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FOREST AND STREAM. 



of -which we have every reason to congratulate ourselves. If 

 from our German friends we have learned the primary school 

 of the rifle, it has been a pleasure for us to Introduce them to 

 team shooting. 



Our engraving gives a capital conception of the medal pre- 

 sented by us to the teams which shot on Jan. 23, at Union 

 Hill Schutzen Park. The medal is of gold, worked with 

 various shades of the precious metal. In the centre is a 

 white enamel target, divided by gold circles, with a black 

 bull's-eye. A wreath of laurel surrounds the crown. The 

 legend, " Champion Team— Forest and Stream Medal, 1878," 

 is engraved on a scroll. The medal is hung by a gold chain 

 from two miniature German Schutzen rifles, with their pecu- 

 liar globe sights and curved butt plates. t Our numerous Ger- 

 man friends have been quite unanimous in regard to the gen- 

 eral good taste our artist has evinced in the designing and 



execution of this trophy. 



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THE FOREST AND STREAM AND ROD 

 AND GUN TOURNAMENT 

 For the Sh.ort-Range Championship 

 And three team medals, which will be awarded to the teams 

 making the first, second and third best scor es. Other prizes 

 will be offered also, to take place at Conlin's shooting 

 gallery. Open to teams from any organized rifle club. 



Condition*.— Teams— Each team shall consist of ten men. The teams 

 participating must be composed of members of the various clubs 

 which they represent. Rides— Limited to ten pounds in weight ; mini- 

 mum pnll of trigger, three pounds ; .22-100 cal. Teams can furnish 

 their own rifles and ammunition, or use those at the gallery, as they 

 may desire. Number of Shots— Ten by each competitor. Sighting 

 Shots— Two shots will be allowed each competitor. Position— Off- 

 hand. Targets— 200-yards targets, according to the regulations of the 

 N.R. A. redueed In proportion to the range at the gallery. Practice- 

 No practice allowed on the day of the match. Entrance Fee— Five 

 dollars to be paid at the office of the Forbst and Stream and Rod 

 and Gitn, No. ill Fulton street, N. Y. All teams desiring to compete 

 must be «ntered ten days before the time the match is announced to 

 take plaw. The match to be governed by the rules of the N. R. A. 

 relating to teams. Captains of the competing teams shall meet one 

 week before the commencement of the match, make all preliminary 

 arrangements, choose referees, and decide in what order their respect- 

 ive teams shall shoot. The referees shall elect an umpire, whose de- 

 •islon in all cases shall] be final. The time when this match is to be 

 shot will be mentioned in the next number of the paper. 



AN INTERNATIONAL MILITARY 

 MATCH. 



It has all along been tacitly agreed that international 

 matcheB should be long-range contests. There is reason for 

 this, yet not sufficient ground for the exclusion of other styles 

 of marksmanship in the determination of national champions. 

 It is quite true that the ability to show a good record at the 

 extreme ranges, demands that the marksman be provided with 

 the best arms, that he be in the best condition personally, and 

 that in matters of judgment and discretion he be trained to 

 the highest degree. It affords a style of shooting sufficiently 

 difficult in itself to warrant the highest public honor and praise 

 to the successful marksmen. The popular notion is that such 

 shooting is the most difficult, and therefore the most proper, 

 for so important a test as that on which national champion- 

 ship honors rest, and like many popular notions there is a 

 basis of fact, overlarded with a vast scum of fiction and 

 error. 



And yet, after all, small-bore shooting per se is a mere sport, 

 a work of fancy and pleasure. There are dependent upon it 

 important problems in the art of small-bore gunnery. But if 

 long-range shooting has any application, it must be to the 

 subjects of war or hunting. Still, to neither of these use's 

 would a small-bore rifle be directly applied. A trapper would 

 not care to drag a match rifle, with its delicately graduated 

 sight bars, etc., with him to the field, nor would an ordnance 

 board recommend the placing of these weapons in the hands 

 of a regiment of soldiers. The lessons which the score-book 

 of the long-range shooter teaches may be, should be, and are, 

 indeed, heeded by both hunter and soldier, but neither of them 

 adopts his weapon outright. 



Every nation has its corps [of armed defenders and citizen 

 soldiers. They are generally armed with the best arms so far 

 as their judgment and means dictate, and yet all these ayns 

 are various, and it would seem the most natural competitive 

 trial possible to have men of these several nationalities come 

 together before the butts, and, armed each with his favorite 

 piece, show their ability and strive for the peaceful trophies 

 of the rifle range. There are difficulties about such a match, 

 many imaginary obstacles and a few real ones. Any fear of 

 losing "points," by exhibiting in this way before a possible 

 enemy, may be set aside as ill-founded. We need no trial to 

 eonvince us that our Sharps and Remington military weapons 

 are superior to the Snider, or the Manser, or the Ohassepot, 

 and yet a match with men bearing these arms and having faith 

 in them would be serviceable to them and us alike ; precisely 

 as our long-range matches have been of advantage, and will be 

 in the future, even though we are now firmly of a mind that 

 our breech-loading match rifles are without a rival in accuracy 

 and precision. 



To properly test the question of military rifle superiority 

 would demand the parade of a liberal team, that something of 

 the conditions which surround a man in actual service should 

 prevail. The close coaching system of the long-range match 

 would need be largely laid aside. The men, while mutually 

 helpful, would not be so mutually independent, that the pul- 

 Mtioiui of one should raise eympnthetic throbbings in another. 



Wlm lU rough md imdj weapon, ol the picket hue and 



the battle-field, the accurate work of the small-bore rifle should 

 not be expected, yet such a match would be most eagerly 

 awaited, most critically watched, and the results would bring 

 more than the empty ring of victory to many a thinking, 

 watching spectator. The slow leaven of the International 

 matches is working through the thick crust of British old- 

 fogyism, yet how much keener would a defeat of a picked 

 team of British volunteers strike the masses ? The long-range 

 men are looked upon as somewhat of an ornament, but to 

 have the bulwarks of their homes, the defenders of their fire- 

 sides and the saviors of their soil pushed aside even in the 

 playful warfare of the rifle-range, would give the gallant 

 Englishmen the most doleful of dumps. Nor should we feel 

 so jubilant as now, were a pi eked squad of our National Guards- 

 men to meflt a defeat at foreign hands. 



An International Military match would call out more en- 

 thusiasm, stir up more talk, agitate a much larger circle and 

 do more for the advancement of rifle practice here toward the 

 position of a national sport than a dozen long-range shoots. 

 Nine-tenths of what is now known as modern rifle practice in 

 America may be traced back to the acceptance of the Irish 

 challenge by the Amateur Rifle Club in Nov., 1872. Yet we 

 venture to say that the enthusiasm of that first match and its 

 successors, warm as it was, would be frigid beside the popular 

 outburst which would follow a properly conducted inilitary 

 match open to all the nations (not countries) of the world. 



W. 



.— *#. — • 



The Next International Match.— At fa meeting of the 

 American Team of 1877, held on Wednesday last, all the 

 members except Jackson present, it was unanimously agreed 

 to have the next match for the Centennial trophy in Septem- 

 ber, 1878, exact day and place to be determined at a subse- 

 quent date. 



The Olyphant Trophy. — CoL Robert Olyphant has offered 

 a handsome bronze trophy for competition at Creedmoor dur- 

 ing the coming season. Col. Olyphant is desirous of promot- 

 ing "file and volley firing." The contest, which will be 

 termed the " soldiers' match," will be open to teams of eight 

 (privates or corporals) from any company, troop, or battery, 

 in the National Guard, each organization having the right to 

 enter an unlimited number of teams. The conditions are as 

 follows : Distance, 200 yards ; position, standing ; weapons, 

 military rifles or carbines, State model. The competitors will 

 be required to wear their uniforms, and the match will be 

 divided into two stages. The first stage will consist of firing 

 by files, five rounds by each man, the time occupied not to 

 exceed two minutes from the cominaad. The second stage 

 will consist of volley firing, five volleys being fired by each 

 team. The firing in both stages will be conducted according 

 to the regular tactics, each team being formed into a squad of 

 four files, and commanded by an officer of its own company, 

 who will give the requisite orders. The prize will be held by 

 the team which wins it for one month, when it will again be 

 submitted for competition. 



RrrLE-SHOOTTHQ at Creedmoor. — The second contest for a 

 purse of $100 in gold took place at Creedmoor Gallery, No, 

 290 Broadway, on Saturday last. The distance covered was 

 200 yards; ten shots per man. The scores were as follows : 



JBRaehe 5 54544565 5— 4T 



FADugro i 54445456 5—15 



FHHolton 4 46454646 5-45 



PGFenniug 8 55445444 5—45 



J B Blydenburgh 4 6655 1444 5—45 



J Sanger: 5 44554545 4—45 



K Benjamin 6 54455544 4 — 45 



WRobeitson 5 45544554 3—44 



F Backofen 4 54445454 4-— 13 



I) P Davids 3 54444545 6—43 



Biydeaburgh 3 4 4554454 6—43 



Wra Foster 3 84564444 5—43 



WmMFarrow 8 44654545 4—43 



MrJohr 5 54554444 3—43 



BZettler 4 55335564 4—43 



HWGourley 5 46433544 4—11 



SFKneeland 4 54343455 3— 4U 



J Levev .'.4 44354444 4— 48 



J W Todd 5 43244534 3—36 



DA Steele 3 43443 2 44 8—84 



New York Rule Club, at its meeting on Jan. 24, for the 

 Blydenburgh medaL made the following Bcores : 



200 yds. 800 yds. T'l 



C E Blydenburgh 48 49 95 



STGDudley 4T 48 95 



J B Blydenburgh 47 46 93 



AJHowlett 47 46 93 



Valentine Daly IT 45 92 



JSConlin « 44 91 



F Alder « 43 87 



SW Sibley « « 86 



P Lorillard, Jr 44 41 85 



JJDuckworth 41 43 84 



U O'Donnell 42 40 82 



ACWnrtele 4* & W 



J Ward 35 36 71 



J H Meeker 85 35 70 



Mr. V. Daly won the elegant trophy, with an allowance of 

 25 points. 



— Zettler Rifle Club held their weekly shoot at 207 Bowery, 

 Jan. 22. Conditions— 100 feet, off-hand, Creedmoor targets ; 

 possible 50 points. 



MBEngel 48 ALBeatese 42 



P Kenning 48 O Vollars 41 



\V M Farrow 48 J Connor 40 



ML Riggs : 47 A Aochl 40 



US Zettler 46 John R Grohman 42 



D Miller 46 JDutil 45 



Cliaa Jndsoa 46 MDorrler 40 



BZettler 45 F Farbarus 42 



Theo Klelsrath 44 F Patterson 40 



GShurman 48 R Zimmerman 40 



Foubtenth Regiment Armory. — The new armory of the 

 Fourteenth Regiment, Second Division, N. G. S. N. Y., a 

 spacious iron building on Portland avenue, near Auburn 

 place, Brooklyn, was opened with appropriate ceremonies and 

 festivities last Monday evening. An assemblage of military 

 and civil guests crowded the building, among them many gen- 

 tlemen of prominence. The exercises opened with a review 

 of the regiment by Major-Gen. T. S. Dakin. Following was 

 the presentation of the prizes won by the regiment team at 

 Creedmoor last year, and of a beautifully-designed and orna- 

 mented sword and belt, which the officers and men presented 

 to Surgeon Farley in Mkarwledgrneat of his su««esg m Cap- 



tain of the regimental team and of his qualities as an officer. 

 After this came the presentment of the marksman's badge, 

 a dress parade, and then the dance. The occasion was a 

 most pleasant one in every way worthy of the popular corps. 

 Seventh Regiment Conoeet.— The first of Grafulla's 

 series of promenade concerts was given in the Seventh Regi- 

 ment Armory last Saturday evening. The officer's rooms and 

 the main drill room were elegantly decorated with flowers, 

 arms, and bunting ; the attendance was large, the toilets bril- 

 liant and the programme excellent in selection and execution. 

 During the progress of the concert the rifle club had a shoot- 

 ing match in the basement for the diamond badge, which was 

 won by Private E. W. Price, upon the score of 62 out of a 

 possible 70 points ; 28 at 200 and 34 at 500 yards. 



Twent-Third Regiment Concert. — The armory of the 

 Twenty-third Regiment, on Clermont avenue, Brooklyn, was 

 crowded with a merry throng of Brooklyn's elite last Satur- 

 day evening. It was the first promenade concert of the 

 season, and in addition to the admirable musical programme 

 arranged by Conterno there was a shooting match between 

 the Bachelors and Benedicks. The thousands of dancers and 

 spectators, who filled the spacious floors and galleries to their 

 utmost capacity, were not slow in espousing the cause of their 

 champions. Those who upheld the honor of the respective 

 states of single and married blessedness were : 



Benedicks— Sergt. W. L. Candee, Priv. J. W. Sweeney, 

 Priv. J. L. Thompson, Priv. J. K. Barlow, Adjt. J. B. 

 Frothinghan, Corp. C. A. Coffin, Priv. F. H. Holton, Priv. J. 

 R. Stearns. 



Bachelors— Sergt. Ezra DeForest, Corp. D. C. Pinney, 

 Priv. F. N. Holbrook, Corp. Fred Albers, Lieut. E. W. 

 Burd, Sergt. J. M. Allen, Corp. A. G. Weber, Sergt. W. J. 

 Oliver. 



The Bachelors made a score of 156 against a record of 133 

 for their competitors. There will be a second concert Feb. 

 12, which will be preceded by a drill and dress parade of the 

 right wing. 



The New Jersey Rule Association.— The Board of Direc- 

 tors of the New Jersey Rifle Association held an adjourned 

 meeting at No. 23 Park row on Thursday last, the 24th of 

 January. CoL W. H. DeHart presided. Mr. Bonnet re- 

 ported that he had been offered the refusal of a tract extend- 

 ing for 2,500 feet along the line of the Central Railroad of 

 New Jersey, which could be leased for a nominal sum. Mr. 

 Man reported for the Committee on Legislation that he had 

 placed a copy of the act of incorporation of the association in 

 the hands of a member of the New Jersey Legislature, who 

 had promised to report the bill at once. On motion of Mr. 

 Man the following committee was appointed to draft articles 

 of incorporation of the association : C. A. S. Man, B. A. Vail, 

 and J. T. B. Collins. Major Fulton stated that it was Gov. 

 McClellen's intention to inspire a method for the reorganiza- 

 tion of the National Guard of New Jersey, and in the proposi- 

 tion he would make he would refer to the necessity for mak- 

 ing provision for rifle practice by the National Guard of that 

 State. 



Haokensaok Ribxe Association, Jan. 25.— Monthly match 

 for the diamond badge; 200 yards, off-hand : 



W Holberton 4 44546434 5—42 



H K Brims 4 64345544 4—42 



B S Earle ...4 24444435 4—38 



J VanValen 3 43544484 4—38 



WBBanta 4 44364383 3-38 



VanStrachitz.: 3 23354443 5—36 



Ackerman 4 04444444 4—36 



Vanderbecfe 3 S4234206 4—30 



C WellB 4 38440408 3—28 



Corklln „..S 2 8 3 2 0— w 



Won by W. Holberton. 



Second Match— For N. R. A. bronze medal, to go to 

 highest score, and remain with winner until his score is beaten: 



WHolberton 4 5355 4 444 5—43 



Freattt 4 44443544 5 — 41 



ABBanta 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 5 '4-4(1 



Ackerman 4 44344434 5—39 



Bruus 4 44344444 4-39 



VanStrachitz 4 44444443 4—39 



C Wells 3 23 484344 4— 34 



Earle S 34034634 3-32 



New Oeleans Rifle Club, Jan. 20. — Good scores were 

 made at 500 yards, off-hand, standing, with the following re- 

 sults : 



MrCK 5 5473453545444 5—65 



DrAB 5 4353535245362 3—57 



The best shots of this club having divided into two teams 

 as evenly as possible, an interesting contest is looked for 

 within the next few weeks. At 100 yards good practice scores 

 were made, and, with the completion of a full team, more 

 than average scores may be expected. 



The competition for the new badge presented the club by 

 its president, will take place the first Sunday in February, 

 under special rules of the donator, and his motto, " May the 

 best man win." 



Frogmoor— Crescent City Rifle Club.— The seventh com- 

 petition for the gold badge of the Louisiana Field Artillery 

 team took place on January 20, on the grounds of the club, 

 Mr. W. R. Verlander being the winner. Below are the lead- 

 ing scores : 



WRVerlauder 4 4 4 3 4—19 RFSchmutz 3 2 3 4 4—16 



PODurel 3 4 4 3 5-19 G Maspcro 2 2 3 5 3—16 



M Leaumont 3 3 4 4 8—17 E M Meillenr 2 4 3 3 3—15 



Ohio — Cincinnati, Jan. 21. — The following scores were 

 made by the rifle team of the Cincinnati Shooting and Fishing 

 Club, on the 13th inst. ; off-hand, at 200 yards ; wind mod- 

 erate ; 3 o'clock breeze ; day dark ; light rain j average with- 

 in a fraction of 63 in a possible 75. The aggregate of the last 

 shoot by the team was 378. 



Baum 5.4 445454454454 5-66 



CaldweU 4 5 454634544464 4—64 



Sedam >. 4 4442556444444 6—62 



Disney 4 4444443464546 4—62 



Eaton 3 4445445444444 5-62 



Hall 4 4444454444444 4—61—377 



[We beg to call attention to this score, which is remarkable 

 for its excellence. Sixty-six and sixty-four, off-hand, at 200 

 yards, are very high figures, and difficult to beat. We trust 

 these gentlemen will keep working together as a team. We 

 do not see why we should not have strong teams at short 

 ranges to compete with other teams. If the Cincinnati Shoot- 

 ing and FiBhing Club will keep on, they are likely to make a 

 name for themselves.] 



