788 
FOREST AND STREAM 
[Nov. 14, 1908. 
the successful advent of smokeless powder and the im¬ 
proved shells. Of late years, illness prevented him at¬ 
tending the various shoots, but many inquired for him, 
as he was well liked by all who had the pleasure of his 
acquaintance. The funeral was held from his home on 
Friday last.” 
From the New York Evening Sun we take the follow¬ 
ing information: “Chicago, Nov. 5.—The Grand Ameri¬ 
can gun handicap for 1909, controlled by the Interstate 
Association, is expected to be held on the trap grounds 
in this city, although this will not be known officially 
until the Association holds its meeting in December. 
Assurances have been received by members of the 
Chicago Gun Club from delegations who will come from 
other cities, so that local gunners feel certain that the 
trap grounds here will be voted for.” 
* 
The Bergen Beach Gun Club announces its sixth 
annual merchandise contest, to be held on- New Year’s 
Day, beginning at 9:30 A. M. The conditions will be 
the same as in prior New Year’s contests, except in the 
distance handicap contests, for which prizes will be 
awarded in three classes, according to the past year’s 
records. Entries will be open in the main event till 
3 o’clock P. M. Three sets of expert traps will be used. 
Competition open to all amateurs. Refreshments gratis 
to shooters as usual. Mr. D. H. Schortemeier, 201 Pearl 
street, New York, is the Secretary. 
K 
Yale was victorious over Harvard on the afternoon of 
Nov. 7, in their annual trapshooting team contest. The 
scores were: Yale, 224; Harvard, 223, out of a possible 
225. Thus the contest was very close, and the scores 
were high. Capt. J. R. Gilman, of Harvard, was high 
with 49. The contestants and their scores were as fol¬ 
lows: Yale—L. S. Morrison 42, F. B. Trudeau 48, D. R. 
Dickey 42, Benjamin Thaw 46, M. Hebard 46; total 224. 
Harvard—J. R. Gilman 49, C. L. Hathaway 42, B. M. 
Higginson 44, C. F. Morse 43, F. A. Brewer 46; total 223. 
*► 
For its annual Thanksgiving Day shoot, Nov. 26, 
commencing at 10 A. M., the Jersey City, N. J., Gun 
Club announces a programme of ten 20-target events, 
alternately $2.00 and 75 cents entrance, a total of 200 
targets and $13.75 entrance. In each of the 20-target 
events, 75 cents entrance, there are two turkeys as 
prizes. Events 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9—100 targets—will con¬ 
stitute a special event, $2 entrance, high guns. Lunch 
will be served on the grounds. Ship shells to John 
Weippert, 1123 Communipaw avenue, Jersey City. Take 
Plank road trolley car at Pennsylvania R. R. Ferry, or 
at Broad and Market streets, Newark, direct to the 
grounds, east of Hackensack River. For further par¬ 
ticulars, apply to Secretary J. Lewis, Bergen Square, 
Jersey City. 
, Bernard Waters. 
Columbus Gun Club. 
Nov. 6.— rhe annual game dinner and club shoot tool 
place on Friday afternoon and evening. It was one o 
the most successful affairs of the kind ever given by th< 
club, and will long be remembered by all those wh( 
were present, as an afternoon and evening full of enter 
tainment and pleasant associations. The gentlemen be 
gan to arrive as early as 1 P. M., and preparations weri 
to carry out the programme of shooting events 
the first and one of the very interesting events was th< 
five-man team race. Three teams participated in thi* 
contest, all shootmg from 16yds., and Team No. ' 
finished high, with 109 out of the possible 125 targets 
Team No. 2 had 107 and Team No. 3 99 
The next race was the 25-target handicap, from 16 tc 
zzyas., all the known good shots having to get back fai 
enough to give the lower per cent, men an equal chance 
Mr. John N. Hodges the popular shot from Ashville 
U., walked away with the chrysanthemums with the ele 
gam score of 25 straight from 17yds. handicap, against 1 
fu°u e R - Chamberlain, second, tool 
* knife with 2 a from 22yds., most excellent work 
the third and most exciting event of the da v was th« 
tower shooting race, with thirty-five entries, all standing 
with their backs to the tower and the traps, each mar 
haying 25 shots, in order as they came, the target" 
being rdeased at the call of the shooter, and the height 
and direction unknown. The prize for this contest was 
lar p, bunch of roses. Mr. Shattuck, the secretary oi 
the club won with a score of 23. The last 10 birds were 
practically shot by moonlight. 
i A £ er ^ e to, wer shooting race the contestants adjourned 
t? the big assembly room, where the big log fire in the 
wA rSP Was - ^ ery welcome, as the air outside had 
q i llte chilly-. Parker s orchestra rendered a 
number of very choice selections before dinner was 
served. Mr. John Y. Bassell was appointed toastmaster 
the mention of which is sufficient to say that particular 
o fice was most admirably taken care of and in a manner 
highly entertaining to the guests. Among the gentlen?en 
called on to relate experiences of field and stream were 
Col. Byron L. Bargar, Dr. Wm Todd Mr T M Cmuu 
Mr. L. W. Cumberland, Mr. M. F. Gibson," Mr. S Joh h n 
R. Taylor, Mr. W. N. Derby, Mr. Eph Harris and a 
number of others, whose stories and experiences were 
of such a very interesting nature that the three judges, 
Messrs. Frank P. Hall, W. R. Chamberlain and Joe 
Wells, were considerably at a loss to know who to award 
the prize, which consisted of a fine hunting knife, when, 
after asking any one to volunteer another Story the 
toastmaster. Mr. J. Y. Bassell, took the floor, and the 
story he told seemed to impress the judges as well as 
all present that he was entitled to the carver, with the 
smoker and more music. Thus ended the fourth annual 
game dinner of the Columbus Gun Club. The dinner 
and the meet was voted a howling success by all present. 
Scores of the revolver match: First prize, one safety 
razor; second a shell vest. Contestants using service re¬ 
volvers, except Walters and Bey; distance, 50 yds.: Jas. 
S. Walters, 79, Jesse Smith 78, J. Y. Bassell 77, W. A. 
Morrell 75, less 2 handicap, 73; G. A. Bennett, 70; Dr. 
Bey 67; B. L. Bargar, 70, less 5 handicap, 65. Jas. S. 
Walters won first prize and Jesse Smith second. This 
race was a very lively one, and the scores closely con¬ 
tested. 
The ending of the tower shooting race by moonlight 
was a great feature, and now some of the boys are 
wondering if we can’t have a wire run over and have a 
couple of big fights put up and has an electric shooting 
match by electric light. 
Jack Smith’s team was victorious in the team race, 
and Jack’s story of his catching forty-four fish when he 
was four years old, came pretty nearly landing the prize. 
The duck shooters who brought in the ducks for the 
game dinner were John R. Taylor, W. R. Chamberlain 
and Fred Shattuck, and the participants at the dinner 
were loud in their praise of the fine taste and quality, 
and said they must have been feeding on wild celery. 
W. Cumberland shot a great clip and told a fine story. 
Mr. G. H. Smith had a delightful time, and the only 
trouble he had was an attack of flinches, which makes 
one more or less exasperated; but all troubles of the 
firing fine were forgotten after the line-up around the 
table. 
Mr. Ward of Ashville, shot a very consistent clip, 
but when John Hedges got his eye on the big boquet 
nothing coul stop him. 
Joe Wells said that he would a great deal rather be a 
referee at a story telling match than be a story teller. 
Shatford escaped telling a story, but he will be on at 
the next match. Warden Darby certainly told a good 
one, and it looked as if he were going to get the prize. 
Harry Selbach thinks that these social features are the 
best thing going to keep things lively, and Harry 
and. some more of the boys are now talking of 
getting up a quail dinner on a very elaborate scale, 
with a line of prizes that, will make the boys all look to 
pointing very accurately in order to capture a memento 
of the occasion, and it is the intention to make it a 
day’s contest, so that shooting can begin in the morn¬ 
ing at 9:30, with a luncheon at noon and a big quail 
dinner at night, the quail to be brought in by the boys 
on their hunting trips. 
Scores of the handicap shoot for a big bunch of 
chrysanthemums and a buckhorn hunting knife, 25 tar- 
follow: 
Taylor . 
Yds. 
. 22 
T’l. 
21 
Morgan . 
Yds. 
Chamberlain .... 
. 23 
23 
W ard . 
... 18 
Shattuck . 
. 23 
21 
T I Welles.... 
W Cumberland.. 
. 22 
22 
Shatford . 
... 17 
G M Smith. 
. 20 
20 
Selbach . 
... 17 
T W Hedges.... 
. 17 
25 
Derby . 
Hall . 
. 20 
20 
Bassell . 
... 16 
21 
21 
19 
17 
21 
16 
11 
The high gun in the handicap shoot was John H. 
Hedges, of Ashville, O., who broke the good score of 
25 straight from 17yds., and was decidedly clever work 
among so strong a bunch of shooters. Mr. W. R. 
Chamberlain, of Columbus, O., was second with 23. Mr. 
Hedges won the chrysanthemums and Mr. Chamberlain 
the buckhorn hunting knife. 
Five-man team race, 16yds., 25 targets. The winner 
was Team No. 1, Capt. J. H. Smith, with a score of 
109 out of 125. This race was hotly contested and was 
very interesting. 
Team No. 1. 
T H Smith. 
W Cumberland.... 
Shattuck . 24 
T Hedges ........ 
Morgan . 21- 
Chamberlain . 24 
Selbach . 22 
Shatford . 17 
Team No. 
2. 
22 
T Taylor . 
.. 24 
22 
W W Darby. 
,. 20 
24 
G M Smith. 
. 20 
20 
Joe Wells . 
.. 23 
21—109 
Frank Hall . 
,. 20-107 
Team 
No. 3. 
24 
Ward . 
,. 24 
22 
17 
Bassell . 
. 12 99 
Lawrenceville Gun Club. 
Lawrenceville, Ill., Oct. 27.—The registered tourna¬ 
ment of the Lawrenceville Gun Club, held to-day, had 
scores as follows: 
Events: 123456789 10 11 12 
Targets: 15 15 20 20 15 15 15 20 15 15 15 20 
Y Cummings... 14 14 16 16 13 10 14 19 11 14 13 16 
I M Barr. . 14 10 15 11 12 5 9 11 9 8 5 13 
John Wheeler.... 13 12 18 16 11 14 10 17 13 12 12 17 
P Trudolph. 9 8 17 11 8 8 10 13 8 9 11 15 
Moore. 8 8 11 8 9 12 5 12 6 12 7 13 
W H Etnere. 10 6 12 9 12 5 6 12 7 7 
Brk. 
170 
122 
165 
127 
9 10 9 5 9 8 10 12 
10 16 16 9 11 11 15 14 14 12 13 
' 6 6 12 10 11 11 17 
8 13 
7 5 
11 13 
H H Hicks. 10 13 16 18 
E L Mills. 
G W Ball. 6 8 13 15 _ 
A B Curry. 5 11 .. .. 
M G Cruch. 11 9 13 12 7 
C D Carter. 2 6 6 6 5. 
G I Nunn. 11 10 11 16 14 . 
L Bruce .10 9 . 
J Fry . 0.. ! ‘ ‘ j ; 
E Streker. 8 11 
M Biggs . 7 11 ..!!!!” " 
R L Robeson. 7 
N S Burton.” .? 6 3 
M A Couch. " sin 
A Lindsey . c o 
s s Guild .; ;; ;; ;; .. 3 
8 12 6 
6 .. .. 
9 7 12 
8 11 15 
16 .. 
6 9 13 
6 '9 " 
Indianapolis Gun Club, 
Indianapolis, Ind.—The bright, crispy weather of 
Saturday afternoon, Oct. 31, enticed a large number of 
shooters to the grounds of the Indianapolis Gun Club, 
on the occasion of its regular weekly club shoot. 
The interest in shooting was centered on the day’s 
event in a series of weekly shoots that are being held 
for the purpose of making permanent disposal of the 
English Hotel cup, a trophy that was donated to the 
club several years ago by Col. E. H. Tripp. The rules 
governing the contest provide that a contestant who 
wins one event of the series shall thereafter, in all 
subsequent events, shoot from the 18yd. line, while all 
those who fail to win an event continue to shoot from 
16yds. Under the operation of this rule, Britton, 
Michaelis and Bell had already found their way to the 
“handicap” firing line, and Parry, the winner of last 
Saturday’s struggle, will join them next Saturday. 
In the dozens of contests that have been waged for 
the honors of the English Hotel cup in the past years, 
both in uphill challenge races and in open competition, 
not until last Saturday was there ever a tie resulting 
from its competition. The honors of this innovation 
fell to Parry and Wise, each of whom broke 47 out of 
the 50 targets of the regular event. In the shoot-off of 
the tie Parry broke 24 out of 25, and Wise 22. Parry, 
therefore, was declared the winner of Saturday’s event. 
Bell was not on hand to take part in the event, and 
the other two handicap contestants made no headway 
toward winning. Eventually some one has to win two 
events of the series shooting from 18yds. If this is ac¬ 
complished in the next several weeks it will be due to 
phenomenally good shooting, because there are yet ten 
or twelve “regular scouts” right here at home, who, 
having the advantage of two yards handicap, are amply 
able to set a pace that will certainly make the con¬ 
testants on back line go some if they win; this, too, 
without taking into consideration the host of “stars” 
living within easy access of Indianapolis, who, as ama¬ 
teur members of the club, are entitled to enter the 
contest at any stage of its progress. If Bell shows up 
next Saturday there will be four good men watching 
each other on the 18yd. mark, and a whole lot of others 
watching them from the 16yd. line. The affair is be¬ 
ginning to take on the airs of a real-for-sure shooting 
match. 
The scores that were made in last Saturday’s regular 
event were: Parry 47 (winner in the shoot-off of tie), 
Wise 47, Dixon 46, Hymer 45, Hillis 45, Moore 43, 
Denny, 43, Michaelis (18) 42, Lewis 40, Roland 40, 
Moller 40, Britton (18) 40, Neighbors 37, Walsh 17. 
The Moore trophy contest came to an end last Sat¬ 
urday, with Britton a dead-sure winner before the 
final event was shot. This contest has been running for 
a number of weeks, and has consisted of 10 pairs of 
doubles every week, the prize at stake to be awarded 
to the contestant who shot the highest average out of 
the total number shot at by him in the contest. At the 
conclusion of the day’s event, Dr. Moore, former pres¬ 
ident of the club, donor of the trophy, and one of the 
most experienced veterans in the sport of shooting 
within the country, was called upon to make the pre¬ 
sentation to Britton. Addressing him, he said: “You 
and I are the only active representatives of the ‘old 
guard.’ The others have gradually dropped out for one 
cause or another—some from defective eyesight, some 
from rheumatism, some from old age, and still others 
have gone to the happy hunting grounds. You and I 
are not in active service because we are young, but are 
young because we are in active service. While the ‘has- 
beens’ sit around the stove and tell what they used to 
do, we are still found on the firing line ‘doing it.’ I 
am more than proud of you, my old partner, and am 
glad to see that you still stand at the head of your 
class. May we always be young, and always be boys. 
In the language of Dr. Holmes: 
“ ‘Then here’s to our boyhood, with its gold and its gray, 
With the snows of its winter and the dews of its May; 
And when we are done with our life-lasting toys, 
Dear Father, take care of Thy children, the boys.’ 
And allow me now the pleasure of presenting you this 
emblem—won by your wonderful and matchless skill— 
with the sincere wish of every member of the Indian¬ 
apolis Gun Club that you may wear it for many years to 
come. And as you appear on the firing fine week after 
week you will continue to find me plugging along by 
your side, more interested in watching your wonderful 
performances than in the results of my own scores, 
and no one will be more greatly pleased than your ‘old 
partner’ when you win. Accept my congratulations and 
shake.” 
The trophy which Britton received was a black silk 
watch fob of elegant design, upon which was mounted 
a golden wreath, surrounding a center piece of gold and 
enamel, beautifully and faithfully representing a blue- 
rock target. The recipient was visibly affected by the 
pathetic words of his comrade and friend of many years’ 
standing, and it was several minutes before he could 
regain sufficient composure to yield to the eager de¬ 
mands of his admiring friends for a response. 
A tabulation of the scores that were made in practice 
shooting follow: 
111 
Targets: 
20 20 20 20 20 
Total. 
Broke. 
Cent. 
86 
Parry . 
80 
74 
92.50 
129 
Michaelis . 
. 18 20 16 18 .. 
80 
72 
90.00 
149 
Wise . 
80 
71 
88.75 
123 
Hymer . 
. 16 19 18 16 .. 
80 
69 
86.25 
16 
Roland . 
. 18 17 16 17 18 
100 
86 
86.00 
104 
Dixon . 
100 
85 
85.00 
49 
Hillis . 
20 
17 
85.00 
121 
Britton . 
80 
67 
83.75 
19 
Southern . 
20 
16 
80.00 
0 
Lewis . 
. 13 19 15 .. .. 
60 
47 
78.33 
19 
Moller . 
. 12 17 17 17 12 
100 
75 
75.00 
18 
Moore . 
. 12 14 19 15 .. 
80 
60 
75.00 
49 
Lieb . 
40 
30 
75.00 
16 
Neighbors .. 
. 13 15 14 .. .. 
60 
42 
70.00 
44 
Modrell . 
.13 10 
40 
23 
57.50 
10 
Borders . 
. 7 15. 
40 
22 
55.00 
19 
Stitle . 
. 9 11. 
40 
20 
50.00 
