The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-22 00:00:00

THE CAMP AT WIMBLEDON

At Wimbledon, on Saturday, the competition for the
International Challenge Trophy excited much interest.
It fell to the representatives of Scotland by a majority
of 15, the scxwes made by the respective teams
having been - Scotland, 1,105 ; England, 1,000 ; Ire-
land, 1,031. Amongst the other contests were those
for the Belgian and China Challenge Cups, the Bat-
talion Sweepstaki% in connection with the Queen's
Prize, the Snider Association Cup, the semaid stage of
the Alexandra, and the Duke of Cambridge's Prize.

The Church parade on Sunday forenoon at Wim-
bledon was well attended, not only by volunteers, but
by visitors. The sermon (which it need hardly be said
was most practical and impressive) was preached by
the Bishop of Manchester, from the words, "Let ererg
soil be subject to the higher powers." In the afternoon
the heat was excessive, but it is computed that there
were notwithstamling no fewer than 60,000 visitors to
the camp. The restaurant or canteen was closed,
and the hungry and thirsty, whose mune was" legion,"
well.nigh exhausted the stores at the various inns at
the neighbouring villages.

TUESDAY.
Yesterday was. as anticipated, a " princely " day at Wim-
bledon. The first to arrive was his Royal Highness Prince
Arthur, who immediately after lunch-hour laid a visit to the
camp of the Canadians, to take the earliest opportunity id
acknowledging the kindness which he himself had received
when in their country.
Prince Oscar id Sweden arrived shortly before live o'clock,
attended only by two membow of his Staff. Having paid a
short visit to the Cottage, Prince (Near, with his Royal High-
ness Prince Arthur, was conducted round the Camp met to
the principal points of interest at the ranges by Loril
the chairmen of the Association. The rapid tiring id the
military breechloadeni was a matter which naturally arrested
their intention, and they slapsd fora considerableperi.lat this
range watching the competitions which were improvised for
their information and anmsement. A warmly contested
match Was carried on between Corporal Andrews, of the
glith Knit, shooting with a Martini-Henry, and Sergeant
Bird, of the South Middlesex, shooting with the new Henry
rifle, hi which the advantage remained with the Martini-
Henry Private Warwick, however, the champion performer
with the 'Soper' rifle, afterwards distanced all other per-
formances by getting off OS shots in two minutes, and making
a good score into the bargain From the ranger, the Royal
party proceeded to inspect the hospitable c,thcint of the
Victoriaa the dining-hall, hung with stags' heads and other
trophies, of the London Scottish the pleasant, though distant
lines of the London Irish, of which regiment Prince Arthur is

Colonel. and is to take command lotturilay next ; returning
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to the main entrance, past the quarters of the guards, police, c.
Prince Arthur, in COllSCtillelleo of all appointnient elsewhere,
was here obliged to take leave, but Prince Oscar continued his
toot of inspertfon, visiting the ; efreshment department in all
Ito branches tell tasting the beer supplied to tile Volunteers
working his way through the labyrinth of tents which to-
gether constitute the offices of OM Awmciation, before the
officials in ail eases were aware of his appinacii. Of any-
thing by which he waa particularly struck Prince taissr—
differing In this respect film the Uroa n Prince of Prussia--
made note', pail lie carried away, as a mennumble document,
the bill of fare daily supplied at a fixed price in the 11rd-class
retreAment mom

The GO Queen's prizemen, having bail their new Martini-
Henry rifles homed to them for the Seeollli stage, were prac-
ticing them and endeavouring to get their sighting ac-
curately. They speak in high terms of the accunicy of the
weapon, Mit assert that the amount of recoil in excessively
severe. One of these competitors unfortunately chose a
moment for letting off Ids rifle as a sighting shot When the
signal to cease firing bad been given and the danger flag
rained. On the case being reported to the Council the
offender was at Ink, iuisqliahtfled -1111 extreme penalty, no
gloubt, but one which it is absolntely necessary to enforce
for the safety of the markers, pollee, and everybody else in
('step.
Anothev hiulttnlillcation reiswiled was when n competitor,
&siting for the Puke of Cambridge's prize, entered tour
timeS instead three, as allowed by the regulations WA a
penalty Was Mod red where a V ohinteer 111. i berri guilty
if Ming the baekslght of. his rifle. With these exceptionn,
the meeting hitherto lam Mien signally free from protests and
disagreements of all kinds.
The crowd OH Sunday, though believed to liscr 47. e. one e
the largest, if not the largest, that ever visited (1 Imbicipin
on snen in oissision, was remarkably orderly mid goisl tem-
pered. The beer, however, which the An.station withheld
after five a,-lock, is said to hare been supplied lip the dif-
fermi regimental canteens. On any future there-
fore, hi nh lie fillettitthle ti, conic with
the lieerliethell of these canteens AR to the question of Sun-
day ebroerVallee Riot the emir*: to be pursued, so that the
ordeal to be adopted may be uniform all over the Common.

THE WINNER OF THE QUEEN'S PRIZE.
fafity kties thus describes the thooting
Tuesday, tor the Qossn's Price (Ll5O -cop or mollt'3)

,
. . . But the fine woather wsa not resnonsilde for the
large attentlanee; great and interesting shooting events fell to
lie 0.1.1.1, events in which not shooting men ahma but the
general pinkie, Dia fathers, mothers, brothers, and sista, of
nOt a few English youths frtt warm and deep interest. The
Qtwen's Prize was to lie now According to the
riOlat!Os numb e tinti provided, "the eiSty duly paraded at
5.40 aid to fre;id t the rotmeil tent. that as soon no the
gun-Ilre gave the signal tiie wrest enntest of the Meeting
began. During the morning and foremain the lithig went on
with varying results. Alen by whom their (walnuts.* 4Whre
snuffed themselves out with a couple of misses at SIX,
or extinguished their chance by a successbnl of miters at 9(10
",ben ihe time arrived at which the midday gun is
usually fired: st the 1.000 yards range was al.
ready. quite half done. . . Da smoke blew away, the
report mn round the timbals spectators thst the best score
on tar was that of Ensign Ilumphry, of esneldid„r. "silver-
glt
- Who had already made 61 with two sleds to tlre. . . .
• • • •

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Close to the left of the Inroad front of the firing-point, very
soon after the firing recommmicifil, P prostrate competitor
hail regiotereil to him a bull's-eye, whereat flieru was herd
of nuppressed cheering, mingled with the clapping of Plaine
pahnsand the wavitei of pocket hatuilkerchiefn. Then there
M'nntvi7te firing position a tall, slight young
man, with a lean healthy q,rwin fset, hare, smooth throat
and sin:tinily sleoiler figure. As cool as it It: lind taken a life
in a threepenny pool, he stands leaning on his ride iiaiquir to
a pair of comrades hi gray with red facings, he himself is in
griv with red facings, and the whisper—everylnoly has taken
.0 inetettoN inmv—ruas round that the slim youngster is
Ensign in! 4tfiitv Voiles.% iMuloridge. and that
the Inull s-eye just fired. his 'ennt hint pined his final
score to 08, an uncommonly likely figni: ion 'rinnli•g.the
Queen's Price. But he has not Won it yet. Ask Ito !..'t
of England Men there if he has those stout, suolound
erutrynien. broad 01111 slow of speech, who are watch-
ing Mai 'lll4lrtpoi, a. Corporal Peole, 4.f the Somerset
Administrative hattailloil "vole left oil at 1.9111-fire with
a score of 66, slot four shots 15 ;Ile, it js in his pw oer
to add 16 tin this, if he should Make tiotlifilg Put Inuit's-
i'•yent. end he looloi a hulls-eye bltlli If man as, tvitillif
Ins no 10:- ,Its with, frifpnastve- -atoned, one would say,
plilegmatic—coolness, molt!' the umbrella lield over him by
no anxious bottleholder of his own uJ esk th 9 green
Robin Masts there. watching Silver-medal Ilay MT!
shot 04 coolly as lie might a glass of beer, e holier tile
Cambridge man may yet shout as one shouts who is out of the
wood The call is for Poole. Poole comes from beneath the
utiTurlln' Looter, kni the front, leisurely dinposes himself
prone upon his rLi,. lii,. fnlci:n r long, long alto, and fires.
A centre. A bun runs to:',l 1;:f thn criiird, and the
West countrymen look content, for Dinh mew N now
59. and even three more centres would bring Ithn in the
winner, for he has 41011 e better than Ilumpliry In the first
stage, on the Omitting in which ties at the close are decided.
lie is Nick now :main under the umbrella, cool snit hopes-
site its eve, Ii you do not look very close, lout there is a
treihne flit Oiliers of the mouth that speaks of a
kiinlsfl eVettereetil rreteritiv bin turn comes
again. There is plovw an we ttm extenAdf rifle on
shoulder, and this time his aim Is yet 15bgef tie"' l'nfifte The
West countryman flash with joy through their Sithihnof 55
another centre is announced—their man is now 02, and ham
still two shots in hand. Two more centres wool,' make him
the whiner. As Poole goes back to his umbrella they re.
fraio.frion.congrstulating him. Don't disturb him." they
so) on, Le .t.r,lialpft,they know their Malt 4.001 and
impassive as seenlia that quiet, it,:l '99919.691. with the dee!,
set eye and the striong nhort 1 word, there law ta "Pe, tnltion,the
moanero is burnt up within toy eseltement, 111141 the etano of
" funk 4elS in. 1103 Wen When lie has passed to
the filing point, a man whispers, Ws gone lie fmiks."
The iun4nniitiou stirs the West country blmal-- Darned if
e' .li., is lffe effigy titurietuove answer to the whisperer of
" fuink." .A bong aim iiii;;;tnnt re, or on the smoke
blown off the ell' id A sedan !" soot rutin, . ft is Pot a
miss—another eenbe. A centre it is bit glaS, it Is A
ciMite, ninth cotihts, nothing., The hl,he of the
55 cot 0..;1 riiidn'nsliaftee is 44stirt.qui9d41,
The bottle-holder i Up the timid-el:a -Pith an 0.. r Of
dignified 5.," ' and Poole, so cline' to the Mandl of Scale's,
hilt now with Inn ladder broken, sits down ruefully, yet man-
fully, in the sum, It wasn't my ' y fault," lie says the
Wet lin has broken alletnie since luncheon tune,
' I !:e., ,'`lll4,P timaneht a better idiot." Kilts
Poole is fie:M.-it t us Wee ,111trit1ItY the living. Not
just yet, though. All is unit qiniftln, r. Fjeing,t still going
on, lad only, suit seems, formally to eon-Voir toe nhoothig.
Now tine crowil—previionsly exiled In the outer world beytaftl
111, ropes, breakii lii, cianding the remonstrant policemen as
of nought, a:9l !mitten up intaltist the cliairbacks id the men
sitting at the spygintioa:s. holfeennen yield with good
hinuour—the stenniesa befitting a nactiitiiiimi Pleenum is
relaxed considerably at Wimbledon. ambient) .11'1,4 1.4 a
shont, " Mayfield Nlayfield !" What has slaylield done,
thea 7 /1, hiss hired his last shot, and it is a laillseye. •' lie
has tleil HumPlir#," iJ the ...It cry—lf this be the case be is
the of the
.gidil, ol of the SI/e07.4 medal, for lie has
made tWtbetter &age t thti first range. It hooka hilt were
the 2e4. 51 6.1 .4111114SlendeleeS t 001111411114.1.111
114440.14, and being littrricil erovoi audit immense
diming. But there are two Melia:ill hi thi: MIA, and
the token:rails of Cambridge km's.- who 16 nit. rot
Richard. Here comes llompluy, borne aloft, not sitting, bilt
spread-eagled in a remarkably tineminfortabh. position, one
would say, mu the shoulders id four of his comrades, and
rinetraorond tiv n btile,guard of l'nivensity into and V Ir.'s,
camp-conuraiics. !Ith rtght num, +(ter all The band
f the Vic.'s plainly think so, atisil ITeok..thelf lilunintu right
loudly in the strains of the '' Conquering he:,'." es thee bend
the procession towards the Council tent, the procession the
centre of a dense moving crowd, whereof every man- -and
every wiallan too, for that matter is cheering. On tin the
Council tent with the conquering hero. It takes a line of
orderlien to Lend back the among, 011141 even the rails are
token at the Nrtrge. aol haplem ilidiel.lll3llol collie to
grief by reason imptidenene in their agility.
Major Barnes tested the rifle handed t hi ttt , tied erionvos the
mlince with the wont. "All right." Then thew ii gftether
control:dim of cheering, the running fire if which n liaS ever
yet ceased ; aml th i ere s a 4101101111 Inc the badge if victory
In, be attache:l unto mime inortion of the personal apparel of
the victor. The modest victor wishes it shoved into Ids
pocket But his friends evidently think that this would lie
hiding his light under a hoshel. Some WiSll it put on his
otbeS rinomt ids breast. The latter suggestion in
adopted, and then One ructon nod hi, hearers emerge into the
open. Intlid another hunt nit cheering Their ilinstmation is
the canto of the Vietorias, lout a cirettitons route Is adopted,
which gives active people the chance of forehtalling the
throng. As the music mill the cheering sound in the
distance, at the head of Windmill-street the Quarter-
master of the Vietorias and Captain Tounkins are seen
proceeding [inwards the gate, each bearing a massive loving
cup They are follovred toy an entliushodic private, with what
seems a pailful of lneer. The Vir.'s, itt all kinds inf eccentric
matrons, numb out to meet their victorious camp chum. The
volunteer cooks desert Tionikine patent, anal in bare anus
and aprons head the welcome party. They form, too, an
advance imard of honour, followed by two mounted police-
men, who seems to enjoy the affair intensely. Than. counts
11,,' I and, and finally the t phal car, cimmoseidid ('auto-
bridge men. There is it short stoppage no the crowd tweaks
11, and blocks the way, and then the Queen's Mantuan is
Imrne in through the gate of his own camp, with trig
Pat lialkett at his elbow tendering hint the grate-
ful tankard. l'fn goes the hig flag to the mast-
head, the holliarils tugged at by brawny ar0314.
Au attempt is made to forni a ring iii the centre of the en.
component, w Inch ultimately partially alleeeeds, amid the vic-
tor is at length deposited on terra firma, nutil, an the Btitish
manner is, called upon for a speech. Men and wonien jump on
the top of Tionkio s patent to see the man of the hour.
Tomkin'n patent in atil hot from cooking luncheon, and the
rash adventurers upon it execute gymnastic manoeuvrel
suggestive if a hear on a hot iron, while a smell of
Miming leather prevailne the cominunity. The few words
• Ensign Iluniphry thinks it necessary to say are
very graceful and modest, and then he is led to Ins tent,
the door of which to closed, that he mayhave an opportunity
ih ou.etude W fOrhli sOnle con...luewna as to whether he in
on his iwird Or lus hee:a And sov aftna three enisern tor
"ILIWAS:6"jag ggnas clinloginsn Uniinantia and an

indefinite number of cheers for things in general, the en-
thusiastic crowd disperses, and the University and the
Victories are left to congratulate their comrade.
Although only 21 nears of age, Ensign flumphry. of Trinity,
bad achieved a high shooting reputation before his exploit
of to-day. For three years hi succesaion he shot in the
Rugby team for the Ashburnharn Shield. This year he is
the captain of the Cambridge team, and as such took part
on Saturday last in the competition for the China Challenge
Cup, As will be remembered the Cambridge ten ware the
whiners in that corbel, and Ensign Huniphry made the
highest individual score in the competition lie belongs to
the F Company of the Cambridge University Rifle.. His
father is Professor ilumphry. hi. ii, a medical man of wide
repute. In firing into the discharge pit I.chore commencing
shooting at the 1000 yards range this forenoon. Mr.
Hinuphry dianced to break the striker id kin rifle, and
as it was nearly half an hour's work for the annourer
to repair it he had to fire out of his tuni. and more
rapidly than would otherwise have been the case to
make up his lee way. This circumstance might have dis-
concerted one With weaker nerves, but as it was Mr. Hum-
phrys Idel.re at this range was three I•ulls-eyes, three centres
and au outer. This total of as Is the livid cii rtxxird with the
exception of those inade in ISOO and larri by Angus Cameron,
who on the that occasion of his winning the Queen's Prize
made au, on the second 71 points. Last year the Queens
Prize was won by Private Humphreys, oth Surrey, with a
score of 60.