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Erie, 983 to 951; Boston defeated Manchester (N. H.), 
966 to 953. 
Iowa City High School and Southern High School, 
Philadelphia, were tied for first place at the close of this 
week’s matches of the Intercity High School Rifle 
Shooting League. The results were: Iowa City de¬ 
feated Salt Lake City, 942 to P06; Southern (Philadel¬ 
phia) defeated He Witt Clinton (New York), 908 to 896; 
Hearing (Portland, Me.) defeated Western (Washing¬ 
ton), 920 to 721; Baltimore Poly, won from Manual (Phil¬ 
adelphia, 909 to 0 (defaulted); Business (Washington) 
won from Central (Washington), by default; Morris 
(New York) defeated Deering (Portland, Me.), 892 to 
830; Manual (Washington) won from Ogden, Utah, 859 
to 0 (defaulted). 
University of Iowa held its lead in the Western In¬ 
tercollegiate Rifle Shooting League as a result of the 
week’s matches. The results were: 
Iowa defeated Kansas, 953 to 785; Minnesota defeated 
Michigan, 936 to 865; Arizona defeated St. Thomas, 868 
to 784; Purdue defeated Michigan Aggies, 907 to 872; 
Nebraska won from California by default. 
Zettler Rifle Club. 
Scores of Jan. 30; 10-shot strings: 
G L Amourou.x...... 245 245 241 242 243—1216 
A Begerow . 229 233 216 237 232—1147 
F M Bund. 238 244 238 239 243-1202 
F Hecking . 235 230 239 237 226—1167 
F Kaufmann . 244 242 244 246 246—1222 
Dr Leavitt . 238 244 240 241 238—1201 
H M Pope . 243 247 248 249 249—1236 
G Schlicht . 244 245 243 241 246—1219 
C A Schrag. 237 240 238 237 241—1193 
W A Tewes. 246 249 248 248 249—1240 
247 248 249 249 250—1243 
B Zettler . 236 231 236 234 225—1162 
C Zettler . 242 241 243 240 244—1210 
U. S. R. A. Indoor League. 
The standing at the end of the fourteenth match in 
the U. S. R. A. League was as follows: 
Portland lost none; Manhattan and Springfield, one 
each; Golden Gate, two; Spokane, three; Philadelphia, 
four; Columbus, apparently four; Federal, Los Angeles 
and National Capital, five each; Boston, six; Pittsburgh, 
six and a half; Chicago, St. Louis and Providence, eight 
each; Oakland, eight and a half; Myles Standish and 
Shell Mound, nine each; Baltimore and Seattle, eleven 
each; Belleville and Osborn, twelve each; Youngstown, 
thirteen; Citizens, fourteen. 
J. B. Crabtree, Sec’y-Treas. 
922 ,^Out of a Possible 1000. 
Portland, Me., Feb. 3. —The Myles Standish Rifle 
Club, of this city, and the Park Rifle Club, of Bridge¬ 
port, Conn., were still tied to-day for the lead when 
the result of the third week’s shooting in the New 
England Indoor Rifle League was announced. The 
high total of the week was made by the Bridgeport 
team, 922 out of 1,000. Portland was four points be¬ 
hind. E. H. Besse, of Portland, was high, with 189 
out of a possible 200 . 
FIREARMS TRADE IN SPAIN. 
Continued from page 172. 
conspicuous than in the selection of a sport¬ 
ing gun. Duck guns of 8 and lo bore are 
scarcely ever used here, and as the work of 
larger bores and heavier weapons falls entirely 
on 12-bores, the latter for the Valencia trade 
must be extra strong and rigid without adding 
materially to their normal weight of about 3.2 
kilos. 
The barrels of the American guns experi¬ 
mented with were quite capable of resisting the 
heavy chargs of smokeless powder to which 
they were subjected in duck shooting, but be¬ 
ing standardized machine-made weapons they 
were said to be easily shaken loose in their 
vital fittings and lacked that extra close coup¬ 
ling of hand-finished catches, crossbolts, and 
furniture, while the substitution of spiral 
arrangements for standard springs did not give, 
satisfaction in this climate. It should be re¬ 
membered in this connection that London gun- 
makers held ..almost exclusive possession of 
these markets for high-class sporting guns dur¬ 
ing the greater part of the last century, and 
Spanish sportsmen who, regardless of cost, aim 
at possessing what they consider the best ob¬ 
tainable sporting weapon still apply to noted 
London gunmakers for guns made to measure, 
in which the bend, length, and cast-off of the 
stock are calculated to half a millimeter and 
the barrels preferably of fluid compressed steel, 
the finished gun costing $250 to $300. 
Distinguishing characteristics of guns adapted 
to the requirements of this market, as compared 
with American sporting guns, are a shorter 
stock, with thicker neck and usually much 
greater bend, while a cheek piece is indispensable. 
Bolts, grips, catches, and general furniture 
must be extraordinarily close fitting, and the 
trigger pull, which is usually four to four and 
one-half pounds in American and British guns, 
is here reduced to about three pounds or even 
less. The boring of the barrels is either both 
full choke or the right three-quarter and the 
left extra full choke and thirty inches in length 
for duck and trap shooting, although latterly 
shorter barrels are coming into vogue for field 
shooting. 
Advertising or correspondence alone would 
in all probability not lead to business, and it 
should be understood that only high-grade pro¬ 
ducts and specialties in firearms can be im¬ 
ported under existing conditions, because home 
factories amply supply the whole trade in ordi¬ 
nary and cheap goods. 
Consul Edward J. Norton, of Malaga, says 
there is absolutely no trade in American fire¬ 
arms in that section of Spain; furthermore, it 
must be reported that the outlook for business 
in this line is so unpromising, and so limited 
in any case, that American manufacturers can 
not be encouraged to attempt the building up 
of exports to the district. 
One of the obstacles to the development of 
a trade in firearms is found in the law which 
prohibits the importation of pistols, revolvers, 
rifles, or carbines of a caliber over seven milli¬ 
meters (0.27559 inch). Limited quantities of 
these arms may be introduced, however, to¬ 
gether with ammunition of the corresponding 
caliber, if special permission is obtained before¬ 
hand through the customs authorities, but deal¬ 
ers state that there is such a limited call for 
arms of the prohibited class, including sporting 
rifles, and expenses in connection with ob¬ 
taining entry are so heavy that there is no 
profit in handling the line. 
The free sale of imported firearms is also re¬ 
stricted to a great extent by the Spanish cus¬ 
toms law, under which a flat rate of duty, 
amounting to twenty pesetas per kilo net 
weight ($3.86 per 2.2046 pounds), is charged 
on all firearms of the non-prohibited classes, 
with the exception of pistols, which are duti¬ 
able at $1.54 per kilo. As guns or revolvers 
made of the best materials or involving work¬ 
manship of a high degree are charged the same 
rate of duty as arms of inferior quality, it has 
followed that dealers carry very light stocks of 
these goods and have limited their purchases 
to the best products of well-known Belgian or 
German makers. Imported firearms are sold at 
exorbitant prices and are beyond the reach of 
all except wealthy people. 
All the trade in low-priced guns, rifles and 
reitolvers is supplied by the Spanish arms fac¬ 
tories located at Eibar and Barcelona. Most 
of these plants produce low-grade goods, but 
among the Eibar factories there are one or two 
plants specializing in the manufacture of high- 
class shotguns. The best guns of Spanish 
make are constructed after British models and 
are said to be accurate, well-balanced arms. A 
new model just put on the local market is a 
Y OU know mallards—wisest and wariest of all 
ducks- Solomons of the air. You can’t knock 
down mallards with a paddle nor can you get them 
with a gun that plasters its shots all over the face 
of creation. 
A mallard shot is generally a long shot, and long 
shots require a hard-shooting, close-shooting gun. 
That's why the long-headed man who goes to a 
mallard country takes a Lefev^er. When he swings 
it on a towering pair of mallards he does not ques¬ 
tion the result. He know it— 
TWO CLEAN KILLS 
The reason a Lefever kills clean and sure and 
far is Lefever Taper Boring. 
But if you buy a Lefever for the taper boring 
alone, you will get more than your money’s worth. 
For instance, you will never be handicapped with 
leeseness at the hinge joint. The exclusive Lefever 
screw compensates for a year’s wear by a trifling 
turn that you make yourself with a screwdriver. 
LEFEVER 
SHOT GUNS 
Sixteen other exclusive Lefever features and Lefe¬ 
ver simplicity and strength make the $28 gun the 
peer of any ¥50 gun on the market. Upwards to 
Ji , 000 . Send for free catalog and get Lefever vrise. 
Lefever Arms Co., aj Maltbie St., Syracuse,N.Y. 
hammerless, equipped with an improved and 
patented safety action, and is offered for sale 
at a price below possible competition of any 
imported gun of about the same style and finish. 
The automatic pistols and the revolvers pro¬ 
duced in Spain closely resemble American 
models. Double-action revolvers are more in 
demand than automatic pistols. Prices range 
from $2.50 to $8, but the best selling weapons 
are those retailed at $4 and $5. 
Under the provisions of a law enacted in 
June, 1897, exclusive privileges relating to the 
manufacture an(l sale of powder and explosives 
in Spain and in the Balearic and Canary groups 
were granted to the Sociedad Union Espanola 
de Explosivas. This company maintains its 
central offices and factory in Bilboa and has 
established selling agencies throughout the 
Kingdom. Certain kinds of sporting powder 
only may be imported upon payment of customs 
duties amounting of 8.7 cents per kilo (2.2046 
pounds), to which must be added the sum 
allowed by the Government to the powder mo¬ 
nopoly as a commission on imports. This com¬ 
mission on F, FF, and FEE black powders 
amounts to $1.06 per kilo. On smokeless the 
commission payable to the monopoly is fixed 
at $2.22 per kilo. 
Cartridges, loaded, pay a customs duty of 
$11.58 per 100 kilos (220.46 pounds), to which 
must be added $0.68 for each too cartridges 
