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FOREST AND STREAM 
[April 22, 1911. 
Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters’ 
League. 
In a recent Sunday issue, the Pittsburg Post prints 
a timely article dealing with the coming trapshooting 
season in western Pennsylvania, as follows: 
In eighteen or twenty towns through Western Penn¬ 
sylvania there are seen many little animated gatherings 
in the shooting headquarters. There is heard much dis¬ 
cussion as to straight and crooked stocks, bent-up bar¬ 
rels, guns that shoot high or dead center, and especially 
much talk as to pattern and velocity, speed of primers 
and much debate as to recoil. 
All of which means that on Tuesday, the 2d of May, 
smiling “Pat” Anthony and Delly Matthews will hang 
out the welcome sign in historic old Canonsburg and on 
the new grounds of the Canonsburg Gun Club will stage 
the first of the five big championship shoots to be given 
by the Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters’ League. 
That “Pat” Anthony and Matthews will look after 
the comfort and entertainment of the visiting sportsmen 
is sufficient announcement on this subject. A book 
might be written on the ability of these good sports¬ 
men, but it is not necessary, as they are too well-known 
to the shooting fraternity to need such eulogy. 
RIVALRY KEEN, BUT SPORTSMANLIKE. 
Last year the league held six of the best shoots given 
in the United States. From the start the rivalry was 
keen and the contest for both team and individual 
championships was not decided until the last target was 
broken in the last shoot of the season at Fairchance. 
With all this close competition there was nothing but 
the best of feeling shown. No unfair tactics were in¬ 
dulged in and visiting shooters, and especially the pro¬ 
fessionals, who have the opportunity of attending shoots 
in all parts of the country, maintained that nowhere they 
had ever been had they ever seen such a feeling of genu¬ 
ine sportsmanship shown. 
The shooters, who have made possible this most suc¬ 
cessful league, are men who shoot for the love of the 
game. They know that when they win as individuals, 
or when their club team wins, it gives prestige to their 
home towns. 
EQUITABLE MONEY DIVISION. 
The financial returns to the consistently good shooters 
have been extremely satisfactory, nearly a thousand dol¬ 
lars in average moneys being paid out last year, but with 
the plan in use by the league the money was equally 
divided, so that no matter what a shooter’s ability, all 
had equal chances to win. 
The men who led the league did not expect the new 
beginners and the men who formed the lower classes to 
pay their way, nor did the men who formed the lower 
classes expect any charitable contributions from the 
good shooters, but men of equal skill competed with 
men of equal skill, and as a result the vast majority 
were satisfied. 
The same system will be adhered to. this year and 
from the present outlook this will be the grandest sea¬ 
son the Western Pennsylvania T. S. League has ever 
known. 
Some of the towns which entered teams last year have 
dropped out, but just look at the way some of the new 
clubs are coming and the way some of the old clubs 
are booming. 
BROWNSVILLE TO MAKE PACE. 
Brownsville, which last year shone with much luster 
both in team and individual work, is sure one of tile 
shooting centers of Western Pennsylvania. 
Not a week goes by but they have a club shoot for 
some trophy. 
It will be safe to predict that this same club will set 
a pace this year that it will take some shooting to keep 
them from repeating their last season’s performance. 
They have a galaxy of talent in Moore, Marker, West, 
Theakston, Morrison, the Crawford brothers, the Thomp¬ 
sons, the Doughertys, Foster, the Provences and a host 
of others, and especially a bunch of young shooters who 
are coming fast. 
Then the McKeesport and Camden clubs, who will 
likely concentrate their talent. These boys have been 
shooting on the Blose cup and they may not be so 
numerous but they have class. There is Calhoun, Hick¬ 
man, Aber, Keener, Bradshaw, Cannon, Hardy, Knight, 
Pitts, Baxter Pechman, Koch, Noel and these go'od 
shooters are developing a few new men, who will help a 
lot in the struggle for honors this season. 
Canonsburg is to be a contender in this season’s race. 
These boys have new grounds, well equipped and handy 
to the town. 
“Pat” Anthony and “Delly” Matthews will form the 
nucleus of the team, but they have a lot of good, 
strong men who can shoot a good score. Beck, Scott, 
Wood, Lease and McNary are all men who, with a little 
warming up, will figure in the race. 
Washington is in the league and with Henry, Pear¬ 
son, Lawson, Myers, Cameron, Murphy, Hackney and 
the new shooters they will develop, all will be there 
with bells on. 
Butler, Well, if anyone thinks that the Butler Rod and 
Gun Club can’t put a team in the race, they must have 
overlooked the fact that up to the last race of last sea¬ 
son this team was tied right up for the team trophy. 
Had they not found it impossible to get to the last 
shoot last year they might have compelled a post sea¬ 
son shoot to decide the race. They have Pape, Purvis, 
Davis, Young, Elliott, Waldron, Ashabaugh, Coovert, 
the Craigs, Gillespie and a host of others to draw from. 
NEW CLUB MAY BE FORMED. 
Herron Hill Gun Club will be in the race. “Yea, bo,” 
it will be there, and if the writer knoweth aught whereof 
he speaketh, it will be well worth watching. Kelsey, 
Johnston, King, Rahm, Ponte, Cochrane, Anderson, 
Gillespie—quantity limitedand quality ace high. 
There is a lot of talk about Bellevernon, Charleroi and 
Monessen consolidating and taking over the beautiful 
grounds of the Bellevernon Gun Club. The new club 
would be called the Bel-Char-Non Gun Club and could 
put a good team into the race. Frost, Phillips, Sanders, 
Boyd, Grant, Gween, Dale, Van Vorhis, Daly and many 
others would look after the club interests. 
Uniontown is getting stronger and with Higgenbotham, 
Guyton, Evans, Kraft, Titlow and Dunbar as a founda¬ 
tion could put a good team in the race. 
The Coraopolis boys are with us this year, and they 
are a fine crowd of gunners. With Hahn, P. Brand, J. 
Braun, F. Chesney, J. Chesney, J. Kable, J. M. Kable, 
Stevenson, Trimmer" and Erving they can count on 
scoring some good points. 
THE OTHER CLUB ENTRIES. 
The Pittsburg Gun Club is one of the organizations 
which is glad to drag along and shoot just for the fun 
of being in the race. In numerical strength it ranks 
Z3, but it is prolific in the number of fat entries. Squier, 
Lautenslager, Shaner, Sr., Shaner, Jr., and Lewis will 
wear the Gold and Black and will have as much fun as 
any out of the race. 
Tarentum will be with us and Curry, Cotter, George, 
Hawke, Hill and Dunn, with many new shooters, will 
represent this club. 
If the weather man is good there should be at least 
eighty shooters at the first league shoot. 
There seems to be considerable sentiment in favor 
of making three moneys in each class where there are 
fifteen or more shooters to the class. This would make 
the ratio 50, 30, 20 instead of 60, 40, which is the present 
division. 
YOUNGBLOODS VS. GRAYBEARDS. 
The race between these well known and justly popular 
teams now stands a tie, each team having won a race. 
It has been suggested that each team through the 
captains Calhoun for the Graybeards, and Moore for the 
Youngbloods, hand to the man who runs the book at 
the first league shoot at Canonsburg on May 2, a list 
of the eligibles on their respective teams and that the 
fifteen high men in the first 60 targets in the league pro¬ 
gram on each list shall comprise the team. The team 
with the highest total shall be declared the winner of 
the series. 
Will the shooters of Pittsburg and Allegheny county 
go into the team races at DuBois with their strength 
split up among various clubs or will they join one big 
club and bring to our city the honor and prestige which 
our united efforts might obtain? 
It is only a question of time till Pittsburg, like Cleve¬ 
land, Columbus, Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston and other 
large cities will have to have a central home. Grounds 
will have to be bought to insure permanency, a large 
club house erected to furnish comfort and trap equip¬ 
ment installed sufficient to supply the demands of all 
who desire to shoot. The formation of such a club 
would not in any way interfere with the prosperity of 
the smaller clubs, but would give the trapshooting game 
the standing and prestige in the community it so 
richly deserves. 
With such equipment some of the great national shoots 
could be handled and both the shooters and our city 
would be benefited. 
S. S. White Gun Club. 
Holmesburg Junction, Pa., April 16. —Harry Kahler, 
although not a member, led the S. S. White Gun Club 
in its monthly shoot yesterday, breaking 98 of the 100 
targets that comprised the day’s program. He was 
given a suitably engraved spoon for the feat. On the 
first 25, with club handicaps, John McKean finally 
captured a dipper after several ties, while the race for 
the class cups was particularly keen, the A cup going 
to Jesse Griffith, B to Howard George, after tossing ott 
a tie with Dr. W. H. Mathews, of Trenton; C. to John 
B. Fontaine and D to C. C. Watson. 
In the shoot for the Eames trophy, W. B. Abbott 
secured a leg on the prize, and John B. Fontaine 
captured a leg on the Monitor cup, besides a spoon for 
having the best score on 50 targets. The shoot for the 
Monitor cup was the best of the afternoon and, with 
handicaps, Fontaine and Watson tied. In the shoot-off. 
Fontaine won by a very narrow margin. 
The shoot was divided into four events at 25 targets 
each. The first event was for the club spoon, the second 
for the class cups, the total on 50 for the Eames trophy; 
the third event for the Monitor cup, the total of 75 
targets for a spoon, and the net total also for a spoon. 
Despite a rather strong wind, the shooters made con¬ 
sistently good scores, but, aside from Kahler, whose 
shooting bordered on the sensational at times, there 
were few surprises, though Fontaine, Watson, Abbott and 
McKean showed decidedly better form than last year, 
upon which scores their present handicap was based. 
The scores: 
Cl. H. B. Tl. B. Tl. B. Tl. B. Net. 
Anderson .B 1 22 23 19 43 20 64 23 84 
Rowland .D 4 19 23 15 42 15 61 13 62 
Wilson .B 2 18 20 22 44 18 64 19 77 
Griffith .A 0 23 23 24 47 24 71 23 94 
Hoffman .C 3 IS 21 20 44 23 70 22 83 
Kahler . 25 .. 23 .. 25 .. 25 98 
Fontaine .C 4 24 25 21 53 18 75 22 85 
Severn .A 2 22 24 22 48 23 73 23 90 
Pratt .C 3 19 22 17 42 22 67 18 76 
Thomas . 15 19 .. 17 .. 22 73 
Watson .D 6 17 23 22 51 21 75 20 80 
Abbott .D 6 23 25 21 56 17 75 17 78 
McKean .B 3 23 25 22 51 21 75 20 86 
Hinkson .D 9 11 20 16 45 20 74 12 59 
Cantrell .A 1 21 22 21 44 23 68 21 86 
Mathews .B .. 23 23 22 45 21 66 22 88 
Robinson .C 6 16 22 . 16 
George .B 2 23 25 22 49 21 72 22 88 
Waters . 19 .. 15 .. 17 .. 16 27 
Budd . 22 .21 .. .. 43 
Harkins .D 3 19 22 15 40 19 62 16 69 
White .B 3 19 22 22 47 20 70 20 81 
Sidebotham .B 2 22 24 18 44 24 70 19 83 
The Palefaces. 
Boston, Mass., April 12. —One of the old-time Paleface 
crowds was in evidence at the regular weekly shoot held 
here to-day, and it begins to look as though trapshoot¬ 
ing was coming in again in this section if we are able 
to get together a bunch of this sort just for the sport. 
It is needless to say that the regulars such as Frank, 
Clarke, Osborne, Sibley, Charles, Jones, etc., were there 
with bells on but the new comers with Bob ^ Smith at 
the head with Steel, Burnes, Hassam, Cook, Keeler and 
others for side partners surely were welcome and just 
made up the shoot to the success it proved to be. 
With such an array of stars present the high average 
winner was sure to be a high liner and the fun began 
ere the first event was finished. Walter Clarke, as usual, 
meant business and started the ball rolling with one 
down in 30, which was only one better than Steele, 
Osborne and Hassam. This the genial Doc held till 
the 50 mark was passed, and then, due to the hurry and 
scurry to get through and take the early train, he 
passed up no less than 9 targets in the last 50. With 
such a chance as that offered to him, Osborne had the 
easiest kind of a time, as he only had to get 43 out of 
the 50 to win, which was nuts for either one of them 
shooting in the form which they are at the present time. 
Geo. Steele and R. Smith kept plugging and nailed 
a pile of them, though it looked for a time in the 
fourth event as if Steele had lost his grip a trifle. How¬ 
ever, George is not one of those fellows giving up with 
a few lost targets and proceeded to demonstrate his 
right in the class of average winners by annexing enough 
to make a triple tie for second honors. 
Frank and Burnes made a tie for the third position, 
certainly good work, especially for Bob, who had not 
been to the grounds since January. 
In the added target handicap one Smith and Cook 
were the candy kids, each getting over the necessary 
amount, but as Cook had left the grounds before the 
finish the club rules made it a win for Smith. Jones 
came within an ace of being in the tie but that last 
event. Well it sure did hurt. Scores: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 
Targets: 15 15 20 15 15 20 Total. 
Osborne . 13 15 19 15 14 17 93 
W F Clarke. 14 15 19 12 11 18 89 
R Smith . 13 12 16 15 14 19 89 
Steele . 14 14 18 11 13 19 89 
Frank . 12 12 20 13 13 17 87 
Burnes . 12 15 17 13 14 16 S7 
Chapin . 14 12 15 12 13 19 85 
Hassam . 14 14 17 11 10 17 S3 
Cook . 12 10 18 12 13 18 83 
Tones . 13 13 16 9 11 13 75 
Sibley . 13 10 14 12 13 12 74 
Charles . 11 10 11 12 12 18 74 
Bury . 12 11 17 7 13 13 73 
Ladd . 9 8 13 9 12 12 63 
Richardson . 10 8 18 9 7 10 62 
Williams . S 12 11 7 9 13 60 
Kirkwood . 13 14 20 14 .. .. 61 
Frost . 16 9 13 20 5S 
Pearson . 14 2 9 12 7 12 56 
Ordway . 9 S 6 3 9 5 40 
Muldown . 7 11 15. 33 
Added target 
handicap race: 
R Smith . 
.. 12 
101 
Bury . 
89 
Steele . 
.. 8 
97 
Sibley . 
...12 
86 
Burnes . 
.. 8 
95 
Charles . 
... 8 
82 
Clarke . 
.. 0 
89 
Jones . 
...24 
99 
Richardson ... 
... 24 
88 
Osborne . 
... 4 
97 
W M Smith . 
... 24 
84 
Frank . 
91 
Ordway . 
...24 
46 
Ladd . 
...24 
87 
Cook . 
...20 
103 
Williams . 
...24 
84 
Chapin . 
...12 
97 
Pearson . 
...20 
76 
Hassam . 
...12 
95 
April 15.—A 
special 
tie 
shoot-off between 
Frank 
and 
matic of high average for the first quarter of the Pale¬ 
face year was attraction enough to bring out some 
twelve shooters at the grounds to-day, and that they 
were treated to something out of the ordinary the 
scores will show. 
As an additional feature the club put up two prizes, 
one for the scratch man and one for the high with 
added target handicap. 
However, the Clarke-Frank race held the attention of 
all both shooters and spectators, of which there were 
quite a number with a special match between Clarke 
and Daily for the ownership of a cup that was a beauty 
(put up between themselves) as a second-liner. 
With all these dependent upon good work and con¬ 
ditions that we do not often get in the east. Walter 
just sails in from the start and gets a lead that does 
not wilt and comes under the wire with a target to spare 
on both the matches, being warmly congratulated upon 
all sides for his clever and consistent work. As it were 
with Frank and Daly, each tying on 94, even the loser 
deserves great credit and specially in face of the uphill 
race, which each had to fight to get within hailing dis¬ 
tance of the leader. 
In the club race every one was right up with the 
band wagon, and after the smoke had cleared away, 
Charles was found high on the handicap with Kirkwood 
high on the scratch. Sibley and Chapin also had_ full 
scores, but withdrawing left the prize to the President 
without a struggle. Scores: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 
Targets: 20 20 20 20 20 Total. 
Kirkwood . 20 19 19 20 20 98 
Clarke . 19 19 20 19 18 95 
Chapin . 20 19 19 18 19 95 
Frank . 19 16 19 20 20 94 
Daly . 18 18 19 19 20 94 
Charles . 18 15 19 20 20 92 
Sibley . 20 18 16 17 19 90 
French . 17 17 
Cole . IS 
S Wood . 17 
Stern . 17 
