The New York Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1875, Page 4

4 nt allowed,” But Lord and Lady Wharneliffe bore | tour miles four or five times repeated during the | on the target, were despatched. Our paper target WIMBLEDON AND. DOLLYQOUMT. —-——— Sharpshooters and Journalists at the * Buits in England and Ireland. ————— VICTORIES OF SCIENCE AND ENTERPRISE, Aquatic Scenes at the Wimbledon Meet- ing--St. Swithin’S Tears, THE HERALD'S CABLED DIAGRAMS, teresting Sketch of How the Shots Were Noted and Sent Under the Sea. A CAVALCADE WHICH ASTONISHED DUBLIN. English Acknowledgments of the Herald Triumphs. Lonpon, July 28, 1875. Tn the annals of the Nationai Rifle Association this year’s meeting at Wimbicdon will be marked As Most uDiortunate. e rain it raipetn every | day |” could have been applied co at least eleven | but ol the fourteen days of shootiug—not @ good, | penerous, pouring rain, eXcept now and then, butu steady, drizzling descent, that inundated the camp and cast a gloom over scene thatis | venerally $0 attractive and characteristic. When the sun shines, as it shone on the commencement | day of the meeting, Wimbledon presents a very aniwated picture of HOLIDAY CAMP LIFE, The waite canvas vents gleam in the sunshine; Bay crowds of the holiday deienders of Britain, clad im their mot very gracetul uniforms, gather at the firing poluts; London pleasure-seekers fo up by thousanas toeujoy themselves on the common, and at night the military bands dis- course sweet music to crowds of the tent-dwell- ers and their friends and admirers. but ST. SWITHIN changed the aspect of affairs very quickly. I do not remember whether the first rain teil before the day devoted to that saint in the calendar, but | he did nogsorget the anniversary of the ommous day wher the monks sacrilegiousiy transterred his body from the churchyard to the chancel of Winchester cathedral; and asit has rained every day sluce then, with the excepiton of Sunday, and heavily charged rain clouds sill bang overhead, | people have come to the conclusion that tbe. ancient church worthy stil holds an important post in the weather department up aloft. | THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGION AT THE FIRING POINT. St. Swithin’s day fellon the 15th of July. The Venerable saint was visuop of Winchester in tte ninth century, and was buried, accordmg to his owa wish, in the churebyard; but a century later the monks began to think this was vot a fitting place of sepulture forsuch @ boly mav, and they exbumea his body and deposited it inside the cathedral, but only after @ vast deal of trouble. The removal, se says the | legend, was to have taken piace on the | 15th of July, bur ic was delayed by violent rains Which continued forty dasa and jorty nights wita- out intermission. Of course, the crops were Spoiled and the hops destroyed, and the people became gloomy and despondent, and the beiief became current tnat the creadiul weather had been caused all along of the attempt to remove the body of the saimt irom its origimal resting Place. Then the belie’ grew tobe an accepted popular superstition, and St. Swithin’s day Is as Ominous or auspicious, as tne case may be, to the English farmer to-cay as Sts. Médard, Gervais or Protais to the peasants of France, wuo say :— S'i pieut le jour de Saint Médard, ius tard; 4 LESSON FOR THE VOLUNTEERS, Now, undouotedly the volusteers at Wimbledon | have come to accept the oid belief in its fullest | significance. Tney would do well, however, to select a tutelar saint of theirown in 1tuture, like the German hunters do, and place their interests In his Core, 80 that the influence of the Winchester gentleman could be counteracted. CAPTAIN PRANOR, the winner of tne Queen’s Prize this year, de. clares that he was ¢nabiea to win only by the aid ofa bigher power. Aiter having been declared the winner and carried to nis tent in triumpn by his comrades ne is reported to have made a speecn, im which he sald—‘One of the winners of this important prize attributed his success to teetotal- ism. Now, 1 do not attribute mine to that. I cousider I owe it to faith im my Bible. About six montis ago that leeling camé over ine, and since then I have ieit that everytying I have done has been done with # higuer motive. I hoped to win this prize to-day, that | might have an oppor- tunity Of saying this, That oppertuntty has come, and Tam giad of it. In the present state of my feelings I hope you Will excuse me sayiug more.’ Captaim Pearce is & Devonshire man and a lawyer; he 1s @ mauve of Hatherletzh. At 800 yards he made, in seven shots, thirty oat ofa possiole tuirty-five; at 900, twenty-eight; at 1,000, fifteen, 1 think this shooting ought to decide at Once and for ever the question of the efMcacy of prayer. FULTON, ‘n competing for the American Cup, made 13310 $eirty show, which is better scoring than tnat of Captain Pearce and Religion combined. THE AMERICANS IN CAMP. Barring the rain, I feel sure that the American team feel that they have been very warmly wel- | comed in England. An English welcome differs Greatly irom an irish one, but is none the less hearty. The Irish showed tueir welcome in an overdowing hospitality; the Engiish (I mean eapecialiy tue commitvee at Wimbiedon) by reiax- tng for a while from tueir stittness, and by show. (ng asincere regard to nave the “Yankees,” as they call them, have fair piay. And, as you know, We havein the team some really good repre- sentative men, Who seem ever to have been well ware that they are looked upon in tais light, and, Bsamatter of course, they have been treated, Wouge nos exactly a8 guests, yet with a courtesy @nd warmin that do great credit to England, | LORD WHARNCLIFFE, the President of the Committee of the National Rife Association, and bis associates (1 name especially General MucMurdo, Captain Mildmay, Captain Boswell and Colonel Peel) have beea Feady on ali ocvasious to do honor to the “Amer. | rT friends.” Lerd Wharnelitte was, I believe, the | first to greet our representatives in their tent, | Give minutes after their arrival on the ground, @nd Lady Wharnciitte sent them an invitation to | one of her charming garden parties, ong the Brounds. And When the rain poured down and the team did not feel inclined to expose them- selves uNnecessariiy to the wet, Colonel Peel was feady at @ moment's notice to have the shooting | postponed—which is u very nousual thing sor the Wimbledon authorities to do, and a favor granted | ‘his year only to the Lords and Commons and to the Americans. TUR AMBRICAN TENT. ‘The quarters given to the team were excellent, A large tent had been erecteu, provided with a carpeted board Mooring. The volunteers ana militia quartered in the tents all around could fook at them with a certain amount of fustifiavie envy, for, day uiter day, as tue rain poured down Bimost Without intermission, the grouna became Saturated, and then pools of waver gatnered, at many points invading the tents. The inundated warriors fad, however, some sense of their ludicrous situation leit even in their dilemma, for they had erected @ board with the imscription, “Taig water strictly preserved, No dshing | compete with a team of eight. | New YouK WERALD, its rr NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. their misfortunes very courageously, They stopped on the ground the whole time, but Her Ladyship’s “at homes" were, of course, failures. ‘This is Lord Waerncliffe’s first year in office, the acceptance of which any year is sald to pecessi- late am expenaiture of £2,000, " THR AMELICAN SHOOTING, Thardly need to say much abour the shooting of the team, inasmuch as you have been informed thereol by the cabie day by day, Fulten was suc- cessful im carrying off the St, Leger sweepstakes, and was selected by @ lady member as her knight tm ihe competition for the Albert prize, out did not succeed in carrying off the glittering trophy and depositing It at the feet of his lady admirer, In case apy of Mr. Pulton’s iady friends should have a desire to know who the lady is, I may say that she 18 an esteemed British matron, the lady of @ certain Mr. Gregory, the representative in the camp of Mr. Steward, the optician to the Ride Association, to whom the HzkaLp is under many obiugations for assistance on the feld, COLONEL GILDERSLERVE, remarkable to say, Was successiul ta scoring the smaliest score e competition ier the Ameri- can Cup—an event which surprised many of bis friends, But he was not in a fit conaition to shoot atthe time; he had been firing all the morning, during @ pouring rain, and came up exhausted to the firing point. Mr, Canfeld fired remarkably Weil, making seven successive oull’s eyes in clos- ing lus score, BODINE has scarcely fired ashot at Wimbledon, He de- clined to take part in the contest for the cup, a3 dia DAKIN AND YALE. All felt somewhat annoyed at not being per- mitted to fire side by side with the three teams | competing forthe Elcho Shield; but I think they had no particuiar desire to try their strength this year with a picked eight out of the teams of the three countries, correctly belteving that the Irish Victory Was enough for one year; that they had everything to lose, and were not prepared to Fortunately the Irish are the winners of the Elcno Shield, so they can virtually say that they have beaten Great | Britain, jor we pmilosopuize thus:—Tae Ameri- caus beat the Irisd at Dollymount, the Irish beat the English and Scotch at Wimbledon, conse_ quently America beats the three teams. Unfor- tunately the difference in counting the value of the sbots at Dollymoant and Wimoledon does not enable us to make comparisons of the shooting. THE NEW YORK HERALD IN THE CAMP. But there was oue institution ou the ground with which no comparison could be instituted by the Zugiish press to their own advantage. Of course We mean, witn pardonabdie vanity, tue New York HERALD, whose method of cabling the exact position of the snots to New York attracted great attention, especially at the Lords and Commons match and at the contest tor the American Cup, The Standard of Wednesday last says:— a Indeed, such is tue interest taken in the meet- ing in America that, through the encerprise of the ders are furuisned, not only with the scores on tbe morning Joowing the event, Dut with actual diagranis of the various targets oa which tue scores are made, This is mauaused im @ rather imgeuious way. The New YoRK HERALD people ave diagrams Of the targets | there itn sectional squares, cacu square bearing @ relative value as to the aumber of points, and by @ Special arrangement with te statistical de- pariment the position of euch shot on tbe target, | with the name of tae marksman, is teregrapned to New York every day in 'ime to admit not only of the pavlication Of tué tndividual scores, bat, #3 | have said, of fac simile diagrams Ol toe targets themsel¥ -.”. ‘fhe Times on the day following has the following very complimentary remarks :— With regard to the Americau match It 1s some- What curious to know that the readers o! this moruiug’s New YORK HERALD wlil ve in posses: sion Of 43 muck or eved more information than we have ere ip London, By a y of tele- grapuy’a diagram of each target fired at, wita each competitor's tairty shots carefully dis- tinguished, will be founeé on the New York break- fast tables this moroing, The system 1s 48 tol- lows:—Tne diagram mentioned above is portioned Cuplicates Of shis are prepared, the ove veimg in possession of the marker, the Otuerin the MkRALD's printing office; as each saot is fired che wumber of the square in WICH It hus Struck is at Once sent across tue Atlantic, and ali that toen remains to be uone Is to apportion toe shot Lo its proper place, This practice was foliowed during tae maten shooting at Dublin, and also during cur own Lorus and Commons 1aatch ou Monaay last, A FRENCH GAVAN ON AMERICAN PRESS ENTER- PRISE. Itis@ somewhat remarkable coincidence that at the time these were penned Lucian Adam, ina speech bejore the Congress of Americanists at Nancy, in alluding to America and Americans present, made homerable mention of the part piayed by the HERALD in discovery ana investiga- tion of trath a8 ome of the marvels of modern | times. THE HERALD'S REPORTING FEATS AT DOLLY- MOUNT AND WIMBLEDON. Loxpon, July 20, 1875, Now and then @ correspondent has a right to feel gratified at the success he has won at the momentary notoriety he gains for his journal. I am sure your representatives, both at Wimbiedon and at tbe Dollymount match, have felt gratified atthe complimentary notices of their lavors by the English press, bat still more than grauified, yea, proud, at the telegraphic successes they acmeved iu New York from Dollymount. The /l- lustrated London News of two weeks ago had \wo pictures about the Bollymount maten, one of which represents one of your correspondents crossing the tidal cBannel between the Doily- mount range and the bignway to Dabiin on horse- back, witm the waves dashiug almost up to the saddie girth, In the letter press accompanying the article we read:— The spectal correspondent of four American hewSpapers sent telegrams by the Atiantit cable to announce the result of the international match as soon as the shooting was over. The New Yorx HERALD Correspondent was foremost in tue race vo secure priority of despatch tor this inteili- gence. Ile galloped on horseback across tne sands of Dublin Bay, to the neighborhood of Vion- tarf, Making @ short cut to the extemporized tei- egraph station. WHAT WAS REALLY ACCOMPLISHED, This is, of course, a very flaitering testimony to the energy of your correspondent empioyed on the field that day; but, nevertheless, the artist was not apparently acquainted witu the real | spirit of the HERALD’S worth that day, for at the | Ume when our novie horseman Was crossing the | flood with the last despatch the news of tne vic- tory of the Americans over the Irish bad reached the Dublim telegrapa office, thus gaining a prior- ity Of despatch there, which resuited in @ victory to youla New York of over an hour and a haf. And this is no mean feat when we consider that we had to compete With correspondents of other New York papers who were jast as eager for vic- tory as oursely THE DOLLYMOUNT CONTEST—TNE HERALD STAFF. It may interest your readers to get a glimpse of the HERALD stall employed at Dollymouut on the 29th of Jane, On the ground there were in its pay that day seven jaunting cars and seven drivers, | two suddie horses with attendants, three sign painters, two Irish jaborers, four army sergeants, one telescopist and five correspondents and as- sistants—nearly ail 0; whom Rad been gathered together im Dublin and there drijlea labors during tne four days before te match. Was there necessity for such a furce, you ask ? Of course there was, or tae expense would not have beem incarred, The distance jrom the tral Telegraphic Bureaa on Sackville street, Dublin, to the spot where the match toox place is about six miles, There is, ind oflice nearer taan that—namely, at Clontar!; but as it was iownd on inspection to be an old A, B, instrument and WORKED BY A WOMAN, who skeels skids of thread aud pounds ol sugar. it was of no use whatever. Besides, tne jady in charge did not appear to have the slightest idea of the value of rapid transmission. in a despatch she would quietly serve her cus\om- ers With @ Cake Of soap or an ounce of tea, inquire itney wanted anycuing more, speak of family matters and Village gossip, and then take the Diessage and “put it through,”’ Se we gave up the idea of trusting our messages to the little oMce at Clontar, which would, baa it b mm good work- @ saved our carmen @ journey of im their | if you handed | day. 7 PROM CLONTARF TO THE FIELD of Dollymount ig @ distance of but a mile and @ | half, and our first idea was to have @ private wire Tun that distance. The Dublin telegraphic authorities were willing to do this; they even | Sent out engineers to make estimates of the cost, bat when they telegraphed to Loudon for the necessary permission Mr. Scudamore satd, “No, We cannot doit. If we gave permission to one we must do it to all.” All our endeavors \o cause Mr. Scudamore to rescind nis orde:s were unavailing, and we caine to the cenciusion that | home rule would have been @ very acceptable thing in Ireland just then, So we had to Cura about for the pest means of getting our messages | down to Dublin frst if possible, and then our jabors commenced in earnest. In the carrying out of our plans we had to return to the primitive means o/ the early newspaper days, THE VLEET HORSES, THE LIGHTNING MESSENGBRS. But knowing thatin this method of news car- rying we had experienced competitors, we had to exercise all our skillim providing planus for galn- ing the victory over them, 4 TRIP ON AN IRISH JAUNTING OAR—WHAT FOL- LOWED. r A few days before the match we made a trip in @ jaunting car tothe Bull, and examined the ground on which we bad to compete. Tne road trom Sackville street passes by St. George’s, Winding round the Bay, round the promontory at Clontarf, and somewhat iurther en, where you alight from the car, @ narrow bridge leaas you on | to the “Bail,” which 18 a narrow strip ofland, | bounded on the right by the Bay, on the left bya tidal channel, which 1s fordaple when tne tide is out, bat has six feet gepth of wuter at high tide. We perceived at once the diliculties of the situa- tion; the loug road to Dublin would in all proba- bility be crowded with jaunting cars; there might be @ blockade that would stop oar me@sengers for half an hour or more; besides, the bridge which must be crossed on foot before reaching tne cars would, toward the end of the matcn, at the very Moment when we had most haste, be densely crowded and perfectly impassable. Be- tween the briage and the firing points there was likewise a good tnree-quarters of a mile, which would occupy 4 horse five or seven minutes, 10 CROSS THIS SPRATT | or tidal channel t» the main road would necessa- rily take fifteen minutes. Here, then, was the | point whereon to gain in the race, Mither we | must have boats or courageous horsemen to cross | ‘the fifty or sixty yards of water, otuerwise our | mends would outrun us, They had fleet horses, 80 had we; they bad cars, so had we; they had | boats, so had we; perbaps they had tacilities we knew not of. To be defeated in the warfare of | correspondents 18 a very humiliating thing; to gain a victory is the glory of us all. RAYMONT CASTLE AND THE HERALD OBSERVATORY. In Dublin we made the acquaintance of a gen- tleman to whom we mentioned our fears tat | Our messengers would not be able to puss easily | along the bighroad to Dubiin, ‘I,can help you out of that,” ne said, ‘Jor my frien@ Mr. Tickell, of Raymont Castle, whose turreted mansion looks upon the field of contest, has @ carriage drive | through his grounds, and at the other side there | 13 a direct ‘pack-way’ to Dublin, which will be | good as deserted all day long.” We jumoed at the idea—perhaps we couid thus gain five minutes in our race for the telegraph office, and five | minutes would be enough! So we took a jaunting | car on Sunday morning and paid a visit to Mr. | Tickell, whom we found a most agreeable and | courteous gentleman. He at once gave us the de- sired permission that our cars might cross his private grounds, Then another idea, From the lawn tn front of the house we had full command of the Dollymount range; we could the long A TELESCOPE. | The thought strack us that vy the ald of a pow- er/ul telescope, planted on the lawn of Raymont | Castle, we could read anything written in large | characters In ink upon a large sheet of paper. No sooner the idea entertained than we began to ex- | periment. A powerful glass was loaned frem | Robinson’s PolytecWhic Museum, tn Grafeon street, salely planted, while @ young irtsh messenger was despatcued to the shooting grounds to hold | up.@ large sheet of paper, covered with | figures and words. We could read it like a charm, | “God save poor Ireiand!? wrote our intelligent | young son of Eria. Then we resolved that on the | day of the matcn one of us should remain in | charge of the telescope, whose duty should be to | read trom the painted target the most important Tesults which we desired ‘ TO CABLE TO NEW YORK. But we had many &n hour's trouble before our | plan was ‘ully matured. One of us went toa car- penter’s and nailed the target together; another | was sent to purchase immense sheets of paper, nine feet long by four wide, with which to cover | it, and another hunted for some hours among the back streets and beervouses of tne city for the artistic members who Were to assist us in in- scribing the despatches and to adorn our staf, THE PROCKSSION, At six o’clock on the morning of the inter- hational match a curious procession of jaunting cars could have been seen, touse the words of Hotel, in Dublin, | ing, the air chilly; the big city lay asleep, One by one tne cars were filed, First were our four army sergeants (whom I had almost jorgotten), provided with telescop: and diagrams repreventing the targets, pencils | and instructions and drill thrice renearsed. On the sgcond car were loaded @ large deal | table, chairs, Writing materials, cable planks and the big target at which our telescopist was to aim ail day jong. fo the latter unwieldy article we had appor- | tioned # couple of stout Irisumen, whose duty it Would be to hoist it up and dowa during tae day. | Onthe nextcarrode our arust sign painters, | armed wits brushes and paint pots, avd wonder- | ing “what tue divil they were going todo wid‘all the things.” a | Another car was to carry the t copist to his | desuimation and another the correspondents for the field of tne conilict. ‘TWo messengers on horseback followed. CAREFUL AND PRUDENT IRISHMEN, The procession started as Soon as tue big picnic hamper lad been loaded, which would bave been entirely forgotten but for the thoughtiuiness of our two stout Irish target holsters. “Ye'li excuse me, sir,” said one, on concluding twill ye give us toate during the long day?’ “Bless yer soul, Pat, if it had mot been for you devil 4 bit Of lunch or adrop of drink would we | have bad the whole day long.” | ON THE GROUND. | We arrived on the ground turee hours before the match commenced, had a complete full dress reuearsal, tried our target system, and everything worked aamiraviy. When the maten com- menced the turee painters stood at their paint pow; the two stout Irishmen at the big target; three or four juunting cars stood outside the wooden fence; two messengers #at on their saddles, the four sergeants were at their telescopes, tWo correspondents were behind | them to check the marking, the cablist sat at nis table and the telescopist could be seen away over she other side of the strait waving his fag, whic! was the signal that be could read all we had used to be inscribed 07 our target, THE CROWD increased, the matca commenced, as did our la bors in earnest, ‘ MESSAGE APTER MESSAGE was duly inacribea upon our target, and in a few minutes we coud see the flag waved from the jawn of Raymont © Our opponents’ messengers hastening to cross the tidal strait (which Wes almost dry during t Gay, until toward three or four o’eloek in tre | line of boarding around the enclosure, we couid | | see the targets, we could see persons moving | about, and the distance was, permaps, a mile and | a quarter. of into squares, each of whica ls pumbered, aud | the aovelist, drawn up intront of the Shelbourne | The sky Was dark and toreaten- | | two o’clock P. M, “August 14, at twenty minutes after tnrce P, M. tle, and we knew as we saw | aitermoon) that our despatcues were already well | on their way to Davin, beiore theirs had been abie to reach the Channel, EVERYTHING WORKED CHARWINGLY. Ww d scarcely @ hitch; aud five minates after | the completion of the 800 yards range our me sages, Containing the eXact location of the shots | proved a source of great curiosity to the people Outside the barriers, As our words were code words they could not, of course, understand them; ana when we Inscribed the words, toward the close of the match, instead of ‘America wins,” “AKMSTRONG NEARLY DEAD,” “CRRTAINTY,” the good people began to ask one of the other Various questioas, “Who the divil is Armstrong?” “Och, gure, Le ig ove of the American tame; begad he must ba’ been struck wid @ bullet.” Aud sure enough the report was current in Dubin at nignt that one of our team bad indeed been wounded, THR WORD * BISMARCK” caused great excitement. ‘ne gazer wondered | Twenty-seven Birds in Two Min- What the Prussian Premier could have to do with Dollymount and the rifle match, ignorant of the utes Fifty-five Seconds. Jact that to eur telescopiss this word bad another and vefy significant meaning. THE TRIUMPH. Toward the close of the match, when the tiae had come tn and all the cars bad crossed over to tue other side, our observatory target system proved of inestimable value, Ly this means alone were we enabled to get the frst despaten of the American victory bali an hour sooner than our rivals to Dublin, and @n hour ana a half ahead in New York. We returned to Dublin tired but confident that our exertions had not been in vain, and at ten o’clock We had @ despaten from New York telling us of our success, CAPTAIN BOGARDUS. The American Pigeon Shooter's Feats in England. SPORT AT MANCHESTER. A Trip to Sheffield—What He Accomplished at the Cutlery Centre, MancumsTER, July 21, 1875, Next to the metropolis itself there ig no town in England that takes greater interest in sporting matters than Manchester. Indeed, for that par- ticular form 01 sport which consists of the exhi- bition of some special skill on the part of some buman being Manchester surpasses Lonaon vastly, Walking, running ana pigeon shooting find here a home which is not accorded to them in the less enthusiastic sporting circles in London, CREEDMOOR. and the town has been the scene of the “dearest action” of many a champion whose day has now PROGRAMME OF MATCHES FOR THE MONTH OF AuGuUsT. The competitions, to take place at Creedmoor, LL, im the month of August, 1875, are announced as follows: gone past. Singular, too, that Manchester should not only be the second sporting town of the United Kingdom, but a place of great commercial ac- tivity, Mark Twats observes, jokingly, that “he never allows his work to interfere with his drink ;” similarly it may be said of the tnuabitants of Manchester that they never allow their bust- ness to interiere witn their sport. Should a “good thing’’ in the way of jumpiog, running, walking or pigeon shooting be proviued om auy day of the week by one of the numerous caterers for the pub- lic amusement lecated here, the PEOPLE WILL TURN OUT IN THEIR THOUSANDS | to witness the entertainment, Manchester sport+ ing men—the professional sporting men—are not very refined beings. They havea strong family likeness too, Generally they are short, thick set men, bullet headed, and, physiognomically speak- ing, they ate not a prepossessing order of the genus homo, A giauce at them is quite sufficient to put astranger on bis guard. If they are un- couth in outward seniblance, they are also par- ticularly rude in speech, like Uthello, and you re- quire @ more than ordinary concentration of wits about you before you do business with them—to come out of your dealings with satisfaction to yourself. In fact, | don’t like the Manchester sporting maa, There is a good deal of the rogue in him and a great deal more of the bully than honest, quiet going citizens like to meet with, There is one thing, apparently, that every Man- chester man who dabbies in sporting matters can do—according to his own opinion—and that is lick creation at pigeon shooting. This being the state of matters, it is not to be wondered at that the sporting fraternity in Manchester should prick up their ears when they hear what Captain’ Bogardus has been deing in London and elsewhere lately. Of course THEY TREATED HIM AS AN D«POSTOR. Everybody, according to their beneficent man- ner of viewing things, 1s an impostor uniess he 1s Manchester man or has proved nimself other- wise be‘ore & Manchester audience. It appears that the majority of the rumors about chalicnges 1e® shoot Captain Bogardus, which I have already mentioned irom Liverpool, emanated principally from Manchester. Only to-day there appears in a sporting steet of the town a “challenge” to shoot amatch with the Captain, if he will concede to the chailenger the trifling advantage of five yards start and two dead birds. This the Captain has declined to take any notice of, a proceeding which meets with the eotire approval of nis friends, But 1 wili not decry the waole body of the skooting “talent of Manchester. There are, it must be confessed, one or two good, steady pigeon snooters in the town, and if they like to let every- body know that they neve @ keen eye anda CROUCH BULL’S-EYE BADGE, * fhe conditions are as follows:—Open to mem- bers of the Amateur Rifle Club, excluding such as have shot (or may snoot) in auy international team matci, Distances, 800, 900 and 1,000 yards, Fil'cen shots each range, no sighting shots, Weapon, any breech-loading rifle within the ruies, to be loaded at the breecn only. Position, any without artificial rest. No previous practice al- lowed upon the day of the match. The badge to be heid by the marksman making the largest uumber of bail’s eyes in the ferty-five shots, and to become the property of the contestant who shall win 1t three times, Entrance fee, $1. This match is to take piace Saturday, August 7, at eleven A. M. TURF, FIELD AND FARM BADGE ‘The conditions are as tollows:—Open to mem- bers of the National Rifle Association. Distance, 200 yards. Position, standing. Weapon, any breechioading rife within the rules, Rounds, ten, with two sighting shots. Entrance fee, ofty cents, IO oe wou toree times (nov necessarily consecutively) before becoming the permanent property of tue winner. ‘The dute and tume of this matck are Saturaay, LUTHER BADGE. Conditions—Open ony to members of the Ama- teur Rifle Ulub. Distances, 800, 900 and 1,000 yards, Position, any without artificial rest. Five | Touuds, with the privilege of two signting spots, Entrance tee, $1. Tu be won three times (not necessarily Consecutively) before becoming tue | personal property of the wiuner. ‘the maten for this badge is to be shot on Satur- day, August 21, at half-past two P, M. THE REMINGTON DIAMOND BADGE. . ‘The tenth co:npetition, Saturaay, August 23, at Conditioas—Open to members of the National Rifle Association. Weapon, any breech-ioaaing | rifle within tae rules. Distances, 600, 800 and | 1,000 yards. Position, any without artificial it. | Seven rounds, with two sightiug shots at each | distance, To be won three times before becoming | the personal property of the winner. Entrance jee, $l. . SEVENTH REGIMENT SHELLS, The matcn for this vadge will be suot on Satur- days, August 7 and 21, at three o’clock P. M. Conditions—Open to all Members of the Seventh } Regiment Rifle Club, Distance, 500 yards. Weapon, Ke . ington state military rifie, Five rounds, with two signting shuts, Position, any withim the rules Ol the National Rifle Association, SEVENTH REGIMENT RIFLES. Matches» for thts prize are to he shot on Mon- days, August 9 ana 23, at three P. M. jonaitions—Upen to ali imemvers of the Seventh Kegiment Rifle Viud, Distance, 200 yards, Position, standing. Weapon, Remington state multary rifle. five rounds with two sighing shots. COMPETITION FOR A FIELD GLAss, Conditions—Open to ail members of toe Eighth Regiment Rise Club. Distances, 209 and 600 yards. “ “4 Houuds, ten, with two sighting shots at each fl eae ig = bare ret dap ae A tance. Weapon, Remington State muitary rife, | Claimed a Scotch minister in tue pulpit once, “sie Position, Standing at 200 yards, any wituin the Na- | us guid conceit o’ ourselves,” and ii every rey- onal Kifle Association rules a6 500 yards, To ve : | erend gentieman in Manchester had propitiatea won three times (not nev#Ssarlly consecutivel, belore becoming tae permanent property of Mab | the higher powers to infuse a good conceit into winuer. the breasts of the pigeon shooters in thts towa Competition to occur on Tuesday, August 17, At | these local knights of the shotgun could nardiy uarier to two P.M. Pee CHALLENGE OUP. |, mave imbued a better opinion of themselves than iready, There is Sones oe net oa peciers of the Irisn- | they possess American Rifle viub, Distance, 200 and 500 yaras, - Rounds, seven, Witu two sigutiug snots at eacn et ee ee ee uisianes. Weapon, uny ride within the ruies of | In Manchester; but I wust coniess that tue char- the National Kifle Association. To be shot lor | acter of the frequenvers neither give the ground monthly, Guring the jast Week In ¢ach month, | aud to become the property of the party wiuuing | tthe greatest numver ef times throughout the | year. land is the most respectable form of diversion = followed by the upper and middie classes, in Man- CRICKET. chester falls 10 tue very lowest level of a degrad- img sport. Every sweepstakes that Is shot offon THE ST. GEORGES DEFEAT @HE PROSPECT PaRK | the ground proceeds amid scenes of rowdyism waich elsewhere would be prohibited; men around are cursing and swearing at eacn other, as if they Were so many tohabitants of a maa- house let joose, and on every side you near the braggart matching himself against anyboay for apytuing: (or tney are not biasbingly mudest, tnose Manchester pigeou shooters, when they Speak Of their own sail, and toey name big sums CLUB—SCOR, FIFTY-NINE TO FORTY-YOUR. Tue old established st. George's Cricket Club, of H this city, yesterday defeated the youthful Pros- pect Park Club in a very well contested game, The match was the drst played between the two clubs, and the very slight victory of the St, Georges shows that there is good mettle in the | when tne’ ention money. " | that pre d Captain Bogardas’ exibition young organization. Tne game began shorty | tiiten to-day tue business Was positively pub a before noon, each team having a full eleven on | gtop to hal! a dozen times by angry disputes be- the ground, who decided to firs: handle the willow, and Davis | and Love were sent to the bat to face Moeran’s | bowling. Love fell at the secoud ball and was succeeded by Ronaidson. On the first ball of the next “over” irom Giles he made a spiendid leg hit, sending the ball over the fence, where it was Semoedy whe had couse to eee Uaptaln BOgAPaUS buried in the mud and could wot be found. With | snoot, ‘The first thing that the Captain was told this good opening jor a 6, Ronaldson followed up | when ne mitered the ground to- ay ares th a with several pretty hits and drives and made a | W4s @ Manchester mau wao wanted to shoot him total score of 11. ‘he otner men followed in | OF, £200 a side. ‘Tue challenge appears in tae erder, but did not score much, as Moeran’s bowl. ing was very effective. On the St. George's side | Bance made a rapid score of 15 by a number of | A weric: 3 pretty cuts, hits and drives. Satterthwaite | twenty live pigeons cach. with Om ot tet corer ia ane played excellently for 10, when he was unfortu- | hamper with « rug over the top, from which both must nately run out, Sleigh and Gtles bad the mistor. | fay. the mateh to be tor £6) 4 side; one ester, wad the e Pd > oy abot at the Koya! aK a i a e al 0} jal ar Ai a 5 be bowling against them was rather poor, only three | pared to make a match, Or any other man ia England wickets being taken. In the second inning of the | cam be on on the saine conditions Park Ciuod Errington piayed veautually for 20 BOGAKDUS’ OPPORTUNIT" runs, and Ronaidson and Reed for 9 and 6 re- This, it may be remarked, is just spectively. Altogether the matcn Was & good o1 tain kas been wanting to see all along. He wants as the following score will s10Wt— ty shvot a good man for a r sum@ bejore he ance With the Shotgun, Words in every instance Tan a8 bigh as if a kingd»m, and not the lie of a Pigeon, depended upon the issue; but I remaraed hat in ne single case of dispute did the parties agree to rettie their diderences tu the proper way. EVERYTHING WAS WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, and the repetition of such scenes w: source of great disgust to the jpectable portion of the Life of to-day aad rons as [0llows:— CHALLENGE TO THR WORLD 1% on the following condiuens:—To shoot at Bt GRORGR. leaves England, to show that he has as little fea Puree Tantig. ot losing lis money 4s ms reputation. The cnal- Banos. ¢. W. Scott, b. brringtou. lenger, ‘Sam Shaw,” a8 he ty famullarly called in SNE walter TNO er, this quarter, 1 tnd has dove splendid work in Cashman, ¢ G. scvit, b. krrington Pigeou suooling watcues of lute, as WD, It Moeran, c. Peters, b. Errington seems, DO fewer than some tw Matcbes re- ceatly, and on the strength of th victories no | doubt he has been induced to throw down tue giove to Captain Mogaraus. | saw him shooting Vo-day at twenty-one yards rise and can say that H& SHOOTS WITH REMARKABLE POWER. He ts ushort, thin man, belonging gpparently to the working ciasa, His features are sharp and ir- Whitlock, b. Rowaldson out.. : r . snot. the mon 18 the case with tof | Palle} 48h Mil ee le The athe ane 10 Og | wach affairs in Mancnester, 1 found tor tim by | Rae ALYSIS OF 4% BOWLING. | the betting men, who, of course, In the event of | Bowler. Rune Mai Wickets. No Balli, | is Wiuniug, make a uice little navi, On the Vap- Ronaidson. .. a 3 2 | tain entering the ground this morning he was in Arrington i a” ‘ 9 formed that & “iriend” of Shaw's would be giad Sprayue..... 12 1 1 2 % | to negotiate with him on sinracelcmoaaty tt tat THE SUBJECT OF THE MATCH, . + b Meant o .. 2 | The Captain at once asseuted to tre proposal, 0 b Moe % | ana they adjourned to a situog room in tne Royal sun, AL 9 | Oak, from which the grounds take their name. Errington, b. Moeran, 3 ® | Tne laadiord of the taveru, as stakeuower for the Reea, c. byre, b. Moeran 1 6 | present, drew up the articles of agreement, wich bao a ¢. Giles, b, Moe- 8 podcted (ey i short time, concluded tu the satis- : “ : ctlun of bow parties. Se NO OP 1 THE MATCH I$ 10 TAKE PLACE IN LONDON, wb. Mar 3 | at the Weiss Harp, Hendon, where the Vaptain 0 notout. @ | nas already sho', on next Mouday week, the 2d of August. It wul be for \ H TWO HUNDRED POUNDS A SIDE, AT TWENTY-ONE ; 7 YARDS & Byes, 6; leg byes 8... 7) risa, It has been decided to shoot at.100 bird tal. ee. . 44 Total, 6) | With one ounce short, aud each man ts to find DL RUNS SCORED AT THE FALL OF RA Abd [rap aud bandie against nis age 2 Bow ings. lst, id. 8d, Ath, Oth. Gh. 70h. BU. WA. IO. | Life rules are to ve udnered to, with some Sigal Fo | Modifications; and Mr. Ed, Smith, of that journal, | Was, by consent of the contracting parties, ap- | pointed reieree. made to-day, and the remaining £160 from eucn pary 1 to be at Hell's Life ottice on Thursday mnorbing next, Tuts will, probably, be one of tue most sensational pigeon shooting matcnes that has yet taken place iy tne metropolis. 28 2 Hostord and W. Brewster, ext there will ve two cricket | 3 On Tharsday 0 Hovoken, between tne St. | matene: George's anu Staten 1s and Ulubs, and the other at SHAW, roBpect Park, betw the Prospect Park amd | asIhave said, is a capital shot at the distance; teison Uluos, i, 1D fact, about the pest araiesaional slut Dorie steady hand pernaps we had better biame their | @ good name nor the sport practised on tt. | Pigeon shooting, which in any other place in Eng- | In the sweepstake | Tae toss was won by the Park Club, | tween digereut men respecting their acquaint. | ther in one | Y. what the Cap- | A deposit of £60 a side aus been | ofthe Thames, and Captain Bogardas will yam- quish a good man if he vests him, as he certainly suould, and I feel wili, do. The Manchester mem Wiil be iu greatiorce atthe Weish Harpon the day of the maten, Already they have mage their representative a hot javorite, and one man offered to bet any Londoner could take the odds on the fround to-day against the Captain for three ours, This clearly shows how they will support their man, TLE SHOO The proceedings commenc to-day with @ sWeepstake of Ove virds at Cwenty-one yards rise, in winch Captain Boyaraus snot, The shoowlng throughout Was yood, Bo le=s than twelve of those eutered killing ail their birds, walca, by the way. were axceeaingly bad ones. Sain Siaw was in this competition .and killed all his birds, as aid also the Captain, The Captain then gave his ex- hibition maten, commencing With the feat of Kill- ing twenty-five biras in four minutes, In this at tempt Bogardus surpassed most of nis jormer ef forts 1p this direction, KILJING TWENTY-SEVEN BIRDS IN TWO MINUTES D: FIVTY-FIVE SECONDS. The score stood as follows:—1 0, 10, 114, 14 See Doh £% OR FR 3%, DRY 2m.’ 553, A SCARCITY OF BIRDS brought the proceedings to a premature conelu- sion at tis pomt of the programme. Oniy five birds remained or the performance of grassing twenty-five birds out of thirty. eight ‘rom the spring \raps, and those the Captain killed wituout any dificulty. Refer- ring back to the great match, it may be as well to say that Captain Bogardus has been VERY DISCREET, both in his choice of ground and referee, Had hé Agreed to shoot at Manchester, as the local spirita wanted him to,! snould quake, not only for bis chances Of success, but lis chance even Of fair play. From what | saw of the “sweet creatures”? the ground to-day 1 faney his chances of vot Would be very remote. ‘the stake is tue highest the Captain has yet shot for in Eurupe, and ui he should succeed in lowering the colors of his ad- versary it will put an end, no doubt, to the moutking pretenders with whom he has been 4 good deat bothered, wotie it will favor t inter a paapat champiousaip match whick I spoke aboul THE AMERICAN MARKSMAN IN SHEFFIELD—FROM THE COPON CENTRE TO THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE CUTLERS—AN EXHIBITION MATCH AMONG THE HARDWARE w™® SHEFFIELD, July 22, 1875. From Manchester to Sheflield is ashort but by no means the unpicturesque journey which some people would imagine It to be, The route of rall- road les through @ country that possesses a natural grandeur, and even beauty in some parts, with which one cannot fail to be struck, coming, as he does, from the murkioess and general sma Upese of the cottontown. The outline of the land+ pe is very boldly marked on all sides, Here hill towers its lofty crest untli its summit Js lost in thé encircling mist, which, On account of the la} humidity of the weather, hangs about the country. Agaio, we traverse @ moor, whose appearance would betoken a good thing for sportsmen oa the advent of the glorious 12th of August. Indeed, our gfide, phitosopser ana friend, in the shape of a genial Englishman, wnose name ts not unknewn in pigeon shooting circles (and who remarks tbat he never sees a level twenty-acre grass Neid withont thinking that it would a good deal more beautiful with five traps in ty), informa us that THERE ARE PLENTY OF GROUSE ABOUT, and that when tne i@wiul day arrives grouse driving on these Lancashire moors affords capital although at times somewhat rough sport. Fox hunting, too, is enthusiastically followedin the winter months by the patrons of the sport in the neighborhood, iskould imagine that that would be pretty rough work too, to judge from the character of the country, The hills are steep enough in all conscience for a good rua, but what? it appears to us, would bring iu a little of the dan- | gerouS element into fox hunting about hera Would be those formidable looking stone walls. ‘They dou’t believe im fences avout Lancashire and Derby. They divide their land by ‘dykes’ o1 stone walls, five feet in height to all appearance, | obstructions whicn would test the mettle of a good welgnt carrier, and the pluck of its rider nota littie. Tae country about these paris, like the towns, has a prosperous jook aboutit, The | farmers seem co have got their hay safely housed— more than their brewuren in the south have—and judging from the verdant appearance of thé pasturage, the aftermath will afford some good feeding forthe young stock. But we linger on the way. Going atthe rate of about torty miles an hour soon brings us to Sheffield, or at all events its smoke, for that 18 the first indication we Pave that we are near the town. AND IT 13 SMOKE, TOO! Thousands o! chimneys are throwing out a pe- cullariy thick, sooty-plack vapor, which, to our thinking, must render tae town everlastingly | dark and dirty, There 1s no mistake about suct | smoke a3 this, What with the scorla heaps we pass as We approach nearer to SueMicla, the un- ceasing clash of bammers and the smoke driven | into our jaces, we don’t feel as if the town would | offer very great advantages for pigeon shooting, Why, it would be impossible to sce a pigeon alter it bad left the trap amid such an atmosphere that we see hovering over the town, This is what we think and what turns out to be agreat mis- take. Atlas the raliway station 13 reached, and we descend to tue town, which is situated in a | vast valley and surrounded on all sides by hills of | great height. How agreeably we are mistaken | { | about the atmosphere of the piace! It’ 1s cer tainly not as pure as that ofvhe metropolis, where | everybody is ebiiged to consume thelr own smoke, | but of cownright Impurities we can detect litt! or none. ‘the sun even shines with a orl haney which could bardly be expected of it, considering What it hak to peneirate velore its | ays eventually show themselves in tue streets of ShefMleia, and we @iscover to our infinite deignt | that io Sheffield they are a goou deal more po.ite | anda good deal more Iriendiy than the poopie we | met at Manchester, Lac Shefilcid workingman, tnougn like wis consrére in Manchester, ts a sport | ing man tirst and a man of labor alterward—toat | is tosay, he devotes more time to ivid amuse ments inau be Goes [tO the anxieties of tae work. suop. It may be asked, | HOW DO THE SHKPPIKLDERS AMUSE | MORE THAN THEY WORK | The answer is simple. lam toid that with the Speffleid nardware worker Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays ure ‘oll days; tney do no work ‘Whatever on taese'days. If tuere 15 a dog cours. ing maten to be decided they flock to the ground | Waere the mateh is to come off in great numbers, not 1or the mere sake Oi seeing the Contest, bat ia | order to stake their sovereign on tue dog of | ther fancy, The excitemens (oat prevails over | the result of a single maven of this description is sometimes Intense, sud &@ good deal of money changes hands. ‘The proprietor of one of the run- ning grounds inforined me to-day that in asingle day, aoa buls he Veuched for a5 a fact, as much & | £20,000 “changes hauas”’ over four or five contests. ‘This 18 suilicient (Co shaw bow Keen 1s (he spirit of speculation umoug tu®se workiogmen. And it if ai ready money betting. Externaily iney are | ROUGH CLAD, SOUTY*LOUKING CREATURES, | but moss of tiem carry their roll of bank notes | and a fui of loose gold. ‘I's sort of thing | continues uutl! Wednesday, wheu the grinder | begin to think of work, Tuursday, Friday ana hall | of Saturday are thea devoted to manual lavor— reui, good, tard, Continuous Work—and sv good are the Wajres earned in this snort time that many | men draw n» less than £5 0n the Satarday after- | noon for their labor, Ia fact, the Snefleld work- | man evidently seems determiuea to enjoy Ive | while it lasts, and cis he dues to his own satisiaee | ton, while itis to be presumed tuat bis Wife ana | family are none the worse off for the protracted period Of leisure he Loduiges in, GAPTAIN BOGARDUS WaS DISAPPOINTED to-day With his audience ut the Queeu’s Running | Grouud, woere he nad adverssed bis exhibition mutch to come of. THE WEATHER WAS IN EVERY SENSE FAVO! but tue spectators were lew, in consequeu it turned out, of a raco meeting being held at Pontefract, | ‘The ground waere his match was to come off is situa In a piedsant neighdorhood eust Of the town. itis a splendid piece of track lor runoing or pigeon shooting, and the Paptaln seemed to like 1t much. | THE PROCEEDINGS COMMENCED with a sweepstuke, which the Vapltain won with. | ont firing three shots, the others mostly missing | either their firator second bird. Alver this, the | Captain vaving, in view of the jiuuted number of | peuple present, agreed fo postpone his exuibition jnaten to some Osher day, theré was a good deal Ol talk about the pigeoo shooting of the nelgnbor ocd. z One gentieman, & considerable lande4 proprie tor near Shefileid and @ juir shot, has challenged tain to shout with tim w 4 MATCH FOR TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS, at thirty virds, twenty-one yaras rise, to take piace in Aday or two. It will be seen, therefore, irom woat have already said about the matcnes ‘he Captain has to shout tiat he has his work cut | oot for him bvejore he taxes his ceparture for America. He has put out a chullenge to SHOUT ANY MAN IN SIHPYIRLD AND NEIGHBORHOOD mn FOR ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, ‘and he expects twat the chalienge will be bee Up bY Obe Of the Tany good shots that abound tue district, THEMSELVES ? ‘The few PRACTICE SHOTS which she Captain lirea to-asy he accomplished tn tne style, so thateverything seems in vis faver for his big match With tie Manchester mau, In |, ShemMeid ncaa ato lay at MA £2 Sie 1 odds ate 7 by seven birds,