FOREST AND STREAM. 



FaoOMOOB— New Orleans, July 28.— Match between teams 

 of four, seven shots each at 300 and 600 yards • 

 Louisiana Field Artillery. 

 300 yards. 500 yards. 



Selunute 4 B 4 8 S 4 4—23 I 6 6 J 6 ;l 5-31— 69 



GlytlD 4 6 2 4 4 8 4—27 6 4 5 5 5 4 0-J8-BD 



Goliltbwaitu 4 4 4 5 4 4 3— 23 4 6 2 4 4 4— 28— Sfl 



Bercegeay a 4 a 4 4 3 s— 24 6 4 4 3 4—26-49 



Total aao 



Continental Guards, 



MeOuitUy 4 4 4 8 4 B 4-26 6 fi D 6 S 8 6—35—01 



Pleree.... 3 3 4 4 8 2 3-22 4 3 5 4 5 3 6—59-51 



Kenand 4 3 6 4 8 4 4—27 6 3 4 3 3 3 3—24—51 



Kosenburg 5 4 4 3 4 6 3—28 4 4 4 2 2 2 3—21—49 



Total KS 



Washington Artillery. 



Bradford '...< 4 3 4 3 4 4-26 3 5 1 5 4 5 2—28-54 



Babbitt 5 4 4 4 3 4 6-29 4 2 4 3 2 4 5- 



Arms 4 4 5 4 4 6—26 6 3 5 6 4— 22— 4S 



Belpb! 8 4 3 3 4 4 3—26 3 8 3 2 4 2 5—22-47 



Total 200 



Scores made in the final competition for the Crescent City 

 Rifle Company prize. The prize having been won three times 

 by the Louisiana Field Artillery, it becomes their personal 

 property. Teams of eight, seven shots each, at 200 and 500 

 yards : 



Louisiana Field Artillery. 



Beamont 4 4 3 4 4 4 6-as 3 4 5 4 4 2—22-50 



Oolleur 4 4 4 3 4 4 4—27 S 2 8 3 4 3—20^7 



Suhouid 3 4 4 4 -1—19 3 2 5 2 2 2 2—18—37 



III 4 4 4 4 3 4 4— 2T 4 4 4 5 4 6 4— 30— 5T 



Glynn 4 6 2 4 4 6 4—23 6 4 8 6 6 4 0—25—56 



GOldthwalte 4 4 4 5 4 4 3-28 4 6. 2 5 4 4 4-2S-56 



Hetmiutz 4 5 4 3 4 4 4—28 4 6 6 4 6 3 5—31-59 



Bereegaey 3 4 3 4 4 3 S-24 5 4 4 3 S 5-29-49 



Total Ill 



Washington Artillery, 



VellerabiB 4 3 4 2 3 4 4-20 6 4 2 4 6 5 4—29-49 



Henderson 5 3 3 3 4 S 4— 28 8 3 5 8 3 3— 20— 45 



Brown .,..* 3 4 2 4 3 4—24 4 4 3 2 4 4 4—26-49 



Charlton 3 4 2 4 4 3 2—22 3 5 3 5 4 5 4— 29— 61 



Babbit.... 5 4 4 4 3 4 6—29 4 2 4 3 2 4 6— 24— 53 



Seluh 3 4 3 2 4 4 3—23 3 2 8 2 4 8 6—88—46 



Arms 4 4 6 4 4 5—26 5 3 5 6 .1—22—18 



Bradford 4 4 3 4 3 4 4—26 3 5 4 6 4 6 2—28—54 



Continental Guards. 



1V U0 3 6 6 3 4 3 4—27 4 3 2 3 0-12—39 



Tnlel '.'.'. ...2 3 6 2 4 3 2—21 5 8 5 4 4 4 5—29—50 



Hajtbrl. 3 3 4 4 3 5 8-25 4 4 5 5 3 2 5-23-53 



GHira 4 3 3 4 4 3 4—25 5 4 3 6 2 0—19-44 



Herca... 3 34432 3-22 435453 5-29-51 



Eosenonrg 5 4 4 8 4 6 3-2S 4 4 4 2 2 2 3—21—19 



.I 4 3 5 4 3 4 i-27 5 3 4 3 3 D 3-24-51 



Mcljolthy ...4 4 4 3 4 8 4-26 6 5 5 5 5 5 5-35-.il 



Total *»* 



Meeting of the N. R. A.— On Tuesday, August 6, the 

 programme of the International Military Match, as before 

 published by us, was adopted. General Wingate staled that 

 he had received correspondence in regard to the military 

 match from the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts ; General 

 Smith, Commander-in-Chief of the Militia of Connecticut ; 

 Colonel Frazler, of Montreal, and Colonel Lowerre, of Nova 

 Scotia. Louisiana and the Department of the Atlantic will 

 probably send teams. On motion it was decided to allow 

 teams to enter from the Engineer and Ordnance Departments 

 of the United States Army, and allow competitors to shoot 

 their fourth competition upon any ranges which they may 

 choose. The beginning of the meeting will be on Tuesday, 

 September 17. The prizes have not yet been determined in 

 all of the matches. There will be 24 eonlests, including the 

 Military Champion Match. The match will be shot m two 

 stages, the first at 200, 500, and GOO yards, seven shots at 

 each distance ; the second stage will be shot at 800, 000, and 

 1 000 yards, and will be open to the competitors who make 

 the 21 highest scores m the first stage. 



Du Carveb's Pbogeammk to? to November— Albany, at 

 Central Park Picnic and Driving Grounds, August and 7 ; 

 Saratoga Springs, at Glen Mitchell, August ; Sing Sing, at 

 Brookside Driving Park, August 10; Utica, August 12. 

 Thereafter at Syracuse, Rochester, Auburn, Buffalo and 

 Waiertown, arriving at New York, August.18. Newark, N. 

 J August 19. Places and dates not fixed fron August 20 to 

 37— Probably at Deckertown, N.. J, August 28; at State Fair, 

 St. Paul, Minnesota, sis days, 2, 3, 4 5 6 and 7 ; at Pilts- 

 bure Exposition, Pittsburg, Pa., twenty-four days, Sept. 9, 

 10 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 

 27,' 28, 30, October 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Address all letters and 

 applications for dates of exhibition care Eosest ajjd Stream, 

 111 Fulton street, New York City, N. Y. 



[feom otjb own cobrespondrnt.] 

 THE SECOND WEEK AT WIMBLEDON. 



Wimbledon, Juty 20 » 1878. 



After all, the second week of the rifle work here is of the 

 most interest to the general reader. True, any one who has 

 donned the uniform and followed the drum and fife as a 

 volunteer— who has taken part in matches and company com- 

 petitions, may feel a high degree of interest in the turn of 

 the Queen's Cup, the St. George and the Prince of Wales 

 competitions; but for work of precision, for interesting 

 matches, where the nip and tuck sustains'the spectators until 

 the last shot is fired, the second week bears off the palm this 

 year. The second week of the big shooting match has proven 

 eveu more successful than the first. The weather was hot 

 enough to drive all London out to the camp— not that it was 

 much cooler there, but there were plenty of sights and scenes 

 to make one torget the excessive heat. In many of the pri- 

 vate camps within the great inclosure there were athletic 

 sports and other entertainments in progress almost every even- 

 ing. The Canadians in their camp entertained the Duke of 

 Cambridge one evening, and were treated to a speech from the 

 Commander-in-Chief, who regretted that ho could not con- 

 gratulate them as the winners of the Kolopore Cup, but in 

 view of the excellent general work done by the team in the 

 individual competitions, their visit had not been in vain. 



"Middle" Sunday, as it is called, gave opportunity tor a 

 grand church parade by representatives of the several detach- 

 ments in camp, to whom the ltav. Dr. Shore, Chaplain to the 

 Queen, preached, while the hymns were accompanied and the 

 musical part of the services given by the band of the Victo- 

 rias The afternoon brought a perfect jam, aud luncheons to 

 and fro between the officers and old members of the associa- 

 tion were in order. Farrow and Johr, who are here doing ( 



good work with the Ballard rifle, were invited to luncheon by 

 Sir Henry. Halford, who speaks at all times in highest praise of 

 his visit to America, and never tires of praising the excellent 

 American system of team shooting. 



This second week of this nineteenth meeting at Wimble- 

 don has been important in the way it has shown up the 

 : rifles to the eyes of the English shooters. There 

 lias been a growing feeling that the American breech-loader 

 had in it some merit which the muzzle loader did not possess, 

 but the tenacity with which Englishmen eliDg to their opin- 

 ions, right or wrong, is strikingly exemplified in regard to the 

 relative merits of rifles. They have long held that, while the 

 breech-loader is better for military purposes, for fine work — 

 that is, accurate shooting— the muzzle-loader is the preferable 

 weapon. Several members of the American-British team 

 had their faith shaken. Lt. Col. Fenton and Sergt. Gilder 

 Have been doing excellent work with the Sharps rifle, and 

 one member took care to carry back a Remington breech- 

 loader with him, that having been the rifle used by the ma- 

 jority of the American team. The member referred to was 

 Mr. A. P Humphry, of Cambridge University, and his good 

 sense has been fully justified by subsequent events. Mr. 

 Humphry this summer, by the use of the Remington rifle, has 

 added materially to his fame in winning the Cambridge Cup 

 by an unprecedented score. This prize was shot for at the 

 annual meeting of the Cambridge University Long Range 

 Rifle Club, June 18 ['and 19, on University Rifle Ranges, 

 Cambridge. 



The shooting in this match was quite unexampled by any 

 previous performance in the competitions for the coveted 

 trophy. The score of Mr. Humphry (the winner) stands 

 alone, far away, the finest performance that has ever been 

 made in a public match at these ranges (900, 1,000 and 

 1,100 yards), and the scores of the next eight competitors are 

 higher than that with which the cup was won last year. Mr. 

 Humphry's grand total was 408, while the scores of the "next 

 eight" ranged from 378 to 360. 



But this,;crushing as it is to the Englishmen's pet notion, is 

 not all. The recent shooting at Wimbledon bears on it with 

 even greater weight. At this meeting - Mr. Humphry, still 

 shooting with the Remington, won no less than four first 

 prizes during the first eight days of the contest, making, in 

 almost every instance of his shooting, the highest score possi- 

 ble. Thus he made the highest possible score at 800 and 900 

 yards respectively in the Armorer's and Whitely competitions, 

 aud In the contest for the Halford or Ne Plus Ultra prize at 

 1,000 yards, in which only " bull's-eyes " counted, he made 

 the highest possible count by a magnificent score of seven 

 consecutive eyes. 



The superiority of the American gun was further attested 

 on July 17, in the Lords and Commons match. The highest 

 individual score at both ranges (200 and 500 yards) was made 

 by the only competitor who used the Remington breech-loader, 

 the Hon. R. Plunkett. At the 500 yards range Mr. Plunkett 

 put in ten successive eyes. Of course these results, reflecting 

 great credit on American inventive and manufacturing skill, 

 will inevitably have the effect of upsetting the English preju- 

 dices referred to in the beginning, and of bringing American 

 guns into increased demand hereT' 



All it means is that the marksmen, determined to have the 

 best possible weapon, think they see it in the almost perfect 

 American breech-loader. The weather, too, has been favora- 

 ble—hot and dry. The greatest care has been necessary with 

 the muzzle-loaders to prevent caking of the powder and lead- 

 ing of the barrels, and it is noteworthy with what care the 

 muzzle-loading advocates now clean out their pieces. With 

 the new arms a glance through the tube tells at once whether 

 it be clean or not. When the next international match comes 

 the Americans will find one of the points whieh told in their 

 favor — that of superiority of rifles— entirely removed, for the 

 teams here will either shoot with the imported rifle or will 

 use others of precisely similar make on this side. 



Passing over dozens of matches, team and individual. 

 merely mentioning that the Canadians lost the Kolopore Cup 

 by 11 points, and that after the Eaton boys had taken the 

 Ashburton Shield, with the Scotch lads from Glenalmond at 

 the bottom, a youth from this latter took the Spencer Cup at 

 500 yards against the Cheltenham and Charterhouse cham- 

 pions, we come to the. Elcho Shield match, which is, after all, 

 the chief attraction of the meeting to American riflemen. 



The match came off on Thursday last, and if there ever 

 was an American summer's day at Wimbledon it was that 

 one. From an almost cloudless sky the sun came down with 

 terrific force, and the mercury rose to 149 degrees in the open. 

 The teams were not over ready in getting to the firing 

 points, and it was nearly 11 o'clock before the opening shot 

 came from the Scotch quarter. Ferguson fired it. A bull's- 

 eye it was, but upon one of the Irish targets, aud his blunder 

 cost his side five points. 



The wind was blowing across the range pretty strongly, 

 but, what was more important for good work, it was not 

 gusty. It was soon manifest where the victory was to lie. 

 All the teams were strong. No raw men were put in, and 

 with less than half a dozen exceptions, all the teams were 

 made up of old Elcho Shield men. At one of the Scotch tar- 

 gets Whitelaw and Lake coached, and at the other Frascr and 

 Mclsaacs acted; but the team shot quicker and there was too 

 much Scotch stubbornness. McKerrell, Girdwood and Men- 

 zies held to the old face position. The variety of rifles made 

 coaching in the team difficult, even had the men been amen- 

 able to it. The English team had three face men, Toller and 

 Blackhouse— probably because they are old Snider shots — 

 and Baker, who has fired very wildly and seems to get good 

 scores despite his handicapped position. All the other mem- 

 bers of the English team used the back position in some form. 

 A. P. Humphry, with his Remington, used your Fulton po- 

 sition, as did Lieutenant-Colonel Fenton, who fired a Sharps. 

 Tin- Irish team were all back men, and all but one used Rigby 

 rifles. It would have cheered one of your team martinets to 

 have seen the style in which they coached each other. One 

 of your American team men of last year, who sat looking on, 

 said he had never seen such team system outside of Creed- 

 moor. They shot very slowly, Wm. Rigby particularly ptit- 

 ting in some of those long waits for which he is famous, and 

 when the other teams had completed at 800 yards the Irish 

 had yet five rounds to go. The arrangement of the men on 

 the Irish targets showed that they had profited by American 

 lessons. The two Rigbys were squadded on the target with 

 Dyas and Banks, the young men of the team, who are good 

 holders, but need the judgment and advice of old veterans 

 to keep them on the target. There were now and then during 

 the day points which showed that the men had not grasped 

 the American system entirely. At one time a lull of (be Wind 

 brought four misses as a direct result of want of watchful- 

 ness by the coaches. Glancing over the Irish scores, it will 

 be noted that they have but two outers— and one of them an 

 opening shot— and not a single miss. This shows a wonder- 



ful steadiness in holding. In the English squad three outers 

 and a miss tell of poorer work, while the Scotties deserve a 

 better luck with their single outer and unfortunate miss. 



At the end of the S00 yards range, however, there was no 

 reason for either team to despair, seeing that Ireland had a 

 lead of only six points in front of England, and eight above. 

 At 900 yards there was some brilliant shooting, Mr. Humphry, 

 of the English Eight, scoring 73 out of a possible 75. The 

 Irishmen, profiting by the lessons in team shooting learned in 

 their recent visits to America, increased their lead still further 

 hereto twenty, while Scotland, pulling up a pointer two, 

 tied England on both ranges. 



It was about five o'clock when the last range was com- 

 menced in the presence of some thousands of people, who 

 anxiously watched every shot as it was signalled, often giving 

 expression to their approval, as bull's-eye after bull's-eye came 

 up on the targets, by cheers that were, however, instantly 

 ■suppressed. At the very first round the. Irish inr 11 1 

 lead by five points, and from this time the ip 

 self into a case of " Eclipse first, the rest nowhere,'' as by the 

 finest shooting ever seen on Wimbledon Coi mm- ,,,, ,■■,■ , >,,<i, 

 ally crept further and further to the front until they bad at- 

 tained the splendid total of 1,610, or 42 points ahead" of their 

 winning score of last year, which was the highest, that had 

 ever been registered to that time. 



The struggle for second place between England and Scot- 

 land was gallantly^fought out to the end. The northern tenia 

 could not get well on the target at first, and the curious light 

 Beemed to puzzle them not a little. The sun shown as bright- 

 ly as ever on the barrels and sights of their rules. There was 

 Btill a glow on the hot sands between them and the butts, but 

 the targets were veiled by a dark, deceptive haze, and another 

 elemeqt of discomfiture was the strange fickleness of the wind 

 at this moment. The Irish representatives went on, however, 

 scoring bull's-eye after bull's-eye with monotonous 

 and the long string of fives in John Rigby's so ire UMgl 

 led us to suppose that his rifle was held ina vice while hr. fired. 

 A m ong the English, Humphry had begun with an inner, and 

 went on making nothing but bulls until suddenly there camo 

 a lull in the wind, and his ninth shot at 1,000 yards tailed to 

 find its billet on the target. McVittie and Menzies for Scot- 

 land, William Rigby and Major Young on the Irish side, all 

 missed nearly at the same instant, "lt was by this time 

 well nigh impossible that Ireland could lose with any- 

 thing short of a total collapse, and their admirable steadiness 

 forbade all idea of this. Up to the fourteenth round John 

 Rigby had not dropped a point, eveiy one of his shots being a 

 bull's-eye. Again a change- of light came, and the champion 

 was thrown off by it to the extent that he could only get cen- 

 tres for his last two shots, and he finished with 73 p 

 cisely the same as Mr. Humphry had made at the previous 

 range. John Rigby's load- of 315 in 45 shots, or only 10 

 points short of the highest possible, is the best that has evej 

 been made in a team match in England, and only four behind 

 that which Bruce, the American, made at Creedmoor last year, 

 Mr. Humphry has beaten it once in preliminary practice, and 

 narrowly escaped doing so again yesterday. But for the one 

 fatal miss he would certainly have tied, and prohal 

 beaten it. As it was, his total of 213 was a great performance, 

 for out of his 45 shots only seven failed to find the bull's-eye; 

 while John Rigby had eight inners and a "magpie," and 

 Lieutenant Fenton's 213 was made up of eight inners, two 

 magpies, and 35 bull's-eyes. The English ... . 

 had finished first, and the close struggle between I hem in the 

 last two or three rounds was watchc : interest, but 



in absolute silence. Then the spectators thronged among the 

 Hibernians, but though the effect of every shot was marked 

 eagerly and whispered among them all, suspense had gone 

 when it was seen that with yet six shots to fire Ireland already 

 led by some points. Only curiosity to see. whetbtei Rigby 

 might complete a magnificent score of all bull's-eyes kept 

 them there, and when he failed to do this they left I 

 point without waiting to join in the cheers for the winning 

 team, whieh were called for by Mr. Malcolm, Captain of the 

 Scotch eight, and acknowledged by Major Leech on behalf of 

 the Duke of Abercorn and the Irish eight. 



IRIS 3 THAU. 



J Rigby, Rigby Ritle. 



SOU 4 6 5 5 5 4 6 5 -1 r- . 



800 5 5 5 S 6 6 3 4 5 6 5 5 4 4 8—10 



1,000 5 B 55 5 55 55556 4 4 — IJ — 2io 



Q Feni.oa, Klgby Bute. 



6011 „6 5545556355-16 



900 .5 f. 5 4 4 i 5 3 6 5 5 5 5 5 6—70 



1,000 5 6645645554555 6— 73— 'JltS 



F Banks, Rigby Bide. . 



S00 4 S65655 5 6S6456 5-71 



040 4 605365866560 



1,1100 5 5 i 4 5 6 6 5 1 5 5 B 4-71 -'JOB 



11 Dyaa, Rigby Rille. 



BOO I fi 6 ;! 6 B B 9 5 3 5 1 5 B -i -t:r. 



BOO 5 4 3 B r, 5 6 5 5—54 



l.OUU 5 r, 644566545555 8— 711— 308 



a a Young, Met lord Utile. 



BOO 5 5 3 5 6 5 5 4 5 5 4 6 1;:- 



000 4 6655035555556 S-Jffl 



1,000 a 3664 5550 5 5506 - i 30! 



.l^.ttilner, Rigby Rifle. 



SO0 6 113 3 4 5 5 6 6 6 5 4 4—66 



0110 .3 3 1 II 5 1 3553554,4 4— S3 



1,00(1 4 446555566655 I 



W Rlgbjr, Klgby Rifle. 



800 3 4 5 5 4 4 5. 



000 B a48.o5660fii)3Sfi 



1,000 6 604 4 650 3 5854a 5— 5— [01 



K S Greenolll, Higby Rifle, 



800..,, 2 4 5 8 5 6 6 4 5 4 3 5 8 B— 63 



900 4 .1 -1 4 6 4 6 8 H 4 5 i 5 t :f-63 



1.U0O 6 4 4 f, i.i .1 5 B B » : 



Range totals— 8U0 yards, B4o ; 000 yatdB, b 16 , 1,0 



emu is.ll TK.'-U. 



A P Humphrey, Remington. 



SOU B 5 B 4 5 5 n 5 5 .3 4 6 i 



900 B B 3 a B 



1,000 4 B S ' B B -'■ S 5 6 « « 5— 68-SlB 



W S Kvana, Metfoid. 



800 B E 5 l. 4 5 5 1 1 4 5 5 '! J 



900 6 5544454^ + 5 1, 5 5-OT 



-. ,, . , ' i 5 J 5 4— 07— Mil! 



sir u. Halford, tf< 



4 B 5 3 -1 5 J S 6 6 j 4 G 5 5—59 



900 5 5 6 4 5 5 5 - 



5 3 3 jj.-j .6 fr f 5 6 3 4 S I 

 Oul F Fenton, Sharps. 



800 3 5B*frfi5«35Sfi5C 6 _n 



900 S 4 f. J '■ 5 B I .. • d 5 S 6 3— 06 



1,000 ; 3 -( B 8 4 5 4?. 3 4 a B i 



II w Toiler, Metford. 

 500. .3 5 8 6 3 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 B 



:■ 6 ■> 6 S 4 6 4 4 3 

 :4466*3U4B6346 6-00-10S 



