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FOREST AND STREAM 
Feb. 3, 1912 
motor as well as the automobile motor has been 
at a disadvantage because of the trouble fre¬ 
quently had in starting the motor. It is no fun 
to crank, especially on a hot day, and often 
cranking is attended by some serious mishap. 
The Janney-Steinmetz starter is one of the new 
ones which will attract much attention, and it 
is claimed for this starter that it makes it pos¬ 
sible for a woman to take a boat and stop and 
start it without having to ask for assistance. 
The base of this starter is less than 5 inches 
square. The compressor with its rotor, gears, 
valves, measures 7x8 inches, and it weighs less 
than 20 pounds. ■ A single cylinder model 
weighs less than 10 pounds. The device in all 
its actions is controlled by the helmsman. The 
starting is done by high air pressure, and it is 
absolutely silent. Last summer when the motor 
boats were racing at Huntington, much trouble 
was experienced in starting the big motors in 
the racing craft. All sorts of cranking devices 
were used, and sometimes, try as they would, 
the motors would not start. A self-starter that 
is reliable will be a boon to motor boatmen. 
Reliance V. 
The owner of Reliance IV. has built a new 
Reliance and has a challenge ready for any 
speed boat extant, in course of construction or 
in a state of contemplation. The Reliance 
owner, J. J. Ryan, of Cincinnati, who was in 
town early in the week said: 
“I am willing to race my speed boat Reliance 
against any motor boat in the world and will 
certainly have a crack at these foreigners when 
they come. Reliance IV. was the fastest boat 
in the West, and she defeated among others 
Kitty Hawk, La Truda, Gretchen and Hoosier 
Boy, and, I think, would have beaten Dixie IV. 
at Buffalo when that boat ran ashore. Reliance 
is under 30 feet in length and has a 75-horse- 
pqwer _ motor. She has made more than 37 
miles in races. Now I have a new Reliance 
and am willing to match that boat against any 
speed boat in the world, any size, any power. 
The race may be any distance from one mile 
to too miles and the stakes from $2,500 to any 
amount. 
_ “Now that is what I call a sporting proposi¬ 
tion. ^ Reliance will race in the East this year, 
and I’ll show the owners of speed boats here 
what speed is. My new boat will make 47 miles 
an hour, and then I’ll have a little to spare. 
You see, I don’t want to give her away at 
once. The boat is coming here and will be on 
exhibition at the Motor Boat Show in the 
Madison Square Garden. I have no secrets. 
The hull will be fully exposed. It is a hydro¬ 
plane, but* the secret of its speed is in its proper 
adjustment. Everything works in harmony, 
and there is no detail in the hull that we are 
afraid to show. When a boat of the size of 
Reliance can get such speed with a 75-horse¬ 
power motor it proves that these high powered 
things are built on some wrong principle. My 
boat is not for sale.” 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division.—David J. Boon, 4265 Ridge 
avenue, Philadelphia, Pa., and G. Ashton 
Barker, 3018 W. Lehigh avenue, Philadelphia, 
Pa., both by Henry B. Fort. 
Western Division.—Henry G. Vocke, Jr., 
2308 Chestnut street, Milwaukee, Wis., by John 
F. Butt; Lawrence Gylstrom, 724 28th street, 
Milwaukee, Wis., by John F. Butt; Hugh H. 
Dyar, Kenilworth, Ill., by J. W. McConnell. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Western Division.—6334, F. G. Coggin, 913 
Buena Terrace. Chicago, Ill.; 6335, Otto A. 
Koss, 525 South Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. 
If you want your shoot to be announced here 
send a notice like the following: 
Fixtures. 
Feb. 22.—Cleveland (O.) G. C. tournament. F. H. Wal¬ 
lace, Sec’y. 
REGISTERED TOURNAMENTS. 
Feb. 16-17.—Mobile (Ala.) G. C. J. L. Suttle, Mgr. 
Feb. 22-23.—Columbus (CD.) 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 10.—Gaithersburg (Md.) G. C. R. M. Purdum, Sec. 
April 11.—Atglen (Pa.) G. C. L. R. Lewis, Mgr. 
April 13.—Rittersville, Pa.—Lehigh R and Cj. C. H. F. 
Kock, Sec’y. 
April 1517.—New Orleans, La.—City Park G. C. E. F. 
Leckert, Sec’y. 
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.j G. C. L. Fisher, Sec’y. 
April 23-24.—Spokane, Wash.—Washington State tourna- 
me.nt, under the auspices of the Spokane R. and G. 
C. 'T. B. Ware, Pres. 
April 23-25.—Laurel, Miss.—Mississippi State tournament 
under the auspices of the Laurel G. C. Chas. Green, 
Pres. 
April 23-25.—Omaha (Neb.) G. C. F. T. Lovering, Sec’y. 
May 8-9.—Columbus (O.) G. C. Lon. Fisher, Sec’y. 
May 9.—Riverside, Ill.—National G. C. Chas. W. May, 
Pres. 
May 14-lG.—Columbus, Ga.—The Interstate Association’s 
Seventh Southern Handicap tournament, under the 
auspices of the Columbus G. C.; $1,000 added money. 
Elmer E. Shaner, Sec’y-Treas., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
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.—Milton Junction (Wis.) G. C. W. H. Smith, 
Sec’y. 
May 15-16.—Columbus (O.) G. C. L. Fisher, Sec’y. 
May 15-17.—Peoria, Ill.—Illinois State tournament, under 
the auspices of the Illinois State S. A. Robert 
Scholes, Sec’y. 
May 21-24.—Sunbury, Pa.—Pennsylvania State tourna¬ 
ment, under the auspices of the Sunbury-Selins- 
grove G. C. J. W. Schoffstall Sec’y. 
May 23-24.—Waterloo (la.) G. C. J. F. Libby, Sec’y. 
May 23.—Mt. Morris (Ill.) G. C. H. W. Cushing, Sec’y. 
May 28-30.—Omaha, Neb.—Nebraska State tournament, 
under the auspices of the-Omaha G. C. F. T. Lover¬ 
ing, Sec’y. 
May 29-30.—Wilmington, Del.—Delaware State tourna¬ 
ment, under the auspices of the Du Pont G. C. 
T. E. Doremus, Sec’y. 
June 1.—Royersford (Pa.) G. C. F. A. Anderson, 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.—Janesville (Wis.) G. C. L. L. Nickerson, Sec’y. 
lune 5-6.—Aurelia (la.) G. C. Frank R. Welch, Sec’y. 
June 5-7.—Warm Springs, Ga.—Merriwether G. C. "r. 
B. Slade, Mgr. 
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. 
June 11-13.—Sioux City la.—Soo Gun Club. W. F. 
Duncan, Sec’y. 
June 18-21.—Springfield, Ill.—The Interstate Associa¬ 
tion’s thirteenth Grand American Handicap tourna¬ 
ment, on the grounds of the Illinois Gun Club; $1,500 
added money. The winner of first place in the 
G. A. H. guaranteed $1,000 in cash and a trophy. 
Elmer E. Shaner, Sec’y-Treas., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
June 25-28.—Eugene, Ore.—Pacific Indians. F. C. Riehl, 
Sec’y. 
June 27-28.—Spencer (la.) G. C. G. O. Round, Sec’y. 
July 14-15.—Fargo, N. D.—North Dakota State tourna¬ 
ment, under the auspices of the Gate City G. C. 
Albert E. Rose, Sec’y. 
July 16-18.—Bradford, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s 
Seventh Eastern Handicap tournament, under the 
auspices of the Bradford 0. C.; $1,000 added money. 
Elmer E. Shaner, Sec’y-Treasurer, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Aug. 7-8.—Lindsay, (Okla.) G. C. Robt. May, Sec’y. _ 
Aug. 14-16.—Kansas City, - Mo.—'The Interstate Associa¬ 
tion’s seventh Western Handicap tournament, under 
the auspices of the Kansas City Gun Club; $1,000 
added money. Elmer E. Shaner, Sec’y-Treas., Pitts¬ 
burgh, Pa. 
Sept. 2.—Ogdensburg (N. Y.) S. A. J. M. Morley, Sec. 
Sept. 10-13.—Denver, Colo.—Rocky Mountain Interstate 
Sportsmen’s Association; $5,000 added money. Am¬ 
brose E. McKenzie, Mgr. 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
Pacific Indians tournament at Eugene, Ore., will be 
shot June 25-28. instead of July 9-12, as originally 
scheduled. 
Eighteen tournaments were registered with Interstate 
Association, week ending Jan.. 27. These will be found 
listed under “Registered Tournaments” at top of this 
page. 
Elmer E. Shaner, Secretary-Treasurer Interstate As¬ 
sociation, writes; “Please state that our seventh South¬ 
ern Handicap tournament will be held at Columbus, Ga., 
May 14, 15 and 16, under the auspices of the Columbus 
Gun Club, and that our Seventh Eastern Handicap tour¬ 
nament will be held at Bradford, Pa., July 16, 17 and 
18, under the auspices of the Bradford Gun Club. There 
will be $ 1,000 added money at each tournament.” 
« 
From Haddonfield, N. J., comes this: “The Haddon- 
field Gun Club did not hold the' regular monthly shoot 
on Saturday, 20th inst. Too cold, the boys said, to 
shoot. The reason given was an excellent one. To 
my mind, it was not complete. Have a very strong 
suspicion that they were shy of the hard targets the 
club had to hand out to them. The last League shoot 
proved to them that all targets will not break when hit with 
as many as seven pellets when not further than 35yds. 
from the score. A freak lot sure. A rifle ball will not 
break half of them. W. A. Shreve, Secretary.” 
The official list of registered trapshooters, just issued, 
places Pennsylvania at the top with 668 ; Ohio second 
with 341, New York third with 314, and Rhode Island 
and New Hampshire last with one lonesome registered 
clay-bird breaker in each State. The list by States fol¬ 
lows: Alabama 60, Arizona 3, Arkansas 69, California 87, 
Canada 239, Colorado 58, Connecticut 184, Delaware 56, 
Washington, D. C., 11, Florida 2, Georgia 19, New 
Mexico 16, Idaho 56, Illinois 248, Indiana 75, Iowa 267, 
Kansas 130, Kentucky 38, Louisiana 19, Maine 28, Mary¬ 
land 114, Massachusetts 82, Michigan 17, New Hamp¬ 
shire 1, Minnesota 50, Mississippi 38, Missouri 237, Mon¬ 
tana 35, Nebraska 190, New Jersey 146, New York 314, 
North Carolina 52, North Dakota 36, Ohio 341, Okla¬ 
homa 69, Rhode Island 1, Oregon 40, Pennsylvania 668 , 
South Carolina 11, South Dakota 60, Tennessee 39, Texas 
59, Vermont 28, Virginia 76, Washington 78, West Vir¬ 
ginia 51, Wisconsin 187, Utah 5, \\ yoming 2. 
Beecroft. 
Chicago Gun Club. 
Chicago, Ill., Jan. 21.—The fairly pleasant weather of 
the past two days was a welcome relief from the snow 
and zero temperature which had kept our shooters away 
from the traps the past two weeks. Nine shooters came 
out to-day, and Stannard topped the list with a score ot 
99 out of 100, while Bills was a close second with a score 
of 98. Amos Moore won the amateur honors for the 
day with a score of 90 out of his first 100, and finished 
up with 23 out of 25 in an extra event. He was highly 
pleased with his success on the first day as a inember 
of the club, and especially as this was his fourth trial 
at the traps, although he has done considerable field 
shooting. Martin also did splendid for one who had 
never tried to break targets. ^ ^ 
(Dn Saturday Jan. 20, Ed. Graham, O. P. Goode and 
H. Winans were the only ones to show up for a few 
turns at the trap. Graham had quite a bit the best of 
it when they had finished, as he broke 96 out of his 100, 
but he had to hustle to keep the lead, as Goode had 
one 24, one 22 and a 21 to his credit. Scores: 
Events; 1 2 3 4 5 6 
Targets: 25 25 25 25 25 12p. 
W D Stannard. of o5 o1 ' ’ ” 
A Moore . 21 23 23 23 23 12 
Mrs L M Fetherston. 21 20 19 20 .. 15 
O W Crocker. 21 21 16 20 .. 14 
A Frana . -12 -1 -• •• J® 
J A Tagart. 23 22 . 16 
F W Martin. 
10 
Arms and Ammunition Chat. 
It is surprising how low-priced and yet how good a 
rifle can be put on the market. The Marlin Fire Arrns 
Co. has just put out Model 29. It’s a repeater, 
caliber, taking without adjustment a short, long or long- 
rifle cartridge. It is of the take-down variety, trombone 
action. Is, in fact, similar, in general construction to 
the exceedingly popular Model 20. The object of this 
paragraph is not to call attention to how good this arm 
is_the fact that it’s a Marlin product guarantees its 
merit, but to show how low-priced a good arm can be 
made and sold. The price is $8.50. At the price, and 
with a set of Ideal reloading instruments, the cost of 
your shooting is reduced to about the least expensive 
recreation worth indulging in. 
