The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-17
B R A 6 FILE r S
FANCY AND TRICK SHOTS.
At New Haven Gun Club Grounds To-
 morrow,

At New Haven Gun Club Grounds To-
 morrow,
 At the grounds of the New Haven Gun club, near scheutzen park, Satur- day afternoon, MT. and Mrs. Adolph Topperwein, the greatest living fancy and trick shots with rifie revolver and shot gun, will give free exhibition In conjunction with the regular bi-month- ly shoot of the club. MT. and Mrs. Topperwein have shot in many parts of the country before vast crowds of peo- pie. During the worlds fair in St. Louis they gave daily exhibitions which have never been equalled before or since in the shooting line. Their work is different from the ordinary trick shots, both in point of novelty and skill displayed. Mrs. Topperwein, who was New Haven girl, never shot be- fore in this city, and her many friends will look forward with pleasure to the opportunity to see her display her great skill. The exhibition will take place about p. n1., and will be free to all.
 Adolph Topperwein, the greatest liv- ing fancy and flying target shot with a rifle is a native of Texas, his home be- ing in San Antonio. His native state has long been noted for it's good shots, which doubtless accounts for his early acquiring the great skill he has dis played In his exhibitions before admir- ing thousands. MT Topperwein uses ordinary Winchester rifles shooting a solid ball, or in other words, the reg ular cartridges such as an individual would buy of his local dealer. The targets he shoots at when thrown into the air comprise oranges, apples, bits of coal, Walnuts, small marbles, empty cartridge shells and other tiny objects.
 On eleven different occasions Mir. Topperwein has broken the worlds record shooting flying targets with rifle. November, 1903, he broke 1,5O0 targets without a miss, and since that time he has on several occasions brok- en a thousand without missing.
 Tn December, 1903, he shot at 5000 one and three-quarter inch targets thrown in the air at distance of twenty-five feet from where he was standing. He shot the entire number without a rest and loaded his own guns, and broke 4954, missing only for ty-six of the targets. The time occu- pied by this wonderful feat was six hours and tl1irty-two minutes. The shooting was done in & public park, and the shooter was obliged to look almost directly into the rays of the sun, which makes this feat all the more remarkable.
 During the worlds fair in St. Lotus MT. Topperwein broke 3,5O7 flying tar gets without miss. The targets were a composition disc two and one-quar- ter inches in diameter and were thrown in the air twenty-five feet from him. This record was made in four hours and ten minutes, and was wit messed by hundreds of spectators.
 Perhaps one of the most remarkable feats ever accomplished by Mir Top perwein was hitting 96S out of a possi- ble 1000 walnuts thrown into the air. Another feat performed by him was to hit S5 out of 100 two and one-half tar gets thrown into the air, he doing the shooting while riding at full speed in an automobile MT. Topperwein is the originator of many marvellous fancy and trick shots, and also the act of drawing pictures with rife balls shooting 8 Staa rapidly and agaKd1& ts@