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Passaic County Gun Club. 
Paterson, N. T., Oct. 13.—The Columbus Day shoot 
of the Passaic County Gun Club, at the Clifton Race 
Track, had scores as appended. 
There were seven events. It was an ideal day for the 
sport, and some excellent scores were made. 
The best work was done by J. Colfax. He started off 
poorly, but came up with a rush at the finish. G. H. 
Hopper also shot in fine form. 
In the first event Heckler, Atwood and Jones were 
tied for first honors with 9 out of 10. In the second 
event Garry Hopper was first. He broke 14 out of a 
possible 15 targets. The third event also went to Hop¬ 
per with 22 out of a possible 25. In the fourth event 
Colfax struck his gait and broke 25 targets without the 
selmblance of a miss. He also tied in the fifth event 
with Atwood with 23 breaks each. The same two were 
tied in the sixth event. 
Colfax went to the fore again in the last event, when he 
broke 23 out of a possible 25. 
There will be no shooting Saturday. The scores made 
yesterday were as follows: 
Events: 
Targets: 
Colfax . 
Atwood . 
Hudson . 
Hopper . 
Van Houten . 
Dr Van Der Clock 
Keivit . 
Weltmere . 
Beckler . 
Tones . 
Perkins . 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
10 
15 
25 
25 
25 
25 
25 
3 
13 
21 
24 
23 
20 
23 
9 
13 
21 
20 
23 
20 
17 
4 
8 
10 
4 
14 
22 
22 
6 
12 
21 
IS 
5 
10 
17 
19 
18 
6 
7 
10 
14 
6 
8 
14 
15 
16 
15 
9 
9 
2i 
9 
13 
24 
.. 
12 
21 
19 
16 
17 
Bergen Beach Gun Club. 
Bergen Beach, L. I., Oct. 16.—The sky was more or 
less cloudy to-dav. and a strong wind made more difficult 
flights. Messrs. Ferris and Burton were new-comers, and 
did well, considering that they used borrowed guns. 
Each event was at 25 targets. Scores: 
Events: 1234567S9 
H D Bergen. 18 18 17 19 17 16 .. 17 .. 
J H Vanderveer. 21 20 23 16 20 21 23 .. 
A Griffith . 13 15 14 21 20 15 15 
W S Skidmore. 11 14 14 16 18 16 .. .. 
H W Woodcock. 18 18 15 22 21 21 22 
Dr W O’Brien. 19 14 16 
Dr H Ferris...12 12 
S W Burton. 7 13 
'Rifle 'Range and Gallery. 
National Rifle Association of America. 
W ashington. D. C., Oct. 13 .—Editor Forest and Stream: 
I beg to hand you herewith a copy of the letter which 
I am sending to each one of our eighty civilian rifle 
clubs. It is proposed to arrange a schedule of inter¬ 
city matches in the same manner as a baseball schedule 
is arranged, continuing the matches _ all through the 
winter season. As soon as all the entries are in and the 
schedule is made up, a copy will be sent you. We hope 
to arouse lots of interest among the rifle shooters 
throughout the country by the establishing of these 
intercity series of rifle matches. If you would like to 
have the scores as they come in please advise me and 
I will see that they are sent you. 
I am, yours very truly, 
Albert S. Jones, Sec’y. 
OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF 
AMERICA. 
Washington, D. C., Oct. 13, 1909. 
Dear Sir: 
. The National Rifle Association has been requested to 
inaugurate a series of interclub gallery matches between 
the rifle clubs affiliated with our association during the 
coming winter. So that we may know the feeling of the 
clubs in this matter and that I may be able to present 
to our executive committee, for action at their next 
meeting, all available data as to the advisability of such 
matches, will you please inform me if the following pro¬ 
posed plan is acceptable to your club or if not in what 
particular would vou suggest a change? 
Proposed conditions: Number of men on team, 5; 
number_ of shots per man, 10; distance, 75ft.; target, 
international (similar to Standard American); position, 
anv authorized American position; arm, anv ,22cai. 
rifle without telescope; entrance fee, $5 per club for the 
entire series: prize, a trophv, emblematic of the indoor 
team championship of United States, to become the 
property of the club, and medals to each member of the 
winning team. 
It is proposed to use the entrance fee for the pur¬ 
chase of the trophy and medals. With the probab'e 
entrv list_ of twenty-five or more clubs the prize will be 
worth striving for. 
The targets to be used in the matches will be signed 
and issued by the N. R. A. and returned to the office 
of the Association after being shot on for the jude-es to 
determine the scores and announce the winner. Scores 
will be shot in strings of five on separate targets, and 
those telegraphed the night of the shoot will be un¬ 
official. 
As soon as all entries are in, the N. R. A. will make 
up a schedule, arranging it so that all of the teams will 
compete with each other, the number of matches to be 
shot depending upon the number of entries. All matches 
to be shot on Saturday nights on dates to be later an¬ 
nounced. All matches must be finished before March 1. 
"hat dates would your club suggest? 
The conditions as proposed above are the same as the 
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Los Angeles (Cal.) Revolver Club. 
Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 5.—The handicap revolver and 
pistol medal contests took place on the outdoor range, 
Oct. 3, and were won by A. D. Macomber and J. E. 
Holcomb. Following are the scores: 
Score. Hdcp. Total. 
A D Macomber. 76 76 72—224 78 302 
W E Smith. 82 88 91—261 21 282 
Dr L M Packard. 88 80 81—249 21 270 
H D Thaxter. 86 81 90—257 12 269 
Pistol Medal Match: 
J E Holcomb. 88 90 
A B Douglas. 90 85 
I C Douglas. 83 92 
Dr Packard . 86 91 
H D Thaxter. 86 78 
I. C. Douglas, 
90—268 
88—263 
88—263 
84—261 
93—257 
Sec’y. 
Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Association. 
New York, Oct. 14. —At 2628 Broadway to-day the ap¬ 
pended scores were made: 
Revolver, 20yds.: G. P. Sanborn 91, 91, 89, 86, 83; 
P. Hanford 93, 93; J. L. R. Morgan 88, 86, 85, 83; 
C. W. Green 87, 82; G. Grenzer 85, 82, 81; J. E. Silli- 
man 88, 86, 85, 84, 84. 
Jos. E. Silliman, Treas. 
Providence Revolver Club. 
Providence, R. I., Oct. 13.—Scores shot by members 
of Providence Revolver Club at their Portsmouth range 
to-day follow: 
Revolver, 50yds.: M. Nash 93, 86, 84, 81, 84, 87; W. 
Almy 81, 84, 85. 
Pistol, 50yds.: W. Almy 87, 87, 90, 91. 
W. Almy. 
WITH THE ’COY MAN. 
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plenty of instruction as well as interest in the 
old man's tales, and when we have sat chatting 
for two or three hours, a lull in the conversa¬ 
tion allows me to become suddenly conscious 
that the wind has gone down. 
We go outside, to find little more than a 
breeze blowing and great stars shining whitely 
in the fathomless vault above; and with the fall 
of the wind Jack Frost has entered upon his 
kingdom. My companion “counts” that the 
pond will be “smuddered” at daybreak, and 
when we have had a few minutes with the op¬ 
pressive silence and intense cold, it is a relief 
to get within the sheltering walls again. 
Happily, long years of rough life in many parts 
of the world, where sport is splendid and ac¬ 
commodation vile, have inured me to every kind 
of hardship, so it is not impossible to sleep 
for a few hours on a hard floor with a traveling 
rug for bed clothes, despite the pungent odor 
of burning peat that does its best to make 
me keep awake. But I sleep lightly, and wake 
from a horrid dream of being buried alive, to 
find the ’coy man coming from his inner room. 
I start up. 
(( I count she’s froze,” he remarks simply. 
“Then I’ll come with you,” I say with some 
effort, and take the precaution of filling the 
kettle and replenishing the fire while he pre¬ 
pares his lantern and dons his heavy oilskin 
overalls. 
He leads the way to the door and through the 
garden, across the stretch of pasture land that 
takes us to the pond itself, by way of one of the 
pipes at its narrow point. The old flat-bot¬ 
tomed boat is pushed out, and we punt slowly 
across the dark water, breaking up the thin 
layer of ice in all directions. It is perhaps the 
coldest job I ever took part in, and is indeed 
a weird performance, for the lantern does no 
more than make darkness visible; the ’coy man 
might very well be Charon and the pond the 
Styx. Certainly the dwelling-place of the 
shades could not be more desolate, nor further 
lemoved from life, though I suppose it is con¬ 
siderably warmer. It is the hour when men’s, 
nerves are on edge, and night attacks are suc¬ 
cessful. I have an odd feeling that we shall be 
ambushed before we have broken up the ice. 
Needless, perhaps, to say that if the wild-fowl 
found the pond covered they would not settle, 
and that_ this work is absolutely necessary at 
certain times during the winter. By the time 
our punting operations are over all risks have 
been discounted, and I count myself among the 
wise of this earth when I return to shelter and 
find the kettle singing a merry song, to which 
an invisible cricket is responding happily. It 
is pleasant to realize the really stimulating 
quality of coffee and the beauty of a fire, even 
when it burns too much peat and too little coal. 
An hour later the ’coy man rouses me from 
my sort of impromptu sleep on the chair. 
“It’s ’most fightin’ time,” is all he says, and 
once more I face the eager nipping air, and find 
a corner behind a screen. It is not daylight, 
but the night is losing its deep black quality, 
and far in the east there is a promise of light, 
though the dawn has yet to lay its reddening 
hand upon the shroud of grey. 
The sound of wings breaks the silence. I hear 
the flight of many birds, and hear them alight- 
