Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-22
stage receives bronze medal ard a bronze

| badge.
Second staee-Open to the 300 highest
| scorers In first stage: Distance, 500 and
go yards: number OF shots. 10 a. 500 and
| Is at 600: added to scores in nrst stage:
| highest possible aggregate score In first
| and second stage. go points.
The winner OF the second stage receives
| silver medal and silver badge The
first 100 scorers IN the second stage are eli
| sfble to shoot In the third stage. OF the
remaining go competitors In the second
| stage. 100 receive "a and 100 e. each.
Third stageOpen to the 100 highest
scorers in second-stage distances. 500 and
| 900 yards. number of shots. 10 At each dis
tRnoe added to scores in first and second
stage: highest possible aggregate score in
| three stages $50 points: highest aggregate
| scores in the three stages receive gold
| medal gold badge and the ESQ 81 ,2aA)
given by the queen.
Second man receives badge and 500: ,hird
man receives badge and $40. fourth man re-
eeives badge and Gao: fifth man receives
badge and f2o sixth to fifteenth men In
| elusive receive badge and SIS each. six
l teenth to forty-fifth men inclusive receive
badge and fl2 each. forty-sixth to sixtieth
| men inclusive receive badge and f10 each;
stxty-frst to eightieth men Inclusive re-
| ceive badge and IS each: eighty-iirst to
| 10th men inclusive receive badge and f5
| each.
In 1886 no one fired in the second stage
| 81 out OF los. and no one shot in the third
go.
The winner in 1895 Lieutenant Thomson
\ of the Queens Edinburgh, made an a2gre-
gate score of 273 1t was made as follows:
| FIRST stage. seven shots-2O0 yards 81;
oo0 yards, ss; 600 yards, 30. Total. %.
| Second stage-J00 yards 10 shots a. GOO
Yards Is shots, 3d. Total, 100
Ihird stage. ten shots-S0O yards, IS;
300 yards. 40 Total IS.
| Grand aggregate, 213.
In 1895 the shooting in the first stage
1 was better than in 1895, as no one fired
IN the second stage whose score in the
nrst stage was less than IS out Of 1O5 and
gregate score in the first and second stage
| was less than 191
The winner IN 1895 was Private Hayhurst
81 Canada, whose aggregate score was 30
| HIs totai was tied by that of Boyd cd
Lanarkl Their scores were also a tIe at
500 yards. but the Canadian beat the Ian
arksnlfeman by two points at 800 wards
anu SO won the queens ESQ
Shooting mt Bfsley, Enrland.
Inc r1ne shooting competitions at Bisley.
England. were continued yesterday. The
mount stephens prize was divided. The
ishest aggregate scores were as follows.
Lieut. Davidson. first. f94: Capt. White
i'"' Corrfsan. 1877; Langstroth. 1s7; Broad
hurst 1856; Kerr. Capt. Davidson and Drys-
/
| a score OF 3d. and Smith and Kinnear with
% each. gained places In the shooting In
the second stage Of the competition for the
the first stage WI" - Hi
Inc feature of the shooting this wear has
been the remarkable accuracy attained
Nearly seventy of the contestants made
the highest possible score at the .ln-var "a
range in the st. Georges Competition vas
| teroay afternoon, and similar results have
neen ATTAINED In rearly all the ccmpeti-
IONS. There Is not the slightest doubt that
the council Of the National Rifle Assocta-
ton will be obliged to reduce the size OF
the bulfs-eye next year.
Gold badge for Ten Eyck.
The proprietor of the Half-Moon Tavern,
at Putney, England. gave a complimentary
dirner last evening. and presented a gold
badge to e. H. Ten Eyck, the American
winner Of the diamond SOULS at the Hem
ley Regatta. Fifty professional oarsmen
were present. Mr.. Clasper, the boatbuilder,
presided
The Ten Eycks and DR.. Mcdowell will
! sail for New York on the steamer ST. Paul
on Saturday. DR.. Mcdowell has declined
several Invitations to take part In minor
regattas
New Hammer-Throwinx Records.
Tom Carroll Of San Francisco broke sew
eral hammer-throwing records yesterday
IL al CALuu1tiOu d SeutIA Tdfk, San tTau-
cisco. Starting with the eight-pound ham
nier, he threw it from nine-foot circle
with one hand 241 feet ION inches He
then threw a sixteen-pound hammer from
sesen-foot circle 159 feet 3;1 fnches: and
| from a nine-foot circle hurled 1T 15S feet IL
INCHES. His next effort was with the TWEEN
| ty- cne-pound hammer, from seven-foot
circle, from which he threw 1t 112 feet III
| inches, and from nine-foot circle he Gre
ated a record of 12l feet 10 inches.
i Western Turf Regulations.
At a meeting of the American turf con-
gress at Cincinnati yesterday 1t was order
ed that after August l there shall be no
foreign book on any track II one be run,
all horses. jockeys. owners. trainers and
officials participating in such violation shall
be declared outlawed. No race track at a
city of 100000 Inhabitants shall give less
than five daily purses. Of not less than $500
each. Cities Of from 100000 to 100000 shall
give five purses of not less than $30e each.
This rule also goes into effect on August 1.
Judge NJ. Lewis Clarke of the Harlem
track received additional time to dissolve
the injunctions secured against his track.
Harding Defeats Mccoy.
The pool match between Kid Mccoy OF
1 Cincinnati and Bernard Harding. the Dis
/ trict champion. last night, was won by
| Harding by a score of lOo to 81 Mccoy Ii
one of the best players in the west, and
holds the championship OF Cincinnati and
| St. Louis
/ Death OF q Prominent Fruit Grower.
/ SAN DIEGO, Cal. July 22.-John T. Cor
/ don, prominent fruit grower in "a Cajon.
| and who built the first street car system
| between Oakland and Allegheny City, near
| Pittsburg. Pa, died suddenly of heart dis
ease at his ranch. He came here from
l Ffttsburg in 1887.
| Furniture Facfory,s Loss By Fire.