Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-04

How DIR. Carver AstOnished Philadel-
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Philadelphia Times.

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Until Dr. w. f. Carver, the magical
western marksman, has match with
Bogardus the title of the best shot in
the world belongs to two men. Carver
shoots either with rifle or shotgun,
while the reputation of the champion
pigeon shooter rests mostly upon his
performances with a shotgun. AS the
negotiations now stand there is no inn
mediate prospect Of their coming to-
gether, and while matters are pending
Carver, giving exhibitions of his skill,
has paid Philadelphia a visit. Yester-
day afternoon he shot at Sanger Park,
in the presence of about five hundred
people, and In every particular he verl-
fed the fame that came before him.
Glass balls, cents, a knife blade, peanuts,
apples, silver three-cent pieces, bits OF
wood and tin, everything that would be
hard for marksman to hit, were thrown
into the air and the unerring aim rarely
failed. 1t was about three O'clock when
the Doctor drove up in an elegantly APP
pointed clarence, and took his place be-
side small table on which his guns
were placed. He stands six feet two
inches in height, is broad of shoulder,
trim in figure, has q fine head, out of
which shine bright, gray eyes, and over
which falls mass Of long hair He
wore a black frock coat over a rich,
black velvet hunting shirt, dark trous-
ers and a Mexican sOmbrero iauntily
over his right ear His hands were
clad IN undressed kids and his breast
was covered with gold medals, out of
some ofwhich diamonds sparkled. They
were the trophies Of his skill. H&i1
A barrel of glass balls stood about
twenty feet from him and he shouted
"toss them up,"a boy began to throw
the globes in the air. Bang, bang, bang
went the rifle almost as fast as one could
say the word, and the fragments Of the
flying targets came tumbling down. Tn g
Doctor shot with Winchester rifle charc-
ed with sixteen cartridges, and Of the six
teen balls thrown he missed but one.
The sun shone fairly in his face, and of
OF the next sixteen shots four went as
tray, when the marksman shifted his
position little and sixteen of the glass
globes fell broken under sixteen shots.
At this there was much applause" and
Carver, bowing,i said: "fEhrow them
up, quick, quick as you can. y, The balls
which are about the size ola doOr-knOb
went up as fast as man could throw
them. The first ten we've broken, then
he missed two, fourteen fell in pieces
and he missed one, and so on until one
hundred were up. Eighty-nine of the
hundred were broken, two of these were
miss-fres and one bad throw, So that
the score in the one hundred might have
been ninety-two The distance. Was
about 10 yards. Somebody threw up q
lead pencil and called out hit it." The
Doctor was standing with his face hal
turned away from the little piece of ce.
dar. Quicker than thought he faced
about, brought his piece Ito his shoulder
and the rifle caught the pencil and sen,
1t flying into pieces. He, did not ap-
pear to take aim at all. Intact, in al
This shooting he brings the piece to his
shoulder. and fires instahtaneously
Speaking for himself, he says that wher
he takes a deliberate. aim he has time
to, think Of the possibility of missing
and then he never hits
Having fired away about two hundred
and fifty cartridges, with his Winchester
rifle the Doctor took up shotgun and
the ball-thrower moved away to dis
lance Of sixteen yards and threw two
balls, as quickly as possible, one after
the other, from Carver. Two sharp re
ports, SO close together as to sound al
most as one shot,. followed, and the fly
ing targets fell in pieces. The distance
to where the balls We're struck was
fully forty yards. The feat was re
j4peated a dozen times withontna miss,
+ 4 "Sl1eotthis," called OUT some one, as
the Doctor took up his rifle. TWAS q
quafterathrown in air whirling over ant
over, twenty yards from the rifle man
Just as it began to fall the ball reached
it, cutting heledge. Throw something
else."1 A three-cent piece went up ou
Of the crowd. The bullet demolished il
fquite. Then silver pieces and pennies
went up IN every direction and the
marksman, laughing and chatting the
while, hit fifteen and missed one. cher
an assistant went twenty yards from
| the Doctor and threw glass balls fair a
his head. Every sportsman knows there
Is more QIlllClllI lodl THAN 10 SDOOU DlfC
onstie wing coming towards the gun
but out of eight balls thrown in.nine sec
ondS the Doctor, with the rifle, ,broks
eight. Just to the right Of where he
stood is a tall tree, the upper branches
of1w1ich have lost their foliage. On the
topmost >twig, however, u dead lea
hung fiuttering in the wind Bring
that down." said some one. - The mar
who spoke had barely recovered from
his speech when the rifle, cracked ant
the twig and its leaf dropped from its al
Then the marksman rested and tn,
4 people crowded about. A German
thought he could take all the prizes at {;
schuetzen fest The Doctor is not mod
est andreplied that he thought he could
But he is obliging and talkative and ex
planned his method, his guns and hi
position GA the Bogardus challenge with
out reserve. After little rest he ,shb
at coins. "A cent in the air disappeared
with ping. Broken pieces of coin sen
a crowd ofaboys seurrying atter then
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