The New York herald., 1875-08-23
CAPTAIN B0GARDUS.
Pigeon Shooting for the Champion
ship of the World.
OF MEL L.

three months; and during the whole OF that time, al
though he has shot in very large number OF pigeon
shooting matches, ho has never yet been beaten at
what in racing parance is called seven weights" There
is no doubt that English have found him "a Tartar"
He has licked their pigeon shots all round and
now the eleventh hour OF his trip he has wresed
from them the much coveted honor Of the champion
ship of the world. 1t has been said that Engshman
knows when no is beaten; but thore excep
ons that. In pigeon shooting circles here have
heard the best wing shots remark that 1--WE have
nothing TO approach the Americana comment which
is fully borne out in tho result of the Captains Euro
pean tour.
HAVE NOTHING CAPTAIN BoGARDUs
in this country There be doubt about it, Since
tho month of May last the Captain has been in England
open to shoot with all comers fair As have
before explained very few have taken advantage OF the
general challenge Men who have hitherto ruled the
pigeon shooting roos 1t were, and who were consid
cred almost irreproachablo wing shots, havo been
content to shoot In sweepstakes with tho American with
handicap allowances but until the other day there
not one be found in the whole catalogue of good
shooters who had the bodness to challenge him
on equal terms We have already seen how Bogardus
dealt with Shaw the champion whom the Manchester
pigeon shooters set up to contend against
him. and who have previously no
ticed, was and Is, considered to be one
standing the ancient gun which Shaw shot with and in
spite of the unmannerly and unmanly way in which
his friends behaved during the contest it must be adj
mittcd that he killed his birds in fine style; but he
could not approach Captain Bogardus. 1t men,
toned communication from Liverpool that there
some chance of the championship of the world being
shot before Captain Bogardus finally badc adicu
the English shores The idea we'll carried by
those who took it up. Tho man appointed to shoot
against the Captain Mr.. George Rme, of London,
whose skill with tho shotgun admittedly greatly |
superior to any other metropolitan The condi-
tons as has already been explained, 100 birds
each fifty be shot under English and fifty under
American rules the birds to be taken from basket
THE TROPHY Is A HANDSOME MEDAL,
which has been subscribed for among the supporters
of the sport and which is quite worthy of the event
This prize is Of an oval shape surmouned with repre-
of the globe the top ofwhch dove on the
wing appears with the wreath of victory in its bea.
Immediately beneath this the symbolica guns
Surrounding the centre-peco he inscription which
now the Of Captain Bogardus the victor,
flags all in color engraved with exquisite
TASTE prominent among those banners being the Union
Jack and the Stars and Stripes. The tout ensemble of
the medal is pleasing the highest degree and may
be said to the credit of the vanqushed that Rme
is himself designer Tho idea has been carried out
in the best style by Streccr, of Now Bond street. Tho
value the medal is thirty guncas. The weather to-day
was somewhat dull the atmosphere being oppressively
close with signs of thunder. AS may be imagined
such conditions were not the favorable for shoot
ing The smoke hung very badly about the gun, to tho
great inconvenience of tho in tho double barrel
competition thirty yards, that the shooting of
neither Bogardus nor Rimel extraordinarily good
large number of spectators visited the grounds to wit
ness tho match and enjoy the amenities of the Welsh
is no MI host in
the suburbs of London than the Welsh Harp the CLASSY
lake the we'll laid out gardens and the messy lawns
offering thousand aud one pleasures TO the holiday
maker. The proceedings commenced at three O'Clock
this afternoon in the midst OF a heavy shower
of rain, which, however, did not last long
The Englishman tho toss, and elected
to shoot first. Twenty-Five birds, with
two barrels and and quarter ounce of shot at
thiry yards rise, and five traps the opening por-
ton Of the programme Rimell neatly grassed his first
bird with the second barrel The Captains opening
pigeon flew swiftly out Of the trap winged with the
first barrel and brought down with the second The
Engishman's second was a miss n bucrock that got
well away tho wing while Bogardus grasscd his bird
splendidly at the first attempt. Again the English
champion failed score, and the Captain had another
crcditablc kill with taller The fourth birds were
killed by both men in good style; but while Rmel's
fifth was prctty grasscd the Captains rcked and got
away to the left although badly winged Three
ccssvo misses scored to Rme, tho birds
being the best kind and the Captain made very short
work his birds all OF which he killed in grand style
The ninth and tenth rounds went to the gun, and tho
stood,
BoGARpUs OUT OF 10; RIMELL, 5 OUT OF 10
Odds OF three to freely offered Bogardus,
who, will be seen in spite of the hanging smoke shot
very we'll indeed in the first rounds The English
man killed his following birds in thoroughly sports
man-likc way; but OF like number the American
missed Ia strong bluorock that cvaded both barrels
yalln hn
again proved disastrous to the Engshman, who scored
only kill, and that from pigeon that hung the
wing. In his s Bogardus missed couple of strong
birds of which winged and fell dead of
boundary. Rimcs twenty-lrs bird clinkng one,
which shot right out of the trap and hardly gave the
gun n chance. The Americans bird was Of Il like de-
scrption, his shot being low Rimcls next pigeons
STYLE the last particularly being noteworthy shot
With the exception OF his twenty fifth shot Bogardus
also killed.
BoGARDus, 10 OUT 25 RrMErI, Is 25.
Already the American had left his opponent behind to
the of birds and this advantage by dint OF
steady shooting nc continued to increase 1t was
proposed shoot 20 birds under American rucs-that
is 20 birds from spring trap at q yards rise only ono
barrel to be fired The rules of tho Prairie Club
strictly enforced the gun being below the elbow until
the bird the wing. Mr.. Rimell who had never
shot in this manner before was allowed sighting
shot" lie seemed to think that the birds could be
easily grasscd what he imagined such simple
conrivance but his shooting somewhat bced this idea
'lI's easy it seems, remarked Bogardus
adding 1T takes good shot to kill nineteen out OF
twenty" This feat the Captain accomplished
in the easiest possible manner. VI the ~
tho Englishman killed 16, and the American
missed but l, the NTH. which, coming
swiftly toward the gun, winged and perchcd tho
shed half dozen yards from the firing point. The
bird in almost every were good ones. They
'young and naturally Wild" Hammond, who sup
Piled them, said. 1t therefore cannot he considered
inferior performance the part OF Rimcll, who
trying strange sport for the first mo. The
stood
poGARpus IS OUT OF IS; RInELI 81 OUT OF as
The remaining portion Of the shooting under tho
American rules pcrsevcrcd with. This competition
Ia mira .f hfrHa Mt Nnrhg ria Of
spring traps (doube risel Again tho Englshman was
strange ground His shooting in this competition
greatly inferior to that OF the American The double
rise seemed strangely to confuse him that he could
score no than Is birds of 30 In every no
killed his first brd but the second nc could never get
at excepting instances and the last pair but one
when he killed both pigeons to couple of very good
shots. The American, the contrary, 'at home"
with the double rise. He grasscd no less than eleven
conncs In good form. His afcr the first shot