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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Dec. 16, 1911. 
If you want your shoot to be announced here 
send a notice like the following: 
Fixtures. 
Dec. 1G.—Columbus (O.) G. C. L. Fisher, Sec’y. 
Dec. 17.—Wilmington, Del.—Anniversary shoot of the 
Dupont Gun Club. 
1912. 
Jan. 1.—Utica, N. Y.—Genesee G. C. E. J. Loughlin, 
Sec’y. 
REGISTERED TOURNAMENTS. 
Dec. 20.—Syracuse, N. Y.—Onondaga County G. C. 
T. E. Clay, Sec’y. 
1912. 
Jan. 13.—Columbus (O.) G. C. L. Fishr, Sec’y. 
j»n. 24-27.—Pmehurst (N. C.) Country Club. Leonard 
Tufts, Mgr. 
Feb. 22-23.—Columbus (O.) G. C. L. Fisher, Sec’y. 
March 21.—Columbus (O.) G. C. L. Fisher, Sec’y. 
April 17-19.—Wicmta, Kans.—Kansas State tournament, 
under the auspices of the Interurban G. C. C. W. 
Tones, Sec’y, 209 N. Main St., Wichita, Kans. 
April 18.—Columbus (0.1 G. C. L. Fisher, Sec’y. 
May 15-16.—Columbus (O.) G. C. L. Fisher, Sec’y. 
June 4-6.—Mexico, Mo.—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. 
Mr. Guy Ward, very well known to the shooting 
fraternity, will represent the J. Stevens Arms & Tool 
Company in the South. 
The largest bag of geese thus far reported made on 
Susquehanna flats, Maryland, is credited to one Lester 
German, of Aberdeen, Md. Brother German seems to 
have the superior gun eye at night as well as in the 
daytime. 
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The live-bird match for a purse of $250 and the wing 
shot championship of Pennsylvania between James 
Somers and John Brewer, that was to have been held 
next Tuesday, has been postponed because Brewer is 
suffering with a fractured finger that he suffered in a 
recent accident. 
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I am sorry Elmer E. Shaner announced his retire¬ 
ment as Secretary-Treasurer of the Interstate Association 
at its annual meeting last Saturday. He has been faith¬ 
ful to the trusts of the Interstate and kind to all the 
rest of us. To quote the consensus of opinion, “He sure 
will be missed.” 
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The Sunny South Handicap will be shot at Houston, 
Texas, Jan. 22-27, 1912. An attractive program, with 
sufficient added money to attract shooters from- any 
point will be provided. New shooting grounds with 
clear background—prettiest in the State. Fitted with 
every convenience for accommodation of the attendants. 
Cheap railroad rates will be in effect from all sections. 
Program ready for mailing latter part of December. 
Purses open to all amateurs. Everybody invited. Ad¬ 
dress Alf Gardiner, Mgr. 
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The gun club at Chadwick, N. Y., will hold a shoot 
Dec. 21. The program sounds good, and is as follows: 
"Prizes for high guns. Money divided on percentage, 
40, 30, 20 and 10. Targets only, if you wish. Profession¬ 
als, targets only. Nos. 1 and 6, 10 targets each, entrance 
$1.00; Nos. 2 and 7, 15 targets each; entrance $1.25; Nos. 
3 and 8, 20 targets each, entrance $1.75; No. 4, 25 targets, 
entrance $2.00; Nos. 5 and 9, 30 targets each, entrance 
$2.50. Lunch served on grounds. Grounds side of 
D., L. & W. station. Popular trap loads for sale.” For 
information write Jerome De Bee. 
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That classic line: “He who runs may read,” has just 
taken the count and can’t come back, having been 
succeeded by the phrase, “He who flies may shoot,” and 
it comes about this wise. Lee Hammond, one of those 
Mineola, L. I., air explorers, decided his press agent 
was running out of factory loaded ammunition, and that 
the hand loaded variety was not breaking enough rules 
in the newspaper offices, so he enlisted William Simon¬ 
son, “expert marksman,” who “unlimbers his shotgun” 
and goes aloft, hunting crows, blackbirds and such other 
feather bearers as are exempt during the close season. 
Says the shooter: “On the starboard hand, 5 points to 
windward, lies a flock of crows.” Hammond throws 
in such things as control the speed of an atmosphere 
puncher, and in a vague second runs alongside, and ties 
up to a bevy of Graham-White sparrows—bing, bing, 
bing, bing, bing—Simonson shoots a repeater—and in 
the treetops lie five dead birds. Full speed ahead goes 
the lever, and they are in pursuit of a flock of black 
crows. “Steady,” calls Simonson, to his air broken 
swan. “Whoa,” “Held.” The swan drops one foot, 
-aises one feather and points a lock of caw-caws. Up 
sits the mighty nimrod, and with five shots bags five 
crows and wounds one, which the retrieving swan brings 
in from among the clouds. Down in Massachusetts the 
New York Sun reports W. Starling Burgess shooting 
ducks from an aero. The report says, “Soon the ma¬ 
chine came within shooting range,” but doesn’t say 
whether it overtook the bird or had it driven in by a 
beaglerized hawk. However, both shooters agree that 
gunning in space will not be successful until hawks or 
eagles can be relied upon to retrieve the dead birds from 
out the ambient atmosphere before they reach the earth. 
Beecroft. 
Trapshooting at the Swedish Olympic 
Games. 
Wilmington, Del., Dec. 7.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have noticed, from time to time, brief notices^ of the 
plan to take a team of amateurs to Stockholm, Sweden, 
to attend the Olympic games next year. So far, how¬ 
ever, 1 have failed to see any special reference to the 
conditions that will govern trapshooting contests at the 
above meeting, and it has occurred to me that prob¬ 
ably it will be of interest, not only to those who are 
thinking of crossing the water to fight for trapshooting 
honors in behalf of the United States, but also for those 
who are compelled through business or other reasons, to 
stay at home, to know just what the conditions are 
under which those competing for the individual and 
team championship will have to shoot. 
On the other side of the Atlantic they know next to 
nothing of automatic traps, and the Sergeant system is a 
stranger to- them. They have the five firing points in a 
straight line 5yds. apart, just as we used to have them 
years ago. Instead of having only one trap in the pit 
at each firing point, they have what might be called a 
battery of three traps, so that, say, for instance, if a 
man at No. 1 position calls “Pull” and a target breaks 
in a trap, he can call “Pull” again immediately and get 
another trap from the battery of three at that point. In 
other words, there are fifteen traps instead of five, as 
we used to have them—i. e., they have three at each 
firing point instead of one. 
The main point for intending competitors to bear in 
mind is, not so much the fact that the targets are 
thrown fully 60yds., which is further than they are thrown 
in this country, but the most important feature of all, 
namely, that all competitors must adopt “the gun below 
the elbow” style of shooting. This looks like going 
back almost, as it were, to the principles of the Middle 
Ages, but as a matter of fact, in England and on the 
Continent of Europe, trapshooting is looked upon not 
so much as a recreation in itself and a sport to be 
pursued, as we do over here, but rather as practice for 
game shooting, so that the “field position” has been 
selected to prevail in the Olympic contests to be held 
at Stockholm next year. In a copy of the Sporting 
Goods Review, published in London, England, on Oct. 
16 last, there is a little over two columns of notice 
given to the booklet recently gotten out by the Du 
Pont Company, entitled “The Sport Alluring,” which is 
criticized quite favorably in an editorial way, and in 
which, when comparing trapshooting conditions in Eng¬ 
land and on the Continent with the conditions prevailing 
here, particularly with reference to the Olympic con¬ 
tests next year, the Sporting Goods Review makes the 
following notation: 
“The conditions of the Olympic competitions at Stock¬ 
holm, are, in the main, those usually adopted in Eng¬ 
land, there being fifteen traps to the five marks; but a 
point which is of considerable importance, and will need 
careful attention by the competitors of all nations, is 
that the ‘gun-below-the-elbow’ position is insisted upon, 
(lame shooters, on first taking up clay bird shooting, 
invariably decry the ‘gun-at-the-shoulder’ position. If 
they continue to take part in competitions they end 
by adopting it, because there is no doubt at all about 
its advantages when the conditions are ‘known traps,’ 
and what might be called the ‘flushing point’ of the bird 
can be covered.” 
It is my impression that this “gun-below-the-elbow” 
idea in connection- with these competitions, is something 
new, and that no such restriction prevailed when Walter 
Ewing, of Montreal, Canada, went over to England 
three years ago and won the individual championship 
for his native country, the Dominion of Canada. I am 
writing Mr. Ewing to-day, asking him to advise you 
by mail as to what the conditions were when he shot for 
and won the championship at the Olympic games in 
England, and hope that he will be able to advise you in 
time for his information to reach you before going to 
press for your issue of the 16th inst" 
Edward Banks. 
Montreal, Canada, Dec 9. —Editor Forest and Stream: 
1 am in receipt of a letter from Mr. Edward Banks, re¬ 
garding conditions to prevail at the Olympic meet in 
Stockholm for trapshooting, and am rather surprised at 
the restriction to- shoot with the “gun below the elbow.” 
All contestants at the Olympic meet in London, 1908, 
were given the option of holding the gun in whatever 
position suited their comfort. I myself shot with the 
gun at the shoulder right through the shoot, and this 
was the prevailing practice among all the contestants. 
It would appear to me more fair that those competing 
should be allowed to follow the method they have ac¬ 
customed themselves to, as to change it right at the 
finale would be a handicap to some and a great 
advantage to others, whereas if you leave it optional, 
everyone has the same chance of success; otherwise the 
result would not be taken as criterion nor a demonstra¬ 
tion of who held the championship. 
I do not wish to impose my views, but make these 
remarks in the best interest of the sport and the welfare 
of those who travel a long distance to such meets, and 
f trust you will agree with me in this. 
vv alter H. Ewing. 
Chicago Gun Club. 
Chicago, Dec. 2.—We started in the afternoon with 
fairly pleasant weather, but it soon began to grow 
colder until tow-ard the latter part of the afternoon the 
shooters were glad to run in after each frame and warm 
up in the club house. 
We were pleased to have D. W. Hutchinson with us 
to-day, as this was his first visit in over two years, and 
hope to see him here often in the future; and by the 
way he was smashing the targets to-day, it shows that he 
would soon be putting up fine scores. Bartlett and 
Daley had their first try-out to-day, and both did fine 
for new beginners. Parker was shooting a strange gun, 
and the heavy trigger-pull had him going. De Wolf’s 
gun went wrong in several frames and pulled down his 
scores. 
The program for the month of December is as follows: 
75 targets—three 20-target and one 15-target events, all 
16yds.; for every 5 straight targets broken 1 point will 
be given, and at the end of the month the shooter having 
the most number of points wins first prize, this system 
also deciding the winners of second, third and fourth 
prizes. 
Events: 
* 1 2 
Events: 
* 1 
2 
Targets: 
25 75 20 
Targets: 
25 75 
20 
W F De Wolfe.... 
19 43 18 
C R Gleason. 
17 33 
E S Graham. 
24 71 .. 
O IT Boenick.... 
.. 32 
8 
Miss Sullivan . 
15 39 .. 
M E Daley. 
12 17 
T G Parker. 
10 37 .. 
J Spangler . 
.. 55 15 
M Goldsmith . 
21 51 .. 
V F Harvey. 
5 
D W Hutchinson. 
.. 49 .. 
H E Dickerman.. 
.. 52 
W E Bartlett. 
.. 31 .. 
1 - XJdL Licit. • • Ol • • 
’Denotes practice event. 
Dec. 3.—The weather conditions were not very pleas¬ 
ant all morning, as a strong wind was driving and 
whirling the snow which fell last night, and consequently 
only thirteen shooters tried their skill at the traps in 
the afternoon. Although the wind had subsided some¬ 
what, most of the scores are considerably below what the 
marksmen are capable of breaking under better con¬ 
ditions; but, even at that, all enjoyed the afternoon. 
A change of schedule on the Illinois Central caused 
some to miss the train, and it would be well for all to 
remember that- the Sunday train now leaves Randolph 
street at 12:30 P. M., instead of 12:45, as formerly. 
In a practice event at 25 targets. Young and Bills 
broke 22 each, While Kammerer was next with 19. In 
the regular club event at 75 targets, Ed. Graham took 
first place honors with a score of 71, Young breaking 09 
and Bills scored 68. Bue and Panesi each broke 20 in 
an extra 25-target event at 16yds. In a 25-target race 
from 22yds., Bills broke 24, Thomas scoring 21 and 
Young 19. 
Events: * 1 
Targets: 25 25 
J S Young. 22 69 
D E Thomas. 64 
P Miller . 13 51 
Mrs Fetherston . 43 
E S Graham. 71 
C R Seelig. 52 
T P Bue. 14 43 
B L Kammerer. 19 54 
C W Mav. 15 57 
F G Bills'. 22 68 
J Panesi . 16 52 
Mrs Cutler . 13 34 
C F Stemmer. 62 
2 3 4 
75 25 25 
.. 19 19 
.. 17 21 
20 .. .. 
.. .. IS 
16 .. .. 
.. .. 24 
20 .. .. 
Larchmonf Y. C. 
Larch mont, N. Y., Dec. 12.—Exceptionally good shoot¬ 
ing was the rule here to-day. In the 100 target handicap 
Tom McCahill, W. B. Short and G. H. Abbott all broke 
99. The shoot-off will happen next Sunday. Abbott kept 
up his record shooting, and tied A. E. Ranney with 49 
out of 50—also postponed. The A. B. Alley trophy at 
25 birds bumped four men into a tie—one of these being 
the said Abbott, each broke straight. J. Henry won 
out. 
Of the nineteen who shot for a 25-target trophy, six 
of them tied with full scores. They were B. M. Hig- 
ginson, W. J. Elias, W. B. Short, T. J. McCahill, R. J. 
Held and Stuart Scott. In the shoot-off W. J. Elias 
won with another full score. 
The 10 and 15 target scratch contests were won by 
G. L. Noyle (a guest) and Stuart Scott respectively. 
Pligh gun for the day was J. Henry, with 117 out of the 
possibfe 125. R. L. Spotts and Scott were the runners 
up with 114 each. 
