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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Oct. 21, 1911. 
If you want your shoot to be announced here 
send a notice like the following: 
Fixtures. 
REGISTERED TOURNAMENTS. 
Oct. 25-26.—Kansas City, Mo.—Big Four League’s tour¬ 
nament. Dave Elliott, Sec’y. 
Oct. 26.—Lancaster (Pa.) G. C. W. T. Krick, Sec’y. 
Oct. 28.—St. Louis, Mo.—Tannhauser G. C. O. M. Wer¬ 
ner, Sec’y. 
Oct. 30-31.—North Platte, Neb.—Buffalo Bill G. C. M. K. 
Neville, Pres. 
Nov. 1-2.—Demopolis (Ala.) G. C. W. C. Du Feu, Sec’y. 
Nov. 8.—Danville (Ill.) R. and G. C. C. A. Sparks, Sec’y. 
Nov. 28-29.—Rising Sun (Md.) G. C. H. L. Worthing¬ 
ton, Vice-Pres. 
Nov. 36-Dec. 1. — Adams (Neb.) G. C. H. K. Mitton, 
Sec’y. 
Dec. 13.—Concordia, Kans.—Blue Ribbon G. C. J. F. 
Caldwell, Sec’y. 
Dec. 20.—Syracuse, N. Y.—Onondaga County G. C. 
T. E. Clay, Sec’y. 
1912. 
Jan. 24-27.—Pinehurst (N. C.) Country Club. Leonard 
Tufts, Mgr. 
April 17-19.—Wichita, Kans.—Kansas State tournament, 
under the auspices of the Interurban G. C. C. W. 
Jones, Sec’y, 209 N. Main St., Wichita, Kans. 
June 4-6.—Mexico, Mq.—Fifth annual State tournament 
of the Missouri State Trapshooters’ Association, 
under the auspices of the Audrain Country Gun Club, 
of Farber, Mo. Russell Glynn, Sec’y. 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
The Hercules Gun Club, Temple, Pa., will hold a 
grand target shoot to-day, on their grounds, Temple, Pa. 
Shoot starts promptly at 12:30 P. ' M. Program con¬ 
sists of ten 15-target events, of $1.15 entrance each event, 
a total of $11.50. Targets one cent each in amateur 
entrance. Percentage system prevails, governed by In¬ 
terstate Association rules. The club extends a cordial 
invitation to all. 
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Once more New Jersey will see a championship shoot. 
This time. Day, a previous holder of the title, will shoot 
against Brickner, who, a few weeks ago, defended suc¬ 
cessfully the title against Jim Wheaton. The Newton 
Gun Club will engineer the event, which will be held at 
11 A.M. to-day. The regular “all shoot” program includes 
seven 25-target events, optional sweeps. This shoot, if 
as good as the last championship match, will be worthy 
of a visit by all shooters within a great big radius. 
*, 
That the slogan of the Jefferson County Sportsmen’s 
Association represents an honesty of purpose and is 
believed in by sportsmen in Jefferson county is shown 
in the fact that 187 new members were enrolled thus far 
in 1911. The membership is now 540. The slogan: The 
Jefferson County Sportsmen’s Association protects fish, 
game, song and insectivorous birds for the benefit of all 
the people. It cultivates a love for nature and outdoor 
recreation. It is rapidly growing in membership and 
prestige. We want more members. We want to enroll 
every friend of the Square Deal. 
In order to keep the rocking chair fleet of the City 
Island Yacht Club busy during the winter months, when 
the Monorail makes the little island within the city 
limits as inaccessible as Greenland, Jim Doyle is or¬ 
ganizing a shooting club, with the idea of holding 
weekly practice shoots. City Island already boasts of the 
Pelham Gun Club, a somewhat inactive organization, 
whose roster includes a number of 90 per cent, shoot¬ 
ers, and it is hoped this organization may be brought 
into the yacht club organization. All shooters in 
I elham Manor, Mt. \ ernon and neighboring towns will 
be welcome at practice shoots and tournaments, and if 
they will send their names to Mr. Jim Doyle, City Island, 
N. Y., notice will be sent them of dates, etc. 
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The Middle West amateur championship will be held 
under the auspices of Chicago Gun Club on Oct. 29, 
beginning at 10 A. M. All shooters desiring to enter 
will shoot in what is known as the qualifying round. 
This event will be at 50 targets per man, all at 16yds. 
As an example, if there are 100 shooters competing, the 
64 high guns will qualify. If 50 to 75 shooters compete, 
then the 32 high guns will qualify. The shooters who 
have qualified will then draw a number and the name is 
entered on the bulletin board opposite said number—the 
shooters having drawn No. 1 and No. 2, are then paired, 
No. 3 and No. 4 are paired, and so on down the list. 
The next round is at 25 targets. No-. 1 will shoot 
No. 2, the winner of this match is still in the running, 
the defeated one is out. For instance, 64 shooters have 
qualified; after the first round 32 will have won; the 
next round will have 16, the next 8, the next 4, and the 
final round will have two. Those two will then shoot at 
50 targets, the winner to be champion. All ties in 
matches will be shot off at 10 targets. There will be no 
entrance fee, all shooters shooting in the championship 
and consolation events will pay two cents for each tar¬ 
get trapped. All practice events targets, one cent. 
There will be an optional sweep on first 50 targets, en¬ 
trance $5. Five moneys, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10 per cent. 
8» 
Sim Glover, who represents the Du Pont Co., has let 
loose an idea that certainly deserves consideration. It is 
this: Gun clubs arrange a special merchandise event, 
to be held on their regular practice day and on tourna¬ 
ment days, for men and women who never have shot 
before. In club shoots or tournaments, at the present 
time, .merchandise shoots attract good strings, but they 
are from the ranks of high percentage shooters, who like 
this sort of bait, and who naturally crowd out the 
embryo shooter. Then, too, there are hundreds of men 
who would break into the game were they allowed to 
shoot in a class comprised only of shooters of unknown 
ability, and not compelled to trail in the wake of Mr. 
Goodshooter. The woman shooter is deserving of more 
consideration than she now receives from gun clubs. 
Why not a special event for women novices? In the 
first few attempts an expert shooter should stand at 
the trap with each novice, offering advice and teaching 
the fine points that might be helpful to the first-time 
shooter. Gun clubs could provide guns for beginners 
until they were expert enough to select their own arm, 
or until they became convinced the shooting game was 
not for them. In this way many men and women, who 
are not quite certain as to whether the sport would 
actually appeal to them from the inside, as it does from 
the grand stand, would take a try at it and stand will¬ 
ing and ready to be convinced. When the novice be¬ 
came more or less expert, say a 40 per cent, shooter, 
he or she should be taken from the novice class and 
placed in a special merchandise event for their class only. 
In this way they soon would be able to stand alone in 
the free-for-all events. Another point right along these 
lines that long has appealed to me: That is, a special 
prize for a women-only event, at all regular tournaments, 
professionals barred, with a medal for the Slate cham¬ 
pion woman shot and the national championship ama¬ 
teur woman trapshooter medal at the G. A. H. By 
following Sim Glover’s suggestion it would be but a 
short time before the woman’s event at the G. A. H. 
would have fifty contestants. The publicity given in 
‘ haling the woman champion” shooter would have a 
strong moral effect among sportswomen generally and 
would coax into the ranks many women who naturally are 
timid about taking up what is generally termed a man’s 
sport. It took time to persuade women to golf, swim¬ 
ming, basket-ball, and kindred sports, but any new 
movement gains impetus, more or less, from its strength 
—per se, suffrage. A few years ago the woman of ad¬ 
vanced ideas didn’t parade; she hid her thoughts under 
her spring bonnet. Alas, now that she sees hosts of 
suffragettes, who, but a short time ago, were suffera- 
gettes, she feels safe in joining the ranks, and so finally 
will we see the woman’s shooting event, and mayhap 
the woman’s shooting club, chronicled as regularly as 
is the man’s shooting organization.—Selah. 
Beecroft. 
Lehigh Rod and Gun Club. 
Bethlehem, Pa., Oct. 7.—By breaking 90 out of 100 
targets, Miller was high man at the shoot of the Lehigh 
Rod and Gun Club to-day. In the special match for 100 
clay pigeons. Smith, breaking 85, beat Sobers, who broke 
S. The summary: 
Shot at. Broke 
Shot at. Broke 
Miller . 
Smith . 
. 100 
. 125 
90 
109 
Kelchledge 
Schrader ... 
. 75 61 
. 50 43 
Sobers .... 
.125 
104 
Grant . 
. 50 31 
Betterling 
. 125 
102 
Snvder . 
. 50 20 
Eluck . 
. 100 
84 
Gettlemoyer 
.... 50 13 
Bergen Beach Gun Club. 
The fifth annual Cosmopolitan Championship df the 
Bergen Beach Gun Club took place on Columbus Day, 
Oct. 12. The weather was glorious, very little wind 
early in the race with a brisk breeze from the northwest 
for a finish, making the targets more difficult to nego¬ 
tiate. As the afternoon advanced A1 Ivins, of Red 
Bank, duplicated his last year’s win of premier honors. 
The Bergen Beach Gun Club added $100 in gold to the 
event. Mr. Ivins took $25 of this for first honors, $35 in 
the optional sweep connected with the big race, $15.20 
for a 24 in the second extra sweep, and $2.85 for a 23 in 
first extra sweep; total winnings, $78.05 and a valuable 
watch fob as trophy, donated by Capt. Dreyer—not a 
bad return for a total entrance of $12.50. Mr. Colquitt,, 
who won second at the shoot-off, drew down $41.40 and 
the second prize, donated by the same gentleman, Capt. 
Dreyer, who shot in great form, was not in the optional, 
took $5 in gold, and $5 gold more as a member of the 
winning team and trophy. Mr. Silkworth, who tied Col¬ 
quitt and Dreyer, drew $35 and a watch fob, $25 in the 
optional, $5 in the team race, and $5 in the added gold. 
John Yanderveer took $15 in the optional, $5 in the team 
and $5 in the added gold; total, $25. That sterling 
performer. Frank Stephenson, drew $37.50 of the total 
entry. This event is certainly a “classic.” I use the 
lamented Ben Waters’ words, commenting on the com¬ 
petition of 1910. 
The manufacturers’ representatives Jim Elliott and 
Harry Welles, both of whom are members of our club, 
though not entitled to prize money, hung up the cred¬ 
itable scores of 93 and 94 respectively. 
The shooting was done from three sets of expert traps, 
Sergeant system, and all moneys were paid a bit after 
5 o’clock P. M. to those who remained. 
The staff was as follows: General manager, Capt. 
Dreyer; charge of traps, President Harry Bergen; referee, 
Sam Short, Ferdinand Schneider and Harry Fessenden; 
scorers: Fred Heckman and different members of the 
club; office, the secretary, assisted by Billy De Long. 
Nearly 7000 shells were sold, handled by Fenwick 
Bergen and Billy De Long. 
Lunch, a caterer. Refreshments gratis, as usual by the 
club. 
Mr. Corfield came from Utica to shoot with us, but 
was physically unable to do himself justice, being a bit 
under the weather. Total_ entry 62 in the main event; 
24 in the optional, and 19 in the sweepstakes. 
The team race, entries registered from their respec¬ 
tive clubs, resulted as follows, the winning team of five 
men receiving $25 in gold: 
Bergen Beach Gun Club. 
Tersey City Gun 
Club. 
Capt Dreyer. 
W Silkworth . 
. 92 
A1 Ivins . 
94 
. 92 
I. Colquitt . 
92 
T Yanderveer .... 
. 91 
1. S Page. 
. 85 
F Stephenson .... 
. 90 
C Billings . 
, 82 
J T James.. 
. 87—452 
T L Coffin . 
81—434 
C von Lengerke... 
Hudson 
. 79 
Gun Club. 
K Q O’Brien. 
, 58 
Dr Groll . 
. 79 
A P Lane. 
. 88—365 
W Raymond . 
. 61 
The scores of the 
championship and the sweeps 
Cosmopolitan Sweeps. 
Championship. r --\ 
follow 
Total 
T F Tames. 
. 87 
20 
19 
126 
C R Tames. 
. 78 
15 
22 
115 
F Stephenson . 
. 90 
24 
18 
132 
C Billings . 
. 82 
20 
22 
124 
L Colquitt . 
. 92 
21 
23 
136 
C A Medler. 
. 79 
19 
21 
110 
Dr W H Matthews 
. 85 
20 
22 
127 
E A Gunther. 
. 81 
16 
21 
118 
L IT Schortemeier.. 
. 83 
23 
23 
129 
P M Kling. 
. 79 
23 
22 
124 
A1 Ivins . 
. 94 
23 
24 
141 
De Ouillefeldt .... 
. 86 
19 
13 
118 
T. Martin . 
. 84 
17 
21 
122 
R I. Shepard. 
. 78 
20 
21 
119 
W E Corfield. 
. 75 
16 
16 
107 
W S Silkworth. 
. 92 
19 
18 
129 
T L Coffin . 
. 81 
20 
16 
117 
T H Hendrickson... 
. 84 
23 
23 
130 
Robt Schneider .... 
. 83 
22 
22 
127 
T A R Elliott. 
. 93 
20 
19 
132 
A P Lane. 
. 8S 
22 
19 
129 
II S Welles. 
. 94 
23 
23 
140 
Tohn Fanning . 
. 82 
20 
23 
125 
A M Dalton. 
20 
21 
116 
T A Howard. 
. 72 
C von Lengerke.... 
. 79 
H Keller . 
. 68 
Dr Groll . 
. 79 
II W Dreyer. 
. 92 
T H Vanderveer.... 
. 91 
G Kouwenhouven . 
. 80 
L S Page. 
. 85 
T T. Coffin. 
. 81 
F Weilsbacher . 
. 62 
T S Thompson. 
. 83 
P O O’Brien. 
Dr Tulian . 
. 69 
Dr Moller . 
. 69 
Von Boeckman _ 
. 82 
T F Simonson. 
. 80 
F R Wickes. 
. 67 
M A Kelsey . 
. 74 
A V Suydam. 
. 74 
W E Skidmore. 
. 71 
C A Brown. 
. 73 
E E Gardner. 
. 73 
A L Griffith. 
. 80 
W R Long. 
. 80 
W Kussmaul . 
. 52 
R T, Morgan. 
. 77 
T H Richmond. 
. 62 
II A Fischer . 
. 49 
D C Van Valen.... 
. 77 
II D Bergen. 
. 75 
W Ravmond . 
. 61 
S Isaacs . 
. 58 
