Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-28
ExTRAuRDINARY SHOOTING.
Dr.. Ruth and Wife, from, the Fftds Of
the West, Guido the Famous CAREER.

DE-. Ruth and Wife, from, the Fflds of
the Vest, Guido the Famous Carver.
New York World, Aug. 22.l
The visitors to the Brooklyn Driving park
yesterday afternoon had novel display set
before them in the rifle and pistol shooting
of DR.. John Ruth and Mrs. Ruth. DR..
Ruth Is Western man, wears his hair long
under o broad brimmed white hat, and has
velvet shooting jacket after the style Of
Western riflemen. He is tall and free in
his motions, tossing his repeating riffs about
as if it were a mere wand. Mrs. Ruth is
lady with very much tanned complexion
and the carriage of backwoods
woman. Yesterday she wore
sort of Gainsborough hat, and
when handling the pistol or rifle did not even
take the trouble to remove her lace mitts.
There was fair-sized crowd present, in
Guiding numbe- of ladies. Capt. L. O.
Bruce, the celebrated rifle shot; G. L. Win
gate, the secretary and one of the cracks of
the Fountain Gun club; T. G. Banks, and
other expert shooters, were present, and
watched the performance narrowly.
Mrs. Ruth began the banging and the hit
ting by aiming with pistol at glass balls,
and they were shattered in almost every
case. With the pistol held sideways there
was miss or two more, but generally every
shot told. When the pistol was inverted
and the aim taken below instead of above
the line of fire, there was no apparent loss
in the percentage of hits. When
the ball was hung by string
and set swinging, Mrs. Ruth stood eighteen
yards off and made clean break on her first
shot. The rifle was then handled through
the same series of shots, and the usual want
of grace with which all women handle guns
was apparent. When the balls were thrown
up in the air Mrs. Ruth stood good dis
lance off and shattered dozen out of the tif-
teen, and this feature when encored was
equally as good.
While the lady shooter chatted with the
lady spectators DR.. Ruth began to show his
ability as snap shot. The sights of the
rifle seemed to be Of no special assistance to
him, for when they were covered by a cord
he used the weapon on balls placed on
stand and again at the glass spheres thrown
into the air with wonderful effect. Some
balls were thrown on the ground dozen
yards off, and the doctor. aiming at the
ground below ball, would send it spinning
up into the air, and then rapidly unloading
and loading his piece, would hit the ball on
its descent. This double shooting drew out
plenty of applause. Again, when the balls
were thrown up the rife was given turn
about after the manner of fail handle and
it fell into position soon enough to enable
breaking shot to be N ade on the ball. Balls
thrown from side to side were hit, whether
coming from the right or left. When tired
of breaking glassware, DR.. Ruth picked up q
fragrant of glass, and, stepping off dozen
PAGES, held it of In his fingers, while
Mrs. Ruth, picking up small-bore
rifle, took careful aim and the
glass was shattered into powder.
With an ordinary visiting card held in his
mouth, and turned 30 as to show side, Dr..
Ruth permitted his wife to put several bull
let's through it, the pair joking meanwhile
with each other, the shooter telling the target
to draw back his nose little, as it was too
shining mark and distracted her sight. DR..
Ruth wished to put glass ball on his head
and allow his wife to break it with bullet,
but she declared that she was tired of stand
ing in the sun, and this very ordinary Will
lam Tell trick was omitted. loaded cart
ridge was laid on bit of plank some yards
off, and Mrs. Ruth fred bullet at it and ex-
ploded it. Dozens of other and similar ways
Of testing the quickness of sight and steadi-
ness of nerve of the shooters were impro-
vised, and generally it was found that any
thing fired at was hit almost every time.