MARCH 31, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 


Wilmington, Del., Defeats Media, Pa, 
WILMINGTON, Del., March 24.—The team of the Wil- 
mington Gun Club went to Media, Pa., to-day to try 
conclusions with the home team in the third of the home- 
and-home series of matches arranged between the two 
clubs. The first of the series was shot in January, and 
the Media Club on its own grounds won out by the nar- 
row margin of two targets, with a score of 404 to 402. 
The second of the series was shot in February in Wil- 
mington on the Wilmington Gun Club’s grounds, and re- 
sulted in an easy victory for the home team. Thus the 
score in the series prior to to-day’s match was a tie, one 
all. 
Although each club was entitled to enter twenty men 
in the contest, Wilmington could only muster twelve 
men at the score. The conditions of the race were that 
the only ten ten high scores on each side were to count 
for the team total, so that Wilmington had but a dozen 
scores to choose from, while Media sent her full limit of 
twenty men to the traps. The result was quite a pleasant 
surprise for the visitors, as they won out handily with 
402 to 886. They led their opponents by 3 targets on the 
first 25, which were shot over the magautrap, but picked 
up a good bunch on the blackbird trap, scoring 198 to 
185, or 13 more to their credit. The scores over the 
magautrap were 204 to 201. There was no wind to bother 
the shooters, but the glare from the ice-crusted snow 
and the bad work done by the blackbird trap materially 
helped to keep scores down to a comparatively low level. 
The scores were as follows: 
Wilmington Gun Club. Media Gun Club. 
ig SOU CT gs orice 23 24— 47 alin CODples ras. 21 21— 42 
Ee Banks vevicces => 25 21— 46 G R Williamson.19 22— 41 
J B McHugh...23 20— 43 GeS) Beatty... 19 22— 41 
WOR IROSOLS ciccicen « 21 21— 42 H Howard ...... 20 20— 40 
SF  PUCHIOR teases ss 19 20—39 Be omedley ..... 19 19— 38 
W Hartlove..... 17 21— 38 CRLGEL. avidaseeee 21 17— 38 
PORES velycicess,s'6 20 18— 38 J H Sweeney...20 17—- 27 
J A McKelvey..18 19— 37 AE Vatis’ silocists'.° 19 18— 37 
H J Stidham....21 15— 38 Tee Littles cos. 21 15— 36 
Cable oigion. see. 17 19— 36 Dr Mangus ..... 22 14— 35 

201 185—386 
C. Hahn 30 and 
204 198—402 
Wilmington’s two extra men scored: 
N. Steele 28. 
For Media, F. E. Pennington scored 36, a score equal 
to that made by Little and Dr. Mangus, but there was 
no room for him on the team. Other Media scores were: 
T. Fields 25, S. Smedley 34, J. Gill 33, J. M. Rogers 33, 
F. Nolan 32, J. B. Leedom 32, W. C. Rigby 31, G. 
Speckman 26, and S. Yarnall 21. 
The fourth match in the series will be shot at Wilming- 
ton on April 21, when Media will do her best to make 
the score two all. 
Harry Hartlove claims the credit of winning the match 
for Wilmington, and says that he and Fred Gilbert own 
the only two real rabbits’ feet in the business. 
As an item of interest, it may be noted that Wilming- 
ton’s winning score of 402 is precisely the same score 
made by her gunners in the first match, shot between the 
two teams at Media. They then lost by two targets, but 
this time they won by 16. 
Copple and Roser were pitted against one another in 
the team race, and made quite an interesting struggle of 
it, each 25 ending in a tie on 21 a piece. 
Squier was high man with 47, the result of some regu- 
lar shooting over both traps. 
Banks made the only 25 straight in the match, but 
finished cone behind his team mate, Squier. 
Pennington, of the Media team for once found himself 
so low down in the list that the official compiler of 
scores left him off the team, although he made the same 
total as two of his team—36. 
Steele says that reedbird loads are no good on targets. 
Before the team race, he tried 25 shells with No. 10 shot, 
as he wanted to see what he could do with them. He 
made a clean score of 25 goose eggs, and received many 
congratulations. 
The magautrap worked all right, but the blackbird trap 
acted just like any other blackbird is acting just now 
during the present cold spell. 
There were more black eyes seen at this shoot than at 
any other ever held on the Media grounds. Hartlove 
and a burnt cork were responsible for them. Those who 
wore them said they certainly relieved the glare from the 
snow. Still scores ruled low. BH 
= Sheepshead Bay Gun Club. 
SHEEPSHEAD Bay, L. I., March 22.—Club event, 25 
targets, allowances added (in parentheses): August 
Spinner (15) 25, Capt. H. W. Dreyer (10) 24, Fred Thier 
(6) 24, Dr. R. H. Weisskotten (10) 24, Eugene Carolan 
(10) 22. The following members withdrew from the con- 
test: H. J. Montanus (5) 25, Ira McKane (0) 20, J. Van 
Nestrand 13, J. B. Koegle 13. 
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‘eam match, four men on a side, 10 targets per man: 
‘leam No. 1—H. B. Williamson, Jr., 6, Thier, Jr., 6, 
Capt. H. W. Dreyer 5, August Spinner 2; total 21. 
Team No, 2—Ira McKane 7, Dr. Martin 4, H. B. W1!- 
liamson 3, Dr. R. H. Weisskotten 3; total 17. 
Same conditions: 
Team No. 1—H. J. Montanus 8, Capt. H. W. 
8, Fred Thier, Jr., 6, August Spinner 5, J. W. 
4: total 31. 
Team No. 2—Ira McKane 6, Dr. Martin 3, H. B. Witl- 
Dreyer 
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liamson 3, J. Van Nostrand 3, Dr. A. H. Weisskotten 
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Team match four men on a side, 15 targets per man: 
Team No. 1—H. B. Williamson 10, Fred Thier, Jr., 9, 
Capt. H. W. Dreyer 8, J. W. Koegel 9; total 34. 
Team No. 2—M. J. Montanus 0, Eugene Carolan 8, 
August Spinner 8, Dr. R. H. Weisskotten 5; total 30. 
Same conditions: 
Team No. 1—H. J. Montanus 10, Dr. R. H. Weisskot- 
ten 9, Eugene Carolan 8, August Spinner 4; total 31. 
Team No, 2—H. B. Williamson 13, Capt. H. W. Dreyer 
11, Fred Thier, Jr., 5, J. W. Koegle 2; total 31. 
Match, 15 targets: H. B. Williamson 12, Eugene Caro- 
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Match, 25 targets: Eugene Carolan 15, H. J. Mon- 
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Wilmington Tournament. 
THE spring tournament of the Wilmington, Del., Gun 
Club, which is to be held on April 12, is bound to have 
a good attendance of shooters. In addition to a list of 
events on the programme that are certain to draw a 
crowd, W. R. Crosby and Adolph Topperwein will be 
the special guests of the club on that day under the 
able chaperonage of J. Mowell Hawkins, himself no un- 

skilled exponent of the art of target smashing. Mr. 
Topperwein will give an exhibition of what he can do 
with rifle and pistol during the afternoon. Given fine 
weather, such as ought to prevail in Delaware during the 
month of April, the tournament should be a success. 
Luther J. Squier is now after A. B. Richardson, of 
Dover, Del., the holder of the target championship of the 
Diamond State. Squire says he may not win, but he 
means to make Richardson “‘go some” if he wants tuo 
keep the championship trophy down in Dover. ‘They 
shoot their match on Monday next, April 2, on the 
grounds of Mr. Richardson’s home club. It is under- 
stood that in connection with the championship match 
there will also be a two-man team race between Rich- 
ardson and C, L. Terry on the one side and Squier and 
W. M. Foord on the other, 
The programme for the Wawaset Gun Club’s annual 
spring tournament, with which is incorporated the annual 
spring tournament of the Delaware State Trapshooters’ 
League, is now in the hands of the printers, and will 
scon be ready for issue, although the tournament is not 
scheduled until May 9 and 10. The programme will con- 
tain some features of special interest to shooters who 
reside within two hundred miles ‘‘as the crow flies” of 
the Wawaset Gun Club’s home at Wilmington, Del. All 
who desire a programme should send their names to 
W. M. Foord, secretary Wawaset Gun Club, Wilming- 
ton, Del. By Hwee, 
