Sept. 12, 1908.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
43 > 
COMPLETE SWEEP 
E£ 
Made with 
US) ammunition A( % z!r 
PRESIDENT’S MATCH. HERRICK MATCH. 
WIMBLEDON CUP. CHAMPIONSHIP REGT. TEAM MATCH. 
HALE TROPHY. CHAMPIONSHIP COMPANY MATCH. 
INDIVIDUAL LONG RANGE TYRO LEECH CUP MATCH. 
LIFE MEMBERSHIP MATCH. 
97% of Contestants used (US) AMMUNITION 
UNITED STATES CARTRIDGE COMPANY 
New York City San Francisco LOWELL. MASS. 
Ossining Gun Club. 
Ossining, N. Y., Sept. 5.—Practice shoots were re¬ 
sumed on the grounds of the Ossining Gun Club to¬ 
day. There were two left-over prizes to contest for, a 
Winchester rifle and a camera, both donated by Edw. 
Macdonald. „ . „ .. 
J. Willi shot in great form, breaking 20 m Event No. 
2 for the rifle, which gave him a straight, with his handi¬ 
cap of 5, and on the shoot-off in the camera event, No. 
3, he broke 25 straight without his handicap. 
E. Dietrich and P. Wood were the runners-up, Wood 
losing in a miss-and-out for the camera. 
Five pairs—a bird from each trap on the call—consti¬ 
tuted Event No. 4, the Hunter Arms Co. vase be.ng the 
prize. W ood got 5 of the 10, which gave him his second 
win. Scores: 
4 5 6 V 
10 10 10 10 
2 . 
true that they may know the ability of a majority of the 
contestants, there will always be a certain number, out 
of the hundreds, of whom the committee knows nothing 
whatever. 
If only one of the unknown contestants slips through 
and has the nearest mark, nearer than his skill warrants, 
the whole purpose of the handicap is thereby vitiated. 
To remedy this defect, he suggests that the com¬ 
mittee should be increased in number, SO' that each 
State having shooters in the great event would be prop- 
Events: 
1 
2 
3 
Targets: 
10 
25 
25 
E Brewerton, 5. 
. 7 
16 
16 
C Blandford, 2 . 
. 9 
21 
22 
C Dietrich, 7 . 
. 7 
18 
17 
P Wood, 6 . 
. 8 
19 
20 
T Willi, 5 . 
. 6 
20 
25 
i I b 
'9 io io 
8 7 4 
C. G. B. 
A Popular Sportsman. 
Herewith we publish a portrait of Mr. Luther J. 
Squier, of Pittsburg, Pa., famous as an expert in all 
matters pertaining to trapshooting. He has been one of 
the active and able lieutenants of the Du Pont Powder 
Co. during many years past. 
He further holds rather a unique position in the trap¬ 
shooting world, his talents being unusually compre¬ 
hensive, inasmuch as he shoots with a skill which easily 
holds a place in the most expert class, and is an ac¬ 
complished cashier, manager and salesman. 
He in particular has won much praise in respect to 
the Squier money-back system, which is so popular and 
in such general use throughout the United States and 
Canada, the principle of which is that the contestant who 
competes in such hard luck that he fails to win his 
entrance money back is reimbursed from a fund raised 
by setting aside part of the target receipts and levying a 
small tax on each contestant. This has stimulated trap¬ 
shooting beyond computation. 
That Mr. Squier has a very keen and vivid grasp of all 
the details of trapshooting affairs was recently in evi¬ 
dence by some remarks it was our privilege to hear 
him make on the subject of handicapping, as it relates 
to the Grand American Handicap, the substance of 
which is as follows: No G. A. H. committee, limited 
to five members, can possibly handicap equitably the 
hundreds of contestants who participate in that great 
national event, for the reason that many of the con¬ 
testants’ records are personally unknown to the com¬ 
mittee members and cannot be obtained. While it is 
erly represented on the committee, and that further, 
several others should be appointed as an advisory com¬ 
mittee, properly selected from every part of the United 
States and Canada, so that in the event that any shooter 
was unknown to the members of the handicap com¬ 
mittee, official information would be forthwith available. 
As the handicap committee serves without any mone¬ 
tary remuneration, the enlargement of the committee as 
above suggested would impose no expense or hardship 
on the Interstate Association, and obviously would rem¬ 
edy a weakness in the handicapping which long has been 
recognized. 
The rule has been that when the committee did not 
know and could not get any information concerning a 
contestant’s skill, he was set arbitrarily on some mark, 
say 17 yards. It is self-evident that such disposition of 
the case does not meet the requirements of the great 
contest. The skill of each entrant should be positively 
known either by personal knowledge of the members, or 
from reliable and authoritative mtormation. 
Buffalo Audubon Club. 
bon Club made to-day are as follows: 
Events: 
Targets: 
McArthur 
Mesinger . 
Keily . 
Seymour . 
liernhard . 
Squier 
Durfee .... 
Hilliker .. 
Reinecke . 
Cox . 
Smith .... 
Wootton . 
Robinson 
Lodge .... 
Talcott _ 
Ruppich . 
Stacy . 
Beck . 
Thompson 
Heinold .. 
Wheeler . 
1 
Buffalo 
Audu- 
3 
4 
5 
6 
25 
10 
25 
15 
21 
6 
18 
13 
16 
5 
19 
8 
16 
8 
17 
10 
18 
19 
8 
22 
ii 
23 
9 
19 
14 
18 
9 
7 
24 
7 
18 
11 
15 
6 
20 
14 
18 
6 
21 
15 
21 
7 
15 
10 
18 
19 
6 
18 
12 
IS 
15 
6 
* 
13 
5 
ii 
. . 
13 
7 
16 
10 
17 
5 
13 
4 
20 
6 
12 
11 
14 
4 
13 
8 
20 
16 
6 
17 
W. C. Wootton, Sec’y. 
LUTHER J. SQUIER. 
Representative of the Du Pont Co.; expert trap- 
shooter; author of the Squier money-back system. 
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