Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-16
DIR. CARVER STILL ON DECK.

DIR. CARVER STILL ON DECK.
 Firing Away Yesterday With Much
 Energy-The Best Score Yet For One
 Thousand-The Betting.
 The interest in Dr. w. F. Caryer,s won derful performance at Lincoln's rink is steadily increasing and last night men were standing about the enclosure where he shoots twelve deep. Many ladies were present. pr.
 Carver was looking very sombre and felt
 wearied, but he did some fine shooting.
 He began his days work at 10 o'clock.
 Mrs. Carver, with her sister, Miss Emily
 Daley, were present and they took a deep
 interest in the proceeding The marksman appeared much brighter than the day before, but the terrible strain he is undergoing shows upon every feature. His face is flushed and his eyes looked heavy. His first thousand shots were fired in exactly fifty nine minutes after the start. Out of this
 number he made fifty-seven misses. At 11:55 the second thousand had been fired and the marksman had made only fifty miss shots. In a short time he retired for rest and complained that he had great deal of
 
 ficial and in less than fifteen minutes the
 champion rife shot said he would succeed
 in his undertaking if it were possible. Just
 thirty minutes after stopping he was
 once more sending leaden messengers into the
 flying targets which are thrown into the air
 by A. R. Ferris, G. W. Andrews, E. B.
 Sanford and Arthur Nixon. The ball toss CTS take turns at their labors. Only two are required at time. When one grows weary his place is taken by another, and so this somewhat tedious portion of the programme, so far as the participants were concerned, was carried out.
 When shooting was resumed yesterday af- ternoon Dr. Carver said his eyes and wrist were in excellent condition. He had pains in his neck and shoulder, but exhibited the same stoical determination he has shown since he began. There was a clean sheet hung over all the old pieces of canvas. Dr. Carver fired twenty-five times in thirty-one seconds and missed on an average two and one-half shots.
 During Hull and while looking as if he did not care whether school kept or not, he happened to see Fred Waldron among the spectators ana SalO: NOW II SHOW yOI HOW can shoot when I want to. Over against the wall is a score of empty bottles. I'll knock the necks off of all of them" As he spoke he commenced firing from rife con taining full magazine. The bullets whis- tied unpleasantly near the reporters table, but with unerring aim the neck of every bot tie was shattered. While doing this little side play, which astonished the reporters and at the same time made them feel uncom- Dr. Carver held the butt of his rife against his hip and seemed to fire as if at random.
 The newspaper men breathed sigh of re- lief as the muzzle of the weapon was turned heavenwards and shooting at the fly ing targets was resumed
 Ths third thousand was completed with sixty-four misses and the fourth with only weight. It was just 2:30 o'clock when the fourth thousand was completed.
 It is noticeable that the doctor shoots bet ter at night than in the daytime. The work of the day seems rather to calm his nerves than to upset them. The marksman has wonderful strength and power. His appetite is marvellous. Chops, eggs, steaks, biscuits and tea and milk punch dis appear with startling rapidity when the doc tor gets after them. Last night he stopped for dinner about o'clock. He ate hearty meal and lounged about in his tent chewing B toothpick contentedly and looking as if he was not in such physical torture that good dinner would not put him in pleasant state of mind
 The dial of the square white clock showed the hour to be 8 o'clock and 20 minutes when the champion shot stepped forth, look ing very glum He was greeted with a | hearty applause and was presented by some | 1ne unknown with a handsome floral horse l shoe of callas and roses. The block tossers ,et their arms in motion and soon the steady 1 Iounds reverberated above the music of the 1 oand In twenty five minutes Dr. Carver had fred five hundred shots and in twenty-five 1 minutes more he had completed | 1is eighth thousand, having made but thirty l misses, the best score of the week. The en- l ,rgetic scorer, Lieutenant Howard, shouted l put: Doctor, you have beaten your best time l md score for thousand" and the crowd Il lpplauded, but ths doctor kept on firing and vent on until he had shot one hundred shots | n the ninth thousand. He then rested for hort time. At 9:26 he went at it again, fir ng rapidly, although the change in tossers which had just been made annoyed him and l le had to caution them about throwing the blocks too fast and too high.
 The doctor showed his mettle during the tours about midnight The scorers and his friends advised him to stop when he reached he end of the tenth thousand at 11:40. But 10 would not lay down his guns. He had hen made 63S hits more than the forty thou l and required by his average. The clocks were striking the hour of midnight when he ad shot three hundred on his eleventh thou and and was then we'll ahead. He contin- ed until he had shot five hundred on the housand.
 There has not been thus far in Dr. Caryer's erformance much betting in New Haven, ut it is beginning to be lively. The stu ents are making good many bets. In New York the betting is to 1 against the doctsr. here is also interest in the result in England nd other places where the doctor is well nown. The following is yesterdays score: Misses. Hits 1