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[JULY 20, 1907. 







Bergen Beach Gun Club. 




BerGen Beacu, N. Y., July 9.—There was a large at- 
tendance of shooters. The Crater cup was the main 
event, and therein twenty-five contestants took part. This 
trophy was won by W. H. Wynne, from the 20yd. mark, 
with a score of 22. 
Scores of the Crater cup contest, at 25 targets, handicap, 
follows: 
Yds. Tot’l Yds. Tot’) 
Schorty cikeccs «20. 17 Short. vewbocsccses 16 19 
W Hopkins .....20 20 Schmidt) a... ...0e 16 14 
G Kouwenhoven 20 Hentschel .......16 9 
J Hendrickson.. 20 We Doux Fee caree 16 17 
WY Attia rie) Seca ca ea ae 23 POCA see ote canoe 16 14 
Grater Voslees aaneas fi 12 DS Ro Ts'o SORE ~ AOK 16 12 
PIWYER 4054 oes ek I Baudendistel 18 10 
Montanus sly | 21 Glover \cacikiee sess 20 
Coope: ARENA 6 * Fessenden 15 
Bergen lt 21 Fanning 22 
Romans .16 15 Schneider 18 
EPMEE NN 6. vente tents 16 21 Remsen 17 
Yanenfelser ...... 16 5 : 
Sweepstakes: 
Events: LL e2ies) (4) 2b Events: 1 23.4 6 
Targets: 15 15 15 15 15 Targets: 15 15 16 15 15 
SCHOITY Gece zs Mi Ege Br Ws Romans 5 12 10 10 
Hopkins) 220 kl daz 10 Reelly macs, 12 15 14 
Hentschel stew (oer oe fil Fanning paerl2 1h 
M Schmidt. 5 5 4 5 6 Montanus . 10 11 12 
Be (Dox. s.3 i OV 8 12 Schneider li 914 
Fessenden... 8 710 8 9 Danentelser,,.. c.000 4a 0 
IDESVEEN sees 5 8 6 §& Dreyer Menace. stra 
Rergen ..... 10 ify ea Bs ii Setar ge agarisee 10) 8) 29 
SCHOTEV ataltoe 1d 520 8 Craterk ces 10 11 
Hopkins veat ns Sr ‘ PERC Noon weule sale 7 13 
Wynne ...... sdb) 13/12 Duin ~yeeeeas 8 
Hendrickson. .. 13 12 12 13 Bagman jcesce a 
Glover i... oe oe de a2 1b Cooper wsere- . 10 
Baltimore Shooting Association. 
BALTIMORE, July 



13.—Walker. was high in Class A, 
Bowen in Class B, and Ashton in Class C. 
It was the i3th day of the month, 13 men took part 
in the shoot, and 1300 targets were thrown. 
Next Saturday afternoon the club will give its mem- 
bers and their friends a crab feast. Scores: 
Class 
Events: 5 Shot 
Targets: 25 at. Broke 
CHE WLU Soe 100 S6 
Walker, 20 5 22 23 100 90 
Tracey, 17 RG) Ae fey es 75 57 
Owens, 18 33 22 19 14 .. 125 88 
G Mordecai, 1 14 te 100 55 
Armstrong, 21 17 19 20 150 110 
Hanner, 16 12 is See 75 41 
Bowen, Lf.ii¢ 50 9 
e 
Leeland, 16 100 58 
Ashton, 16 100 68 
Waters, 16 100 
Thomas, 16 100 

Disney, 16 

Missouri Afro-American Trapshooters’ Lezgve. 
PLEASANT Hitt, Mo., July 13.—While attending the 
fifth grand Afro-American handicap, in company with 
several other Missourians, at Muskogee, I. T., July 3 
and 4, Sept. 20 and 21 was agreed upon as dates of the 
second annual tournament of the Missouri Afro-American 
Trapshooters’ League, to take place at Jefferson City, 
Mo. You will greatly oblige our league, as well as 
shqoters of our race in general, if you will insert dates 
of same in your paper. For this shoot, though held 
sonvewhere in Missouri, is not restricted to Missourians 
only. It is open to all colored shooters; and as this is 
one of the best shoots held among our race, we urgently 
ask the manufacturers, who have so generously aided and 
assisted us in the past, to’ send around some of their 
professionals, whom we will gladly welcome ‘‘to shoot 
for targets only,” as they do at all similar shoots among 
the Anglo-Saxon tribe. Then they can report to their 
different companies, and not ourselves only, that they 
aiding a 
stimulate 
worthy 
greater 
are 
Tace 
movement in 
5 helping debarred 
interest 
among themselves. 
T. H. Conron, Sec’y. 

New York State Sportsmen's Association. 
Mr. H. W. SmitnH, president of the New 
Sportsmen’s Association, has made the following ap- 
pointments for the 1908 tournament, to be held at Elmira: 
Handicap Committee: L. H. Schortemeier, Chairman, 
New York city; Jos) M. Knopf, Auburn; Windsor Mor- 
ris, Baldwinsville; Edw. Cox, Buffalo; A. Bedell,’ Ossing. 
Tournament Committee: C. L. Frantz, Seneca Falls; 
L. C. Andrews, Chairman, Elmira, N. Y.; Jos Wagner, 
Utica; E. A. Wadsworth, Wolcott; TF. H. Schauffler, 
New York city. Cuas. G. BLANDFORD, 
Sec’y-Treas. 
York State 

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to their excellent gun, 
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catalogue, issued by this com- 
special information on their new bolt 
and fastenings, and new locks, which are radical changes 
and well worth investigation by every one who uses a 
gun. It is sent free to applicants. 
The Ithaca Gun 
business columns, 
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‘Rifle Range and Gallery. 
Fixtures. 
24-30.—Creedmoor, L. I.—New York State Rifle 
Association and out-door matches of the U. S. Re- 
volver Association. 
July 

July  25-28.—Milwaukee, Wis.—Central Sharpshooters’ 
Union, under auspices of Milwaukee Sharpshooters’ 
Society. J. L. Torney, Sec’y. : 
Aug. 19-24—Camp Perry, Port Clinton, O.—National 
Rifle Association and Ohio State Rifle Association 
matches. 
Aug. 26.—National team and individual matches com- 
mence 
Sept. 2.—Sea Girt, N. J.—New Jersey State Rifle As- 
sociation, matches begin. 

The President’s Approval. 
PRESIPENT ROOSEVELT, in a 
July 13, congratulates 
letter, dated 
Ambrose Scharfenberg, 
Oyster Bay, 
of the 
Manual Training School, of Brooklyn, on his winning 
the Public Schools’ League trophy, for rifle shooting. 
The President’s letter follows: 
“T heartily congratulate you upon being declared by 
the Public Schools Athletic Le eague to stand first in rifle 
shooting among all‘the boys of the high schools of New 
York city who have tried during the. last year. I am 
glad to see how well you have done ‘in all the competi- 
tions in which you shot during the year, alike in the 
Whitney trophy competition, the individual match shoot 
at Creedmoor, and the interscholastic match. Many a 
grown man who regards himself as a crack rifle shot 
would be proud of such a score. c 
“Your skill is a credit to you, 
cipal, your teachers, and to all connected with the manual 
training school which you attend, and I congratulate 
them all. Practice in rifle shooting is of value in de- 
veloping not only muscles, but nerves, steadiness and 
judgment under excitement. It is therefore of value to 
every man throughout his life. 
‘The Public Schools Athletic League has done fine 
work for the city and for the country in introducing and 
promoting athletics, and a love for manly sports in the 
public schools of New York, especially as. the league 
most wisely allows no one ‘to compete who is not up to 
the passing mark both in studies and deportment. I am 
especially glad of what it has done in establishing in- 
struction in rifle shooting. The United States has a very 
small standing army. In time of war it must depend 
for defense vpon hasty levies of volunteers, and it is a 
prime necessity that the volunteer should already know 
how to shoot, if he is to be of value as a soldier. In no 
modern war would it be possible effectively to train 
men to shoot during the brief period of preparation be- 
fore the army takes the field. In consequence, the train- 
ing must come in advance, and the graduates from our 
schools and colleges should be thus trained so as to be 
good shots with the military rifle. When so trained, 
they constitute a great addition to our national strength, 
and great assurance for the peace of the country.” 
and also to your prin- 
Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Association. 
New York, July 11.—The following scores were made 
at 2628 Broadway: AN IB ie os 
Revolver, 20yds.: P. Hanford 87, 87, 84, 88; M. Hays 






83, 82; G. R. Decker, Dayton, O., 86, 84, 85, 84, 82, 81, 80; 
J. E. Silliman 84, 83, 83, 82. 
July 13.—Rifle, 200yds.: L. P. Hansen 216, 212, 219, 221; 
W. Hays 209, 220, 212, 215, 223. 
At Armbruster’s Par July 13.—Revolver, 50yds.: C 
Brinkerhoff 82, 91, 81, 18. Sey Tle S45 86, 
BH... Purdy 90, 77, 82, 79). 83, 80, 76; HH: EL. Sechel 
cy fae Se Le a ers 79, 77; P. Hanford 89, 89, 84; 
JT E Silliman 88, 87, 87, 86, 85. 
” Rifle, 200yds.: W. H. French 217, 227, 222, 280, 220; 
J. F. Snellen 195, 204, 211, 201, 221; A. Hubalek 227, 218, 
231, 225, 227, 226, 221, 220, 221. 
Jos. E. Strtiman, Treas. 

TENA Cit YI@ iF sik iN GAT Ps 
InN a recent issue of the Deutsche Fischerei- 
Zeitung, Herr P. Schiemenz gives an extraordi- 
nary instance of the tenacity of the life shown 
by certain members of the carp family. At 11 
A. M. on: Feb. 23 last, he netted a number of 
carp (including one crucian carp), some tench, 
perch and ruff, with a view to dissecting them 
and ascertaining the nature:of their diet at that 
time of the year. The fish were placed in a 
handbag, and left there till 9 o'clock the same 
evening. By that time the carp were quite dead, 
and, when opened,’ showed no traces of food. 
The remainder of the fish were placed in a shal- 
ow dish. without water until 9 o’clock the fol- 
owing morning, when they were carried into a 
reated work room, where they were placed on 
sheets of newspaper, and arranged according to 
size and species. At 12 o'clock the turn of the 
crucian carp came for examination. When a 
few of his scales were disturbed, a slight motion 
of the ventral fins was noticed, and he was 
promptly placed in a tubful of water, in which 
1e gradually but completely recovered, and eight 
days after was almost as in as ever. It will 
be noticed that this fish had been twenty-five 
hours out of water, and during the last three 
hours had been lying on paper in a hot room. 

. 
HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE. 
Tue Hungarian partridge ranges over Europe 
and western and central Asia. It is adaptable 
and is found in Italy as well as in cold 
Scandinavia. In size it is about twice as large 
as the Bobwhite quail and resembles it in a gen- 
eral way. Partridges in Hungary are numerous, 
large and Well watered woodland 
tracts in the yieinity of arable lands are the best. 
suited to it, but the partridge is easily pleased 
and can practically make living anywhere. 
Once established anywhere there are few birds 
which so strictly adhere to their selected abode 
as do the Hungarian partridges. Even their off- 
spring does 
sunny 
vigorous. 

its 
not wander away 
The Hungarian partridge is sociable, 
peaceful, affectionate and faithful to its mate and 
offspring, and even gladly adopts destitute young 
ones ,of its kind. On one occasion a partridge 
hen and a pheasant hen were found sitting side 
by side on a nest containing nine pheasant eggs 
and thirteen partridge eggs. The eggs were left 
for the partridge hen to hatch. She good-natur- 
edly took upon herself this task and afterward 
reared the pheasants with her own flock. 
The partridges mate in pairs only and it is | 
claimed that the mates always remain true to 
each other. 
Toward the. end of April or the beginning of 
May the hen commences to lay. Her nest is 
usually a shallow hollow in the level ground. 
She lays from nine to seventeen eggs which hatch 
in twenty-six days. The chicks are most charm- 
ing little creatures, very pretty in color and shad- 
ing. Both parents take equal part in the care 
and training of the young. The cock guards, 
warns and defends, while the hen leads, feeds | 
and, shelters them. If either parent is killed, 
the cther takes care of the brood, the father even 
taking the place of the mother. 
During their earliest youth the partridges feed 
almost exclusively on insects and worms to which 
diet they add later on vegetable matter. Snow 
and cold weather does not deprive them en- 
tirely of food. If hard frozen snow covers the 
ground they seek berries or buds of trees and 
bushes. 
While Bobwhite quail may often succumb in 
a heavy snowfall the larger Hungarian partridges 
can easily work themselves out through several 
feet of snow.. This most important feature can- 
not be sufficiently emphasized in recommending 
very 
these birds to sections of the country where 
severe winters are experienced. 
Great Britain, Germany and France import 
annually a great number of Hungarian partridges 
and several thousand pairs were imported last 
season into the United States. Over 1,000 Hun- 
garian partridges were furnished last year to Dr. 
John A. Wheeler, State Game Commissioner of 
Tllinois, 200 to the State game warden of Kan-| 
sas, and several thousand to various clubs and/| 
private parties. Dr. Wheeler has duplicated his 
order for the coming season. Mac. 
CHAMOIS FOR NEW ZEALAND 
In January last Mr. Bertling left London in 
charge of a small herd of pray —two males | 
and six females—sent to the Government of New | 
Zealand by the Emperor of: Austria in exchange 
for specimens of rare birds and lizards for the 
menagerie at Schonbrunn. Special forage was| 
shipped for their use on the passage, but the 
project was not regarded with much hope, fears 
being entertained that the animals would not be| 
able to withstand the heat. News has now been| 
received to the effect that the animals have ar-| 
rived at Wellington in splendid condition. They | 
remained perfectly healthy throughout the pas- 
sage, the only change being that the winter coat| 
was shed earlier than usual. On arrival the 
chamois were taken to the Hermitage at the foot 
of Mount Cook, and their acclimatization will be} 
carefully watched by the New Zealand authori-| 
ties, and progress duly reported to the High 
Commissioner in London and to the Emperor 
of Austria, who has taken great personal- in- 
terest in the experiment.—Shooting Times, 

