April 15, 1911 ] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
591 
Audubon Gun Club. 
Buffalo, N. Y., April 2.—The shooting of the mem¬ 
bers of the Audubon yesterday afternoon was good, 
and ties were very common in all classes and events. 
For instance, Hopper, of Westfield, and Wright, the 
New York State champion, tied for Class A with 20 
each, and in the next event again tied with 17 each, 
and again with 1G, Hopper finally winning by breaking 
17 to Wright’s 16. 
In shooting for the Reed handicap trophy, Hopper 
was also tied by Sidway and Covert, each breaking 17 
from the 20yd. mark, and in the shoot-off which fol¬ 
lowed, Covert won by one bird. Reinecke won Class B 
by breaking 17, and C. Rogers was the winner in 
Class C. 
Jack ialcott and Dr. Wootton tied in events 3 and 
4. and they decided who would be the contender of the 
challenge cup by shooting oft their tie by the miss-and- 
oiU system, which was won by Talcott. 
T ish, of Lyndenville, who already has two wins on 
this cup, was not up to his usual good shooting form, 
and in his first string of 25 broke 22 to Talcott’s 21. 
In the next 25 Talcott reversed the scores, making the 
result a tie, with each having broken 43 out of their 50. 
In the next 25 Fish got down to real hard work and 
broke 23 to lalcott’s 21, thereby gaining another win, 
making three in all in three shoots. It looks as if the 
boys w'ill have to call on some of the old reliable shoot¬ 
ers like Frank D. Kelsey and Harry Kirkover to stop 
this Lyndenville thresher. 
1 he Audubons are eagerly awaiting the time for the 
Bridgeburg shoot at live birds and there will be quite a 
few who will take part. Scores: 
Events: 
i 
2 
3 
4 
Shot 
largets: 
20 
20 
20 
20 
at. 
Broke. 
YY F Hopper . 
. IS 
20 
17 
16 
so 
71 
Dr YV Wootton . 
. 17 
19 
IS 
17 
so 
71 
E S. Wright . 
. IS 
20 
17 
16 
80 
71 
B V Covert . 
. 19 
17 
15 
18 
SO 
69 
II Stevens . 
. 14 
17 
IS 
19 
SO 
6S 
YY H Smith . 
. 17 
17 
17 
17 
80 
68 
J L Talcott . 
. 16 
16 
17 
IS 
80 
67 
G N Fish . 
19 
16 
16 
SO 
67 
Y F' Lambert . 
. 17 
IS 
14 
17 
80 
66 
R H Reed . 
15 
IS 
14 
SO 
65 
R Sidway . 
16 
15 
15 
80 
63 
E Reinecke . 
. 16 
17 
15 
14 
80 
62 
W Imhoff . 
16 
15 
14 
SO 
59 
II l_ tz . 
13 
12 
13 
SO 
52 
R Pierce . 
10 
6 
9 
80 
33 
F' YY akefield . 
. 13 
20 
13 
YY Eaton . 
20 
12 
T Patterson . 
. 13 
20 
13 
(_ Rogers . 
15 
12 
IS 
SO 
63 
Springfield Shooting Club. 
The annual spring tournament of the Springfield, 
Mass., Shooting Club will be held on their grounds at 
Red House Crossing on Patriot’s Day, \\ ednesday, April 
19. The program of twelve events calls for 200 blue 
rock targets, $16.00 entrance in the sweeps and $25.00 
added money by the club. All shooting will be from 
30yds. rise over expert traps, arrranged Sargeant system. 
Lunch and loaded shells will be for sale on the grounds, 
which are reached by Indian Orchard and Palmer cars’ 
leaving the city every fifteen minutes. 
The shoot will be held rain or shine, the shooting 
stand being under cover, if necessary. Interstate rules 
will govern all events and the referee’s decision will be 
final. Shooting will start promptly at 9:30 o’clock and 
continue all day.* Professionals will be allowed to shoot 
for targets only. Targets included in all entrances at 
two cents each. Guns and ammunition shipped prepaid 
to the Secretary, C. L. Kites. 416 Main street, will be 
delivered on the grounds free of charge. Purses will 
be divided Rose system, four moneys, less than ten 
entries, three moneys. Sweeps will be optional, any one 
may enter any event and shoot for targets only. Pro¬ 
grams are now ready and may be had by addressing the 
secretary. 
'I here will be $75.00 worth of merchandise prizes to be 
divided among the twenty high guns shooting the en¬ 
tire program, as follows: 1. Huntng coat. 2. Umbrella. 
3. Safety ax. 4. Link cuff buttons. 5. Razor. 6. Box 
of cigars. 7. Vase. 8. Reading glass. 9. Fly book. 
10. Umbrella. 11. Safety ax. 12. Box of cigars. 13. Ink 
well. 14. Brier pipe. 15. Tobacco jar. 16. Umbrella. 
L. Compass. 18. Umbrella. 19 Pocket knife. 20. Scarf 
pin. 
lhere will be a special prize of a genuine French brier 
pipe with case, for the low gun of the program. High 
guns to win. Ties shot off mss-and-out. All shooters 
are cordially invited to attend. 
Wilmington Country Club Won Out. 
Wilmington, Del., April 8. —In a bad light, with a 
raw northeaster blowing and an occasional rain-and-hail- 
storm thrown in for good measure, the Wilmington 
Country Club landed a victory over the team from the 
Baltimore Country Club in such a decisive manner as to 
give the Wilmingtonians honors in the series of home- 
and-home matches arranged annually between the two 
clubs. 
On March 11 last the YY’ilmington Country Club’s team 
went to Baltimore and came home 15 targets to the bad, 
the scores being 855 for the Baltimore Country Club 
as against 840 for the Wilmington men. This gave the 
home team the task of winning to-day by 16 targets, if 
they wanted to prove their superior skill at the traps. 
The hard conditions, strange grounds, poor background 
and a trap that acted badly, were too much for the 
Orioles, although it must be owned, the Wilmington 
team as a rule made good scores under the circumstances 
and deserved the total of 756 which they hung up as 
against the Baltimore total of 735, giving the home team 
the needed 16 targets, and then a few to make good 
measure. 
In each match the teams consisted of ten men, and 
each man shot at 100 targets per match, or a total of 2000 
per team for the two matches. That the teams were 
evenly matched is proved by the fact that at the end 
there is only a difference of 6 targets between them, the 
full totals being: Wilmington Country Club, 1596; Bal¬ 
timore Country Club, 1590. 
L. D. Thomas, of Baltimore, and Ed. Banks, of Wil¬ 
mington, acted alternately as referee and scorer. For 
Wilmington the best scores were: Skelly 88, Victor du 
Pont 3d, 87, J. P. Winchester 85, E. E. du Pont 84, H. 
Winchester 81. For Baltimore, H. Matthai and D. F. 
Mallory were high with 80, M. G. Gill coming next with 
79. The full team scores were: 
Wilmington. 
Baltimore. 
J T Skelly. 
ss 
H 
Matthai . SO 
V du Pont 3d. 
87 
D 
F Mallory. SO 
1 1* Winchester.... 
85 
M 
G Gill.79 
E E du Pont. 
84 
E 
D Nelson. 77 
H Winchester . 
81 
E 
Gosnell, Jr. 76 
Eugene du Pont... 
70 
W 
F Goldsborough 72 
T E Doremus. 
69 
E 
L Bartlett, Jr... 71 
Theo Rogers . 
68 
B 
Wagner. 70 
E Price.65 
A I du Pont. 
64 
E 
YV A Lindsay. 
60—756 
O 
B Bidwell, Jr... 66—735 
N. O. Smoke. 
Analostan Gun Club. 
W'ashington, D. C.—The Analostan Gun Club opened 
the season for 1911 on April 1. Although the day was 
raw and disagreeable, with a forty-mile wind kiting the 
targets “four ways for Sunday,” four men toed the fir¬ 
ing line. Some good scores were, made, notably that of 
Dr. Harrison, a new member, who scored 91 out of 100. 
Phil Steubener, Geo. W. Peck, Jr., Wm. Wagner, C. B. 
Wise and Dr. Stine also did some good work. 
We had a most welcome visitor—good old Fred 
Ouimby. We were so busy we did not have to get him 
off to one side and have an old-fashioned visit with him; 
but all the boys gave him the glad hand. Our latch 
string is always out for him, not giving him a chance 
to pull the string. The weather w r as so bad, and having 
no fire, he did not tarry with us long—being a con¬ 
servationist, he believes in conserving his health and he 
did right in hunting a warmer place. Following are 
the scores of April 1: 
Shot 
at. 
Broke 
Harrison . 
.. 100 
91 
Steubener .... 
. 100 
87 
Peck . 
. 100 
86 
YVise .. 
. 100 
84 
Stine . 
. 100 
84 
YY^agner . 
.. 75 
65 
C S Wilson .. 
. 75 
54 
M Taylor ... 
. 50 
45 
Kahrs . 
43 
Shot 
at. 
Broke 
Drain . 
.. 50 
39 
Hawes .. 
.. 50 
42 
Cobev . 
.. 50 
31 
(jreen . 
.. 50 
27 
Toohev . 
.. 50 
28 
Bennett . 
25 
19 
W eedon _ 
.. 25 
20 
Coleman . 
... 25 
IS 
McDonald .. 
.. 15 
7 
April 8.—To-day was another day that was disapnointing 
to our trapshooters. It was raw and cold, misty and 
windy. Only twelve members came out to the grounds 
and this was twice as many as the secretary expected. 
The shooting was difficult and only two members dis¬ 
tinguished themselves by making straight scores of 25— 
our genial president and Dr. Harrison. Dufour gave a 
good account of himself, scoring 89 out of his 100. Du¬ 
four made a run of 32, Mr. Wilson one of 35. The 
scores: 
Shot 
at. 
Broke. 
Shot 
at. Broke. 
Harrison ... 
.. 150 
131 
Kahrs . 
. 75 
45 
Dufour .... 
.. 100 
89 
YYIlson . 
. 50 
46 
Bray . 
.. 125 
88 
M Taylor ... 
. 50 
43 
Monroe .... 
.. 100 
SI 
Kirpatrick ... 
. 50 
41 
Wise . 
.. ino 
76 
Dr Taylor ... 
. 50 
Drane . 
* \ isitor. 
...75 
56 
*Sibbold . 25 
Miles Taylor, Sec’> 
11 
Marine and Field Club. 
Four interesting competitions were decided at the 
Bath Beach grounds of the Marine and Field Club, on 
Saturday, April 8. Six shooters were present and par¬ 
ticipated in the events on the program. The scores: 
April cup, 100 targets, handicap: 
E II Lott .0 80 
T H Emanuel, Jr.... 4 87 
C B Ludwig..’.12 78 
Trophy shoot, 25 targets, 
E H Lott .0 23 
T H Emanuel.1 23 
P R Towne. 241 
Trophy shoot, 25 targets, 
C B Ludwig .3 24 
T II Emanuel .1 23 
P R Towne . 4 21 
Trophy shoot, 25 targets, 
T H Emanuel .1 25 
P R Towne .4 22 
C B Ludwig . 3 21 
C B Sayre . 7 72 
C G Chase . 16 59 
P R Towne .15 57 
handicap: 
P G Chase . 4 21 
C B Ludwig. 3 20 
C B Sayre .5 15 
handicap: 
E H Lott. 0 20 
P G Chase . 4 19 
C B Sayre .5 19 
handicap: 
E IT Lott. 0 19 
P G Chase . 4 19 
C B Sayre .5 19 
Stamford Rod and Gun Club. 
Stamford, Conn., April 9.—N. B. Foster was high gun 
in vest^Dv’s shoot for the Apr! cup at the Stamford 
Rod and Gun Club traps. His score was 35 (14) 49. J. 
M. Carr, scratch man, finished fourth, with 41. Mr. 
Foster also won the 25-bird handicap sweepstake with 
18 (7) 25. Mr. Pitt won another 25-bird handicap sweep- 
stake with 21 (4) 25. J. M. Carr won the 10-bird scratch 
sweepstake with 9 out of 10. B. B. Brown, Jr., won a 
5-bird double with 7 out of a possible 10. 
The Southern Handicap. 
The Interstate Association’s sixth Southern Handicap* 
tournament will be held at Charlotte, N. C., May 9-11, 
under the auspices of the Charlotte Gun Club. 
Essentially and pre-eminently the foremost city in the 
Carolinas may be found among the gentle slopes of the 
Piedmont region, surrounded by a most beautiful spread 
of farm and forest landscape, traversed by sparkling 
streams, stirring, hustling, teeming with life and activity; 
occupying a most strategic position commercially, in a 
location incomparable in fitness for the building of a 
great city. 
Charlotte, N. C., is noted as the home of the famous 
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, signed May 
20, 1775, and has at times been called the Hornet’s Nest 
City, because of the statement of Lord Cornwallis, that 
he got into a veritable hornet’s nest when his troops tried 
to drive the Colonial militia from Charlotte town in 1780. 
From a little place of about 2,000 people at the close 
of the Civil War, Charlotte has grown steadily, slowly 
at first, and more rapidly of late years. Numbering less 
than 12,000 in 189th and reaching a total in 1910 of 35,000. 
The Charlotte Uun Club was organized about thirty 
years ago, and has maintained its organization continu¬ 
ously through all these years, and boasts to the present 
time or having the marked distinction of being as en¬ 
thusiastic for the trap, field and stream and for the pro¬ 
tection of game and fish as any organization in our 
country. 
The Charlotte Gun Club’s shooting grounds are splen¬ 
didly arranged with every convenience. The land is 
level, with a fine background, and four sets of traps 
are installed. The hotel service is ample, with liberal 
accommodations of the best; the street cars pass all of 
the hotel doors every few minutes, and reach the shoot¬ 
ing grounds in about fifteen minutes. 
The members of the Charlotte Gun Club extend a 
cordial invitation to all their numerous friends and 
sportsmen in general to be with them at the coming 
meet, May 9, 10 and 11, assuring them of a pleasing and 
jolly good time. 
The division of moneys in regular program and double 
target events. Rose system, ratio points, 5, 3. 2, 1. 
Optional sweepstakes, percentage system, 40, 30, 20 and 
10 per cent., class shooting. Ten entries and under, three 
moneys, 50, 30 and 20 per cent. To be eligible for the 
Squier money-back system a contestant must compete in 
all regular program events. The optional sweepstakes, 
the special events at double targets and the Southern 
Handicap, are separate from the regular program, and 
it is optional with the contestant whether or not be 
makes entry for them. The Squier money-back system 
does not apply to the optional sweepstakes, the double 
target events and the Southern Handicap. 
Monday, May 8, will be practice day, shooting to begin 
1:00 P. M. Four events of 35 targets each, entrance 
$1.50 per event. Two events of 20 targets each, entrance 
$2.00 per event. Rose system, 5, 3, 2, 1. Sweepstakes 
optional. The Squier money-back system will not apply 
to the above events. 
First Day, May 9, Tuesday.—Ten events of 15 targets 
each, entrance $1.40 per event, extra entrance Squier 
money-back system $1.00. Optional sweepstakes extra, 
entrance $1.00 each. Special event at 25 double targets, 
entrance $2.00, open to amateurs' only. Manufacturers’ 
agents, paid representatives, etc., may shoot in the above 
events for “targets only.” 
Second Day, May 10, Wednesday.—Ten events of 15 
targets each, entrance $1.40 per event, extra entrance 
Squier money-back system $1.00. Optional sweepstakes 
extra, entrance $1.00 each. Special event at 25 double 
targets, entrance $2.00, open to amateurs only. Manu¬ 
facturers’ agents, paid representatives, etc., may shoot in 
the above events for “targets only.” 
Third Day, May 11, Thursday.—Four events at 15 tar¬ 
gets, entrance $1.40 per event; two events at 20 targets, 
entrance $1.70; extra entrance. Squire money-back system, 
$1.00. Optional sweepstakes extra, entrance $1.00 each. 
To wind up with the chief event of the tournament: 
THE SOUTHERN HANDICAP. 
One hundred single targets, $10 entrance, targets in¬ 
cluded, handicaps 16 to 23yds., high guns, not class 
shooting, $200 added to the purse. The number of moneys 
into which the purse will be divided will be determined 
by the number of entries. The amateur contestant who 
makes the highest score will receive a trophy, presented 
by the Interstate Association. 
The winner of first money is guaranteed $250 or more. 
If first money falls below $250, the difference will be 
made good by the Interstate Association. 
Regular entries must be made at the cashier’s office, on 
the shooting grounds, before 5 P. M. Wednesday, May 10. 
Penalty entries may be made after Wednesday. May 10, 
up to the time the first gun is fired in Event Xo. 6, by 
paying $15 entrance, targets included. Entries are not 
transferable, and entrance money cannot be withdrawn 
after handicaps have been allotted. 
Open to amateurs only; manufacturers’ agents, paid 
representatives, etc., may shoot in the above events for 
“targets only.” 
Guns, ammunition, etc., forwarded hv express must be 
prepaid and sent to the Weddington Hardware Company,. 
Charlotte, N. C., or to J. E. Crayton. President, Char¬ 
lotte Gun Club, Charlotte N. C. Mark your own name 
on the box that goods are shipped in, and it will be 
delivered at the shooting grounds without charge. 
Further information relative to the tournament will he 
cheerfully furnished by J. M. Barnes, Secretary, Char¬ 
lotte Gun Club, Charlotte, N. C, or by Elmer E. Shancr, 
Secretary-Treasurer, The Interstate Association, 219 Col- 
tart avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. 
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