The New York herald., 1876-09-15
The Scotch Team Show Signs
of Weakness.
"OLD RELIABLE" IN FRONT.
United States Victorious by
Twenty-Five Points.
Ireland Second. Scotland Third, Australia
Fourth. Canada Fifth

The centennial international ri1e trophy remains
with US. America Is tho With Ane weather,
In the presence Of largo crowds with
lair neid and no favor, tho American rino-
men have won the shield from Ireland, Aus
tralia Scotland and Canada The result Of the
1rst days shooting len the question Of their ability t.
win it In some doubt Yesterday they solved that
problem TO the satsfaction Of all concerned Tho
qu'shed bore their defeat like who know what II
rs TO moe. ioemsn worthy Of their steel. The irish,
who next tho vctors, seemed particu-
larly pleased, since they did not win, ~
srand where they do. The shooting of all is
deserving OF the hghes. commentator. II averages
remarkably high. Americas grand total foo,s up
1925 the Irish made .1o4 the Australians 0s0, the
Scottish 3,06l, and tho Canadians o2A Such In brie
10 the result Fuller details g,von below.
SHOOTING.
Yesterdays shooting at Crcedmoor must DO regarded
the finest that has been displayed ON any rifle
range In the world The have 80 far surpassed
all preconceved notions Of shooting that tho match
At which they have been msde will In future be re-
garded fixing the date Of the beginning OF period
In the history or marksinanahip which Is destined
bring that art to tho highest degree Of perfection.
The weather admirably suited the skill Of
the contrasting teams by It's strong, twenty milo wind
ana constantly changing conditions Of cIoudiness Tho
wind throughout tho day was southcastcry, varying
locally from what Is termed on the range half
past four o'clock wind to u six O'Clock blow. pecu-
liarity OF the wind its sudden variations be-
tween the points above named In pufs which IN
every instance caused DRIFT Of the rlo ball toward
the left hand sido Of tho target This effect at
noticed by the marksmen along the line OF firing
points, and 1t not uncommonly necessary for
them until the wind bad returned from the ex-
sreme limit Of variation to the direction which
was tho live O'Clock wind before they could Are with
any certainty OF good scoring.
The Australian and Scottish teams were particularly
careful in this respect noting every change by close
observation Of the wind dial which faces toward
the long range firing points Tho Irish Canadians
nred paying regard the accuracy their wind
gauge adjustment 10 existing force and than
TO the changes Of the wind that Is they rarely waited
for tho wind 10 return to Its direction but fred
regularly throughout the day.
At nity past ten the firing commenced at 500
yards with shot from Fulton OF the American team
for which he got an inner His example was speedily
followed by all the teams except the Irish, which did
not begin work until alter eleven A. NJ.
In the opening round which must
both for sighting and scoring the Irishmon
got tive inners and threo bulls eyes, while the Ameri
cans made miss, an inner, three centres and threo
bulls cyea Tho Scottish team their opening round
got four bulls eyes, three centres and In The
Canadians three burs eyes, centres and three
inpers, and tho Australians, in much better
luck, got four bulls eyes, centro and ,hreo
nnerA Those results show that the Scotch
aud the Australians made q closer study OF the wind
before firing than did their advosarcs aud pronted oy
it, The failure Of all tho teams to scoro greater num-
Der of bulls eyes In the opening ROUNDS can only be
accounted for by the difficulty experienced ID gotung
the proper wind allowance, which was almost
every Instance undorostinased and eonscqu hits
TO tho lett and high followed
lu tho correction Of tho error some Of tho
won't to the opposite extreme aud overestma,ed tho
strength OF the wind and found themselves ION" the
lower right hand corner OF tho central part Of the
target However aftsr tho third round had been fired
by the teams the wind pufed considerably and
caused a general scarcity sf bulls eyes
along the whole line Tho ability to repair
losses by tho several teams determined itself
IN the following rouads. and nearly all the teams
showed hnc display OF vhitc disks on their bulls
oyes. But tho wind continued to control the firing
and balled some OF the best shots tho ground by
shifting just the trigger being pulled glance
along tho line about the middle stage OF tho nrng At
the 500 yard range showed favorable turn Of the
shooting for the American. Australian and Scottish
teams, Geo and slade keeping up tho credit OF the
from the snrpodes, and sherburn and Frazer
regular and exceedingly steady.
Fuitons eighth shot for abo time under
examination the markers being doubt as TO whether
it q centre innor. It became necessary for
she referee inspect the target aud he gave II as his
decision shat tho shot counted four. Tho Irish and
Canadians became very unsteady in the middle other
score, the orme- making several centres aud nners
and the drc of the latter being very much scattered
From the middle to the end Of tho scores this
nrst range The teams improved, the Americans
finishing handsomely with = string Of bulls
eycs, which, however, was marred BY unac-
coantable misses by Rathbone and Allon. The
Australians and Irish finished well ut this
range the Canadians poorly and the scotch by full
string bulbs eyes for tho na round Aggregates Of
the scores showsd that 500 yards the Scotch
and Americans tied with SIS each, while the Aus
iralians were only three points behind being s22 the
Irish 5o2 and tho Canadians far behind At 402
xISE HUNDRED YARDS
With the foregoing opening OF the days battle the
teams retired to tho second distance and soon began
1ring. The Australians seemed determined to improve
their position still further and shot with great deliber-
alton, but the wind very battling, as much as six
points being allowed for II BY the team. This great al
Iowance was, however. not necessary on all the rifles
Tor the Americans working well with about tour
aud half points, and the other teams allowances
varying IRON three to hve and half Dark
masses OF cloud swept rapidly across tho sky
at intervals throwing 4 great shadow over
the field and the butts but the rncmsn
ally waited for It's passage clear OF the range before
firing Al this distance the Scottish team which had
been ahead by several points, began to show signs Of
weakness. Their shooting became wild and uncertain,
and Of their best made two missos, which had
depressing effect his companions that they
In vain TO conceal Experienced rinsmen, who ia
mar with the changing features OF contests like tnis
pronounced tho opinion that the crisis OF tho match
had arrived, and that unless the Scotchmen 'picked
op" rapidly the Americans certain TO win.
This prophetic opinion WAS iuily borne oas by