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Firat Prize-Private Lockwood, 22d Regiment, New York - -Remington 

 Military Rifle. 



Second Prize— Sergeant Alexander Rous, 22d Regiment, New York- 

 Remington Military Rifle. 



Third Prize— Lieut. J. S. Horsfall, 22d Regiment, New York— Reming- 

 ton Military Rifle. 



Fourth Prize— Captain W. J. Harding, 22d Regiment— Remington Mil- 

 itary Rifle. 



Fifth Prize— Private Brill, 22d Regiment, New York— Remington Mil- 

 itary Rifle. 



Sixth Prize— Captain Head,$4th Regiment, New York— Remington 

 Military Rifle. 



Seventh Prize— Private J. S. Kellogg, 23d Regiment, Brooklyn. 



Eighth Prize— Sergeant Brittenhousen, 32d Regiment, Brooklyn. 



Ninth Prize— Seargeant Freeman, 22d Regiment, New York— Reming- 

 ton Military Rifle. 



Tenth Prize— Private J. H. Sterns, 23d Regiment ,*New York— Reming- 

 ton Military Rifle. 



Eleventh Prize— Private Otto Schneelock, 32d Regiment, Brooklyn- 

 Remington Military Rifle. 



Twelfth Prize— Sergeant Wagner, 22d Regiment, New York— Reming- 

 ton Military Rifle . 



The team from the Tweniy-second made the highest aggregate score, 

 and out of the twelve prizes members of the Twenty-second won no less 

 than seven prizes. 



The following table will show the various regiments, number of men 

 shooting, and the scores made: 



2C 

 Regiment. Men 



Twenty-second New York 12 



Engineers 17. S. A ' 12 



Twenty-third New York 12 



Thirty second New York 12 



Second New Jersey 12 



Thirteenth New York 9 



Eighty-fourth New York 12 



Nineteenth New York 11 



Seventy-ninth New York 12 



Fourteenth New York 12 



Seventy -first New York 12 



Governor's Island U. S. A 12 



Ninth New Jersey 12 



Twenty-eighth New York 12 



Eleventh New York 12 



Second Bat. New Jersev 12 



Fifty-fifth New York..*"... 7 



Ninth New York 12 



Sixth New York 12 



Fourth New Jersey 6 



Ninety-sixth New York 6 



Total 231 1,301 91 444 



CompVrs Total points Compters Total points 



at20Qyds. at 200 yds. Average, at 500 yds. at 500 yds. Average. 



231 1,301 5.63 91 444 4.87 



FOURTH MATCH. 



The target being the size of a man on a slab, six feet by two; distance, 

 100 yards; position, standing. The competitor making the greatest num- 

 ber of hits in one minute to be the winner. Open to all comers. 



Drum-Major Gardner A. Strube, Twenty-second, 20 shots, 17 hits— 

 Ward-Burton Rifle. 



Lieut. Smoot, 19 shots, 17 hits— Remington rifle. 



J. Bush, 15 shots, 12 hits— Remington rifle. 



John Ryder, 14 shots, 11 hits— Remington rifle. 



W. J. Carmichael,22d Regiment,N. Y.,13 shots, 7 hits— Remington rifle. 



Sergt. Kelly, Eng. Corps, 11 shots, 4 hits— Springfield rifle. 



Sergt. Turner, Eng. Corps, 11 shots, 2 hits— Springfield rifle. 



TABLE SHOWING THE AVERAGE SHOOTING OF COMPETITORS IN THE 

 MATCHES OF THE AMATEUR RIFLE CLUB TO DEC 1, 1873. 



rds 



500 yards 





Score 



Men 



Score 



Total 



136 



11 



127 



263 



115 



9 



46 



161 



104 



7 



55 



159 



86 



5 



25 



111 



80 



5 



18 



98 



73 



6 



25 



98 



77 



4 



21 



98 



76 



7 



20 



96 



70 



3 



15 



85 



66 



5 



18 



84 



70 



4 



14 



84 



71 



4 



12 



83 



65 



4 



9 



74 



64 



8 



6 



70 



53 



3 



5 



58 



49 



2 



4 



53 



37 



2 



9 



46 



41 



1 



4 



45 



30 



1 



7 



37 



27 



4 



4 



31 



19 



1 







10 



1,853 





Score. 









Name. 



Jul}' 

 12. 



Aug. 



Sept. 

 13. 



Nov. 

 1. 



Nov. 

 8. 



Average. 



J. P. M. Richards ) 

 Robert Omand . . . j" 



Jno. Bodine 



Geo. W. Wingate . . 



L. L. Hepburn 



And. S. Fowle 



J. S. Coulin 



Geo. W. Hamilton.. 

 Bethel Burton.... I 



G. W.Yale f 



S.J. Kellogg, Jr.... 

 A. V. Canfield, Jr. . 



And. Anderson 



A Pyle 



25 



23 

 21 



18 

 13 



20 



'6 



23 



27 

 22 

 33 

 23 



24 

 21 



17 

 17 

 17 



26 



21 

 25 



22 



20 

 24 



is 



22 

 21 

 23 



21 

 18 



22 



24 



25 

 24 

 25 



20 

 19 



20 



i9 



21 

 20 

 22 



i6 



17 



27 



25 

 25 



21 



22 

 23 



20 

 21 



is 



a 



17 



100 

 25 

 97 

 72 

 23 

 68 

 45 

 44 

 65 

 65 

 43 

 42 

 19 

 80 

 97 

 75 

 36 

 18 

 53 

 17 

 17 

 28 



255 



28 



28 

 21 



7 

 21 

 14 

 14 

 21 

 21 

 14 

 14 



7 

 28 

 35 

 28 

 14 



7 

 21 



7 



7 

 14 

 168 



3.57 



3.57 



3.46 



3.42 



3.28 



3.23 



3.21 



3.1 



3.09 



3.09 



3.07 



3 



2.858 



2.857 



2.7 



2.6 



2.57 



2.57 



2.52 



2.4 



2.4 



2. 



Wm. Robertson 



Hen. Falton 



H. A. Gildersleeve 1 

 W. H. Richards., f 

 L. C. Bruce. . 



J. Ross 1 



L. W. Ballard f 



J. T. B. Collins 

 Other competitors. . 



Total No. of points. 













1384 







Total shots 















546 





Average shooting of the Club, 1873, 2.534. 



REMARKS IN REGARD TO THE FIRST MATCH. 



It may he noticed that of 220 shots fired only six Bull's 

 Eyes were made. The average of each shot was pretty 

 nearly 1 95-110, not quite an outer. It compares quite fav- 

 orably with the early matches at Wimbledon in 1860, at 

 the same distance. The Wimbledon average for the As- 

 sociation cup in 1860 being 8.19, ours was 9.06. Of course 

 there has been manifest improvement made in general 

 scores at Wimbledon since that time. We produce 

 the figures however as the only, method of comparison we 

 can find of the commencement of practical rifle shooting 

 in America and England. 



REMARKS ON THE SECOND MATCH. 



In this score there is a manifest improvement. Eight 

 bull's eyes were made, and the average was increased from 

 9.06 to 9.97, or almost ten. Each shot counted about 2|, 

 or better than an outer. In the list of contestants may be 

 seen the names of many members of the association, who 

 have shown amazing progress since the first match. 

 To be Continued. 



The Zoological Park. — One of the great features of 

 our Fairmount Park during the Centennial will be the Zoo- 

 logical Garden. A large space has been given for this 

 purpose, and advantage of the donation has been taken to 

 make it worthy of the Centennial. Many specimens have 

 already been forwarded to the gardens, among which are 

 two San Salvador parrots, by Thomas Biddle, late minister 

 to that place; a Mexican mustang dog, by Gen. Babcock; 

 three monkeys — one of which was presented by Mrs. 

 Megargee; two alligators, by George W. Childs; a pair of 

 silver pheasants, by Theodore Harrison, also, an English 

 pheasant, by the same person; raccoons, by Mrs. Fox, and 

 numerous prairie dogs. The building for monkeys is forty- 

 eight feet in length by thirty-four in width, and quite orna 

 mental in appearance. — Phi' a. Practical Fanner. 



MY FIRS T DEER HUNT. 



Editor Forest and Stream : — 



It was in the fall of the year, just as the last level rays of 

 sunlight were creeping homeward over the pine tops, that I 

 found myself rattling and jolting through the one street of 

 a little Canadian hamlet, not a thousand miles from the 

 city of Ottawa. There I remained for the space of about 

 two weeks, gathering health and strength daily, and at the 

 end of that time I decided that I was strong enough to go 

 deer hunting. 



My first move was to procure a pair of leather moccasins, 

 or shoe packs, which were, I was informed, the very best 

 things for traveling in the woods, and without which no 

 one could hunt deer. The next operation was to obtain a 

 conveyance to the house of a noted hunter, whom I will 

 call Jim. At last the eventful day arrived. Coming to a 

 place where the road made a long bend, Jim, who was lead- 

 ing the dogs, said he would cut across and meet George and 

 myself at a point some distance ahead. He had been gone 

 some five or ten minutes when suddenly the baying of a dog 

 was heard from the direction he had gone. " He has let 

 out Dick," said George; "Quick! Load up! We may 

 have a shot." Our guns were quickly loaded and, leaving 

 the horse standing in the road, we rushed forward to where 

 George said the deer would cross. Upon arriving at the 

 "runway" we found that both deer and dog had crossed the 

 road, and George stooping down said that it was a doe. 



" How do you know it is a doe?" I asked. " Did you 

 see it?" 



" Ifc I had, I should have fired," he replied. " But, here! 

 Look at this track! That is a doe!" 



"Yes." 



" Well! now look at this," pointing to an old impression 

 on the snow. "Do you see any difference?" 



" Well! one is round at the toe and the other is pointed. 

 That is all I see." 



"Exactly! A buck's track is rounded and a doe's is 

 sharp at the toe, and you can tell a fawn by the size of the 

 foot." 



I still remember the admiration which I regarded this bit 

 of woodcraft and the delight I took in putting it into prac- 

 tice on every successive occasion. 



Jim soon came up, and the dog having lost the deer in 

 the swamp and given up the chase, returning we once more 

 set forth and soon arrived at the house where we were to 

 stay all night. 



Once fairly under way for the ground — George leading, 

 myself next and Jim following, leading the dogs— I found 

 it difficult to take it all as indifferently as the others seemed 

 to do, and after Jim had left us at the edge of the woods 

 bothered George with incessant inquiries about the chances 

 of good sport, until he had to caution me to be quiet or I 

 would "scare every deer in the woods." We soon reached 

 the maple ridge where we were to watch the "runways," 

 and in a few minutes after taking up our stations, one of 

 the dogs gave tongue. A few moments of expectation 

 passed and then I heard the report of George's gun. Push- 

 ing to the spot I found he had fired at a deer, and upon fol- 

 lowing the trail I found a fine doe lying dead about a 

 quarter of a mile away The fore feet were soon tied to 

 gether and a thong fastened to them to be used in dragging 

 the animal over the snow, which was according!}' done. 

 That afternoon the hounds ran a buck which had only three 

 legs, but he succeeded in getting to an open part of a 

 stream and escaped by taking the water. 



The next morning we took our stations on the same ridge 

 as on the previous day and waited expectantly. A half an 

 hour had perhaps elapsed when suddenly, without any pre- 

 vious warning, there rang out the sharp yelp of a dog with- 

 in a hundred yards of where I stood. I knew from my ex • 

 perience of the day bef jre that the yelping was a sign the 

 dog was close upon the quarry, and I felt my heart beating 

 like a small trip-hammer as I heard something bounding 

 with long leaps up the bank. A pang of disappointment 

 shot through me as I realised that the deer was not coming 

 up my "runway;" but no time was allowed for it's indul- 

 gence, for a magnificent doe bounded over the crest of the 

 ridge about fifty yards away and disappeared behind a 

 clump of hemlocks. Click ! click ! went the locks of my 

 gun, and as she alighted after a leap, I fired. I saw the 

 tail go down as I fired the left barrel; a sign, Jim had told 

 me, of being struck; but I rapidly unslung my revolver and 

 fired again as the deer halted under a tree. The heels were 

 flung high in the air and the animal with one immense 

 bound disappeared. " Lost," I thought, as I hastened over 

 the trail, which was plainly visible on the snow. ' ' NTo 

 blood, I've missed it entirely," and I began to upbraid my 

 self roundly for my wretched shooting, judge of my delight 

 when I saw the object of all my hopes and fears lying a few 

 yards from the spot where I had last fired at it, quite dead. 

 I could contain myself no longer, and rent the air with 

 such a series of whoops and yells as brought George run- 

 ning to see what was the matter. His astonishment on see- 

 ing the dead deer knew no bounds. He did not believe 

 that such a youngster could have killed the first deer he 

 had ever seen in the woods, and Jim coming up in a few 

 minutes joined him in the belief, qualifying it, however, by 

 the statement that as I had been " always kind o' scared o' 

 missing," he thought I "might stand some chance." 



George insisted upon my bleeding the animal, for he said 

 it was "good hick," but no solicitations could induce me 

 to do so; in fact as I stood there gazing at the shapely beast 

 lying so lifeless upon the snow, I was almost sorry I had 

 killed it. However, the deer was hung up on a sapling and 

 we proceeded to a second ridge where Jim expected to have 

 a good run. 



