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the best known dogs in the field trial world, in 
charge of the dean of the handlers. The crowd 
was not disappointed, for those who went out 
the next morning saw the longest and most gruel¬ 
ling race that has ever been run in a prairie trial, 
and the ultimate honors went to the tough little 
shooting dog, whose muscles had been steeled by 
days and days of work in the field with his 
master. 
THE CONTINENTAL TRIALS. 
T HE Continental Club, which has been run¬ 
ning successful quail trials in the South for a 
quarter of a century, this year ran a prairie 
trial at Towner, N. D., 20 miles from Denbigh, 
the week following the All America Club. Many of 
the dogs that had competed in the All America 
Trials were also entered in these stakes, includ¬ 
ing all but two of the winners, as well as a num¬ 
ber of dogs that had been training in Manitoba, 
which came on for these stakes alone, so there 
was no lack of interest. President Udo M. 
Fleischman, and a number of members of the 
club from various sections of the country, came 
on to the trials, and all were amply repaid by 
some brilliant races. The All Age Stake was won 
by “Louis C. Morris,” who also annexed the 
Sw.eep Stake Championship, and its magnificent 
trophy, the Bernard Waters Memorial Cup. 
“Mary Montrose” won the Derby after a race 
that aroused the greatest enthusiasm and from 
every point of view the trials were a distinct suc¬ 
cess. 
THE PIPING OF THE CLANS. 
Annie Oakley celebrated her fiftieth birthday 
by breaking 98 out of 100 targets, and is now 
commencing her thirty-fourth year of almost 
continuous shooting. It looks as though Annie 
Oakley, now at New Castle, N. H., would repeat 
her success at Pinehurst last winter. 
Gun clubs have been formed aboard the 
U. S. S. Arkansas, New York, Solace, Florida, 
South Carolina, Texas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, 
Cheyenne and Glacier. A registered tournament 
was run last March when Paymaster Williams 
became the “Champion of the Navy.” 
The world’s record for squad shooting was 
made at Maplewood, N. H., July 7th, with a 
score of 497 x 500. The members of the squad 
were A. C. King, R. L. Spotts, C. H. Newcomb, 
Fred Plum and the late A. B. Richardson. 
The best referee in the country in the opinion 
of Elmer E. Shaner, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is John 
Hoerman, of St. Louis, Mo. He is unfortunate 
enough to have lost both legs and his low posi¬ 
tion makes it easy for him to judge targets. 
Johnny was one of the referees in the Grand 
American Handicap. He refereed the most im¬ 
portant matches. He has been doing this in the 
Grand American and the other important tour¬ 
naments for years. He is not a youngster at the 
game; in fact he might aptly be termed one of 
the old-timers. He was associated with the live- 
pigeon sport when the Old Red Stocking Ball 
Park was in its heydey in St. Louis. The Red 
Stocking Park was the shooting grounds of those 
days. 
Mr. Hoerman has probably handled more live 
pigeons—wild and tame—than any other man in 
the country. From the pigeon game he turned to 
clay targets, like all others interested in shooting. 
He talks interestingly of the first Ligowski clays; 
then the improvement to the clays, the clays with’ 
the pasteboard tongue attachment, and right on 
down to the present day. Hoerman has handled 
them all. He has seen the pasteboard discs with 
the small balloons in the centre, red, black, blue 
and white fliers, glass balls, feather-filled glass 
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Waterproofing 
Place a Black Shell in wa¬ 
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and ejects perfectly and 
fires as though it had never 
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Primer Strength 
Empty a Black Shell of 
powder, shot and wads. 
The primer alone will fling 
a quarter dollar several 
feet high. Try this test 
with a Black Shell and any 
other shell. Which wins? 
The Test of 
Killing Power 
Fire a Black Shell at a thick 
magazine and count the 
pages shot through. Turn 
book around and try the 
same test with any other 
shell you like. Which has 
. the greater penetration ? 
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balls, wooden balls with explosive covers, metal 
targets with wing attachments to upset their 
flight when hit, come and go, and he thinks the 
present style clay target will be with us for many 
years. He does not think they can be improved. 
Mr. Hoerman is one of the best-posted men 
in the world on trapshooting. He follows trap¬ 
shooting like the baseball bug follows his favor¬ 
ite batter’s averages. 
Some of the more progressive trapshooting 
clubs of this land of the free and the fair could 
do well to take a page from the program of the 
Balboa (Canal Zone) Gun Club. 
This enterprising trapshooting organization 
conducted a tournament on July 4 and the pro¬ 
gram would have done credit to a club in a 
metropolitan city. On the program nothing was 
left to the imagination of the shooter or spec¬ 
tator. 
There were a number of pages marked off so 
that the scores of the civilian and soldier trap- 
shooters could be kept; the trapshooting rules 
were published in full in the center of the book¬ 
let, and the names of the two referees and two 
judges were published. It would be a mighty 
fine thing if the programs of the clubs in the 
States contained spaces so that the spectators 
could keep their own scores, and it wouldn’t be 
a bad idea in the principal tournaments to have 
the trapshooting rules published in the program 
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