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FOREST AND STREAM 
DEATH OF THOMAS H. KELLER, SR. 
The trade and sportsmen through the country 
will be shocked to hear of the sudden death of 
Mr. T. H. Keller, Sr., or “T. K.,” as he was 
familiarly known to his host of friends. 
Mr. Keller had been suffering for some time 
from a nervous breakdown and during the past 
six weeks was able to devote only a part of the 
time to business. He was one of the best known 
figures in the ammunition business and the shoot¬ 
ing game, and was no mean shot himself; in 
fact, he was an all-around shooter, as he could 
handle the shot-gun, the military rifle, the 
Schuetzen rifle and the revolver with equal fa- 
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Practice lip now for the season's tro¬ 
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out to pepper the speedy clay targets. Get an edge on the other fellow 
while the season is still young. There’s no game can surpass 
TRAPSHOOTING 
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fellows and there’s a hearty welcome ready and waiting for you at the 
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It’s a practical little device that throws all kinds of targets. Folds up. 
Goes in a bag and makes trapshooting possible at any time or place. 
$4.00 at your sporting goods dealer’s or sent 
prepaid on receipt of price anywhere in the U. S. 
Write for Booklet, “THE SPORT ALLURING" No. 3 
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, Del. 
When in Atlantic City visit the “Du Pont Store.” Pennsylvania Avenue & Boardwalk—see the big Du 
Pont Night Sign and try your skill at the Trapshooti-g School at the end of Young’s Million r ollar Pier. 
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They are fitted with simplified one-trigger mechanism, detachable locks 
and the strongest of breech construction. 
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WESTLEY RICHARDS “OVUNDO” GUN 
Send for illustrated list giving full particulars of these weapons 
renumerating the many advantages of the “OVUNDO” System to 
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15-17 Warren Street 128-133 So. Wabash Ave. 230 Chambers of Commerce 
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cility and no little credit, although he did not 
profess to be an expert in this line. He was a 
salesman of the highest order and for many 
years the New York manager for the Peters 
Cartridge Company. 
By a strange coincidence the news of his death 
was received by the board of directors of the 
company while it was in its annual meeting and 
a resolution was adopted before the meeting ad¬ 
journed. This resolution not only expresses the 
sentiments of Mr. Keller’s associates in business, 
but it is believed that it reflects also the feelings 
of his wide circle of acquaintances, and it is, 
therefore, reproduced here as a public tribute 
to a man whose life was a marked success in 
the truest sense of the word : 
WHEREAS: The sad news of the sudden death of 
our associate in business, and personal friend. Thomas- 
H. Keller, manager of the New York Office, has just 
reached us. 
RESOLVED: That we express our great sorrow over 
the loss of an able associate and a lovable personal 
friend. His sterling qualities and kindly heart en¬ 
deared him to all with whom he was associated so¬ 
cially, or in business. 
Coming to this Company nearly twenty-five years 
ago, in the early days of its career, he was identified 
with its growth in succeeding years. At his sugges¬ 
tion, the New York branch office was established and 
it was under his management from the first. He was 
a born salesman of large experience, and his wide 
acquaintance with the trade, among whom his per¬ 
sonal friends were legion, and among the shooting 
fraternity, by whom he was well known from coast to 
coast, made his advice on many important matters re¬ 
lated to the Company’s interest of great value. He 
v/ill be greatly missed in the councils of the Com¬ 
pany, and in the future gatherings of those asso¬ 
ciated with him in business. 
RESOLVED: That a copy of this resolution be for¬ 
warded to the bereaved family, with expression of 
our deep and sincere sympathy. 
THE PETERS CARTRIDGE COMPANY. 
LONG RUN TROPHIES BADGE OF TRAP¬ 
SHOOTING EXPERTS. 
For years the most coveted prizes in the trapshooting 
game have been the Du Pont Long Run Gold Trophies. 
The exceptional attractiveness of the trophies offered, 
which have been of a different design each year, and 
which are now recognized as being almost official badges 
of expertness, has made them the most eagerly sought 
trophies in the sport of trapshooting. 
A long run,. it may be explained, now consists of a 
shooter breaking consecutively 50 or more clay targets 
in a registered trapshooting tournament. Whereas prior 
to 1913, the long run regulations were that an amateur 
must break 100 targets in as many shots, and a profes¬ 
sional 125, to win the long run badge of expertness. 
In every respect the year 1915 must be considered the 
greatest in the history of clay bird shoo-ting, and the 
increasing number of long runs made is simply addi¬ 
tional evidence of this fact. 
*The . following figures are of interest in this 
connection: 
1911— —107 Long Runs of 100 straight or better were made. 
1912— 115 
1913— 135 
1914— 128 
1915— 13S 
1914— 429 shooters made 1142 runs of 50 straight or better. 
1915— 905 “ “ 2747 “ “ “ “ “ “ 
*(These records only cover runs made in registered 
tournaments and with Du Pont Powders.) 
In 1914 the Du Pont Long Run Trophy regulations 
were amended so that shooters making runs of 50 
straight or better in a registered tournament (a very com¬ 
mendable performance by the way), were able to share 
in the Long Run trophy awards. The attractiveness of 
trapshooting was thus immeasurably increased for hun¬ 
dreds of contestants, as is indicated by the above 
figures showing that in 1915 alone 905 shooters made 2747 
runs of 50 straight or better. 
The popularity of the new system having been so 
completely demonstrated, the Du Pont Company have an¬ 
nounced -that they will continue same during the year 
1916. The manner of awarding the long run trophies is: 
A gold watch fob for the first run of 50 or better. 
For succeeding runs gold bars which are attachable to 
the fobs are awarded on the following basis: 
Run of 50 to 74, Y& inch gold bar. 
Run of 75 to 99, Yu inch gold bar. 
Run of 100 and over, inch gold bar. 
A Waltham 20 year gold watch is sent to an amateur 
shooter who makes 15 runs of 50 or more during 1915 and 
1916. A professional shooter may win a watch by mak¬ 
ing 25 runs of 50 or more during the same period. There 
is no limit to the number of watches which may be won 
during the two years. 
The winners of Du Pont gold watches during 1915 
were: 
EASTERN AMATEURS. 
H. B. Shoop, Harrisburg, Pa.; W. S. Behm, Esterly, 
Pa.; Woolfolk Henderson, Louisville, Ky.; C. H. New¬ 
comb, Philadelphia, Pa.; Jo. H. Noel, Nashville, Tenn.; 
