FOREST AND STREAM. 
presenting the case before Magistrate Jenkins, His Honor de- 
cided that proceedings must be carried out in the civil courts. 
The clause under which Officer Davis arrested the parties is 
section 51. The section violated is the one numbered 25, 
which forbids the catching of fish in any other way than by 
hook and line in the streams of Westchester county, save min- 
now for bait, bull-heads and eels. The men in this instance 
were fishing with seines, the meshes being as small as lj 
inch. The advantages of a vigilant supervision of these 
waters is quite manifest. One day this week, from Pelham 
Bridge, a fine bass of 124 pounds was taken, and more blue 
fish and weak fish have beeh caught in this vicinity than for 
many years. Mr. Davis, who is a sportsman himself, is to be 
commended for the vigilance he shows in carrying out his 
duty. 
IP* §ifle- 
Massachusetts — Boston, Walnut Hill, July 4. — First 
match, amateur series at 200 yards. 
Guerk-r 4 46454645 4—44 Borden 8 46444466 8—11 
Frye 4 46444446 6—13 Nlohola 3 84444443 4—37 
Lord 6 44545444 3—42 Hadden ...134468344 3—37 
Mortimer. .4 43463646 4—11 
Second match, same distance- 
Jewell 5 8 6 4 6 6 4 — S3 
Kirkwood 6 4 4 6 4 6 6—32 
Borden 5 4 6 6 4 4 6 — 32 
Frye 4 6 6 4 0 6 4 — 32 
Hubbard... 5 4 4 6 4 6 4 — 31 
Evans 4 8 3 4 4 4 4— 2S 
Third match at 1,000 yards. 
Hnbbird. .,6 64665666 6—49 
Gerrlfib 666664556 4— 48 
Jewell 6 66366666 4—47 
Field 4 66446466 6—46 
Howland ...664686456 6 — 46 
Arthur 5 68666464 4 — 15 
Wlliard ....6 66053354 6—46 
Bradley 5 6 4 3 4 4 6-30 
Lawson 4 4 6 4 4 6 4 — 30 
Nichols 6 2 6 4 4 6 6—30 
Hadden 446448 6—29 
Howard 4 S 4 4 3 4 4—26 
Shepard ....6 64666544 4—44 
Wilder 5 46634635 6—14 
Smith 4 63646864 5—13 
Sargent ....6 85566343 6—43 
Lord 4 56456330 4—48 
Miles 4 36644436 6—42 
Slaa 4 62564444 4—41 
Mr . Hubbard, with his superb score of 49 out of a possible 
50 at 1,000 yards, won the silver medal, and Mr. Gerrish, 
his close following with 48, took the second prize in cash, 
equal to two first entry fees. Taking it all together it was 
very fine shooting. 
Springfield vs. "Pittsfield. — This 
tween the Riverside and Rod and Gun 
4th. The following is the score : 
Springfield. 
pleasant contest be- 
teamscame off on the 
Bnmst- ad 
5 
4 
4 
4 
4 
6 
4 
4—43 
Mathowson 
4 
3 
4 
( 
4 
4 
4 
4—39 
Wallace 
4 
4 
4 
6 
6 
4 
4 
3-41 
Van Vlacfc 
4 
4 
4 
U 
4 
4 
4 
4—36 
Geo B Clark 
4 
4 
4 
4 
1 
6 
6—12 
4 
4 
4 
4 
2 
5 
4 
4—39 
4 
4 
4 
4 
3 
6 
4 
4 — 40 
Barrett 
Plttsfleld. 
3 
6 
4 
4 
4 
6 
4 
8—41—321 
2 
4 
4 
4 
3 
4 
4 
6—30 
4 
5 
4 
.1 
4 
4 
b 
3—41 
W V wood 
4 
4 
8 
4 
4 
4 
3 
6— S9 
rarrlDgton 
4 
4 
b 
4 
5 
4 
4 
4 — 42 
3 
0 
3 
4 
3-3S 
White 
3 
6 
6 
4 
4 
4 
4 
6—42 
4 
3 
4 
4 
4 
2 
6 
4—34 
J H Wood 
4 
4 
4 
4 
b 
3 
4 
4—40—312 
A Tremendous Score —Bridgeport, Conn., July 6.— Wal- 
lace B. Gunn, on July 3 at Bridgeport, made 222 out of a 
possible 225 at 950 yards, using three guns of Sharp’s new 
model. Ho sighting shots or coaching. Below is the order 
in which this was shot : 
First gun 6 566656 6665666 6 — 75 
Second gun..... ....6 5466665666666 6 — 74 
"i hlrd guu 6 6 5 6 6 4 5 4 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 — 73 — 222 
I think this must put Mr. Gunn ahead as a rifleman. 
On July 4 the Bridgeport Rifle Club bad a match amongst 
its members, and Mr. Nichols made a fine score, 25 out of a 
possible 25 at 200 yards. Old hands must look out for their 
honors, or lose them at the hands of the young marksman. 
The Emmet Club and Company B, Fourth Regiment, bad out 
their rifle teams in a match to see who held the gun best in 
line of the bull’s-eye, and the Emmets got beaten, as some of 
their crack shots went to grass. White Disk. 
NlCDOlS.... 4 4 4 4 
Alien.... 6 3 4 4 
Nlcbois 4 4 4 4 
Fowler 8 4 4 4 
New Haven .— At Quinnipiac range, on the 4th, 
lowing matches were shot : 
Military Match— 200 yards. 
utetson 4 6 3 5 6 4 5—81 Tlnbey 3 4 4 5 
Sietson 4 4 4 5 4 6 4 — 30 
Smith 4 4 6 4 4 6 4—30 
Whitlock 4 6 4 4 4 5 4—30 
Nichols. 4 4 4 6 6 4 4 — 30 
Muruby 4 6 3 6 6 4 4—3o O’Brien 3 4 4 4 
NlcliOib 4 4 4 4 4 4 £—29 Phillips 3 4 4 5 
sweeney 5 4 4 4 4 4 4—29 Sweeney 4 4 4 4 
Nichols 4 6 4 4 4 4 4—29 Tlnkey 4 4 3 3 
All-Comers’ Match— 200 yards. 
Stetson 4 1 4 6 6 4 6—31 Layne, Jr 6 4 4 4 
Robs 4 5 4 4 5 5 4—31 Kennedy 4 4 4 4 
Sweeney 4 5 4 4 4 6 4— 30 Sweeney 3 4 4 5 
Nichols 4 44 644 4—29 WhlllOOE 4 4 4 4 
King 4 4 6 4 4 4 4—29 King 4 6 6 4 
Military Match— 6(i0 yards. 
Johnson..... 6 6 ^4 3 4 6 — 31 Whltlcck..........4 3 5 4 
Colvin 3 5 6 4 4 4 6 — 3U StetEOn 4 6 4 6 
Alien 5 4 4 4 6 3 6—30 Kennedy 4 4 3 3 
Stetson 3 6 2 5 5 6 6-30 Smith 3 5 3 3 
All-Comers Match— coo yards. 
Lsyne, Jr.... 5 6 5 5 6 5 6 — 36 Layne, Jr ....4 6 4 4 
Stetbon 4 6 4 4 6 6 6—32 Layne, Jr 5 8 5 4 
the fol- 
4 4 5—29 
6 3 6-29 
6 4 4—29 
4 4 4—23 
4 4 6—23 
4 6 4—23 
4 4 4—23 
4 6 3—23 
4 6 6—23 
4 4 4—29 
4 8 5—23 
4 4 4—23 
4 3 4-27 
4 0 3—26 
4 6 4—29 
3 3 4—28 
4 4 4—26 
3 4 6—26 
4 4 6— SO 
3 2 4— 23 
Burlington vs. Obweoatchie — Malone, N. Y., July 4. — 
Match between the Burlington, Vt., Rifle Club and the 
Oswegatchie Rifle Club, of Ogdensburg, N. Y. 
Burlington Rifle Clnb. 
800 yards. 900 yards. 1000 yards. T'l 
Boar dm an 64 cl 64 188 
Wltbeiell 73 70 C6 210 
Moutgomeiy C3 ( 3 64 196 
Kelsey c6 66 03 193 
McCaffrey 62 €6 67 186 
Horner c0 74 70 213 
Total 1,185 
Oswegatchie Rifle Clnb. 
Ives 71 70 C3 204 
Lee 69 70 07 206 
Lovel C7 69 67 183 
Has Inga G8 72 62 202 
Peck op CO 66 62 1«8 
Warner Cl CO 60 171 
Total 1,164 
Burlington wins by 31. 
Creedmooh. — On the third the Eighth Regiment went into 
camp. On the same day marksmen's badges were • 
G3 men qualifying. On the third the Empire Rifle ^ Club 
shot for the Spirit of the Times Badge. Conditions 30 
and 000 yards, 10 shots at each distance. The leaaiug 
scores were F. H. Holton. 79 ; N. D. Ward, .7 ; Dr. M. Jtt. 
Mallby, 77 ; J. W. Todd, 71. 
Amateur Rifle Club.— O n Saturday, Ju, y 
competition for the "Long Range Match will take place. 
Prize, a Remington long range rifle, or a double-barreled Kem- 
ington shot-gun; worth $160. Distance, 1,100 or 1,«00 yard > 
15 shots at each distance. Only open to members of the ciud. 
Newburg.— At a match shot on the 3d of July, the 
iDg are the winning scores: W. E. Smith, at 200 yards, 20 ; 
at 500, 81 ; GO in a possible 70. A. Wilcox, 29, 22. 
— The Travelers’ Command celebrated the Fourth with 
their sedond match of the season, for the club badge, at their 
Staten Island range. The honors were carried off by F. F. 
Hoeneman, who made 40 out of a possible 60. F. 1 . H. 
Seaside Range.— Emmet 
Regiment. Ten shots. 
Emmet Club. 
Cashman 37 
Gormely 80 
Lyons 81 
Cuddy 29 
McKenna 32 
Donnelly 86 
Curran 33 
LeaSord 27—261 
Club team 
vs. Co. B Fourth 
Co. B Fourth Regiment, 
Beers 
Richard O’Donnell was captainof Emmets, and Sergeant- 
Major Geo. Derrick captain of Co. B team. 
Mohawk Valley Rifle Range— Utica,, N. Y., July 4.— 
Sweepstakes match ; 200 yards, off-hand. We give the lead- 
ing scores in the various matches : 
W I Martin 4 6 4 8 8—19 Brand 0 5 4 4 4—17 
J J Smith 3 6 3 3 4-18 Parties 4 3 4 4 4—19 
Dr Fraser 2 2 2 3 4—13 Brayton 3 6 4 4 3—19 
G A Trowbridge 4 4 4 4 2— IS 
Second match for a Remington rifle, given by the associa- 
tion ; 200 yards, off-hand, any rifle ; competitors allowed to 
enter live times if desired. Several withdrew, after firing 
sighting shots, on account of rain. 
T Foster 2444 5—19 
D E Pomeroy 4 w 
G A Trowbridge 1 3 6 4 S— 19 
M J Brayton 3444 4—19 
F W Pauls 4 4 4 4 5—21 
W I Martin 4 4 3 4 4—19 
M J Brayton 4 4 3 4 4—19 
M J Brayton 4 4 4 4 3—19 
R Omands 4 8 3 4 5-19 
W I Martin 4 5 3 4 4-21 
M J B< aytoil 4 4 4 3 4—19 
W I Martin. 4 5 3 4 4—20 
CbasJudson w 
F W Partis 4 4 4 4 4—20 
T J GrlffltDS 4 2 4 4 4-18 
Third match, 500 yards : 
G A Trowbridge 5 8 4 6 4—21 R Omands 6 6 5 3 5—23 
Jas Thlstlewalte. ...-.5 6 6 4 4—23 B. A. G. 
The Chicago Range. — As the American Team proposed 
at one time to shoot a match over the Chicago Range, we 
wrote to a gentleman in Chicago, prominent in rifle matters, 
who sends us the following description of the Dearborn 
Club Range. We regret to announce that from some causes 
unknown the interest in rifle shooting in Chicago has very 
much diminished of late : 
“The Dearborn Club Range is located at Stony Island, 
near South Chicago, and about thirty-five or forty minutes 
ride by rail from the city. It is reached by the P. and F. 
Wagon Road and the Michigan Central. We have four 
wooden, plunging targets, for 800, 900 and 1,000 yards, one 
500 yard target, and one third-class target. We shoot a 
trifle north of west. The range is well flagged, and large 
mounds have been made to shoot from. It is a very difficult 
range to make a large score on. I made upon one occasion 
203 points at the three long ranges. Colonel Shaffer also 
made the same ; but that score has never been beaten. Mr. 
Frank Hyde, of last year’s team, can tell you about the 
range, as he has fired over it on several occasions. Person- 
ally, I should very much like to have the American Team 
shoot in Chicago ; but I very much fear the meeting would 
not be a successful one, and consequently I would offer no 
encouragement. The President of our Club is abroad. The 
Secretary is here, I believe, but I have not seen him since 
last October. S.” 
Glen Algkr Rifle Association —Harri&ville, Mich. , June 
2 9th, 1878 .—Editor Forest and Stream: The Glen Alger 
Rifle Association held their second annual meeting May 
20lh, and elected the following officers, viz.: D. McGregor, 
President; George W. Colwell, Vice-President: Dr. D. N. 
Mitchell, Secretary, and Lien A. Colwell, Treasurer. The 
reports of offlceis for the past year showed the association 
to be in a prosperous condition, with a light balance of cash 
on hand, after paying all expenses. The roll of membership 
shows 11 life and 37 regular members in good standing. We 
did not send a delegate to the National Convention ; our 
members thought best to use our funds in getting our range 
in good order. When our association was formed the range 
was covered with woods. To get it cleared and in shape 
will be our first consideration. We could scarcely send a 
delegate for less than seventy-five to one hundred dollars 
which would materially assist us on the raDge. We presume 
the same difficulties (a shortage of funds) prevented many 
country organizations from being represented. However, 
we expect to be in shape to attend when the next call is 
made by the National Association. The raDge, when com- 
pleted, will be 1,100 yards long. D. McGregor. 
[Michigan is to be congratulated on hav : .Dg such an excel- 
lent club in its midst, end we trust to be able to record some 
fine scores shot by members of the Glen Alger Association]. 
Honor to Whom Honor is Due.— In your last issue you 
reported some names to whom the unexcelled success of the 
Third National Shooting Festival of the Sharpshooters’ 
Union of the United States of North America was mainly 
due. You admire the method and the ways and means 
employed in the shooting house to keep order, and to pub- 
lish the result immediately after shooting. TLis is due, in 
a high degree, to two men, whom you do not mention— Mr. 
Herman Raschen and Mr. Jacob Heintz, the former the pres- 
ident, the latter the secretary of the shootiDg committee. 
Mr. Jacob Heintz may be called the author of the shooting 
programme. He presented to a special committee a plan, 
which was adopted, with a few alterations, by the execu- 
tive committee. Mr. Raschen superintended the sale of 
shooting tickets, and Mr. Heintz supported him in keeping 
good order in the most effective manner. A Reporter. 
The Remington Wins in England.— Messrs. E. Reming. 
ton & Sons, 283 Broadway, N. Y. : Enclosed first of Ex- 
change on Brown Bros., of New York, in pajment for a rifle, 
ammunition, etc., I received a few days since. By the time 
you receive this you will no doubt have heard of the splendid 
score with which Mr. Humphreys won the Cambridge Cup, 
fifty pounds, shooting with oue of your rifles ; two-days’’ 
shooting, 45 shots each day, at 900, 1,000, and 1,100 yards. 
Yours truly, Col. James Fenton. 
- Hazlehurst, Bamford, Rochdale, June 25, 1878. 
Five Thousand Five Hundred Balls in Five Hundred 
Minutes.— On Saturday next, the 13th of July, Dr. Carver 
will break 5,500 glass balls with bis Winchester rifle in 500 
minutes. The shooting will begin at 11 o’clock a. m. and 
will be carried on until 7 o’clock. Carver will have to break 
eleven balls a minute for eight Lours and twenty minutes. 
We trust that this most expert rifleman will guard against' all 
accidents of a mechanical nature. As a trial of endurance 
it is a most remarkable one. The skill of the doctor, after 
what we have seen of his exhibitions, requires no further 
comment on our part. The shooting will take place at the 
Brooklyn Driving Park. 
-» 
DOCTOR W. F. CARVER. 
The Most Wonderful of Riflemen. 
Some six or eight months ago the Forest and Stream 
and Rod and Gun received a curious letter. Now we are 
the recipients of a great many strange epistles; but this 
was so peculiar of its kind, and ihe writer offered to accom- 
plish so many strange feats, apparently impossible ones, 
with a rifle or shot-gun, that with a smile of credulity we 
absolutely tossed the California letter aside. Our readers, 
we thought, would laugh at us if we gave publicity to such 
a farago of nonsense. Here was a man unknown to us 
who proposed to break glass balls with a rifle — a thousand, 
five thousand of them in some impossible time — and to do 
any kind of shooting on foot or on horseback. The com- 
munication was signed Dr. W. F. Carver. That letter re- 
mained on our desk for a day or so unanswered, unheeded, 
when by chance a California friend entered our office. 
ChanciDg to find the letter open, we showed it to our friend, 
a thorough sportsman and a capital shot, remarking, “Do 
you know anything about this? It is all nonsense and 
bounce, is it not?" Our friend shook his head and said, 
“Not a bit of it. Publish every line of it. A year ago I 
saw that man shoot, and there is not a human being in this 
world, as far as I know, who can equal him. There is no 
false boasting about it. If he comes East you will see a 
phenomenal shot. Reputation for skill with firearms in the 
West, where so many shoot well, is hard to acquire; but on 
the plains Dr. Carver is known far and wide. It seems 
miraculous to you, but it can be done by the man who 
writes you that letter." We must confess that with some 
slight compunction we did publish the letter in the Forest 
and Stream and Rod and Gun. Our readers may remem- 
ber, too, that about that time some of our correspondents, 
quite as skeptical as ourselves, wrote amusing letters, tra- 
vestieing the pretentions of Dr. Carver. Now that we have 
seen with our own eyes Dr. Carver’s skill, we are prepared 
to state that his performances both with the rifle and shot- 
gun are indeed phenomenal. 
Dr. Carver stands some six feet two inches tall, and is a 
singularly handsome man, with a pair of brown hazel eyes. 
The physiological fact which seems to have been borne out 
so far, that men with gray eyes are the best riflemen, finds 
an exception then in the present case. Elegantly formed, 
with no extra weight to carry, in shooting bis position is 
quite cl assic. Standing well poised on his legs, he holds bis 
Winchester rifle with his extended left arm almost as far as 
his hund will reach. The mechanical movement of the 
right haDd to work the lever of the rifle so as to throw out 
the exploded cartridge and to briDg another one from the 
magazine is instantaneous. The left arm holds the piece- 
rigid, while his right hand in a second of time goes through 
the manipulation of the piece. Shots are made always with 
both eyes in shooting. Questions have been asked us in re- 
gard to the Doctor's method of sighting. It would be im- 
possible, we should think, to bring the rear and fore sights 
of the piece in line with the object to be hit. In usiDg the 
shot-gun no rear sights are ever thought of. Even in the 
very rapid shots it is possible that the fore 6ight may not be 
absolutely necessary. Some expert Crcedmoor men, who 
have witnessed Carver’s performances, think it is only the 
end of the rifle on which he sights, irrespective of the fixed 
sight. 
Dr. Carver uses the Winchester repeating rifle, calibre 44, 
loaded with 40 grains of powder, with a bullet of 200 grains, 
weighing about ten pounds. The piece will hold some fit- 
teen to seventeen cartridges. Of course nothing but a re- 
peating arm would serve the Doctor for bis rapid shots. In 
shootiDg the hands of the marksman are covered with buck- 
skin gloves. His grip is immense. This was evident when 
he used the Parker gun, as with one movement of his hand 
he is enabled to push up the catch of the gun and depress 
the barrels. 
Commencing on the 4th of July, at the Brooklyn Driving 
Park, the exhibition was continued during the afternoons 
of the 5th and Gth. The performances were varied, com- 
prising many of the most wonderful feats of skill- lo 
show the rapidity of the fire, one surprising shot, ahull being 
thrown in the air, is to fire twice or thrice at it, and to 
break the ball at the third or fourlh fire. For breaking 
glass balls, with the fewest misses, or shooting on time, an 
assistant stands some twenty-five feet from the rifleman, 
and throws the balls about twenty feet in the air. We think 
it is rather more difficult to break a glass hall pitched in the 
air by hand than when it is sprung from a trap. There is 
a methodical curve a ball takes when mechanically thrown, 
which is quite constant. This is the method employed by 
all the leading shots, when breaking the most balls, or > n 
