Bennett 11 11 11 11 01 11 10 10 00 



11 10 01 10 01 11 11 01 01 11 11 



11 01 11 11 10 10 00 01 01 10 11 



10 11 11 10 10 11 11 00 01 10 10 



00 10 11 00 11 01 11 11 —67 



WONDERFUL EXHIBITION. 



(American Field, July ii, 1885.) 

 LaFayette, Ind. — Mr. Fred Erb, Jr., shot an exhibition here on June 

 29 with rifle and shotgun for the Ancient Order of Hibernians at the 

 LaFayette Fair Grounds, which was witnessed by over 10,000 people. 

 Mr. Erb was not in the best of condition to shoot, owing to the acci- 

 dent which befell him on April 7, in which he broke his right wrist 

 while giving an exhibition on roller skates. Since then he was unable 

 to use the gun. Mr. Erb gave us some of his work with a Colt's light- 

 ning rifle and broke 48 balls out of 50 thrown in the air, hitting all 

 kinds of small coins and doing all kinds of fancy shooting that could 

 be done with a rifle. Mr. Erb then stepped up to the score to break 

 96 clay pigeons out of 100, in which he broke 100 straight with a 

 Colt's twelve bore, weighing seven and one-half pounds. Mr. Erb is 

 one of the quickest shots that ever went to a trap. He used only one 

 barrel, 18 yards rise, 3 angles. Will Berry was scorer, and Dr. Cole- 

 man referee. John McGuire. 



ERB-BOGARDUS. 



{American Field, Chicago, III., Jan. 14, 1S88.) 



LaFayette, Ind. 

 Editor American Field. 



The Erb-Bogardus match, so long talked of, took place here Jan. 

 4, at I o'clock p. m. The shooting was at 100 live birds each, Hurling- 

 ham rules, for $250 a side. Capt. Bogardus used a twelve-bore Scott 



6 Sons gun weighing seven pounds fourteen ounces, and shot four 

 drams of Wood powder in the right barrel and four drams of black 

 powder in the left barrel, using No. 7 and No. 8 shot. Mr. Erb used 

 a Lefever twelve-bore weighing seven pounds fourteen ounces, loaded 

 with 2>y2 drams of King's Quick Shot powder in both barrels and No. 



7 shot. The weather was cloudy, with the wind blowing across the 

 traps. A stronger lot of birds could not have been had, as every bird 



81 



