PIGEON-SHOOTING. 321 



Captain A. H. Bogardus, match at Paris, Ky., 

 April 14, 1874, to kill fifty pigeons in eight min- 

 utes : 



11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 11 11 11 11 10 11 11 11 11 

 11 11 11 11 00 11 11 11 00 11 11 11 10 10 Killed, 58; 

 misses, 10 ; number shot at, 68 ; time of shooting, 7m. 



Match at Stamford, Conn., 1874, to kill thirty- 

 eight out of fifty birds, two traps forty yards 

 apart, to be pulled at the same time, and the 

 shooter to stand between the traps. Ira Paine 

 trapped the birds: 



10 11 10 11 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 

 11 Killed 38 out of 42. 



Match at Omaha, purse of $150, same condi- 

 tions as at Stamford; shot June 19, 1874: 



11 11 11 11 10 11 11 11 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 11 10 

 11 10 Killed 39 out of 44. 



Score made by me on the same day in a sweep- 

 stakes : 



SINGLE BIRDS 1 111111111101111111 119 

 killed, 1 missed. 



DOUBLE BIRDS 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 

 1130 killed. 



Aggregate 49 out of 50. 



