March 6, 1909.] 
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TRAP SEASON IS APPROACHING -“GET WISE 
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BALLISTITE -and- EMPIRE 
(Dense) 
(Bulk) 
WON 
At the Kansas Cit} Shoot, February I6th'20th. 
Interstate Amateur Championship out of ten contestants, five tied for High Score. 
High and Second High Amateur Averages on targets. 
General High Average on Pigeons. 
Harry Hess of Nanticoke, Pa., won Pennsylvania State Championship at live birds 
at a shoot-off February 20th. 
Frank D. Alkire of Williamsport, Ohio, won Championship of Ohio, Indiana 
and Kentucky. Score, 24x25. 
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Indianapolis Gun Club. 
Indianapolis, Ind.—Each succeeding week brings a 
new, unlooked-for surprise in the members’ trophy con¬ 
test at the Indianapolis Gun Club. On last Saturday 
afternoon Hillis was the lion of the day. Hillis lives in 
Greencastle, Ind., and consequently does not get to shoot 
at the club grounds very frequently. Every one here¬ 
abouts knows full well that he is likely to be a danger¬ 
ous factor in any shooting contest he may choose to 
enter, but no one suspicioned that he would assert his 
superiority in such a marked degree as he did on this 
occasion. It was a cold, cloudy, and a somewhat windy 
day, making target shooting very difficult to all but 
Hillis. He won the day’s event in the trophy shoot, and 
put the whole bunch in his game sack in practice shoot¬ 
ing as well. In the trophy event, out of 50 targets, the 
scores were: Hillis 46, Roland 44, Moller 43, Voris (18) 
42, Hymer (18) 40, *Barr 40, Neighbors 39, Britton 38, 
Anderson 35, Brennan (18) 35, Dixon (20) 34, Lewis 28, 
Denny (20) 27, and Berry 16. 
A tabulation of the scores that were made in practice 
shooting follow: 
Targets; 
20 
20 
20 
25 
25 
25 
Total. 
Broke.' 
Per C’ 
Hillis . 
18 
20 
23 
25 
95 
86 
90.53 
Hymer . 
.... 16 
16 
15 
21 
22 
110 
90 
81.82 
Roland . 
.... 14 
16 
16 
21 
85 
67 
78.82 
*Barr . 
.... 17 
15 
14 
18 
20 
22 
135 
106 
78.52 
Britton . 
.... 14 
15 
13 
24 
85 
66 
77.65 
Moller . 
.... 10 
13 
16 
23 
2i 
20 
135 
103 
76.30 
Brennan . 
15 
20 
15 
75.00 
Lewis . 
.... 11 
17 
40 
28 
70.00 
Morris . 
.... 14 
13 
40 
27 
67.50 
Dixon . 
.... 17 
12 
12 
17 
14 
18 
135 
90 
66.67 
Voris . 
.... 13 
20 
13 
65.00 
Anderson .... 
.... 1? 
10 
16 
60 
38 
63.33 
Neighbors ... 
.... 10 
15 
13 
60 
38 
63.33 
Comstock ... 
11 
8 
13 
65 
32 
49.07 
Berry . 
9 
40 
16 
40.00 
Denny . 
.... 8 
7 
40 
15 
37.50 
*Professional. 
The Indianapolis Gun Cluh will hold its sixth annual 
spring tournament on Wednesday and Thursday, April 
21 and 22, 1909. The programme for each day will con¬ 
sist of eleven events of 20 targets each, the sixth of which 
will be a special at 19yds, rise, permitting the use of two 
shots. 
With the exception of the “two-shot” special event, 
this tournament will be a sliding distance handicap shoot. 
All contestants will shoot from 16yds. in the first event 
of each day. and in subsequent events of that day they 
will shoot from firing line positions varying to accord 
with the number of targets broken by them in the last 
preceding regular event in which they participated. Those 
who break 16 or less out of the 20 targets, in the next 
event will shoot from 16yds., breaking 17, 18, 19 or 20 
targets; in the next event they will shoot respectively 
from 17, 18, 19 and 20yds. rise. 
Entrance fee, $2 each event, including targets at 2 
cents each. Class shooting. PursesI divided .35. 30, 20 
and 15 per cent. Trade representatives are invited; they 
alone to shoot for targets only. Pieces accepted must be 
scored. Interstate rules to govern in other particulars. 
Printed programmes will be ready to mail about April 1. 
Harry W. Denny, Sec’y. 
Bishopvilie Gun Club. 
Our second shoot, held at Bishopvilie, Md., Feb. 22, 
was surelv one to be remembered. It was a red letter 
day for Bishopvilie. We sent out invitations, and the 
shooters came from Philadelphia to Franklin City, ^’a. 
Most every town along the railroad sent us a shooter. 
Mr. Beacham, from Philadelphia, and a good shot he 
is, and our Billy Ford, of Wilmington, Del., brin.ging 
that same smile he always has with him, was here. You 
can believe me I was delighted to see him. When he 
went down the line smashing targets, our hoys began to 
look wise, for Billy can go some. Our old chum, Ed. 
Harrington (a better joyful sportsman never pointed a gun 
than Ed.) was with us, and he made Billy turn the 
corners pretty close, for Ed. was looking mighty fine 
down that Smith gun of his. Any good shot has always 
a friend in Ed. When the railroad isn’t using him, he 
has time to take a brother shooter out on his big planta¬ 
tion, near Franklin City, Va., and show him how to kill 
guail. Ocean City, Md., sent us four shooters, and 
jolly good fellows they were. 
Berlin, Md., sent_us three, and many other towns too 
numerous to mention, and all of them said it was a 
shoot all right. 
The prize winner of our last shoof was on deck keyed 
up, and expected to win the prize this time, which was 
a gold fountain pen, but he got his tail over the reins 
and went up in a gallop. 
Geo. Hudson made easy meat of Hopkins. As Sie 
won last shoot, he surely expected to win this, but it 
is always the unexpected that happens. Sie said he was 
glad he didn’t win the pen, for it took two hands to 
load it, and he had only one and one-fifth of another. 
Hudson shot a steady gait, and considering it is the 
second time he ever shot clay birds, I think he did fine. 
Hudson is quite a dog fancier, has several dogs of the 
blue belton stock, and is thinking of entering them in 
field trials. The boys say they are crossed between a 
corn sheller and a hay rake, but they say this mighty 
easy, so Hudson won't hear it. 
\\'e shot 2,000 targets, 200 pigeons and 100 English 
sparrows, and shot up everything we had to shoot and 
finally went to shooting empty shells thrown in the air. 
We just went shooting crazy. 
Our boys worked like beavers to help please everybody. 
Our tonsorial artist, Lem Ryan, closed his shop to 
help. Whaley Bros, and Moor Bros, closed their fac¬ 
tories to get in and help, and our acting treasurer, Frank 
Moore, hasn’t time to eat. Asher Moore, our president, 
has not stopped laughing over our success yet. 
_ I think this our last shoot until after strawberry season 
IS over. This is a great strawberry country. We ship 
some days forty-eight carloads of berries. So that is a 
good many quarts. When we get done counting our 
strawberry money we will have another shoot, and we 
will send you notice in advance. You might run down 
to see old Jap. C. W. Floyd. 
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