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THE RIFLE.

Yesterday's Work at the Range.

TWO INTERESTING MATCHES.

The Cody-Daniels Short Range Match

As was announced in a portion of our last
evening's edition of the Cody-Daniels rifle match
resulted in victory for the man from the Plains.
The contestants were Hon. Wm. F. Cody (Buffalo
Bill) and Mr. L. C. Daniels of Portland,
Me. The match was for $100 a side, ten shots
each, at 50 yards, off hand.

The match attracted considerable attention,
there being a crowd of several hundred people
at the range near the Lake at 2 1/3 o'clock P. M.
when the work was begun. Considerable
time was spent in practice shots and in arranging
the preliminaries, Each contestant
had a target to himself, a black surface three
feet square and a white bull's eye four inches
in diameter. The judges were Mr. Frank Wesson
of this city, for Daniels, and Mr. Ike P.
Austin for Cody, with Mr. G. W. Davidson of
Providence as stakeholder and referee.

The shooting was not remarkable, which is
accounted for by the chilly weather, and the
fact that both men used new Wesson rifles
with which they were not familiar. The score
in detail was as follows, in inches and sixteenths:

Shots. Cody. || Daniels.
1..................2- 8 || 2-11
2..................2- 6 || 3- 4
3..................0-13 || 1-11
4..................2- 8 || 0-11
5..................1- 0 || 0- 11
6..................1-10 || 5- 8
7..................3- 7 || 0-11
8..................2- 4 || 3- 15
9..................3- 3 || 3- 12
10................1- 1 || 0- 8

Totals...........20-12 || 23-6

Mr. Cody was declared the winner, his string
being 2 and 10-16th inches shorter than his competitor's.
A glance at the score will show that
Daniels made the four best shots of the day, but
he also made the three worst shots, which made
bad work with his average. The targets of the
two men are appended: -

CODY'S TARGET.

DANIELS'S TARGET.

A curious fact is made plain by these targets,
that Cody habitually shot too high, all but
two of his ten shots marking above the centre,
while Daniels erred in the opposite direction,
all but two of his shots being below the centre.