672 
FOREST AND STREAM 
[Oct. 22, 1910. 
Rifle and Revolver Ammunition 
IN THE LEAD AT SEA GIRT 
In the Sea Girt Military Competitions, September 1 - 10 , 1910 , the largest number of WINS was credited to PETERS CARTRIDGES: a record of these 
wins is published herewith and particular attention is called to the remarkable showing made on the 1,000 and 1,200 yard ranges. 
INDIVIDUAL, RIFLE MATCHES 
INDIVIDUAL REVOLVER MATCHES 
Match Place 
Sea Girt Championship.1st 
Nevada Trophy .3rd 
Spencer Match .1st 
“ “ . 2<1 
Swiss Trophy .3rd 
Libbey Trophy.(tie) 1st 
Officers and Inspectors .2d 
Hayes Match .5th 
Class “A” Trophy.1st 
Individual Rapid Fire.1st 
Lehntberg- Trophy .1st 
Reading Match . 6 th 
N. Y. S. R. Ass’n.3rd 
Wingate Match .3rd 
Rogers Match .5th 
Penna. Long Range Match ...5th 
Keystone Long Range Match.9th 
Name Score 
Lieut.-Col. W. A. Tewes.184 
Capt. A. H. Pfeil.137 
Lieut.-Col. A. Rowland. 
Maj. W. S. Price. 
Maj. W. S. Price. 
Lieut.-Col. W. A. Tewes. 
Capt. G. W. Corwin . 
Priv. G. Raimondi . 
Lieut.-Col. W. A. Tewes.. 
Capt. C. A. Silvester.100 
Sergt. G. W. Silvester. 50 
Capt. A. H. Pfeil. 46 
Priv. H. Minervini. 18 O 
Maj. C. S. Benedict.141 
Maj. C. S. Benedict.145 
Capt. C. P. Silvester. 48 
GO 
59 
93 
48 
50 
Match Place 
All Comers’ Military and 
Police .2nd 
Novice Military .(tie) 1st 
All Comers’ Rapid Fire.4th 
Bobber .2nd 
Any Revolver .1st 
Pistol . 1st 
Souvenir A .1st 
Souvenir B .1st 
All Comers’ Squadded Re¬ 
volver . 2 nd 
N. V. Revolver Team .1st 
Name 
Score 
N. J. Revolver Team. 
. 2 nd 
Lieut.-Col. G. B. Young.136 
Hans Roedder .138 
Corp. H. N. Hoyt .128 
Sergt. T. Anderton. .... 68 
Sergt. T. Anderton.147 
A. 31. Poindexter.147 
Hans Roedder .125 
A. 31. Poindexter .243 
Sergt. T. Anderton .132 
3Ianhattan R.&R. As’n No. 1. .1145 
(3 out of 5 men using Peters.) 
Manhattan R.&R. As’n No. 1..1010 
(3 out of 5 men using Peters.) 
Maj. W. S. Price. 
Capt. C. A. Silvester. 
Penna. 3Iidrange Match.1st 
Members Match (National Marksmen), N. J. 
Won by Capt. C. F. Silvester. 
Members Match (National Marksmen), Pa. 
Won by N. Spering . 
SU3IMARY: Rifle 3Iatclies: 10 lsts, 4 2ds, 9 3ds. 4 4ths, 7 5ths. 
Revolver 3Iatches: G lsts, 5 2ds, 1 3d, 4 4ths, 4 5ths. 
PETERS QUALITY INVARIABLY TELLS 
49 
49 
67 
69 
RIFLE TEA31 B1ATCHES 
Dryden Trophy.4th 
Company Team Match (Tyro). 1st 
Columbia Trophy .5th 
*' ' ' ...10th 
Y. .2nd 
... .5th 
... ,5th 
.... 1st 
Cavalry Team Match.... 
Company Team Match, N 
McAlpin Trophy, N. Y.. . . 
Cruikshank Trophy. N. Y 
Old Guard Trophy, N. Y, 
New Jersey Team .1052 
Co. L. 4th Regt. N. G. N. J_135 
2nd Troop, N. G. N. J.946 
2nd Troop. N. G. N. J., No. 2..327 
Co. C. 4th Inf., N. J.362 
New Jersey Team..1003 
2nd Inf., N. G. N. J.556 
4th Inf.. N. G. N. J. (2 using 
Peters) . 236 
THE PETERS CARTRIDGE COMPANY. CINCINNATI. OHIO 
Naw Yark: 98 Chambers St. T. H. KELLER, Manager 
San Francisca: 698-SI 2 Howard Street. 
New Orleans: 321 Magazine St. P. R. LITZKE, Manager 
J. S. FRENCH, Manager 
'Rifle Range and Gallery. 
Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Aaaociation. 
New York. Oct. 15.—The following scores were shot 
at 50yds. on tile Standard American target, at Green¬ 
ville on Saturday: Dr. J. L. R. Morgan, target revolver, 
85, 82, 87, 90; A. H. Isbell, military revolver, service car¬ 
tridge, 84, 82, 87, 88, 87; F. N. Sanborn. ,22cal. pistol, 
84, 83, 81, 84, 89, 88, 86, 89, 87, 82; A. P. Lane, ,22cal. 
pistol, 90, 73, 84. 88, 89; T. A. Baker, Jr.. ,22cal. pistol, 
88, 93, 89, 94, 95. J. A. Baker, Jr. 
Philadelphia Rifle Association. 
Philadelphia, Oct. 15.—The weekly competitions of 
this Association were shot to-day on the Arlington range, 
Lansdowne avenue and Cedar lane, near IJanercli, Pa.: 
Record match, 200yds., rifle: H. A. Dill, 188, 138; 
Williamson, 22S, 220, 209, 207. 
Honor target, 3 shots: Williamson 22, 21 15—58. 
Military match: II. A. Dill 45, 42; T. Oliver 42, 39; 
N. Spering 42, 41. 
Revolver match, 50yds.: II. A. Dill 86. 
Rifle Note. 
The seventeenth grand annual Individual Rifle Cham¬ 
pionship Match for 1910, under the auspices of the Zet- 
tler Rifle Club, will be held at Union Hill. Schuetzen 
Park, Union Hill, N. J., Nov. 8. The conditions are 
100 shots, 25-ring target, %in. rings, distance 200yds.-, 
entrance $3. Open to all comers. Any rifle and any 
sights allowed. The N. R. A. medal will be competed for 
by members of the Zettler Rifle Club on the same day. 
For entry blanks, apply to Zettler Brothers 159 West 
Twenty-third street, New York, or of F. Heckling, same 
address. 
THE STARLING IN AUSTRALIA. 
In view of the inquiry being made in New 
England as to the effect on indigenous life of 
the imported starling, the following account of 
the effect at the starling’s introduction to 
Australia contributed to the Field is interesting: 
Experiences in Australia with regard to in¬ 
troduced beasts and birds have been so curious 
and almost uniformly disastrous that the accli¬ 
matization of foreign animals and birds has 
come to he regarded as a mistake, and that 
their habits and fertility in their native land are 
no guide to their habits and fertility in another 
country. The sparrow, the rabbit, and the fox 
are three cases in point. The sparrow certainly 
is a pest in England, but it is a very mild pest 
compared with the plague it has become in 
Australia. The rabbit and the fox are never 
troublesome in England, but here the rabbit 
has overspread the continent, and the fox is fast 
following suit. When, in 1869, the first foxes 
were turned out, there was a suspicion that 
they might become troublesome; but it was 
argued that the gunner and the dog would easily 
keep them in check. Yet in a few years we had 
the Government offering a reward of half-a- 
crown for fox-scalps, with the shire councils 
giving a like sum. Yet the fox continued to 
multiply, and is to-day more numerous than 
ever. 
When the starling was introduced it was not 
expected that it would become a pest. It was, 
so its supporters claimed, a handsome bird, 
and chiefly insectivorous; so that, besides being 
a desirable addition to our feathered fauna, it 
would serve a very useful purpose. Owing 
largely to the mild climate and warm summers, 
Australia is a paradise of insect life. So the 
starling was let loose among the insects, and 
was bidden to make short work of them. For 
a time it did. Then came word from vine- 
growers and orchardists that a strange bird was 
working havoc among their fruit and grapes. 
The offenders were identified, and it was found 
that they were English starlings. The first note 
of alarm was sounded in South Australia; but 
very soon the orchardists’ around Melbourne, 
in the State of Victoria, came forward with a 
similar complaint. 
It was at first thought that the liberal use of 
the gun would stop the depredations. But in a 
year or two it was found that the starlings were 
increasing at an alarming rate, and that the gun 
and poison were inadequate remedies. Then it 
was discovered that, unlike most of our accli¬ 
matized birds, they were rapidly spreading all 
over the country. It is many years since the 
ugly Indian mynah was introduced to Mel¬ 
bourne, but so far it has not spread into the 
country districts. The goldfinch, too. has been 
very slow in migrating inland. But the starling 
has spread rapidly, until now. in my own State, 
there are very few districts where it is not 
found. 
The chief objection to the starling is the pro¬ 
lific manner in which it breeds. It is, of course, 
a fairly free breeder in England, but out here 
it breeds at least thrice as quickly. In Victoria 
the first starlings were observed about twelve 
years ago. I have seen them lately in immense 
flocks, and the noise of their wings could be 
heard several hundred yards away. So plentiful 
have they become that they are used by all the 
gun clubs as trap birds, and in this respect are 
superior to pigeons. A club has never any 
difficulty in obtaining 200 or 300 birds for a 
day’s shooting. The fact that the starling 
catchers are only paid threepence per bird tells 
how easily they are caught. I have at times 
gone out with the catchers, and I have seen as 
many as eighty starlings caught at the one time 
without moving the net. 
The favorite haunts of the starlings at night 
are reed-beds and hedges. Box-thorn and haw¬ 
thorn hedges are very common in this State, 
and they form great harbor for sparrows and 
starlings. In fact, these two birds have taken 
almost complete possession of them, and it is 
seldom that you find a native bird in a hedge. 
In the daytime they spread over the grass pad- 
docks. and feed on the insect life that is so 
abundant. In the country districts where there 
are no orchards the farmers look upon the starl¬ 
ing as their friend. It is common in this State 
for plagues of grubs and crickets to appear, 
and to work havoc among both the grain and 
the grass. During the past three or four years, 
however, the starling has come to the farmer’s 
rescue, and has worked havoc among the grubs. 
Our native birds had, of course, been doing 
their best to keep down the grubs, but their 
numbers were not nearly great enough to have 
much effect. The starlings, however, were in 
thousands. Being fairly large, very voracious 
birds, they have accounted for millions of the 
grubs. It was also not only what they ate that 
benefited the farmer. The limited number left 
to breed each year led to the grubs being fewer 
each succeeding season. It seems likely, there¬ 
fore, that where the starlings are very* numerous 
they will soon have the grubs in check. At 
harvest time grubs are often very numerous, 
and I have seen the stooks of corn covered with 
the birds. I thought it possible that the starl¬ 
ings may have been after the grain, but an in¬ 
spection of the sheaves and of the crops of the 
