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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[MARcH 17, 1906. 

July 4.—Edgewater, N. J.—Palisade G. C. 
July 10-11.—Carthage, Mo.—The Missouri 
League of Trapshooters’ tournament. 3 
July 17-19.—Philadelphia, Pa.—The Interstate Associa- 
tion’s Eastern Handicap tournament, under the aus- 
pices of the Florists’ Gun Club; $500 added money. 
Elmer E. Shaner, Sec’y-Mgr., Pittsburg, oe eer 
July 26.—Edgewater, J.—Palisade G. 
Schoverling, Sec’y. 
Aug. 8-10.—Hamilton, Ont.—Dominion of Canada Trap- 
shooting Association’s sixth annual tournament. W. 
P. Thompson, Sec’y-Treas. 
Sept. 11-12.—Scammon, Kans.—The Missouri and Kansas 
League of Trapshooters’ tournament. Dr. 
Clapp, Sec’y, Moberly, Mo. 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
The Haverhill, Mass., Gun Club announces a tourna- 
ment to be held on Patriot’s Day, April 19. S. G. Miller 
is the Secretary. 
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The match at 50 live birds, between Messrs. J. L. 
Brewer and W. Buckwalter, at the Philadelphia Driving 
Park, on March 8, was won by Brewer. The scores were 
46 to 45. 
R 
The contest for the English Hotel cup, on Saturday 
of last week, on the grounds of the Indianapolis, Ind., 
Gun Club, was between the holder, Mr. W. T. Nash 
and Mr. Burford, the challenger, Mr. H. A. Comstock, 
being unable to contest because of the death of a close 
friend. Mr. Nash won by a score of 86 to 8. On 
March 17 the contest originally arranged between Messrs. 
Nash and Comstock will take place. 
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On March 6, at Little Rock, Ark., Mr. J. M. Pember- 
ton, of Ashville, was victor in the contest for the 
Peters trophy, emblematic of the championship of 
Arkansas. He scored 23 out of 25 birds, from the 30yd. 
mark. Messrs. Paul R. Litzke, W. B. Powell, J. T. 
Lloyd, J. P. Thomason and R. W. Larkan tied on 19 
and divided second. Mr. Litzke distinguished himself 
by being in the money in every event, the miss-and- 
outs, of which there were four, being particularly sub- 
ject to his skill. 
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A correspondent writes us that ‘““‘The Wilmington Gun 
Club, of Wilmington, Del., will hold an all-day shoot 
on its grounds, Front and Union streets, that city, on 
April 12 next. The programme will be issued shortly, 
and some special attractions are promised. Among the 
number will be a merchandise race with a goodly list of 
prizes to be competed for. This club last year held the 
annual spring tournament of the Delaware State Trap- 
shooters’ League on its grounds, and had ninety-seven 
entries the first day and seventy-seven on the second 
day. A Legget trap and a set of three expert traps will 
be used on April 11, so that everybody will get plenty 
of shooting.” 
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Mr. A. B. Richardson, of Dover, successfully de- 
fended his title to the State championship of Delaware 
in a contest with Mr. James T. Skelly (challenger), of 
Wilmington, on Saturday of last week. The day was 
exceedingly unfavorable for good scores, a northwest 
gale prevailing. Mr. Richardson won by a score of 83 
to 72. A two-man team race at 100 targets was also a 
feature, as follows: A. B. Richardson and C. L. Terry, 
of Dover, 178; Luther J. Squier and W. H. Reed, 156; 
Ed. Banks and J. T. Skelly, 154. An excellent report 
of this contest is published elsewhere in our trap columns. 
Mr. Terry, it is understood, will next challenge for the 
Delaware State championship trophy. 
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Four contested in the third quarter of the 500-target 
championship contest of the Crescent Athletic Club, at 
Bay Ridge, L. I., on Saturday of last week. The weather 
was stormy, a strong, fluky wind being a decidedly un- 
favorable condition either for comfort or good scores. 
The result of the contest placed Mr. Frank B. Stephen- 
son in the lead. He scored 109 out of the 125, his nearest 
competitor, Mr. H. M. Brigham, scoring 101. The total 
scores of these two leaders at the three-quarter distance 
are: Stephenson 315, Brigham 312. Mr. F. T. Bedford, 
Jr., scored a leg on the March cup, with a score of 24 
out of 25. He, with Mr. G. G. Stephenson, Jr., were 
high in the two-man team contest with 45 out of 50. 
Messrs. E. H. Lott and F. T. Bedford, Jr., tied on 24 
in the Stake trophy contest. 
and Kansas 
BERNARD WATERS. 

Ossining Gun Club. 
Ossininc, N. Y., March 10.—The scores herewith were 
made at the regular bi-monthly shoot of the Ossining 
Gun Club. Conditions were bad for high scores. A 
high blustery wind, accompanied by snow, caused goose- 
eggs to appear thick and fast on the score sheets. Event 
4 was the Weskora cup shoot at 25 targets, use of two 
barrels allowed. Coleman was the lucky one, negotiat- 
ing 23 from the 18yd. mark, in which he used his second 
barrel but once effectively. The cup must be won three 
times by a shooter to be finally won. This was Cole- 
man’s first win. Hyland has two wins, Moulton one and 
Blandford one. As each shooter must go back two 
yards for each win, the event will end up in a battle 
royal from the 20yd. mark. The next contest for the 
Weskora cup will be held on March 24. Figures after 
names signify yards handicap in fourth event. 
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New York City Cup. 
WitmincTon, Del., March 9.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have only recently seen and read a copy of the con- 
stitution and by-laws of the New York State Sports- 
man’s Association, which, I understand, were adopted 
at the State shoot held in Utica, June, 1905. 
I don’t know how the other donors of the New York 
City trephy feel about the way in which that trophy is 
disposed of in the constitution, but it does seem to me 
as if a trophy that actually cost $125 in good money, and 
that is emblematic of the individual championship of the 
State at targets, ought to have some sort of standing. 
It seems, however, that no bond is to be given for its 
safekeeping or return to the State Association. The old 
conditions under which it was donated to the Associa- 
tion, and which were accepted by the Association, were 
that the holder should give a bond for its return and 
safekeeping. Furthermore, the conditions were over- 
looked or disregarded to such an extent last year that 
the cup was given as special prize to be competed for in 
a single event. The original conditions called for it to 
be won and held by the man making the highest average 
in ell the State events on the programme, with the ex- 
ception of team races. Another condition was that the 
club holding the State shoot should donate to the winner 
of the trophy, a prize to be commemorative of his win 
of the State championship—the New York city trophy 
being only held by him for one year, and not won out- 
right. This condition has never been lived up to, al- 
though such a course seems to me an eminently proper 
one, even if it be no more than a ten or five dollar gold 
piece. Down here in the little Diamond State the winner 
of the individual championship in the open competitions 
at the State shoots gets a five dollar gold piece, and 
holds the cup until the next State shoot, or as long as 
he can, subject to challenge. 
There is one other feature in the constitution which 
makes me feel a little sad, and that is the clause which 
forbids any body who is not a resident of the State 
from taking part in the annual gathering at the traps. 
Until last year I never missed a New York State shoot 
since the one held in 1905, and have many friends and 
acquaintances among the old guard, whom I would like 
to.meet at least once a year. But T am barred out now, 
although as a manufacturers’ agent I would never have 
been allowed to shoot for any of the purses. The money 
for my targets would, however, have been just so much 
in the coffers of the club holding the shoot. And my 
case is, I believe, only one out of a large number. Not 
being present at last year’s meeting, I do not know, and 
cannot imagine, what arguments were adduced in favor 
of inserting such a clause, but no doubt you, who have 
your files to refer to, can enlighten me upon that point. 
The whole thing is surprising to me, for I always 
thought that manufacturers’ agents at least were consid- 
ered as desirable guests at tournaments. I do know that 
during the last eight years I have received and answered 
many hundreds of letters asking that the company that 
I have had the honor to represent see to it that a cer- 
tain tournament be not overlooked, but that one or other 
of its representatives be on hand to take part. And in 
lots of instances two or more are asked for. 
If your opinion is that either of the above points are 
worthy of consideration, or if you think that I am not 
alone in my impression of things as they exist, and that 
therefore some further light on these subjects would be 
desirable, won’t you kindly diffuse that light in your 
own kindly manner. Epwarp BANKs. 
[The foregoing comments of Mr. Banks are exceedingly 
apropos at the present juncture. The beautiful State 
championship cup, representing much intrinsic value, 
besides the good will of the distinguished donors, was 
accepted with a degree of flippancy and indifference in 
1899 by what was then known as the New York State 
Sportsmen’s Association for the Protection of Fish and 
Game, that to express it mildly was rudely discourteous. 
So far as we have any knowledge, the anemic Associa- 
tion never expressed any thanks for the magnificent gift. 
The conditions under which it was entrusted to the 
State Association, published in Forrest AND STREAM 
of June 7, 1899, were as follows: ‘‘That the shooter mak- 
ing the highest score in the first three days’ programme 
—that is, the highest average—should be the winner, the 
competition to be open to all residents of New York 
State, professional and amateur. The winner of the cup 
to execute a bond in the sum of $200 to the State As- 
sociation as a guarantee for the return of the cup.” 
Thus the trusteeship was a qualified one. 
This beautiful cup, significant of the important honors 
of a State championship, was an unconsidered trifle at a 
New York State shoot, and the winner was accorded no 
more honors officially than if he had won a pumpkin. 
It is a matter of doubt whether any three shooters in 
the State of New York can now declare offhand who is 
the State champion, and it is a greater matter of doubt 
whether one shooter in the State can enumerate off- 
hand the winners of the cup since it was donated. This 
was a natural result when the old Association, or, rather, 
the myth called the New York State Association for the 
Protection of Game and Fish, pursued trapshooting as 
an industry instead of as a sport. A good fat mer- 
chandise event, the proceeds of which accrued to the 
treasury of the local club holding the so-called State 
shoot, was incomparably more important to it than all 
the State trophies on earth. This points out how trap- 
shooting as an industry may smother it as a sport. 
The present by-laws of the Association safeguard the 
Dean Richmond trophy by enjoining that it shall be in- 
sured in the sum of $1,000. The New York city cup is 
not safeguarded in any way by any requirement of the 
by-laws. Even the qualification concerning a bond is, 
ignored, 
However, to write of the New York State Association 
is to become involved in an interminable and unpleasant 
tangle of its muddled affairs. The present Association 
has no legal existence whatever, nor has any State shoot, 
since 1901, had any legal existence. The reason for this 
is simple and incontrovertible, namely, at Interstate 
Park, at the annual convention of 1901, a new constitu- 
tion and by-laws were formally presented by an Associ- 
ation committee, of which Mr. H. L. Gates was chair- 
man, and were formally adopted by the Association. 
At the following convention in 1902, the new constitu- 
tion and by-laws, books, etc., of the Association were 
not at hand, a not uncommon occurrence at New York 
State Association conventions. The report in Forest 
AND STREAM of the convention that year had this com- 
ment: “The president being absent, Dr. J. L. Weller, 
the vice-president, took the chair. The meeting, being 
called to order, it was found that it was practically in- 
operative. There were no minutes of the previous meet- 
ing for the information of delegates; there were no re- 
ports of officers; there was no treasurer’s report, nor, 
so far as could be learned, was there any treasury to 
report upon.” 
The by-laws of 1898 were recognizezd. It is obvious 
without argument that, recognizing the constitution and 
by-laws of 1898 without any repeal of the new constitu- 
tion and by-laws, was illegal, and that the shoot was 
also illegal and void, as has been every convention and 
State shoot since. The 1905 constitution and by-laws, 
therefore, are illegal also. The proper procedure is to 
repeal the constitution and by-laws adopted in 1901; at the 
next convention legitimatize the State shoots since 1901, 
and then, thus purified, adopt the new constitution and 
by-laws by a legal body. 
To point out circumstantially all the illegality would 
add nothing to the efficacy of the matter. However, 
things in sight at the moment in past years always 
transcended Association interests as a whole. Hence it 
is not to be expected that the Association will bother 
itself about such a trivial matter as its non-existence 
from a legal or equitable standpoint. For the good of 
sport, however, as distinguished from an industry, the 
permanency and peace of the Association would be much 
enhanced by following a legal course. 
Concerning the New York city cup, a 
acknowledgment of it and a vote of thanks officially 
would be out of date, but an observance of the condi- 
tions imposed by the donors, the recognition of it and 
the competition for it as an important part of the State 
shoot, and some official recognition of the State cham- 
pion when the cup is won, should not strain the ca- 
pacity of the State Association when the polite and 
proper course is minutely and amiably pointed out to it.} 
Keystone Shooting League. 
HoLMeEsBuRG JuncTIoNn, Pa., March 8.—The live-bird 
shoot held to-day had nine contestants in the cup, 20- 
bird, event, of whom Messrs. Frank and Harrison tied 
on 18. In the shoot-off at 15 birds, Harrison killed 
straight and won, Frank unfortunately losing one dead 
out. The birds were good and fast. 
Cup event, 20 live birds: 
Budd; 30 h:. fons e sects eneeemereetets *222.022222*222222*22 16 
Prantl; 2%" joni sreperenet sireisieeinicte stare otek 222222222*22*2222222 18 
Vandegritt,\ 20 tisnicjece satin toietrnnre #2222222022222*20222—16 
Beatty, (200 i thaecincwtatisitroeiaetanre tereters *2202*2222*222202222 15 
McDonald, 28" kicnew sateceee restr 02222*220022*2220222—14 
Pl arrisoti,, (260 aarsietsss sie ovjeloeinesinets Pa tats 222121 0222122221*222 18 
Steinbach. 2st aecwene s Aeelleg one iade *0.222*22222220222*22—i5 
TaAWrence, 2S pecw cals avissinere erations 22*0*22222222202*2*2 14 
Terry, 28iews Soipanebaee cacaudonem eee 22*222222*2222222220_17 
Tie for cup: 
Harrison) 26) ie sreterajeienietelslelsietelel etter letters oo LLL222222222229- 15, 
FBrratik, 29/1 (sn Siac aldecrsvelpactae <isveisterspatee tae 22222222222229* 14 
Sweepstakes, 5 birds: 
"LOLry wihied avatars 212225 Beatty | scaseemenenmens 11121—5 
Budd siveuiscretsnietece sieve 12121—5 Harrison tc aceen ee 112115 
Birankk, sacareke aman. 2222*—4 McDonald jarmasent #11224 
Warrdizer sonnets. 22122—5 
Twenty-five targets: Budd 22, Beatty 15, Steinbach 
20, Terry 21, Frank 21, Lawrence 18, Harrison 20, Mc- 
Donald 20. 
Brewer — Buckwalter. 
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The match between Messrs. J. 
L. Brewer and W. Buckwalter, at 50 birds, shot on the 
Philadelphia Driving Park grounds, was won by Brewer 
with a score of 46 to 45, as follows: 
Brewer,080 © esisteste siniate:siels/sisiersis.clsse 22020122222*2222229222222 
2220122222222222292292922-— 46 
Buckwalter,” 30, sciecismatesiseeisitis’c 2222222220222222202222222 
22.2222222222222222222*220—45 
Sweepstake, 5 birds, $5 entrance: 
Muller; 4805.5... amae. 22222—5 Felix, ‘8002, tess 22202—4 
Murphy, 30 ....... 21212—5 Pratt; 30 Wicsseswues 02010—2 
lekeboey io) vogontgosece 12222 —5 Plastings; ou een 12022—4 
Butlers o0ssae aaa 20200—2 McFalls; S0.cs seve 00200—1 
Buckwalter, 30 ..... 02202—3 Motris,) S00. a saccters 22110—4 
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