808 
Axisrust Cl, 1875. 
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mishap, the man refused to mark any more, and was ex- 
cused from duty bj' Surgeon Groux. Xothing but the 
grossest earelessntss on the part of the men can account 
for the rapid succession of accidents that of late have 
occurred on the ranges. Some men belonging to the 
Thirteenth. Regiment were practicing in front of the 
target at which the man was wounded. 
The Second Brigade, with detachments from Fifty- 
sixth and Eighty-fourth Regiments, had a practice day 
on ^Monday, 16th. Lieut. Col. Kraeger, field officer: Dr. 
A\ illiams, medical staff officer; Capt. Orvis, inspector. 
The leading scores were as follows: 
The Fifth. 
Priv F Carper 
(300 
4 3 4 2 2-21 
3 4 3 5 4-19-40 
Drummer C Sulker . . . 
1 300 
2 4 3 4 4— 17 
4 3 5 5 4— 21— 3S 
Sergt M Fo'-st 
(300 
4 5 4 5 4—22 
3 4 2 2 3—14- 36 
Lieut Baade 
\ 3U0 
2 3 5 4 2— J6 
3 4 5 2 3 — i» — 33 
Corji X Glor 
OiOO 
4 5 4 4 4—21 
0 3 0 3 3— 9—30 
The Sixth. 
Corp J .\ppel 
( 300 
4 3 5 3 3—18 
4 4 0 4 5—17—35 
Priv M Kutfky 
(300 
1 4(« 
2 5 3 5 4—19 
5 4 0 5 2—16—35 
Priv J Rolh 
4 3 5 4 2—18 
5 :i 4 3 0—15—33 
Capt D Zeigler 
1 300 
3 4 0 2 5—14 
4' 4 3 4 4—19—33 
ii M Sergt Strauss 
(;300 
5 0 3 3 4—15 
■) 401 
4 5 3 0 4—16—31 
The Eleventh. 
Capt C F Baldendecker 
i3fl0 
» 400 
0 2 4 3 2-11 
2 0 4 0 0— 6—17 
Capt J Po'ilar . 
1 300 
3 2 0 4 0—9 
0 0 4 0 0— 4—13 
The Eighty-fourth. 
Priv Driscoil 
(30 
5 3 2 4 3—17 
4 5 3 4 3—19—36 
Capt Fnllerlon 
3 4 5 3 5—20 
3 3 5 2 2—15—35 
Corp Davis 
1 -300 
( 4i«l 
5 4 3 0 0—12 
4 4 5 4 3 — 2J — 'iJ 
The Team Reception. 
The Reception Committee held a meeting on Tuesday 
afternoon, at the office of the American Rifle Associa- 
tion in the Bennett Building, Gen. Alexander Schaler 
in the chair, and, from present appearances, the in- 
tended reception will be a national ovation and will 
take a prominent place in our history. 
Quarantine-Master .Judd, President of the Reception 
Committee in the Bay, stated that he had learned from 
an interview with the agent of the Inman Line that the 
steamship City of Berlin, with the American team on 
board, would arrive in this harbor some time during 
Saturda 3 -. The telegraph operator at S:indy Hook will 
at once announce her in the city as soon as sighted bj' 
the look-out man, who would be able to recognize her 
when within fifteen miles, the weather proving clear. 
After the first announcement it will probably take the 
steamer upward of two hours to reach Quarantine at 
Staten Island, and while she is detained there by the 
health officers, the American team will depart on the 
Quarantine steamer, Nelse .1. Hopkins, for the city. 
The famous Twenty-second Regiment. X. Y. S. X. G., 
will undoubtedly act as escort to the team, in accord- 
ance with the acceptance of their telegram of July 10; 
but as the programme is not perfected at the time of 
going to press, we will postpone the detail until next 
issue, when we hope to have a full report of the recep- 
tion and banquet. 
The American Off-Hand Rifle Association also held a 
meeting at the Twenty-second Regiment Armory Tues- 
daj' evening, at which several veteran riflemen were 
present who would like to take a place in the front 
ranks in receiving the victors of Dollj-mount range. 
The Committee on Reception reported progress and 
were continued, with power to act on behalf of the 
Club and to report at a meeting to be held on Frida}- 
evening. The Club will have an appropriate badge 
made at once, and turn out in good numbers for the 
reception. 
Moxtbe-cl, Aug. 16.— The Province of (Juebec Rifle 
Association closed their annual meeting this day. Only 
the telegraph reports have reached us, although we had 
arrangements for a more extended record. Ever}Thing 
seems to have gone off most satisfactorily. The meeting 
has been upheld with great liberality, and there has been 
a large attendance from all parts of the Dominion The 
meeting opened August 10 with “The Brydges Chal- 
lenge Cup and Snider Champion 3Iatch,” open to all 
lionafide volunteers, past and present, in the Province of 
Quebec. The prizes were from $1.50 to $4. in all 2.5, 
after which there were ten other matches with ncarly 
two hundred prizes. The conditions admittc-d of any 
rifle, except in tsnider rifle matches, and any position, ex- 
cept at 200 yards, where it was standing. The targets 
were “old” Wimbledon. For Brydges there were 
127 entries. The first winners scored each 18 out of 20 
points at 200 yards. At .500 yards Captain Esdaile made 
18, tieing ilessrs. Ross and Stonehouse, of the Prince of 
M'ales’ Volunteers, Captain Rolfe, of^the Fifty -third, 
being a point behind ; but at (500 yards, after making a 
centre and a bull’s-eye, he made two unfortunate shots. 
Esdaile, not noticing a change in the hght, went over 
the top of the target with his last three shots, and came 
to grief. Stonehouse took the cup on a score of 49 
points. Captain Rolfe came next with 48, followed by 
Ross with 48. Long Snider • rifles were used, and five 
rounds fired at each distance, these being 200, 500 and 
600 yards, the greatest possible score being 60. The 
cup had been won consecutively for five years by differ- 
ent men. The day closed with firing for the second 
st^c prizes in the same match, a private in the Prince 
of Wales’ Volunteers taking the first, on a score of 25 
points out of a possible 28, at 600 yards. The contest 
was keen. The men making the forty highest scores in 
the first stage had a right to enter for the second, which 
they did. The Frontier and City Stakes were shot for 
on W ednesday. Large numbers of entries were made, 
long Sniders, or any other mUitary rifle with open 
sights, being used. D. Mitchell, of the Victorias, won 
the first prize in the Frontier, and Larkin, of the Prinee 
of AV ales’ Volunteers, the first in the City Stakes. In 
the battalion match on Wednesday five from each pro- 
vincial corps were allowed to compete for the first prize, 
a silver cup, and two others. Sniders were used, and 
the Alontreal garrison artillery carried off the cup with 195 
jxiints. The Fifty-fourth battalion took second place with 
186, and the Prince of Wales’ Rifles came in third with 
183. Capt. Boyd, of the Thirty-fourth, made the highest 
individual score of 47, and was closely followed by Lieut. 
Whitman of the Sixtieth, with 46. There was remark- 
ably elose firing in the next match, the Stadocona 
Stakes. Out of the twenty winners Brodis, of the 
Prinee of Wales’, scored 27, three others 26, and four- 
teen others 25. Rain blighted the prospects on Thurs- 
day, but the hardy marksmen toiled on during the fore- 
noon to finish the Association match, which brought 
out some pretty firing from the Fiftieth, Victoria gar- 
rison artilleiy-men. Frontier Rifles, Ottawa and Toronto 
men, etc. Ensign Wright, of the Fiftieth, took the 
first prize, with a seore of 35 points out of 40. Friday 
proved favorable over the broad ranges. In the stand- 
ing match Captain Rolfe won the first prize with 24 
points out of a possible 28. The Stranger’s Stakes, open 
to all comers, was the match of the week. Twenty 
xine prizes were offered; rifles optional, small bores or 
any militar}- weapon with open sights; ranges, ,500 and 
600 yards for militar}- rifle, and 800 and 900 for small 
bores; seven rounds at each distance. H. S. Jewell (of 
Xew York), scored 26 out of a possible 28 points, with 
a Sharps rifle, winning fifth prize. A. Anderson, of the 
American Rifle Club of Xew York, took seventeenth 
prize with 24 points, using a Sharps. L. Geiger, be- 
longing to the same club, won the nineteenth prize with 
24 points, using a Remington. Four competitors made 
2'' out of a possible 28 points. These were Harris, Cruet, 
Alitchell and Stenhouse. 
The Ladies’ Ccp. — In this competition Ontario took 
the first four prizes. The eighth prize was won with a 
Martini Henry rifle, with military’ sights, and the 
eighteenth by D. Turnbull, A. Anderson took the 
seventh, using Sharps’ rifle, scoring 49 out of 56 points. 
H. S. .Jewell came in tenth, seoring 48. The position 
of firing attracted some attention, and with Metford 
rifles it was believed they would have headed the prize 
list. Biy-dges’ Challenge Cup was, after a close contest, 
carried off permanently by Private Ferguson of the 
Grand Trunk Railway brigade, on a score of 90. Sten- 
house came in second. The winner was shouldered by 
a crowd and carried to the Secretaiy's office amid loud 
cheers. In the small-bore ehampion match Cruet, of 
Toronto, with a Metford rifle, won the first place; Jew- 
ell was eighth with 47 points out of 60, and R. Ander- 
son eleventh with 44. The scoring was remarkably 
good, Toronto and Hamilton taking off the first five 
prizes. A consolation stake wound up the eompeti- 
tions. The scoring in matches where small bore rifles 
are used showed that these eompetitions are not very 
extensively patronized. In- this Province six of these 
prizes go to Xew York, and about thirty to Ontario. 
Quite a sensation over the first two matches was cre- 
ated when the Executive Committee made an investiga- 
tion and discovered that three competitors, two of them 
men about town, had been guilty of falsifying the 
scores on their tickets. The Chairman of the commit- 
tee said the eharges were fully proved. The men are 
Sergeants AV^ynne and AV'ilson of the Garrison artillery, 
and Private Brazeau of the Victorias. They were ex- 
pelled from the rifle association, ferfeited all prizes won 
by them at that meeting, and are debarred from firing 
at any future meetings? 
Om-VHa, Aug. 7.— The Amateur Rifle Club had a 
meeting yesterday afternoon for target practice. All 
patterns of guns were used. The distanee 100 yards; ten 
shou each were fired; highest possible scored 40. The 
following is the score : 
Richards 3 2 444444 3 3—35 
4 3 3 4 3 3 3 4 3 3—33 
Kennedy 333334 3 3 3 4— 
4 3 2 4 3 3 2 3 3 3-30 
43332343 2 3—30 
The Exeeutive Committee consists of Judge Geo. B. 
Lake, Capt. J. Budd, A\\ A. Richards, Hon. J, M. Thurs- 
ton, and John AV. Petty. 
AVorcester, Aug. 14 . — The third and last of the com- 
petitive trials by the members of the Sportsmen’s Club, 
for the selection of a rifle team and substitutes, look 
place on the club grounds east of Lake Quinsigamond. 
L C Bates 
<400 
4 
5 
5 
3 
4 
5 3 
0 
2 
3 
5 
4 
2 3— 4S 
A L Rice 
2 
4 
4 
3 
5 
4 4 
5 
2 
4 
3 
0 
0 4—16 
G J Rugg 
\ 400 
4 
4 
5 
4 
5 
0 o 
4 
0 
3 
5 
4 
5 3 — 56 
A P (hittine 
1400 
3 
3 
4 
4 
3 
5 4 
4 
0 
o 
5 
4 
5 5 — 51 
Stedman Clark 
1400 
3 
3 
4 
3 
5 
5 6 
1 dOO 
2 
2 
5 
0 
2 
0 5—14 
A G Mann 
t 400 
5 
4 
4 
3 
4 
5 3 
3 
3 
0 
3 
4 
2 4—17 
A E Grimes 
V400 
5 
3 
2 
4 
5 
4 4 
3 
2 
4 
4 
3 
5 5-53 
(400 
5 
4 
5 
5 
5 
5 5 
5 
4 
5 
2 
3 
5 4—62 
1400 
3 
3 
5 
2 
4 
4 4 
o 
3 
4 
5 
5 
3 5 — 55 
Frank Weeeon 
} 400 
5 
4 
4 
4 
4 
4 3 
t oOO 
4 
5 
5 
3 
4 
o oU 
C B Holden 
t4O0 
0 
3 
5 
3 
5 
5 5 
2 
0 
2 
3 
5 
4 5—47 
The totals for the three trials have been 
as 
follows : 
Walter J McFarland 
31 
53 
62—140 
A P Cutting 
41 
52 
51—14 4 
Frank W eseon 
26 
49 
50—131 
A G Mann 
39 
44 
47—130 
G J Kqs^ 
38 
.35 
56— 12!l 
A L Rice 
39 
13 
A G Grimes 
Stedman Clark 
31 
44 
44—119 
I C Bates Smith 
•■)g 
Nathan Washburn 
6 
50 
55—105 
C B Holden 
39 
0 
47_ h6 
L W Holman 
37 
21— 58 
E F Smith 
J W Bigelow 
. 34 W. Bottomlv 
G H Htai 
.29 F W Adams . 
The first six named gentlemen will constitute the club 
team, and the next three the substitutes. Mr. AA'. J. 
McFarland wins the rifld offered by Mr. Frank AA'esson 
for the best aggregate score in the three competitions. 
Those who were unable to be present at all of the trials, 
and desire to compete for a place on the team, can do so 
at some future meeting, the team as now formed reserv- 
ing the right to shoot with them or stand on the above 
scores. 
The “State German Rifie Association of Conn.” held 
their seventh annual meeting upon the grounds of the 
“Independent Rifle Club” of Xew Haven, August 10. 
On the Union Target the prizes were confined to mem- 
bers of the Association. The first was won by F. Buck- 
holts of Xew Haven, and was a gold watch and medal; 
the second by J. Thiesing 'of Aleriden, and was a fine 
French Clock ; the third by G. Quitmeyer of Bridge- 
port, and was a splendid ice pitcher; the fourth by F. 
Reutshlerof Xew Britain, a solid silver toilet set. There 
was thirty-five other prizes, all valued at $300. The 
(general Prize Target was a ring target, 18 centre, open 
to all. They were won by J. E. Stetson, 51 points, $25; 
G. Quitmeyer, 50 points, $20; O. E. Pillard, 47 points, 
$15; mostly bull’s eyes; Capt. Miller of Hartford, $5. 
The Xational Rifle Club will meet at Springfield, 
Alass., on Tuesday and AFednesday, September 7th and 
8th, 1875. A general invitation is extended to sll who 
are interested in rifle shooting. Any one wishing to be- 
come a member can do so by paying five dollars on the 
ground ; this entitles them to aU the privileges of the 
Club. 12 pounds being the standard, all over that must 
give odds. From 12 to 20 pounds, I- of an inch to the 
pound for every 10 shots. From 20 to 30.3-16 to the 
pound, and from 30 to 40.1-16. John AVllliamson, Presi- 
dent ; D. A. Brown, Secretary. 
The prospects for ducks in Illinois arc good. The 
sloughs are all fuU of water. 
