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FOREST AND STREAM 
ITHACA GUN COMPANY 
25 ITHACA, N.Y. 
REASON 7 
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CjJWe use a one piece hammer 
with only one hole in it--no 
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CJ[ If you see more than one hole in 
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stirrups whether shown or not. 
€]J We use no cocking cranks, side 
levers or push rods -- but use a 
hammer with a long toe and 
lift hammer direct when gun 
is opened. 
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HOW THE WESTY HOGANS GOT ITS NAME 
By Fred. O. Copeland. 
W HILE attending the Eastern Handicap 
at Philadelphia, the writer, in an inter¬ 
view with Mr. J. S. Fanning and Air. Neaf 
Apgar, learned from these two charter members 
of the Westy Hogans the history of this famous 
trapshooting organization. The name is so odd 
for a shooting association it must have, times 
without number, aroused the curiosity of the 
country’s trapshooters. Curiously enough, the 
recounting of the origin of its existence, its his¬ 
tory, and reason for its name was listened to on 
the very eve of the tenth anniversary of the 
Westy Hogans. 
On the 19th of July, 1906, a group of profes¬ 
sional trapshooters were gathered in the office 
of a hotel in the innermost recesses of Penn¬ 
sylvania. As is quite likely the case in a small 
tavern in the evening a goodly sprinkling of the 
citizens from the hills were present, augmented 
no doubt on this evening by the presence of out- 
of-town trapshooters and the shoot itself. 
Unexpectedly one of the professionals spoke 
up: “Why don’t we professionals give the ama¬ 
teurs a shoot?” 
The suggestion was enthusiastically received 
and an organization was perfected then and there. 
The question at once arose as to where and 
when the shoot should be held. Happily the 
glorious month of September, which was just 
the right distance in the future, was seized upon 
and Atlantic City for the location. For four or 
five years the shoot was regularly staged on 
Young’s pier at Atlantic City but a severe storm 
finally wrecked the pier and thus enforced a 
change of location to Venice Park where it has 
since been shot. 
A name for the organization came as spon¬ 
taneously as the suggestion of the shoot; many 
a queer name has become affixed to the map of 
North America with less provocation. Among 
the visitors to the hotel office on this epoch mak¬ 
ing evening was a man from the mountains who 
was somewhat of a character and who some¬ 
time before had enlisted his efforts with others 
in holding up the hotel hitching post where it 
invited a moonlit anchorage in the offing. His 
name was Westy Hogan. In a spirit of jest the 
name was suggested, adopted, and, regretted, now 
that the tournament has gone beyond the wildest 
expectations of the group assembled at the little 
Pennsylvania hotel. 
The shoot rivals the Grand American Handi¬ 
cap in popularity; the name has stuck through a 
decade, and yet, it does add an individual touch 
to the now famous tournament given by the pro¬ 
fessionals to the amateurs. For the tenth time 
this tournament will be shot at Atlantic City on 
September 12th to 16th. The flower of the trap¬ 
shooting East will participate. It is a shoot 
where good fellowship expands to the Nth power 
and where the trophies show unmistakable evi¬ 
dence of the cunning hand of the most skillful 
artists. 
One of the added features to the program of 
the Westy Hjogans Trapshooting tournament, 
in Atlantic City, N. J., in September, will be a 
shoot between teams representing the East and 
the West. 
A competition between the Eastern and West¬ 
ern trapshooters has long been talked of, but it 
remained for the Hogans to put it on the sched¬ 
ule. This event will be like all other team 
shoots. The respective sections of the country 
can enter as many shooters as desire to shoot— 
the highest five scores counting. 
This event should settle a lot of argument or 
make a lot more. In trapshooting, like other 
sports, there is always that question to be an¬ 
swered : Is the East better than the West. In the 
Interstate Association averages last year there 
was only a fraction of a point difference in the 
averages of the first ten Eastern and first ten 
Western trapshooters. This indicates that they 
are about on a par. Anyway, the d cision of the 
Hogans will be a good thing for the sport and 
will make a rattling fine event. 
TRAPSHOOTING IS STEADILY GROWING. 
Fifty-three newly-organized gun clubs have re¬ 
ceived trophies from the Interstate Association 
for the encouragement of trapshooting so far 
this year, nine of them being approved during 
the month of June. 
It is the purpose of the Interstate Association 
to give trophies to the first 200 newly-organized 
gun clubs, or re-organized gun clubs, that are 
brought to their attention each year. The idea 
is to stimulate interest in gun clubs and trap¬ 
shooting. The trophies are to be used for com¬ 
petition among the club members. The offer this 
year has been the means of awakening additional 
interest in the sport in many sections of the 
country. 
In Iowa, for instance, nine new clubs have re¬ 
ceived trophies. Iowa leads the list in the num¬ 
ber of new clubs, and is rapidly encroaching on 
the territory of Pennsylvania as the leading trap¬ 
shooting center. Kansas and Illinois have each 
formed four new clubs: Indiana, five; Cali¬ 
fornia, Delaware, West Virginia, Ohio, New 
York and Nebraska, three each; Minnesota, Vir¬ 
ginia, Michigan, two each; District of Columbia, 
Pennsylvania, Texas, Colorado, Tennessee, Mis¬ 
souri, Maryland and Connecticut, one each. 
Thus the 53 clubs have been formed in 21 states. 
ACTIVITY ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 
The members and friends of the Green Lake 
Gun Club, Seattle, Wash., may well be proud of 
their first annual tournament run on July 4th 
for it drew a larger attendance than any other 
one-day shoot held on the Pacific Coast to date 
and exceeded in attendance the state shoot. Sev¬ 
enty-eight shooters from the cities of the North¬ 
west were on hand, and among them Frank Tem¬ 
pleton who won the high amateur honors by turn¬ 
ing in a score of 144 x 150, the same to a bird 
as that made by the high “pro,” L. H. Reid. 
ADVANTAGE OF SQUADS ARRANGED IN 
SECTIONS. 
The entire field of shooters at the Grand Amer¬ 
ican was divided into sections as in the big 
tournaments of the Boston Athletic Association 
and the New York Athletic Club early in the 
year. The scheme has the advantage of spread¬ 
ing a contestant’s pleasure over the whole day. 
Under this system, a shooter’s squad is assigned 
to a certain section and he gets to shooting in an 
hour or two even though his squad is at the very 
end of the list. The section as well as the squad 
completes its performance, event one, over its 
trap—it may be the last trap in the line if it 
is a late squad—and then moves to the next trap 
in order. The shooter does not need to plant his 
shells down the line or carry them along in a 
bag but has plenty of cool time to collect him¬ 
self and his belongings before the next event. 
Moreover, all of the shooters get a taste of the 
