Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-09-19

tom COW. Ihas, however, !
! simply . picture Of Saffsll in re
nose. The moment he fatten
himself on the casvas of the shoot
ing stand and throws the gun to thu
trout he seems the personifcatio1
of a good shooter. His body is al
| rigid as iron his profile alongside
the gun is striking picture and BIZ
eye seems capeble of almost boring
. hole in the target itself. Whsn
he opened on the 5oO-yard target
on Monday afternoon he knew tina,
the issue of tie match Bronze
Trophy-thousands of dollars and
the glory Of the Nevada team all de.
pended upon his GOODNESS, and yet
he went to hiss place a. il he was
simply nskiue q practice score.
TIE FINAL SHOTS.
By half-psss 5 O'Clock in 'the
mo-niag q 'handred me2 were On
hand t. SEQ the close Of the match
and many belonged to tia. class
that aothing but an earthquake
could get 'eat of bed before g
o'clock after each made two sight
ing shess. Eszfell spravsed himself
down ca the canvass slongide his
antags1ist - cool Is ever. while
Perkins shewed that he was still
nervous and lacked confidence in
himself to meet the grave respon-
sibilities resting upon him His
first shot was . and Saffell re.
sponded witk similar figures.
Everybody knew that 90 loag as
Safta2l WAS .two ahead he could
maintain the lead to q certainty
30 long ~ Perkins did not neach
The ballaeye. Perkins next shot
was . 8, and there was . dispo-
'ition the part Of the crowd to
show how they;fslt about it, but it
vas checked and Saffsll plugged
4 into the target - cool a.
; cuoumbar. Perkins got his bnl-
ct into the 4 ring also and Eafell,
Fho had bean feeling around for q
oallseye, landed his famous 575
grains Of lead square into the cen
O. and rolling ove- on his back. ]
acghed quietly to himself. This
NJ Perkins On lis nerve and hs
ent his chunk Of metal into the
lack spot alongside Of Saffell's, !
nd the crowd spplaxded because
hey admired has pluck under ad-
erss circumstances. Saffell got
! . 4 and Perkins another bullseys
18th his last shot Safell settled
own on the canvass for his last
hot. The California team could
ct now win unless Safeu missed
le target altogether, the smallest
it he could make would result in
tie, and Q three shot would win
10 match by one point. As he
fled his gun q sudden gust of
ind extended the flags and some
q called his attention to it jast a. Q
g old gun went of. The target i
and came out i'm .
with q bullseye disc fol- G
wing. A howl went up from the +
ovid which nobody could b
ssibly stop and there was Il
rec rocsing cheers for the Neva- 9
team followed by three more
] long tigar for Saffell. and
zee equally good ones for the n
ting rifemen. m
I was afraid that gust of wind a,
nld throw your ball out, Sat-" III
led some one in the crowd. is
The wind don't bother my SIS re
in bullets" said Saffell, and ce
r he was hoisted on the shout -
S of the excited crowd, and car
l all the way to the Arlington
use. nearly half q mile, the peo- =,
cheering - the possession pass -,
the houses. Thus ended the ..
'est and best shot match ever -,
tested in the United States with n.
remarkable scores of 875 and !,
The following are the last two
,ets shot with the completed tn
es: Wi