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 At the conclusion of the match Mr. John Kigby, the best 

 Shot of the team, ami the inventor and maker of the rifle bear- 

 ing his name, claimed that the result of the match showed 

 that there was nothing in the fuss that was being made over 

 these new weapons. At the same time he made an announce- 

 ment which will interest all small-bore men— namely, that he 

 hoped to have ready before the next meeting of the Associa- 

 tion a breech-loading match rifle which should do as well as 

 the muzzle-loader. The only objection he urged against the 

 American breech-loader is that it is subject to an occasional 

 wild shot, producing a miss which the user knows is not due 

 to any fault of his own. If Mr. Eigby succeeds in obviating 

 this defect, he will do a great feat, but still an imitation of 

 the American peifected models. 



Yesterday gave us plenty of fun watching the mounted com- 

 petitors of men on horseback galloping and shooting in a be- 

 wildering sort of way, and to-day the meeting wound up with 

 a field day of athletic sports and an assault at arms. There 

 were foot races, tugs of war. boxing, tent pitching, tent 

 pegging, lemon cutting, tilling, and with the presentation of 

 the principal prizes by the Duke of Connaught, the meeting 

 of 1878 came to a successful finish. Rudolph. 



DR. CARVER, 



Exhibition at the "West Side Driving Park. 



THE Jersey City Heights Gun Club is an association of 

 gentlemen who are devoted to rational amusement. 

 Scarcely founded a year, thanks to the good administrative 

 powers of the directors and officers, they have been able to 

 organize a leading club, and we record almost every week the 

 handsome scores made by them at glass ball shooting. The 

 distance from the city at which Dr. Carver shot his first three 

 performances having made it difficult for people generally 

 who are interested in ride shouting to witness his skill, the ,1. 

 C. H. Gun Club engaged Dr. Carver on July 31, at a consider- 

 able expense to give a performance at the West Side Driving 

 Park, and we arc- pleased to say that a very large and brilliant 

 attendance fully justified the outlay made by the club. The 

 opening of the programme was for various sweepstakes at 

 glass balls, but, though this interested the participants in the 

 sport, the great excitement was centered on Dr. Carver. 



There has been of late a great deal of stupid comment 

 made on Dr. Carver's shooting, arising from ignorant critics. 

 Dr. Carver has been called a specialist. It has been argued, 

 because the Doctor could hit a glass ball unerringly at a cer- 

 tain distance, he could not hit a mark at 100 or* 200 yards. 

 How do people know this? Is it to bo supposed that the Doc- 

 tor's early school of rifle practice was entirely devoted to 

 shooting glass balls? The comrades of this plainsman have 

 assured us that on the prairies thfe Doctor is an unerring shot, 

 no matter at what distance. It is quite possible that to take 

 the Doctor and put a long-range Creedmoor rifle in his hand", 

 and bid him hit the bull's-eye at 1,000 yards, he would not 

 succeed at the first tire. But teach him the methods, and it 

 would be very foolhardy to say that he would not soon make 

 a first-class— perhaps an invincible — shot. To shoot at mov- 

 ing objects or things in rapid flight is exactly what is the 

 most useful lor the sportsman. Let him graduate in this 

 school of shooting— the most difficult of all— and we are pret- 

 ty certain that, having accomplished this, every thing else 

 would become easy. That masteiy the Doctor has over his 

 rifle shows conspicuously in his shotgun performances, iu re- 

 gard to which Carver by no means prides himself. As for 

 ourselves, we are inclined to wonder quite as much at the 

 way hi which he breaks balls with his shotgun as with his 

 rifle. Let us describe particularly his skill with the shotgun. 

 A person is selected from the audience— a base ball thrower 

 generally— who is requested to take two glass balls in his 

 hands and to stand twenty-five yards from the Doctor. 

 Grasping both balls in his hands, the person, taking a run in 

 order to acquire an impetus, throws both balls at once away 

 from the Doctor. When they are fifty or sixty yards off 

 Carver invariably breaks them both with his shotgun. This 

 feat he perforins over and over again, anil we have yet to see 

 him nm a ball At tie West Bide Driving Park tne gentle- 

 man who threw the Ira Paine feather-filled balls was not only 

 an athlete, but besides was a good glass ball shot himself, and 

 he very rightly tried iu avery way to bother the Doctor in the 

 way of throwing the balls. But it was of no use. No mat- 

 ter how thrown, they were always shivered. 



To return again to this quite petty caveling about Carver's 



Bhooting : We have seen quite a long article, which tends to 

 Show why Dr. Carver ought to miss (theoretically) every ball 

 he tires at. That is about'the philosophy of that article. Now, 

 the only reply to this is, that, theory or not, the Doctor does 

 break them almost every time, no matter how they arc: thrown. 



Fault is found with Dr. Carver because he will not enter 

 the field as a pigeon shooter. Pigeon shooting is distasteful 

 to the Doctor, and he says that skill can be shown quite as 

 well with a glass hall as with a pigeon, lie is quite willing 

 that any one shall become, the champion pigeon shot, and such 

 honors ho will not disparage. Still, in his peculiar line, he 

 thinks he can do as well as any one else, and, as may be seen, 

 we print an abstract of a challenge offered by hirn. If any 

 one wants to pick up the gauntlet, we know enough of Dr. 

 Carver to be. quite well satisfied that he will stand by the 

 wager. 



Un the 31st Dr. Carver opened the performances, making 

 the following scores with his Winchester, regardless of time : 



i i o i :i t 1 i I i i o 1 1 II II 1 1 1 1 1 I) 1 1 1 1 o 1 l o o 1 1 

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This was followed by the Doctor breaking 85 out of 100 

 glass balls, as follows i 



111110111 11 110 1 111111 111111O0111O110 



I I 1 I 1 1 J 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 t 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 t 1 

 111110 11111 111111101110 1010, 



Coin shooting was next in order. New Jersey must be 

 rich, for dollars, halves aud quarters were offered as rapidly 

 as they could be shot oil into space. The very first shot pre- 

 sented was a curious one. It was a glass marble of small size. 

 At the second shot it was ground to powder. That natuial 

 product of New Jersey, a clam, was tossed up, which was 

 opened in a novel way. Policemen became excited and shied 

 up their clubs, and the lignumvitfc flew in splinters. A half 

 dollar was struck on its edge three times hand running, and at 

 last was sent on its was to the salt marshes. The most beauti- 

 ful shot of the day was an improvised one. The Doctor was 

 standing at his loading table, with his back to the race-track. 

 Some one took a glass ball and bowled it along the track. 

 There went the ball, jumping fully 40 yards away from the 

 stand. Some one cried, " Shoot, Doctor 1" The Winchester 

 was unloaded. In a second of time a cartridge was in its 

 place, a report was heard, and on the bound the glass sphere 

 was splintered, the feathers flew out and the thing was done. 

 We call particular attention to this shot, as it does away with 

 all the nonsense of special shots. Any sportsman who can do 

 that would be pretty certain to be the master of his art. Of 

 course that shot was applauded by a critical audience, consist- 

 ing of many of the leading sportsmen from New York and 

 the vicinity. In shooting "against time the two following 

 scores were made in the minute : 



1 II I 11111 l 111111191011111 10101 1 — 27. 

 Nine BHflontlB worn Kiel by delay ot party throwing. Second trial : 1 1 

 l t l l l o o 1 l 1 i t o l l l o I o l 1 1 I l l 1—23 broke. Nine sec- 

 onds lost again by not throwing fast enough. 



It is a peculiarity of the Doctor that any one may throw 

 balls for him. Of course, if he had an expert to throw just 

 as Carver wanted him to do, better time could be made. " I 

 hate," said the Doctor, " to have things fixed up. Anybody 

 can throw that wants to. If I can shoot at all I can shoot 

 from anybody's throwing." 



The shot-gun performances with the Parker breech-loader 

 we have before described. The Doctor varied this with new, 

 fancy shots. Many of the shots were made at arms' length, 

 or with the barrels reversed, or from the hip. It was all 

 pretty much the same, for after the gun went off there was a 

 splintering of glass. In the shot-gun performances the 

 cartridges were loaded with 4i drachms of Dittmar powder 

 and 1£ oz. of No. 8 shot. The glass balls used were the Ira 

 Paine feather-filled. 



Among all who have been thrown into connection with Dr. 

 Carver ho has left this most pleasant impression : that of being 

 a straightforward and honest man, and free from all tricks. 



THE SPORTING RIFLE.— No. B. 



IT is becoming more and more the custom, from year to 

 year, among professional and business men, to seek 

 relief from the worry and anxiety of the office by taking 

 an autumn vacation, aud renewing their exhausted ener- 

 gies by a season of camp life and rough sport in the forest. 

 It is a commendable practice, and its interest may be greatly 

 increased if they will take some pains beforehand to familiar- 

 ize themselves with the use of the rifle, and make such a study 

 of the science of woodcraft as will at least deter them from 

 the commission of acts which can only excite the disgust of a 

 true sportsman. A cockney hunter once gave me a descrip- 

 tion, with much seeming zest, of his shooting a deer in the 

 head from a boat, while his guide in the bows had a firm grip 

 on the poor animal's tail ! No man worthy the name either 

 of sportsman or gentleman could have committed so atrocious 

 an act. 



If rifle clubs were formed in every town and village for 

 such practice as would train the members to the ready use of 

 the weapon in sporting service, the interest, recreation and 

 health-giving exercise it would afford would render far 

 greater practical service than the long-range practice now in 

 vogue, and would require no such costly preparations. Com- 

 petitive trials might be introduced of such character as would 

 tend to develop the powers of the sporting rifle, and test the 

 capacity of both men and weapons for active field service, 

 which would not only be of more direct service, but would ex- 

 cite a more lively and general interest than the present system 

 of long-range shooting. Suppose, for instance, that a prize 

 were offered to be shot for under the following conditions : 

 The rouge to be one with which the competitors were pre- 

 viously unacquainted, and no preliminary practice on it to he 

 allowed. Open to any rifles, with the usual restrictions as to 

 telescope sights and other equipments not available in the 

 hunting field. Each shooter to be placed singly in front of 

 his target, at a point the distanco of which he must estimate 

 for himself, but which shall be less than 100 yards. Prom 

 this point he is to fire one shot, then wheel and walk away 

 from the target while reloading his gun. He may clean his 

 gun if necessary, but must have no aid from any attendant, 

 and must cany on his person all the ammunition and equip- 

 ments he requires. As soon as he is ready he may turn and 

 fire his second shot, then wheel again and repeat the same 

 process, and so on until the specified time has elapsed, of 

 Which he will be notified by proper signal. No indication ot 

 his shots to be made by the marker till all have been fired, so 

 that no shot can be governed by its predecessor. 



It is obvious that in the most essential points this would 

 assimilate very closely to the demands of actual service. The 



shooter would be forced to estimate the distance for every 

 shot. It would involve the necessity of quick and ready 

 manipulation of the arms, and it would test the capacity of 

 the weapons for such handling. Any hitch in the mechanism 

 of the gun, or delay in the inserting or withdrawing of a 

 cartridge, would tell as certainly as in actual service against 

 the chances of success, for the awardiug of premiums should 

 have reference to the number of shots fired within the allotted 

 time, as well as to the position of the shots on the target. 

 Such forms of target practice would draw out a largo class of 

 shooters who never care to take part in the long-range 

 matches as now conducted, and they would serve, as no other 

 trials could do, to inspire a living interest in rifle practice, and 

 to develop the powers of both men and weapons for active 

 and efficient service in the sporting or military field. The 

 great difficulty in selecting a rifle lies in the fact that no one 

 can thoroughly appreciate the advantages possessed by any 

 gun over another till he has had an opportunity to compare 

 them by continued trial in actual field service. Many points 

 of superiority, which seem insignificant in the recital, are 

 found in reality to be of vital importance, and defects which 

 may interfere seriously with the efficiency of the gun or the 

 comfort of the shooter may never be suspected till a trial de- 

 velops them. The vital points of accuracy and force are 

 those which every purchaser takes pains to ascertain, but the 

 little details, on which the facility of transportation and manip- 

 ulation depend, are rarely thought of, and even if pointed 

 out their importance is not realized till it is proved in actual 

 service. Athletic sports can hardly be said to have proved a 

 success in this country, in the only sense iu which, they can 

 be essentially serviceable to the general public. It is true 

 that a keen and widespread interest has been felt in the com- 

 petitive trials of ball players, boat clubs aud rifle teams, es- 

 pecially when the contests have assumed a national character. 

 But the interest has not extended beyond a warm sense of 

 identification with the party for whom our sympathies were 

 enlisted, neither has it led to the general practice of similar 

 exercises as a means of physical development, or for the sake 

 of the intrinsic interest ot the sport and the attainment of 

 the skill iu its performance. The public contests are in no 

 sense just exponents of national power, and have exerted no 

 marked influence on the general progress of physical culture. 

 There is no such tiling as a general participation in any of the 

 athletic sports which have been introduced. Ball play has 

 become a mere money-making exhibition of a few trained 

 athletes, hired for the purpose, and unknown in the places 

 they profess to represent except to those who hope to profit 

 by them. Boat clubs have done but little toward inspiring a 

 general love of one of the best of athletic exercises ; and long- 

 range rifle shooting, perhaps, a3 little toward the creation of 

 an active interest in the use of that weapon, either for sport- 

 ing or military purposes. We have no right to claim that we 

 have reached an advanced stage of physical culture while 

 nine tenths of the men we meet in daily life would consider it 

 a remarkable feat of pedestrianism to have walked ten miles. 

 The formation of such associations as I have suggested for 

 rifle practice in a simple and inexpensive inanner,l'or the in- 

 trinsic pleasure which such practice affords, and as an avowed 

 measure of health and recreation, would have the further 

 effect to encourage and develop such a general familiarity 

 with the use of arms as is especially desirable under such a 

 form of government as ours ; and when such familiarity was 

 the rule aud not the exception, the individuals who might be 

 chosen to compete in contests with the representatives of 

 other nations might with some sense of justice be regarded as 

 exponents of national power. II. W. S. C. 



— In answer to quite a number of inquiries made as to the 

 rifle and charge H. W. S. C. uses, his articles having attracted 

 a good deal of attention, our correspondsnt writes us : 



" I am very glad to hear of the interest excited by my let- 

 ters on the sporting rifle, of which I have also evidence in the 

 receipt of many letters from persons who have recognized 

 my signature. The rifle I use is the Maynard, and the barrel 

 is chambered for a cartridge of 40 grains of powder. I had 

 a barrsl made expressly to use 70 grains, and enough heavier 

 to prevent disagreeable results from the recoil, but after care- 

 ful trials found it impossible to get as satisfactory results as 

 with the lighter barrel, and charge of only 40 grains, and 

 have discarded it altogether. H. W. S. C. 



Sheltoh's AuxniAim Rifle.— It may be remembered that 

 we devoted, some time ago, considerable space to the descrip- 

 tion of this moat remarkable addition to the shot-gun. The 

 whole upshot of it is, that with a shot-gun, in five seconds, 

 not more, if that is the time in which a breech-loader can be 

 opened and shut, you can convert your 10 or 12-bore into a 

 rifle. Say you are in the field, and, having killed your Bmall 

 game, a deer should turn up. In an instant, with your 

 Shelton auxiliary barrel you are in condition to put a bullet 

 into him. Had Mr. Dudley "Warner met that bear in the 

 Adirondacks with his auxiliary rifle in his shot-gun, the bear 

 would have been no more. The accuracy of the auxiliary 

 rifle is undoubted, for they are made for the inventor by the 

 Winchester Repeating Arms Co., and are precisely the same 

 barrels as these eelehrated manufacturers use in their best 

 guns. The auxiliary barrel weighs about one pound, and its 

 calibre 32, 38 or 44, as may 'be desired. The shells uBed are 

 the Winchester. We deem this Shelton auxiliary barrel us 

 among the most complete of inventions, aud its charm is its 

 simplicity. We, ourselves, saw a 12-bore guu with an 

 auxiliary barrel in it, when fired at 200 yards, make most 

 capital practice. Any one who is a good shot with a fowling- 

 piece becomes at once when he uses the auxiliary a prime 

 rifleman. — [See adiwtisement. 



Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. — This ex- 

 cellent road leads to no end of charming summer resorts 

 and business centres. Skirting Lake Michigan it runs 

 through Wisconsin. It lands the traveler at St, Paul, from 

 whence infinite connections can be made. In fact, St. 

 Paul is a centre like a spider's web, from whence roads lead 

 North, South, East aud West. All the officers of this road 

 are known to us, and all that good management can do for 

 the safety, comfort and expedition of the traveler is carried 

 out by them. To Mr. A. Heppe, formerly of the Grand 

 Rapids and Indiana R. R., now actually Passenger Superin- 

 tendent of the O. M. &. St. P. R, R., our thanks are due 

 for numerous courtesies. Let any one look at the map of 

 Wisconsin and see those innumerable lakes which dot the 

 northern portion of the State. What visions of fish and 

 deer and camping grounds do not they awaken r To 

 reach this Elysium of sport, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. 

 Paul Railway is the road to take. 



