1164 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Game Laws 
In Brief 
United States and Canada 
Game and Fish Laws revised for 1916- 
1917 is now on press. 
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FORT MYERS TARPON CLUB. 
Editor Fish and Fishing: 
The 1916-17 season of the Fort Myers Tarpon 
Fishing Club will open December 1st, and it is 
anticipated that more than usual interest will be 
evidenced by the sportsmen who make Fort 
Myers their headquarters on account of the 
revised schedule of prizes that have been arranged 
for by the Fort Myers Association. Mr. A. H. 
Disston, of Philadelphia, has recently been el¬ 
ected president of the club and it is expected he 
will arrive in Fort Myers early in the winter. 
J. T. L., Fort Myers, Florida. 
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In one of the events in the Northwest Sports¬ 
men’s Association Mrs. Groat broke 86 targets; 
Mrs. Wilkes, 85, and Miss Meyers, 84. They had 
a little race all to themselves. 
It would pay trapshooting clubs to give closer 
attention to their traps, and if they are not prop¬ 
erly set, to have them installed properly. If the 
targets are not thrown properly it interferes with 
the making of good scores. 
Southern trapshooters tell a good yarn on T. P. 
Fitzgerald, who won the Mississippi State title. 
Fitzgerald went up to the last trap all right. 
When he became aware that he led the field his 
knees wabbled a little. He was so nervous when 
the last bird was thrown that he shot as he called 
“pull.” As fortune would have it, the thrown 
target was a broken one, and he got another 
chance, broke the target and scored 99 breaks— 
and carried off the title. 
There will be a simon-pure amateur trapshoot¬ 
ing tournament in Kansas City, Mo., in Septem¬ 
ber, in which the trapshooters of Kansas, Illi¬ 
nois, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Kentucky, Colo¬ 
rado and Missouri will participate. 
When one is talking about gun clubs that have 
seen many years of service the Omaha Gun Club 
should not be forgotten. It was organized 63 
years ago. 
The Metropolitan Gun Club, of Chicago, Ill., 
has the right idea in promoting trapshooting. 
Three years ago the club began its existence with 
six members and the one pronounced feature— 
that of trapping targets to the members at the 
rate of one-half cent each. 
The club was organized to bring the cost of 
clay bird shooting down to where trapshooters 
of all classes could participate without being en¬ 
cumbered by long events or large entrance fees. 
Members pay a monthly due of 50 cents and for 
this are given 100 targets. The announcement by 
the Metropolitan Club of its plan caused laughter 
in some parts of the new world but the Metro¬ 
politan officers went right on about their business 
and to-day has one of the most active and pro¬ 
gressive clubs on the shores of Lake Michigan. 
From one room and a hand trap the club has 
grown to a large clubhouse and two automatic 
traps. Quite a number of women are members 
of the Metropolitan Club and the organization is 
always open to receive visitors and prove to them 
what a healthful sport trapshooting is. 
At the Maplewood, N. H., shoot, July 3-8, Fred 
Plum, of Atlantic City, N. J., won the Maple¬ 
wood White Mountain Handicap, 100 straight, 
from 21 yards, and made the long run of the 
tournament, 283, and Woolfolk Henderson of 
Lexington, Ky., won the Independence Day Han¬ 
dicap by breaking 100 straight in the shoot-off 
after tying on 98 ex 100. Mr. Henderson also 
won the Maplewood Championship 100 straight 
and was high on all targets, 590 ex 600 (tie), and 
in the shoot-off 25 straight. 
The idea of having trapshooting schools at re¬ 
sorts is proving a success. There are now two 
prominent schools, one at Venice, California, an 
amusement place near Los Angeles, and another 
on Young’s Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, 
New Jersey. 
The gallery of the Venice school is located at 
the end of a pier and is probably 50 yards long. 
At the farther end of it, is set up a high wooden 
shot stop about 20 ft. high. An old fish net 
slopes down from its top to the floor of the pier 
at a gentle incline to catch the clay birds which 
are unhit. 
There has been a reorganization of the Lefever 
gun plant. The Lefever Arms Co., Inc., of Itha¬ 
ca, N. Y., has just been incorporated to manu¬ 
facture shot guns. One of the incorporators is 
Howard Cobb, of Ithaca, N. Y., who is attorney 
for the Lehigh Valley R. R. and many other 
large corporations. Another of the three incor¬ 
porators is Nelson Genung, a graduate of Cor¬ 
nell University, vice-president of the immense- 
steel plant known as the Coatesville Boiler 
Works, of Coatesville, Pa., a man whose hobby is 
the shot gun and whose successful business ca¬ 
reer assures the success of anything he under¬ 
takes. Mr. Chas. Rinehart, a graduate of La¬ 
fayette College, is the third incorporator. Mr. 
Rinehart is at present manager of the New York 
office of the Lehigh Car Wheel and Axle Co. He 
is a thorough sportsman, spending his vacations 
in Maine fishing and in the South with the quail 
shooting. Mr. Rinehart has been a great athlete 
in his day, having made the All-American foot¬ 
ball team in his college days. 
Mrs. Harry Harrison, of Rochester, averaged 
better than 90 per cent, in the New York State 
championship tournament and shot all the way- 
through. 
One of the most progressive gun clubs in the 
New England States is the Hartford Gun Club. 
It always has something on tap. 
In the Illinois State championship tournament 
one squad, comprised of Billy Hoon, Johnny 
Jahn, Mark Arie, L. B. Clarke and G. A. Graper,. 
broke 493 out of 500 targets. Hoon broke 98; so 
did Graper and Jahn; Clarke smashed 99, and 
Arie 100. 
Hand traps are getting to be so popular that 
many dealers are now hiring them out. Many 
parties do not wish to purchase a trap for two or 
three outings, and dealers, realizing this, now 
offer them to hire. 
Six of the Olympic trapshooting team, which 
won the world’s title in the International games 
in London, Eng., in 1901, enjoyed a reunion at 
the Western Handicap in Omaha, Neb. The 
shooters were Tom Marshall, of Chicago; Frank 
Parmelee, of Omaha; Fred Gilbert, of Spirit 
Lake, la.; William Crosby, of O’Fallon, Ill.t 
Chan Powers, of Omaha; Edward Banks, of 
Wilmington, Del. 
Six shooters broke 99 targets and six more 
shattered 98 in the Ohio State championship- 
event. On the shoot-off first place M. S. Hoot- 
man broke 60 straight. 
Sixty-one thousand five hundred and seventy 
targets were thrown in the New York State 
championship tournament, at Syracuse. 
G. A. Osborne, who won the Massachusetts 
State championship in 1914, came back this year 
and won it again. He broke 96 targets in 1914 
and 97 this year. 
More than 500 trapshooting tournaments were 
held by the trapshooting clubs of this country- 
on July 4. 
The Power Boat Gun Club of Toledo, O., is 
hot after the 1917 Grand American Handicap. 
This club has the equipment, 160 acres of ground, 
background looking out to bay, and excellent 
trolley service. 
There are as many opportunities to show cour¬ 
tesies while fishing a stream as when shooting 
over a dog afield. No one needs to tell you what 
they are; merely observe, and act. 
