March 26, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
511 
Atlantic City Gun Club. 
Atlantic City, N. J., March 18. —The Monthly spoon 
event was closely contested and was finally won by 
Algar after a shoot-off with Cook. Cook surely went to 
pieces in the shoot-off, and Algar won without using his 
handicap. 
We had a good field out. The boys are anxious to 
get in a little hard practice before the Easter Monday 
shoot, for they will have some strong ones to go up 
against from Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, etc. 
The program calls for 200 targets, in strings of 20 
each. There is an optional sweep of $1 on each event, 
divided 40, 30, 20, 10 per cent., and a special optional of 
$5 on each 100, high gun shooting, two moneys to every 
ten entries. The last three events, 60 targets,_ constitute 
the special event, for which an entrance of $1 is charged. 
Prizes: First, $70 Ithaca gun; second, $27 Stevens pump 
gun; third, $10 gold watch; fourth, bath robe; sixth, 
$5; seventh, $5; eighth, $5. We have grouped our prizes 
in this order so that all may have a chance of winning 
and to make the wind-up of the shoot a battle royal, 
and every one has an equal chance. Be sure and be 
with us, and we promise you all a royal good time. 
Our grounds are central, being but three squares from 
the Pennsylvania passenger station. Scores: 
Targets: 
Cook . 
Watson .. 
Algar . 
Young .... 
Powers .... 
Adams .... 
Westcott . 
Hughes .. 
25 25 25 25 25 25 
. 20 22 20 19 19 20 
. 18 19 15 15 16 .. 
. 20 21 21 18 20 .. 
. 19 21 16 . 
. 22 23 . 
. 16 17 . 
. 18 19 . 
. 19. 
.. 17 20 19 . 
Spoon event. 
25 25 H. T. 
25 22 2—49 
18 19 7—44 
21 18 10-49 
22 21 2—45 
24 22 2—48 
17 19 10—46 
15 19 2—36 
18 19 8—45 
10 10 15—35 
. 19 18 . 
. ... 18 18 . 
99 
_18. 
A. H. Sheppard, Sec’y. 
Registered Tournaments. 
Pittsburg. —The tournaments registered with the In¬ 
terstate Association during the week ending March 19 
follow: 
April 22.—Quarryville (Pa.) G. C. J. R. Armstrong, Sec. 
April 28.—Cokeburg (Pa.) G. C. C. A. Miller, Sec y. 
April 29-30.-—Cleveland (O.) G. C. F. H. Wallace, Sec’y. 
May 3.—Canonsburg (Pa.) G. C. A. S. Anthony, Sec’y. 
May 5-6.—Malone (N. Y.) G. C. M. J. Slason, Sec’y. 
May 7.—Watertown (Mass.) G.C. H. C. Kirkwood, Pres. 
May 10.—Burlington, la.—Iowa State tournament, under 
the auspices of the Burlington G. C. J. B. Sutter 
Sec’y. 
May 13-14.—Weiser (Idaho) G. C. L. L. Burtenshaw, 
Sec’y. 
May 14.—Milton (Pa.) R. & G. C. G. Dal Fox, Pres. 
May 25-26.—Pine Bluff (Ark.) G. C. J. T. Lloyd, Sec’y. 
May 30.—Kansas City, Mo.—Kansas City T. S. L. Dave 
Elliott, Sec’y. 
May 30.—Bucyrus (O.) G. C. Thos. Jesson, Sec’y. 
May 31-June 1.—Syracuse, N. Y.—Onondaga County G. C. 
G. M. Phillips, Mgr. 
June 1-2.—Newton (Ill.) G. C. C. M. Franke, Sec’y. 
Tune 9.—Brodhead (Wis.) G. C. C. E. Doolittle, Sec’y. 
June 10.—Lowell, Ind.—Oakland Park G. C. H. O. 
Burnham, Sec’y. 
June 15-16.—Farmer City (Ill.) G. C. M. B. Kincaid, Sec. 
June 16.—West Chester (Pa.) G. C. F. H. Eachus, Sec’y. 
June 16-18.—Bemidji, Minn.—Minnesota State tournament, 
under the auspices of the Bemidji R. & G. C. Dwight 
D. Miller, Sec’y. 
July 4-5.—Huron (S. D.) G. C. E. W. Barrett, 
Aug. 2-3.—Fort Dodge, la.—A. H. Fox G. C. 
Kautzky, Sec’y. 
Aug. 12.—Glens Falls, N. Y.—Hudson Valley R. 
J. A. Norton, Sec’y. 
Sept. 1-2.—Selinsgrove, Pa.—Sunbury-Selinsgrove 
C. Foster, Sec’y. 
Elmer E. Shaner, Sec’y-Mgr. 
Sec’y. 
Joseph 
& G. C. 
G. C. 
Chicago (III.) Gun Club. 
The following circular letter and conditions have been 
sent out by Secretary C. P. Zacher: 
fee, including targets, $2 per man. Each club will pay, 
in addition, an entrance fee of $1 per team. Clubs de¬ 
siring to enter must send an entry fee of $2 per team 
and the name of each member composing said team, to 
reach the secretary not later than April 9. The $2 en¬ 
trance will be credited to the teamaon completing entry 
on day of shoot. In the event or a tie, same will be 
shot off at 25 targets per man. A contestant cannot 
compete on but one team. A handsome silver trophy 
will be awarded dto each man on the winning team 
emblematic of the Interstate Club five-man team cham¬ 
pionship. All shoot 16yds. rise. Each team will com¬ 
pose a squad. _ _. 
Rules and conditions governing the Individual Inter¬ 
state amateur championship: Open to any amateur. All 
contestants shooting on teams are entered for this event, 
with no additional entry fee, and scores made in team 
contest to count on individual championship. Any ama¬ 
teur not entered on a team may compete upon payment 
of an entry fee of $2, including targets (no advance 
entry fee required). Each man will shoot at 100 targets, 
all 16yds. rise. $10 optional sweepstake. Money divided 
40, 30, 20, 10. Ties divided. In the event of a tie, same 
will be shot off at 25 targets, to determine the winner 
of the trophy. A handsome silver trophy will be awarded 
to the winner, emblematic of the individual interstate 
amateur championship. 
Three or four sets of automatic traps will be used. The 
grounds will be open for practice shooting at 10 A. M.; 
also the Saturday afternoon preceding. The team and 
individual contest will begin promptly at 12:30. Lunch 
can be procured on the grounds. Chicago Gun Club 
grounds are located at 123d street and Michigan avenue. 
All kinds of shells and loads can be procured at the 
grounds. Targets, 1 cent each in all practice events. 
Cincinnati Gun Club. 
There was a large gathering on March 19, to give a 
proper welcome to Messrs. Rolla Heikes, Luther Squier, 
Lester German and Fred Le Noir, who honored the club 
with a visit on that day. Not for many moons has the 
Cincinnati Gun Club grounds presented such an ani¬ 
mated sight, and it was surely good for sore eyes to wit¬ 
ness such an assembly of shooters and spectators. Old 
times were vividly recalled, and it was hoped that this 
occasion would be duplicated many times this summer 
Lester German was obliged to divide first honors with 
a local shooter, Emil Hammersmith, who defeated the 
expert in the last 50, and finished even on 95—pretty 
good shooting and a big feather in Emil’s cap for holding 
his own in such hot company. R. Trimble made a good 
fight to keep up with the leaders, and failed by only one 
target. Then came Haliday with 90. 
The day was all that could be asked for, pleasant and 
no wind, the piping of the frogs, as evening approached, 
giving true notice that spring “has came,” and the 
natives of this section are not a bit sorry, for they’ve 
had their fill of snow and cold, besides it stopped the 
shooting, and they’re all anxious to get busy. 
Supt. McFee had his hands just a little bit full, but he 
kept things all running smoothly, and his first shoot 
of any size was marked by no confusion or delay. 
Let the club arrange a series of team matches with 
nearby clubs, and the interest will be kept alive and 
grow. Get together, and all push for the same object— 
the growth and advance of trapshooting in Cincinnati 
and vicinity. Bury the hatchet, smoke the pipe of peace, 
and prosper. The 
other policy means death 
, more o 
less speedy, for all 
the clubs that try 
it. 
The scores: 
German . 
. 23 
25 
23 
24 
95 
Hammersmith .... 
. 22 
24 
24 
25 
95 
R Trimble . 
. 23 
24 
24 
23 
94 
Holiday . 
. 24 
22 
23 
21 
90 
Alhers ..A. 
. 23 
22 
19 
24 
88 
R Heikes . 
. 23 
21 
21 
23 
88 
Le Noir . 
. 25 
24 
17 
21 
87 
Bird . 
. 23 
23 
21 
20 
87 
Squier . 
. 19 
23 
21 
23 
86 
Pfeister . 
. 20 
17 
25 
22 
84 
Tohnson . 
. 20 
24 
22 
17 
83 
Schuler . 
. 23 
20 
17 
22 
82 
Anderson . 
. 15 
21 
19 
22 
77 
Heilman . 
. 17 
18 
18 
21 
74 
Pope . 
. 21 
18 
16 
19 
74 
Rilev . 
. 15 
16 
21 
17 
69 
Reed . 
. 17 
19 
13 
, . 
49 
Connelly . 
. 8 
8 
14 
. • 
30 
Phillips . 
10 
* * 
• * 
16 
The Chicago Gun Club invites your club to participate 
in the Interstate Club five-man team amateur cham¬ 
pionship and individual interstate amateur championship 
to be held on the grounds of the Chicago Gun Club on 
Sunday, April 17, 1910. 
Undoubtedly this event will be the most interesting 
and unique affair that will be held in Chicago this year, 
with the exception of the Grand American Handicap in 
June. It is the desire of the Chicago Gun Club to 
make this the premier interclub contest ever conducted 
in the history of trapshooting. 
You no doubt are familiar with the fact that the 
Chicago Gun Club prides itself in possessing, with no 
exception, the best equipped club house and grounds 
in the United States. 
This contest has been arranged to take place on a 
Sunday, as we learned from previous correspondence 
with the surrounding gun clubs that the majority favored 
a Sunday contest. 
We have at this time the assurance of twenty teams 
for the team contest, and with the interest that has 
been aroused in this contest, we feel safe in saying that 
the entry should double this number. 
Rules and conditions » governing the Interstate Club 
five-man team contests: Open to any organized gun club. 
Five men to each team, each contestant must be an 
amateur and bona fide member of the club so repre¬ 
sented. Each club may enter one or more teams. Each 
man will shoot at 100 targets, 500 per team. Entrance 
Hyde Park Gun Club. 
The first really spring day of the year brought out 
several of the shooters from their winter retirement, and 
there was quite a nice bunch on hand March 19. The 
weather was perfect, although a light haze made a rather 
dark background, and some of the targets were difficult 
to locate quickly. The shooting was over a set of expert 
and an Ideal trap, two squads shooting at the same time. 
Keplinger was high man in the 50-target event with 47. 
In the practice events his old-time tendency to flinch 
bothered him a little, and caused him to lose several 
targets. Eustis, one of the best and most reliable shots 
in the club, gave the leader a hot race, and finished only 
one behind. Frohbiger tied with Phillips for third place 
on 41. Rhodes has been out several times, but has not 
kept up any regular practice. He has the right stuff in 
him to make one of the top-notchers of the club, and 
expects to take up the sport regularly, this season. 
Tuttle has not been on the firing line for months, so 
that his score is very creditable. He used to be one of 
the regulars at the old Cincy grounds. No. 16 is figured 
as a sure 90 per center, and when he drops to 78 per 
cent, we withhold his name to “save his face.” The 
boys all know who he is, and what he is—a good shot 
and a fine fellow. Shafer shot at the traps to-day for the 
fourth time; in his first event he broke only 5, but if 
he keeps on improving every week in the same ratio 
he did this afternoon, he will soon be getting them all. 
Smith likes to shoot, but comes out to the grounds 
once in a while without a gun, so as to have an ex¬ 
cuse for playing spectator. It always ends in his getting 
into the game with a borrowed gun, and this keeps his 
scores lower than they ought to be. McNeal and Rod¬ 
erick are new ones, but they have become enthused and 
will be regulars without a doubt. Stevenson is stjll 
experimenting. Some day he will cut it all out, and will 
then take his right place among the shooters. 
The trophy shoots start the first of April. As rapidly 
as possible the 100yd. rifle range will be put in shape. 
There will also be a 20 and 50 yard revolver range. The 
scores, 50 targets: 
Keplinger 
Eustis ... 
Frohbiger 
Phillips . 
Rhodes .. 
Tuttle .. 
16 .. 
23 24—47 
23 23—46 
18 23-41 
19 22—41 
20. 20—40 
20 20—40 
20 19—39 
McNeal . 
Smith .... 
■ Stevenson 
Roderick 
Porter .., 
Shafer .. 
18 20-38 
20 18—38 
19 19-38 
15 20-35 
19 17—36 
13 15—28 
Shot at. Broke 
Eustis ... 
. 100 86 
Rhodes . 
. 125 94 
McNeal . 
. 50 23 
Roderick 
. 50 32 
Shafer ... 
. 45 7 
Smith ... 
. 25 17 
Porter .. 
. 25 17 
Stevenson 
Tuttle. ... 
Frohbiger 
16 . 
Phillips . 
Keplinger 
Shot at. Broke 
. 50 
28 
. 100 
62 
. 25 
16 
. 50 
35 
. 25 
22 
. 75 
62 
Salem County Rod and Gun Club. 
Salem, N. J.—The members of the Salem County Rod 
and Gun Club, at Salem, N. J., believe that there is 
only one way to do things, and that is to do it right 
and in a down-to-date method. The clu,b has a regis¬ 
tered tournament every year, and the shooter who at¬ 
tends this event goes away with recollections of a pleas¬ 
ant day spent in Salem. The date for the tournament 
this year is Thursday, April 14. A snappy program of 
shooting events has been prepared, but perhaps the most 
interesting part of the affair will be a planked shad 
supper, which will be served at the club house to the 
members and visiting shooters on Wednesday evening 
April 13, the evening before the tournament. To insure 
having fresh shad, some of the club members who have 
launches and fishing paraphernalia have invited the mem¬ 
bers on a fishing trip during the day, and fish for the 
supper will be caught fresh from the Delaware River. 
The club has the largest membership of any gunning 
club in the southern section of the State, and every 
member is active in trying to assist the State Fish and 
Game Commission and its wardens to protect and propa¬ 
gate the fish and game. Several thousand brook trout 
have been liberated in the Salem county streams with 
good results, and this year the club was successful in 
securing a consignment of northern bobwhite, notwith¬ 
standing the fact that the State Game Commission were 
unable to secure a single quail. These birds were 
liberated on most excellent ground, where they, will be 
watched most zealously and protected during the 
closed season. In fact, the club has leased several 
hundred acres of fine gunning ground, not as a pre¬ 
serve to “hog the game,” but as a reserve where birds 
,may breed, and where they will be carefully protected 
during the closed season. The club has also liberated 
a number of Hungarian partridge and ring-necked pheas¬ 
ants. The club members are strong believers in more 
game, better protection during the breeding season and 
feed during the winter. Many of us can remember when 
quail were plentiful, and you will also remember that 
every farmer had a buckwheat patch, and the quail were 
always found near the buckwheat. The past season— 
in fact, for several seasons—there has not been a quart 
of buckwheat grown in Salem county, and as a natural 
consequence the quail have been scarce. As an experi¬ 
ment, the club will have planted this season several 
patches of buckwheat in the vicinity where quail are 
known to be, and allow it to stand to afford feed and 
shelter for the game during the fall and winter. . 
During the winter months the Salem club is not a 
dormant organization, for there is something doing all 
the time. Every member is virtually an assistant game 
warden. During the gunning season a game supper is 
served at the large club house in Waldorf-Astoria style, 
the members by their individual efforts furnishing the 
game. During the closed season on game a genuine 
diamond-back supper is given, and in the spring a 
planked shad supper, not at $5 a plate, but free to.every 
member. Some sav it’s expensive to maintain a gunning 
club, but the Salem boys accomplish all this on yearly 
dues of $1, without assessment of any kind. How can 
it be done? Well, they know how to do things in 
Salem, and do them right. If you don’t believe it, at¬ 
tend the shad bake and tournament. 
Mistakes of the Tutored. 
What a weird collection of absurdities might be made 
by a student of firearms in fiction. The story writer as 
a rule appears to have not the slightest knowledge of 
either the construction or the function of a gun of any 
sort. Here are three examples that have obtruded them¬ 
selves upon my notice recently: 
A syndicate story sent out by the American Press 
turns upon the alleged impossibility of hitting the sus¬ 
pended shell of a blown egg with a bullet. The writer 
explains gravely that the shell is moved aside by the 
wind of the ball. . . . _ , ,, 
The author of a story entitled Ihe Burglar, m 
Everybody’s, speaks of an automatic pistol emitting a 
steady stream of projectiles directed with one finger 
movement,” a common misconception of the opera.ion 
of a self-loading pistol. . 
Your cowpuncher and bad man novelist usually makes 
the revolver perform miracles, but a writer in one of the 
popular story magazines goes to the other extreme ana 
declares, offhand, that nobody could hit so small a target 
as a man at 40 yards, with a revolver. Long ago i 
ceased looking for the novelist who knows the hammer 
of a gun from the trigger. A. K. 
