RECREATION. 



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More space will hereafter be given to 

 cycling news. Several articles on this 

 topic are now being prepared for 

 Recreation, by well known writers, 

 which will be liberally illustrated. Other 

 departments will also be opened, de- 

 voted to yachting, tennis, trap and 

 target shooting, natural history, etc. 

 Keep an eye on Recreation. It will 

 interest you, no matter what your favor- 

 ite sport may be. 



Will Say I. — There never was any 

 good reason why an editor should say 

 "we" when speaking of himself. There 

 is one good reason why he should say 

 " I," and that is, that it is right. The 

 editor of Recreation will use the per- 

 sonal pronoun, singular ; not in order 

 to be singular but in order to be right. 



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The future numbers of Recreation 

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 and much better in some ways. After 

 a few months the size will be increased. 



A CLEVER BOY RIFLEMAN. 



The portrait shown herewith is that 

 of master Clarence E. Long, of 

 Lafayette, Ind. It is from a photo- 

 graph taken in 1893, when he was 

 11 years old. At the International 

 Sharp-shooters Tournament in Chicago, 

 in August, 1893, he used a Stevens 

 new Ideal 25-20 rifle that was made 

 to order and weighed 9 pounds. In 

 his first 100 shots, he made 65 bulls 

 eyes ; and during his two days shoot- 

 ing did not make a single miss. He 

 carried off one of the International Sou- 

 venir medals, of which he is justly 

 proud; being the youngest sharp shooter 

 that had ever won one of these tro- 

 phies. His practice with rifle has been 

 confined, mainly, to fancy shooting, at 

 which it is claimed he has no equal at 

 his age. He shoots in all the positions 

 in which it is possible to handle a rifle — 

 standing on his head, bending backward 

 over a chair, and makes all the mirror 

 shots. He shoots the ashes from a cigar 



while his father smokes it ; cuts cards 

 held edgewise to him, and objects no 

 larger than ten cent-pieces are shot from 

 the fingers of an attendant. He cuts 

 a button from a belt, buttoned close 

 around his father's body, letting the belt 

 fall to the ground. 



Master Clarence has, within the last 

 few months also developed remarkable 

 skill with a shot gun, and during the In- 

 diana state tournament broke 8 out of 10 



CLARENCE E. LONG. 



blue rocks, under American revised rules. 

 It is believed that in a short time he will 

 make the expert trap shooters look to their 

 laurels. He is a stocky built boy, with 

 dark gray eyes and a modest, reserved, 

 disposition, rarely speaking except when 

 spoken to. 



He appears not more than ten years 

 old. He has shot a number of exhibi- 

 tions before large audiences, and shows 

 no embarrassment, going about his work 

 like an old timer. 



