Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-17
ON THE EVE OF TP,UmpH.

The Great marksman Has Victory Nm
 His Grasp-AbIe To accomplish His
 Task Easily To-Day Barring Acci-
 dents.
 Dr. Carver added one more days score to his credit yesterday and when he retired he did so with the feeling that he could easily finish his task today.
 When he began yesterday morning he had made record of fl IF hits out of 45, ,125 shots He commenced firing at 10 o'clock By noon his score stood: Hits 43, O4O, misses, 4,0S5.
 He complained of being feverish and Dr. Stetson prescribed for him, but the marks man did not seem to take kindly to physi- cians prescriptions.
 The fourth thousand was finished at 2:45 o'clock and in 55 minutes the fifth thousand had been accomplished. He then took rest.
 After partaking of very hearty dinner the crack rifleman rested until about o'clock, when he again took up the burden of his song where it had been left off By o'clock he had covered one thousand shots and had sixty-two misses. At that point the total score was: Shots, 52, 125; misses, ,2S2; hits, 47, ,843.
 After short rest the marksman resumed shooting. By S:30 his seventh thousand had been covered. At this juncture c. 2. Long don, a director of the New Haven Gun club, appeared and on behalf of the club presented the doctor with a beautiful floral gun poised on pedestal of lilies and smilax. A little later large and tastiiy de- signed banner was presented by Wayland l. Dickerman, son of Dickerman the florist. In bank of white flowers surmounted by ball of daisies, were purple letters running as fol lows: 'f60, ,00O. Persevere. Only 11,000 more" The crowd, which was the largest that has yet greeted the expert, ,cheered heart fly, and the recipient of these favors smiled, bowed gracefully and for 8 few moments the settled gloom into which his face has of late relapsed was lighted up by smiles, that is, as far as the sooty covering of his face permitted it to be lighted up.
 At o'clock Dr. Carver told the tossers to substitute round white blocks of wood for the black ones and ordered them to be thrown slower. He fired one gun round and pep pered the white targets well that the crowd app1auded They also cheered him in his second gun round In fact the audience seemed to be intensely interested and were more enthusiastic than at any time previous. In numbers, too, the spectators increased. The railing around the enclosure was pressed by crowd of several hundred men, women and children
 The round balls gave the doctor a little trouble at first The number of misses be- came larger than before He made fifteen misses in the first hundred of them which he fired at
 The ninth thousand was completed at 9:15. The famous marksnan only fired few more shots before retiring to his tent for a rest and rubbing down. He had then shot 9,000 in less time than on any day of the week His total score up to that time was: Shots, 54 125 misses, 4, ,401; hits, 49, ,724. As there were only 276 shots remaining to complete the necessary 50,000 the doctor thought he could take little rest
 The doctor retired from the field at 11:30 last night, having piled up big score, and leaving only 8,470 hits to be made to-day He will sleep late and take his time to-day
 Following is yesterdays score: