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FOREST AND STREAM 
[April 6, 1907. 
money. E. E. Shaner, Sec’y-Mgr., Pittsburg. 
Ittne 28-30.—Sioux City.—Iowa State shoot. 
July 9-10.—Lexington, Mo.—Missouri and Kansas League 
of Trapshooters’ third tournament. 
July 9-10.—Bradford (Pa.) G. C.; $200 added. R. S. 
Pringle Sec , y. 
July 9-10.—krenham, (Tex) G. C. amateur handicap; $300 
added. Alt'. Gardiner, Mgr. 
July 11-12.—Shamokin (Pa.) G. C. annual tournament; 
$100 added. S. C. Yocum, Sec’y. . . 
July 18-18.—Boston, Mass—The Interstate Association s 
second Eastern Handicap target tournament, under 
the auspices of the Palefaces; $1000 added money. 
Elmer E. Shaner, Sec’y-Mgr., Pittsburg, Pa. 
July 25-26.—Asbury Park, N. J.—Monmouth G. C. shoot¬ 
ing tournament and gunners’ convention. F. Richie, 
Sec’y. 
July 30-31.—Newport, R. I.— Aquidneck G. C. tournament. 
'Chas. M. Hughes, Sec’y. 
Aug. 7-9.—'Toronto, Ont.—Seventh annual tournament of 
ihe Dominion of Canada Trapshooting Association, 
under the auspices of the Stanley Gun Club. Thomas 
A. Dufl, 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’v. . . , 
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’v-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. 
We are informed by Secretary G. A. Schroeder that 
the Columbus Gun Club, of Columbus, Neb., will hold a 
three-day target tournament, on May 14, 15 and 16. 
At the shoot of the Middlesex Gun Club, Lexington, 
Mass., March 30, Mr. H. C. Kirkwood, of Boston, was 
the star performer. He scored 97 in the 100-target event. 
Roy was second with 93. Pennington and Powell tied 
•on 90 for third. 
Sec’y F. Richie writes us that “the Monmouth Gun 
Glub, of Asbury Park, N. J., will hold its annual shoot¬ 
ing tournament and gunners’ convention on Thursday 
and Friday, July 25 and 26, official notice of which will 
shortly be sent out.” 
V., 
The Media, Pa., Gun Club defeated the Chester Gun 
Glub in a seven-man team match March 30, at Linwood. 
The contest resulted in a tie on 127. The five highest 
men shot off the tie. The result was Media 101, Chester 
4)7. Each man shot at 25 targets. 
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The North Side Rod and Gun Club, of Paterson, N. J., 
■desires to shoot some friendly home and home matches 
with some amateur club. 25 to 50 targets per man. Com¬ 
munications to this end may be addressed to Mr. Garret 
IT. Vermenten, 61 North Main street, Paterson. 
Twelve events, a total of 200 targets, $12.50 entrance, 
■are provided in the programme of the Alert Gun Club 
spring tournament at Phillipsburg, N. J. Class shooting 
will govern the moneys. Ship shells prepaid to W. IT. 
Raub, Phillipsburg. There will be three average moneys, 
$3, $2 and $1, for amateurs. 
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On the North Camden, N. J., Gun Club grounds, 
March 30, a contest took place between a 10-man team 
of the home club and a team of the Haddonfield Gun 
•Club. The home club won by a score of 202 to 195 out of 
a possible 250. Lambert, of North Camden, made 24 out 
of 25, the highest individual performance of this contest. 
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Secretary Chas. Van Valkenberg writes us as follows: 
“The Los Angeles, Cal., Gun Club will hold its semi¬ 
annual inanimate target tournament May 4 and 5 next. 
Valuable trophies to become property of winner will be 
a feature at this shoot, and $300 cash will be added. 
Visiting Shriners are especially invited.” 
The Jersey City Gun Club twelve-man team defeated 
the North Caldwell, N. J., Gun Club team, on the 
grounds of the latter, March 30. The scores were 198 to 
195. The first contest, March 16, was won by North 
•Caldwell, seven men on a side, by the score of 124 to 
113. The deciding contest will take place in the near 
■future. 
There was an unusually good attendance at the New 
England Kennel Club traps at Braintree, Mass., March 
30. The club cup was won by Mr. Samuel Hammond, 
this being his fourth win of cups this season. Mr. A. 
Blanchard was high on actual breaks, 21. Mr. R. C. 
Storey scored a leg on the season cup with a full score 
of 25. 
The Whitney cup series, which has been an Important 
competition in the Boston Athletic Association series of 
shoots, consisted of five contests at 100 targets, the three 
best scored to count. Farmer won the cup, his three 
best spores being 96, 98, 100, a total of 294. Hunter 
scored a leg on the club cup after a shoot-off with 
Titcomb. 
The Boston Athletic Association will have some busy 
days this week. On Thursday it will contest with the 
Yale Gun Club, of New Haven; on Friday, with the 
New York Athletic Club at Travers Island; on Saturday 
with the Crescent Athletic Club at the Bay Ridge traps, 
Brooklyn, L. I. There will be eight men on the teams 
in these contests. 
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A match at 25 birds for a $50 purse, at Norristown, 
Pa., March 30, between Messrs. Mark Hart and Jonas 
Meyers, of Conshohocken, resulted in a victory for the 
former. The scores were 20 and 19. A match between 
Messrs. Harry Dull and Wm. Cloverdale, of Chestnut 
Hill was arranged to take place at Feltonville on Thurs¬ 
day of this week. The conditions are 35 birds, $50 a 
side. 
St. Bernard, O., March 25.—Until I can do so per¬ 
sonally, I wish to thank, through the sportsmen’s jour¬ 
nals, my many friends who so promptly, heartily and 
efficiently came to the assistance of my family in their 
time of need, and during my unavoidable absence in 
Florida. 
I can do no more than assure you all of my most 
heartfelt thanks. Arthur Gambell. 
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Mr. Freeman G. Rump, of Lebanon, Pa., was elected 
captain of the Keystone Gun Club, at a recent meeting 
of the members. He succeeds Mr. Nat Ressler, who re¬ 
signed to engage in other business. Mr. Rump and Mr. 
Ressler are expert trap shots, and are enthusiastic in 
promoting competition. In a match at 15 live birds, 
$25 a side, on March 28, Rump defeated Mr. Francis H. 
Reinoehl, the club’s assistant captain, by a score of 11 to 
9. Rhode Island rules governed. 
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Three live-bird events were shot at the Point Breeze 
track, Philadelphia, March 30. The first was a 10-bird 
handicap, and for first Murphy, Brown and Body tied 
on 10 straight. There were nine contestants. Coleman, 
Murphy, Rand and Reed scored 5 straight in the second 
event, a 5-bird sweepstake, twelve entries, $3 entrance. 
The third event was also at 5 birds. Coleman and 
Brown scored straight, while Murphy was third alone 
with 4. 
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Mr. Frank Lawrence, of New York, known better to 
the sportsmen of America as a successful representative 
of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., has returned 
recently from a trip in the Southwest, and reports that 
he found game plentiful, and that the sportsmen in the 
section through which he traveled left nothing undone 
to make his visit pleasant. Besides a successful busi¬ 
ness trip, he was the recipient of many courteous in¬ 
vitations from his Southern friends to participate in 
their field shooting events. His stories of shooting 
doves in baited fields in the South, and of shooting 
quail over Southern pointers are very interesting. He 
suggests to us that if any of his Northern friends desire 
any information regarding shooting in the extreme South 
they drop him a line. 
Bernard Waters. 
Trapshooting at Pinehurst. 
Trapshooting has never been more popular at Pine¬ 
hurst, N. C.; in fact, the sport seems to have undergone 
a new and permanent awakening, as is indicated by the 
fact that 10,000 targets are being thrown day after day. 
The result is but natural, for the geographical location 
is excellent, and hundreds of sportsmen are attracted 
here annually by the excellent quail shooting. Among 
the prominent shots who have been much at the traps 
this season is John Philip Sousa, the bandmaster, who 
has long figured prominently in national events, win¬ 
ning fourth in the international championship at St. 
Louis in 1898. 
Another conspicuous figure is Lowell Palmer, Jr., of 
the Crescent Athletic Club, champion for five years 
past, and also high gun last year in B. A. A. and \\ ell- 
ington Gun Club shoots. 
C. A. Lockwood, also of the Crescent club, and one 
of its good shots, is an annual visitor here, as is Charles 
Stanley, the Cleveland crack, and Edward C. Hoyt and 
Will Gordon, of the Carteret Club; Allan E. Lard, in¬ 
ventor and owner of a single trigger attachment used on 
Wesley-Richards (English) and L. C. Smith (American) 
guns; D. Herbert Hostetter, of Pittsburg; J. D. H. 
Ralph, of Philadelphia; Harry Dutton, of Boston; Cyrus 
A. Taft, of Whitinsville, and two score of others less 
prominently known. 
Conspicuous in the gun club’s equipment is the Tower 
trap, the very first to be erected in this country, and 
which was responsible for many others of its character. 
These towers have long been popular in Europe, the idea 
being to establish conditions similar to those the sports¬ 
man experiences in pheasant shooting, when the birds 
are driven, wild water fowl or pigeon shooting, and birds 
which fly from trees. 
The tower is 50 feet high, and in the top are two expert 
traps, one each at the right and left, which the shooter 
faces. The attendant is protected by a heavy plank 
partition, which also hides the traps from view, and the 
traps are pulled from the rear in the usual manner. 
Five different kinds of targets may be thrown—right, 
left, overhead, unknown angles and doubles. In all of 
these events, with the exception of overhead birds, the 
shooter faces the tower at usual rise distances. In the 
overhead shooting he stands back to the foot of the 
tower and directly underneath the trap. It is needless to 
say that even the best of shots find they still have some¬ 
thing to learn after trying the tower trap for the first 
Known angles to the right and left are not difficult, 
and many have a knack for breaking overhead targets; 
but the unknown angles bother most of the shooters; 
and doubles, two targets shooting off in opposite direc¬ 
tions at the same time, call for skill and quickness which 
few possess; but they are by no means impossible, and 
really some remarkable records have been made with 
them. 
In addition to the tower trap, the club has up-to-date 
electric pull expert traps. 
Stated tournaments for cups offered by the Country 
Club are a feature of the season, with interest centering 
about the annual gold medal club championship shoot. 
There are in addition frequent events, often tri-weekly 
during the season, in the way of sweepstakes and handi¬ 
cap events for trophies offered by club members, the 
whole combining to make a winter replete with interest 
for those who love the sport. 
Fully as prominent as trapshooting at Pinehurst is 
target pistol shooting, the butts being in close prox¬ 
imity to the traps Men and women both enjoy the fun, 
and a programme of weekly handicap tournaments is 
supplemented by numerous events for Country Club and 
other cups, interest centering in the annual club cham¬ 
pionship shoot, in which gold medals are offered to 
both men and women, and the annual U? S. R. A. State 
championship (indoor) shoot, which is held here in 
March. 
A special feature at Pinehurst is the interest mani¬ 
fested in both trap and pistol shooting by non-partici¬ 
pants. Advertised events always draw a big crowd, and 
as entertainment features for the big company as¬ 
sembled here the sports play an important part. 
Secretary. 
Magic City Gun Club. 
Muncie, Ind., March 25.—The Magic City Gun Club 
held their annual meeting March 17, and the following 
officers were elected: Fred Thompson, President; G. G. 
Williamson, Vice-President; A. C. Spencer, Captain; 
F. L. Wachtel, Secretary and Treasurer, and C. L. 
Bender, member of the Executive Board. 
It was decided to hold weekly shoots, beginning on the 
first Thursday in Aoril and ending on the first Thursday 
in November. It was also decided to have two classes 
of shooters, the Class A, to be composed of 90 per cent, 
shooters, and the Class B, to be composed of 80 per 
cent, shooters. 
Six valuable and suitable prizes are to be selected, 
three of them to be given to the Class A and three to 
the Class B, to the shooter winning the most times in 
the season. The first prize to be given to the one win¬ 
ning the most; the second to the one winning next to 
the most; the third prize to be given to the one finish¬ 
ing third in the race in his respective class. 
We have been granted, by the Indiana State League, 
April 25, for our ninth annual spring tournament, and 
Sept. 3 and 4 for our ninth annual fall tournament. 
Suitable programmes will be mailed for each of these 
tournaments. F. L. Wachtell, Sec y. 
Springfield Mass. Shooting Club. 
The Springfield, Mass., Shooting Club will hold their 
annual spring tournament at clay targets on Patriots 
Day, April 19. The programme of twelve events calls 
for 200 targets, $16 entrance in sweeps. Shooting will 
commence at 9 o’clock sharp and continue all day. Tar¬ 
gets will be thrown from two sets of expert traps, 
Sergeant system. Purses will be divided Rose system, 
four moneys; less than ten entries, three moneys. Pro¬ 
fessionals and paid experts will be allowed to shoot for 
targets only. Interstate rules to govern all events. To 
the" high average amateurs eleven valuable merchandise 
prizes will be given. Targets included in all entrances 
at iy 2 cent each. Any one may shoot for targets only. 
Loaded shells for sale on the grounds. To reach the 
shooting ground take Indian Orchard or Palmer electric 
cars to" Red House Crossing; grounds one minute walk 
from car line. Ship guns and ammunition prepaid to 
C. L. Kites, 416 Main street, and they will be delivered 
on the grounds free of charge. Programmes are now 
ready and may be obtained by addressing the secretary. 
