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THE AMERICAN FIELD

NOTES.

The Grand Duke Michael of Russia, who, rumor says, has visited England to find a wife from among the daughters of the Prince of Wales, is in his own country a generous patron of everything connected with sport. Recently he requested Miss Annie Oakley to allow him to enter into competition with her at the Wild West Show, which request she granted. An English journal, referring to the contest, says that "although the Prince made a fairly good score, it showed but poorly in comparison with that of his fair competitor, and he retired from the contest abashed, but firmly convinced of the superiority of American markswomen over Russian amateur lady-shots."