Dec. 17, 1891.1 



FOREST AND STREAM, 



487 



forth all his skiU, as it made for the right boundary, but a -well- 

 timed second grassed it. Kulford's eleventh and twelfth were 

 both verv fast rierht-quartering drivers, and showed elegant first 

 barrel work. His fourteenth was another of the same direction 

 and caliber and was neatly killed with a fine first. Brewer's 

 seventeenth bird was a very tricky left-quartering driver, a line 

 first; his twenty-fourth, a driver, awfully fast and a climber, fell 

 dead over the fence. Fulford 's twentieth bird was a circling left- 



?tuarte,rer that dropped dead a foot over the boundary; his twenty- 

 ourth, a fast driver, climbed out of both loads and escaped. Score 

 131 each, and the betting still even. 



THE SEVENTH ROUND. 



Brewer killed a fast right-quarterer with a clever second and 

 Fulford followed with a miss on a left-quartering driver that 

 climbed over his second. Brewer's third was a dandy driver that 

 caught both loads full and f^truck the fence bpfore he would stop; 

 his eighth and ninth were left-quartering drivers, the first calling 

 for a beautiful second, and the last falling on a superb first. [Ful- 



ford's sixth, a fast left-quartering dri vet, fell on the first. Brewer 

 lost his twelfth, an ugly zig-zag driver; his fourteenth ditto and 

 his fifteenth, a fast and tricky left-quartering driver; his six- 

 teenth was a left-quartering driver tbai flew like a demon the in- 

 stant the trap was pulled, was brought down by a magnificent 

 second; his fifteenth went in the same direction, but dropped on 

 tbe first, although it was awfully fast work; his twenty-third, 

 which was a left-quartering driver, refused to stop on the first. 



hut came down at TOvds. on the second, an elegant kill. Fulford 

 lost bis twentieth, another climbing driver; his twenty-fourth 

 was a humping circlpr that dropped on a masterly first. Score, 

 Fulford 154, Brewer 153. 



THE EIGHTH BOUND. 



On the opening shot Jack putaqtiick first into a left-quartering 

 blue bird, and Fulford followed with a pretty second at long 

 ranpe on a chocolate Ipft-quartering drivei", that tried in vam to 

 circle out of the charge. Jack's third, a left-quartering driver. 



was terriblv fast and went awav to join some of its friends out- 

 side. Fnlford's six'b, a fast driver, followed suit. Jack's ninth 

 was a vicious left-quarterine driver, killed with an awfully quick 

 first whi'h doubled it up m the air. His fourteenth went like a 

 streak nnd kppt out of the dead liu" bo- h times he fired; this was 

 a blue right-qutirtering driver H's fifteenth s'arted straight for 

 the front, hut twisted out of the first load; J^,rk sent in h's second 

 and tbe feathers fl«w in all dirpctions, bur much to the surprise 

 of ev^^ybrldv the bird flew *o the fence and gave up the ghost r>n 

 the outside.' His twenty-third was a fast lef--quartering dr'ver 

 that dropped feathers all the way over the field, but rpfused to 

 fall. Fulford's thirtpenth, a lef'-qnarterinff driver, was a hustlpr, 

 and hnving climbed otit of the first concludpd to twist out of the 

 secnd anrl get awav. His twenty-fifth, from No. 5 trap, was also 

 a left-quartering driver, that twisted and zigzagged in vain to kef p 

 out of the shot line, but had to fold its wings and drop when Ed 

 fired his second at full 70yds. Score at this stage: Fulford 177, 



The following tabulated score will show at a glance the relative 

 position of tbe men at all stagps of the match: 



Match at Woodlawn Park, L. I., Dec. 13, he'ween E. D. Fulford 

 and J. L. Brewer, 250 live birds each, for $1,000 a side. Hurling- 

 ham rules, excepting that the inclosure was the boundary, 30 yds. 

 rise, 12-bore guns. 



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Fulford had 18 right-quarterers. 50 lef t-quarterers, 47 straighi 

 drivers. 21 right-quarterlog drivprs, 75 left-quartering drivers, 2 

 incomers. 11 right-quartering incomers, 5 left-quartering in- 

 comers, 2 hoverers. 19 c'rclers and twisters, 3 dead out of bounds. 



Brewer had 14 right -quarterers, 46 left-quarterers. 42 straight 

 drivers, 13 right-quartering drivers, 84 left-quartering drivers, 1 

 incomer, 7 right-quartering incomers. 121eft-quartering incomers, 

 4 hoverers, 27 circlers and twisters, 9 dead out of bounds. 



Tne euns and loads used were as follows; Brewer— W. W. 

 Greener "Princess" hammerless, weigbt'71bs. 15i^oz., barrels 80- 

 inch, shells Elj's "Tourn-jment," length of shell 3 inchps, Ely 

 primers, powder American Wood, 3Mdr. in both barrels. Squires' 

 grease and waterproof and Ely's thicK. felt wad on top of powder, 

 IM z Tatham's No. 7 chilled shot in right and IJ^oz. No. 6 do. in 

 It ft barrel, Squires' top shot wads. Squires' special crimp. Load- 

 ed bv Hpnrv C. Squires on Dec 11. 



Fulford— W. W. Greener hammerless gun. weight 71b. 7oz., SO- 

 inch barrels, shells Eb's "Tournampnt,'' length 3 inches. Ely 

 primers, powder Schultze, 4dr. in each barrel. Squires' salmon 

 felt and Ely's thick felt wad«: on powder, l^oz. No 7 Tatham's 

 chilled shot in rig:ht and IJ40Z. No. 6 do. in left barrel. Sqnires' 

 t"p shot wads. Squires' special enmp. Loaded by H. C. Squires 

 Dec. 11, 



The summary of all the matches shot by the two mpn shows: 



Fulford 100 99 94 34 223-540 



Brewer 99 98 94 25 316-532 



Brewer 174. At this point Brewer began to be vexed at what he 

 termed his poor shooting, and said to the writer, ' I've not shot =0 

 meanly in ten years, and don't know what the trouble is. I know 

 1 held right on the last birds I missed!" Fulford also got out of 

 patience at losing birds which he thought he hit hard with his 

 Sfcond but which seempd to have urgent business elsewhere. 

 Dick Irwin, who knows Brewer likp a bo ik, was amazed at his 

 loss of so many drivers "A bird which goes in that direction is 

 a cinch for him," said Dick, "and I don't see how they get away." 

 But get away they did. 



THE NINTH ROUND. 



On the sixth bird, a twister that flew like a demon and made 

 all sorts of motions, the giant from Hammonton expended both 



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BREWER'S SCORE, 

 yaersiaoile frog original official moTfi, 



barrels and scattered feathers, but stop it would not. Not to be 

 out of the fashion, Fulford caught a fa=«t driver which scurried 

 over the fence after climbing out of both barrels. H's seventh 

 showed pretty work with the first; his eighth, another left-quarter- 

 ing driver, followed number seven over the fence. This cut his 

 lead down to two birds, but on the thirteenth, a bad circling 

 towerer. his opponent scored another miss. Brewer's seventeenth, 

 .1 chocolate colored left-quartering driver, called for one of the 

 finest shots of the dav, being foldpd in the air with a beautiful 

 second at fuU 80yds,; his twenty. third, same direction, was another 

 splendid exhibition shot. Fulford's thirteenth and fifteenth were 

 both fast drivers, but good judgment on the first barrel m each 

 instance brought both to grass; hi^i twenty-first was a hummer 

 that made a bee-line for thp left boundary, but had to stop when it 

 caught tbe second at long range. Now the score stood 200 kills for 

 Fulford, 197 kills for Brewer, with 25 more birds to go for each 

 man. At this juncture very few beta were offered. Some of 



Brewer's friends were still confident of his ability to win, although 

 they acknowledged that his chances were rather slim. 



THE FINAL ROUND. 



Both men were now in dead earnest and watched one another's 

 shots very closely. Their eyes began to look bad from the con- 

 stant blowing back of the smoke and dust, as before mentioned, 

 and it was surprising that they were able to see to use their 

 second barrels. There was no percpptible tiring on either side, 

 nor did either man show in the slightpst degree the effect of the 

 terrible strain on the'r nerves. The Hammonton man caught a 

 Tartar in hie second bird, a left -quartering incomer, which got 

 away from both barrels; his seventh was a zig-zagger that also 

 went away, as did his tenth, a terribly fast driver, and his 

 eleventh, a climbing Ipft-quartering driver. Fulford's Orst eleven 

 were killed, but his twelfth, which described a baker's dozen of 

 circles, left him to go over the woods. .Jack's sixteenth, a twist- 

 ing driver, caught two full charges of shot but managed to strug- 

 gle over the fence to die. Ed's nineteenth was another circler that 



escaped from the field. Brewer lost his twenty-second, a fast 

 driver. Onthe245"h bird Brewer was shot out, as even had he 

 killpd his last fivp birds and Fulford lost his last five thp latter 

 would have won by 218 to 217. On the twenty-third and twenty- 

 fourth birds Brewer did splendid worK ^y^lh the second barrel, 

 the former being an ugly circler and the latter a. very fast right- 

 qnaTtt^rer. Fulford's twenty-second was a fast driver and killed 

 hand.=omplv with a long second. 



At 3:18 the last shot was fired and two minutes later Rfferee 

 Riegott madp the announcement quoted at the head of this story. 



Tdus ended one of thp greatest matches ever held in Amer- 

 ica, both as regards the caliber of the men, the issue, the quality 

 of the birds and the management in general. Of the birds too 

 much cannot bo said. Thev were the finest lot, without excep- 

 tion, evi-r trapped in this counti-y, as vounhed for by old veterans 

 who have been "in the swim" for manv years. Mr- Brewer says 

 t^ey were the finest lot he ever saw, outside of England, and that 

 even there it would be hard to beat them. Just think of five 



hundred birds being trapped in a single day and only thi-ee of the 

 lot needing a shaking up! The wonder is that even these men, 

 noted experts of iron nerve and marvellous skill that they are, 

 should have grassed even 439 of them inside the boundary, or 449 

 including those which fell dead outside of the bounds. 



During the earlier part of the race Brewpr had slightly the luck 

 of the birds; from the fl I'tieth to the one hundredth round the luck 

 was slightly on Fulford's side; on the nest hundred it was about 

 even; from the two hundredth to the two hundred and fiftieth 

 Fulford was favored, but on the last twenty-five therp was little 

 if any dift'erence. Taken from start to finish the luck of the birds 

 bad little or nothing to do with the result of the match. 



As far as the men were concerned a volume might be written. 

 As stated before, Brewer declared that he "had not shot so 

 meanly for ten years," and having witnessed his work at various 

 times and places I am inclined to think that he was correct. 

 Every bird lost was a "rasper," so that on that score the shooters 

 can rest easily. It was noticed, however, that at times Brewer 

 would strike a brilliant gait and put in both barrels with his old 

 time rapidity on a number of rounds, and then again would he 

 seem to be slow in getting on for a while. Only one of his lost 

 ])jrd8 wftde a cjeau miss, the teathers being }>i)oplse(J OUt' of escH 



