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[Feb. 16, 1907. 
eighth Grand American Handicap target tournament 
on the new grounds of the Chicago Gun Club; $1,000 
added money. E. E. Shaner, Sec’y-Mgr., Pittsburg. 
Tune 28-30.—Sioux City.—Iowa State shoot. 
July 9-10.—Lexington, Mo.—Missouri and Kansas League 
of Trapshooters third tournament. 
July 11-12.—Shamokin (Pa.) G. C. annual tournament; 
$100 added. S. C. Yocum, Sec’y. 
July 16-18.—Boston Mass.—The Interstate Association’s 
second Eastern Handicap target tournament, under 
the auspices of the Palefaces; $1,000 added money- 
Elmer E. Shaner, Sec’y-Mgr., Pittsburg, Pa. 
July 30-31.—Newport, R. I.—Aquidneck G. C. tournament. 
Chas. M. Hughes, Sec’y. 
Aug. 7-9.—Toronto, Ont.—Seventh annual tournament of 
the Dominion of Canada Trapshooting Association, 
under the auspices of the Stanley Gun Club. Thomas 
A. Duff, Sec’y-Treas., 3 Maynard avenue, Toronto. 
Aug. 13-14.—Carthage, Mo.—Missouri and Kansas League 
of Trapshooters fourth shoot. 
Aug. 14-15.—Lock Haven (Pa.) G. C. C. A. Jobson, Asst. 
Sec’y. 
Aug. 20-22.—Denver, Colo.—The Interstate Association’s 
second Western Handicap target tournament, under 
the auspices of the Denver Trap Club; $3,000 added 
money. Elmer E. Shaner, Sec’y-Mgr., Pittsburg, Pa. 
Sept. 10-12.—Spokane, Wash.—The Interstate Associa¬ 
tion’s third Pacific Coast Handicap target tourna¬ 
ment, under the auspices of the Spokane Rod and 
Gun Club; $1000 or more added money. Elmer E. 
Shaner, Sec’y-Mgr., Pittsburg, Pa. 
Sept. 13-14.—Coffeyville, Kans.—Missouri and Kansas 
League of Trapshooters’ fifth shoot. A. A. Carolus, 
Sec’y. 
Nov. 19-20.—Kansas City.—Missouri and Kansas League 
of Trapshooters’ sixth shoot. 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
The North River Gun Club, Edgewater, N. J., and the 
Englewood Gun Club will have a team contest on 
Feb. 22. 
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The Jackson Park Gun Club, of Paterson, N. J., are 
making strenuous efforts to have an attractive shoot on 
Washington’s Birthday. 
May 2 has been fixed upon as the date of the tourna¬ 
ment of the Catchpole Gun Club, of Wolcott, N. Y., as 
announced by Secretary E. A. Wadsworth. 
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Tuesday of this week being a holiday, Forest and 
Stream went to press on Monday, hence several com¬ 
munications are necessarily held over till next week. 
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The contest between teams of the North Caldwell Gun 
Club and the North Side Gun Club, of Paterson, N. J., 
was won by the North Sides by a score of 134 to 118. 
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The 20-bird event, held by the Narbert, Pa., Gun Club 
on Saturday of last week, had nine contestants, of whom 
Messrs. G. Emerson and Wolf tied on 19. J. Emerson 
was second with 18. 
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A team contest between the Boston, Mass., Athletic 
Association and the Harvard Gun Club is one of the 
chief topics of Boston and vicinity concerning contests 
of importance to take place thereabouts this week. 
Four 5-bird handicaps, $5 entrance, were shot at 
Quarryville, Pa., on Feb. 9. Mr. Nat. Ressler was high 
gun with a straight score in events 1 and 2, and tied 
with Grull in event 4 with a straight score. Gifford was 
high with a straight score in event 3. 
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The programme of the Jackson Park Gun Club holiday 
shoot, Paterson, N. J., Feb. 22, consists of six events, 
having a total of 100 targets; target entrance, $1.50; 
sweepstake and target entrance, $5. Class shooting. 
Singac cars leave city hall every fifteen minutes. G. A. 
Hopper is Secretary-Treasurer; William Dutcher, Man¬ 
ager and Referee. 
Messrs. Aiman, Freeman, Fisher and Scott tied on 10 
straight in the open 10-bird sweepstake held at the 
Point Breeze track, Philadelphia, on Feb. 9. Six tied 
on 9. A number of the shooters, who will represent 
Philadelphia in the team contest against Lebanon and 
Harrisburg shooters, were participants, chiefly for the 
sake of the preliminary practice, as it refers to the team 
contest. 
At a meeting of the New York Athletic Club, held 
on Wednesday evening of last week, the constitution 
was so amended as to make the initiation fee $200 instead 
of $1'0, and the annual dues were raised to $60. Life 
membership was raised from $900 to $1,000. Non-resident 
members pay $100 initiation fee, and $30 annual dues. 
The resident membership numbers 3,500, and there is 
always a large waiting list. 
Mr. C. G. Blandford, Captain of the Ossining Gun 
Club mentions that the Ossining delegation expects to 
visit Montclair ten or twelve strong this week on Sat¬ 
urday. This team contest should be close, and in any 
case it will be a model of good sportsmanship. 
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The Catchpole Gun Club, of Wolcott, N. Y., offers a 
programme of ten events, totaling 125 targets, $9 en¬ 
trance, targets included, for its tournament, Feb. 19. 
Event 6, at 20 targets, is a five-man team race for the 
Hunter Arms Co. trophy. A. A. Wadsworth is the 
Secretary. 
At the New York Athletic Club shoot of Feb. 9, held 
at Travers Island, Capt. J. N. Borland with a handicap 
allowance of 6 won a leg on the February cup. Messrs. 
W. Tilt, J. S. Dickerson and T. D. Scoble scored 47 in 
the same event, their allowances being respectively 2, 
2 and 4. 
The match between teams of the South End Gun Club, 
of Camden, N. J., and the Haddonfield Gun Club, shot 
at Camden, Feb. 9, was won by Haddonfield. The scores 
in the contest, ten men to a team, 25 targets per man, 
were 194 to 189. Webster, of Haddonfield, made high 
individual score, 22. 
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Capt. Thomas Phillips advises us that the Amackassin 
Heights Gun Club, of Yonkers, N. Y., will hold a 
shoot on Feb. 22, and that the programme will consist 
of six events—three at 15 and three at 20 targets—for 
merchandise prizes. Shooting will begin at 1 o’clock. 
To reach the grounds take Park avenue trolley. 
The programme for the shoot of the Morris Gun Club, 
Morristown, N. J., presents ten 15-target events, $1 
entrance, including targets. Shooting will commence 
at 10 o’clock, Feb. 19, rain or shine. “Good warm club 
house, and shooting under cover.” Address Secretary 
F. A. Trowbridge for further information. 
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Mr. Geo. S. McAlpin, who a few years ago was prom¬ 
inent in trapshooting matters, obtained a verdict for 
$3,000 on Feb. 6, in a suit growing out of a question of 
commissions on the sale of stock in the organization of 
the Santee Gun Club, which owns a large shooting pre¬ 
serve in South Carolina. This is as it is recounted by 
the daily press. 
At the shoot of the Middlesex Gun Club held at 
Lexington, Mass., Feb. 9, Mr. E. C. Griffith scored 96 
out of the 100 in the 100 target event, while the re¬ 
nowned professionals, Mr. Sim Glover and W. H. Heer 
scored 95 and 94 respectively. There were about thirty 
contestants in attendance, much interest being mani¬ 
fested in the great experts. 
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Mr. Frank E. Butler, the popular trade representative, 
is a busy and successful man, yet withal there appar¬ 
ently are not days enough in the month to satisfy his 
craving for action, in evidence of which he wrote Mr. 
James T. Skelly under date of Feb. 8 from Boston that 
he would be in Wilmington on “Saturday, Feb. 30.” Three 
hours later a second letter arrived with an amended date, 
March 2, which thereby saved the calendar and it still 
remains Gregorian. 
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The shooters of the Crescent Athletic Club turned out 
in good force at the shoot held on the Bay Ridge, L. I., 
grounds on Feb. 9. Some excellent scores were recorded. 
Mr. F. B. Stephenson broke 25 straight from scratch 
in the February cup contest and was tied by Mr. O. C. 
Grinnell, Jr., who had an allowance of 2. The former 
also won first in four other events, with scores re¬ 
spectively of 24, 24, 15 and 13, the two latter being 
events at 15 targets. Mr. F. W. Moffett, Jr., won two 
events with full scores of 15. Mr. W. C. Damron won 
four events and divided one with Mr. C. A. Lockwood, 
and one event by good performance was won by Mr. 
J. U. Ernst. 
Bernard Waters. 
Montclair Gun Club. 
Montclair, N. J., Feb. 9. —Seven members were pres¬ 
end. Mr. Boxall won both the Remington trophy and 
the monthly cup. Events 1 and 4 were for practice. 
Event 2 was for Remington trophy. Event 3 was for 
monthly cup. 
Events: 
12 3 4 
Events: 
12 3 4 
Targets: 
25 50 50 25 
Targets: 
25 50 50 25 
Barnes . 
... 20 43 42 .. 
Cockefair .., 
.... IS 44 36 18 
Boxall . 
... 21 49 45 20 
Parke . 
. 38 .. .. 
Schneider .. 
... 17 35 36 .. 
Hughes .... 
Bush . 
... 17 43 40 .. 
F. H. 
Cockefair. 
New York City Cup. 
Wilmington, Del., Feb. 9 .—Editor Forest and Stream: 
Had it not been for Mr. Blandford’s unfortunate remark 
about “the old fight against trade representatives,” which 
appears in the third paragraph of his letter to you of the 
2d inst., re New York City Trophy, and which communi¬ 
cation is published in your issue of to-day, I probably 
would not spend any more of my leisure moments in 
taking up the cause of the donors of that trophy to the 
N. Y. S. A. for the P. of F and G. Little, if anything, 
more was needed after your sharp dissection of Mr. 
Blandford’s defense of the Association as secretary of the 
above Association’s successor. 
If there was an “old fight against trade representatives,” 
I cannot recall it, and evidently those who fought con¬ 
cealed their deeds of violence well, for until less than 
three years ago I was a deeply interested member of the 
Association then in existence. 
It was only at Utica during the month of June, 1905, 
that what Mr. Blandford terms a “fight” came to light. 
But Mr. Blandford must not forget that the originator 
of the motion in the “anti-trade representative fight” 
was our good friend Harvey McMurchy, himself a trade 
representative, and one of the best. He at least was dis¬ 
interested enough to do what he thought was for the best, 
but what to mv way of thinking was a hardship to out¬ 
siders iike myself. 
With reference to my communications to you, last year . 
I was working for the outside trade representatives as 
well as for due recognition of the New York City Trophy. 
That the work done in behalf of the former by others as 
well as by myself bore fruit is evidenced by the fact that 
last year’s Buffalo shoot was open to trade representa¬ 
tives from outside the State, who were welcomed and 
permitted to shoot “for targets only,” all that was 
petitioned for. 
That the Infallible Gun Club of Buffalo had had their 
attention drawn to the status of' the Nevy York City 
Trophy by the publicity given it in your columns was 
proved satisfactorily to myself by a personal letter from 
the then secretary of that club (and the State shoot was 
held under the auspices of that organization), asking for 
full details regarding the conditions. He got those con¬ 
ditions, and, so far as I recollect, the statement made in 
the programme gotten out for the shoot regarding the 
New York City Trophy, it appears to me that the ama¬ 
teur who came so near winning the trophy had no ex¬ 
cuse for becoming “very indignant.” He may possibly 
be excused for “not knowing the rules governing the 
competition,” but there was not much question as to the 
wording of the rules governing that one competition. 
The programme covered that point clearly. 
The secretary of the Association says that he has “no 
way of ascertaining” the winners of the Trophy in past 
competitions. I will wager (to use his own expression) 
that a letter of request to either yourself or to one of the 
editors of your contemporaries in the shooting world would 
bring the desired result. Suppose he write such a letter 
and try if such a simple expedient won’t bring him the 
information he ought to desire to ascertain. 
As to exacting a bond from the winner in last year’s 
contest, that looks funny to me, for I do not believe any 
previous winner was ever asked to furnish a bond. If 
Tim Elliott felt that his word was not considered as good 
as his bond (as had been the case in former years with 
other winners), is there any wonder that he preferred to 
leave the trophy in the care of an association that made 
an exception in his case? Did Frank Kelsey, Simeon 
Glover, Harvey McMurchy. etc., previous winners of the 
trophy, give a bond? And by the way, Sim Glover won 
the trophy when he was still in the amateur ranks. 
Mr. Blandford’s idea, that if the cup was put up for 
competition in a special 100-target race, with certain 
cash prizes thrown in. there would be more interest 
taken in the race for the trophy, may be all right; but 
the trophy was given with the idea of its going to the 
man who at each State tournament had best proved his 
right to the title of “champion of the State at targets,” 
not to any man who might develop a streak of “break¬ 
ing ’em all,” which did not rightfully belong to him, as 
might be the case in a single 100-target race. I still think 
that the man who wins high average in all the State 
events decided during the tournament, or who makes the 
highest aggregate “on not less than 100 targets shot at 
on each day of the tournament,” is much more likely 
to be the man best qualified to uphold the title of State 
champion than if that title were shot for as Mr. Bland¬ 
ford suggests. It is rather curious that Mr. Blandford 
also suggests that $15 should go to the winner of his 100- 
target race, and $10 to the second high gun. That’s the 
$25 we asked should be expended on a souvenir for the 
winner of the championship honors. But the “joker” is 
readily seen in that “entrance should be not more than 
$2.” Targets can be thrown at a cent apiece, so that the 
$25 would come out of the shooters’ pockets, because in 
a “well attended” tournament, like those of the N. Y. S. 
S. A., there would surely be more than twenty-five who 
would shoot in that race for “price of targets only.” 
Any number of contestants above twenty-five would mean 
a dollar a piece to the club’s treasury! 
As to the profits, legitimate or otherwise, that accrue 
lo a club giving, any tournament, it always seems to me 
that a club giving a shoot for the purpose of making 
money places itself on a level with the man who invites 
friends to dinner and then starts a poker game and 
“kitties out” enough to pay for the repast, “and then 
some.” It would not surprise me in the least to see, 
even in the near future, clubs recognizing this fact, and 
inviting shooters to come and shoot at “free targets.” 
In other words, act really the part of hosts. 
Edward Banks. 
PRECAUTION. 
Dora—Is it true that Jack is going to marry you? 
Flora—Yes, dear. 
Lora—Well, you’d better make him sign the pledge. 
Flora—Why, Jack doesn’t drink. 
Dora—No, but he probably will.—Cleveland Leader. 
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