The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-21
THE TEAM ENTERTAINMENT.
AUGUST TIu DATE AND THE WEST
END" PAVILION THE PLACE.
Few Notes Relative 10 Advantages and
Disadvantages In Long Range
6hOOtlug.

A Few Notes Relative 10 Advantages amt
Disadvantages In Long Range
shooting.
The Crescent City Rife Team have selected
August AZ che date and she pavilion at
THE NEW LAKE END
A. the place 81 which their entertainment will BIZ
given TO raise funds TO defrsy the expenses 4
the champion rifle team OF the world 10 Greed
moor 10 participate In the Interstate match on
| September 18th.
| The programme has not been completed vet
but IL can be safely asserted thai II will be OF
character that II will suit and please the most
fsstidious. In addition TO the dramatic and
operstic selections, there will be early in the
evening boat race, aud q challenge target match
ID expected between teams seleo cd from two
crack military organic atoms Of the city. Tickets
for the occasion have already been placed on
sale, and ~ the public
WILL GET VALUE RECEIVED
for their money, ID Ia almost certain that tho
attendance will be 60 large that sufficient reve.
nue. viii be derived TO dsfrsy the expenses of The
team TO Creedmoor.
Apropos Of the subject. il will be borne in mind
that the recent achievements of the team Ia the
way OF long range lead-slinging have created
quite fnr0rs among the rihsmsn OF che North,
East and West. and has attracted the attention
OF the bhsrps Rifle Misunderstanding Company, who
addressed letter to Adjutant General Patton,
rendering 10 the "tesm," through him, all the
courteses OF their establishment, free use of long
range rifles, ammunition. aud anything in tho
shape OF long range "material' that their estab-
lishment contained.
This letter WAS on yesterday referred TO Capt.
Dudley Helph by the Adtutaut General, and al-
though. sent by the sharp's Company In some
tthnag q - indirect way xiil receive prompt a,
OF the team.
It's tenor 10 40 different from that expressed by
soma OF the Eastern sporting journals that il
causes some little surprise, ss they are doing and
have done I'LL In their power to impress their
readers with the belief that
THE CRESCENT CITY TEAM
have not been honestly reported In tho matter OF
scoring. when they knew that the contrary was
the fact. sud whereas the letter referred TO
euogizes the work Of the team In the highest
degree imaginable.
team won the last Inter. State match, and tho
jealousy exhibited by the sporting journals al
luded to discoses the fact that the Eastern clubs
are afraid that our team will carry of the honors
again, and IL was for that reason, perhspe, that
NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION
paid no attention whatever 10 tho recommends
ti0ns suggested by our team, that one or two
rules might be modified, thereby giving Lonisi.
ana m opportunity 10 have representation in
the International Match, aud taking all these
facts into consideration the gentlemen com.
posing the Crescent City team have determined
TO show the Eastern clubs aud their mouth.
pieces that they can and will defeat them in the
Interstate match; and all that IL asked now Ia
liberal patronage Of the entertainment, that they
may csrry out their determination,
IL is proper to state also that In their practice
shooting here our team have made scores that
seem TO have
CONVINCED THE EASTERN CLUBS
that their chances are slim. They know that tho
Crescent City range IL the mout difficult In the |
United States to shoot over, and, of COURSE know
that practice shooting hero and match shooting
1t Creedmor, which IL perfectly clear and level,
will show mp largely 10 the advantage of our |
team, and for that reason they fear them. They
know, too, that the Wimbledon canvas targets |
used here indicate buis-eye only when the bul. |
let strikes tho bus-eye whereas the targets used
At Creadmoor are constructed Of iron, and bull |
let striking within m inch OF the buls.aye there
dattens out, and II the least portion touches tho
bulls-eye
IT COUNTS FIVE POINTS,
or bulls-eve when In the targets; here IL passes
through the cloth, counting but four.
Tho iron targets will consequently give the |
Crescent City team IN opportunity OF dropping |
In frequent bull's-eyes, that they do not get |
credit for at home, and IL is but fair TO presume
hat with the large number OF close ring, or four.
point shots they have been putting in here, they
will realize numerous bulis-eyes at Creedmoor.