The record-union., 1895-11-25
Or. CARVER'S REMARKABLE SKILL
Wonderful Execution With Shotgun
and Rifle.
Shooting on Horseback and ON Foot
His Exhibition Given Here
Yesterday.

DR.. carver, the world famous flile
and shotgun champion, gave a wonder
fll exhibition OF his skill at Agricult
ural Park yesterday afternoon in the
presence of several hundred people
In his work Or. Carver employs two
or three Winchester rifles, as many re-
peating or magazine shotguns and one
doub1ebarreled shotgun. These weap-
ons he had laid out on tables in front OF
the grand stand, with boxes of cart
ridges, and for fully an hour he went on
pulverizing apples, oranges, wooden
balls and composition targets.
The most remarkable shooting done
by the Doctor is with the rife. His at
tendant threw the objects into the air
as rapidly as he could, and the cham
pion pulVerized them with solid bullets.
First they were thrown up singly, then
i'll pairs, and then three at a time, and
il was rarely that one escaped the
champions unerring bullet.
Three balls throWnintO the air atOnce
were broken with lightning rapidity
and this was repeated frequently. Then
I5-cent pieces were perforated for such
OF the spectators as wished to have SOU
Venirs Of the Doctors skill
After disposing of this part of the
programme Dr. Carver had two of his
trained horses brought out. one of
them, a gray, he rode himself, the other
being for the attendant in the final
feature. The Doctor first rode down the
stretch hundred yards or so, armed
with his 3G-inch- barreled shotgun and
dashed up by the stand at full speed
His attendant stood by the judges
stand and threw small clay disks into
the air as the champion rushed past
and the latter made doubles and
trebles apparently as easily as when on
his feet.
Then the attendant mounted
cream colored horse that understood
his part of the business quite as well
as the Doctors charger. The rider
carried on his left arm a basket filled
V it'll the black disks, and ridinS by the
Doctors side, both horses going at full
speed, he threw them into the air ahead
and to side as fast as he could get
them from the basket, and the champ
ion smashed them one after another
until all the six charges in his repeat
ing shotgun were exhausted.
During his exhibition ne shot both
from the right and left shoulders, be
ing almost as good with his left as his
right Then he turned his gun side
ways and smashed the balls, then bot
tom-side up, and lastly with the butt
Of the gun resting on his head.
Rapid as was his firing the ma jOrity
of the spectators did not realize the
fact that after every shot the exploded
cartridge had to be thrown out before
the next could be fired, but those who
understood this declared the champ
ions execution TO be simply marvellous
DR.. Carver looks scarcely five years
cider than when he started out from
California some eighteen years ago to
I,
the gun. He has a splendid physique
standing over six feet in hight and
weighing 220 pounds, though without a
bit OF SuperluOus flesh on his athletic
frame. He is a superb hOrseman, an
accomplishment that he brought from
the prairies in his youth, and it would
be hard to find his superior in the sad
die, while in the handling Of rifle and
shotgun no man has yet come TO the
front who could equal him, though
many have tried
The shooting portion of the exhibition
was fully up TO what Dr.. Carver prom
ised to do, and the spectators showed
their appreciation Of his skill by liberal
applause. But the hOrse-diving was a
appointment. The pony did not like
the appearance of what looked like a
little puddle of water beneath him. and
would rather not have taken the plunge
He had to 60 however, because there
was no chance for retreat and he
couldn't stay on the tilted platform any
longer.
Dr. Carver explained this by saying
that the horse viii readily take the
water when he sees plenty of it be-
meath him. but has no liking for leaping
down into a small hole in the ground.
The tank was the only way, however,
by which the dive could be made at the
park.
Many of the sportsmen of the city
want to see DR.. Carver shoot over the
traps, and if he can be induced to re-
main until Thanksgiving Day they
promise to afford him an opportunity to
show what he can do with that long
shot gun