July 9, 1910.] 
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'Rifle Range and Gallery . Hke “Old Reliable” PARKER GUN 
Wins for the EIGHTH Time 
The Grand American Handicap. 
Score of 100 Straight from 19 Yards. 
At Chicago, Ill., June 23, 1910. 
Mr. Riley Thompson, of Cainsville, Mo., made this record, which has 
never before been equaled in this classic event. 
The Parker Gun, in the hands of Mr. Guy V. Dering, also won 
the Amateur Championship at Chicago, June 24, scoring 189 ex 200, 
shooting at 160 singles and 20 doubles. 
The Prize Winners and Champions shoot The PARKER GUN! 
Why don’t YOU ? 
PARKER. BROS. 
New York Salesrooms : 32 Warren St. Meriden, Conn. 
Century Revolver Club. 
St. Louis, Mo., July 2.—The following scores were 
made on our range. Bad weather was with us. Inter¬ 
national target was used: 
Dominic, Chas . 86 79 85—250 
Sears, S E . 79 73 82—234 
Spencer, W H . 77 79 72—228 
Everett, A E . 72 68 84—224 
Fassctt, L A . 69 64 69—202 
Laird, J A . 69 64 58—191—1329 
Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Association. 
New York, July 3. — Will you kindly insert a notice 
to the effect that we have closed our gallery at 2628 
Broadway, so that your good readers will not try to find 
us at that address. We have great hopes, that by the 
opening of the next indoor season to have another home 
with better facilities, where we may invite our good 
friends. 
The following scores were made on June 30: 
Revolver, 20yds.—J. R. Morgan, 86, 86, 84; M. Hays, 
87, 86, 83; J. A. Baker, Jr., 90, 89, 87, 83, 81; A. P. Lane, 
90, 88, 92, 83, 82; W. F. Hutchinson, 84; Dr. H. R. 
Cronk, 87, 83, 82, 82, 83, 91; J. K. Bowles, 71, 70; W. 
Macnaughton, 85, 85, 84; Dr. C. Philips, 82, 82, 87; J. A. 
L. Moller, 92, 86, 86, 82, 85, 83, 82; C. Drechsel, 85, 85, 80, 
83, 84, 81; J. E. Silliman, 84, 84, 82. 
Jos. E. Silliman, Treas. 
WITH THE DRY-FLY. 
Where the chalk streams placidly glide 
through the lush water-meadows of Hampshire 
the angler is not so dependent as elsewhere for 
his sport on that god of caprice that seems al¬ 
most feminine, whom the Romans called Jupiter 
Pluvius. If England had been their abiding 
home, doubtless this Jupiter would have been a 
goddess. As it is, it is to him that the angler in 
Highland burns, in Yorkshire becks, and West- 
country brooks has to look for the adequate 
water supply that shall enable him to tempt 
the trout to mistake the thing of fluff and 
feather that conceals the barbed iron for the 
genuine fly. On the chalk streams it is not 
thus. There the rivers are fed from secret 
reservoirs deep down in the profound beds of 
the chalk, dependent, doubtless, there also in 
some measure on the god of rain for their 
supply, but less immediately. The seasons of 
drouth make a difference even to these rivers 
from the chalk, but not so great a difference 
as to those that flow from shallower sources. 
Again, there is this to be said, that the fisher 
in streams other than those coming from the 
chalk depends not only on the amount, but also 
on the color of the water. He says, “The water 
is too clear to-day; it is no use fishing.” But 
if he carried this Fabian principle of action with 
him when he went to the chalk-stream country, 
he would never wet his line at all. If he were 
to wait till the water came down discolored he 
might pose as an illustration of “Rusticus ex- 
pectat dum defluat amnis.” Not until that final 
consummation of all things would he find his 
chalk stream coming down discolored like the 
ordinary clay-soil river after a spat. 
The difference in a river’s color that is made 
by the soil through which it flows is to be 
credited only by those who have seen and have 
had the opportunity of comparing. To those 
who are familiar with the fine fishing reaches 
of the Tay above Perth I would suggest that 
they should carry their mental vision back to 
that ruddy brown stain of the stream which 
marks one side of it for miles and miles below 
the inflow of the tributary rivers coming 
through the clay. This, of course, if after a 
spate only; but it is very sure that the color 
does not come from Loch Tay, whence the 
river flows, keeping as it does to one side only 
when the general course of the river is clear. 
This is evidence enough of the effect of the soil 
on the water’s color, to say nothing of the 
familiar mahogany stain of the peat and the 
vitreous green of the water from the glacier. 
The water from the chalk is of the color of the 
chalk itself—purely white, but very much more 
translucent. 
It is. so translucent that the ordinary manner 
of fishing, with the fly chucked chance-wise into 
a rapid, is of no avail at all. In the first place 
there are no rapids. For the most part these 
streams glide down very peacefully over a level 
country—level in appearance, but doubtless 
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