3mm U, 1880.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



417 



fishing at Tim Pond is unequalled in any place in Maine. 

 Trout arc very gamy, but not largo. They run from six 

 to fifteen inches in length. In a good breeze over the 

 lake a person can have magnificent sport. Blade Hies 

 are plentiful, more so than usual. The camp of Mr, 

 Kennedy Smith is a sportsman's home in every sense of 

 the wora. He knows just how to cater to one's taste, 

 and is always ready to do anything and everything for 

 one's comfort. We advise our brother trout fishers to 

 give him a call this season, and wo guarantee them all the 

 trout they want and a desire to visit him again. 

 i F. Haines. 



"a Salmon in the S^co—Biddeford, Me., June 31st.— 

 There have been taken during the past two weeks thirteen 

 salmon in the Saeo River, just under the falls at this 

 place. This is quite unusual, as seldom have more than 

 one or two been taken during a season heretofore. These 

 have been taken in nets by those dipping for ale wives and 

 striped bass, and have weighed from eight to twelve 

 pounds each. One was lost by the breaking of the net, 

 supposed to weigh twenty -five pounds. Some very large 

 salmon have been seen within a week trying to leap the 

 falls between Saco and Biddeford. It is hoped by all 

 lovers of fishing that we shall have a fish way constructed 

 here another year. The Saco River thirty years ago 

 teemed with salmon, and we are in hopes to see them 

 here again. P. Haines, 



June 23d. — Seven move salmon were taken in the Saco 

 River to-day, making twenty in all thus far this season, 

 instead of thirteen as I wrote you. One to-day weighs 

 fifteen pounds, the others about nine each. F. H. 



The Beaterkill Cltjb— New Yorlc, June tilth.— How 

 is the following record for two fly-rods on Balsam Lake, 

 Willewenioc Lake and the Beaverkill? Saturday, June 

 12th, 33 trout ; Monday, June 14th, 117 trout J Tuesday, 

 June 15th, 53 trout; Wednesday, Juno 10th, 107 trout; 

 Thursday, June 17th, 92 trout— total, 331. All line fish, 

 Protection pays. The members of the Boaverkill Club 

 do not expend a large amount of time and money in 

 travel and expenses and then fail to find fish. 



Geo. W. Van Siclen. 



Rockwell retired after making six shots, In whioh he made 13. 

 Brown retired after Ins ninth shot with a score of 39. 



IBISH TEAM. 



800 Yards. 900 Tarda, 1,000 Yards. Total. 



Milner 50 45 48 143 



W. Rfgby 49 49 45 148 



... 49 47 46 143 



Murphy 47 M 



coghlan 43 



Bunks 



4a 



43 



44 

 46 



40 

 40 

 41 



K* 

 34 



•11 

 R 



Warren 



Johnson 48 



Joynt 41 



Sullivan 37 



- Retired. 



Monday the 21st found the men at it again, hut the flags were 

 not up as promised, and Col. Bodine having deoided that only six 

 men should shoot on the American side, and not whom the six 

 should he, tho men were, in reality, practicing each on his own 

 merits, without, any team practice. Kathbonc was himself again, 

 he having struck his particular brand of tea and braced himself 

 up on it. The day was a lino one, clear and still, the scores 

 standing :— 



800 YanU. 900 Yards. 1,000 Yards. Total. 

 Clarke ',;'. 



Bathbone.. 

 Fan 



THE IRISH-AMERICAN MATCH. 



WiTII our next issue wo hope to be able to lay before our 

 readers the result of the Irish match which Col. Uodlue 

 and hia men were sent over to shoot. The team arrived safely at 

 4.30 o'clock on tho morning of June 13th. A letter from a, team 

 member to tho Forest and Stream says of the trip that "some 

 of the team were quite sea sick and did not got fairly on deck 

 until the following Wednesday. Clark, Fisher and Laird were 

 very sick, but arc all right now. Jackson, Batbboue and Donald- 

 son have bad colds this morning ; sitting up so late last night for 

 the ship to get in gave them severe colds. We passed the time 

 on Bhipboanl in tho usual fashion, hotting on the run, etc., play- 

 ing eards, with an occasional shot at the gulls and stormy petrel 

 that followed tho ship." 



The team did not. reach Dublin until Tuesday, the 15th, having 

 to endure two days of lionizing. Col. Bodine, however, is in dead 

 earnest, and will set his men to work at the earliest opportunity. 

 There was tho usual blunder made as to tho baggage, winch did 

 not follow along after the American style or t raveling by cheek, 

 nut instead remained behind at Cork, it came up to Dublin on 

 Wednesday morning, the 16th, and no time waB lost by the Amer- 

 ican Team in rattling out to Dollymount. The Irish Team were 

 at work going over the ranges, and they were at 900 yards when 

 the visitors squadded down at tue adjoining targots and made a 

 few sighting shots. It may be significant, but not a single bulls- 

 eye was made as an opening shot. Kathbone and Rockwell made 

 an opening center, Scott got an inner and Brown an outer, while 

 the others missed the target entirely. The wind was not unfavor- 

 able, Wowing up from the, targets. 



The regular practice of the American Team began on the 17th, 

 and all of the men lired the full complement of forty-five shots 

 e Eoept J aokson, whose rifle broke down. Tho score stood :— 



800 Yards. 900 Yards. 1,000 Yards. Total. 

 Farrow 74 68 74 81(1 



K::::i::::i^::.:u;a 111 



Laird 1? 



71 



72 



h 



:ott,.. 



Fisher 72 



Brown 68 



Laird 55 



This is the last report which h 



52 



310 

 207 

 300 



177 

 177 



the 



Ireland (Mr. Bigby had made two hundred and fifteen points, tho 

 highest reoorded at Wimbledon), said that tho Irish Eight would 

 gain their next victory by tho aid of a breech-loading weapon, 

 and since then the Dublin gun maker has been hard at work to 

 perfect the arm he conceived, and to-day the Rigby breech-loader 

 is in the hands of many of the Irish rifle shots. The Rigby sys- 

 tem consists in a oortain combination of rifling and bullet appli- 

 cable to any breech-loading action, the specialty lying in the bar- 

 rel and ammunition, and not in the method of breech closing. 

 The bullets are much harder than those of tho Sharp or Reming- 

 ton titles, and the friction between it and the barrel is reduced to 

 the smallest possible amount. English powder is used, and it is 

 claimed that tho necessity for elaborate cleansing Is obviated, 

 and moreover, misses that are unaccountable to the shooter are 

 completely abolishod. It is quite on the cards that the Irish Team 

 will use these new weapons, and If only a part of all that is 

 claimed for them be true, the Americans will haye to look well to 

 their laurels. 



On Whit-Monday, May 17th, the shoots began. Tho scores on 

 that day being :— 



Yards. 900 Yards. 1,000 Yards. Totals. 



Br< 



. .. 71 



57 



Fisher 



RMhborlo":.'. :::;:.. 



Jackson 63 59 - - 



The team Buffered under the absence of any flags on the range, 

 the only wind indicator being a balloon bag fastened ou a pole, 

 and which, while good enough to indicate direction, was of no 

 value in showing the force of the air current. Flags were prom- 

 ised, however, and will he in position. Itathboue was not himself 

 at all, suffering from his old-time complaints, asthma and 

 rheumatism. On the 18th the men were again on the range. 

 Kathbone remaining in hia room at the Shelburne Hotel. The 

 wind was very trying and variable, particularly at 1,000 yards. 

 The scores of the day stood : 



800 ranis. BOO Yards. 1,000 Yards. Total. 



Farrow 73 89 65 207 



Jackson! 73 09 60 201 



Soott . . 73 61 61 198 



Fisher: 6T 69 01 197 



Rockwell $ 88 61 193 



Laird 70 63 58 M 



Oiarke 65 63 62 190 



Brown.." 68 57 65 190 



On the 10th came a sort of a test between tho two teams in the 

 shooting for the Long-range Challenge Cup by the Irish riflemen, 

 and itito which competition the Americans were invited. The 

 two teams have carefully avoided discounting the match in any 

 way by shooting a full score beforehand on tho same day, side 

 by side. In the shoot of the 19th seven of the American and ten 

 of the Irish Team competed, tho ranges being 800, 900 und 1,000 

 yards. Ten shots were allowed at each range with two sighting 

 shots. There was a drizzling rain and mist, which much hindered 

 the sighting shots. As the Americans are accustomed to shooting 

 in a good light, it was admitted that the practice could not be 

 taken as a test of their merit. The. following are the individual 

 scores :— 



AMERICAN TEAM. 



800 Yards. 900 Paras. 1,000 Yatdk Total 



Varrow « « 44 lg 



Boott 48 47 37 135 



Slarke « « 40 



.Juokson '13 47 4S 



lifter... « « 84 



IBS 



come to hand, and shows that 

 i, with proper bundling, may do something creditable. An 

 error is made in keeping the men up to so near a date beforo the 

 mat eli as single atoms, rather than having thom put together with 

 equals, and shooting with the propar system of givo and take. 

 Instead, the 207* average for the first six in the last mentioned 

 practice, it should have been 210 at least. 



On the Irish aide all is enthusiasm and hard work. One can 

 harken to the notes of husy preparation:for beating the Ameri- 

 cans at the butts and feasting them at dejeuner, and in the ball 

 room. The two tacks, so distinct, are undertaken with an equal 

 aniou nt of heart! a ess and good will, and as heretofore Major Leech 

 is the great guiding spirit in all that is being dono. The associa- 

 tion lias changed its offices from Grafton street to Suffolk street, 

 close! hy, where Messrs. Rigby, the gun makers, have placed a 

 suite of apartments at the disposal of the Knights of the Rifle. In 

 this sanctum sanctorum conspiracies are hatched and carried 

 through with celerity, but they have, all of them, either of two 

 objects— to secure the overthrow at the ranges of the sons of 

 Columbia, or to add to the pleasures of their sojourn. The Major, 

 who has been chosen Captain, has already drafted a lengthy pro- 

 gramme of competitions, which are to form the hasis of solec. 

 tion. The dates fixed for these competitions have been largely 

 availed of by shooters in various partsof Ireland and in England. 

 The final selection of the team will be " made by public competi- 

 tions, open to those qualified to represent Ireland in the Inter- 

 national Match for the Elcho Shield at Wimbledon." Tho compe- 

 titions are divided into two branches, and may in the rough be 

 classified as primary and final. 



The dates on which the men shot wore May 8th and 12th, the 

 homo or Dublin folk firing close to the old ground at historic 

 Dollymount, whilst others lookod after tho bullseye at places 

 which to them were most convenient. Thore is a large number 

 of "colts," or novices, patronizing the pastime nowadays, 

 whose fame has not yet crossed tho Atlantic, and Messrs. J. P. 

 Murphy, Henry Coghlan, French, Brewster and Warren are 

 among thom, unknown outside the rifle circles of the metropolis. 

 These gentlemen are amongst those down at Dollymount, or, to 

 speak more correctly, Raheuy. Then, of the old'uns, we had John 

 and his cousin William Rigby and William Russell Joynt, toiling 

 away in their old postures ou the green sward in front of the tar- 

 gets. Joshua Milner, who Is perhaps the best known out West, will 

 make preparation for the match, but neither Edmund Johnson, 

 "Jim" Pollock, R. S. Greenhili, R. G. Goff, Henry Dyas (the "in- 

 fant boy "I, or Ward, of Chester, have as yet signified their in- 

 tention of tailing arms. Indeed, both Messrs, Johnson and Pol- 

 lock have Intimated that they will be no mor o than anxious spec- 

 tators at this coming match. Johnson will be a decided loss, as 

 yas a really brilliant shot, but the Grafton street goldsmith 

 been off in Egypt on a holiday, and only returned the other 

 day to find bis hands fuU of business. Whilst the homo men were 

 doing some excellent work at Raheny, their brethren in arms at 

 Belfast, Fermaugh, Canan, Dundalk, and in London, were pound- 

 iUB away at the common enemy— the bullseye. Captain Fenton., 

 of the Seventy-seventh, adjutant of the Irish Centennial Team ; 

 Major Young, Mr. Plunkett,memberof Parliament for Gloucester, 

 and Mr Vignoles shot at the Hounslow ranges, near London, 

 and they report satisfactory work. Then MeKcnna, Barrott, Jr., 

 Brithwaito and Walkington shot at Belfast another. Murphy at 

 Dundalk, Capt. Somerset Maxwell over his private ranges at Arly 

 Cottage, Mountaingart, whilst at Cavan (Dromkeen House, 

 demesne), Capt. Sanderson, Major Jones and Mr. Adams put up 

 some encouraging scores. 



" Old Reliable," William Rigby and John Rigby are quite in 

 ,i, old i.-, rin, which means that when they are down at Raheny 

 the bullseye has an especially rough time of it. The captain has 

 reserved to himself " the power of altering or adding to these 

 rules to meet a contingency." The reservation, it may he said, 

 sounds like a sweeping one, and so in truth it is; but under the 

 circumstances the Major has, as he himself would put it, "done 

 the right thing." Quite as much have those rifle matches been 

 regarded as battles between makers of weapons as amongst those 

 who display a skill in their use. In the early contest s it was 

 always found most difficult to ascertain whether the Rigby muz- 

 zle-loader or tho American breech-loader had tho advantage. In 

 team shooting there was no gainsaying the fact, admitted on all 

 aides, that the weapon of our good friend, Cousin Jonathan, was 

 the more successful. However, in what may bo termed individ- 

 ual or single handed contests, such as tho Bennett Long Range 

 Match in 1874, and tho Abereorn two days' match in 1870, the top 

 scores were made by the Irish rifles. Subsequently American 

 armorors succeeded in still further improving their methods, 

 and the remarkable scores made by Bruce and others in tho 

 Palma Match of 1877, at Creedmoor, all but^conelusively settled 

 tho superiority of the breech-loading match rifle. No one ap- 

 peared to be more thoroughly convinced of this than the captain 

 of the English Elcho Shield Team, and, in the '78 match, almost 

 ull the English Eiglit shot with either English or American breech- 

 loaders. They, however, sustained a crushing dofeat at the hands 

 of the Irish Eight, seven of whom used their old and tried muz- 

 zle-loaders, and put on record the highest score as yet put up in 

 England. In '79, the Buocess attending the breech-loaders was 

 no better, und the riflemen from the Land o' Brown Houther 

 iv ere victorious. At the termination of this mutch, Mr. John 



Rigby, when called out to return thanks lot tho cheers given for 



71 



67 



204 



u 



181 



172 



P. J. Murphy 66 



Henry Coglan 61 



W. It. Joynt 66 



It. B. Warren 70 



Wni. Rigby 63 



L.F. Banks - 82 



J.K.'Milner 66 61 61 



On tho next day's shooting the scoring stood;— 



Milner 60 57 85 



.1. EUgby 65 64 59 



W.Kigby 64 59 59 



Joynt 70 57 55 



54 68 



61 49 



Warren 60 44 47 



AU llred with breech-loaders except Milner. Warren used a 

 Remington Match Rifle. 



On the 21st, there was another of the preliminary tests, the 

 scores running :— 



800 Yards. 900 Yards. 1,000 Yards. Totals. 



Murphy 67 61 63 190 



.Ii.vui 63 59 63 185 



Coghlan 82 63 60 184 



Milner 60 61 61 183 



Banks 54 69 57 1B0 



W.Kigby 57 60 61 176 



Warren 56 60 57 178 



On the 2tith, under fair weather, the scoring ran, at Raheny :— 



Joynt 65 69 66 200 



...... i,.: 73 61 199 



68 69 191 



^ i '■■'• 88 56 188 



Warren .66 68 51 IBS 



This was the close of the ilrst series of shoots, and the best of 

 three scores each man is shown as follows :— 



Coghlan... 

 Murphy .. 



Joynt 



Warren... 

 Milner . . 

 W.Kigby. 



Banks 



Jno Rigby 



196 



190 



591 



To dotermine who is to constitute the teams and reserves, a fur- 

 ther competition took place in Dublin on the 4th and 5th of 

 June, each man to firo, on each day, fifteen shots each, at 800 

 and 900 yards, and twenty shots at 1,000 yards. This competition 

 took place on the North Bull, by tho kind permission of Mr. 

 Vernon, of Clontarf Castle, and as the ground wasnew to some of 

 the riflemen, each man was given two sighting shots at 800 yards 

 on the first day only. The following gentlemen, having been 

 nominated by the Captain, obtained places without being re- 

 quired to enter the second stage : Maj. Young, Capt. Fenton, Mr. 

 John Bigby. Those invited to enter the second stage wore aa 

 f oUows : R. Barnett, Jr., Belfast ; Capt. Somerset Maxwell, Cavan ; 

 James Murphy, Jr., Dundalk; Henry Coghlan, W. R. Joynt, P. 

 J. Murphy, H. B. Warren, J. K. Milner, Wm. Rigby, L. F. Banks, 

 Dublin. 



The 4th of June was very unfavorable, blowing groat guns at 

 all the ranges, and on the second day, June 5th, the wind was 

 choppy in the extreme. The scores, out of a possible 350, at each 

 range, stood as follows :— 



.Friday, Saturday 

 JuneV.li. June Wi. Grand Total. 



Milner 232 327 449 



Joynt 217 328 445 



P.J. Murphy 308 229 43T 



Dyas. 303 331 434 



Coghlan 195 233 437 



W.RIgby 304 230 434 



In this order of merit tho men now stand: Fenton, Young, J 

 Righy, Milner, Joynt, J. P. Murphy, Dyas, Coghlan, W. Rigby, 

 Biiuka. 



Sinoe the Americans have arrived in Ireland, the home team 

 have been stirred up to even better effort. At a practice on the 

 16th inst. the scores stood :— 



800 yards. 900 yards. 1,000 yards. Totals. 



Joynt 73 70 70 



Milner - 67 



lif, 



Dy .._ 

 J. Kigby 



Murphy oi 



W. Rigby 73 



Coghlan i . . 70 



From these figures it will be 



74 

 73 

 71 

 67 



81 



61 



53 



209 

 197 

 MS 

 195 

 192 

 i that the Irish team go iuto 

 this match in better trim than at any previous one. They have 

 taken time by the forelock, and have been for a f ortnigb t past a 

 practical working team ready squadded, and, so far as they are 

 able, will put in play some team system. The Americana have yet 

 to get their team practice, and, from its composition, there is 

 more than a grave doubt that the team of visiting riflemen will 

 not be such a compact body of self-helpers as the teams that 

 have represented America in previous years in this match have 

 been. Yet the prestigo and the odds are in favor of the Ameri- 

 cans. They can (barring accidents) win the match if tliey will, 

 and, if they do not, they will bo bold to a strict accountability on 

 this side the water. If the capabilities of the American-made 

 rifles are allowed full play, and if the perfect discipline which has 

 marked the successful efforts of previous American teams bo put 

 into practice, there is no reason why another American viotory 

 should not be scored. Farrow has been doing magnilicont work 

 with his long-range Ballard rifle, and if tho other members of 

 the team were as able to go it single-handed as he, team help 

 might be dispensed with ; but they are not ; and Col. Bodine must 

 abdicate the title of " Old Reliable," If he is to earn the question- 

 able honor of being;the first beaten American team Captain. 



Choice of a Hunting BiffEH.— Gorpm Clirlsti, Tex., May 290t— 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— Sib; I have waited patiently for the 

 new rifle which would supercede everything as a game weapon 

 in safety, accuracy and rapidity of firing, and to .this end I hays 



