The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-16
SAW FINE SHOOTING
CHAMPION MARKsMEN AT PICKETT
 SPRINGS.
startIfng Feats Performed by ME and HTS. effs--sk$ ssraeFd- mary Scores Made by Gun-
 nerM nf Trap.


 I Nearly four hundred persons, among
 whom were large number of ladies.
 yesterday saw the finest exhibition as | trap shooting and fancy rifte and re- voIver shooting that has ever hseM
 afforded Montgomery.
 The shoot was given by team or six of the worlds best shots at Picket
 Springs under the auspices of the Capital City Gun Club. The team lS being sent on a tour of the country nv the Winchester Arms Company. The weather could mot have been mere per-
 feet for the exhibition. Everyth'ng was favorable to fhe days sport.
 Lovers Of trap and trick shooting, wac
 did not see the entertainment, were
 First Of ali, the team includes thu
 worlds acknowledged champion trap
 shooter, W. R. Crosby. The greatest record he has ever made was 41S i straight birds. He failed to hit only
 once yesterday out of 1Oe shets. scor- 1 ing 99 in four stringH of twenty-fivs each. He missed the single bird In I the last frame.
 Mr. Crosby is undoubtedly wonder | fuI shot The ease with which he handles his gun and the remarkable
 accuracy Of the big ehampion are no | ticeable features of his ability as a itrap sportsman. The numbers of per
 sons, who did not know Mfr Crosby by lSght, were able to pick him out IS the champion a few minutes after the gunners began shooting.
 While champion Crosby was the csp
 Ire of interest during the time that the trap shooting part of the program was being executed. still when N came to the last and longest part of the exhibition Mir and Mrs Adolph
 Topperwein- were the whole show. The | 4. ~h ne 6kf Antonio Texas. was nothing short of remarkable. From the time the exhi- l'bition opened at 2 o'clock yesterday lafternoon Mrs. Topperwein was easily the favorite. She figured straight along with the men in the trap shoot ing. but 1t was not until she and her husband started In on their speciality
 work that the crowd was aware of the fact that two of the foremost f&W-
 vy shooters in the world were before them The statement tnat they Nys
 the experts of experts Is true.
 Mrs. Topperwein gave the first dc. mOnstration. First wfth 44-ealibFe | target revolver, she DFoke disc after
 disc that were set up before her. Then
 she performed feats with s2-caffbFR
 revolver such as hitting missiles of
 all descriptions. from the tintest to | the larger sizes that were ehrown in ! the air. Sucoessively she Bit two | small objects tHrowD in the air si- simultaneously before they struck the ' ground again. Her best piece of work ! closed her part of the performance. | Quite a distance away from her, her 1 husband held out in his hand pO-
 tato. Piece by piece she tore away from the potato and when it was en- l tireIy shot away, MT. Topparwain held | out the stem of the potato which she shattered with one shot as
 But the expert Shooting of MT. Tor- peFwein, following that of hts wife, was far supsrioF. With revolver. rifle
 and shot gun. there was rrobably no conceivable stunt of shooting that he
 did not pull of. He not only shot a
 potato held in his wife's, hand. but he ] did more He performed the feat.
 taking aim in . mirror.
 l Obiects thrown in the air, even ] small marbles, were broken by him 1 with ease At will almost. he fired
 successive shots. each striking the
 obpect until 1t fell to the ground. The | accuracy of his eye was evidenced
 when he elimaxed his performance bv , actually drawing . picture of an In- dian chief on a blank piece of paper
 with rife shots.
 vein enumerated are oniy a few of ithe startling things they do with
 their firearms.
 at trap shooting was 472 out of DOS
 sfbfe 800. On this tour, they have
 gone far beyond these figures and veg
 terday was pronounced hv them to
 have been sort of 1u ofday. In Rir
 minrham. they broke 47h out of sac : 1 Following was the trap shooting score: