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tested, were obliged to enter into the match without pre¬ 
vious practice except the traditions of last November. 
A curious error was made by the markers, which might 
have caused some delay. The rain having washed off the 
lines designating the centre, the markers delayed repairing 
them until the time of the match, and then, in their haste 
and being a little “rusty,” managed to reduce the size 
of the centres some six inches on all the targets. 
After some short deliberation, as time was short, 
and “what was fair for one was fair for all,” it was de¬ 
cided to commence firing without making any change. 
This of course, may account for some of the scores not 
counting actually as high as they were worth. 
The shooting was admirable in every way, as may be 
seen by the scores. During the match the sky was over¬ 
cast but there was little if any wind, and the day was an 
excellent one in every way for shooting, there being no 
glare, glitter or atmospheric disturbances. 
The conditions of the match were as follows: Distance, 
500 yards; position, any; rifle, any breech-loader, not over 
ten pounds in weight and having a minimum trigger pull of 
three pounds; open to members of the Amateur Rifle Club 
only: 
first match for the badge given by the a. r. club. 
Name Rifle. Score. Total 
T s Conlin ..... Sharp sporting. 4444444 28 
L L Hepburn.-. ■ - Remington sporting, 
John Bodine.Remington sporting 
Leon Backer.Remington sporting 
q W Vale.Sharp sporting... . 
H Fulton.Sharp military. 
Kobert Omand. Remington sporting 
p G Sandford.Remington sporting 
j'p M. Richards.Sharp sporting. 
A V Canfield, Jr.Remington sporting 
Thomas Lloyd.Sharp military. 
G. Crouch.Sharp sporting..... 
G W Wingate.Remington sporting 
a' J. Hennion, Jr.Sharp sporting. 
L C. Bruce.Ballard sporting.. 
Scot 
4 4 4 
4 4 4 
3 3 4 
4 4 3 
4 4 4 
4 4 4 
2 4 4 
2 3 3 
0 4 3 
2 4 3 
0 3 3 
4 3 2 
3 0 4 
3 2 0 
0 2 0 
CLUB. 
•e. 
4 4 4 4 
3 4 3 4 
4 4 3 4 
4 4 3 3 
2 4 2 4 
4 3 2 3 
3 3 3 4 
2 3 3 4 
3 4 4 2 
3 2 3 2 
3 3 2 4 
4 0 2 2 
2 2 3 2 
2 4 0 3 
2 3 0 2 
306 
Average—2.914. 
Mr. Conlin’s score of 28, all he could possibly make, hit¬ 
ting the bullseye seven times hand running, was admirable 
shooting. Of course, Mr. Conlin had the badge given to 
him, and he had the honor of wearing it for a while. As 
the condition of holding the badge permanently required 
that it should be won three times by the same person, a 
second match was in order, when the following equally 
handsome score was made: 
second match. 
Name. 
RiUe. 
Score. 
Total 
John Bodine. 
4444444 
28 
G. W. Yale. 
.Sharp sporting. 
4434443 
26 
H. Fulton. 
4434334 
25 
Leon Backer. 
.Remington sporting.. 
4423344 
24 
Thomas Lloyd. 
.Sharp military. 
4344324 
24 
kj. W. Wingate. 
.Remington sporting.. 
3334424 
23 
L. L, Hepbnrn. 
4024444 
22 
Robert Omand. 
.Remington sporting.. 
4443222 
21 
A, V. Canfield, Jr_ 
.Remington sporting.. 
4242422 
20 
J. S. Conlin. 
.Sharp sporting. 
3324233 
20 
G. Crouch. 
.Sharp sporting. 
3 3 4 2 2 2 2 
18 
A. J. Henniou, Jr_ 
.Sharp sporting. 
2240332 
16 
J. P. M. Richards. 
.Sharp sporting_... 
3340202 
14 
L. C. Bruce 
.Ballard sporting. 
0420222 
12 
P. G. Sanford. 
.Remington sporting.. 
2000424 
12 
304 
Average—2.895. 
Wind light from the west during the match, requiring the moving of 
the wind gauge about one division. Later in the day hardly any percept¬ 
ible wind. 
Again we find the same excellent score made by Captain 
Bodine as by Mr. J. S. Conlin in the first match, 28 being 
scored, every shot making a bullseye. Taking both matches 
together, the 210 shots made a total of 610, being an ave¬ 
rage of 2 9-10, or a fraction less than a centre for every shot. 
It must be always born in mind that this average compared 
with previous scores should have been appreciably higher, as 
the lines of the centres were made six inches smaller in the 
target than they should have been. To Captain Bodine was 
then given the badge, which he had so cleverly won. We need 
not state that the victor combines within himself all the requi¬ 
sites of a perfect rifleman; cool, quiet, andimpertubable, he 
is as excellent in theory as in practice. We trust as the season 
continues Captain Bodine will make the same effectual 
shooting at long ranges, so as to become an integral part of 
the American team, who are to fight the coming battle with 
the Irish eight. Both, Mr. Conlin and Captain Bodine, oc¬ 
cupy already prominent places in our rifle annals. 
The match is remarkable in this respect: Of the fifteen 
rifles used seven were Remingtons and seven Sharps, with 
one Ballard. In the first match the first four rifles leading 
the score were as follows: One Sharp and three Reming¬ 
tons. In the second match it was tAvo Remingtons and 
two Sharps. Who can doubt of the excellence of both 
arms? Mr. J. P. M. Richards, one of our leading marks¬ 
men, was suffering from a boil on the neck, which may 
account for his score not being as high as his usual ave- 
r age. Mr. Lloyd made, on the second match, 24, with a 
Sharp military rifle, which is worthy of notice. 
For comparisons sake with English shooting, we give the 
scores of the best five in the match between Lords and 
Commons, distances being the same and diameter of bore 
arms about similar, the match having taken place last 
year: Best five Lords, 111; Commons, 123; Best five Ama- 
teurs > 1st match, 128; Amateurs, second match, 127. 
RECAPITULATION of matches of the amateur rifle club for the 
Julv 15 IQ-O Rifle, Score. 
Alia ''B° dme -• • Metford. 4343434 
Sep'' 13 ir~|- ’ ’ • ■ Remington target.... 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 
Rov i -Rwh ds..Sharp sporting. 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 
Bov's iqIo Omand. Remington sporting.. 3 3 4 4 4 3 1 
May 16 S'• - Sharp sporting. 4344444 
May S’ iS}"S 0 5- ln '‘- 8harp s P° rtiu g. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 
A - hhfi..Bodine.■ .Remington sporting.. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 
Mr. Bodine’s score in the various matches was 80, out of 
4 P° s sible 84, making his average 3-80 for each shot. 
Satisfactory as this opening match has been, we must by 
110 mea ns*be over elated. A good deal of steady and seri¬ 
ous work must he undertaken before we Cjap. cope with the 
insli team at the longer ranges, 
Total. 
25 
27 
26 
25 
27 
28 
On Saturday, May 30, the Amateur Rifle Club will shoot 
at the 800. 900 and 1,000 yards match for the badge now 
being prepared by the Club, due notice of which will he 
found in our columns. 
THE EFFORT TO INTRODUCE PINNA¬ 
TED GROUSE INTO ENGLAND. 
W E have to acknowledge the receipt of a most inter¬ 
esting letter from Jackson Gillbanks, Esq., of 
Carlisle, England. It is most gratifying for us to notice 
that gentlemen on both sides of the water, Mr. Valentine, 
of Wisconsin, and Mr. Gillbanks in England, are directing 
their attention to the introduction of our game birds into 
England. In onr last issue we stated that Mr. Valentine 
has requested us to name certain gentlemen in England to 
whom the eggs of the pinnated grouse should be sent, and 
we expect very shortly to make a shipment of these eggs 
to England. We trust at some later period to inform our 
readers of the result of the experiment. We would warn 
opr English friends against irresponsible persons who may 
promise to send over the eggs of the pinnated grouse by the 
bushel. It is true that a number of eggs^might be gathered, 
but all the chances would he against their being in good 
condition, so as to insure their hatching. There would he 
no difficulty in transporting the eggs from the West to 
New York, or by steamers to Liverpool; the trouble, we re¬ 
peat, would he to get the eggs fresh, just as they had been 
laid. We believe Mr. Valentine will he able to procure 
them. The live birds could be obtained in quantity, hut it 
is questionable whether they would do as well as birds 
hatched out from the eggs in England. Mr. Gillbanks 
writes : “ I know the birds could be got best, easiest, 
and therefore cheapest in the fall of the year. The ob¬ 
jection to sending them before the end of March is this, 
and it is a very serious one: in the fall in England the 
country is the barest, labor is so scarce and dear that the 
smallest farmers have to cut their crops with machines, 
which leaves the fields quite as hare as the back of your 
hand. Again, the game season is not out (second of Feb¬ 
ruary is our last day), and the birds would be in most danger. 
If we had eggs or birds about now (May first) all is quiet, 
the corn springing, and the meadows and sown fields get¬ 
ting a good length, so the birds would have food and 
shelter directly.” 
We believe that prairie chickens could be sent in March 
to England, or that if kept here longer alive they might be 
sent to England so as to reach there about the beginning 
of February; in fact Mr. Reiclie has assured us that he 
would undertake to deliver live birds in England at that 
time. 
We again beg to state that we shall only he too glad to 
do all in our power to further the introduction of the pin¬ 
nated grouse into England. It is an experiment certainly 
worth trying. 
CORINTHIAN YACHTING. 
A MONG our yachting paragraphs this week will he 
found mention of another proposed Corinthian race. 
In this case the cup, given by the flag officers of the 
Seawanhaka Yacht Club, will be the prize for the success¬ 
ful sloop, manned entirely by amateurs, in the regatta 
which has been fixed for the third of July. The Forest 
and Stream is heartily in sympathy with all these move¬ 
ments toward the introduction of Corinthian sailing and 
the consequent development of nautical knowledge theo¬ 
retically and practically among our yaclitmen. A man is not 
necessarily a sailor because he owns a yacht, hut the man 
however, who takes entire charge of his vessel, steers her 
himself, and who exercises his own judgment as to the 
proper trimming of the sail he allows her, and who comes 
in victorious through a well contested regatta, is very apt to 
be a yachtman or sailor. We regard the terms as synony¬ 
mous. If yacht owners desire to be yachtmen let them 
sail their boats. Owning boats will not make sailors. 
Sailing boats will. And let them enter every possible 
race, for the experience and practice acquired in racing is 
infinitely more valuable than that gained under ordinary 
circumstances. We trust,, too, that other clubs, induced 
by the example of the Seawanhaka, will enlist in the same 
cause, and that very soon Corinthian racing and sailing will 
he among the most important features of our yachting 
seasons. 
The Exodus From Florida. —Although the hotels along 
the St. John’s river were deserted early in April, and even 
St. Augustine with its cool sea breezes was desolate, Flor¬ 
ida throughout the month was as charming and pleas¬ 
ant as ever. A few warm days early in March had deluded 
the visitors into the belief that “balmy spring’’had come. 
But it hadn’t, as doubtless many invalids found to their 
cost. The influx of visitors to the St. John’s this winter 
has been beyond precedent. Every hotel and boarding 
house has been crowded to overflowing. A few hoarders 
still lingered at New Smyrna as late as the middle of April. 
The Brock House at Enterprise was just closing, and at 
Palatka, St. Augustine, and Jacksonville the hotels were 
closing, and the few that were open were reducing their 
expenses to suit the season. 
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—This week Mr. Charles Reiche will let loose in Central 
Park some 40 pairs of skylarks, 12 pairs of chaffinches and 
a number of English robins. These birds Mr. Reiche has 
had brought over from Europe for this special purpose. 
Let us trust that Mr. Reiche’s gift will be fully appreciated 
and that the birds will thrive and prosper and repay the 
dohor and all of us Ipv their pleasant songs. 
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[May day in England! That means fields and hedges 
all green with sweet bravery, and trees milk-white 
with perfumed blossoms, and that nature as a bride, with 
dewy eyes stands waiting all shy and coy, bedecked with 
blushing flowers. It is pleasant to hear, even to read, of 
such things. Most of us children of that grand stock, love 
to dwell upon the reminiscences of the opening spring day of 
the English year. Sentimentality in Forest and Stream, 
and why not? Because men love dogs, horses, and birds 
and fish, and write of trials of human endurance, and of 
flesh and muscles and thews, and of cricket, and boating, 
shall they not indulge in some little day dreaming, and 
think of sprays of liawthorne, and daisies and violets? It 
has been a rough May with ns on this side of the Atlantic 
so far, raw and cold, hut of late (lie sun has shone, and we 
too are now glorying in the “quickening time of the year.” 
Perhaps we feel just a trifle kindly at this present moment, 
for as far as “Sporting News from Abroad” goes, our re¬ 
views of such matters, will now be. written for us in Eng¬ 
land, by a younger and abler hand. The rechauffe of such 
foreign subjects as we have thought would interest our 
readers, we have so prepared in this office for the last nine 
months. But what is a warmed-up dish? The fresher 
feast will undoubtedly be more palatable with this preface. 
We take great pleasure in introducing to onr readers, our 
special correspondent.— Ed] 
BT OUR SPECIAL ENGLISH CORRESPONDENT. 
T HE past week has been rife with important events in 
the sporting world—the City and Suburban handi¬ 
cap, and Shrewsbury and Devonshire, and Cornwall Field 
trials. The latter are more in my line than the former, 
for though I like as w r ell as any other Briton to hack my 
fancy, and see the glorious sports, and scientific horse¬ 
manship of Fordham, gr the energy and grace of Osborne 
in the saddle, yet I own I love better the instinct of my 
setters, and the breezy moors or leafy woodlands. But 
there is one anecdote which circulated in the London clubs, 
apropos to the above race, which is worth relating, as it 
is I believe authentic. The night before the hones ran, a 
certain nobleman well-known on the turf, to wit, Lord 
Z-d, dreamt that a horse called “Teacher” was sure to 
be a “good thing,” and thereupon taking a fancy to his 
nocturnal prophecy he went to the course to hack him. Lie 
found, however, that nothing came to the post of that 
name, but quite by accident he heard that there was a rank 
outsider entered who might run, who had originally been 
called “Teacher” in his two-year-old days. This was Lord 
Roseberry’s “Aldrich,” and Lord Z-d accordingly laid 
out a good round sum on him at 40 to 1, and one of his 
lordship’s friends did likewise. The results of the race you 
of course know. The sad accident which “extinguished” 
Mr. Merry’s Bullseye proved a great blessing to the soi 
disant “Teacher,” for he won with the greatest ease, and 
never was there a more singular prophecy, or a more singu¬ 
lar fulfilment of it. 
‘ ‘Eccossais” is still everybody’s favorite for the Derby, but 
he will have a trying ordeal in the Two Thousand Guineas, 
though it has of late years proved but a poor criterion 
for the blue ribbon of the turf. 
—The National Field Trials at Shrewsbury were a tre¬ 
mendous success, the entries being more in number than 
they ever were before, though I fancy the quality of the 
pointers was indifferent. Mr. Price has I believe deter¬ 
mined not to run his celebrated bitch, “Belle,” of whom 
you have heard so much, again in public, but she was ably 
represented by her daughter “Grecian Bend,” who won the 
hitch’s stakes. Viscount Downe sent a crack in the shape 
of “Grace I,” a liver and white bitch of excellent symme¬ 
try, and the Duke of Westminster’s “Ruth” was another 
beautiful pointer. In setters the Laverack blood showed 
up pretty strong, though the winning dogs were not pure 
Laveracks, but mixed with the strain of Mr. Thomas Staf¬ 
fer of Manchester, and many of them being related to a 
celebrated hitch of liis called Phoebe. There was of course 
nothing entered that could touch Mr. Macdona-’s white 
black and tan setter “Ranger,” who has now won every 
where, having beaten everything but Mr. Price’s “Belle” 
at Bala, last autumn on grouse. He won the Champion 
stakes with the greatest’possible ease. Mr. Llewellin’s lem¬ 
on and white “Leda” being nowhere, and I hear his owner 
has had several hitches promised him at the fee of £25. 
This amount has never been earned before by any dog at 
the stud with the exception of greyhounds. 
The great disadvantage of Spring Field trials is that you 
cannot kill birds over dogs, and with young dogs this is 
often very discouraging, in fact I have often heard of 
pointers turning sulky, and being disinclined to hunt, when 
they found that their masters couldn’t kill the game when 
they found it for them, and I can quite appreciate the feel¬ 
ing. It must be very galling to see the birds flyaway every 
time, and to know that you are working hard for a duffer. 
—The judges at Shrewsbury, were the Honorable R. C. 
Hill, tlie well known pigeon shot, Viscount Combermere, 
and Sir Vincent Corbet, and though they neither of them 
run any dogs at field trials yet they are all well known 
sportsmen. 
I should think a field trial might easily be organized in 
America with very little trouble or expense, and if the 
ball Avas once set rolling, no doubt it would be kept in 
motion. 
—The Crystal Palace Dog Show will be held next month 
under the management and rules of the Kennel Club. Its 
