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FOREST AND STREAM 
March 2, 1912 
July 9-11.—Bradford, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s 
Seventh Eastern Handicap tournament, under the 
auspices of the Bradford G. C.; $1,000 added money. 
Tile winner of first place in the Eastern Handicap is 
guaranteed $250 in cash and a trophy. Elmer E. 
Shaner, Sec’y-Treas., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
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.—Butler, Pa.—Western Pennsylvania Trapshoot- 
ers’ League tournament, under the auspices of the 
Butler R. and G. C. S. G. Purvis, Sec’y. 
July 20.—Danbury, Conn.—Western Connecticut Trap- 
shooters’ League tournament, under the auspices of 
the Pahquioqiie G. C. E. H. Bailey, Sec’y. 
July 22-23.—Crookston (Minn.) G. C. W. E.. Rowe, Pres. 
July 25-26.—Warroad, Minn.—Minnesota State tourna¬ 
ment, under the auspices of the Minnesota State 
Sportsmen’s Association. Peter Alldrin, Sec’y. 
Aug. 1.—Plattsville (Wis.) G. C. F. J. Bridges, Sec’y. 
Aug. 6 .—Belle Vernon, Pa.—Western Pennsylvania Trap- 
shooters’ League tournament, under the auspices of 
the Belle Vernon G. C. B. F. Daugherty, Sec’y. 
Aug. 7-8.—Lindsay, (Okla.) G. C. Robt. May, Sec’y. 
Aug. 10-11.—(Chicago (Ill.) G. C. E. B. Shogren, Sec’y. 
Aug. 14-16.—Kansas City, Mo.—The Interstate Associa¬ 
tion’s Seventh Western Handicap tournament, under 
the auspices of the Kansas City G. C.; $1,000 added 
money. The winner of first place in the Western 
Handicap is guaranteed $250 in cash and a trophy. 
Elmer E. Shaner, Sec’y-Treas., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Aug. 20-21.—Sioux Falls (S. D.) G. C. A. Olsorf, Sec’y. 
Aug. 27-29.—Portland, Ore.—The Interstate Association’s 
seventh Pacific Coast Handicap tournament, under 
the auspices of the Portland G. C.; $1,000 added 
money. The winner of first place in the Pacific 
Coast Handicap is guaranteed $250 in cash and a 
trophy. Elmer E. Shaner, Sec’y-Treas., Pittsburgh, 
Pa. 
Sept. 2.—Ogdensburg (N. Y.) S. A. J. M. Morley. Sec. 
S«pt. 10.—McKeesport, Pa.—Western Pennsylvania Trap- 
shooters’ League tournament, under the auspices of 
the Youghiogheny Country Club. R. J. Caughey, 
Sec’y. 
Sept. 10.-13.—Denver, Colo.—Rocky Mountain Interstate 
Sportsmen’s Association; $5,000 added money. Am¬ 
brose E. McKenzie, Mgr. 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
Interclub and University handicap will be held at 
Travers Island under auspices of New York Athletic 
Club on .April 6, and the American championship on 
April 3 and 4. ^ 
At the annual banquet of the Spring Lake Rod and 
Gun Club at Streator, 111., plans were discussed for the 
coming season. The club was organized fourteen years ago 
and now has a membership of sixty central Illinois 
sportsmen. Several trapshoots are planned for the spring 
months. 
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The Braidwood (Ill.) Gun Club was incorporated last 
week and will hold periodical trapshooting tournaments. 
The incorporators are Walter F. Beland, Roy Griffith and 
D. S. Barr, well-known sportsmen of Braidwood. Marks¬ 
men of Will and adjacent counties will be invited to 
join the new organization. 
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Trapshooters of Decatur are making an effort to re¬ 
vive the gun club organization which dissolved last fall. 
H. W. Cadwallader, the well-known trapshot, has been 
active in working up interest in the organization, and a 
meeting will be called in March to elect officers. The 
shooters at Decatur will not re-enter the Central Illinois 
Trapshooters’ League, but prefer an independent organ¬ 
ization. 
Elmer E. Shaner says: The tournament registered 
for New Orleans, La., April 15-17, under the auspices 
of the City Park Gun Club, will be the Louisiana State 
tournament. The dates of the Camden Gun Club’s tour¬ 
nament, scheduled for Camden, Ark., May 15-16 have 
been changed to May 8-9. The dates of the New York 
State tournament, scheduled for Syracuse, N. Y., June 
10-13, have been changed to June 11-13. June 10 will be 
practice day.” 
The newly organized gun club at Hyattsville, Md., has 
elected the following officers: President, George B. 
Luckey; Secretary, Judge John Gibson; Treasurer, G. 
Hodges Carr; Field Captain, C. B. W. Chapman. Some 
doubt was entertained, in view of the statute against 
target practice in Prince George’s county, where the 
sport could be legally conducted, and the matter was re¬ 
ferred to Messrs. James C. Rogers and Charles W. 
Clagett, attorneys, for investigation and report. Presi¬ 
dent Luckey and Messrs. J. Lee D. Clagett and Chap¬ 
man were named to draft a constitution and by-laws. 
Messrs. Porter and Chapman were appointed a commit¬ 
tee to select proper shooting grounds, and also to look 
into the matter of securing traps and shells. Each char¬ 
ter member will be assessed $5, it being estimated that 
more than $100 will be necessary to inaugurate the 
project. 
Elmer E.. Shaner, Secretary-Treasurer of the Interstate 
Association, writes us: “The many friends of Mr. 
Bernard Elsesser, the popular secretary of the Penn¬ 
sylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, who has been 
seriously ill for the past three weeks with pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, will be pleased, I know, to learn that a tele¬ 
gram from his wife advises me that the crisis has been 
passed, and that the doctors report Mr. Elsesser’s con¬ 
dition as being favorable for recovery. I am quite sure 
that Mr. Elsesser’s many friends will join with me in 
wishing him a speedy return to good health.” 
The Jersey City Gun Club will hold an all-day shoot 
on iMarch 20. Shooting will commence at 10:30 sharp. 
Two McCrea automatic traps will be used. The pro¬ 
gram will include ten events of 20 birds each, optional 
sweeps. Should there be twenty to shoot through the 
program, the club will contribute $25, to be divided 
high gun, $10, $7.50, $5, $2.50. Targets, 2 cents each. 
Shells of all standard loads and makes for sale. Lunch 
served at a nominal price. Money will be divided by 
the Rose system, 5, 3, 2, 1. For information write 
R. Young, secretary, 383 Fairmount avenue, Jersey 
City, N. J. 
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At the annual meeting of the Lock Haven Gun Club 
the following members were elected to serve as the offi¬ 
cers of the club for the ensuing year: R. H. Stewart, 
President; Dr. H. W. Klapp, Vice-President; C. A. 
JTobson, Secretary; L. J. Jarshishek, Assistant Secretary; 
C. M. Flack, Treasurer; P. S. Kift, Field Captain. The 
annual two days’ shoot of this flourishing, up-to-date 
club will be held on Aug. 6 and 7 next. After the meet¬ 
ing one hundred members and invited guests of the 
club surrounded the banquet board in the spacious 
dining room of the new Commercial Hotel, and did 
ample justice to an elaborate layout of turkey and all the 
accessories necessary to a first-class dinner. The ban¬ 
quet is an annual affair, and is enjoyed by the members 
and their friends. 
The Spring Valley Shooting Association, of Reading, 
Pa., will hold a live-bird shoot on March 9, on their 
grounds at Spring Valley, Pa. Trolley cars leave Fifth 
and Penn streets on the hour and half-hour direct to 
grounds. The first event will be the preliminary handi¬ 
cap, 10 birds, $5 entrance; the second event, the Spring 
Valley handicap, at 15 birds, $8 entrance; handicap dis¬ 
tance, 27 to 31yds. Percentage system governs all events 
under Interstate rules. Shoot starts promptly at 1 P.M. 
Further information can be had by addressing E. H. 
Adams, secretary, 1805 Perkiomen avenue, Reading, Pa. 
The Spring Valley grounds are the leading shooting 
grounds in the State, and always draw a good crowd of 
shooters. At the recent shoot held there, a 20-bird 
race, Fred W. Dinger, of Harrisburg, was high gun 
with 19 kills. Several of the shooters had 18 to their 
credit. A silver loving cup will be given to the shooter 
making the highest score in these two events. 
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In another column will be found a letter from the 
Olympic shooting committee to every man wishing to 
offer himself as a prospect for that team. It is hoped 
that all American amateur shooters who honestly feel 
themselves eligible for this team will notify R. L. Spotts, 
105 Hudson street. New York city immediately. This 
committee has a tremendous task, albeit a thankless one, 
on its hands to select the team, and time is none too 
long before the successful candidates must be ready to 
go over the water. The committee is working con¬ 
scientiously and deserves the support of every trap- 
shooter, amateur and professional. Let’s all stop the 
talk of “conditions imposed” by the Olympic com¬ 
mittee, and, to quote a letter from Carl von Lengerke, 
printed in last week’s issue of Forest and Stream: 
“I hope ‘our boys’ will go over there, meet them at 
their own game, beat them on their own ‘dunghill’ and 
keep up the unblemished reputation of good American 
sportsmanship, win or lose, and not raise a ‘howl’ about 
conditions.” This is the spirit of true American sports¬ 
manship. If you haven’t it already, get it. Make it 
contagious, so that when the shoot is over and the 
trophy is hidden away in America, wherever the im¬ 
ported trophies generally go, there will be no soreheads 
crying “I didn’t get a chance.” Beecroft. 
Laurel Gun Club. 
Laurel, Miss., Feb. 20.—At a special shoot this after¬ 
noon in honor of Mr. Gibbs, the following scores were 
made: Shot at. Broke. Shot at. Broke 
Dr C M Davis. 75 49 Dr Scarborough 75 40 
H D Gibbs. 75 58 Decker . 61 25 
V Johnson .... 75 60 H N Rogers... 50 29 
Thursdays are the regular shooting days of this club. 
H. N. Rogers, Sec’y. 
New York Athletic Club. 
Travers Island, N. Y., Feb. 24.—Rattling weather 
here to-day, but it didn’t coax a great entry list. Most 
prominent was B. M. Higginson, who made 94 out of 
100 for high gun of the day, and in Lenane cup event 
made a full score from 4 handicap. O. C. Grinnell beat 
McMahon in shoot-off for February cup, which gave 
him the trophy. D. F. McMahon won leg on Lenane 
cup after a .shoot-off with Billings, Simpson, Huggins 
and Higginson. Billings won ten pair doubles scratch 
event w’ith 14. 
Billings won the Billings cup, field position rules, 
after a shoot off with Grinnell. 
February cup, 25 targets, handicap: 
C W Billings. 2 22 
G J Corbett. 1 23 
A E Ranney. 2 24 
O C (jrinnell. 3 25 
T Lenane . 4 20 
G F Pelham. 4 21 
W B Ogden. 2 24 
T G Battison. 3 21 
G F McLemore.... 6 18 
Shoot-off: 
O C Grinnell. 3 23 
W J Simpson. 3 23 
E F Crowe. 3 21 
E M Huggins. 5 18 
G M Thompson.... 2 20 
R L Spotts. 0 21 
B M Higginson.... 1 23 
R R Debacher. 5 20 
D F McMahon. 2 25 
D F McMahon. 2 21 
Lembeck trophy, 25 targets, handicap: 
C W Billings.'...'... 2 25 
G J Corbett. 1 22 
A E Ranney. 2 24 
O C Grinnell. 2 21 
T Lenane . 4 23 
G F Pelham. 4 25 
W B Ogden. 2 22 
J G Battison. 3 25 
G F McLemore.... 0 18 
W J Simpson. 3 24 
E F Crowe. 3 15 
E W Huggins. 5 21 
G M Thompson_ 2 18 
R L Spotts. 0 23 
R R Debacher. 5 18 
D F McMahon. 2 24 
J I Brandenberg... 5 23 
Lenane cup, 25 targets, handicap: 
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22 
R L Spotts. 
C W Billings. 2 25 
G T Corbett. 1 22 
A E Ranney. 2 .23 
O C Grinnell. 2 22 
T Lenane . 4 
C, F Pelham. 4 
W B Ogden. 2 
J G Battison. 3 .23 
C F McLemore. 0 17 
President’s cup, 25 targets. Handicap; 
W J Simpson. 3 
E F Crowe. 3 
25 
21 
E N Huggins. 5 25 
G M Thompson. 2 23 
0 20 
B M Higginson.... 4 
R R Debacher. 5 
25 
19 
D F McMahon. 2 21 
W J Simpson. 3 22 
C W Billings. 2 25 
G T Corbett. 1 21 
A 'E Rannev. 2 22 
O C Grinnell. 2 22 
T Lenane . 4 23 
G F Pelham. 4 21 
W B Ogden. 2 18 
T G Battison. 3 20 
G F McLemore... 0 20 
Ten pairs doubles, scratch: 
C W Billings. 14 
A E Ranney. 8 
O C Grinnell. 5 
G F Pelham. 8 
W B Ogden. 11 
Billings cup. Olympic rules, handicap, 25 targets: 
E F Crowe. 3 18 
E N Huggins. 5 21 
G M Thompson.... 2 21 
R L Spotts. 0 ‘22 
B M Higginson... 0 23 
R R Debacher. 5 21 
D F McMahon. 2 21 
J I Brandenberg... 5 24 
\V J Simpson. 10 
E F Crowe. 8 
R L Spotts. 13 
R R Debacher. 10 
D F McMahon. 8 
C W Billings.....'.. 1 21 
G J Corbett. 1 17 
A E Rannev . 2 17 
O C Grinnell. 2 22 
G F Pelham. 4 19 
W B Ogden. 2 20 
W J Simpson. 3 14 
E F Crowe. 5 18 
G M Thompson.... 2 16 
R L Spotts. 0 18 
B M Higginson.... 0 23 
R R Debacher. 5 19 
D F McMahon. 2 22 
J I Brandenberg... 5 20 
Dista.ace Handicap, 25 targets; 
Yds. T’l 
C W Billings... 20 22 
G T Corbett.... 20 21 
A E Ranney.... 19 17 
O C Grinnell:.. 19 22 
T Lenane . 17 17 
G F Pelham.... 17 16 
W B Ogden.... 19 15 
J G Battison.... 18 18 
Shoot-off: 
C W Billings... 20 21 
Yds. T’l. 
\V T Simpson... 18 17 
E F Crowe. 18 18 
G M Thompson. 19 16 
R L Snotts. 21 21 
B M Higginson 21 20 
D F McMahon. 19 18 
J I Brandenberg 16 16 
O C Grinnell... 19 20 
Boston Athletic Club. 
The following scores were made at the Washington’s 
Birthday shoot of the Boston A. A. J. L. Snow won 
first prize in the morning; L. H. Davis, second; G._ L. 
Munroe, third. There was a good light, but high wind; 
temper.iture 30 degrees. 
T L Snow. 5 ,75 
L H Davis. 24 73 
S A Ellis. 3 73 
G L Munroe. 24 70 
W C Brooks. 12 67 
R A Faye. 0 65 
W B Farmer. 7 64 
T E I^ynch. 5 61 
C A Barnes..... 24 61 
Shoot-o: of tie for second 
L H Davis . 6 19 
C C Clapp.12 59 
G B Clark. 12 58 
F Whitney . 15 54 
D Dewey . 12 52 
T C Adams. 0 44 
H W Knights.13 43 
*E H I’reeland. 0 38 
C B Tucker. 5 37 
F H Richards. 24 51 
prize, at 25 targets; 
S A Ellis. 1 17 
At the afternoon shoot S. A. Ellis won first; W. _C. 
Brooks, second; W. B. Farmer and G. L. Munroe tied 
for third, and on shoot-off at 25 targets, the former won. 
S A Ellis. 3 74 
W C Brooks.12 72 
W B Farmer. 7 71 
G L Munroe. 24 71 
T L .Snow. 5 69 
1 E Lvnch. 5 68 
G B Clark.12 61 
R A Faye. 0 59 
L H Davis. 24 56 
C C Clapp. 12 54 
T C Adams. 0 47 
F Whitney .15 39 
C B Tucker . 5 35 
Shoot-off of tie for third prize, at 25 targets; 
W B Farmer . 2 21 G L Munroe. 6 19 
*Guest. 
S. A. Ellis was high gun for the day with (6) 147. 
R. A. Faye was high scratch gun for the day with 124. 
The wind was still high in the afternoon. 
C. B. Tucker, Capt. 
