438 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



[July 1, : 



W. Blttby- Bfeby Breech-Loader. 



Effl 5 S 5 5 a 5 5 5 5 3 4 4 5 5 5—711 



906 ... 5 5 .1 5 fi 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 3 5-71V SU) 



i,0ffll .10 6 5 + 55 5 5 5 5 -I 3 3 5-08 1 



J. Itigby-Rigby Hrcecn-Loador. 



win 354558 5 855436B 5-69 



I 5 5 5 5 5 4 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5-72- 209 



1 ,0i 111. '.'.'...'..'.'.'.. 45543 3 5 54555 5 6 5-68 ) 



Total ■ pMM 



Whet: the- match was over cheer* were given for the American 

 ami Irish tenuis. Col. Undine was presented with a handsome 

 bouquet by one ol the ladies present. Acknowledging the com- 

 pliments paid himself and team, Col. Bodine said it afforded him 

 pleasure, as captain nC the American team, that they had won, 

 but a? a representative rifleman he felt regret at the result from 

 the sense that the riflemen of Ireland richly deserved victory 

 1 .cause of their exertions to secure victory, and he was 

 sure I he feelings he expressed were the feeling's of the American 

 people. 



Tn the evening the American and Irish teams attended a private 

 banquet given in their honor by tho Lord Lieutenant. Col. 

 Bodinesays he does not intend to disband his team until the ter- 

 mination ol the. mooting of the Irish Rifle Association ami of the 

 festivities to winch the the Americans have been invited as a 

 team. 



The following table gives the running record of the match, in- 

 dicating exactly where 1 he train was made or tho loss sustained 

 rtj each team. For purposes of comparison the) score of the match 

 of 18 to is placet] in juxtaposition. 



1876. I88O. 





_L | ij 



I 



- = 



H 



> 



% 



> 



IS 



g 



i listance. 



I 



If 



u 



% 





B 



If 







g 





1 







? 



P 





B 



? 



u 



CE 



800 yards. 

 BOO yards 



:«i 



60 



25 

 51 



27 



50 



'i 



2 



28 

 68 



28 



58 











7B 







87 



88 





i 



BOOyardS . i\ 12ui 105 



101 



4 





no 



117 





1 



BOO yards >•'" 



130 



2 





146 



146 









155 







175 



176 





i 



BOOyaraa • 210 184 



183 



2 





204 



205 





i 



JOO v ■ ■ - - !40 



211 



3 





234 



234 









239 



S 





263 



262 



1 





800 'va ids. 10 i Si 



203 



8 





293 



291 



2 





BOO yards.. 11 330 299 



292 







323 



319 



4 





WW yards.. 12 360 325 



317 



H 





350 



317 



3 





BOOyards.. 1! 151 



314 



7 





380 



376 



4 





• m ; tab 3S0 



372 



8 





409 



406 



1 





800yards.-|l5 45t 409 



394 



16 





4W 



436 







BOO: - 480 J35 



418 



17 





433 



463 







900 yards.. 17 511 460 



417 



13 





493 



492 



J 





B00y«rds.. 18| 640 490 



471 



III 





522 



520 







OOOyarrts.. 19 670 611 



494 







551 



518 



U 





lOOyarde 10(500 539 



520 



111 





581 



577 



-1 







545 



20 





(10 



606 



4 





,, Ta xH !2 66 580 





21 





639 



633 



6 









17 







662 







(100 yards.. M J20 037 



64 1 



17 



"1 





698 

 728 



693 







6 













757 



749 



8 







6911 







785 



773 



V 













812 



807 



h 













842 



834 



8 







763 







872 



864 



8 





lOOOyar 1- 11 030 821 



788 



33 





902 



890 



la 





[OOOyards 8 060 8fl 



815 



26 





931 



915 



10 





i at Is H 090 863 



844 



19 





958 



914 



14 







869 



21 





987 



871 



16 





1 ' " :> ■ ■ u Is 1! ' 50 016 



896 



20 





1010 



997 



19 





IflflO yards B Of ! 042 



923 



19 





1042 



1025 



11 





lOOOyards 1 17 MO 963 



945 



18 





1009 



1053 



16 





lOWyards i "-' 1 1 1 BS8 



973 







10M5 



1082 



lil 





m ards 10 Hi 1015 



1001 



14 





1121 



1111 



HI 





1000 , I 1200 1038 



1028 



III 





1151 



1139 



12 





100 :i!l230 1002 



1056 



H 





1180 



litia 



11 





1000 yards 12 [0 16 



1083 



3 





1209 



1198 



13 





[000y rds 13 1200 11J2 



1107 



5 





1230 



1226 



111 





lOOOyards. 4II1820I 1120 



1132 



8 





1203 



1253 



10 





1000 v:i nl 3 



'■> 



!.',r,n 



1165 



1154 



9 





1292 



1280 



12 





To show the excellent quality of the work accomplished, the 

 following figures taken from the scores of the Important long 

 range mulches shot since the new targets came into use in 1874 



1 , i ; . In 1874, taking the scores of the six leading members 

 of each, lean that shot for the Elcho Shield, the figures areas 

 follows: scotch team. 1,108; English, 1,071; Irish, 1,055. la 1875, 

 when the Irish team won the shield with tho advice of the Amer- 

 ican team on the ground, (he scores ran : Irish team, 1,160; Scotch, 

 1,103, and English, 1,136. In 1878 the English team was successful, 

 and the leading sue scores from each team were: English team, 

 1,10a; S-oii'h, 1,114, and Irish, 1,056. In 1877 another Irish victory 

 Occurred, with the scores as follows: Irish team, 1,193; English, 

 1.113, and Scotch, 1,096. Another victory for the Irish team was 

 score! in 18*8, the totals of the scores of the leading six men 

 being; Irish beam, 1,203: English, 1,202, and Scotch, 1,186. Last 

 year the Scotch team took the shield, and the scores of tho best 

 six men ol uteh team wore: Scotch team, 1,141; Irish, 1,129, and 

 English, 1,143. When American riflemen defeated a "crack" 

 . „ 11 i jii nam in 1875, the figures were 1,108 for the Americans 

 and 110571501! the Canadian six. In the Centennial match, when 

 the Palma wits first shot for, the shooting extended over two days, 

 mid five teams were engaged. The totals of the scores of the 

 leading si>: men on each team are as follows: First day— Scotch 



1 an, 1,902; Irish, 1.2 '2; American, 1,196; Australian, 1,185; Cana- 

 dian, 1.177. Second day— American, team, 1,175 i Irish, 1,162; Aus- 

 tralian, 1,15'.; Scotch, 1,138, and Canadian, 1,101. In 1877, when 

 SlrHenrv Hal lord came over with his British team, made up of 

 tho best English, Scotch and Irish riflemen, the scores were: First 

 day— American team, 1,240; British, 1238. Second day— Ameri- 

 can team, 1,878 ; British, 1220. In each of the matches above men- 

 tioned cigh I men were engaged on each side, but. the figures are 

 tho totals of the leading six scores, giving, of course, the advan- 

 tage of throwing out two men who may have failed. The only 

 real duplicate of the present match was the last Irish-American 



ill ttotal Creedmoor on September Z'st, 1876, when, with six 



men on a side, tin: scores wctc : American team, 1,185; liith, 1,15). 

 In that match the average for the Americans was 211 1-6 per man, 

 out of a possible 325, and for the Irish, 212 5-0. In the match of 

 to-day the averages wore: American, 2154 ; Irish, 2131. All the 

 men who have 1 ought In tills catch are men of experience wlLh 

 Uterine. 



In the Irish team John Kigby stands out hold and foremost. 



Though the active, energetic, blarney-posted Arthur Hlenuerhas- 



sett Leech Is the nominal captain of the team, John Kigby is its 



real captain and head. He is the leading member of the house of 



John Kigby .v Co., Dub in, gun makers. His is a general armory, 



and yon can purchase there a fowling piece for the knocking over 



id' woodcock, or another style of weapon for the knocking over 



at yniu- bear, friend should he say aught to displease you, In 



limes past the "saw handle," muzzle-loading duelling pistols, for 



bouse became famous, were in great demand, but of 



- lie tlecuaml has fallen away. Taking the Elcho Shield 



j la found in tbe first Irish, team la 1865 with a 



score of 121, old target, again in 1868 with 143, in 1867 with 139, in 

 1803 with 143, and a like score 1869. In 1870 his score was 115, and 149 

 in 18ft lie led the learn of 1B73 with 151 points, and when in 1873 

 the Irishmen were successful for tho first time, he was a member, 

 with a score of 154. In 1874 his score was 104, new target, and when 

 in 1875 the Irish wero again successful, he was in the squad with a 

 score of 18S. 179 was his score in 1877, and in 1878 he headed the 

 winning Irish team with the best score ever made in the match, 

 215 points. Last year he was again head of tho toam. with 195 

 points. He was in tbe first It ish- American match, and led the 

 Irish team wllh 165 points. He was not In the second or third 

 matches of this series, nor In the Palma matches of 1870 or 1 877. He 

 is tall and straight In stature, and an expert workman, a scientific 

 rifle shot and an educated gentleman. 



William Higby is a cousin of John Rigby, and is associated with 

 that gentleman in tho firm of John Kigby & Co. He has visited 

 America as a member of Irish teams, aud in his quiet, almost 

 solemn way of shooting, Impresses the spectator as a formidable 

 adversary. He is about forty years of age, and uses a position 

 exactly similar to Millner's in firing. He has been a pretty steady 

 representative on the Irish eight, and has in private competitions 

 enjoyed a good run of success. In 18(15 ho led the Irish eight. 

 Shot, a Iso in 1800, 1807, 1869, 1871,1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1873 and 

 1879. Ho was in Sir Henry Hall'ord's British team at Creedmoor 



ed gr< 



a lithe 

 rperlei 



a young 11 



Joshua K. llilner is a genuine Irishman, 

 his years being about thirty, and in build he 

 bulky. As a rille shot he has 

 member of the Irish eight 01 

 work. Whllo at Creedmoor some years ago his spurt of fifteen 

 consecutive bullseyes at 1,000 yards made him the champion. His 

 posture in firing is a peculiar modification of tho back position— 

 tho barrel rests upon the upturned toes, while the heel is tucked 

 into the right arm-pit. 



Lieut. George Fenton is another of the Irish team men or great 

 experience. His great, stalwart form and broad, resolute face 

 have been seen on other occasions at Creedmoor. Ho is thirty 

 years of age, full six feet tall and weighs 187 pounds, tu all his 

 small-bore experience Lieut. Fenton enjoys the peculiarity of 

 never having scored a miss in a match. He has fired at Dolly- 

 mount and at Wimbledon, attd has been on the Irish eight several 

 times. He was for a long time a firm advocate of the pr 

 "belly" position in firing, and thought it as good as any other, 

 though he now shoots in a back pi 



J. Russell Joynt is one of tho " colts" of the Irish team . He is 

 a young man, but la able to do good work, and each year wit- 

 nesses a steady improvement In him. Ho has shot on the Irish 

 eight on several occasions. 



S. S. Young is an Irishman with an English residence. Hois 

 English in his habits and place of practice. In 1S75 he led the 

 Irish eight when they captured the Elcho for the first time. Un- 

 like all the others mentioned, he has never been to Creedmoor. 



The doings of the American team men are comparatively well 

 known to readers of the Forest and St.rkam, and a few personal 

 facts about each will be given. 



Col. John Bodine, who has been selected ascuplainof the team, 

 is a native of New York State and a descendant of one ol the old 

 Huguenot families which settled In Lister County. He is about 

 fifty-three years of age. His business, until recently, has been 

 agriculture, railroad and steamboat freights: hut at present, he is 

 attached to the Court of General Sessions in New York City H la 

 experience as a rifleman dates from 1S45, and even then he was a 

 remarkably fine sportsman. Later he began long range shooting, 

 and lias become so elegant a marksman that he has won the name 

 of " Old Reliable. Ho was a member of tho first American team 

 that contested with the fore'gn riliemen in 1874, and in other 

 matches. In 1875 he was again a member of the American team 

 in the great match against the Irish riliemen nt Dollymount, and 

 in 1876 was a member of the American team which competed 

 successfully against all comers. He is about six feet in height 

 and of fine presence. 



W, Milton Farrow was boru in Belfast, Me., in 1844. He is 

 about five feet nine inches in height, and of spare figure. From 

 early boyhood he has been devoted to gunning. In 1876 he took 

 an interest in long range rille shooting, and organized a rille elub 

 at Newport, R I., where he then lived. He went to Creed- 

 moor in 1877, where he practiced at long range, and in 1878 won a 

 place on the American team which contested with and defeated 

 f c Canadians. He was the eleventh man in the competition for 

 a place In the American team which shot the "walk over "for 

 the international trophy in 1S78. In the same year he won the 

 first prize in the champion match at 200, 600 and 1,000 yards, with a 

 score of 180 out of a possible 150. Last year ho spent most of his 

 time in Europe, and returned with a largo number of prizes, 

 among which were the Albert prise of £100, shot for at Wimble, 

 don, and a Sevres china vase, offered as a prize by the President 

 of France, in a match for "all comers." He shoots with a Bal- 

 lard rifle. 



Col. H. V. Clark was born in 1 Dutchess County, N. ST., in 

 1839. He is five and one-half feet in height, of spare figure, dark 

 complexion, and has gray eyes. He is a dentist, and represents 

 the Empire Hide Club, or which he is president. He- was for sev- 

 enteen years oonuected with the National Guard; at one time was 

 lieutenant colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y. 

 He has done considerable shooting with a military gun. He 

 began shooting at long range in IS76, and In the fall meeting that 

 year at Creedmoor won the first prize in the short range match 

 against 213 competitors. In 1877 he tied the scores of Jackson 

 and Hyde for the Stewart prize in the aggregate match, which 

 was finally won by Mr. Hyde, nc also won the third prize in the 

 champion's match at the same meeting. He was atnembBr of 

 the American team of 1878, which shot tho " walk over" for the 

 international trophy. 



Samuel I. Scott is a dentist at Sandy Spring, Md., whers he 

 was born in 1818. He was a farmer in bis early days, and after- 

 ward learned dentistry, ne began rifle shooting with tho Mary- 

 land Rifle Club about three years ago. He joined the Columbia 

 Rifle Club, of Washington, D. C, in June, 1879, and has won sev- 

 eral prizes. His first noteworthy score was at a match last, year, 

 when he made 99 in a possible 100 at 500 and 600 yards. He won 

 all the first prizes in the mid aud short-range matches in the same 

 tournament, and in a match at 1,000, 1,100 and 1,200 yards made 

 180 in a possible 225. Last fall, in the competition for the Wimble- 

 don cup, he won the second prize. 



Homer Fisher is a native of Connecticut, thirty-nine years old. 

 For several years ho has been in the gun business at No. 299 

 Broadway. He began long range shooting In 1877, and has ordi- 

 narily made good scores. He has won many short range prizes, 

 ami in competitions tor places on tho American team of 1877 was 

 next, below T. Lamb, who was selected as a reserve. JLast year he 

 won the firsi prize In the third class of the long range Ioiutis- 

 montat. Creedmoor, and last April he won the Remington =3110 

 prize, 



Kaimom KutbowDc waa bttfn iu fttiom, Coim., in l&Sl, ami 



until late years has been in the leather business. He is slightly 

 round shouldered, has a dark complexion, a spare figure, dark 

 hair, is tlva feet ten inches in height, and has blue eyes, lie be- 

 gan long range shooting in 1875, and in 1876 won a place on the 

 American team, making the highest individual total score ever 

 made up to that time In an international match, making a tie with 

 J. K. Milner, of tho Dish team. He shot in the Irish-American 

 match immediately after the international match. He was also tv 

 member of the American team of 1878, shooting in the " walk 

 over." In a match at 200 and 500 yards Ilast year he made twenty 

 successive bullseye, with F. H. Holton, and in shooting off thetfe 

 made another clean score, and won first prize. 



J. F. Brown was born in Chester, N. n., In 1833, and now lives in 

 Chelsea, Mass. Hestaudsslxfeetin height, is strongly built, has 

 a dark complexion and blue eyes. He began long range shooting 

 o n the Walnut Hill range in 1877, and had won a large.nmnber of 

 prizes. His greatest achievement was making thirty-one con- 

 secutive bullseyes on the lougranges, closing with a score of 218, 

 In a match between the Massachusetts and Walpole clubs. He 

 was a member of the American team in 1878, and in the "walk 

 over" made scores of 210 on each of the two days. 



The series of Irish-American matches has no connection with 

 tho Palma competitions which were started in 1870, and which 

 settle the international long range team championship of the 

 world. The series, of which the fourth has just been won by 

 America, opened in 1874 by the visit of Major Leech and his team 

 to this country. In July, 1873, the Irish team for tho first time 

 had captured the Elcho Shield, shooting against teams of English- 

 men and Scotchmen, and with a score better than anything which 

 had ever been made by Irish riflemen. A general challenge was 

 sent out "to the Riflemen of America" and accepted by the Am- 

 ateur Rifle Club of New York, of whioh not a single member at 

 that time had ever won a long range match ; nor was there an 

 American-made rifle capable of coping with the fine Rigby muz- 

 zle-loaders. During the winter of 1873-4 the American factories 

 suppliod the rifles, and by dint of hard practice a team was put 

 Into the field which on Sept. :36th, 1874, was successful, At that 

 time the old square bullseye was used, counting four, and making 

 the range total sixty, with the highest possible per man 180 in the 

 day. The totals of that match stood :— 

 American Team. 



Henry Fulton 171 



G.W.Yale 102 



J. Bodine 158 



H, A. Gildersleevc 155 



L. I,. Hepburn . ..H9 



T.S.Dakin 139 



Total 934 



The teams were only three points apart at the finish and the 

 Irish team had really earned the match, for Milner, by putting a 

 bullseye on tho wrong target, had sacrificed four points In the 

 year following Col. CUdersleeve led his team to Ireland, aud after 

 a most hospitable reception the second match took place 011 June 

 29th, 1875. It was like an American summer day on which the 

 match was fought. The cable was brought into plas*, and each 

 shota3 fired was bulletined in New York. The Irish team had 

 been strengthened as was supposed by new men, but they fired 

 in an individual sort of way without team organization, while 

 Col. GUdersleeve's men displayed the perfection of team disci- 

 pline, and each man in firing took his cue as to windage allow- 

 ance for lateral deflection and Vernier scale allowance for verti- 

 cal variation from the man who had fired before him. Forty 

 thousand people of Dublin witnessed the match and saw the de- 

 feat of the Irish team on their own range by a lead of thirty-nine 

 points, the score standing :— 



American Team. I Irish Team. 



T. S. Dakin.,.. - 165 J Wilson 



H. A. Gildersleevc 104 | E. Johnson 



John Bodine ...1021 J. B. Hamilton 



Heurv Fulton 101 J.G. Pollock 



&.W Gale . . .16(1 1 J . McKenna 



R. C. Coleman 150 J . K. Milner 



Irish Team. 

 J. Rigby 



....163 



J. Wilson 





J. B. Hamilton 



.1, K. Milner 



E Johnson 



P. Walker 



...160 

 ....154 



...150 



Total 



. ..931 



.1(13 



110 



till 



Total 9681 Total 929 



In 1870 the Irish team were among those who came over to con- 

 test for the Palma trophy, and after they had given a very pretty 

 exhibition uf marksmanship in that match with eight men on a 

 side, securing for themselves the second place on the roll of teams, 

 the Irish-American series of matches was taken up. The new 

 target, such as is now in use, had then been Introduced. In this 

 target the bullseye is three feet in diameter, counting live; the 

 center is another circle fifty-four inches in diameter, scoring four. 

 The inner, counting three, is the square six by six feet, in the 

 center of which the bullseye is painted. The outers are two 

 wings two feet wide and six feet high on either flank of tho Inner. 

 They count two points. This makes a slab six feet high and 

 twelve feet long, but it looks small enough ft! the disiance of over 

 half a mile away. The size of the target Itself has not been 

 changed from former years, but only the divisions upon it. On 

 Sept. 21st, 1870, the third of the Irish-American matches was shot. 

 This match saw the defection uf Col Farwell, and he has never 



been seen on tbe ranges 



American Team. 



T.S. Dakio 208 



U.Kathbone 204 



I. I.. Allen 199 



L. Weber 191 



H. Fulton 191 



W. It. Farw. II 165 



The s 



s stood :— 



Irish Team. 



J. K. Milner... . 206 



H. Dyas 198 



W. Rig-by - 197 



G. Fenton 189 



E.Johnson 181 



W.K. Joynt 130 



Total 1,165 Total 1 ,154 



On Tuesday last six men on each side competed over the same 

 range where in 1875 Col. Gildersleevc and bis mon won their vic- 

 tory. The Irish marksmen have improved greatly. Since rhe 

 series begau American breech-loading lilies have found their 

 way into tb.9 hands of English shooters, and lost year the beat 

 score made by any of the twenty-four contestants In the Elcho 

 Shield match at Wimbledon was from an American breech loader, 

 The veteran John Rigby, after insisting that the muzzle-loader 

 was superior to the breech-loader for the finest work, has since 

 1876 beea busy perfecting a breech-loader, having the finest of 

 the. American pieces before him as models. This new Rigby rifle 

 is now in the hands of the majority of the Irish marksmen. On 

 Saturday last, when the two teams were scoring their lust prac- 

 tice, side by side, the Americans seem to have repeated their old 

 policy of putting up a high score on the last day and so striking 

 dismay into the hearts of their opponents; 1,273 and 1,21s. were 

 the figures respectively of the American team and the best Irish 

 six. This was the last and best showing before the mutch, but it 

 was left fat behind in the actual figures of the battle. 



RANGE AND GALLERY. 



Boston, ilfdSS., June 19th.— The weather to-day was all that 

 oould be desired by the riflemen of Walnut Hill. Tho wind was 

 steady and from the west during the afternoon, and did mot In- 

 fluence the result In either match. There was a largo attendance 

 of spectators. In thf* renewed, oontesf ?4 200 yards there wero 

 -littles. 



