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ing one hundred and fifty each, plunge-traps, 

 twenty -one yards rise. I killed all my single 

 birds. Mr. King killed forty-one of his. I killed 

 eighty-five of my double birds, Mr. King seventy- 

 five of his. 



I shot and won a great many matches which 

 I need not mention here. In 1870, Mr. Nathan 

 Doxie challenged any man in Illinois to go to 

 his place and shoot against him for $100 at 

 twenty-five birds. 1 went there and killed twen- 

 ty-two to his twenty-one. At the Chicago tourna- 

 ment I killed ten straight at twenty-one yards, 

 as did several others. Under the conditions we 

 went back to twenty-six yards to shoot the ties 

 off' at five birds each. Mr. G. K. Fayette, of 

 Toledo, Ohio, and I tied four times more at this 

 distance, killing all our birds. I then killed five 

 more, making twenty-five consecutive birds at 

 twenty-six yards. Mr. Fayette killed four of his 

 last five, but missed the fifth, so I won. Later 

 on I shot against Mr. J. J. Kleinman, of Chicago, 

 at five traps, fifty birds, mine at twenty-eight 

 yards rise, his at twenty-five. I won, and in the 

 course of the match killed thirty-three consecu- 

 tive birds. 



At Detroit, in the fall of 1870, I shot my 



