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Short-range; open to till corners; any rifle; 200 yards 

 five rounds , do sighting shots ; eight prizes : 



■I M - I ! 'ii .5 6 8 B 4—82 



SVNIChJs 6*544 -SH W B Hiiim 54 I 4 4— 81 



DBHareh 4 4 .- t, i— m (.: ii.v-u,.,- ,i 4 4 I 4-su 



H NlDUOlH 4 5 4 5 4—29 RHBasaett 3 »H 4—20 



Beginner's match; open to all comers who have never won 

 any prize, badge or money in any rifle competition where en- 

 trance lees have been charged or which may have been offered 

 by or presented to any club to Which the competitor has sub 

 scribed; 300 yards, five rounds, no sighting shots, four prizes 



i; W Seer .t 4 1 5 s— Sa pcarren 4 444 4—20 



El IS Bottafnrd I i i i 5 81 D Conger 4 o i < 8—20 



Short range, military; open to all comers; any military 

 rifle; 300 yards, five rounds, no sighting shots, five prizes : 



H Nichols..' 4 4 55 5—29 8 V Nichols 4 4 44 4— 20 



I McC'ouil. 4 B 6 4 4-8* 1' V LyuUi 4 4 4 .H K— 24] 



Geo r'ilull 4 4 1 S 4-SI 



Mid-range ; open to all comers ; any rifle ; 500 yards, five 

 rounds, no sighting shots. Carton Target — Carton counts : 



n NlulmU G 6 5 li C— 54 S"0 Kingmaa 4 5 (I 5 S— 85 



WGunn 5056 5— 27 N S Warner 5 » » 4 6-H 



Qf HUH « 5 4 «-•„'« 



--An "Order for Extraction of Molar or Incisor," pre- 

 sented by a local dentist, was a prize in a recent rifle match, 

 held in a Connecticut town. 



The annual contest for the State of Connecticut trophy will 

 be held at the Willowbrook Range, Berlin. The towns of 

 Bridgeport, New Uaven, Hartford, Middletown and New 

 Britain will be represented by teams. Thomas Steele & Sons, 

 of Hartford, the donors of the prize, will give an individual 

 one to each member of the winning team. 



Massac utsktts — Walnut Hill Range, Oct. 10. — The 

 eleventh competition of the long-range classified match was 

 held, and wiih a steady 8 o'clock wind some good leading 

 scores were made as follows : 



,7 S-Suuiurr. 



81 10 il 64555 5 5556505 5— T'J 



Villi 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 5 5 8 5 5-llt 



1,000 4 6 4 655 4 5566565 4—11—216 



W Ll Jackson. 



HIIII 6 5 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 5 5—75 



Hull 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 S 5 5 5 4 5 4—12 



1,l)(ill 3 5 H 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 4 o 3 5— OS— 816 



L Sanndera. 



SOU 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 4 5 5 3 5 6 5 2-03 



DM) 5 54 6 4555566554 4-71 



1,000 5 5 444066666444 5-69-208 



W At WftlM. 



810 4 555 4 4555360i6 4— Oil 



SOi 5 6442436550206 4— f5 



1,01)0 4 35 5 5 36 3 555325 6-63—197 



E 8 Cogswell. 



801) B 4330540543432 4-59 



OHO 2 3 46324 504433 4—44 



l,(ll)lj II 4 4 3 3 4 4 4 8 5 3 4 5 4-61—159 



A. deputation 0* twenly-five lads from ihe Institute of Tech- 

 nology was present during the afternoon. The young men 

 from the Institute are members of a rifle club lately formed 

 ■within the school, having a membership of 40. They yester- 

 day indulged in practice at the 200-yards distance with very 

 creditable resulls. 



On Saturday, the 20th, but few were out under the threat- 

 ening sky, and a light rain did fall at intervals during the 

 shooting. In the Ballard match, at 900 yards, Capt. W. H. 

 Jackson had things pretty much his own way, making, with 

 a duplicate entry, the two highest scores : 



Capt W H .1 anksnu S 55666555 5—50 



captJaetsonfje.'erttrj) .5 55555455 0-49 



F Ueltou 6 46566654 4—47 



HJanuaon o 45544444 6—44 



JHmltll * ,5 5 2 5 :l 5 4 5 5-43 



TSas B 4 B 4 4 4 4 4 4 4-43 



HMt.es. 5 00534455 6— 41 



THJames 5655 5 555 — lO 



At 200 yards the amateur series Bhoot stood : 



JNFrVO 5 4 4 405455 3-44 



J N Frve (rc-eulry) 4 44464644 4-42 



J Borden 4 05464444 6—43 



H Mortimer... 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 6—42 



HMorttmer (re-entry) 1 44544454 4—42 



W Bartlelt 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4-40 



a B'aB 5 S 4 3 3 4 4 6 4 4-39 



aSLOta 4 44 4 44428 4—37 



T Butler 8 4 4 443422 3—35 



Yesterday, $160 in gold, offered by the Sharps Rifle Com- 

 pany to the marksman who should surpass the record of Mr. 

 Bruce, of the American team of 1877, in the second day's 

 shooting of the international match at Creedmoor that year, 

 hitherto the best score on record, was presented to Mr. J. 

 S. Sumner at Walnut Hill. Mr. Sumner, it will bo remem- 

 bered, scored the remarkable total of 221 out of a possible 225 

 iu the first day's shooting in the "walk over" this year at 

 Creedmoor — the best individual match record yet made over 

 theElcho ranges. 



Mississippi— Aberdeen, Miss., Oct.. 15.— Aberdeen Gan Club; match 

 atcluomcy swallowa ; seore : 



Single birds. 



W KBlleiman 1 I 1—8 J 1) shall 7 1 1 0-3 



.100 Uoaea 0111 1—4 \v E Howard 1 1 1 0—8 



S Shlun « 1 11 0—4 W 45 McKay u 0—0 



Double birds. 



W Kellenoan 10—1 W a Howard 11—2 



Juuliouea 70—1 W T McKay 11O— 



.Hstnmi 10—1 B U Uuleapie 10— I 



J 11 Shell 10—1 



Amateub Rifle Chvn.—N'ffimrTc, IT, J., Oct. 23.— Condi- 

 tions, 200 yds. reduced to scale : 



V 6 Harrison 611 J Ujyer , ,46 



wu uartSner 43 ,7 Kind 44 



J LTobln 43 KU Oiiase 42 



WPMcLeod 40 



Oct. 22.— Seppenfeldt Rifle Club, 177 Bowery, October 18. 

 Creedmoor rules; possible 60: 



J Garrison 47 73 Story, Jr 43 



C BasBB 48 A Graeneberg 48 



W Zepp«nfslilr *'> L Bachnian 41 



1. Hoiiaraami 4-5 GOWaHera 40 



,l ivtiui.z .,..45 W J J.eary 40 



w Wacher . . . , 44 ,1 lloagland 39 



,7 K i-immij. io 44 A.-choil 98 



IJVooth 44 .1 Hotter sr 



Mux Kern 44 H Eothenberg as 



8. 0. Walters, Sec. of S. R. Cluh. 



"Washmylon, Oct. 22.— Columbia Rilic Association. The 

 medal was won by Prof. Harkness and the rifle by Partello, 

 The scores were as follows, out of a possible 225 : 



SO yds. 900 yds. 7,000 yds, Tola7 



Harknesa, H '7 '•» 21a 



1-ttrtellb CO 15 w ' n * 



W 72 63 i' 



Bumaide 06 (6 68 199 



Be" w mi 5s ion 



Lanrteaun — 04 54 B2 ISO 



— At a meeting of the Medford Amateur ftille Association, 

 held Friday evening, Oct. It, the following officers were 

 ilioseii : President, J. if. Karnes: Vice-President, J. \V. 

 Vining: Secretary, J. O. Foster; Treasurer, E. O. Burbank ; 

 Board of Directors, J. II. Eamea, H. Wilhiugton, J. R. Teele, 

 J. W. Vising, J. B. Osborn, II. T. Harris, H. H. D. Cushing. 



McfRSfeMERE liANGB.— The first of a series of winter matches 

 was held at Ihe Yonkcrs, N. Y., range on the 15th. There 

 was 500 and 200 yards shooting. At the first named distance 

 the twenty-two-inch bull's-eye has been divided by three 

 rings seven and one-third inches apart, into three counts. 

 The Brat is called a cart or seven ; the second a carton or six, 

 and the third is the old bull's-eye or five. The rest of the 

 target remains as before. The leading scores were as follows: 



Hodgman 6 05667757 4—58 



Duaenberry 5 06550584 6—51 



Merae 5 6 6 7 7 5 4 4—54 



In the off-hand match, 200 yards, at the German twenty- 

 five ring target, the following scores were made: 



Morse , 21 11 11 22 13 20 9 16 » 9-141 



Hosenberry 9 9 9 9 2u 12 is 14 9 22—731 



Hodgmau 9 9 IS 70 72 Hi 9 9 9 21—723 



These matches are open to all comers and are to be shot 

 every alternate Tuesday. The maker of the highest score and 

 the winners of three competitions are the only ones to shoot 

 in the final competition. Iu the 500 yards match there will be 

 a first, and second prize, and in the 200 yards only one prize. 

 Competitors may enter at any time while the match is in pro- 

 gress. The range has been recently lefitted with swinging 

 targets and the telephone is in working order between the 

 flung points and the bults. 



— Of Mr. O. G. Jones, of Syracuse, who did such good 

 work at the Mohawk Valley Rifle Association meeting, the 

 Utica Observer says: "He is in the insurance business at 

 Syracuse, is twenty -nine years old and married, lie has a 

 first-class record as a shot and has won many prizes. When 

 Dr. Carver was in Syracuse, Mr. Jones offered to duplicate 

 any shot that Carver made, but the Doctor didn't give him 

 an opportunity. Carver's best work with the rifle while in 

 Syracuse -was hitting eleven glass balls in succession. Since 

 Carver's exhibition there, Mr. Jones has, with a rifle, broken 

 thirty -two glass balls in succession. He is six feet high, finely 

 proportioned, and every inch a marksman." 



— The teams of eight from the Flushing and Willett's Point 

 Engineer Rifle Clubs, shot the second of their seriesof matches 

 at Flushing on the 19th, 200 yards, 10 shots per man, the 

 home team winning with 170, against 160 for the Engineers. 



— Mr. Frank Hyde writes a disparaging opinion of Mr. 

 Partello's score of 221, and hints his desire of a series of three 

 matches to decide which is the 1 e'.ler marksman. Mr. Hyde 

 has not yet made over 210 points in any match. 



— Mr. W. O. Russell, at Bowmanville, Canada, recently 

 ran up a score of 22 consecutive bull's-eyes. It was done too 

 with an American breech-loader. 



—The first competition of teams of ton will take place at 

 Briuton Range, Nov. 1st. 



— The opening shoot of the Columbia Rifle Association wil 

 take place at West End, Hudson County, N. Y., on Saturl 

 day next, Oct. 20. The officers of the association are : Hou- 

 E. P. C. Lewis, President : Leslie C. Bruce, Vice-President. 

 Col. B. W. Spencer, Treasurer ; Hon. John Kennel, Secretary 

 Range Committee— MajorHenry Fulton, Ool. Chas. It. Braine 

 James A. Beading. 



§Htwnxl gHstim^H. 



CRICKET. 



Thb Australian Totjk and Its Rksult. 



Five of the six international games between the Australian 

 team and American and Canadian teams having been played, 

 it becomes a matter of interest to the cricketers of the five 

 cities where the contests took place to have notes compared, 

 to see what the relative positions each city occupies in cricket 

 strength, taking the Australian players' work against them as 

 a basis of estimate. A glance at the records of the five 

 matches played in New York, Philadelphia, Toronto, Mon- 

 treal and Detroit shows the following results In the scores 

 made against the Australian team. It is worthy of note that, 

 in the selection of players for each match, but one club sup- 

 plied the eighteen iu Detroit, three the eighteen iu New York, 

 three the eleven in Philadelphia, six the twenty-two in Mon- 

 treal, and nine the twenty-tw T o in Toronto. The summary of 

 the scores made against the foreign eleven is as follows : 



1st 2d Highest Highest T'l 



City. Inn ings. Inmnga . Total. Single score. Score. 



Philadelphia. . . .196 53 24!) 84^ 84" 



New York 63 98 161 26 83 



Toronto 100 54 154 17 19 



Detroit 84 81 115 24 24 



Montreal 91 — gj 31 31 



The highest single innings scores were made by .Robert 



Newhall, Alfred Marsh, Adams, Calvert and Hardman, 



all but one making also the highest total scores, Ray making 

 the highest total score in Toronto. 



The record of the play of the Australian team in the five 

 cities is as follows. The first table gives the batting scores in 

 each city and the total runs made by each player in the five 

 matches : 



BATTINO scoue*. 



Players. # §• I ' |, f I 



S- & " g g F 



A BannerniaiTS!) 46 — — — — — _ _ gg - 



Obannerman 1 18 2".* 3 18*125 — 29 — 216 



Horan 1 16 5 18 — 12 — 18 — 90 



Bpofforth 9 23* i [ i — 18 — 18 — 76 



Gregory 4 23 — 2 — I — 13* — 4(1 



Murdoch 5 0* 37 0* 12 11* 45 — 15 — 126 



Bailey 8— 2t 19 — 22 — 20 — 93 



Blackham.. .. — 20 0* 4 — 2* — 5 — 31 



Garrett 4— 1 — U — 15 — — 31 



Boyle 19 3 30 — 31 — 19 — 22 — 124 



Allan 13— 4*— 4 — 7' — 19 — 47 



Conway — — 0*— 3— 0— 3 



The asterisk beside the figures means "not out," and the 

 dashes show that the player did not take part in the match or 

 the innings* play, Thus, A. Bannermau only played iu two 

 matches and in three innings, Conway play Lug in three matches 



nd thivc innings; all the others played in otic or more in- 

 nings in every name. In estimating the skill of the batsmen, 

 as shown by the scores of runs credited to them, it should he 

 taken into consideration that Ihe batsman who gave the few- 

 est chances for catches really lias the best record, though he 

 may not have made the highest score. Thus Murdoch's rec- 

 ord is greatly in excess of that of Chas. Bannerman, the lat- 

 ter escaping being caught out in every innings he played. In 

 Montreal he was three times missed on easy catches, and in 

 Detroit twice, as also in every other city, whereas Murdoch 

 scarcely gavo a chance. The table showing the batting aver- 

 age of the team, not only in each city, but their general aver- 

 age, is as follows : 



BATTINO AVBBAOEB. 



?! a g o q 



Players. ? I d § f 1 



fr a, o 3 g E. 



A JJouuermau 6 "D 46 — — ^~^ _ _ hPT 

 C Bann<>nnan 7 18 1 10 1 125 29 an (| 



Horan 8 1 2 1 18 (I 32 18 13 6 



Spoiforth 16 4 18 18 10 5 



Gregory 13 1 2 4 13 9 1 



Murdoch 2 1 18 1 11 1 45 15 25 



Bailey 8 12 19 22 20 15 3 



BlaoUbam OOloO 40 2 60 78 



Garrett 4 1 11 15 HI 



Boyle 11 30 31 19 22 20 4 



Allan 13 4 4 7 1!) 15 2 



Conway ——00 30 00 11 



Murdoch and Boyle really have the best batting record, A. 

 Bannermau being third, these three showing the best combi- 

 nation of all round hitting and defence, while giving the few- 

 est chances for catches. For instance, in Montreal, Charles 

 Bannerman gave an easy chance for a catch after Bcoring less 

 than 20 runs, and again before scoring 30, and yet he finally 



_.. innings 



was over 70 runs. Mr. Bannerman, Murdoch and Boyla 

 showed the best batting against the best fielding and bowling 

 of the five games. 



In the record of the Australian bowling given below will be 

 found the averages of each bowler, not only in each city, but 

 the general average of the team in each match : 



BOWLING BEOOSB. 



Buns porw'k't. 



Pl aye ra B alls. Runs. Maidens. Wickets. Average . Places. 



Spoll'oith 204 64 28 20 3 4 ^TYoTk 



Garrett 121 49 13 7 7 



Boyle 16 12 1 1 12 



Allan 36 14 3 1 14 



Horan 52 14 5 3 4 2 



Five bowlers.. 432 153 45 32 4 27 



Spofforth 171 75 15 6 12 3 Phila, 



Garrett 124 49 II 6 9 4 



Allan 80 27 4 6 4 9 



Boyle 76 89 6 1 39 



Horan 40 24 2 1 24 



Murdoch 40 10 2 1 10 



Bailey 10 5 1 11 5 



Seven bowl're. 547 229 41 20 11 9 



Garrett 168 24 26 12 2 Toronto 



Sputtorth .... 172 60 15 17 2 16 



Allan 36 13 3 10 13 



Boyle 144 40 17 10 4 



Pour bowlera.520 127 61 39 3 10 



Spofforth 132 39 13 8 4 7 Montr'l 



Allan 108 24 12 9 2 6 



Boyle 21 11 1 11 



Garrett 12 4 12 



Pour bowlers. 276 88 26 21 3 17 



Spofforth 128 89 13 11 3 6 Detroit 



Allan 104 12 20 10 1 2 



Gregory 64 26 4 7 3 5 



C Bannerman. 40 15 2 1 15 



Garrott 52 15 6 6 2 



Five bowlers.. 388 107 45 36 8 2 



It will be seen by the above table that Spofforth had the 

 best average in New York, Allan in Philadelphia, Toronto 

 and Detroit, and Garrett in Montreal, the bset team average 

 being that made in Detroit. 



Australians vs. Nineteen of Peninsulars— Detroit, Oct. 

 14 and 15.— The ground was in very good order barring the 

 wicket, and that was too wet, but that" is the usual custom 

 with the Penninsulars to make the ground so wet that the 

 ball bites, bangs and kicks at its own sweet will, sometimes 

 shooting and at others going completely over the batsman's 

 head, and this was more particularly the case with Spofforth's 

 bowling, and which certainly had no tendency to steady the 

 nerves or impart confidence to the batsman. The toss for 

 choice of innings was won by Gregory for the Australians, 

 and like a good general sent the Peninsulars to bat on their 

 own sodden wicket. And the account of the inning is soon 

 told, for the 19 men were out for the paltry score of 34 runs, 

 and among them some of the best bats in America or Canada. 

 Spofforth and Allan bowled throughout the innings, aud, us 

 will be seen by the analysis, Allan's bowling was far and away 

 the most elfective. C. Bannerman and Murdock were the 

 first on behalf of the visitors to face the bowling of Corporal 

 Dale and White. Dale bowled as finely as over, but could 

 get no wicket as the batsmen played him with the greatest 

 care, but they punched Whito from the first ball bowled by 

 liim. Littlejohn and Francis were next deputed to do the 

 trundling, and from "Francis" 3d over Bannerman hit two 

 4s, but that was about the only liberty that gentleman allowed 

 them to take, as he settled down to his work, and at the con- 

 clusion of the innings proved, by taking six wickets, that his 

 bowling was quite up to the batting of the Antipodeans. 

 Dale aud Littlejohn were the only other bowlers that could 

 put the batsmen on their mettle. Bannerman is undoubtedly 

 their safest bat and Bailey the most brilliant, but the first 

 ought to have been out when he had scored only 9, and the 

 last named was missed several times, in fact about a dozen of 

 the 19 seemed as though they had breakfasted on toast and 

 forgot to wipe their fingers. The total of the inning was 181, 

 of which 23 were extras. The second ias of the Peuinsulara 

 was a decided improvement upon the first so far as four of the 

 batsmen were concerned, viz., Calvert, Van Allan, Francis 

 aud Irvine, who between them scored 61 out of the 75 

 ruuB scored from the bat— 6 were extras. The rem lining fif- 

 teen men scored 14 runs between them. The result of t tho 

 game was the Australians won by an inning and 00 runs. Ou 

 Tuesday evening the victors were entertained at an oyster 



