Show REMARKABLE PISTOL SHOOTING Tho Performances of Gcorco Saudo nod Gcorso Bird IVbo 15cat Him At tho tourney held in Paris during the exposition George Naude of Paris was awarded first prize for a six shot score with I revolver on the new French target Naudos J record was a great one Ho had ono shot in tho bulls eyo near tho edge of the inner 1 circle two shots on tho edge of tho circle I ono above tho diameter line and ono below it J two other shots were bunched nt tint ili I c amcter lines half on tho S circle and half on the outer circle of time black bulls eye and the sixth shot half in the 7 circle and half in thin 8 The target was llj inches in diameter and was set nt a distance of 83 yards from tho marksman This was considered remarkable remark-able shooting and bets were freely made that no one would equal it for somo time The bulls oyo cut hero given is a facsimilo S of tho center s6e tion of tIme target 0 on which George 0 Bird tho young S h crack of tho Kil dare Hunting club ht and tho Calumet clnbnot only equaled equal-ed tho score of Naude but surpassed surpass-ed it This achievement THE TARGET achieve-ment is tho moro remarkable from the fact that the target was ouofourth the size of tho original French target tar-get used by Naude Mr Bird bunched his six shots as shown in the cut while another marksman a few feet away was banging at another kind of targot Mr Bird used the Smith Wesson Frontier Fron-tier 44caliber revolver with a Russian model shell loaded with six grains of powder and a round ball It is safe to say that this last record will not bo disturbed for awhile unless Mr Bird attempts to outshoot himself The Increase of lincins In 1SJ there were run on tho flat 1100 races and in liSt the number of races of the same character had risen to 4S48 During the same period the money raced for had undergone un-dergone tho same phenomenal increase In 1S79 the total I1Inount of money including iiir dividual expenses to owners of horses dui voted to this object was SOSC37 while in 1SS9 it reached 2379192 A single racing association devoted S9212 a day for twenty days to tho sport another spent for iLl days 2000 a day Now York and Brooklyn clubs disbursed l4129jO in support of the sport Sido by side with this growth of tho popular amusement tho price of horco flash has increased and whereas I 2000 was at onojtimo a good stiff price for a racer Co000 is now paid ungrudgingly I |