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Championship of Metropolitan Clubs, at Montclair, N. J., 
April 6th, 1910, — by Mr. A. Lindley, Newark, N. J. 
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Five Men Team Race, by Smith Gun Club, Newark, N. J. 
• Score 437 ex 500. 
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AMERICAN DUCK SHOOTING 
By GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL 
600 Page*. Library Edition, $3.50, Edition de Luxe, $5.00. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO, 127 Franklin Street. New York 
National Board for Promotion of 
Rifle Practice. 
Washington, D. C.—Hungary owes much to one of its 
patriotic citizens, Nicholas de Szemere, the originator 
of target practice for young people in Hungary. In 
1902 he organized at his own expense the first course of 
instruction in rifle practice for young men. He enrolled 
667 youths in his classes, and on his own estates he 
built a magnificent rifle range and threw it open to the 
public, with the words, “I have built this house for the 
Hungarian young men in order to give them, an op¬ 
portunity to learn to defend their native soil.” Since 
then the government has established courses of target 
practice in universities and public schools. 
In 1907 the president of the Hungarian Rifle Federa¬ 
tion, a deputy of the Hungarian Parliament, was author¬ 
ized to visit the principal cities of the country and 
organize rifle shooting societies among the young men. 
His efforts were crowned with success everywhere he 
went, and with the co-operation of the towns and cities 
themselves ranges were built and societies organized, 
with the result that during the year 1909, 6,656 young 
men received a thorough course of rifle instruction. 
Adjutant-General Frank M. Rumbold, of Missouri, has 
presented a magnificent trophy to the National Rifle As¬ 
sociation of America for competition in the champion¬ 
ship regimental team match at Camp Pery, O., next 
August. The last trophy for this match was won in 
1908 by the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry. It had been 
won by this regiment the two preceding years, and the 
third winning gave it permanent possession of the 
trophy. 
The new trophy was designed by Gen. Rumbold’s sis¬ 
ter, Mrs. Estelle Rumbold Kohn, a sculptress living in 
New York City. It is a silver punch bowl 18 inches in 
diameter and weighing 299 ounces. It is an Indian 
bowl, supported on four legs, held together by a simple 
braided band, the two figures surmounting ii represent¬ 
ing on the one hand an early Eastern tribesman, and on 
the other an early Western tribesman. The inscription 
goes entirely around the bowl, and the name of the 
winners will be inscribed inside the bowl. The design 
is one which has been freely executed and the sculptress 
has kept it as primitve and as vigorous as possible. 
Adjt.-Gen. Rumbold, the donor of the trophy, has served 
in the National Guard and also in the U. S. Volunteers 
during the Spanish War. He was recommended for 
brevet for gallantry and bravery in action, and he re¬ 
ceived the silver life-saving medal of the Government in 
recognition of gallant conduct exhibited by him in saving 
a number of persons from drowning in the waters of 
Manila Bay during a storm on the night of Dec. 19, 1899. 
In line with the attempt of the United States to inter¬ 
est its schoolboys in rifle practice, a bill for which pur¬ 
pose has recently passed the Senate and is now pending 
in the House, comes the information from London that 
on Empire Day, May 24, will take place a contest for an 
imperial trophy, to be competed for by teams of eight 
boy marksmen from all parts of the British Empire. 
The trophy is donated by the Earl of Meath, and other 
trophies have been presented by Princess Alexander of 
Teck, the Duchess of Marlborough, the Duke of Welling¬ 
ton, and others of nobility. The matches will be held 
under the auspices of the Imperial Cadet Association. 
Arrangements are being made so that where the cadets 
come from a greater distance than twenty miles they 
will be taken care of as far as possible by invitation to 
private houses. If the funds permit, the cadets who 
take first or second place in the matches will receive 
camp scholarships entitling them to attend the summer 
training camp in August free of cost. 
The shooting for the Meath trophy will be followed in 
August by the shooting for the Lord Roberts Imperial 
trophy, which is also for schoolboys. The Lord Roberts 
trophy is also for teams of schoolboys, the difference 
being that in the Meath trophy match miniature rifles 
are used, while in the Roberts competition service rifles 
are used. The teams of eight boys which won the Lord 
Roberts trophy last year had an average age of fourteen 
years and ten months. They learned to shoot first with 
miniature rifles, and found no difficulty in handling the 
heavier weapons. Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Natal 
and the Transvaal will all be represented by teams in 
this competition on Empire Day. 
That the interest in the British Empire in the school¬ 
boy rifle practice is widespread is demonstrated by the 
fact that the boys of Dawson City, Alaska, have a 
cadet corps 500 strong. The Dawson City team was the 
youngest as well as the northernmost. 
After our schoolboys become better versed in the art 
of handling rifles, it is not improbable that matches will 
be arranged between them and the English schoolboys 
after the order ot those conducted by the Society of 
Miniature Rifle Clubs in which teams of fifty representa¬ 
tives of America, Australia and England participate each 
winter. These matches are of course shot by corres¬ 
pondence. 
The Rifle Shooting Championship. 
Washington, D. C., April 18. —After a struggle lasting 
twelve weeks, requiring the shoot-off of a tie between 
two clubs, the rifle shooting team championship of the 
United States on the indoor gallery has been won by 
the Rocky Mountain Rifle Club of Butte, Mont. This 
club, though but recently organized and new to the 
game of gallery shooting, has succeeded in wresting the 
laurels from all the old established clubs of the East. 
The gallery rifle club championship of the United 
States is determined by a series of matches extending 
through the winter months. Each club in the league so 
organized, shoots with every other club, using targets 
that have been previously stamped by the National Rifle 
Association of America, and which are returned to the 
office of that Association here in Washington after being 
HITTING vs. MISSING. 
By S. T. Hammond (“Shadow”). Cloth. Price, $1.00. 
Mr. Hammond enjoys among his field companions the 
repute of being an unusually good shot, and one who is 
particularly successful in that most difficult branch of 
upland shooting, the pursuit of the ruffed grouse, or 
partridge. This prompted the suggestion that he should 
write down for others an exposition of the methods by 
which his skill was acquired. The result is this original 
manual of “Hitting vs. Missing.” We term it original, 
because, as the chapters .will show, the author was self- 
taught; the expedients and devices adopted and the forms 
of practice followed were his own. This then may be 
termed the Hammond system of shooting; and as it was 
successful in his own experience, being here set forth 
simply and intelligently, it will prove not less effective 
with others. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
The Indians of To-day. 
By George Bird Grinnell. Demi-quarto, 185 pages, 
buckram. Price, $5.00. 
It describes the old-time Indian and the Indian of to¬ 
day, and contrasts the primitive conditions and ways of 
living with those of the present. It contains over fifty 
full-page portraits of living Indians from photographs. 
Contents: The North American Indians. Indian 
Character. Beliefs and Stories. The Young Dogs’ 
Dance. The Buffalo Wife. A Blackfoot Sun and Mooa 
Myth. Former Distribution of the Indians. The Reser¬ 
vation. Life 6n the Reservation. The Agent’s Ruie. 
Education. Some Difficulties. The Red Man and the 
White. 
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