The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-23

people. DIR. Pardee had erected little
tent from which he shot, and Mr.. Loud had
built 8 little shooting house to protect him.
self from the crowd and the elements.
The first match was won by Mr.. Loud,
DR.. Pardee having overshot his string be-
fore eighty shots had been made. The sec
ond match was won by Dr. Pardee who
made 152 inches to MIR. LIQUIDS lS9, beating
him thirty seven inches. The third match,
which was to carry the other two. was al
most reversal of the first, for when DR..
Pardee bad finished his 100 shots his string
measured 13l inches, and at eighty shot
Mr. LIQUIDS string measured al inches, and
he had lost bis wager of $4,000.
This was one of the famous matches of
the country of those days, and the scores
made attracted good deal Of attention, for
they were unusually good on both sides.
Loud afterward challenged DR.. Psrdee to q
second match for $4,000 in 1870 and lost
that by score of A inches to 60 inches out
of fifty shots.
THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD.
In 1872 Dr. Pardee defeated Horace Dim
mick of st. Louis, and by winning that
match became the champion shot of the
world. Dimmiok was a professional
shooter, WHO had a record of 1853 matches
out of which he had lost but thirteen. He
offered to shoot DR.. Pardee for s., 900, the
match to take place in San francisco on
the old San Mateo shooting grounds. The
offer was accepted, and then began the pre-
parationS for the most important shooting
match that ever took place on this coast.
DR.. Pardee made preparations that had
never been made for any match before.
With relescopic riffs shooting it was not a
question of steadiness of muscle, but rather
question OF careful study of the wind,
its force, the resistance of the atmosphere
and the effect of powder, combustion and
the care OF the gun. For several years DR..
Pardee had been studying these subjects,
and when the day for the match came he
was fully prepared. The doctor had manu-
featured his own powder and bullets and
on every side he had surrounded himself
with instruments and devices for measuring
the wind, the atmosphere and the resistance
to his bullets. There was a barometer and
thermometer to measure the heaviness of
the atmosphere, an thermometer to measure
the wind, flags and balloon to tell the direc-
ton and the force Of the wind. He mad
manufactured his own powder and his own
bullets, and had secured for the occasion
gun made especially for the match. 1t was
one of the best rifles ever made, and weighed
sixty pounds, and the doctor keeps that rifle
yet, for it made him the champion shot of
the world.
just before the shoot took place E. T.
Peck, DR.. Pardee's Judge. offered to make
the match for $4,000, instead of IS 900,
but this was refused.
HOW THE DOCTOR WON.
The score was III inches for DR.. Pardee
to 2915 inches for Mr.. Dimmick, and the
doctor won. This score was made out OF
twenty shots, at the usual distance, 800
yards.
DR.. Pardee was made an honorary MEM
Der Of the National Telescope Rife Shoot
ing Association, which is still in existence,
and still holds annual shoots TO compete for
prize given by DR.. Pardee.
There is really only one way Of scen-
tific shooting" says DIR. Pardee. land that
is telescope shooting. In the present way
a mans success depends only upon bis mus
Gle and ability to hold the gun STILL In
those days man had to study powder and
combustion, all the laws of propulsion, the
refining his lead, the care of his gun, and
the man that knew the most of these mat
tiers won the match, 1t was not case of
simply bull muscle, as 1t now is. Those
were the days of scientific gunnery ;" and
the doctor sighed as he thought Of the de-
parted glory of the science of gunnery.