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FOREST AND STREAM 
513 
Hyde Park Gun Club. 
There was a big crowd at the shoot on March 25, 
Fred Gilbert and Luther Squier proving to be strong 
drawing attractions. Then those who attended had the 
pleasure of welcoming Pop Heikes and Charlie Young, 
whose presence was entirely unexpected. These four, 
with O. J. Iloloday, our popular local man, made a 
squad, hard to beat. 
There were twenty-four shooters in the events, and 
ever 2300 targets were trapped during the afternoon. 
Weather conditions were about perfect, and good scores 
were common, though some of the shooters fell a little 
below their average. Young shot a fast clip, breaking 
96 out of the 100, and making a run of SO straight in the 
practice and regular Events. The professionals made up 
a little team match on the side: Gilbert and Heikes 
against Young, Holodav and Squier. The score of 
Young was to be used, and the five best scores of Squier 
and Holodav. The latter team won by a total score of 
3SS to 1ST. Pop Heikes was second with 95. Barker and 
Sunday, who used to be among the crackerjacks of the 
Cincinnati Gun Club, but who have been out of the 
game for a long time, demonstrated their ability to 
come back by breaking 93 each. Gilbert was a little 
puzzled on some of the angles, for which these grounds 
are noted, and didn't break quite so many as usual, but 
in the event at doubles, which closed the afternoon’s 
sport, be had them all guessing. Welch built up a 
cheek pad on his gun, and his score went up over 90. 
De Mar was in good form, and shot a very event race, 
tying with Squier and Holoday. The latter started out 
with 24 in a practice event, then got four ISs and a 19 
in the regular events. Squier had hard luck in his second 
event, which caused him to finish in the tie for fifth 
place. Johnson was not in good trim to-day, and had 
hard luck in three of the events. Dr. Leighner was not 
shooting as well as he knows how by several targets. 
Irwin was another shooter who fell below his average. 
Sampson is back in the game, but he has got to brace 
up; he has no business to miss 23 out of 100. Smith 
and Frohliger could find time to shoot in only one 
event each, their duties as scorer and financial man 
taking all their attention. Keplinger was a little off, but 
he will not stay behind long. Glad to welcome Rich¬ 
mond at the grounds, and hope he will come out often. 
He did very good work, considering his lack of practice, 
and tied with Keplinger, which is worth something. 
Rhodes made a fine start, but dropped in the following 
events. We were glad to see Reif out again. He got 
warmed up after a couple of events and shot in his old 
form. Sam Leever was a spectator, but was too careful 
of his “pitching” arm to risk shooting. Dull, of Goshen, 
was the only one to make a straight in the practice. An 
event at 14 pairs doubles, over expert traps, ended the 
sport. Gilbert was leader with 25, Heikes 21, Young, 
Holoday and Keplinger 19 each. 
Messrs. L. J. Squier and Fred Gilbert will visit the 
Cincinnati Gun Club grounds on April 9. The members 
of the Hyde Park Gun Club will go to the Cincinnati 
grounds on April 1. 
Targets: 20 20 20 20 20 Total. 
Young . 20 20 19 19 18 9fi 
Heikes . 19 19 ”0 18 19 95 
Barker . 19 19 17 20 IS 93 
Sunday . 18 17 19 19 20 93 
Gilbert . 19 17 18 20 18 92 
Welsh . IS 18 18 18 19 91 
Squier . 18 17 19 19 18 91 
Holodav . IS 18 18 19 18 91 
De Mar . 19 17 18 18 19 -91 
Tohnson . 19 17 17 19 17 89 
T.eighner . 17 20 15 17 19 88 
Richmond . 18 14 IS 17 IS 85 
Keplinger . 16 18 18 17 16 85 
Irwin . 16 18 16 13 IS 81 
Rhodes . 18 13 17 16 17 81 
Sampson . 14 1.3 15 17 IS 77 
Wellner . 14 13 10 17 .. 54 
Dull . 15 15 15 .. .. 45 
Reif . 10 15 19 .. .. 44 
Resuden . 10 14. 24 
Wilson . 11 10. 21 
Smith . 15 .. 15 
Frohliger . 12. 12 
West .-. 11 . 11 
Practice. 25 targets: Dull 25. Young 24, Heikes 24, 
Holodav 24, Johnson 23, Richmond 19, Gilbert 22, Squier 
22, Barker 21, Wilson 19, Sunday 20. 
Trap af Higgins, Texas. 
Higgins, Texas, March 22.—While we have no club 
here, some of the boys get out about every two weeks 
and shoot up a few. Below are the scores made on 
March 17. It was a warm spring day, and there was no 
wind: 
Targets: 
25 25 25 25 25 
Shot 
at. 
Broke. 
F. M Ongdon. 
0 -| 04 00 oc; 04 
1°5 
116 
Ed A Hoyt . 
. 17 16 17 .. .. 
75 
50 
T TJnn . 
. 20 16 . 
50 
36 
CJuvton . 
. 16 20 . 
50 
36 
Brewer . 
. 8 13. 
50 
21 
Yesterday we had another practice shoot, but the 
scor“s were not quite as good, as there was a strong 
wind at our backs and it made the targets duck a good 
deal. Most of the boys are new at the game, but with 
a little practice can do a good deal better. 
We are going to organize a gun club here, and will 
be glad to have any one call, when in our neck of the 
woods. Come out and shoot with us. 
Shot 
.Targets: 25 25 25 25 at. Broke. 
Congdon . °1 21 24 23 109 89 
Hoyt . 23 22 22 19 100 86 
Linn . 18 15 17 15 100 65 
Wilson . 14 12 18 .. 75 34 
Garnett . 7 9 14 .. 75 30 
Brewer . 10 12 .... 50 22 
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