The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-10-16
SHOOTING SHOW
AN EXHIBITION
OF GREAT SKILL
Given by Winchester Team at
Soldiers Home Grounds
BEFORE A LARGE CROWD
Trap Shooting and Rifle Experts
Wis ted Bennington and Gave
Wonderful Exhibition.

Upwards of a thousand people at the
Soldiers Home grounds Friday after.
noon witnessed the most remarkable
shooting exhibition seen in this vicin-
ity s.nce the battle of Bennington.
The exhibition was given by the Win
chester Arms team from New Haven,
Conn
There were visitors present from
nearly every town in Benningtcn n
county and from nearby towns In NeY
York state.
The idea Of this trip by the Win
chester shoot ne team is to promote
greater interest in shooting Of all
kinds and the trip is being made at
the request OF the gun clubs in the
various New England cities. Peter p.
Carney of Headquarters was intro
duced to the crowd by the editcr Of
The Banner Mr. Carney gave a fine
talk telling the record Of members OF
the team. The first event on the pro.
gram pleased the younger people very
much and gave an idea of how he
/ 0hONAiAAE NNEANN arc thluukNNh ' ~
gil Richard. the boy champion rife
shot. with a Winchester bolt action
magazine rife equipped with Win
chester telescope sight shot at tar.
gets placed Is feet He scored As out
OF so Richard is the first rifle shot
to make perfect score at 100 yards
in the United States. He did this in
Tenahy. n j., on July when he won
the small bore championship OF Amer.
ica Later he made a perfect score at
Camp Perry in the national matches
He is but 10 years of age and a pro.
duct OF the Winchester Junior Rife
Corps and the son Ct Capt W. II
Richard, one OF the best shots In the
world.
The rife exhibition was follow
ed with various performances at the
traps. the small and large hand traps
which have come into use SO much
Of late years. the small stationary and
regulation trap. Midget and regula
tion target we're thrown from the va,
r'Cus traps Tho Ventilated rib gun
the latest thing in shot gun manu-
facture. was demonstrated on large
targets from the large land trap
from the regulation trap, and on
singes. doubles and triples targets
The triples we're shot by Spencer and
Tomlin Triples targets were never
shot before this team trip This
shooting gives one an idea how fast
pumn guns can be worked and how
efficient some shol ters are.
Follow ne the shooting with f.
guage gun the little .41O gauge gun
wa1 demonstrated by the experts
Midget targets were thrown from the
midget hand trap. large targets from
the large hand trap, from tho midget
stationary trap and from the regula
tion trap with the shooters Is yards
IN the rear OF the trap house. This
last is difficult shooting and when the
shooters average 80 per cent they are
Of the opinion that they had good
record.
Mrs Toppcrwcn, who was the
first shooter on the trapshoot ng
squad is the best woman shooter in
the world She holds most all records
ftr shooting az the traps where en-
durance is required, and year after
war Is ono OF the leaders in the
trapshootng averages. Spencer, the
second shooter is the professional
champion Of the United States and
Canada and the present holder of the
doubles target record Of % in 100
Chief Bender, the third shot, managed
the New Haven ball club the past
season. and won a pennant He is
the best shot in baseball He is one
of the few Indians in the trapshoot
ing game, Boyd Duncan, the fourth
shot is the champion of Tennessee
and a left hand shot. Few southpaws
are to be found in the shooting game
Duncan used his right hand ror
everything else except shooting Fred
Tomlin, the champion CT New Jersey
S the other member of the team.
No matter how the trapshoot
ing goes, how much the people appre
ciate It, the revolver shooting ant
rife shooting of the Topperwen'.
gets over even better The Topper
veins are the greatest shots in tn,
world No one who witnessed thci
shooting yesterday doubts this state
ment. They do lot of things Will
the various kinds OF guns they us,
that We cannot describe here becaus,
they seem beyond belief Nothing II
impossible to them They can max,
guns dc anything except talk.
Topperwein's drawing of tn,
head of an Indian was a remarkabl,
bit of shooting About 200 bullet
were shot with repeater and tn,
head was cut out in three minutes
Mrs Topperwe n shot chalk from MI
Topperwein's vest cut cards in tw,
with revolver bullets, and did othe
things that have to be seen to b
appreciated
The squad is made up CT Charlie
c. Spencer OF st Louis, captain an
manager; Chief Bender, the baseball
: pitcher. Mrs. Ad Topperwein of Sar
Antonio Texas; Boyd Duncan, Luc,