on hand to 
help make the strangers welcome. Hon. Tom Marshall 
was here, of course, and made a clean score at the lunch 
table though he did not make his usual good showing 
on the firing line, still 90 per cent, is not so bad. It 
was some classy dav’s shoot, only ten of the forty-four 
men who shot through the program failing to score 90 
percent, or better. 
*Guy Ward . 
*J S Day. 
*W H Heer. 
*W Henderson ... 
H Schlicher . 
S A Huntley. 135 
H D Duckman ... 
Al Heil . 
John Deist . 128 
R H Bruns.132 
H W Kahler. 139 
J W Hightower. 136 
t B Eaton. 
129 
C D Coburn. 
. 130 
140 
H C Downey. 
. 127 
138 
A B Shobe. 
. 131 
145 
*R W Clancy. 
. 142 
142 
*C E Goodrich. 
. 135 
131 
A C Connor. 
128 
135 
*C G Spencer. 
. 145 
122 
*L S German. 
. 140 
147 
Bart Lewis . 
. 141 
128 
*T M Hawkins. 
. 146 
132 
Frank Campbell . 
. 138 
139 
C F Moore. 
. 138 
136 
*F Gilbert (75 tgts).. 
.. 73 
139 
*J R Taylor. 
. 138 
T H Clay, Jr. 
... 128 
*\V R Crosby . 
. 149 
*Mrs Topperwein .. 
... 139 
*0 R Dickey. 
. 143 
*F G Bills. 
... 147 
*T A Marshall. 
. 135 
*H Dixon . 
... 140 
F B Clark. 
. 126 
*G K Mackie. 
... 131 
W I Spangler. 
. 143 
*G W Maxwell. 
... 143 
F C Koch. 
. 139 
E J Donald. 
... 129 
*H D Freeman (75).. 
. 72 
1 E Donald. 
... 137 
*C A Young (75).... 
. 68 
1 O Sirmon. 
... 127 
G L Pearson (75) ... 
. 56 
•H Clark . 
... 140 
1 A Smith (75) . 
. 71 
E M Daniels. 
... 135 
L R Meyers (75) . 
. 43 
The team race at 50 pairs doubles per man resulted 
as follows: 
Day . 90 Gilbert . 89 
Freeman . 81—171 German . 85—174 
First Day, Oct. 14. 
Tuesday, the opening day of the tournament, was 
delightful fall weather—clear and bright, and even more 
favorable for shooting than on Monday. The targets 
were very even in their flight. 
Before starting the shooting, Mr. Shaner gave his 
usual little talk, explaining the conditions of the con¬ 
test, and instructing the referees and scorers as to their 
duties, and also cautioning the shooters to watch the 
score board, that no mistakes should pass undetected. 
The program consisted of eight 25-target events and 
one at 25 pairs, a total of 250 targets. Entrance, $2.50 in 
the events at singles and $3.00 in the event at doubles. 
The first four events were divided Rose system, 5, 3, 2, 
1, and Nos. 5 to 9 inclusive, 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. 
There was $100 added money for high average in the 
single targets. Then there were $1.00 optional sweeps in 
each event, and a $3 optional on the day’s singles for the 
shooters who wanted to take a chance and travel a short 
road to wealth. 
The attendance was somewhat of a disappointment, 
several shooters who had made arrangements to be pres¬ 
ent did not show up, and only sixty-one men entered 
for the day, 58 shooting through the singles and 47 
the entire program, including doubles. The shooting 
was started soon after 9 o’clock, and was finished about 
3:10, not a balk occurring in the trapping of 14,350 
targets. The attendance of spectators was large, and 
they were generous with their applause. Fred G. Bills 
was the star in to-day’s work, leading the professionals 
with 196, missing two targets in each 100. Crosby and 
Clark were tied for second on 195. These two were tied 
with Bills in the first 100. W. H. Heer was in the lead 
at the half-way post, with one down, but struck a snag 
R. H. BRUNS, 
Second High Amateur at Singles—Post Season Tournament. 
