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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 8, 1911. 
19 11 
Grand American Handicap Tournament 
RECORDS 
Made by contestants who shot 
#PM) 
SMOKELESS POWDERS 
PRACTICE DAY 
L. S. German...160 x 160 
A perfect score on the single targets 
FIRST DAY 
J. R. Livingston...100 x 100 
J. M. Hawkins.100 x 100 
Perfect scores 
SECOND DAY 
PRELIMINARY HANDICAP 
C. B. Eaton (winner).99 x 100 from IS yards 
H. E. Buckwalter (tie).99 x 100 from 19 yards 
Geo. Maxwell .98 x 100 from 21 yards 
Fred Gilbert .96 x 100 from 22 yards 
THIRD DAY 
GRAND AMERICAN HANDICAP 
313 out of the 389 starters and 42 out of the 53 high guns winning money 
in this event, used (flf\ DFINb) Smokeless Powder exclusively. 
FOURTH DAY 
NATIONAL AMATEUR 
CHAMPIONSHIP 
NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL 
CHAMPIONSHIP 
c. c. 
Collins (winner) . 
.196 
x 200 
L. S. German. 
. . 19S 
x 200 
Allen 
Heil.. . . 
.194 
x 200 
R. O. Heikes. 
. .196 
x 200 
Wm. 
Ridley. . 
.194 
x 200 
W. H. Heer. 
. .195 
x 200 
F. W. McNeir. 
.193 
x 200 
G. W. Maxwell... 
. .195 
x 200 
J. A. 
Prechtel. 
.193 
x 200 
Fred Gilbert. 
. .193 
x 200 
J. E. 
Jennings 
.193 
x 200 
F. G. Bills. 
. . 193 
x 200 
J. M. Hawkins.... 
. .193 
x 200 
H. D. Freeman.... 
. .193 
x 200 
DOUBLE TARGET 
CHAMPIONSHIP 
L. S. 
German., 
89 
X 
50 doubles 
J. S. 
Day. 
88 
X 
50 doubles 
Allen 
Heil. . . . 
88 
X 
50 doubles 
GENERAL AVERAGES 
High on 
all 
targets— 
(single and double) 
L. S. 
German. 
. .569 
x 600 
High 
on all single targets 
L. S. 
German. 
. .480 
x oOO 
J. A. 
Prechtel 
. .479 
x 500 
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etc., was expended, and I thought I should have 
to assist with some portion ot my under gar¬ 
ments, we luckily arrived at an open place, and 
the moon came out. i very giadiy and lavishly 
replaced my groom's trousseau to Ins entire 
satisfaction, as failing his ingenuity ana activity 
we should have been very uncomfortable a la 
belle etoiie. 
During one of our marches we saw a native 
flash by in the river, supported by a "musack.” 
1 his consists of an inflated goat or other skin 
and is used among other things to support a 
swimmer crossing a river, or by native fisher¬ 
men. We could not discover what this man v'as 
doing in the river, as in a very short time he 
w'as swept out of sight by the rapid current. 
Except tor the chilliness of the water, it must 
have been most exhilarating to be borne along 
at that pace, but the prospect of landing at any 
particular place seemed extremely doubtful. For 
the ordinary mortal, bathing in a river like this, 
even with a musack, wou d be impossible, be¬ 
cause once he was started it might take him 
some two or three days to get back to his 
cloihes. But it is obviously the quickest way 
of getting out of the country, supposing one 
could avoid rocks, eddies, or backwaters. So 
far, however, it has not become popular. I men¬ 
tion this, as I was within an ace of attempting 
the feat without a musack, but with whatever 
assistance a very large mahseer could have af¬ 
forded me. 
The mahseer is the salmon of India. Not that 
it in any way resembles a salmon. It looks 
like a perch and tastes like a pike. But it is 
a very gamy fish, inhabiting rapid streams, and 
giving really fine sport in consequence. It runs 
to a very considerable size in the large rivers. 
The outline of one caught in the Jhelum at 
Sopur—near where the river issues out of the 
Woollah Lake, after draining the Kashmir val¬ 
ley—traced with a red hot poker on a door in 
the local hostelry, gave the weight of the fish 
at sixty-three pounds. But they run larger than 
that, and the fish I am alluding to was certainly 
much bigger. My acquaintance with it was in 
this way. In many places along the river mul¬ 
berry trees grow close to the water's edge, and 
as the ripe fruit falls into the river, it is greedily 
appropriated by fish somewhat like grayling, 
which abound in the quiet backwaters and pools 
along its length. These fish are quite large 
enough to give very good sport, using a light 
rod and baiting with niulberries, and they are, 
in addition, excellent eating. 
I was fishing one day during the trek up 
country, and was standing very insecurely on 
a small projecting rock some distance from the 
bank, so as to get a better cast under the mul¬ 
berry trees on it, and quite close to the main 
stream which thundered alongside me. I was 
having very good sport, and rapidly filling my 
basket, when all of a sudden an enormous fish 
with bright red fins and as large as a porpoise, 
emerged from the swirl, and disregarding me 
made a dart at a mulberry fish I had just hooked 
and was in the act of reeling up. Fortunately 
something happened, and the mahseer missed it, 
otherwise even if it had not pulled me off my 
perch I must have let go the rod, as I might 
just as well have tried to stop a steam roller 
as that fish once it was in the rush of the river. 
And afterward, thinking it over dispassionately, 
I was convinced that if that fish had swallowed 
my capture I should have not only lost my rod 
but inevitably have followed it. After that ex¬ 
perience when fishing with mulberries I invari¬ 
ably preferred the bank. — East Anglian Daily 
Times. 
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