The New York herald., 1874-09-27
THE SHOOTING.

Promptly at the hour appointed the Irish snd
American teams took their places behind their re-
spective targets. The marksmen appeared to be
confident aud resolved, and proceeded Win the
deliberation or feeling their RESPONSE
bIity to prepare for the contest While
the eager crowd gathered at the ropes
the members OF the competing teams pro-
ceeded to clean out their rifles, fire shots in the
ground and arrange their ammunition SO as to
settle down with easy minds TO the great work IN
hand While these preparations were In progress
the scorers TOOK their position at the telescopes
and prepared TO record the shooting. In order
to guard against any dissatisfacuon two scorers
one appointed by the Irish and the other by the
American team-watcned each target, by this
means rendering error In the recording OF the
shooting Impossible. The struggle yesterday was
as much q struggle between rines as between
men, and one reminded OF this fact by
the distribution OF the arms at the targets. The
irish team all shot with the Rigby rife, which
loads at the muZzle. TWO weapons divided the
allegiance OF the American marksmen, Lieutenant
Fulton, S. L. Hepburn ana Colonel Bodipe using
the Remington breecn-loader, while Coonel Glider
sleeve. G.. w. Yale and General Dakin gave the
preference to Sharpe's target rife. The result
showed tnat in point or accuracy there was not
much TO choose between them, as the deviations In
the shots were due to the inaccuracy the marks
men, not to any defects OF the rines. Iieuten'
ant Fulton, succeeded in making the largest
score ever recorded, beating his performance OF
Thursday by three, and recording the magnificent
score OF Ill out OF possible $50, a ult that has
never hitherto been obtained by any rineman.
The members OF the American team were in mag
nihcent condition. cool ana evidently well rested.
MIR. Johnson, OF tue Irish team unwell and evi-
IDENTIFY suffered much from the heat In the begin
n "A Tie hut
the target Az 500 yards lie scored 30 out OF pos
sibe 60. AT the 900 yard range he eI OF one point
but steadily improved at the long range closing
his score at the LOCO yards range with 81. Mr.
Johnson was the only marksman the state o,
whose health could be held to interfere with the
accuracy OF his firing.
THE FIRST SHOT
There was q lull OF expectation amon1 the
people the final preparations were made BY
the marksmen. For time 1t appeared as If the
competitors were anxious 10 avoid beginning
and that eacn desired the other to fire
first The suspense was at last broken by
Captain walker, OF the irish team, who fired and
missed the target. This inauspicious beginning
was not initiated by the Americans, Colonel
GidersIeeve following with centre, which gave
the Americans a leau at this range, which
they steadily improved on. The general
shooting OF the Irish team at mis- range was not
equal TO their practice on Thursday, but J. X.
Miner made splendid enort TO retrieve the for
tunes 'oi his friends with q score OF cen
Tres ana IL BULBS eyes, IL OF the BULBS
eyes being snot In str ing, consti-
tutlng the best sustained erort OF the day.
But magnificent as Was TINS shooting. the perform.
ance ol Lieutenant Fulton at this range was even
better. seven oul's eyes followed by centre
was followed by SIX successive bulls eyes and a
centre as closing shot, giving the
spienoid fesut OF IS out OF a possible co.
During the hrlng at mis- point tie heat was on.
presslve, and the lrlsh evidently suffered very
much In the DrOHng sun CaptalF Walker to1
had second miss at his sixtn shot w6ich
seemed to exercise depressing influence
on the members OF his team, wne the Amerl.
cans, elafed by their success, began to IooK
forward to an easy victory, Tnetr best shooting
was uone at this range, dnd when the result OF
the scores vas announced 10 was discovered .hat
they ed thelr opponents ~ nine pOhts, tile score
standing 3Zt tc si7. u appeared TO many that the
victory was aVeGfy certain, as fbe possibility o.
Sing UP was very doubtful But mere