Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Ineptness With Equalizer Even Found Among Gangsters By BILLY ROSE Because I sometimes tote around more than two and because my house has demonstrated a tendency to get I have a license to carry a revolver and sometimes But I certainly hope I never get into a spot where I have to use I whether I could hit the back wall of a brewery if I were 20 feet avay And it isn't because I haven't practiced There's a makeshift pistol range of my house up at and over the years I guess I've used up enough ammunition to keep a small Balkan war But no matter how carefully I sight and squeeze the baby gun with the short I've never been able to do much more to the bulls-eye than glare at And two will get you 20 that most of the Dead eye Dicks you read about can't do much The U. S army CL W evidently agrees H with me about the difficulty in hand ling this tricky bit of mechanism Next time Rose you see newsreel of the kids who are doing the fighting in look closely and you'll see they're armed with rifles and Browning about the only place you'll see a six-gun will be in the bolster of a two-star 1 FIRST LEARNED that expert shooting with a revolver is more bull than bullseye when I moseyed down to Ft Worth 14 years ago to stage that city's centennial One of the 1 put The Last was a wild wt and the cast Included the best hoss hands in the business in hats who had won prize money in every rodeo from Pendleton to Madison Square I want ed to include an exhibition of pistol and as a charter member of the Zane Grey club I figured that almost any one of my bronco busters could pop a clay pipe out of a girl's mouth at 30 I figured There was no one in the cast who could hit the pipe without taking the mouth with and I wound up having to im port the national pistol champion a skinny kid from Brooklyn who learned marksmanship in a Island shooting This with tubal Damon used to call is et en mora torn-moH among the hoodlums of the many a but almost invariably the victim was m a motor and the rang couple o inches from the nape o his Whenever the corpse-lobe figured to if more a few feel the ers used sawed-off shotguns with a three-loot or which produced a spray like a garden A few years an ex-bootlegger now vice president of a national whiskey company told me a story about Al Capone which Illustrates my It seems Al was tipped off that one of his bodyguards playing with a so he threw a banquet for of his hired and after the feed made some complimentary remarks about the double-crosser and asked him to get up on the table and take a As the guest of honor was the hoodlums reached for their rods and let him have But when Capone-always the good bookkeeper counted the bullet he found only 20 in the carcass of the trig-germen had YEARS I used to haunt the street shooting and got so handy with a rifle that I could knock the dancing celluloid ball off the stream of water five times out of And I was plenty cocky about my marksmanship until one day when I went up to see Ben Hecht at his place in fei up with my big talk small suggested I shoot it out with Charlie the screen who was spending the weekend with got nothing against I said him will be a tomato can at 10 said you and can take turns with my 22 automatic We went out on the lawn and sighting hit the can two out of three I didn't even nick Last month while vacationing In I lunched with Hecht and reminded him of the debacle which ended my career as a might as well have been shooting 1 a matter of grinned |