SHOOTING.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2244, 11 June 1881, Page 3

SHOOTING.

CAPTAIN BOGAEDUS AND HIS SONS, During the past week Captain A. H. Bogardus, the famed champion wing shot of the world, and his four sons, gave a series of most interesting exhibitions of their wonderful skill in the use of firearms. The marvellous precision with which the captain handles the shot-gun is too well known tot need any comment, but the boys are not known as yet, and, as their achievements are rivalled only by the astounding feats of their father, a brief synopsis of their remarkable performances will be of interest. First it should be stated that these exhibitions are especially arranged with a view to afford ladies and children an opportunity of wit. nessing the marvels of skill, nerve, and courage acquired, and every shot is therefore carefully explained, and, as the powder used is especially made for this exhibition shooting, the noise is reduced to a minimum, and there is no smoke whatever. Suffice to say that the attendance of ladies has been very large, and their enthusiasm over the exploits of this remarkable family of champions, was, if anything, more demonstrative in its way than that of the sterner sex. The programme of Eugene Bogardus, who holds the champion medal at rifle shooting, consists of two parts. The first is shooting at stationary objects in the most odd and difficult positions, while the second part embraces the firing at moving objects, and rapid firing. Glass balls, silver half dollars, quarters, even nickels and common marbles thrown in the air are hit with such rapidity and accuracy as to evoke the most enthusiastic marks of approval. The next feature is the shooting of the little fellows, Eugene being excluded from this party, having, although only fifteen years of age, outgrown his claim to the title of little fellow, and the possession of the medal emblematic of the championship has also something to do with his ambition to make the creditable half of a pair with his famous sire. The little follows proper, then, Edward, aged 10 ; Peter, aged 7; and Henry—or, as ho is better known, A. H., jun.—aged 5, follow Eugene in an exhibition which provokes unbounded expressions of admiration and merriment, the smallest of them especially eliciting rounds of applause, which might bo envied by the most famous of stars. The businesslike air, nerve, and precision of this little five-year-old are more than the coldest nature could resist, and hie little bow and kiss thrown to the admiring crowds at the close of his part of the entertainment hit the bull’s-eye of public favour every time. With unerring aim the little chaps shoot at the target, at glass balls suspended, and also at small objects held in the Captain’s fingers. The Captain in turn knocks the ashes from a cigar held in the mouth of his son Eugene, snuffs a small candle held in the fingers of Edward, and shoots peanuts srom the fingers of all of them, concluding the exhibition with a brilliant display of trapshooting, illustrating in on highly interesting manner how it was possible for him to accomplish the tremendous feats accredited to him, a performance in which the ladies especially appear to take the deepest interest, as they read of these marvellous achievements, but rarely find an opportunity to witness them. — “ The Chicago Inter Ooea December 4th.