Year: 1875

mont had made Of my presence in England" A
thoroughly Characteristic one too While waiting for
champion to appear the Captain amused himself with
such trles as the following


To shoot twenty five pairs OF pigeons and to kill
thirty eight birds from spring traps forty yards
apart the shooter to stand on line between the two
traps, which are sprung at the same time. To kill
twenty five pigeons In four minutes, the Captain TO
load his gun; two birds 10 DO on the wing at the
same time.


The appearance Of English antagonist allowed
Captain Bogardus to witness the international rife
contest He thinks that its importance demands that
he should give II prominent place in his book Wo
can hardly agree with him. Tho public would have
been quite agreeable Captain Bogardus in oxclu-
sive possession of his own book. But it quite as
well he went there. We will let him speak for himself
AGAIN.


Being now on Irish son, I determined to make my
aoiies known thero and accordingly issued general
challenge 10 any man in Ireland TO shoot at twenty five
BIRDS according to the rules to be fixed by the accepor
the match TO come OF July l. At the grounds of tho
Athletic Club, lansdowne road Dublin. fixed no
stake leaving the matter open possible to draw
out a contestant had already arranged to have an
exhibition shoot the ground, to OF either in
connection with tho challenge independently, as the
case might be-


Before the match and up to the very day spirit Of
opposition was manifested among certain class Of
short-sghted humanitarians who did what they
thought was very effective in keeping away the specta
tors For this purpose they had prepared large pacards
On which In staring capital letters the inscription,


"DoN'T co TO THE PIGBOE SLAUGHTER"


These were paraded up and down tho main streets
The result OF all thus notoreiy given unntentionally
was 10 bring out larger crowd than ever many taking
the instructions not 60 appeal to the natural
perversty Of human nature to do what is forbidden II
was looked upon a shrewd American advertising
dodge and operated In every way satisfactorily TO my
interests


Tho more important OF tho matches in which Captain
Bogardus subsequently became engaged in all OF which
he was the victor, have been duly noticed In these
columns. 1t is consequently, unnecessary to refer to
them here in detail Certain incidents may, however,
be briefly notced for instance whero the Manchester
puts dead bird in the Captains trap. The writer
of the book is short and decisive the Manchester
typo He quotes of tho newspapers, and admins
ters corrective


Manchester sporting men-the professional sporting
men--are not very refined beings They have strong
family likeness, too Generally they short thick
set men, bullet headed and physiognomcay speak
ing, they are not prepossessng order of tho genus
homo. A glance at them Is quite sufficient to put a
stranger his guard If they uncouth in outward
sembiance they also particularly rude in speech,
like Otheo, and you require moro than ordinary
centraton of wits about you before you do business
with them to out OF your dealings with satlsao
tion to yourself In fact don't like the Manchester
sporting There Is good deal of the rogue in him.
and great deal more Of the bully than honest quiet
going citizens like to meet with There Is one thing,
apparently, that every Manchester man who dabbles
in sporting matters do-acc0rding to his own
opinon-and that is, lick creation at pigeon shooting