:joO 
August 21, 1^75. 
aggregate vaJuc of the prizes being £1,131 ISs 6d, in 
103 prizes. Tlie first competition closed was the Alfred, 
7 shots, at 300 yards, Snider, taken hy Sergeant Clark- 
son, of North York, with 34, with possible 35 points. 
In this, however, the “any position'’ wiis allowed, and 
it has been a veiy rare thing indeed to see a rifleman 
firing from the standing posture. What gain the Coun- 
cil have made hy tltis allowance it is difiicult to see. It 
destroys all comparison with previous score.s, and, at 
the 300 yards range, gives an apparent improvement 
In all 93 prizes were given, the lowest prizeman taking 
it with a total of 30 with possible 35, indicating a lively 
•crowding about the top place. In ihe Baity Telegraph 
price, exactly similar as to conditions, Lieut. Palmer led 
•off with 35 points in the possible -35, in which the 55th 
and last prize man bad 33 points, and left 33 men with 
33 points each priceless, really an exhibition of skill 
which could hardly as yet happen at Creedmoor. At 
any one time there may be a dozen matches progress. 
•Some ran through the meeting, and “enter early and 
•often'’ is the rule. A number are closing, while others 
-are^s yet just opening. To a new-comer it is some- 
what confusing, but c®ce get the hang of the thing, and 
it appears to be what it really is, a very admirable ar- 
rangement to sustain the interest and expedite matters. 
In general, it may be said that Volunteer matches occiq'y 
the fir>4 week, and the small bore and sj>ecial c<smpeti- 
taons the second. Unlike the Irish Natioaa* ftifle Asso- 
ciation, in which the rule which pvohibite’d anj- win- 
inesr taking over £50 worth of material, and gave Cole- 
tstan a medal in place of the Spencer Cup, no such rule 
exists at Wimbledon, and a winner may take all he can 
get- 
Oue of the best contested prizes was the St. Leger 
sweepstake, at 200 yards, any rifle, won by Liettt Fulton. 
The number of entries was very large, hut for the three 
prizes on it the names were Major Fulton, John Righj- 
^and Mr. Mitchell. Each of these gentlemen made 35 
lia the possible 35. As they were ties, shooting off was 
necessary. This was done on a carton target, tliat is. a 
target in which the 8-inch bull’s-eye is further sub- 
divided into a fi-inch middle, this inner section being 
termed the carton. At the first round Mr. Rigby made 
a centre, Fulton and Mitchell eaeh getting a carton. 
They fired off at once, when Mitchell fell to a centri , 
while Major Fulton put in another carton, all of course 
iiciag done in the lying position at 200 yards. 
Captain Coleman appeared to have vciy hard luck. In 
the early part of the meeting he had made a score of 49 
in the possible 50 in the “Any Rifle ” Association Cup, 
10 shots at 600 yards. With this he, and in fact all, 
thought he was the winner. The match remained open 
for several days, acd on the last aftertoon a Lieut, Birch, 
of Leeds, stepped in with 50 points, by having received 
a gun from an expert who had shot immediateli’ before 
him. 
:Mr. L. M. Ballard did very well at carton shooting, 
having put four consecutive shots into the 12-inch carton 
bull’s-eye at 600 yards, one of these gaining for him the 
second place for most central cartons and a prize of £19 
A special point of effort with the American gentlemen 
had been the Albert Cup match. It is a double stage 
contest with any rifle. The first stage includes 7 shots 
each at 300, 600 and 900 yards, with prizes at each dis- 
tance, and aggregate prizes as well— in all £400. The 
■winners at these first stages fire in the second stage of 15 
shots at 1,000 yards for a single prize of £100. At the 
300 yards stage, no less than five jierfect scores of 35 
each were made at 600 yards. Col. Gildersleeve took 
second place and £15 with 34 points, while at 900 yards 
Captain Bruce gained third place and £15 with 33 
points. They were the only two Americans who suc- 
ceeded in getting back to 1,000 yards, but failed to take 
the templing $500 prize there. After all the talk and 
discussion over the admission of the American team to 
a place for honor alone in the Ekho competition, the 
matter reduced itself to the proffer and acceptance of a 
100 guinea cup, to be fired for by Americans. This lit- 
tle inter-team contest took place on Wednesday, July 
21, perhaps the day of most waterfall during the entire 
meeting : but during the shoot proper the weather held 
clear. There was considerable of a crowd present, but 
nothing like it would have been had tlie weather held 
clear. It turned out rather a small affair. Col. Bodine, 
who has been out of sorts, and has not fired a shot at 
Wimbledon, was not there. Yale stayed away thinking 
the rain would cause further postponement, and Gen. 
Dakin was about town somewhere. It left then but six 
men to shoot, and even these went into the match in a 
listless sort of way, making several misses in the early 
patt dl their scores, and it wa.s not until they had 
warmed up that anything good was done. Major Ful- 
ton had not made up his mind to enter until all the 
others were at work, and altogether the scores do not 
fairly represent Ihe men. They were, a? follows, 30 
shots, 1,000 }'ards; any rifte- 
Fnltou 4 643 *s^i 3 3 .’> 555.3 5554555554 
i A R R 
.3 it ?• .S 5 133 
r 4 U> 6 G<t 0 445354543 . 5 4444455 3 4 3 5455 
, .5 .5 5 5 3 126 
Crteman 0 3 444 3 3553534555455554454 
0 3 5 4 5 119 
Bruce 5 3. 3 3435050545555055534545 
4 3 4 5 5 lir 
Ballard 0 4 3 4443533344-3 33343543634 
-3 3 5 5 4 1 C 8 
Gildersleeve. . .0 3 024 3 3 544545406464353554 
3 3 4 5 3 105 
The next great contest was for the Elcho shield, in 
which the Americans, though shut out from participa- 
tion with the rifle, played the not less important part of 
consulting-riflemen. As a partial return to the Irish 
team for the privilege of beating them al Dollyinount, 
they had determined to coach them on al Wimhledbn. 
With this intent scoring Cards-, with plates for windage 
and elevation records, glasses, and mihiaifire target dia- 
grams had also been prepared. The Irish occupied two 
targets, and at one Major Fulton sat at the telescope, 
with Opt. Sriice beside him keeping the tally, while 
at the other target Capt. Coleman and Col. Gildersleeve 
olficiated in like positions. Yale, Bodine, etc., forming 
a general advisory board. How well the work wa* done 
is seen in the occupation lij' Ireland of th'^lilp place, for 
while the English especiaHj' ahd the Scotch team in 
great measure •■hot aS independent marksmen, the Irish 
were held well together, and except a flurry at 1,000 
yards, when Hamilton changed his sights and J. Rigby 
put a shot on the wrong target, all went well. 
In the Scotch team two men it will be observed 
scored 201 points each, one marksman, Boj-d, at 1,000 
yards putting in eleven consecutive btUl's ejtCS And tllir- 
teen in the fifteen shotsj In all biit si\teeP misses were 
made tluring the day^ and the totals show that the marks- 
mansbip as a whole Waa fine. At the 800 yards range 
the sun shone, but after recess, at 900 and 1,000 yards, 
the sky was shaded, the wind blowing frOm the eleven 
and one o’clock quarters. The score* ale presented by 
range totals as follows! 
iri^h Tvinn. 
S- S To"»g. Bieby rifle. 
800 . 
900 . 
i.oob. 
Tl. 
w 
70 
66 
zod 
W Klsbv. “ •• .. 

r *9 
196 
G. Fenton. ** “ 
fi 2 
7 } 
E. jDhD>»on, *• 
flo 
7 t 
58 
194 
J. Ri:,'bv, “ “ . . 
61 
65 
188 
J^\il**on. " •* .. 
.... 59 
65 
59 
183 
R. S. Greenhill. ** . . 
64 
55 
58 
177 
Dr. Hamilton, •* " . . 
w 
65 
40 
169 
To 4 »t; 
502 
Scotch Team. 
527 
477 
1,506 
Rof^s, Melford rifle 
60 
70 
59 
^01 
Fet27i’-on, Riffbv rifle. , . . 
67 
TO 
64 
Mitchell, Metford rifle... 
64 
Gt 
5*. 
^95 
Henn* rifle 
46 
,* 
160 
C'lewe, rifle 
fSf 
M 
1® 
Rae, “ “ 
62 
65 
VM 
Bovd “ 
67 
m 
71 
201 
Eilman, Metford rifle. . 
51 
64 
181 
— 
— 
» 

Totals 
49s 
Enfrlish Team. 
311 
494 
1,503 
Evans, Metford rifle 
61 
65 
57 
183 
Miller. " " .... 

55 
64 
185 
Striven, “ .... 
£3 
54 
184 
Rimin?ton, “ ** 
67 
71 
66 
Bi9 
Fenton, ** 
66 
♦a 
54 
183 
Bland. “ .... 
66 
61 
60 
187 
Backhouse, “ 
68 
6;j 
.59 
190 
Booard. “ “ 
59 
63 
6P 
m 
• 
—• ^ 
- 
Totals 
504 
481 
1.502 
-A very interesting way of viewing 
the 
contest is bj- 
It will be seen by the balance of the first round that 
the Irishmen at once stepped to the fore, fdr while they 
made 80 in the possible 40 thd Scotch and English 
made 27 and 29 respectively. The Scotch team seemed 
to fall off rapidly, until at the end of the seventh round 
the Irishmen led them by 21 points, the Englishmen 
having fallen behind equally as far. The Scotchmen 
then made a spurt and swept off twelve points of the 
difference at one round, while the Englishmen fought 
steadily up lessening the distance betwien themselves 
and the victors until at the fourteenth round, but one 
before the close of the 800 yards stage, the English team 
had actually stepped two ahead of the Irish, and by the 
close stood thirteen ahead, the poor Scotchmen being 
still in the lurch, but .still nothing very disgraceful since 
all the shooting had been of a good class, Btlrgess of 
the Scotch team being the otlLy one whose shooting 
might he termed hiedidtre and hot up to the gefleral 
average, he alorie having fallen into ihe “fdrties.” I)uv- 
ing the *50*1 yards siage It may he said in general terms 
that the Irishmen had shot up hiU and down again, 
while the other teams had gone down and clambered up. 
-All recognized the fact that the 800 yard* stage was 
not the whole battle, and that the brunt of the warfare 
had yet to be fought. The Irish were not despondent, 
while the English wen; not then inclined to be so oVei- 
conflden*. Sb stood the fortunes of this mimic warfare 
when all adjourned to the side skirmishes of the lunch 
room, there to steady the arm and clear the eye through 
the very direct channel of the stomach. Their work 
thus tar being shown as follows: 
800 yards. 
Round. 
t 
2 
Righesl 
— 
&c6trh. 
•it 
Irl^ti 
pbssiWe, 
1 
IH^ih. 
E)i<riUb 
2^ 
..OTCt 
Scotrli. 
a 
a 
3 
lol 
fli 
8 
4 
loo 
136 
124 
125 
12 
5 
210 
171) 
161 
157 
9 
6 
240 
20? 
19d 
193 
7 
280 
241 
2?2 
2?2 
8 
32(1 
270 
d 
. lo 
% 
307 
3i! 
:fl0 
**2 
;»2 
l2 
11 
M 
48*) 
376 
:«r 
:i6g 
9 
J1 
440 
412 
400 
JIM 
12 
13 
520 
446 
4;S 
440 
14 
14 
560 
4T6 
467 
4?; 
51! 
n 
15 
600 
5W 
498 
1 
Id'ij 
ElisU^li. 
it 
13 
the “ running record,” showing the standing of the three 
teams. Such an exhibit was presented in our columns 
in connection with the late International match at Dolly- 
mount, and the present one, indicating the rise and fall 
in the chances of the three teams at Wimbledon, is none 
the less worthj' of attention. In preparing it, the sev- 
eral columns indicate, 1st, the round fired, a round 
being one shot by each man of each team, .lo rounds in 
all being fired, 15 at each range. The second column 
gives the highest piossible score at each successive round, 
being -10 per team per round. The three following 
columns show the totals netted by each team at the 
conclusion of each round, and the two final columns tell 
the story of the struggle with the stubbornness of 
figures, and indicate the wavering fortunes of the con- 
testants accurately and indisputablj'. A glance at these 
will show wherein lay the intense interest of the crowd 
of riflemen who for so many hours, with pencil in hand, 
kept noting in rapidly made computations, the fluctua- 
tions of the battle. The Scotchmen in their bonnets 
and kilts were out of sorts from the start, the English- 
men were exuberantly confident, while the Irish received 
a lesson which, if they will but heed, should make it a 
difiicult feat for any team to wrest victoiy from them. 
At the 90fi yards range Ihe teams weiit to work under 
standingly, those haVlhg thte lead tli kee|i il ahd those ill 
the tear to close up the gap that shut them off from vic- 
tory. For seven rounds the English team managed to 
keep up their superiority over the Irishmen. In the 
first 900 yards’ round their lead of thirteen fell to twelve. 
In the next by most exceptionally good shooting the 
Englishmen increased their lead to eighteen poidt.s: ahd 
this it is Well here to remark was the gteateet advance 
the English ehjojred during the day. From that iioiht 
victory left them, and to the end they failed to reach 
again so near the bauble of triumph. Fmm the eiglitcen 
they dropped to a lead of twelve, then on their next 
round to three ; at the 20th the Irish and English 
were equal with 673 points each. Another round and 
England wa.s ahead one point, next equal with her sister 
isle, and the struggle between the two bodies of experts 
became intensely interesting, but at the 23d round 
with the day’s work half done, Ireland took the march 
to the head in earnest. One point, six points, nine and 
ten were her successi4'e leads over the English team 
imtil at the close of the 900 yards stage Ireland's supe* 
riority was ten over England. But meanwhile whete 
was poor Scotland? struggling on on the far left, and 
left behind she was, for with a lead of two points on 
the first round of the 900 yards stage by Delaud, she 
had permitted its increase to twenty at the finish. At 
one stage, at the end of the 34th round, Scotland was 
not less than 34 points behind the Green Ilesmen. tl 
was not through any especially bad luck for but two 
misses are credited to the Scotch eight at this range, 
while the English have as jmany, and Jlitchell, of the 
Scotch, had put in nine successive bulls, but he was 
not well supported, and this, the two-thirds stage of the 
battle closed, as follows: 
Bound. 
Highei't 
pot^ible. 
IrielL 
900 yards. 
Scotch. 
EnglUh. 
Irish 
over 
Trifh 
over 
16 
640 
534 
3:« 
546 
Scotch. English 
17 
680 
568 
562 
586 
6 
— 
18 
720 
605 
.595 
617 
10 
— 
a9 
760 
637 
624 
640 
13 
— 
20 
800 
673 
654 
67:4 
19 
— 
21 
840 
707 
689 
708 
18 
— 
22 
880 
743 
722 
74:4 
21 
— 
Zi 
920 
779 
758 
778 
21 
1 
24 
960 
817 
793 
811 
24 
6 
25 
1,000 
853 
831 
644 
22 
9 
26 
hm 
867 
879 
04 
10 
27 
1,000 
921 
905 
914 
16 
7 
28 
1,129 
956 
940 
949 
16 
7 
29 
1,160 
991 
976 
964 
15 
8 
30 
1,200 
1,029 
1,009 
1,019 
20 
10 
I 
