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INTERSTATE ASSOCIATION MEETS 
will give the trapshooters a sky background. 
T H cago°Ill h will'stagT'thTGrand°Amer- b'uring'the week of the tournament the 
accommodations and good food. Another attrac- X g ’ ’ ■ ' - - / ' 1 ” K ”” 11 tV, rnw it<; doors ODen to 
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accommoaations aim soon mwv*. -*~y - _ . . 
tion for the sportsman is good fox and coon hun 
ine Write for full information and rates. 
s ' T R WHITE, Jr., Prop. 
Sportsman Home’ Seagull, North Carol ina 
FOR SALE —Whole body ready to mount bud 
moose, elk, woodland can lbou n ^ nd el k eer ca ribou 
mens- different sizes of moose, eik, cariDou, 
Rocky Mountain sheep, black and white tai 
riper heads: also scalps to suit the horns you 
now have. All guaranteed goods at trade prices 
Edwin"hixon,Tealer inCaSe nSdlT’oikii- 
ville, Ontario, Canada. __ 
ican' Trapshooting tournament-.h « country club will throw its doors open to 
blue ribbon event of the trapshooting world the general public. 
_in 1917. This will be the eighteenth run¬ 
ning of the famous handicap, and it will 
be the fifth time that Chicago has been hon¬ 
ored with the event. 
It was a pleasant surprise to the officers 
of the Interstate Association to have five 
S O much interest was centered in the 1917 
tournaments that mayors, presidents of 
the Chamber of Commerce, Tourists' 
Bureaus, Commercial Clubs and Boards of 
Trades of several of the interested cities ap¬ 
peared before the Interstate Association and 
ot the interstate nbsuutuivu ^ “y pearea Deiore uic iuLci3t<ud - 
cities bidding for the “trapshooters’ world’s urge d the selection of their cities. They all 
_ t-Uo twirs tmne bv one or two i„„i, trunslinntine' tournaments as 
WANTED— Sportsmen and bird dog fanciers 
to know that they can see the big All 
America Trials in the movies Why not_ have 
field trial night at your local movie theater 
Birds in the air, famous dogs pointing and 
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Owing to the sudden death of the 
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Read the KENNEL MART in the columns 
of FOREST AND STREAM 
118 E. 28 th Street, New York City 
series." In the years gone by one or two 
cities usually put in a bid, but this time 
there was keen competition for every one 
of the subsidiary handicaps, as well as the 
Grand American. This competition is the 
best proof of the great interest the sport¬ 
ing public has in trapshooting. 
The Chicago Interurban League of Gun 
Clubs was an applicant for the tournament 
too, and the league officers announced it 
would support the South Shore Club in its 
effort to make this the greatest trapshooting 
tournament of all time, that there was no 
dissention in the ranks of the Chicago trap¬ 
shooters. The Interurban League wanted 
to stage the event at Grant Park, where the 
classic of 1915 was held. The other bidders 
were the Indianapolis Gun Club, the Park 
Gun Club, of Kansas City, Mo., and the To¬ 
ledo Power Boat Gun Club, of Toledo, O. 
When a decision was reached that ten 
or more traps would be needed for the 1917 
tournament Indianapolis withdrew its ap¬ 
plication, their offer being five traps. Three 
times has Indianapolis been favored with 
the Grand American Handicap, and on a 
five-trap competition, no doubt, would have 
landed it in 1917- 
The South Shore Country Club is seven 
miles from the heart of Chicago, on Lake 
Michigan, adjoining Jackson Park. It has 
a membership of more than 2,000, is the 
wealthiest and most beautiful country club 
in America, and promised the Interstate 
Association that they would spare no ex¬ 
pense in making the 1917 classic the greatest 
trapshooting event the shooting fraternity 
has ever attended. The club has 1,600 feet 
of lake front, and the targets will be thrown 
over the waters of Lake Michigan, which 
look upon the trapshooting tournaments as 
city boosters, because of the class of men 
and women they attract. Cities have awak¬ 
ened to the merits of trapshooting as a 
business as well as a sporting proposition. 
St. Joseph, Mo., was awarded the West¬ 
ern Handicap over the gun clubs of Omaha, 
Neb.; Waterloo, la.; the Badger Gun Club, 
of Milwaukee, Wis.; the Toledo Power 
Boat Gun Club, of Toledo; the Park Gun 
Club, of Kansas City, Mo., and the Starved 
Rock Gun Club, of La Salle, Ill. 
Hartford Gun Club, of Hartford, Conn., 
will stage the Eastern Handicap. The 
Southern will be staged by the Roanoke 
Gun Club, of Roanoke, Va., and the Pacific 
Coast Handicap by the San Jose Gun Club, 
San Jose, Cal. The Riverside Gun Club, 
of Rochester, N. Y., and the Oriole Gun 
Club, of Baltimore, Md., were the other ap¬ 
plicants for the Eastern Handicap and the 
Los Angeles Gun Club, of Los Angeles, 
Cal., and the Spokane Gun Club, of Spo¬ 
kane, Wash., were the other applicants for 
the Pacific Coast tournament. Memphis 
Gun Club, of Memphis, Tenn., offered to 
take the Southern Handicap if no other 
club applied for it. 
The Grand American Handicap in 1916 
was staged in St. Louis, Mo., and the sub¬ 
sidiary handicaps were held in Philadelphia, 
Pa.; Memphis, Tenn.; Omaha, Neb., and 
Portland, Ore. They were all successful; 
had more shooters out than ever before. 
A Case of a Quarter-or No Quarter 
Why? Because if you violate a state game or Ash Jaw, the 
warden shows you NO QUARTER, while if you SPEND A 
QUARTER for “Game Laws in Rnef, you need ask NO 
QUARTER from the warden, for the simple reason that you 
can’t £50 wrong. . 
It costs the different states more than a QUARTER Oh A 
MILLION DOLLARS to get out game laws. It costs you a 
QUARTER OL A DOLLAR to get these laws complete ancl 
elucidated so that YOU know what they mean. Every sports¬ 
man should have a copy of 
GAME LAWS IN BRIEF 
Published by 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
118 E. 28th Street New York City 
INDOOR .22 RIFLE LEAGUE. 
The Annual Tournament of the Indoor 
.22 Caliber Rifle League of the United 
States will be held at the new club house of 
the Philadelphia Rifle Association, 1926 
Green Street, Philadelphia, January 13 
to 20 inclusive, 1917. 
The Philadelphia Rifle Association was 
chartered under the laws of Pennsylvania 
in 1897 and has been in continuous active 
existence since that time. It has the honor 
of being the first civilian organization to 
affiliate with the National Rifle Association 
of America upon its reorganization in 1901. 
Its new club house, which cost nearly $I 5 >" 
000, is reputed to be the finest of its kind 
in this country. It has eight separate steel 
shooting booths which are completely 
equipped for pistol and rifle shooting, at 60 
and 75 feet respectively. The building is 
heated with hot water heat and, in addition 
to the above shooting accommodations, it 
contains a commodious assembly room, 
committee room, locker room, and toilet 
room, and on the lower floor there are 
facilities for pocket-billiards, cards, etc. 
Meals, lodging, etc., can be obtained in the 
immediate vicinity at reasonable rates. 
