The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-06
new TRICKS IN SHOOTING.
STEVE VAN ALLEN SHOWS THEM
IN THE GARDEN.
Mile . Minute Boat. StiI an Unknown
Quantity, Causes Much Discussion
-~Manufacturers OF Other Craft Mako
Many Sales ut tho spOrtsmen's Show.

Many Sales at tho spOrtsmen's Show.
The Motor Boat and Sportsmenis Show
at Madison Square Garden ended its second
week last night and will last Just three days
more. TIL exhibitors are getting tired. but
the Visitors seem 10 be as keenly alive to the
attractions In the Garden as when the show
was first opened. All through the morning
and afternoon the attendance yesterday was
very good. Those who are anxious to examine
the boats and the motors arrived early In
the day. because they are better able to see
and those In charge are better able TO show
what they have. but In the evening the build
Ing was crowded to its utmost. and 1t was hard
work getting around the lagoon.
Several more boats and motors have been
sold and others are being talked Of, 80 that
before Thursday It is thought that several
sales VIII be reported. The exhibitors all
say that the show has been a success from
THEIR standpoint and all have plenty Of work
on hand as a result Of the exhibition. The
Gas Engine and Power Company hae sold a
cabin launch TO John l.. Rose. This boat Ia
% feet over all. ~ feet 8 inches on the water
line, 0 feet 0 Inches beam. and 2 feet O inches
draught. She 10 to have a six cylinder Speed
way motor Of 90 horsepower. Forward
there Is a fair sized cabin. then comes the
engine space and aft there 10 O large open
cockpit.
Harry Better has purchased a 80 foot hu mt =
Ing cabin launch. which ls to be fitted with an
10 horsepower Lozier engine. H. Parsons
has purchased a so foot cabin boat, built by
Matthews and fitted with q 40 horsepower
Lozler motor. which he will use In the Straits
or Maokinaw. j. Lumsden Of Ottawa, known
as the lumber king. has purchased a 81 foot
speed launch TO be fitted with a rs horsepower
Lozier motor. He will use this boat on Mus
koka Lake. running from one lumber camp
"a rAkhA IL -,
Washington has purchased a 40 horsepower
four cylinder motor. which win be inst allied
n a new as foot cruising cabin boat being
built by the Greenport Construction Com
pany.
Steve Van Allen. who shows how to shoot
with a small rifle, has not been feeling well
during the show and 1t was really only yester-
day that he has been In form. Even when
out OF form Steve can do marvellous stunts.
but yesterday he outdid himself. He punched
holes In the centre OF the ace of hearts and
then sent other bullets through the same
holes. This was at twenty yards range.
Then he broke glass balls that were thrown
In the air by his assistant. drew faces with
bullet holes. snuffed candles and knocked
burning matches out Of his attendants hands.
A new trick was to get his assistant to hold
q ball in each hand one In q line behind the
other. Van Allen then held his rife between
his knees and sighted by means of a looklna
b6tailiIesi. dreaming '''n N'A'' 0a''S win one
The mile a minute boat Is still the subject
OF much discussion among motor boat men,
and II 1t does as II. e. Rider the inventor SAYS
many will be surprised. Mr.. Rider saws he
astonish those who have been soepticsI The
boat Ia to have a reversing gear attached.
which is simply adding, a small cylinder
Will be ready for a trial on Gravesend Bay.
E. .. sloane has offered TO bet $500 that the
around e9a1 S2I the nat iak eef su Bu Ss' R RTGTn d FSins once e
Garden, Several designers and experts in
expressed their opinions freely about it.
e D. sloane, the well known yachtsman.
ga ss'd q piston at II s a5fu eap TO TAX ssout using water
Of gas. whether it comes from gasolene or
the idea Of NJ; Rider and bis a , oaS" les T may
be: but ! consider nsS Intahh;s boat lmpractIqsbIe in
%..sitinss viii Mr; &kItdsT::' be Ra has been Enable ls
should 60 !, Better than any r1"s other T tgpe ,o of b SSa.
Henry J. Gielow. one OF the best known
Of Mr. Riders tn a%9n'Vf ka sfIn so a mnoS
speed Is absurd In my opinion. He says he
uses water for compression. Every one
knows that the compression Of 20 or 80 pounds
Is necessary yet there Sannot be more than
TWO POUNDS pressure on MI. Rlupr2 boat"
Z. A. Riotte, and Charles l.. Seabury. both
high up in motors and boats, said the Rider
boat was in its present, shape only a dream
advertising proposition. Mr., Sloane said
he was ready to be convinced II the boat
could kd,l be put .1 on the Lake Mr.; Sloane said
thing else needed to overcome the inventors
objections to giving it a trial.
clared that the invention was inpracticabIe
and hardly worth considering. Others say
that plenty of men are ready ia, put up money
that the boat could not go a mile a minute or |
Inreplylnx TO these Mr.. Rider said:
The stat einent that | am afraid to place
my boat in The tank at the garden Is ridlcul ons. !
/ have made various alterations In my boat,
since the crowded condition ofthe tank would
ago, and | am not now going to take chances
to satisfy the envious desires of a few. The |
facts are that a few exhibitors at the Sports
mems Show are sore because my boat has at
tracted more attention than their boats,
and are taking this method. knowing that he
success of my boat means the scrap heap for
Unable to verify, their criticism, .theoreti-
cally or otherwise, they tpfn upon the public
an effort to restore public favor TO them
selves.
mine the names Of those responsible for
the statements against my boat, and when
is placed in the water at Bath Beach, shortly
after the close OF the SpOrtmen's Show. where
| am TO make a demonstration before some
3 900 people whom | have invited from among
he visitors at the Garden, / will make these
self-confessed scientific exhibitors take to
the woods with the Indiana
The results of yesterdays sports follow:
Canoe Race-Single paddles-Won by r. PendrilI,
New York: f. HirsCh, New York, second.
Swimming Match-80 yards-Won by f. Spiel
berger. Rockaway; F. Tewes. College Point. second:
]. W. Baldwin, Astoria, third. Time, IS IS seconds,
Man Fishing C~ontest-First ~trlal-Gcorge Price,
Mex. fisherman; Aired Brown. College
Point. man hsh, Ended In a draw after 10 mimi ties.
Second Trlal-Gcorge Price, Tampico, Me-, 6sher-
man: Edward Lane, City Island. man hsh. Price
landed his hsh In 4 minutes.
Mattress Race-D yhrds-Won by L. Poitigrew,
City Island. l., Emanuel, Rockaway. second.
Canoe Tug Of WaT-SinGles-Wo by T. Pendrill,
York: T.. HirSCh, New York, second.
Swimmin Match so yards-Won by J, W. Bald
Astoria: II. Kopfi, R~ociawAy. second: P. Linen
kohl, New York, third.
A novel tug OF war interested the visit ors
to the show in the evening. Four canoes
manned by fourteen men from the Inwood
Canoe Club. the WannatassinR Canoe Club
and the United States Volunteer Life Saving
Corps .tugRed against the Buster Brown, a
small launch fitted with a five horse power
mot or. In the first three pulls the
canoes got the better Of the launch, but in
The fourth the canoe near est to the launch
upset and In turning oyet. upset the others,
and the men. were founderlng in the four feet
Of wat err. The upsota caused lots OF amuan- |