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E. W.TERMSTh§ Rifle Ooateit.Some Interesting Particulars Regarding THE APPROAOHHTO INTBRNA-tionalRifle Match—The Person*NEL OF THE AMERICAN TRAM—CONDITIONS of tub Contest.The steamer City of Chester, which sailed from New York on Saturday last, j took out the American rifle team, which is to meet the Irish team in a friendly contest at Dublin in about a month. The match at Creedmoor last year was close and exciting, and the result was a victory for the Americans by a score of 934 out of a possible 1,080 points. The score of the Irish team was only three points less; and on tlie day following thematch the captain of the team addressed a letter to the American press returning his acknowledgments for the courteous treatment ho had received, and conveying to the American riflemen an invitation to a return match at Dublin in 1875. The invitation was promptly accepted in the friendly spirit in which it was offered by the President of the Amateur Rifle Club; and preparations were soon commenced for selecting a reprosenUve team and securing the funds necessary for amunition and the expenses of the journey. A very handsome sum was subscribed for these purposes; and fifteen marksmen entered for the four competitions which were arranged to decide on the American representatives.The team as finally selected were in the team of 1874, and four new ones.The latter are Henry Pulton, John Bodine, Henry A. G^dersleeve, Thomas S. Dakin and George W. Yale; and the latter are Roswell C. Coleman, Arden V. Canfield, Jr., Leslie G. Bruce andL. M* Ballard. Major Fulton served in the army with the 21st New York Cavalry, and spent several months in Libby Prison in 1804. After the close of the war lie, with liis regiment, was despatched to Colorado to fight tko Indians. He lias been accustomed to handle a rifle from boyhood. In 1873 he recorded the highest score ever made on the range up to that time—nineteen out of a possible twenty points. In the international contest lost year he was the bestscore—171 out of a possible 180 points. He uses a Remington rifle, and in shooting lies on his bock, resting his gun on the V formed by crossing the legs. Col. Henry A. Gddersleeve, the captain of the team, served iu the army with the1 KAH. VT iTi
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Brewster Standard
Brewster, New York, US
Fri, Jun 18, 1875
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