FOREST AND STREAM 
■participating in the shoot. This number in¬ 
cludes some of this section’s most prominent 
business men and physicians. 
A smoker will be held by the club at the 
Board of Trade Rooms, the invitation being ex¬ 
tended by the Secretary, Gorman S. Bussard, 
who is a member of the Gun Club and also a fine 
shot. This smoker will be held next Monday 
night. Officers for the ensuing year will be 
elected then. 
An invitation was extended to the local club to 
attend the shoot of the Shenandoah Gun Club, of 
Shenandoah, Va., on Tuesday, December 22nd. 
The invitation was accepted and a number will 
participate from the local club. A dinner will 
be tendered to the visiting participants following 
the shoot. _ 
THE DUPONT POWDER COMPANY’S 1915 
GUN CLUB TROPHY. 
For several years it has been the custom of the 
DuPont Powder company of Wilmington, Dela¬ 
ware, to assist the gun clubs throughout the 
country in keeping up the interest of their mem¬ 
bers by suggesting attractive and equitable forms 
of contests among all members of the club, and 
by providing suitable trophies as rewards of 
merit for the successful shooters. 
To keep abreast of the times in the matter of 
the form of trophies to be given, and to cater to 
the wishes of the shooters themselves has al¬ 
ways been the aim of the DuPont Company. 
Mention of some of the forms of trophies given 
in the past makes interesting reading, and at the 
same time indicates the trend of opinion among 
the shooters. 
For years it was the custom to give silver lov¬ 
ing cups as gun club trophies. These were fol¬ 
lowed by handsomely framed “DuPont Dog” pic¬ 
tures. Next came the bronze figures of pointer 
and setter dogs, and last but not least, the Du¬ 
Pont Company originated the idea of presenting 
gun clubs each year with appropriately de¬ 
signed and attractively gotten up sterling silver 
watch fobs. 
The popularity of these fobs with the shooting 
fraternity has been undoubted, and have done 
much to make the local club shoots popular with 
and interesting to all, especially when the con¬ 
tests for same were operated on the very equit¬ 
able “DuPont Added Target Handicap System” 
as suggested by that company. 
For 19x5 a still greater step forward has been 
planned by the DuPont Powder company in the 
matter of its gun club trophies, and during the 
coming year they will present to local gun clubs 
throughout the country, for a series of contests 
similar to those which have been suggested in the 
past for other trophies, a handsome sterling sil¬ 
ver full size tea spoon, especially designed and 
manufactured for the DuPont Powder company 
by the world famous jewelry firm—Tiffany & Co., 
of New York. 
The idea of a spoon trophy which is original 
with the DuPont Powder Company, must ap¬ 
peal to all trapshooters as an exceptionally good 
one. No matter whether a shooter is a “family 
man,” a “bachelor,” or a youngster just budding 
forth into manhood, he can find a suitable use 
for the trophy spoon, which is, by the way, a 
very “useful” trophy, and will appeal strongly 
to the ““women in the case.” 
The design of the DuPont Gun Club Spoon 
is at once novel and appropriate, being a figure 
of a trapshooter worked into the handle, and 
the workmanship is the very last word in the 
art of die making and silversmithing. It is 
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predicted that the DuPont 1915 sterling silver 
gun club trophy will be one of the most popular 
with the shooters of the many trophies offered 
by the DuPont Company to the trapshooting 
fraternity. 
It is worthy of note, also, that the DuPont 
Powder Company is continually in the lead 
with new ideas which will be pleasing to the 
trapshooting fraternity, and which make for the 
advancement and popularity of the grand game 
of trapshooting, which is rapidly assuming a 
leading place as an out-of-door pastime. 
The announcements to gun clubs and shooters 
of the DuPont 1915 Sterling Silver Gun Club 
Trophy will be ready for mailing in a few days, 
and we predict the unprecedented popularity of 
this new idea of the DuPont Powder Company 
in the way of a season trophy for a series of 
local club shoots. 
CINCINNATI GUN CLUB. 
The snow storm on December 13 put a crimp 
in the tournament which had been announced 
for that day, and the “As You Like It” pro¬ 
gram, arranged by Secretary Davies was called 
off, a number of 25-target events and team 
matches being substituted. The expected out of 
town contingent was conspicuous by its absence; 
of the thirteen shooters who faced the traps all 
were local men but two, Rollo O. Heikes, the 
“Daddy df ’Em All,” from Dayton, and L. J. 
Squier, of Pittsburgh, both well known profes¬ 
sionals. The white expanse of snow made a 
fine background but the falling flakes which 
filled the air, proved to be something of a hand¬ 
icap and kept the scores in some of the events 
below the average- In the first 100 targets, Dick 
Dibowski was high man with a score of 94, 
three targets ahead of Heikes, who finished in 
The 1914 TRAP-SHOOTING AVERAGES 
Both Amateur and Professional were won with 
“Steel Where Steel Belongs” 
Factory Loaded SHELLS 
The superior skill of Mr. WOOLFOLK HENDERSON, and his equally superior ammunition, which were the sensation of the 
1914 Grand American Handicap, have very consistently scored another great victory. Mr. Henderson leads all Amateurs and 
Professionals in the 1914 Averages with the fine percentage of 96.63. 
Among the professionals Mr. L. H. REID, formerly of Ohio but now located on the Pacific Coast wins the highest honors 
with 96.44. He has also won the Pacific Coast High General Professional three successive years. 
A Fitting Close for a Year of 
Victories, including 
The 1914 Grand American.98 ex 100 from 22 yds. ) \ 11 k,, Mv HonT., 
The 1914 Amateur Championship-Single Targets-99 ex 100 “ 16 “ ' AU W ° n by Mr ‘ Henderson 
The 1914 Amateur Championship—Double 
-90 ex 50 prs “ 16 
with PETERS Shells 
The Five Big Honors of the Year All Bagged with the © Brand! 
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