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51; Turner, 50 -40; Burns, 50—34; 
Namara, 30—15. 
The Mexia, Texas, Gun Club hold regular shoots. 
Last Thursday, R. Cook shoot at 50, and broke 47; C, 
S. Templeton, 50—41; S. F. Carroll, 50—43; Bob. Johnson, 
25—17; Roy Blunt, 25—23. 
The. Empire Gun Club, of Oakland, Cal., has closed 
the 1907 season of shooting at the traps with the result 
that C. H. Collier won all of the events, there being 
‘four different season prizes. Bert Patrick was the runner. 
up, and he kept the champion guessing. 
Seventy-five members of the old gun club have united 
and formed the Utah State Gun Club, and _ propose 
to continue the good old times held by sportsmen around 
about Alma and Howell lakes. The officers are: de 
Mitchell, President; Ben. Harman, Treasurer; George 
Dallstead, Secretary, 
° The Danville, II1., 
Fosgard, 60. -54; Me- 
Gun Club will soon have a home 
of its own. The members are now busy erecting a 
$1,200 club house, 18 by 22 feet. It will contain re- 
ception room, dance floor, lockers and kitchen with a 
long porch. This is a sample of what any club could 
do by perseverance, 
At the two-days’ Lake Charles, La., 
Harold Money ‘won the Caleasien handicap; Frank 
Faurote, the Majestic Hotel cup; John Skannal, of 
New Orleans, tied on 
shoot held at 
Shreveport, and MacMurdo, of 
high average, 422 out of 480. 
Hamilton, Canada, Gun Club held a shoot last Satur- 
day. The members were trying out the automatic trap 
and found it worked well. Scores at 25 targets—Thomp- 
son 21, Sturt 19, Hunter 18, Dr. Wilson 21, Barnard 16, 
Fischer 19, Marshall 21,-Fletcher 20, Dean 19, Dr: Green 
18, Davis 10, Cline 20, Maxwell 19. 
Millis Howard won the trophy at the Chicago Gun 
Club with a score of 50 straight. Geo. Roll and Lem 
Willard tied on a special match, as did Frank Riehl, 
Hannagan and Bingor, 24 out of 25. 
Minson, of Hannibal, Mo., presented the gun 
club with a medal, and there is now a revival of in- 
terest there among the members. , 
Shooting for the Symmes Corner 100-target handicap, 
Conrad and Andrews tied on 94, although Conrad had 
an allowance of six targets. Shooting at 50 targets— 
Jessup 39, Link 46, Brenig 46, Smyers 36, Fitz 35, 
Dingle 24, Willie 33. 
Port Huron, Mich., has a gun club that sports the 
mame of Tunnel. At the meeting Wednesday Joel Rose 
got 29 out of 50 and Thomas Dixon 24. The members 
will meet each Wednesday until the game season opens. 
At the meeting of the gun club at Spring Valley, 
Minn., A. F. Johnson won the first prize and Chas. 
Alder, the second. 
High wind interfered with the scores at the 
Gun_ Club, Buffalo, N. Y., yet Cox and Wooton tied 
on Class A, with 23 out of 25. Babcock and Luckow 
tied on 21 in the B class. V. Bargor won the C class. 
The election of, officers resulted thus: President, G, P. 
McArthur; Vice-President, A. C, Heinold; Secretary, W. 
C. Wooton; Treasurer, C. S, Sidway; Field Captain, John 
E. Wilson. Next shoot will be held Aug. 3. 
The Media, N. D., Gun Club held their regular shoot 
recently, with Henry Bertsch high .gun. 
Some of the members of the Lansing, Mich., Gun 
Club met last Friday at the Harton farm and contested 
at the traps, W. E. Bascom taking the lead with 28 
out of 30, 
Howard 
ville, Wis., and shot a match at 50 live pigeons for $100 
a side. Bonnell won easily and yet only killed 39 out 
of 46, while Atchison was 10 to the bad. 
The Nassau Gun Club was beaten recently by the 
Rosen, S. D., Club, the score bemge astoe44, “C21. 
Schutz, of Albee, was tied for high individual honors. 
After some five weeks of idleness, the Pueblo, Colo., 
Gun Club will resume their shooting for the Dupont 
trophy. Chas. Plank was present, and he and Pat 
Adams were injecting some ginger into the shootist 
cranium. 
At a meeting held in Kenmore, N. 
with fifteen members was organized. 
W. T. Smith, President; 
dent; H. W. Hauch, 
| hoped the club 
| much recreation 
Audubon 
3onnell and Harry Atchison met at Janes- 
D., a gun, club 
The officers are: 
Theodore Kahellek, Vice-Presi- 
Secretary and Treasurer. It is 
organization will prove the means of 
and sport during the season. 
The first match for the trophies offered by the Hunter 
Arms Co. and the Dupont Powder Co. was held at 
Fairfield, Iowa, last Thursday. In the first event, 30 
targets, Bowerman won on the shoot-of with 7 straight. 
In the Dupont shoot at 20 targets there was a tie, .and 
| Flagel won. Phil Pickett was high for the whole pro- 
| gramme with 45 out of 50. In a short time the club 
will have new grounds and traps. 
Fifteen shooters took part in the tournament at Spring 
Valley, Minn., Gun Club, with some interference from 
the rain. John Bowden, of the home team, won the 
fine Ithaca gun with 22 out of 25. Hamilton, of St. 
Paul, won in the second event, the prize being a cigar 
case, given by the Parker Bros, Gun Company. Mr. 
Fredette was high amateur, while Morrison made 145, 
| Barkley 139, Vietmeyer 127, and Klein 135 for the pro- 
fessionals, Shooting at 150 targets—Fredette 133, John- 
son 131, Kendrick 125, Addler 125, ‘Jackson 88, Ham- 
ilton 119, C. Johnson 107, Carey_113, Beagle 117, Bowden 
112, Tart 120. The money was distributed by the jack- 
rabbit system and gave satisfaction. 
A dashing: gale of wind with rain was the condition 
where the Greenville, Ohio, Gun Club held their contest 
recently. The 50-target handicap scores were: Huddle 
41, Mornstar 37, Warner 38, Eidson 37, Kirby 43, Baker 
37, Fouts 26, J. Fouts 27, Limbert 40, McCaughey 27, 
Smith 17. 
The old gun club at Hannibal, Mo., has started out 
anew, and the secretary writes that carpenters are busy 
erecting a new shooting house. 
At the second merchandise shoot given by the Marion,. 
Ind., Queen City Gun Club, Ed. Ham won high aver- 
age; Frank Howard, second, and Chester Crevison, third. 
O. H. Berger, president of the Dayton, Ky., Gun Club, 
was present. 
The shooters of the famous salt town of Hutchinson, 
Kansas, are holding a series of shoots for a vase 
donated by the Hunter Arms Co. It has proven the 
most interesting race of the season. 



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