Dec. 4, 1900.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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T raps hooting. 
If you want your shoot to be announced here 
send a notice like the following: 
Fixtures. 
Dec. 8-9.—Travers Island, N. Y.—New York Athletic 
Club amateur trapshooters’ championship. P. R. 
Robinson, Sec’y Shooting Committee. 
Dec. 14.—Bergen Beach (L. I.) G. C. L. H. Schorte- 
meier, Sec’y. 
Dec. 31.—Dayton, Ky.—Northern Kentucky G. C. 
1910. 
Jan. 1.—Bergen Beach (L. I.) G. C. merchandise handi¬ 
cap. L. H. Schortemeier, Sec’y. 
Jan. 1.—Dayton, Ky.—Northern Kentucky G. C. tri¬ 
state trophy; live birds. 
Jan. 24-29.—Houston, Tex.—Sunny South Handicap. Alf. 
Gardiner, Mgr. 
Feb. 8-10.—San Antonio, Tex., tournament. 
REGISTERED TOURNAMENTS. 
Dec. 4.—Trenton (N. J.) Shooting Association. F. \V. 
Mathews, Mgr. 
Dec. 4-5.—St. James, Mo.—Maurice G. C. W. W. 
Miller, Sec’y. 
Dec. 10.—Quarryville (Pa.) G. C. J. R. Armstrong, Sec. 
Dec. 13-14.—Palestine (Tex.) G. C. Ben D. Jackson. Sec. 
Dec. 15.—Skaneateles Junction, N. Y.—Glenside G. C. 
C. S. Cottle, Sec’y. 
Dec. 17.—Lambertville (N. J.) R. and G. C. E. E. 
Bates, Sec’y. 
Dec. 20-22.—Houston (Tex.) G. C. Alf. Gardner, Sec’y. 
Dec. 27.—Waco,Tex.—Ambold G. C. J. A. Lemke, Sec’y. 
Dec. 28-29.—Sullivan (Ill.) G. C. Bert Fultz, Sec’y. 
Dec. 29-31.—Bryan (Tex.) G. C. J. Allen Myers, Sec’y. 
Dec. 30-31.—Artisia (N. M.) G. C. Mark A. Corbin, Sec’y. 
Dec. 31.—Wellington, Mass.—Palefaces’ G. C. Horace 
C. Kirkwood, Sec’y. 
Dec 31, 1909-Jan. 1, 1910.—Belleville (Ont.) G. C. 
H. Howev. Sec’y. 
Dec. 31-Jan. 1.—Catasaqua, Pa.—Bryden G. C. G. E. 
Brown, Pres. 
1910. 
Jan. 17-21.—Hamilton (Ont.) G. C. H. A. Horning. Sec. 
Jan. 19-22.—Pinehurst Country Club. Leonard Tufts 
Pres. 
June 7-9.—Syracuse, N. Y.—New York State Sports¬ 
men’s Association tournament, Chas. G. Blandford 
Sec’y. ’ 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
The next shoot of the Hudson Gun Club, of Jersey 
City is fixed to take place on Dec. 5. 
The next regular shoot of the Holland Gun Club, 
Batavia, N. Y., will be held on Dec. 9. 
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At Morrisville, Pa., on Nov. 27, a 50-bird match be¬ 
tween Messrs. Herman Margerum and “Casey” McCue 
resulted in favor of the former by a score of 48 to 30. 
The purse was for $100, and much interest was shown in 
the contest. 
The Passaic County Gun Club, of Paterson, N. J., and 
the North Caldwell Gun Club have arranged a series of 
team contests, ten or more men to a team, two wins 
out of the three contests to determine the winner. The 
first contest is fixed to take place on Dec. 18. 
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A match at 10 birds, at Seidersville, Pa., Nov. 27, be¬ 
tween Mr. Geo. Gross, of that place, and Mr. Alvin Reiss, 
of Hellerton, for $50 a side, was won by the latter with 
a score of 8 to 5. It requires a high order of skill to 
kill exactly one-half the birds shot at. 
In the week ending on Nov. 27, two tournaments were 
registered with the Interstate Association, namely, that 
of the Bryan, Tex., Gun Club, Dec. 29-31, J. Allen 
Myers, Secretary, and that of the Paleface Gun Club, 
Dec. 31, Wellington, Mass., Horace C. Kirkwood, Sec¬ 
retary. 
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The Atlantic City, N. J., Gun Club has arranged to 
hold a shoot on Christmas Day, beginning at 10 o’clock 
A. M., with an intermission from 12 to 2 o’clock. Every¬ 
one is invited to attend. On Dec. 3, the December spoon 
event will be a feature of the shoot. For further par¬ 
ticulars address Secretary A. H. Sheppard. 
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There were eleven contestants in the 10-bird handicap 
of the Penrose Gun Club, Philadelphia, Nov. 27, and of 
these Mr. Murphy made a straight score, while three. 
Messrs. Fisher, Lord and Felix, tied for second on 9 . 
Fisher was rather unfortunate by losing his tenth bird 
dead out, close to the boundary. 
Quick action for $25 a side was a conspicuous feature 
of a 5-bird match, between Mr. Benjamin Harris, Sec¬ 
retary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers of the 
Hazleton, Pa., district, and Mr. Steve Wasgo. The 
match was shot at Coleraine. A, high wind is held re¬ 
sponsible for adding some difficulties to the shooting. 
The scores were: Harris 2, Wasgo 3. It was thus a 
close contest. 
The most conspicuous feature of the competition at 
the New York Athletic Club traps, at Travers Island, 
Nov. 27, was the total of 96 out of 100 targets scored by 
Mr. Fred Hodgman, from scratch in the last four 
events of the day’s programme. He broke 25 straight in 
two events. He scored a leg on the Westley-Richards 
gun and a win in a special” trophy event. Mr. G. M. 
Thompson won the second leg on the November cup 
and it thereby became his property. 
The first price of the American amateur championship, 
to be shot under New York Athletic Club auspices, 
Dec. 8 and 9, is a solid gold watch fob with large 
mercury foot in diamonds and rubies. The olive wreath 
is in green gold, and the initials “N. Y. A. C.” on the 
obverse side, and on the reverse side there is a “clay 
target” with a fine diamond filling the crown space. 
The inscription will be written about this target. The 
second and third prizes are watch fobs of design similar 
to that of the foregoing, the diamond excepted. The 
prizes for the preliminary event of the first day are 
three sterling silver cups, artistic in design and grad¬ 
uated as to sizes. 
The closing of several events for November was an 
interesting feature of the Crescent Athletic Club shoot, 
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Nov. 27. The weather conditions 
were pleasant. The final shoot for the November cup 
was won by Mr. C. A. Lockwood, of Jamaica. This, 
with his previous best score, made a total of 47 out of a 
possible 50. The November scratch shoot resulted in a 
tie between Messrs. F. B. Stephenson, W. C. Damron 
and G. G. Stephenson, Jr., and the prize was divided. 
Four contestants tied on full scores of 25 for the Stake 
trophy, but as Mr. D. T. Leahy shot from scratch, the 
prize was awarded to him. In the team contest. Dr. 
J. J. Keyes and H. W. Woodcock were high with a 
total of 46. 
Secretary A. K. Ludwig writes us as follows: “The 
Hercules Gun Club will hold a live-bird shoot on Sat¬ 
urday, Dec. 11, on their grounds, at Cotopaxi Swamp, 
Temple, Pa. The programme calls for 15 birds, en¬ 
trance $ 8 , money divided 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. Pro¬ 
fessionals shoot for birds only. If time permits, miss- 
and-out events will be shot. Shoot starts promptly upon 
arrival of P. & R. train No. 6 , due at 12:30 P. M. at 
Temple, Pa. A new, roomy club house is on the 
grounds, which is heated throughout the day for the 
accommodation of the shooters. The Hercules takes 
special pains to make this a most pleasant and memor¬ 
able event. Plenty of good, strong birds on the grounds 
to enjoy this treat. All dead birds belong to the shoot¬ 
ers. Bird cracks from distant towns are expected to 
take part in this memorable contest. Come all. Good 
railroad facilities until late hours.” 
Thanksgiving Day was distinctly unpleasant for outdoor 
sport, a stiff gale, snow, rain and sleet being conspicu¬ 
ous in the weather provided for that day. It was a 
good day for a warm fireside and roast turkey, and quite 
the opposite for trapshooting. The attendance at the 
Crescent Athletic Club traps at Bay Ridge, L. I., was 
light. Dr. J. J. Keyes was the most successful contestant. 
He won the Thanksgiving Day trophy contest, the prize 
of which was a beautifully carved oak plaque. At the 
shoot of the New York Athletic Club, on Thanksgiving 
Day, Mr. G. M. Thompson won the leg on the Novem¬ 
ber cup and a leg on the holiday cup, making a full 
score of 25 in the latter event. Mr. Gus E. Greiff won a 
leg on the Haslin cup with a full score of 25 from 
scratch, an excellent performance under any conditions, 
but peculiarly so under the unpleasant weather con¬ 
ditions which prevailed. Mr. George W. Kuchler also 
scored 25 from scratch in the Westley-Richards event. 
Mr. T. J. Corbett won the leg on the Hall cup. 
Bernard Waters. 
Ossining Gun Club. 
Ossi ni ng, N. Y., Nov. 25.—Despite wind and snow, 
ttte I hanksgiving Day shoot of the Ossining Gun Club 
was successful. There were nineteen shooters in at¬ 
tendance. A warm fire inside the club house served to 
modify the outdoor conditions of the snow-laden north¬ 
east wind. The programme consisted of two 10-target 
practice events preliminary to the 60-target handicap, 
shot in two strings of 25 targets. The handicap con- 
sisted of misses as breaks. The scores will show that 
the handicapping was quite well done. 
Lansing Terwilliger got the limit of handicap, but 
was not able to get near the prizes. As he has only 
tried shooting at targets a couple of times, his low 
scores must be attributed to want of practice, for he is 
a good game shot. 
In the other extreme came Daubeney Brandreth with a 
gross score of 46, which showed him to be slightly under¬ 
handicapped with his new gun. First prize went to him 
It is a handsome gold medal for high net score for club 
members. A set of individual salts went with this prize, 
Brandreth very gracefully waived, and Joe 
Willi fell heir to them. Third went to Preston Wood 
a sterling salad spoon being the prize. C. G. Blandford 
won a sterling sauce spoon on a toss-up with J C 
Barlow, and John Hyland got fifth, a set of dessert 
spoons, on a shoot-off with Ted Brewerton. The prize 
for non-members, a set of soup spoons, went to Bruce 
Patrick, who surprised everyone by smashing 18 in his 
first string of 25. 
A. L. Burns motored over from Mamaroneck and 
shot as guest of C. G. Blandford. He got high net 
score of 42, but was nosed out on non-member’s prize 
by one target, shooting from scratch. 
Col. Brandreth furnished the prizes for this shoot, and 
they were of the same fine sort that he always gives 
Everyone missed the Colonel, for he is one of the 
keenest shooters in the club. The scores follow 
Targets: 
J T Hyland, 7. 
10 
10 
7 
25 
16 
19 
19 
23 
13 
12 
18 
16 
13 
16 
10 
19 
18 
6 
25 
16 
16 
22 
Total. 
C G Blandford, 5. 
. 8 
9 
8 
8 
40 
46 
42 
39 
D Brandreth, 5 . 
A L Burns . 
Ed Brewerton, 9 . 
19 
17 
12 
18 
16 
15 
19 
14 
14 
10 
15 
9 
W S Smith, 12 . 
J Willi, 6 . 
8 
Wm Fisher, 10 . 
7 
42 
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C P Dietrich, 10. 
P R Wood, 6. 
S A Kipp, 15. 
3 
J C Barlow, 8. 
B Patrick, 15 . 
3 
W Pratt, 15 . 
M Vail, 15 . 
2 
Q 
T. Terwillieer, 15 .. 
5 
9 
F Rohr, 15 . 
13 
11 
W Burdick, 15 . 
5 s 
T T Blandford. 
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Notes of the Shoot. 
G. B. Hubbell and Amos Bedell were missed by all. 
Ihe poultry event did not come off owing to their 
absence. 
Will Fisher showed good nerve by agreeing to shoot 
Will mlss ' an ^" out w Bh Joe Willi. Better luck next time. 
Win Smith shot away below his usual form. What 
was the matter. Win, too much turkey? 
Fred. Rohr and Will Burdick were “there with the 
goods, and. made Patrick step some for the non¬ 
member 9 prize. 
What happened to Will Clark, Phil Fleck and Frank 
roshay? Don t let those bubble wagons wean you away 
iF 1 the royal game of clay target shooting,' boys 
We certainly were glad to- see Lanse Terwilliger If 
he goes at it as consistently as he does the fishing 
game, he will soon be with the topnotchers. 
Joe Willi will be a good shot when he gets another 
gun. Joe sold his gun for $5 and was going to quit 
the game, but he just couldn’t quit. 
Morris Vail was shooting his brand new automatic, 
and hasn t got the hang of it yet. 
Ted and Neil are good old standbys, and a shoot 
would not be complete without them. 
Alderman T. Curry Barlow took a hand in the handi¬ 
capping, and made a success of it. Curry is the best 
ever. 
Someone said “Will” Pratt and Arthur Kipp should 
placed back a yard. Both standing 6 ft 3in they 
have certainly got it on the rest of us when it comes to 
reaching for em. 
Press Wood shot his old steady gait, and as usual 
landed near the top. Press has a knack of making a 25 
straight every once in a while. 
Jim Blandford took his dad’s gun and smashed 8 out 
of 10 in the semi-darkness after the shoot, which was 
better than his dad could have done under the same 
conditions. 
Ed. Pratt and Sey Ansur are second to none in their 
respective offices—Pratt, the trap doctor, and Ansur the 
crack referee. q G B 
Highland Gun Club. 
Edge Hill, Pa, Nov. 27.—The club shoot at 50 tar¬ 
gets brought Anderson and Perry to the front on a tie 
each scoring 40. In the shoot-off at 25 targets, Anderson 
won. Two Class C men, Harkin and Davis, tied on 31 
the former winning in the shoot-off. Lester German the 
expert professional, made quite a novel performance bv 
scoring 48 out of 50, shooting at 25 pair. The scores of 
the club contest were as follows: 
♦Furtis . 
♦German . 
Anderson . 
Perry . 
Tancev . 
♦Professionals. 
44 T Wolstencroft . 35 
43 Dr Wentz . 3T 
40 Harkins . 31 
40 Davis . 31' 
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