targets on each of the first two days and loo on the third day. The 

 undersigned backed Erb to break 475 out of a possible 500. His score 

 was a greater surprise to all than was expected, as part of the time 

 there was a drizzling rain falling. He used his twelve-bore Lefever 

 gun on the first 200 targets, sixteen yards rise, and his new ten-bore 

 Lefever on the last 300 targets, standing eighteen yards from the traps. 

 He thinks his ten-bore gun is a "daisy," which cannot be spoken of 

 too highly. The Standard targets, of Cleveland, were also used, 

 and they are fine targets to shoot at, as they break up very fine. I think 

 489 out of 500 very good. Three traps, National rules, were the con- 

 ditions. Following is the score : 



jNIonday, March 26. 



Fred Erb, Jr. 1111111111 1111111111 11111 



1111111111 1111111111 11111 



1111111111 1111111111 11111 



1111111111 1111111111 1111 1—100 



1111111111 1111111111 11110 



1111111111 1111111011 11111 



1110111111 1011111011 11111 



1111111111 1111111111 11111— 96 



Tuesday, Marcli 27. 



Fred Erb, Jr. 1111111111 1111111111 11110 



1111111111 1111111101 11111 



1111111111 1111111111 11111 



1111111111 1111111111 01111— 97 



1011111111 1111111111 11111 



1111111111 1111111111 11111 



1111111111 1111111111 11111 



1111111111 1111111111 11111— 90 



Wednesday, March 28. 



Fred Erb, Jr. 1111111111 1111111111 11111 



1111111111 1111111111 11111 



1111110011 1111111111 11111 



1111111111 1111111111 11111— 98 



ERB-GRAHAM. 



(American Field, May 5, 1S88, at Louisville, Ky.) 

 The Monaco rules governed throughout, except there was no wire 

 fence to guard the boundary. This difference, however, with the ex- 

 tremely close boundary, made the shooting the hardest ever done, and 

 score made under the conditions was a magnificent one. It was ex- 

 actly seventeen yards and twenty-one inches from the two outside 

 traps to the line. The boundary line was a circle, and all birds to 

 count as dead had to fall to the ground and be gathered within the 



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