MAy 109, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
803 



UAC. 
GRAND-AMERICAN HANDICAP WINS 
lo25) 
1894, 
1895, 
Lorre 
1898, 
1899, 
1900, 
1900, 
1903, 
1904, 
R. A. Welch, U. M. C. Shells, 
T. W. Morfey, U. M. C. Shells. 
J. G. Messner, U,. M. C. Shells. 
T. A. Marshall, U. M. C. Shells, 
D. Fulford, U. M. C. Shells. 
A. Marshall, U. M. C. Shells. 
Bates, U. M. C. Shells. 
Heikes, U.M. C. Shells. 
efenderfer, U. M. 
E 
Abe 
H. 
R. 
M C. Shells. 
R. D. Guptill, U.M. 
D. 
O. 
ws 
C. Shells. 
Out of the sixteen Grand American Handicaps ever held, U. M. C. Shells have 
been used ten times exclusively 
of wins by any other company. 
follows: 
by the winners. 
1% oz. No. 7% chilled shot. 
“U. M. C. Quality’ stands the tests when 
important money prizes are at stake. 
THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY 
BRIDGEPORT, CONN., 
Agency. 
US. 
315 Broadway, 
This is twice as large as the number 
The U. M. C. Grand American Handicap load is as 
Arrow Shell, 234 in., 34% drs. of bulk smokeless or 26 grs. of dense powder, 
A. 
New York City. 
Qe EE TIO 

Griffith was the only other contestant in this event who 
scored over 90 per cent. Richardson, by the same svvre 
of 98, won the State championship. Mr. Lester German, 
of Aberdeen, Md., forthwith challenged him to defend 
the Wawaset trophy, and the match will take place in 
the near future. The team championship of the State 
was won by the Wilmington Gun Club team No. 1. 
Seven teams competed. With so many shooters in 
Delaware and vicinity, who both talk and shoot matches, 
it should be a matter of extreme difficulty for the 
trophies to maintain any prolonged inertia. 
x 
Secretary Fred Shattuck informs us that the second 
fall tournament of the Columbus, O., Gun Club is fixed 
to take place on Sept. 13 and 14. Also that the Wednes- 
day afternoon shoots promise to be well attended all 
summer. Special shoots will be held on Wednesday, 
Friday and Saturday afternoons of each week. The 
grounds are open to shooters every day in the year. 
a 
For its tournament, May 29-30, the Oak Hill Gun Club, 
Pittsfield, Mass., provides for the first day ten 15-target 
events, $1.30 entrance, and an inter-state 5-man team 
shoot between the Middlesex and Schenectady gun clubs, 
100 targets per man. On the second day, twelve events 
are provided, of which No. 6 is a 5-man team shoot, 25 
targets, $1.50 entrance, and No. 9 is a distance handicap 
merchandise event, 25 targets, $1.50 entrance; the re- 
mainder are at 15 targets. Rose system. Shooting will 
begin at 9 o’clock. John Ransehousen is the Secretary. 
BERNARD WATERs. 
Grand American Handicap Programme. 
TueE Interstate Association desires that all trapshooters 
will bestow their earnest attention on the many interest- 
ing events announced in this programme, and on the 
important subsidiary tournament matters arranged by the 
Association for the season of 1906. 
Progressiveness and liberality have ever been con- 
spicuous features of the Interstate Association’s policy, 
throughout the Association’s existence, in respect to all 
trapshooting interests. Each season, in turn, it has 
introduced and established some features of marked im- 
provement, and, not infrequently, many improvements. 
And of all these, not the least have been the educational 
benefits afforded by the tournaments themselves. They 
have been so organized and perfected in every depart- 
ment that, besides being competitive, they have been 
great schools of instruction for club officers and members 
who desire to hold tournaments of their own in an up- 
to-date manner. And also, it is the special care of the 
Association that first-class competition shall be provided 
at all of its tournaments. 
The history of trapshooting shows that the Associa- 
tion’s efforts have been crowned with gratifying success. 
Its perfect rules have gained a national acceptance; it in 
every particular has filled a national need; and trap- 
shooting in every department has been standardized in 
all that is wholesome and in all that makes for the best 
sportsmanship. It is gratifying to the Interstate Asso- 
ciation that its efforts have won public praise and appre- 
ciation. 
Thus, while the Interstate Association’s past achieve- 
ments have been great, its purposes for the present year 
contemplate the surpassing of all prior efforts. The 
growth of trapshooting in the United States has been so 
phenomenal that the Grand American Handicap of itself 
is not equal to public demand in respect to geographical 
sections; that is to say, trapshooters have so multiplied 
in all sections that each of the four great natural divi- 
sions of the United States—namely, the East, the South, 
the West, and the Pacific Slope—is competent to support 
a tournament of its own on the broad lines of the Grand 
American Handicap. 
The Association, with its well-known energy and grasp 
in trapshooting matters, has generously extended itself 
to meet the requirements of the improved situation, and 
four new handicaps, similar in the main to the Grand 
American Handicap, are arranged for 1906. For the 
financial interest of these tournaments, generous provi- 
sion has been made by the Interstate Association. It has 
appropriated $500 outright for each, a total of $2,000 for 
the four. With the $500, or more, which each of the clubs 
holding the subsidiary tournaments will contribute, there 
will thus be $1,000 or more added money at each tourna- 
ment. 
The Grand American Handicap. 
The seventh Grand American Handicap target tourna- 
ment will be held on the grounds of the Indianapolis Gun 
Club, Indiznapolis, Ind., June 19 to 22, inclusive. 
The selection of the Indianapolis Gun Club’s grounds 
calls for no special comment. Located on a level plot of 
grass land sixteen acres in extent, with five sets of 
traps facing the north, and a perfect background; with 
ample shelter for 500 contestants should the weather prove 
stormy, and with appointments superior to anything of 
the kind in the world, they make an ideal place for hold- 
ing this important event. 
Last year the competition was broadened by adding a 
State team contest to the programme of the Grand Amer- 
ican Handicap tournament. This year the competition of 
it is furher broadened by the addition of an individual 
championship contest for amateurs and _ professionals 
respectively. This will determine the question of in- 
dividual excellence under scratch conditions and accepted 
auspices. 
All the events are arranged on a basis of entry fees as 
low as is consistent with the equity of the events and the 
material values which should award good performance in 
the competition, and which are essential to it. 
The reader will find every matter of the tournament 
fully set forth in this programme, hence it is worthy of 
careful study by those who will compete. 
Division of Money. 
In the Preliminary Handicap, the Grand American 
Handicap at Targets, the Amateur and Professional 
