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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. 20, 1912. 
If you want your shoot to he announced here 
send a notice like the following: 
Fixtures. 
REGISTERED TOURNAMENTS. 
Jan. 24-27.—Pinehurst (N. C.) Country Club. Leonard 
Tufts, Mgr. 
Feb. 16-17.—Mobile (Ala.) G. C. J. L. Suttle, Mgr. 
Feb. 22-23.—Columbus (O.) G. C. L. Fisher, Sec’y. 
March 14-15.—Holmesburg Junction, Pa.—Keystone S. L. 
of Philadelphia. H. L. David, Mgr. 
March 21.—Columbus (O.) G. C. L. Fisher, Sec y. 
April 8.—Mt. Airy (Md.) G. C. Ray Watkins, Mgr. 
April 9-10.—Moberly (Mo.) G. C. L. R. Hulen, Sec’y- 
April 9-10.—Birmingham (Ala.) G. C. O. L. Garl, Sec’y. 
April 9-11.—Perry, Okla.—Oklahoma State tournament, 
under the auspices of the Perry G. C. Bush H. 
Bowman, Sec’y. 
April 11.—Atglen (Pa.) G. C. L. R. Lewis, 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. 
April 18.—Columbus (O.) G. C. L. Fisher, Sec’y. 
May 14-15.—Adel, la.—Adel G. C. C. F. Clarke, Sec’y. 
May 14-16.—Fairmont, W. Va.—West Virginia State tour¬ 
nament, under the auspices of the Fairmont G. C. 
Ed. H. Taylor, Sec’y. 
May 15-16.—Columbus (O.) G. C. L. Fisher, Sec’y. 
May 29-30.—Wilmington, Del.—Delaware State tourna¬ 
ment, under the auspices of the Du Pont G. C. 
T. E. Doremiis, 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. 
June 5-6.—Aurelia (la.) G. C. Frank R. Welch, Sec’y. 
June 10-13.—Syracuse, N. Y.—New York State tourna¬ 
ment, under the auspices of the New York State 
Sportsmen’s Association. H. W. Smith, Pres. 
July 9-12.—Eugene, Ore.—Pacific Indians. F. C. Riehl, 
Sec’y. 
At an enthusiastic gathering of the members of the 
various marksmen’s organizations of Riverside, Cal., the 
Riverside Gun Club was formed. A member of the 
merger may shoot on any of the ranges of the various 
clubs. H. E. Hinde is president of the new club; H. 
E. Pequegnat, treasurer; H. E. Raymer, secretary; L. 
Brehm, captain of the rifle range, and B. E. Taber cap¬ 
tain of the shooting range. The rifle and pistol ranges 
have been moved to the Bluerock grounds, where com¬ 
modious buildings have been erected. 
Owing to the extremely cold weather, the match race 
between teams representing the Nonesuch and Du Pont 
gun clubs, which was to have been shot Jan. 13, was 
postponed until a later date. The match was to have 
been shot at Newport. On Jan. 16, the re-organization 
meeting of the Delaware State Trapshooters’ Associa¬ 
tion was held. Nonesuch, Guyencourt, Aurora, Wood- 
ale and Wilmington gun clubs were admitted. A well 
established association is assured. The meeting was 
held in room 466, Du Pont Building. 
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Says Secretary Maltby Conover: “The target tourna¬ 
ment of the Freehold (N. J.), Gun Club will be held on 
the Freehold grounds, on Thursday, Jan. 18, commencing 
at 10 o’clock. There will be ten 15-target events, $1 
entrance each event. Money divided 40, 30, 20 and 10 
per cent. Optional sweeps—Entrance $2.50 on first 50 
birds; $5 on last 100. Four moneys. High guns. All 
standard makes of shells on the grounds. C. R. R. 
trains leave 8:30, Liberty street. New York. P. R. R. 
train leaves 8:32 Broad street, Philadelphia.’’ 
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DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
Don’t overlook the Sunny South Handicap, at Hous¬ 
ton, Texas, Dates: Jan. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27. 
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It has been suggested by a subscriber that from now 
until July, all shoots and tournaments list at least two 
events in which the “gun-below-elbow” rule is en¬ 
forced. 
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Owing to the construction of the new State dam at 
Troy, N. Y., Laureate Boat Club was obliged to give 
up part of its grounds, and therefore has abandoned 
trapshooting. There seems to be small chance of the 
gentle art of clay bird shooting again being taken up. 
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The list of members of the rejuvenated Royal Center 
Gun Club contains the names of thirteen—not unlucky 
in this case—ladies. Congratulations. This is the first 
report of progress in the movement to develop trap¬ 
shooting among women. We will give a year’s subscrip¬ 
tion to Forest and Stream to the woman breaking the 
greatest number of targets during the month of February. 
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The annual meeting and election of the Highland Gun 
Club, Philadelphia, Pa., will be held Jan. 29. The pres¬ 
ent officers are: Wm. Dalton, President; David Mercer, 
Vice-President; Thos. Tansey, Treasurer; J. Franklin 
Meehan, Secretary; H. E, Perry, Captain. The club has 
had so successful a year that there is apt to be no op¬ 
position to the present officers, if they accept renomina¬ 
tion. 
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The winning of the Interstate Association’s official 
amateur trapshooting average by Dr. W. S. Spencer, of 
St. Louis, Mo., with a Winchester repeating shotgun 
and Winchester loaded shells, makes the Red W com¬ 
bination supreme for 1911, as a Winchester repeating 
shotgun and Winchester loaded shells were also used by 
J. R. Taylor, in winning the official professional season’s 
average. 
At the annual meeting of the Mount Pleasant Gun 
Club, Schenectady, N. Y., recently held, the following 
officers were elected: President, Josef Suppanz; Vice- 
President, Anton Loukota; Recording Secretary, Josef 
Stritter; Financial Secretary, Martin Panzner; Treas¬ 
urer, Josef Szedlak; Gun Warden, Paul Drozlik; Coun¬ 
cil of Directors, Paul Szodoma, Henry Prag, Josef Froh- 
lich; Auditors, Andrew Bartman, Andrew Lachner, Carl 
Josefek; Trustees, Peter Mihalkovits, Albert Fueloepp. 
The proficiency attained by amateur trapshooters is 
shown in the amateur averages for 1911, just compiled 
by the Interstate Association. Out of 81 shooters listed, 
45, or over 50 per cent., made better than .9000, while the 
lowest average ran over .5000. W. S. Spencer, of St. 
Louis, the high man recorded .9628, breaking 2022 targets 
out of 2100 shot at. Harry Kahler, amateur champion, 
broke 3846 out of 4050, averaging .9496. In double-target 
events Allen Heil, of Allentown, Pa., was high with 
8700, with a breakage of 174 out of 200. J. R. Graham 
broke 369 out of 450, for an average of .820. Three hun¬ 
dred and sixty-seven thousand targets were thrown from 
the traps, of which 220,109 were broken. More than a half 
million cartridges were used. 
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It takes only an introduction to a gun, a few car¬ 
tridges and a trap to make an enthusiastic recruit in 
the greatest of out-door sports—trapshooting. Proof: 
On New Year’s Day a bunch got together at Laura- 
ville, Md., for a “match,” some were experienced gun¬ 
ners, some were not, but all agreed after the shoot to 
organize a club and to hold regular clay target practice. 
This organization movement is progressing rapidly under 
direction of Harry Bruns, John Knox, Benjamin Maen- 
ner, Richard Hall, William Collins, William Amelang, 
George Bing, Melvin Erdman, William Potter and J. 
Thompson. The identical thing happened in Elkton, 
Md., only that the Elktonites got a little quicker action 
and are already organized with officers elected. Those 
who read this column who are not trapshooters, just 
borrow a gun and half a dozen cartridges from one of 
your friends the next time you are at your club; got 
out and take a try, and if you don’t like the game well 
enough to try it again, just tell me so, and I will pay 
the price of the cartridges. Trapshooting is a good 
sport to watch, but it’s a much better sport to take 
part in. 
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Many of the rules and conditions governing trap¬ 
shooting at Olympic games at Stockholm, July, 1912, 
will be annoying to the American shooter. Notably is 
this true of Article 7: “The competitor must not shoulder 
his gun and take sight, or rest the butt against his 
shoulder, before the clay pigeon thrown up has ap¬ 
peared in sight. The butt of the gun is to be held 
between the hips and armpits, but under no conditions 
rest against the shoulder.” The American practice of 
holding gun to shoulder at call of pull, undoubtedly 
means a handicap in this change of style at short notice. 
When the Lord Westbury challenge cup for individual 
championship was won by the present holder, Walter 
H. Ewing, of Montreal, Canada, shooters were privileged 
to shoot in any style most convenient to them. Mr. 
Ewing shot his gun against his shoulder. Just why the 
shooter is restricted to the “field position” is not set 
forth in the catalogue. It unquestionably will greatly 
handicap shoulder shooters, mostly Americans and Cana¬ 
dians, while benefiting inestimably those addicted to the 
gun-below-elbow habit. As we can’t change the rules, it 
behooves us to do the next best thing—practice from 
now until sailing day the style prescribed by H. M. the 
King of Sweden and the Olympic committee. 
Beecroft. 
Larchmont Y. C. 
Larchmont, N. Y., Jan. 14.—It wasn’t too cold for 
R. L. Spotts here to-day; in fact, it seemed about his 
speed in the way of temperature. He was there with 
quantity, winning four events and making excellent 
scores in each. He won the 100-bird handicap with 95, 
take-home trophy, 24 out of 25; Alley cup with a full 
score, and accumulation cup, 48 out of 50. 
Stuart Scott was no slouch when it came to making 
good scores. On leg for vice-commodore’s cup he re¬ 
turned a full score of 25 with a handicap of 1; took the 
125-target scratch event with 112, and 10-target scratch 
event with full score. W. B. Short made leg on Janu¬ 
ary cup with full score, while B. M. Higginson won 15 
taro-et scratch event in shoot-off with Stuart Scott and 
W.°J. Elias. Scores: 
January cup, 25 targets, handicap: 
T Henry . J 24 
B S Noyl. 0 24 
R L Spotts. 2 22 
B M Higginson.... 1 25 
T Lenane, Jr. 4 23 
J G Batterson. 3 21 
W T Elias. 3 
T J McCahill. 1 
24 
19 
j S Fanning. 0 19 
\V B Short. 3 
H H Childs. 7 
S Scott . 1 
Accumulation cup, 50 targets, handicap: 
0 47 
T Henry . 2 45 
B S Noyl. 
R L Spotts.... 
B M Higginson 
T Lenane, Jr.. 
J G Batterson 
48 
46 
43 
48 
W J Elias. 6 
T J McCahill. 2 42 
J S Fanning. 0 37 
W B Short. 4 43 
S Scott . 2 48 
H H Childs. 14 39 
Vice-commodorc trophy, 25 targets, handicap: 
J Henry . 1 
25 
B‘s'Noyl. 0 23 
_ _ _ - 24 
23 
22 
24 
W 
R L Spotts. 1 
B M Higginson.... 1 
■T Lenane, Jr. 4 
J G Batterson. 3 
Scratch event, 125 targets: 
J Henry .HO 
B S Noyl . HO 
R L Spotts. HO 
B M Higginson.112 
T Lenane, Jr. 96 
J G Batterson.102 
Alley trophy, 25 targets, handicap: 
J Elias...... 3 24 
T J McCahill. 1 23 
, _ Fanning. 0 19 
W B Short. 2 23 
S Scott . 1 25 
H H Childs. 7 17 
W J Elias.164 
T J McCahill. 94 
J S Fanning. 98 
W B Short . 101 
S Scott .112 
H H Childs . 53 
T Henry . 1 23 
B S Noyl. 1 19 
R L Spotts. 2 25 
I? M Higginson. 1 23 
T Lenane, Jr. 4 25 
J G “ 
W J Elias. 3 
T J McCahill. 1 
J S Fanning “ 
W B Short.. 
S Scott 
25 
18 
0 21 
23 
22 
Batterson. 3 24 H H (7hilds.. 7 17 
Essex County Country Club. 
West Orange, N. J.. Jan. 13.—Too cold for anything 
ike the regular events here to-day, s^o a senes of mixed 
events took the place of schedule. They had to be kept 
well mixed to keep from freezing up. In the 25-target 
practice event the scratch men shot well, but were beaten 
bv A. L. Colgate with 4 handicap. Colgate and Pynchie 
putshot the scratch men in the early bird event, Col¬ 
gate’s handicap of 4 was one too many tor Pynchie s 3, 
Practice, 25 targets: 
B M: Shanley. 
T A Hart. 
A L Colgate. 
L Ross . 
C P Daly.. 
0 23 
0 23 
4 25 
5 20 
0 23 
Earlv bird event, 
B M Shanley. 
J A Hart. 
A Colgate . 
L Ross . 
C H Daly . 
Hart . 
J F Shanley. 
25 targets, 
, 0 19 
, 0 18 
, 4 24 
, 6 24 
, 0 18 
, 8 22 
, 8 21 
A E Hart.... 
T F Shanley.. 
■p Ross . 
Hauch . 
Pinchot . 
scratch: 
P S Ross, Jr 
P Hauck .... 
Pynchie . 
W Rollinson 
S Rollinson . 
T Mitraff .... 
8 19 
8 14 
5 22 
5 21 
5 22 
5 23 
5 22 
2 24 
5 23 
4 21 
3 23 
Jersey City Gun Club. 
Jersey City, N. J., Jan. 13.-To-day was fully as bad 
fo‘r trapshooting as a week ago—Mercury down below 
zero and a good strong wind blmving; 
the attendance at the regular Saturday ‘P® 
Jersey City Gun Club was small, for most of those who 
were^out last week evidently decided to wait for more 
favorable weather. Geo. Piercy was high for the day, 
he also won a leg on the January prize. Shannon was 
second high and took home the only weekly prize con¬ 
tested for. The scores follow: 
Shot at. Broke Shot at Broke 
. 125 61 ^ones 49 
&r;;:;:::io fimpLn .loo 55 
Dixon . 125 72 Jerry . IW ™ 
Shannon . 75 49 Clayton . Secretary. 
