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The club offered an all-around championship 
prize, a gold bar, to the one scoring the highest 
number of points, provided the contestant had 
scored in one of the gun events, one of the rod 
events and one in woodcraft. Won by Wilbur 
Newsome. 
Ed. H. Morse offered a special prize to the 
one showing the best lantern slides (limited to 
six) in hunting, fishing and camping subjects. 
Yvon by Dan J. Singer. 
Dr. Godfrey R. Pisek offered a special prize to 
the one showing the best tent and equipment. 
Won by David T. Abercrombie. 
Rifle Contest. 
John W. Hessian, Chairman. 
All rifle competitions were shot at ioo yards 
and unless otherwise specified in the conditions 
of the match with big game rifles offhand, using 
full charge, factory loaded ammunition. No full 
metal jacketed bullets used. 
Stationary bulls’ eyes and circles and even clay 
birds flung from the regulation traps do not ap¬ 
peal to these men, but marksmenship embodying 
as near as possible hunting afield were made so 
attractive that the discharge of ammunition was 
continuous throughout the day. 
Three ranges had been prepared for rifle, re¬ 
volver and shotgun, with a committee in charge 
of each. 
Thirty to forty men gathered with their 
favorite rifle and ammunition about the scorers’ 
tent at one end of a hundred-yard range having 
for its background a rocky hill 
in the heart of the woods, g 
The first event—“The Rising I 
Bear,” was unique. As the f 
contestant took his position ■; 
and stood with rifle Ioadeci \ 
with five cartridges, a life- ?. 
sized bear sprang from the 
ground and remained but 
three seconds, appearing four 
times more in like manner at 
irregular intervals — the 8- ; 
inch circle heart shot count- ' 
ing io, back and head 8 . legs 
I, etc. Maximum possible I 
score, 50 points. It looked 
3 C. N. Hodgson, 50 4 L. A. Sexton, 40 
5 H. C. Cornwall, 40 
Event Number Four—“Rocky Mountain Sheep 
Match. The target was a figure of a sheep 
cne-third natural size, being the equivalent of a 
shot at a sheep at 300 yards distance. The time 
limit was five minutes for five shots. Position, 
any, standing, kneeling, sitting or prone. Rifle, 
any; the rifle, however, had to be powerful 
enough to be suitable for this kind of shooting 
and effective at distances of 300 yards at least. 
Any sights including telescopic might be used. 
The scores: 
1 Julius H. Seymour, 50 2 J. W. Hessian, 50 
3 A. Tilt, 50 4 G. Hubbell, 50 
D. T. Abercrombie, 47 
Unfortunately, other events kept me so busy I 
was not able to enter or in fact witness the re¬ 
volver competition, but judging from the contin¬ 
uous reports of these small arms, the three 
events were well patronized and the scores 
proved that the revolver was not an entirely un¬ 
known weapon to some of the membership. 
Rules of the United States Revolver Associa¬ 
tion governed the contest. The winners in the 
three events iollow: 
Event No. 1— 
1 J. W Hessian 2 L. A. Sexton 3 Joseph Root 
Event No. 2— 
1 L. A. Sexton 2 D. T. Abercrombie 
3 J- W. Plessian 
Event No. 3— 
1, Eugene du Pont; 2, Har¬ 
low Brooks; 3, G. D. Pratt. 
The four shotgun events were 
made particularly interesting by 
the presence of Jack Fanning, 
the expert manipulator of the 
hand trap. The chairman in 
charge was Eugene du Pont. 
Event No. One. — Preliminary 
of twenty-five targets. Highest 
five scores made in the last 
two day's to count. To qual¬ 
ify for the championship event 
on Saturday, a man had to 
be among the fifteen high guns 
in this preliminary shoot. 
easy but it was remarkable to note how 
often that bear escaped before the guns of 
men who had successfully hunted big game in 
all parts of the world. 
The leading scores for this event were as fol¬ 
lows : 
1 L. A. Sexton. 48 2 H. C. Cornwall, 48 
3 R. F\ Pice, 42 4 C. Cairns, 40 
5 J. W. Hessian, 40 
The second event—“Running Deer”—was very 
popular, the cUer, being hung on a wire, ran on 
an overhead trolley across an open space of about 
twenty yards. A shot in the forward half of 
the body, not including head or neck, scored 10; 
a hit elsewhere on the deer scoring 7. Total 
possible scori, 50. 
The scores: 
1 J. W. Hessian, 50 2 Wilbur Newsome, 47 
3 Eugene du Pont,. 40 4 E. W. Deming, 40 
5 Alex Walker, 37 
In the third event, “Disappearing Antelope,” 
the target was small, being a rear view of an an¬ 
telope, running away irom the shooter. It ap¬ 
peared five times at short and rapid intervals by 
being raised and lowered quickly from the pit. 
The competitor endeavored to fire five shots. 
He was not restricted in his choice of when to 
shoot, and could, if possible and so desired, shoot 
his five shots at any one or more of the five ex¬ 
posures of the target. A hit in any part of the 
figure counted 10 points; a miss, nothing. 
The scores: 
1 E. C. Delafield, 50 2 H. S. Hadden, 50 
Upper Picture-Chiefs Patterson and Dickerson Having an Argument Outside the Red Lodge. Lower Left-The Judge Giving Final Directions to 
the Bait and Fly Casters. Lower Right-The Championship Gun Squad (From Right to Left), Dickerson, du Pont, Morse, Hessian, Warner. 
