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FOREST AND STREAM 
Feb. 17, 1912 
De Witt Clinton won the club championship. The 
summaries. 
First team trophy: 
Morris. 
D Romeo .73 
L Jaeger . 76 
W Fogg . 80 
F Rescori .74 
J Furia . 75—378 
Commerce . 345 
Manual Training . 338 
Stuyvesant . 315 
De Witt Clinton. 
C Serling . 75 
W Clendenning... 71 
I Grossman . 74 
De Castro . 75 
C Eversfield . 76—371 
Curtis .288 
Eastern District .258 
Commercial . 193 
Second team trophy: 
Morris. 
C Toschach . 68 
W Hoffman . 64 
L Braunstein .71 
F Schaeffer . 64 
R Pickett . 74—34] 
Commerce . 261 
Club championship trophy: 
De Witt Clinton. 
C Eversfield .80 
C Serling .76 
R De Castro .75 
I Grossman .81 
W Clendenning .. 79—391 
Commerce . 344 
De Witt Clinton. 
W Welton . 64 
C Elliott . 55 
T Montsko . 73 
L Moway .73 
Rothstein . 65—330 
Curtis . 236 
Morris. 
D Romeo . 81 
L Jaeger . 72 
W Fogg . 83 . 
F Rescori . 78 
J Furia . 71—385 
Individual competition: 
17?^w J- Curry, Stuyvesant, 
11°’ 5® .Castro, De Witt Clinton, 172; L. Kronman 
Manual Training, 169; L. Jaeger, Morris, 169; W. Clen- 
Cl'uton, 166;D. Shapiro, Commerce, 
164, D. Romeo, Morris, 161; T. Colgan, Commercial, 151; 
C Eversfield, De Witt Clinton, 149; B. Grossman, De 
^ys’^130°"’ Commercial, 137; W. Church, 
- Class B-L. Rickert, Morris^ 158; C. Toschach, Morris, 
It ’ • De Witt Clinton, 154; W. Hoffman 
Morris, 149; L. Steinbeck, Manual Training, 141; W. 
WeUon, De Witt Clinton 137; L. Braunstein, Morris, 
135; F. Schaeffer, Morns, 129. 
Class C—G. Dugan Morris, 137; I. Gersch, Morris, 129; 
G Schneider, De Witt Clinton, 123; A. Ulrich, Morris 
11 ^’ m De Witt Clinton. 
M ’ 110Clinton, 114; J. McDonald, 
National Rifle Association Notes. 
executive committee of the 
National Rifle Association, held at the office in Wash¬ 
ington on heb. 7, the following organizations and indi- 
viduals \vere elected to membership in the Association: 
J Theo. Schwan, U. S. A., 
retired; M. Merillon, president de TUnion Internationale 
des F^erations et Associations Nationals de Tir, 
jTaris, ]:'ranee ; Senor Don Antonio del Pino, president 
liro Federal Argentine, Buenos Aires, Argentine Re- 
public; J H. Cumpston, Dallas, Tex.; W. S. Park, Los 
Vegas, h^v ; Hon. Butler Ames, Boston, Mass.; Wm. B. 
Cmt, Buffalo, N. Y.; J. H. Carl, Gilroy, Cal. 
Kegriments—Ninth U. S, Cavalry. 
Third Class (Military) Organizations—Co. E, Third 
Wyoming Infantry, and Co. I, Tenth Pennsylvania In- 
Civilian Riffle Clubs—California Grays Rifle Club, San 
Francisco; BrooWyn (N. Y.) Naval Militia Rifle Club; 
Bucyrus (Ohio) Rifle Association; Haywards (Cal.) Rifle 
Vat ’ (Idaho) Rifle and Revolver Club; Boston 
(Mass.) Revolver Club; Winnemucca (Nev.) Rifle Club' 
Club; Redding 
(Cab) Rifle Club; Milwaukee (Wis.) Rifle and Pistol 
Club and Fremont (Ohio) Civilian Rifle Club. 
College and University Clubs—Kansas University Rifle 
Club, West Virginia University Rifle Club, Norwich 
University Rifle Club. 
School Boy Rifle Clubs—Eastern High School, Wash- 
ington, D. C., and New Mexico Military Institute. 
Ihe ambitious plans of the Association to organize 
and send two rifle teams abroad this spring will mean 
strenuous work to collect the $15,000 necessary for the 
sending of these teams. Subscriptions have begun to 
corne in The first to be heard from is the well-known 
shot Billy Martin, of New Jersey, who writes that his 
regiment the Second Infantry, will subscribe $100. Two 
hundred dollar subscriptions have been received from the 
Remington-U. M. C. Co., and the Winchester Repeating 
Arms Co. General Crozier, Chief of Ordnance, U. S 
Army, sends in his check for $5, and Mr. J. H. Cumps- 
ton, of Dallas, Tex., one for $10. 
Plans are under way by several regiments which have 
adopted the suggestion sent out in a circular letter by 
the Association recommending the holding of a review 
or other entertainment in the armory for the benefit of 
the fund. The details have been completed for the 
ammunition tests, which will be held at the U. S. Marine 
Corps’ range, Winthrop, Md., March 26 and 27. 
The officers for the Argentine team have been selected, 
^e team captain will be Col. Charles D. Gaither, of 
Maryland, who is well known by all the riflemen of the 
country, he haying been in charge of the Maryland State 
rifle team at the national matches for a great many years. 
The team adjutant will be Capt. James A. Moss, of the 
General Staff, U. S. Arrny, one of the best-known lin¬ 
guists in the army. He is from Louisiana, and French 
is almost his native tongue. He has also been a teacher 
of Spanish in the army school, and will be of invaluable 
assistance in representing the United States at the Con¬ 
gress of Sharpshooters, to be held at Buenos Aires, at 
the same time as the tournament, and tn the conferences 
of the team captains, preliminary to the matches. 
Navy, and Marine Corps have expressed 
their intention of nominating candidates to tryout for 
rtese teams. Reports are beginning to come in from the 
States as to the number of representatives. West Vir¬ 
ginia will send three, California two, and the indications 
are that the representation will be very general. 
Philadelphia Rifle Associatien. 
Scores of the Philadelphia Rifle Association, Thurs¬ 
day, Feb. 8 , on the Philadelphia range of the National 
Rifle Academy, 1234 Filbert street: 
Rifle, offhand, German ring target, 75ft.: E. H. Wil¬ 
liams, Jr., 240, 239, 236, 240, 239, 242, 243, 237, 234, 240, 
243, 243; E. C. Goddard, 240, 243, 241, 240, 240; C. R. 
Doughty, 236, 230, 231, 239, 231. 
Rifle, prone, N. R. A. target, 1 to 10 count: W. J. 
Maybee, 98, 94; Harry Overbaugh, 87, 95; E. H. Wil¬ 
liamson, Jr., 92, 99; W. N. Patrick, 91, 92; R. S. New- 
bold, 94, 96; N. Spering, 91, 90; J. (j. Schnerring, 93, 95; 
I. G. Dillin, 89, 90; Dr. E. E. Given, 80, 90, 85; H. L. 
Reeves, 94. 95. 
Pistol, Standard American target, 60ft.: H. A. Dill, 
81, 83, 82, 86 ; Geo. Hueh Smith, 85, 86 , 91, 93, 90, 92, 90; 
W. J. Maybee, 82, 83, 87, 93; D. L. Vaughan, 84, 80, 71, 
77, 78; Herman Thomas, 86 , 88 , 90, 87, 88 , 87; Dr. G. G. 
Davis, 44, 53, 59, 74, 80, 77; Miller Forbes 84, 88 , 82, 87, 
89;R. S. Newbold, 83, 79, 85, 86 , 83, 82, 78, 77; H. L. 
Reeves, 80, 86 , 68 , 82, 88 , 88 ; N. Spering, 82, 83; J. G. 
Dillin, 80, 77; Dr. W. E. Quicksall, 91, 89, 85, 81, 83. 
United States Revolver Indoor League matches: 
Philadelphia vs. Spokane; Geo. Hugh Smith 233, Dr. 
W. E. Quicksall 219, Herman Thomas 217, H. L. Reeves 
215, Miller Forbes, 211; total 1095. 
Philadelphia vs. Seattle: Geo. Hugh Smith 223, Herman 
Thomas 222, VV. J. Maybee 221, Miller Forbes 218, H. L. 
■Reeves 216; total 1100. 
National Rifle Association Indoor League match: 
Philadelphia vs. Birmingham: W. J. Maybee 192, E. 
H. Williamson, Jr., 191, R. S. Newbold 190, H. L. 
Reeves 189, J. 6 . Schnerring 188; total 950. 
Harry Overbaugh. 
Seventh Regiment Rifles. 
With he record number of 341 entries, the rifle shoot¬ 
ing competition at the Seventh Regiment Armory on 
Feb. 9 and 10, was one of the most successful. Lance 
Corporal Boles, Company I, continued in the lead in 
the expert division of the class cup match, while Sergt. 
A. Scholz, Company M, won the class match. 
AMERIC-^N WOODPECKERS AND TELE¬ 
GRAPH POLES. 
Some months ago reference was made in the 
Field to a Bulletin issued by the United States 
Department of Agriculture relating to the food 
of American woodpeckers, and the value of 
many of these birds as destroyers of noxious 
insects, some of which are not eaten by other 
birds. That inquiry, however, did not finally 
settle the question as to the relative beneficial 
or harmful character of the various species of 
woodpeckers, and a fresh investigation has been 
accordingly undertaken for the purpose of de¬ 
termining the amount of damage inflicted by 
these birds on trees and timber. The results 
are recorded in a second Bulletin (No. 39 ) 
issued by the Biological Division of the Depart¬ 
ment, and drawn up by Mr. W. L. McAtee. 
As regards the larger species, such as the big 
ivory-billed woodpecker, some of them un¬ 
doubtedly damage trees by the holes made in 
their search for insects, and also by such nest¬ 
ing holes as are excavated in living wood, a 
fresh one being made every year. Other species, 
however, select hollow or rotten boughs, and 
make use of the same hole year after year. As 
regards indirect damage, the holes and in¬ 
cisions made in the tree stems and branches 
permit the entrance of bacteria, fungus spores, 
and insects, and for the injurious effects of those 
the birds are, of course, primarily responsible. 
Damage to living trees is, however, by no 
means the sole injury caused by the typical 
woodpeckers in America, for, surprising as it 
may seem to those who have studied them only 
in this country, it appears that in the United 
States these birds not infrequently hollow out 
telephone and telegraph poles for nesting or 
shelter cavities to such an extent that the poles 
sometimes snap off in high winds. In Penn¬ 
sylvania the worst offender in this respect is 
the red-headed Melanerpes erythrocephalus, 
which some years ago ruined many poles be¬ 
longing to the Pennsylvania Telephone Com¬ 
pany, while along one of the railway lines no 
out of 268 white cedar poles were bored by 
these birds. The golden-fronted Centrums 
aurifrons is equally mischievous in Texas. Mr. 
H. P. Attwater, for instance, reports as follows 
of the damage done in that State. 
“Here their favorite nesting sites are in tele¬ 
graph poles, and there are few without nesting 
holes as they [the birds] appear to make new 
ones every year. * * * A line running out of San 
Antonio to a ranch nine miles distant was al¬ 
most destroyed by these birds. They came from 
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 Lefet^er. When he swings 
it on a towering pair of mallards he does not ques¬ 
tion the result. He know it— 
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But if you buy a Lefever for the taper boring 
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all sides, from far and near, and made fresh 
holes every year, sometimes as many as five or 
six in a single pole.” 
Again, Mr. Sennett, writing of the same 
species in the Rio Grande Valley, observes that; 
“The square Government telegraph poles are 
its favorite nesting place. There is hardly a 
pole free from their holes, and in one I counted 
ten; probably some of these were made by their 
only relative in this section, the Texas wood¬ 
pecker, Picus scalaris.” 
Further to the west, another species, probably 
the Gila woodpecker (Centrums uropygialis), 
has been a source of trouble and expense to the 
Southern Pacific Telegraph Company for many 
years past. In the Sonora district, for instance, 
no fewer than 300 poles had to be renewed. 
Some of these were of cylindrical cedar and 
others of squared redwood, while others again 
were creosoted. The squared poles suffered 
worst, some having five or six holes of three or 
four inches in diameter. In these cases most 
of the holes seemed to have been drilled in 
search of insect larvae, although others were 
bored to form nesting holes. It is suggested 
that the hum of the wires—which may have 
been mistaken for that of insects—has something 
to do with attracting the birds to the poles. 
This, however, is most unlikely, for wood- 
.peckers do not take humming insects on the 
wing. 
In spite of this serious damage, however, it is 
considered that these birds are distinctly bene¬ 
ficial on account of the number of wpodboring 
insects they consume; and it is recommended 
that, instead or killing them, nesting boxes 
should be attached to the telegraph poles, as it 
has been ascertained that they will readily re¬ 
sort to them. 
