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secretary was directed to -file with the records of 
the association for the purpose of reference, the 
following papers: 
(1) List of stockholders entitled to vote at 
this meeting. 
(2) Proxies presented at the meeting. 
(3) Notice of meeting and proof of mailing 
thereof. 
(4) Inspector’s oath and report. 
(5) President’s report. 
(6) Secretary’s detailed report (for the past 
year). 
(7) Secretary’s data covering the association’s 
work for the past year. 
(8) Treasurer’s financial report of assessment 
fund. 
(9) Treasurer’s financial report of registered 
tournament fund. 
(10) Tournament manager’s report. 
Upon motion, duly made and seconded, a meet¬ 
ing of the new board of directors for the elec¬ 
tion of officers, etc., was directed to ibe held im¬ 
mediately after the close of the stockholders’ 
meeting. 
No further business coming before the meet¬ 
ing upon motion, duly made and seconded, the 
same adjourned. 
The Directors’ Meeting. 
A meeting of the board of directors was held 
immediately after the close of the stockholders’ 
meeting. The meeting was called to order by 
Mr. F. G. Drew, with E. Reed Shaner acting as 
secretary. 
The following officers were elected to serve 
during the ensuing year: President, F. G. Drew; 
vice-president, T. E. Doremus; secretary, E. 
Reed Shaner; treasurer-manager, Elmer E. 
Shaner. 
The minutes of the directors’ meeting held 
December 4 and 5, 1913, at Jersey City, and Sep¬ 
tember 9, 1914. at Dayton, Ohio, and those of the 
several mail votes taken during the year, were 
duly approved. 
By special permission, Mr. W. E. Phillips, of 
Chicago, addressed the meeting and set forth the 
advantages of holding the Sixteenth Grand 
American Handicap Tournament, that of 1915, 
in Grant Park, Chicago. Mr. Phillips explained 
that Grand Park is just off Michigan Boulevard, 
immediately adjacent to the downtown district, 
and within walking distance of the business and 
shopping center and all hotels and theatres of a 
city of two million people- Mr. Phillips received 
the thanks of the president for presenting the 
matter so fully to the members of the association. 
By special permission, Mr. A. C. Connor, of 
Springfield, Ill., addressed the meeting and re¬ 
quested the association to interest itself in an 
effort to have the Migratory Bird Law so amend¬ 
ed that the state of Illinois would receive its 
share of wild fowl shooting. Mr. Connor read 
a letter on the subject addressed to Mr. D. F. 
Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, 
D. C. It was explained to Mr. Connor that the 
association's charter would not permit it to take 
action on matters of this kind, but that the mat¬ 
ter could be taken up by the members of the 
association, as individual concerns, and that it 
would be brought before them for their consid¬ 
eration. 
Mr. Connor also gave the association the 
benefit of his views pertaining to the betterment 
of the sport of trapshooting. The president 
thanked Mr. Connor for appearing before the 
meeting and expressing his views. 
By resolution, it was decided to continue in 
1915 the association’s policy of 1914, whereby its 
contributions to registered tournaments shall be 
made one-half in cash and one-half in trophies, 
or all in trophies. 
By resolution, it was decided that, with the ex¬ 
ception of state tournaments, leagues of gun 
clubs and special organizations, all applications 
to hold registered tournaments which carry re¬ 
quests for contributions shall be made on or be¬ 
fore February 15th, and that no application shall 
be passed upon before said date. 
By resolution, it was decided to print in pam¬ 
phlet form, for distribution to gun clubs holding 
registered tournaments and other interested par¬ 
ties, the names and addresses, total number of 
targets shot at, total number of targets broken 
and percentages of all contestants who took part 
in registered tournaments held in 1914. 
By resolution, it was decided to present a tro¬ 
phy to the winner of the high amateur average 
of 1914. 
By resolution, it was decided not to give the 
Southwestern Handicap Tournament and the 
Eastern Handicap Tournament in 1915. 
By resolution, Mr. O. N. Ford, of San Jose, 
California, was made eligible to compete as an 
amateur of The Interstate Association Tourna¬ 
ments. 
Upon motion duly made and seconded, the di¬ 
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Using Two Hand Traps for Throwing Doubles 
directors’ meeting adjourned at 4:45 p. m., to 
meet the following day at 10 a. m., at the Hotel 
Astor, New York City. 
The adjourned meeting of the directors was 
called to order at 10135 a. m., December 4th, with 
President Drew in the chair. New business was 
at once taken up where left off. 
_ By resolution, it was decided that, any profes¬ 
sional who has in either of the last two years of 
his employment averaged 90 per cent, or better 
on registered targets shall not be permitted, from 
and after December 4th, ,to compete at any reg¬ 
istered tournaments with amateurs, for cash or 
merchandise prizes, or for any trophy or tro¬ 
phies, “open to amateurs only,” at such tourna¬ 
ments, within a period of three years from the 
date of the termination of his employment, and 
that all others who have not averaged 90 per 
cent, in either of the last two years of their em¬ 
ployment shall not be permitted to compete as 
above with amateurs for a period of one year 
from the date of the termination of their em¬ 
ployment. 
Letters pertaining to trapshooting matters in 
general, received from Messrs. W. F. Bippus, 
Dayton, Ohio; W. F. McCandless, Dayton, Ohio; 
John W. Garrett, Colorado Springs, Colorado; 
C- H. Newcomb, Philadelphia, Pa.; S. W. 
Dimick, Portland, Me.; Salem Rod, Gun and 
Yacht Club, Salem, New Jersey; R. E. St. John, 
Green Bay, Wis.; Thos. F. Adkin, Rochester, N. 
Y.; E. F. Walton, Boise, Idaho; Madison Cooper, 
Calcium, N. Y.; F. K. Eastman, Indianapolis, 
Ind., and T. F. Bibbee, Elba, Ohio, were read, 
ordered to be filed, anl the secretary directed to 
extend the thanks of the association to the sev¬ 
eral gentlemen for the interest taken in the wel¬ 
fare of the sport. 
By resolution, the manager was directed to 
co-operate with the Executive Committee of the 
Ohio Trapshooters’ League in its effort to reor¬ 
ganize said league on broad lines. 
By resolution, it was decided that in 1915 the 
Grand American Handicap Tournament shall be 
given at Chicago, Illinois; the Southern Handicap 
Tournament at Memphis, Tennessee; the West¬ 
ern Handicap Tournament at St. Louis, Missouri, 
and the Pacific Coast Handicap Tournament at 
San Diego, California. 
By resolution, it was decided to hold the 1915 
Grand American Handicap Tournament during 
the third week of August. 
The following committees were appointed to 
serve during the year 1915 : 
Tournament Committee—J. T. Skelly, chair¬ 
man; Wm. B. Stadtfeld, C. L. Reierson, A. J. 
Norcom, T. H. Keller, Murray Ballou, L. J. 
Squier. 
Trophy Committee—T. E. Doremus, chairman; 
A. F. Hebard, W. R. Clark. 
Gun Club Organization Committee—A. F. 
Hebard, chairman; T. H. Keller, Edward Banks. 
The committee to allot handicaps for the 1915 
Grand American Handicap will be announced 
later. 
After reading several letters and discussing 
matters of no particular interest to the general 
public, the directors’ meeting adjourned to meet 
at Chicago, Illinois, in 1915, during the week of 
the Sixteenth Grand American Handicap Tour¬ 
nament. 
THE INTERSTATE ASSOCIATION, 
E. Reed Shaner, Secretary. 
PRESIDENT’S REPORT THE INTERSTATE 
ASSOCIATION, 1914. 
New Haven, Conn., Dec. 1, 1914. 
To the Members of the Interstate Association. 
Gentlemen :•—As the trapshooting season of 
1914 draws to a close and another year’s work of 
our association is ended, it is my pleasure to re¬ 
port briefly that a most satisfactory and healthy 
condition exists in every respect. The reports of 
the treasurer-manager and the secretary give 
thorough and comprehensive accounts of the 
year’s work covering in detail the Grand Ameri¬ 
can Handicap and subsidiary tournaments, as 
well as conditions that apply to Registered Tour- 
