CREST AND STREAM. 



-••''-ei..;, |Ji$ secoud Btage, bin score at 



r when 



idled to Lhe en'cinnstancea of i lie ca8e, Bui 

 im withmtt this the fth teamwould have had only fourth 

 ivinga sale first by 13 points 

 over the 48tb boys. The "Woodchuck" Was 

 outed, and while they have (lone well and Bhown them- 

 ii to rank with the first, the Oswego men did not 

 ,i against the red-capped representatives of the 

 Veteran Regiment of Brooklyn. (Open to teams of twelve. 

 ieh regiineul; or battalion of infantry of the National 

 Guard of 1 he Stale of New STork ; all competitors muBfe ap- 

 pear in the uniform of their corps; dfetance, 200 and 500 

 position, standing at 200, any at 500: weapon, Reta- 

 il tie, State model; rounds, five, at each distance; en- 

 sixteen teams competitiug; first prize, 

 Star-: trophy, presented by Governor Robinson', value $500; 

 second prize, $100 trophy; third prize, $75 silver vase, and 

 fourth prize, a $50 trophy ) ; 



Fourteenth Regiment, 



. T . 200 yards. 600 yarcls. 



Pnv Robertson 4 4 i 2 4—18 i 5 t 1 5-22 



Frlv Moore s S 4 4 4 is .1 r, + 1 5_22 



Bergi Hrowe 3 4 4 4 4—19 5 . r ) t> 5 0—20 



Tri v King 4 4 4 4 3— IS) 5 3 2 5 4— 19 



Oorp Harvey 44444— 20 4 4 4 3 3—18 



l'riv Henwood 3 4 5 4 4—20 4 4 4 4 2— IS 



Priv Smith 3 4 a 4 5—10 6 4 4 2 2—17 



Oaptain Pagan 4 4 4 4 4-20 4 3 4 8—13 



c<np Corey 4 i -i 4 4—20 0232 5—12 



Pnv Perry 5 3 4 4 3—19 8 3 2 4 U— 12 



laney 3(14 4 4—15 2 2 3 5 3—15 



PnvTurple 4 2 4 4 -i4 8 3 2 3— l| 



Total , 231 



Total. 



Hi 

 4D 



25 



l'nv Siearns, . . . 



■• luera 



eber 



l'nv Thompson. 

 a.'.y.... 



•Sei'nt A Ilea 



Total 



Pnv White 



Hergr Hilton — 

 Pnv l ropi e 



1-nv Hall 



rnv Hiun 



Pnv Posl 



Total 



109 420 



Twenty-third Regiment. 



i00 T'l 200 500 T'l 



..-.21 21 42 Priv Holbronk 20 14 



■..20 20 jn SergtOllver ...is 14 



...■21 17 3s Auj Fiothingaam....21 11 

 15 2-2 37 Pnv Melton 22 4 



■ .la l'6 85 JJeutBudd in 12 



....20 14 34 



227 180 407 



Foily-eighlii Regiment. 



lit swjTt Barnes Is 14 32 



■ •■20 is 38 Col Boughton it 



....20 IS 38 Capt Curtis J9 



....SO IT 3T PrivWood 13 16 20 



[3 21 h4 Sergt Harding 13 



....20 13 33 Lieut Barton |5 



14 

 ..200 104 403 



Lieut BeaumaD 17 



fcergt Ward 10 



Capt Hover v.i 



Beret liontiiey 14 



Lieut Kneeland 17 



UeutPobb 14 



Ninth Regiment; 



21 36 Sergt Stroll 20 



■ii 3? Maj Pryor its 



18 37 Sergt Engle at 



22 30 Sergt Nordtmieh....17 

 IT 31 Corp Eugle 19 



19 33 Col Hitchcock 17 



Total 207 



Seventh Regiment 229 



Eigteh Real 

 Forty-ninth Hegu 

 T weLTtn Regiment 

 Fortv-fouttti Batt! 

 Seventy-arai Hegi 

 Thirt.y-secend Ret 

 twenty-eighth k< 

 Sixty-ninth Regin 

 ,,, e i h Kegim 

 veuth Kef 

 Etlteenth Battalio 



ieni .'....'. .'.'.'.'.".'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.220 



lion....'. '.'.'...'. '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. ""218 



nem 215 



noeu t 902 



glmeni lee 



pm iss 



sni 193 



'went I9j 



1 194 



186 

 158 

 ]4fl 

 no 

 150 

 129 

 126 

 1 32 

 158 

 136 

 155 

 lit 



In the First Division match there was a good fight for first 

 place, aud notwithstanding the fact the Seventh secured a 

 lead at 200 yards, the superior shooting of the Scotch element 

 in the Seventy-first Regiment team secured them the honors, 

 after a close round, at 500 yards. It. was, in fact, a victory 

 for the old Seventy-ninth Highlanders, and "Auld Scotia" 

 and her sons felt proud of their power. Of the nine regiments 

 in the First Division, six only were represented, the Twenty- 

 second (Col. Porter), Fifth '(Col. Spencer) and the Eleventh 

 (Col. Umbekant) being the absentees. The full scores stood 

 (Open to teams of twelve from each regiment or battalion of 

 Infantry in the First Division, N. G. S. N. Y. : competitors to 

 appear in uniform and shoot with State model rifle; 200 and 

 500 yards ; 5 shots each distance ; position standing at 200, 

 any at 500 ; first prize, the Division trophy, value $100 ; sec- 

 ond and third prizes of *75 and $50, respectively; six teams 

 competing) : 



Pvle 



Williams 19 



Steele 19 



17 



Robertson 20 



Kdmondstou 20 



Seventy-tlrst Regiment. 



200 500 T'l 200 500 T'l 



.22 20 42 Young 19 I8 37 



19 38 Stevenson 17 is 35 



IS 37 Cochran 17 if, 33 



20 37 Davis 17 35 32 



17 B7 Clark.... 19 i 3 32 



17 37 Lindsay 15 16 31 



Total 221 207 428 



Stuart 16 



Murphy 20 



Cochran., 16 



Dewar is 



See 19 



Bradigan 17 



Eighth Regiment. 



21 



37 SCIark 18 



86 Hobart 20 



35 JCciarfc 22 



35 Barker 19 



35 Reed 19 



34 lleigman is 



Total 222 173 395 



Ward 21 



Beanman 17 



Sergt Bngle.. 17 



Dontney 20 



Corp Engle 16 



Cobb 15 



Ninth Regiment. 



18 



37 Hitchcock 16 



35 Nordbrueh ig 



35 Hover 15 



35 Stroh :t 



si Fryer 12 



88 Kueeland 10 



Total 200 191 391 



Seventh Regiment 224 166 ion 



Twelfth Regiment ." "$£ [U g£ 



Suty-nimh Regiment 195 v »i 317 



The Second Division match drew out all the Brooklyn 



organizations into a lively team contest, Capt, Farley almost 

 got his Fourteenth Regiment team to the front for the second 

 point, failing but one point of victory, which followed the 

 usual course of other years in going to the Twenty-third team 

 The. scores ran (Open to teams of twelve from any regiment 

 or baitalion in the Second Division, N. G. S. IS. Y.- other 

 conditions as in First Division match ; all the seven onWza 

 tions of the Second Division represented) : 



Stearns 32 



FroT.hmgham IS 



Alberu 18 



llolbrook,,. 



Candee 20 



Total 



Twenty-third Regiment. 



9 500 T'l 200 



18 40 Oliver ~ n 



21 39 Bnrd 



IS 30 Puiney 



10 36 Holton 



14 34 Allen 



14 34 Thompson 14 



600 



T'l 



16 



S3 



W 



31 



!'■■ 



81 



14 



32 



14 



3« 



18 



27 



..217 ISS 405 



a wood 20 



19 

 Pr.v Smith . . i 



l'riv Ronertson 



Pnv Tnrjne 10 



Priv Moore. 16 



Fourteenth Regiment. 



43 Priv Hafvej 



■It Pifv Km;/ 18 



37 Pnv Clancy 17 



37 Priv Perfy, is 



30 PrivCorr.v 15 



35 SergtBrowe 16 



IB 



S3 





33 



10 



33 



Total , 213 



Thirteenth Regiment, 



J.init Ceiir.. . 



Pliv Hogg 8(1 



Priv Darvean 19 



Corp Fradenburgh...i9 



Priv Crhrss 21 



Drum Flood 17 



10 



39 Corp Towuley 19 



3s sergt KellneT IB 



37 Sergl.Moodv 15 



86 Priv Reed 16 



35 Sergt Mnoro 19 



33 Priv Jones lo 



11 



21 



GNFlsh. 



A Hlldebrand . 



Wm Hildebrand. 



K P Wells . 



Total 21 1 173 3S4 



Thirty -secoud Regiment 207 161 368 



Forty-seven 1 h Uegiment 201 154 335 



Twenty -eighth Regiment IBS 138 



Fifteenth Regiment pju in 307 



Nii\v Yoke— Wawiiy.— The YVaverly Rifle ABSOciation'fl 

 r-onlest tor the silver cup presented by E. F. Weils, ended in 

 favor of D. 1). Enapp, the secretary of the club, at their 

 range a few days since; shooting 15 shots each; distance 800, 

 900 and 1.000 yards. The wind varying as usual through the 

 Shepard Kavine from lo 8 points side and rear. The scores 

 stood : 



f S00— 455545 5 S53545 5— B5"| 



DDK napp - 900—4 3553453454545 4-03 - 197 



(1,000— i 5 5 5 4 5 4 5 5 5 5 4 4 5 4 — BPJ 

 ' 800—4 3 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4— 70*1 

 900—5 5 4 4 5 5 ,5 5 5 5 5 3 4 5 3— lis ■ 190 

 1,000— S 3 4 5 5 5 5 3 3 4 4 3 3 5 4— 08 J 

 800—4 3 4 4 3 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 3 5 4—64) 

 OIKI-O 5 5 4 3 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4— 59 V 191 

 (1,000—5 5 5 4 3 4 5 5 4 5 4 5 5 4 5— Hsl 

 I SOU—. 2 3 4 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 4 5 5 5—07) 

 J 9011—5 4 4 5 3 5 3 5 5 5 3 3 4 6— 59 V 187 

 (1,000—4 3 3 3 4 3 5 4 5 5 3 5 5 5 4— Oil 

 . S00— 4 5 4 3 4 5 4 4 5 5 5 4 3 3— 5S) 

 J 900—5 5 3 5 H 1 4 5 5 3 5 4 3 5 4— B3> 1S4 

 / 1 ,000—5 4 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 3 — 63) 

 ( 800—3 4 5 5 3 5 3 3 2 5 5 4 4 2 S-Ss'i 



W D Campbell - 900-5 4 3 5 5 4 3 2 5 4 3 4 2 3—52 - 161 



( 1,000-5 0054545 522435 2— 5lJ 



The Nevada Badc4E. — A Co., Forty-eighth Regiment, N. 

 G. S. N. Y., Shot for the Nevada badge on the 6th inst., and 

 their score is certainly a most excellent one. Last year 

 they were successltil on a score of 25 19-40 per man, shoot- 

 ing -10 men in the company. By a change in the condi- 

 tions, they were this year permitted to shoot with a mini- 

 mum of 35 men, and the average leaps to 3'i 47.100 per man 

 out of the possible 50. The aggregate last year with 40 men 

 reached 1,169 points ; this year, with but 35 men, the total 

 reached 1,171 points. The Oswego Times is happy, and 

 yet sees a looming danger in the success of its friends, say- 

 ing : " This score is likely to discourage competition. Up 

 to this time no other company has announced its intention 

 of competing for the badge, and after this score is an- 

 nounced we hardly think any of them will care to shoot 

 against it," The weather conditions during the match were 

 fair, and the shooting was witnessed by Col. Manning, Di- 

 vision Inspector of Rifle Practice, and Major Chapman, En- 

 gineer of the Twenty-fourth Brigade. The range toUls 

 stood : 



E J Bell 20 



JS Barton 21 



Geo White 21 



r a Post 23 



CNCoe 21 



C A Barton 20 



A Cropsey 20 



JPHall 20 



T Donuovan (2). .10 



PT Perkins 20 



S. Cne 20 



E Miller IS 



P O Wright 19 



L Woolson 20 



D Hall 20 



JL Wood 15 



A Clerniijgs 1V 



JC Harding IS 



200 yds. 500 yds. T'l 



41 



44 W A Johnson .... 20 



44 F Lupin 14 



44 T Donnovan (11. .15 



44 D Marshall it 



43 D L Barnes 18 



42 A Harness 20 



JNinoff 16 



T Bertram! 19 



39 JE Sleight 19 



39 M 1, Marshall.... 16 



39 E Purple 14 



37 T W Goodsell. ...10 



37 H J Calkins 20 



37 A Paiuo 13 



36 A Cavalier 11 



35 E A Swettenhaml4 

 J McCaun 10 



200 yds. 500 yds. T' 



35 



Total 612 559 1,171 



Massachusetts — Wdbiut Rill. — The final contest for 

 places on the inter-Stale team., representing the Massachu- 

 setts Rifle Association, was held at the Walnut Hill ranges, 

 Sept. 5, and the team determined upon as follows : W. II. 

 Jackson, James Weinyss, Jr., A. P. Clarke and C. C. Heh- 

 bard, with Wm. Gerrish as reserve. The leading scores at 

 the final test stood : 



( S00— 3 4535854555355 4—661 



A P Clarke J, 900—5 435 5 434455555 5—67-203 



(1.0110-5 635 5554445555 5— 70 j 

 ( 800—4 44555 4 55 5 555 5 5—71 ) 



C C Hebbard J 903—5 5 4 4 5 6 3 5 5 5 4 5 5—60 > 192 



(1,000—4 55 2 5554 3 33545 5— 61 J 

 ( 801—5 53 3 4440454455 5—60) 



Wm Gerrish ^ 900—4 0545 4 5 0555454 5— 60V179 



(1,000—3 534 55524K5455 3— B9l 

 ( 800—2 23 3335555345 5—63) 



A Hebbard J. 900-4 45 4 55 2 5554344 5— fit -172 



(1,000—4 3 553053405535 5-55J 



Michigan— Detroit, Sept. 5. — At the return match between 

 teams of the Windsor (Ontario) Infantry and Detroit Light- 

 guard, the scores were as follows, Creedmoor target and 

 rules : 



3 I. AVnodl.ridffp.. Manchester S 46 6 5 5 5 5 5 5-4 



S A Hubbard, Hartford j 5 5 4 5 5 4 3 4 4—4 



(i W Yale, Han ford i, | g 4-4 



W lllilnus, Hartford ■....;, 3 r. 4 3 5 .1 2 4—4 



In the "all-comers" match at 500 yards, with any rifle .40 

 eal. jjr under, Nathan was again to the fore, aud out of 

 sible 50, scores stood ■. 



N Washburn 47 F T Stmlley 41 



8 A Hni.uanl 41 J L Woodbrldge 4» 



GTJudil 42 



String Shooting.— The National Rifle Club held their 

 twentieth annual meeting on the 5th aud (lib inatS., at South 

 Vernon, Vermont, on grounds near the railroad depot, and 

 not far from the club's headqua iters at, "mine inn" of I). 

 S. Priest, whose judicious arrangements left nothing to be 

 desired tiy rifleman or layman. The weather was clear, but 

 the wind high and too Shifty for close shooting. The ai 

 tendance of members, as also of lookers on, ran larger Mian 

 usual. The order of the day was : Three ten strings at 40 

 rods, position and rest without restriction ; standard weight 

 of idle, 15 lbs. ; every excess handicapped under the rules of 

 the club ; a prize, pro rata, to each of the best three of 

 every ten string, and the medal to the best aggreatc. Fol- 

 lowing are the scores in inches, 8ths and lOtiis, of the re- 

 spective winners : 



First String— N S Brockway. 9.5.0 Second String— N Hatch 16.4.1 



DA Brown.. ..14. 1.0 Third String-E ,) Day s.7.0 



L Amadou.... 14.3.1 11 Houghton.14.6.1 



Second String— U A Brown... '3.2.0 EPliillipa. ...15.5.1 



N S Brockway .10.2.1 



Best aggregate, President J. Williamson, N. Y., 43.2.0. 



New York — Oswego, Sept. G.— Company A, of the Forty- 

 eighth Regiment, shot here to day for the Nevada badge, 

 under the new rules, with 135 men, scoring 1,171. Last 

 year, with 45 men, their score was 1,169. 



— Twelve clubs have now entered into affiliation with tho 



National Rifle Association. 



Wisconsin— Milwauk&k, Sept. 3.— The officers elected at 

 the lust meeting of the rifle club are: Pros., John Johnston ; 

 ViccPrcs., Gen. E. W. Hindis ; Sec, Chauncey Bimonds, 

 Treas., D. 15. P'rankenberger ; Ex. Com.— H. P. Hale, Jno. 

 R. Goodrich, II. Drake ; Finance Com.— C. T. Hawley, 

 John Nazro, O. B. Hopkins; Bange Com. — J. O. Welles, 

 E. Bangs, E. Fielding. 



A Reply to the Scotsmen.— As a fitting final movement 

 to the flow of correspondence following Hie Scottish protest, 

 the subjoined letter has been sent from this side. It must be 

 understood once and finally by all who enter upon the contest 

 for this trophy, that the " conditions as established and con- 

 strued by the Board of Directors " are to hold binding upon 

 the trophy wherever it may rest, and whoever shall contest/for 

 and win it, with any mental reservations on any of the points 

 in dispute, takes a dishonest and ungcutlemanly course of pro- 

 cedure and acts under false pretences in the matter: 



The National Rifle Association, Otll 



23 Park Kow, New York, September 7, 



Mb. E. Kenton, Hon. See. National Rifle club, Scotland, 



Regent St., Glasgow. 



Dear Sir— I have the honor to inform yon that at a meeting of the 



Board of Directors of the National Kille As-oeiatiou, held on Thursday, 



Sept. 6th inst., your letter of 21st August, re f< i . oil, to w. u i a >> u 



July, previously received and enclosing iiewsi)ii|>err,o|iv <>i a letter from 



you to Mr. H. Ross, was presented, and the Secretary was thereupon 



directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and inform you that 



fiT Wo 



the conditions to govern Co 

 Tropy originally establis' " 

 ors, cannot now or at an, 

 of Directors or by any i 

 I am, Sir, with great r 



Windsor Infantry. 



200 300 500 



CaptRlce 18 6 13 



Purser 19 IB 



Meadow 18 12 3 



Morton IT 17 13 



Gowiie 16 10 9 



Shipley ...17 15 6 



T'l 



Detroit Lightguard. 



200 500 500 T'l 



37 Capt Hochgraef.. i 



:5 inward 21 



3t Ardiey 18 



47 Roberts 10 



SO Bibsell 10 



38 Grant 13 



Total 221 Total , 171 



"Thus endeth the second lesson." D. D. 



Connecticut.- — The Willowbrook shooters were out on Sat- 

 urday last, and, at long and mid-range, Mr. Washburn, the 

 heavy shootist, swept all before him. In ten shots each, at 

 the long ranges, the scores stood : 



800 yds. 900 yds. 



N Washburn , Hartford 89 42 



F Weasels, New Britain 41 42 



GTJudd, Middletown 43 41 



W H Bums, Hartrord ,48 42 



O Judd, Middletown .42 3T 



Won Parker, New Britain 43 34 



O V Coffin, Middletown 39 38 



Messrs. Yale of Hartford, King of New Britain, Wood- 

 bridge of Manchester, Camp of Middletown, and Hawley of 

 Hartford were present, but did not shoot full scores. 



At mid-range the leading scores were very fine, the best 

 scores standing : 



N Washburn, Hartford 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5—50 



Wm Parker, New Britaia 5 56555555 5—50 



1,000 yds. Total. 



44 125 



42 125 



41 125 



35 12S 



41 120 



35 112 



rjetitions for the American Centennial 

 id as construed by this Board of Direct - 

 hereafter be altered either by : the Board 



your obedient servant, 



GEO.S. SCHEKMERBtOJUT, J R -- 



Secretiry National Rifle Association. 



The Canadian Match. — In the account given in your last 

 issue of the American-Canadian match by your Toronto cor- 

 respondent I notice some inaccuracies which I trust you will 

 allow to be corrected. 1st. Bell used a Rigby rifle, not a 

 Metford, and Gibson used a Rem. Creed., not a Metford. 2d. 

 It is scarcely accurate to say that the only opportunity offered 

 to the American's practice was by their taking part in the 

 small bore matches in progress on their arrival. A target had 

 been set apart specially for their practice. This target they 

 used in the competitions, shooting by themselves with the 

 usual coaching of a practicing team. 3d. It is ungenerous to 

 say that the Canadians expected to achieve an easy victory. 

 It would be stating facts more accurately to have said that 

 the Canadians expected a more decisive defeat. 4th. Your 

 correspondent lays too much stress on the absence of coach- 

 ing on the part of the Canadians, and not enough on the fact 

 that of the four Canadians who used the Remington three had 

 had them only a short time in practice, and have not yet 

 learned all that is to be known in the successful management 

 of that rifle. The Canadians are by no means discouraged by 

 the result. They have had great pleasure in welcoming the 

 Americans on Canadian ground, and I trust that efforts will 

 be made by them to put in a creditable appearance in next. 

 year's contest for the Centennial Trophy. J. M. 



Hamilton, Sept. 10, 1877. 



The Gaednee Gun.— Captain William Gardner, who has 

 perfected the actions of several superior guds for both sport- 

 ing and war-like uses, has been exhibiting at Newport his new 

 invention. The gun has but a single barrel, and weighs only 

 forty-three pounds, or little more than than one-ninth the ten- 

 barrel Galling gun, whose weight, is 350 pounds, while the 

 French mitrailleuse, with thirty-seven barrels, is still heavier. 

 Captain Gardner's gun is supplied with cartridges, which are 

 placed in a vertical slot, ten at a time, and thence forced by a 

 rapidly revolving crank into the barrel chambers when they 

 are discharged. With two men to work it, one to feed and 

 the other to turn, the gun discharges 300 bullets per minute. 

 The report has been likened, by a newspaper correspondent' 

 to that of a sharp b-r-r-r-r-r. At one of the experiments 

 with this formidable piece, in the presence of army and navy 

 officers, at a range of fifty yards it cut a tough white oak tim- 

 ber nearly twelve inches square in two in forty-five seconds. 

 The inventor has fired it in the presence of an army officer 

 2,600 times without the loss of a second, and that while the 

 gun was then found to be foul, it was in perfect working 

 order ; nor was it heated to a degree that rendered it necessary 

 to discontinue the firing. This result, it is said, is secured by 

 giving a greater weight of metal to the one barrel than is given 

 where, a number of barrels arc brought together. Altogether 

 this arm surpasses anything heretofore invented. With 

 batteries of Gardner guns the Turks and Russians ought to 

 make short work of each other. 



