1046 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[JUNE 30, 1906. 



SEC Y-MGR. ELMER E, SHANER. 
Responding to Dr. Moore’s presentation of the Masonic emblem. 
of Paulina, Ia., who scored 99, but the weather con- 
ditions then were almost ideal. As indirectly bearing on 
the matter of the relative value of the scores of this year 
compared with those of last, it may be observed that 
Mr. Barber this year made a score of 84 as against lis 
score of 99 last year. 
The day opened clear and pleasant, but windy. It was 
a wind which disconcerts the most skillful shooters. It 
was what rifle shooters would designate as a variable 
wind, shifting from 6 to 8 o’clock. For the information 
of those who may not have learned the technique of rifie 
shooting, it may be mentioned that, to designate the di- 
rection of the wind, the rifle shooter assumes that he is 
standing in the center of an imaginary clock dial, end 
facing the 12 o’clock figure. Thus, he would be facing 
a 12 o’clock wind, and his back would be toward a 6 
o’clock wind. 
The wind was gusty and variable. It picked up the 
dust and cinders in swirls, irritating the eyes, lodging in 
ears, hair, collars and clothing of the shooters, and 
disturbed their balance and consequently their steadiness 
of aim while at the firing points. It was a boisterous, 
powerful, shifting wind, some moments a gale in force; 
at other moments, a gentle wind. The targets were 
thrown about 50yds., which is a fairly swift target, but 
the powerful wind blowing from the rear accelerated the 
speed very much and shifted the flights so suddenly and 
acutely that many a shot, aimed well at the moment of 
firing, resulted in a goose egg at the moment of passing 
the target. It was a day seriously and _ particularly 

AFTER THE HANDICAP—HOMEWARD 
against the success of those who shot in slow time. A 
vard under the existing conditions was a real handicap. 
Not only was the shot. drifted to an important degree 
whenever taking a flight across wind, but the speed of 
the targets being much accelerated, was equivalent to 
shooting under ordinary conditions at a 60 or 70 yard 
target. 
The handicaps this year were quite satisfactory, there 
being but a trifling number of complaints as compared 
with those of previous years. No one was placed closer 
than the i6yd. mark, and no one was placed back of 
21. This was as it should be. Any one whose absence 
of skill warrants a 14 or 15yd. mark, is out of place in 
the Handicap, for, no matter of a yard or two nearer 
the traps, can compensate for the utter inefficiency in 
the matter of skill. A shooter must have attained a rea- 
sonable degree of skill before he is worthy to enter at all. 
On the other hand, the back marks have been founa 
rather beyond the capabilities of the best of the contest- 
ants, so that making 2lyds. the back mark was a move 
in the right direction. On this point, last year, Forest 
AND STREAM remarked as follows: ‘‘The records of the 
G. A. H. show, however, that the well-known experts 
are too heavily handicapped. With the continually 
growing odds due to the greater number of entries, the 
generally higher average of the scores, and the general 
increase in public knowledge concerning all the technical 
points of the competition, 22yds. is too far back for any 
shooter to stand and compete against the skill and odds 
of the present day, even if such back marksmen are the 
BOUND. THE 
ies 
MR. F. E. ROGERS, G. AY His) WINNER; 
Responding to the presentation. 
invincible Crosby and Gilbert.’’ 
The conditions governing competition in the 
American Handicap were as follows: One hundred tar- 
gets, unknown angles, $10 entrance, targets included; 
handicaps 14 to 22yds.; high guns; $200 added to the 
purse. The division of moneys in the purse was based 
on two places for each ten entries or fraction thereof, up 
to 250. Fifty-five participated in the money. 
Mr. Rogers, the winner, received the cup and first 
money, $267.40. 
Geo. Roll, of Blue Island, Ill., and Geo. F. Lyon, ot 
Durham, N. C., tied on 93 and received each $227.25. 
L. I. Wade, Dallas, Tex., broke 92 and received $187.15. 
Those who broke 91 and received $96.10 were W. H. 
Heer, Concordia, Kans.; *Brien, Florence, Kans.; 
John R. Taylor, Newark, O.; Geo. E. Painter, Allegheny, 
ea D. A. Upson, Cleveland, O.; W. S. Hoon, Jewell, 
owa. 
Those who broke 90 and received $53.45 were: R. Miller, 
West Allis, Wis.; W. R. Crosby, O’Fallon, Ill; J. M. 
Hawkins, Baltimore. 
Those who broke 89 and received $32.05 were: J. Peter- 
son, Randall, Ta.; ¢ - Powers, Decatuce Iii. 
Crayton, Charlotte, N. C.; J. W. Hoffman, Basking 
Ridge, N. J., and C. B. Lamme, Attica, Ind. 
Those who broke 88 and received $26.70 were: F. M. 
Edwards, Portsmouth, O.; G. R. Mackie, Scammon, 
Kans.; L. H. Reid, New Paris, O.; D. P. Moore, Olney, 
Ill.; Neaf Apgar, Plainfield, N. J.; H. W. Cadwallader, 
Decatur, IIl.; N.- Ford, CentraliiGitvealaraeke iss 
Grand 
WINNING ILLINOIS TEAM AND TROPHIES. 
