990 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 19, 1908. 
Crescent Athletic Club. 
Brooklyn, L. I., Dec. 12.—A high wind toyed vari¬ 
ously with the targets, and this, with the cold tempera¬ 
ture, had an adverse effect on the scores. Mr. M. 
Stiner scored a leg on the December cup. Mr. F. B. 
Stephenson was the only scratch man, and as he is a 
reliable 90 per cent, or better performer, the difficulty of 
the shooting may be perceived when the scores show that 
he only broke 90 out of 115. Scores: 
Trophy shoot, 15 targets: 
H. T. 
G Stephenson, Jr... 2 15 
W W Peabody, Jr.. 2 12 
D T Leahy. 1 12 
F B Stephenson.... 0 11 
W C Damron. 1 10 
Tronhy shoot, 15 targets: 
M Stiner . 4 15 
Dr Keves . 2 14 
G G Stephenson... 2 14 
W W Peabody. 2 14 
W C Damron. 1 13 
Trophy shoot, 15 targets: 
M Stiner . 4 14 
G G Stephenson.... 2 13 
H. T. 
J H Ernst. 2 10 
F S Hyatt... 3 10 
A E Hendrickson.. 1 9 
W W Marshall. 3 8 
D T Leahy. 
A E Hendrickson.. 
F S Hyatt. 
F B Stephenson.... 
W \V Peabody, Jr.. 
F B Stephenson.... 
1 11 
1 11 
3 11 
0 10 
2 10 
0 10 
W C Damron. 1 
F S Hyatt. 3 
Trophy shoot, 15 targ< 
W C Damron. 1 
M Stiner. 5 
F B Stephenson.... 0 
D T Leahy. 1 
Dr Keyes . 2 
Shoot-off, 15 targets: 
12 
T 
H Ernst. 
1 
10 
11 
D 
T Leahy. 
1 
9 
11 
its: 
A 
E Hendrickson.. 
1 
8 
15 
IV 
W Marshall. 
3 
12 
15 
A 
E Hendrickson.. 
1 
11 
14 
G 
G Stephenson, Tr. 
2 
11 
13 
IV 
W Peabody, Jr.. 
2 
10 
13 
F 
S Hvatt. 
3 
3 
13 
M 
Steiner . 
4 
10 
December cup, 25 targets 
M Stiner . 6 
W C Damron. 2 
G G Stephenson_ 3 
W W Peabody, Jr.. 4 
H C Hopkins. 5 
F B Stephenson.... 0 
F B Stephenson. 
W C Damron. 
G G Stephenson, Jr. 
D T Leahy. 
W W Peabody, Tr.. 
Dr Keyes .. 
23 
Dr Keves . 
3 
18 
22 
T IT Ernst. 
5 
17 
22 . 
F S Hyatt. 
5 
17 
21 
A E Hendrickson.. 
2 
14 
20 
W W Marshall . 
5 
14 
18 
D T Leahy. 
2 
14 
Dr Keyes . 2 
F B Stephenson.... 0 
W C Damron. 1 
J H Ernst. 3 
G G Stephenson.... 2 
Prize divided. 
Team race, 25 targets: 
H. T. 
W C Damron... 2 21 
A Hendrickson. 0 17—38 
T H Ernst. 5 14 
Dr Keyes. 3 20—34 
13 
A 
E Plendrickson. 
7 
12 
W 
'V Marshall. 
6 
12 
M 
Stiner . 
6 
12 
F. 
Williams . 
6 
10 
10 
F 
S Hyatt. 
5 
sts: 
T. 
H. 
T. 
n 
L 
U Hopkins. 
2 
12 
ii 
D 
T Ueahy. 
1 
10 
13 
W 
W Peabody, Jr.. 
2 
8 
13 
W 
W Marshall. 
3 
8 
12 
A 
E Hendrickson... 
1 
5 
H. T. 
D T Leahy. 2 16 
G Steplitnson... 3 19—35 
Columbus Gun Club. 
Columbus, O. —Invitations are being sent to all shoot¬ 
ers in central Ohio, with a programme of the big holi¬ 
day prize tournament on Dec. 31, which will be the 
closing event for the year now drawing to an end. This 
tournament was gotten up with a view to give something 
wou ld add to the social side of this splendid out- 
of-door sport, and the programme, with the prizes that 
.are offered for competition, cannot help but be pleasing 
to the many shooters, especially at this time of the year 
The tournament will consist of a 150-bird programme, 
'beginning promptly at 9:30 A. M., Thursday morning, 
Dec. 31, and will consist of eleven events—four 10-bird 
events, six 15-bird events and one 20-bird event. En¬ 
trance for the day will be $15, including an old-fashioned 
tu .rk e y dinner and entrance to all prize events. There 
will be forty-four fine merchandise prizes and $110 in 
money prizes. Four merchandise prizes to each event, 
-j j SO i eac h event. The merchandise to be 
j- V - gun s y stem > and the money prizes to be 
divided o0, 25 ; 25 and 20 per cent. The complete list of 
the prizes will be published in the programme. The 
L b r ,°.°^ s wil1 be decorated in holiday green, and with 
the old fireplace and its backlogs, everything will be 
made as comfortable and entertaining as possible. There 
will be music and songs, as the talent, of which there 
' a n e J 1 n , umber - will take charge of the piano. They will 
all be here from Central Ohio, and a great time is ex- 
Pected. A prize umbrella is offered for the best hunting 
story of the season of 1908, just passed. 
During the shooting season, consisting of twenty days 
which came to a close on Dec. 4, there has been very 
little activity at the traps, as most all the boys who had 
a little time to spare, took advantage of the opportunity 
to hie themselves away to the field and woodland in 
•quest oi the quail, which were this season unusually 
plentiful for Ohio, and the many experiences of the dif¬ 
ferent nimrods of this locality would fill a book. Satur- 
day they had begun to get back to the regular routine, 
and having become rested up from their trip, concluded 
that they would tram their weather eye on the elusive 
Dluerock. 1 he conditions were ideal for a winter day 
shooting with the exception of a few low dark clouds 
•that made the background somewhat difficult, and with 
t Li ^ Ey . es Johnny Winchester Taylor, and 
Little Willie Cumberland made the only two straights 
of this eventful Saturday. There were considerable 
-doings with the different races shot, and the handsome 
ini I ont trophy—oil painting with the big setter at point 
that has been hotly contested for the past five months 
was awarded to the winner. The conditions were a 
handicap shoot from 16 to 20yds., 25 targets to each man 
with the privilege of shooting once each week, and at 
the end of the time set to close the contest the six best 
s ^ or ^ of each contestant to count for the prize. Mr. 
G. M. Smith and Col. William Webster tied with a 
total of 132 each. In the shoot-off Mr. Smith won, 23 
to 22 Mr. Webster shot from the 20yd. mark, and Mr. 
Smith from 18yds. The contest was very interesting, as 
they each had shot along very closely during the season, 
and Mr. Smith was greatly pleased with the winning, and 
says he has a place for the picture in the den. 
In the 50-bird race there were two prizes up, Mr. Well¬ 
ington winning first with 45 out of 50, and Mr. Webster 
43. Each received a Lefever gun cleaner. Mr. Lan¬ 
caster Grubb, the sage of Thornville, O., was a guest 
of the club, and Lancaster is always welcome in Colum¬ 
bus The winter shooting season in Columbus promises 
to be one of unusual interest, a number of special prizes 
will be offered to the different grade of shooters, three 
teams are being organized, one to compete with the other, 
with a view of having a line of special team races, for 
prizes which will be of interest and keen competition. 
John R. Taylor has got some great dogs, and that is 
no mistake. Jack Smith came in with one of the record 
bunches of the season—have Jack tell you about it. 
For the coming year it will be the policy of the Colum¬ 
bus Gun Club to have a large number of prize events, 
team races, handicap shoots, with a number of innova- 
vations that will prove of great interest to the beginner 
and amateur shooter whose desire is to become pro¬ 
ficient with the shotgun. The past year was one of 
wonderful achievements, considering the time that the 
Columbus Gun Club has been in existence, and it will 
be the aim to further the shooting interests the coming 
year in such a manner that when the close of 1909 will 
have rolled around we may point with pride to the ac¬ 
complishments. 
Targets: 
Webster . 
Ned Reece 
G M Smith. 
Wellington 
Goldsmoth . 
Cumberland 
Shilling .... 
15 
15 
15 
20 
12 
18 
14 
16 
12 
16 
.. 12 
13 
16 
12 
10 
15 
10 
17 
16 
ii 
14 
13 
14 
.. 14 
14 
17 
.. 10 
12 
.. 15 
12 
is 
13 
18 
.. h 
12 
17 
20 
20 
25 
25 
25 
19 
17 
17 
25 
•• 
•• 
19 
16 
16 
19 
15 
19 
16 
18 
is 
11 
14 
i3 
* * 
17 
i6 
Fred Shattuck, Sec’ 
y- 
Independent Gun Club. 
Holmesburg Junction, Pa., Dec. 12.—The event was a 
distance handicap and target allowance at 100 targets 
shot in four strings of 15 targets and two strings of 20 
targets. There were twenty-seven contestants. Turkeys 
and silver spoons rewarded the most skillful shooters. 
JVLontaine was high gun, scoring 91 out of the 100 
shooting from 16yds. and having 13 targets added. Scores: 
Added 
German . 
Distance. 
. 21 
Broke. 
83 
Targets. 
0 
Total. 
83 
72 
81 
Welles . 
71 
76 
75 
78 
78 
68 
69 
75 
64 
70 
78 
61 
69 
86 
58 
37 
77 
Cotting . 
Crane . 
5 
Fordery . 
Griffith . 
9 
84 
87 
Tansey . 
Firth . 
5 
oO 
73 
80 
78 
73 
83 
91 
78 
82 
89 
63 
37 
89 
77 
Matthews 
Overbaugh . 
Farlow . 
3 
9 
Fontaine . 
Hinkson . 
Patrick . 
Newcomb . 
Frank . 
13 
3 
McMichael ... 
Lohr . 
w 
Wills. 
68 
52 
1L 
Jones . 
Severn . 
Little . 
75 
5Q 
b 
6 
8 
59 
81 
66 
68 
60 
62 
50 
84 
Mink . 
65 
Hoover . 
Lewis . 
54 
60 
50 
81 
6 
Schwarz . 
Landis . 
w 
3 
Indianapolis Gun Club. 
Indianapolis, Ind.—Saturday afternoon, Dec. 12 , was 
made memorable at the Indianapolis Gun Club by the 
abrupt termination of the contest that has been waging 
nf UI lhf ^ e w St t fi n wceks among the amateur members 
of the club for the ownership of the coveted English 
Hotel cup It was a cold, windy day, altogether un¬ 
favorable for enjoyable target shooting; but withal a 
goodly number of the shooters turned out to prevent if 
possibly the happening of the very result that occurred 
Climatic conditions wholly precluded the possibility of 
perfect scores, and even good ones reflected the greatest 
credit to those who succeeded in making them greateSt 
Under these conditions it was thought that the con- 
of RLds W W 1 Wel if t0 Sb ° 0t J rom the initiaI distance 
ot Ibyds had such superior advantage that it would be 
impossrble for those who would compete from the greater 
pnH d lu ?I ^ distances to win the event of the day. Parry 
and Michael is, each of whom had previously captured two 
events of the indeterminate series of weekly shoots 
according to the rules governing the contest, were obliged 
to shoot from 20yds. rise Parry pulled himself together 
t ^i ere< \, 45 i ° U J ° f 6 °.. with Wise, whcf shot 
from lSyds., he having previously won one event of the 
series. In the shoot-off of the tie, from their respective 
handicap distances, Parry broke 20 and Wise 17 out of 
-5 targets. This gave Parry his third event, bringing the 
contest to a close. After the cup has been engraved 
with a suitable inscription, it will be given a conspicu¬ 
ous place among the many cherished trophies adorning 
1 ariw s den, and will there be a constant and happy re- 
minder to him of the outcome of the hardest fought 
contest in which he ever engaged. 
1 he best man won. Parry fairly and fully earned the 
reward of victory by sheer force of his superior shoot¬ 
ing. The rules governing the contest absolutely pre¬ 
vented the possibility of ultimately winning by mere 
chance of accident. The contest was open to all the 
amateur members of the club, and throughout the course 
of its running the most skillful of its members strove 
earnestly and persistently to accomplish what Parry did 
Interest in the contest, from its very inception, has been 
so great, so much greater than was anticipated, and so 
much more widespread than in any other contest that 
was ever shot on the grounds, that every one regretted 
to see it terminate. This universal sentiment brought 
out a voluntary, spontaneous suggestion that another 
contest of identically the same nature should be started 
next Saturday, to take the place of the one just con¬ 
cluded; and the sentiment assumed tangible form in 
voluntary and liberal contributions to a fund for buying 
a suitable trophy, to be designated as the Members' 
i rophy by those who were present. The contest for the 
Members’ Trophy will therefore commence next Saturday, 
and will continue weekly until some one wins three sep¬ 
arate events of the indeterminate series of shoots, the first 
one from 16yds., the second from 18yds., and the third 
from 20 yds. 
The scores in the English Hotel cup event of last Satur¬ 
day were: Parry (20) 45, Wise (18) 45, Denny (18) 43, 
Roland 43, Hymer 43, Michaelis (20) 39, Dixon 39 Neigh¬ 
bors 39, Britton (18) 38, and Farrel (18) 35. 
On Oct. 31, Parry won by breaking 47, 16yds. rise; on 
Nov. 14, 46 at 18yds.; on Dec. 12, 45 at 20yds. 
A tabulation of the scores that were made in prac¬ 
tice shooting follows: 
Targets: 
Parry, 20 
Dixon, 16 
Lewis, 16 . 
Hymer, 16 
Neighbors, 
Britton, 18 
Moller, 16 
Roland, 16 
Farrell, 18 
Shot 
Per 
20 20 20 20 20 
at. 
Broke 
Cent. 
.... 15 17 19 18 .. 
80 
69 
86.25 
20 . 
100 
86 
86.00 
.... 18 18 17 13 .. 
80 
66 
82.50 
80 
62 
77.50 
.... 16 15 14 .. .. 
60 
45 
75.00 
16 ... 
... 19 19 17 7 .. 
80 
62 
77.50 
.... 14 12 17 15 17 
100 
75 
75.00 
... 18 14 15 12 .. 
80 
59 
73.75 
. 
.... 14 12 18 .. .. 
60 
44 
73.33 
.... 15 15 12 .. .. 
60 
42 
70.00 
.... 16 12 . 
40 
28 
70.00 
... 14 8 17 .. .. 
60 
39 
65.00 
Harry 
W. Denny, 
Sec’y. 
The Palefaces. 
Boston, Mass., Dec. 12. —Harvard day at the Paleface 
grounds opened up so inauspiciously with its snowstorm 
in the forenoon that the attendance was cut down some- 
w-hat, though some thirteen shooters availed themselves 
of an excellent opportunity. 
The weather conditions of the afternoon were a direct 
contrast to the morning, and high scores were expected, 
which, to say the least, were not realized by many. 
Charles easily held the lead for the Palefaces, with 
Hauthaway high gun on the Harvard side, both scores 
being due to consistent plugging during the entire time. 
The Harvard boys, however, seemed to lack that form 
which has been with them during the intercollegiate sea¬ 
son, and made the lowest score for some time. In jus¬ 
tice to them it might be stated that only two of them 
ever shot over our traps, which are somewhat peculiar 
for high scores. Another race is now being talked of 
with possibly different results. Scores: 
Harvard. 
Morse . 15 16—31 
Higginson .. 15 19—34 
Gilman .18 14—32 
Brewer . 19 20—39 
Hauthaway.. 22 18—40—176 
on the Paleface 1909 cal- 
Paleface. 
Charles . 22 23—45 
Daggett .... 21 18—39 
Buffalo .23 19—42 
Marden . 18 22—40 
Kirkwood .. 21 22—43—209 
Dec. 9.—The second shoot ^.i n,c j. aiciatc ±;ni 3 cal¬ 
endar was held at W ellington to-day, and a banner crowd 
was on hand to partake of Supt. Wellington’s 100-target 
menu, which was the first effort on Dukes’ part in his 
new position of “Exalted High Ruler.” Some twenty- 
two shooters shot in the various events. Lynn, Salem, 
Newburyport, Winthrop and Boston were well repre¬ 
sented, and naturally the caliber of the shooting was 
shoved up another notch for such a special occasion. 
The race for high average was a corker, our oldest 
standby, Frank, carrying away the palm, but only after 
the Watertown cracker, Daggett, had forced him to the 
limit. Daggett’s first 65 only showed a loss of 2— 
phenomenal shooting, as the targets were a good 60yd. 
bird, and there was a cross-wind, which hampered more 
than a little. The last 35, however, saw a change, Dag¬ 
gett drawing a bunch of ill-luck in being forced to shoot 
over a broken set of traps, and in poor light, the after¬ 
noons nowadays being shorter than in our regular trap 
months. 
Frank, in the meantime, just said nothing, but sawed 
wood, each 50 netting 45, one bird t®o many for next 
high gun, who in turn led Dickey by one target 
1 he, interest of the afternoon was really centered in the 
ladies team race, teams of two men each being drawn 
and handicaps allotted to equalize if possible. 1 he race 
proved exciting from the start, each team at one time or 
other seeming to have a good show; but the real test 
could not be denied one Robt. Burnes and one Frank, 
whose combined scores of 86 and 5 handicap cleaned the 
boards for Mrs. Robert Smith, with Mrs. G. E. Preble’s 
team only two targets less. The favorites, Daggett and 
lodd, at first were looked upon as sure winners, but 
breds average work told, and a 41 was all he could 
muster, his partner getting 40. 
Buffalo 
13 
12 
20 
14 
13 
18 
100 
90 
15 
14 
19 
15 
12 
14 
100 
89 
11 
14 
18 
14 
12 
19 
100 
88 
9 
15 
* 8 ) 
14 
13 
16 
ion 
87 
11 
14 
20 
9 
13 
18 
100 
85 
10 
13 
13 
13 
11 
17 
100 
82 
11 
15 
16 
13 
13 
13 
100 
81 
