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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Feb. 5, 1910. 
The next shoot of the Ossining, N. Y., Gun Club is 
fixed to take place on Lincoln’s Birthday, Feb. 12. There 
will be eight prizes,' and to equalize chances, both dis¬ 
tance and allowance of targets will be used in handicap¬ 
ping. Shooting will commence at 2 o’clock, and all 
entries for prizes will close at 2:30. 
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At the shoot of the Keystone Yacht Club, Tacony, 
Pa., Jan. 29, Messrs. Camerson and Rutherford tied on 10 
straight in the live-bird shoot and divided first, each 
shooting from the 27yd. mark. In the event at 25 targets, 
class shooting, Sidebottom winning in the first class, 
Frick won in the second, Crool in the third and Ruther¬ 
ford in the fourth class. 
On Feb. 24 a target tournament is fixed to be held at 
Freehold, N. J. The program consists of ten 20-target 
events, entrance $4. There are $10 and $5 for first and 
second long runs, and $4 each for first to fifth low 
gun, a total of $35. An optional sweep for each 100 
targets, $3 entrance, high guns, is provided. For further 
information, address the Secretary, Malty Conover. 
The third monthly shoot of the Jersey City, N. J., 
Gun Club, to be held on Feb. 16, has a program of two 
100 target handicap events, having four prizes, $20, $15, 
$10 and $5, respectively first, second, third and fourth. 
The handicap committee members are Mr. Geo. H. 
Piercy, Jersey City; Mr. C. W. Billings, New York, and 
Mr. L. W. Colquitt, Montclair. Ship guns, etc., to Mr. 
Walter Brown, 1123 Communipaw avenue, Jersey City. 
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All the registered tournaments of the Monongahela Val¬ 
ley Sportsmen’s League, seven in all, announced to be 
held at Jacksonburg, Fairmont, Shinnston, Littleton, 
Clarksburg, Morgantown and Grafton, W. Va., have been 
cancelled. The Jewell, la., Gun Club’s registered tour¬ 
nament dates have been changed from March 24-25 to 
March 23-24. The Artesia, N. M., Gun Club tournament 
was postponed from Jan. 24-25 to some date in February. 
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The Iron Age of Jan. 8 contains an account of the 
death of Frank S. Harrison, a famous sportsman, at 
Rockledge, Fla., on Jan. 1. He was sixty-five years old. 
He owned an orange grove at Cocoa on the Indian 
River, where he dwelt several weeks each winter. He 
had been an esteemed salesman of the R. Heinisch’s 
Sons Company, of Newark, N. J., during the past forty 
years. He was a descendant of one of the founders of 
Newark, Captain Richard Harrison, and was a member 
of the Sons of the Revolution. He was an enthusiastic 
trapshooter, and was an active participant in many im¬ 
portant trapshooting contests. Among sportsmen he also 
had a host of friends and acquaintances. He is sur¬ 
vived by a widow and a son, Frank S. Harrison, Jr., of 
Washington, D. C. 
The third of the series of three contests, 100 targets 
each, for the championship of the Crescent Athletic Club 
was shot at Bay Ridge, L. I., on Jan. 29. Mr. Frank 
B. Stephenson tied with Mr. H. W. Woodcock on a total 
of 76, while Mr. F. W. Moffett was next with 75. The 
best total of the three contests determined the winner, 
who was Mr. F. B. Stephenson, with 252 out of 300. Mr. 
F. W. Moffett being second with 246. A high wind, cold 
weather and a bad light were the adverse conditions 
of last Saturday. Mr. W. C. Damron won the January 
cup on the three best scores, although Mr. H. W. Wood¬ 
cock won the leg. For the scratch prize Mr. G. Brower 
scored the leg, tying thereby with Messrs. F. S. Hyatt, 
F. B. Stephenson, H. W. Woodcock and F. W. Moffett, 
and it was divided. Mr. Stephenson also scored a leg 
on the Stake trophy. The team contest was won by 
Messrs. A. E. Hendrickson and W. C. Damron. A 
dinner in honor of Mr. F. W. Moffett, who was to leave 
for Europe soon, was given after the shoot was con¬ 
cluded. A valuable trophy, offered by Mr. C. R. James, 
will be put up for competition in February. 
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The sixth annual interstate tournament given by the 
R. S. Elliott Arms Co., at Blue River Park, Kansas 
City, Mo., Feb. 15-18, has several attractive special 
features. On the first day, nine events, at 15 and 20 
targets, $1.80 and $2.40 entrance, $5.00 added, precede the 
live-bird contest, Missouri vs. Nebraska, a challenge con¬ 
test for the Elliott interstate amateur team cup, five 
men to a team, 20 pigeons per man. There are two other 
special events, one between Snyder and Fuller for the 
Elliott interstate individual amateur pigeon cup, 50 
pigeons per man; the other between Veach and Ellet 
for the Elliott interstate amateur target cup, 100 targets 
per man. On the second day, six sweepstake target 
events precede the interstate individual amateur pigeon 
cup contest, 25 pigeons, entrance $16.25. Seven target 
events, one for merchandise, on the third day, precede 
Elliott interstate amateur team cup race, five men per 
team, 20 pigeons per man. On the fourth day, the 
Elliott interstate individual target cup race, 100 targets, 
$2 entrance, follow six sweepstake events, which in turn 
is followed by the great Western Handicap at live 
pigeons, 25 birds, $16.25 entrance, $125, $100, $75 and 
$50 guaranteed to the first four places. Targets 2 cents; 
pigeons, 25 cents. Ship shells, prepaid, to R. S. El¬ 
liott Arms Co. 
Bernard Waters. 
Rules Governing Registered Tournaments 
As revised in 1909, the conditions read as follows: 
On and after Feb. 1, 1908, clubs may hold tournaments, 
which shall be known as registered tournaments, under 
the auspices of the Interstate Association for the Encour¬ 
agement of Trapshooting. 
Registered tournaments, with the Interstate Associa¬ 
tion, may be obtained under the following conditions, as 
enumerated below: 
1. The secretary or other officer, duly authorized, shall 
respectively, 
2. Make application to the secretary-manager of the 
Interstate Association, upon a blank furnished by the 
Interstate Association, not less than' forty-five days in 
advance of said tournament opening date. 
3. State on said blanks the name and address of the 
applicant club, and the name of the manager or names 
cf the managers of said tournament; 
4. State on said blank the system of money division, 
the amount of money to be added (if any) for prizes or 
trophies, and how same is to be applied. 
5. State in relation to said tournament what hotel ac¬ 
commodations and rates therefor have been arranged for 
shooters. 
6. Deliver a printed program of said tournament to 
the secretary-manager of the Interstate Association at 
least fifteen days before the opening date of said tourna¬ 
ment. 
7. Agree that the applicant club shall comply with all 
rules of the Interstate Association. 
8. Agree that at the close of said tournament, the 
secretary or other officer, duly authorized by the club, 
shall mail promptly to the secretary-manager of the In¬ 
terstate Association a full report made out on blanks 
furnished by the Interstate Association, and signed by 
the club’s secretary, or other duly authorized officer, 
showing specifically the names and addresses of all the 
contestants, the full number of targets shot at, and the 
scores made by each contestant, one even with another, 
with the full scores of the amateurs and professionals 
arranged separately. 
This application, on receipt thereof shall be forthwith 
submitted by the secretary-manager to each member of 
the tournament committee of the Interstate Association 
for a mail vote. Upon receipt of a favorable reply from 
a majority of the members thereof said tournament shall 
be registered by the secretary-manager. 
No tournament shall be registered without full com¬ 
pliance with the foregoing requirements. 
MANAGEMENT. 
The management of the Interstate Association concedes 
to the management of any registered tournament the 
Interstate Association powers as set forth in Rule 1, 
Sections Nos. 1 and 2, of the Trapshooting Rules, as re¬ 
vised in 1909, in respect to said registered tournament. 
The management of the Interstate Association has the 
authority and power to inquire into and deal with any 
matter relating to fraud in. connection with any registered 
tournament, and to bar any person or persons concerned 
in any fraudulent practices. 
At any registered tournament where shooting names 
(assumed names) are allowed, the real names of those 
using assumed names must be forwarded with the other 
records to the Interstate Association management. 
Any club holding a registered tournament must pay 
all moneys and prizes as announced therewith. Failing 
therein, any club so offending will be disbarred till the 
default is cleared. 
season’s AVERAGE. 
The season’s average for amateurs shall be computed 
on 2,000 or more single targets shot during a calendar 
year, from the standard distance fixed by the Interstate 
Association (the distance at this time being 16yds.), and 
this only at registered tournaments and the tournaments 
directly given by the Interstate Association. 
The season’s average for professionals shall be com¬ 
puted on 2,000 or more single targets shot from the 
standard distance fixed by the Interstate Association (the 
distance at this time being 16yds.), and this only at the 
Southern Handicap, Grand American Handicap, Eastern 
Handicap, Western Plandicap, Pacific Coast Handicap 
and post series tournaments given by the Interstate As¬ 
sociation. If a post series tournament is not given, 
the season’s average for professionals shall then be com¬ 
puted on 1,200 single targets shot at the handicap tourna¬ 
ments named. 
The records of said tournaments shall be compiled in 
detail under the supervision of the secretary-manager of 
the Interstate Association, whose records for amateurs 
and professionals shall be the official average for the year. 
It shall, at a registered tournament, not be obligatory 
for a contestant to shoot in all events, to have his score 
count in the average, but the records made by him in 
every event in which he participates at said tournament 
shall count in his Reason’s average. If a contestant vol¬ 
untarily withdraws from an event after starting in it and 
does not shoot at the total number of targets called for 
by said event, such unshot targets shall be scored as 
“lost targets.” 
STATUS OF AN AMATEUR. 
Whenever a shooter’s amateur standing is questioned 
in writing by a stockholder or by a representative of a 
stockholder of the Interstate Association, and is duly 
submitted to the Interstate Association, the secretary- 
manager shall communicate with the manufacturer or 
manufacturers whose product is used by said shooter, 
and obtain from said manufacturer or manufacturers the 
facts concerning the statements set forth in said certi¬ 
ficate. In case full information is not given by said 
manufacturer or manufacturers the secretary-manager, if 
he deems it proper so to do, may strike said shooter’s 
name from the list of amateurs. This arrangement shall 
be effective as of January 1, 1908, and thereafter, but 
shall not be retroactive. 
ADVERTISING RATES IN TOURNAMENT PROGRAMS. 
Stockholders of the Interstate Association may take 
advertising space not exceeding one page in programs of 
registered tournaments at the following rates as a maxi¬ 
mum. , . 
One-day tournaments, $5 per page; tournaments of two 
or more days, $7.50 per page; State tournaments of two 
or more days, $10 per page. ... , 
Stockholders of the Interstate Association may take 
advertising space not exceeding one page in programs 
of tournaments not registered at the following rates as 
a maximum: 
One-day tournaments, $3 per page; tournaments of two 
or more days, $5 per page; state tournaments of two or 
more days, $5 per page. . , 
Stockholders of the Interstate Association may take 
advertising space not exceeding one page in season s 
programs, that is to say, programs covering a series of 
tournaments given by any one club in any one year, at 
a maximum rate of $10 per page, it being understood, 
however, that League tournament programs are not 
classed as season’s programs. 
Stockholders of the Interstate Association may take 
one-half page of advertising space in programs of tourna¬ 
ments at one-half of the foregoing rates as a maximum. 
MISCELLANEOUS RULES. 
Not more than two tournaments of any one club shall 
be registered in any one year. 
No tournament shall be registered for a Sunday only. 
A tournament which includes a Sunday may be registered, 
but the scores made on week days only shall count in 
Interstate Association records. 
A club holding a registered tournament shall print in 
the program a copy of the certificate of registration 
issued by the Interstate Association. 
A club holding a registered tournament shall require 
contestants to give in full their names and addresses on 
Interstate Association blanks, furnished by the Interstate 
Association, which shall be returned to the secretary- 
manager ot the Interstate Association, with the report of 
the tournament. 
A club holding a registered tournament shall use Inter¬ 
state Association Trapshooting Rules, as revised in 1909, 
and shall conduct said tournament strictly in accordance 
therewith, under penalty of forfeiting all advertising 
contracts and consideration therewith. 
All two-day tournaments shall be started in the morn¬ 
ing before 11 o’clock, and the time of starting shall be 
stated. The hour shall be reasonably governed by the 
scheduled time of arrival of trains or trolleys at the 
place where the tournament is held. The program shall 
clearly state the location of the shooting grounds. 
Scores made by contestants, whether amateurs or pro¬ 
fessionals, who stand at the 16yd. mark in handicap 
events, shall not be counted in the season’s average. 
Scores made by contestants, whether amateurs or pro¬ 
fessionals, in strictly merchandise events or plunder 
events (so-called) shall not be counted in the season’s 
average. 
All scores shall be shot in competition, and no scores 
shall be recorded which are shot prior to the advertised 
hour for starting the competition. 
No contestant, whether amateur or professional, shall 
be allowed to “shoot up” any event or events other than 
events 1, 2 and 3, scheduled for the first day of the 
tournament, on the first day, and this in no case unless 
the unanimous consent of the other contestants and the 
management are given. 
No contestant, whether amateur or professional, shall- 
be allowed to shoot any event or events in advance of 
the regular order of scheduled time for the competition 
as designated in the program. 
No contestant, whether amateur or professional, shall 
be allowed to shoot any event or events other than those 
of the one day’s program, except in case the entry list 
is so large, or unavoidable conditions such, that it is 
necessary to carry over a tournament from day to day. 
The scores of any event or events thus carried over 
shall be recorded as being made on the day for which 
said event or events were originally scheduled. 
All scores shall be officially certified by the secretary, 
president, or other authorized official, before they are 
forwarded to the secretary-manager of the Interstate As¬ 
sociation, as hereinbefore provided. 
Eagle Gun Club. 
Manoa, Pa., Jan. 29.—In the event at 10 birds, Aiman 
and Staley tied on 9, the latter losing one dead out. The 
shooting was not particularly fine, though the weather 
conditions were distinctly unfavorable. Scores: 
Ten-bird event, handicap: 
Aiman, 30...., 
.2222210222—9 
Paulson, 29... 
. .2022221022—8 
Staley, 30. 
22222222*2_9 
Redman, 29., 
. .2220022112—8 
Knowles, 28... 
Miss-and-out 
.2202120221—8 Worrell, 30.., 
event, handicap: 
. .2220222210—8 
Aiman, 30...., 
....2221220—6 
Knowles, 28 
.2120 —3 
Staley, 30 .... 
....221220 —5 
Redman, 29 , 
.2210 —3 
Paulson, 29 .2220 —3 
Five-bird match: 
Kirk, 28 . 
.220 —2 
Staley, 30 _ 
.12100—3 
Redman, 29 . 
.2*202—3 
Kirk, 28 . 
9^*90_d 
Worrell, 30 • 
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