Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-02-03 | Page 2 | Some Clever Marksmen

SOME CLEVER MASKS MEN. Every one is familiar with the "William "Wil-liam Tell" act, which is so popular among men vho do fancy shooting; but no feat coms up to one with which a I'renchman, M. Gaston Bordeverry. has been amustngr Tarls. Taking several sev-eral repeating carbines, and standing ten yards from a piano, he playd, or, to be more correct, he "shoots" a complicated compli-cated selection from "CavaJlerla Rus-ticana." Rus-ticana." A quartette sings the accompanying accom-panying words and the music is concluded con-cluded In excellent time, with rcarcely a urcng note. The piano has. of course, been especially armored to stand this unusual thumping. fapt. Hardy, a six-foot cowboy, recently re-cently gave a lemaxkable exhibition of his oklll in shooting before the Lincoln (Neb. Gun club. Giving one of the State celebrities a handful of hickory nuta. Hardy asked him to throw them Into the air as fast as he could. Wot a single nut escaped the builfts. Five-cent Five-cent r-ieces thrown fifteen feet into the air never cam back. Through a card held at arm's length the cowboy sent five bullets as fast as they could be ilred. Every shot had piin-if't through a rinfc the size of a quarter drawn on the card. But the most thrilling feat followed. Half a dosen hatel nuts were stuck on skewcrt and placml In the form of a h;f. urcle around a man's head. Then, at a distance of twenty races. In the fpace of only ten seconds, sec-onds, six shots were fired. Every nut had been removed In succession, and when the skewers were examine.! It was found that they were the sann length, showing that Hardy had- hit each nut hqtartly in the middle.