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Show I THRILLING FEATS OF MASTER MARKSMANSHIP I 1 BREAKWO FIVE CIiAr TABOET9 IN AIR, T Alt OCT TIII10WN IV AII1 WITH ONE HAND iBI H SIIOOTINO AUTO-LOADINd SHOTGUN HOT. A DOUBLE SHOT WITH DOCULK MUIII01I8. lUKLK Ill'INO Bl'UN F1IOJI "Kltl'VNUICul Bnr.AKI.NO "RTIIAIOMTAWAY" TAliaETH , fH T" BII1E Uf- IMU TO SUOOTI.NOl-QSinOS. BUOOTINO WITH BIOHT 01I8CU1WD. WITHUWHWWKIUIIW.il lmEAK,N0 TWO TAIIORH AT SAUK TIME. B I Wizardry of Rush Razee, Who Has I Made Modern Fancy Shooting I One of the World's Wonders. By RU8SELL Q. FOWLER. Rm ' Tjsn nAZEE-s i. fancy -work Bwfi) H with any kind VS1 wm H of firearm makes 22 bilker Ctrtridie, just as sure and ex- ftffif ,Sj3 1 citing an Impression sbot with snt Kim on everybody who fchi. RcieMoi a... H watches It as that mado on tho base-H base-H ball fan by tho easy skill with which H Ty Cobb handles.a bat. In tills sense H Razee Is tho Ty Cobb of tho shooting H game, but ho has somewhat tho nd-H nd-H antago over tho ball player. Ilazco H never strikes out. If you miss an op-H op-H portunlty to sco him perform his won-H won-H derful feats of marksmanship, all I H can say Is. It will bo your own loss. Ho H certainly deserves the title by which H he is known today tho world's chnrn-H chnrn-H p!on funcy shooter. H Take tho simplest 'cat. Watch Ita- H zee as he gathers live clny birds In his H hand and hurls them nwny from him. They are rather heavy objects to H throw, nnd It li ltiipotlllt 'or the H shooter to lesaln III poise before llr-H llr-H Ins. 11c whips his gun to his shoulder, H sud-b.in'.'I-one bird Is dead. Hut It L bCetns a If the other four would alight snfely. Bang! Three birds still In tho air. Bang! Two left. As you stand there you thluk throe out, of five Is great work, but you notlco thnt the marksman shows no sign of quitting. Bang! A hit. You hold your breath. Bang! All dead. It Is live out of live with an ease and a precision that put Ty Cobb's batting Into the shadow, and I'm a baseball fan myself. If Itazee by any mischance breaks two targets at ono shot ho rectlUes the "failure" by starting over again, which Is "about onco In a hundred years." as the fellow fel-low says. Ono of his double-target shots Is made with 44 caliber revolvers. Pise-lng Pise-lng two targets about twenty-live feet away and twenty feet apart, ho hits them at the same time, holding both guns upside down. Mote dllllcult work Is seen when he sights one of tho guns by means of 11 mirror, the other ie-mnlnlng ie-mnlnlng Inverted. You may get some Idea of how dllllcult this mirror sighting sight-ing Is if you will stand before n looking look-ing glass nnd try to touch a certain button on your vest or a certain spot on your clothing, guiding your hand solely by your Image as seen In the mirror. What Itazee says Is the hardest mirror mir-ror shot of all Is sighting two revolvers by ono mirror, one gun upside down, nnd hitting two targets at the samo tlmo. Mirrors also are used In "doubles" "dou-bles" nnd "triples." In the latter case one mirror Is under tho shooter's enp visor, the second Is held in his hand, m mid tho thlul is ll.ed In position back of the hammer. To a spectator like myself nil of Itn zee's stunts aro equally Interesting und wonderful, though I suppose they nre really of various degrees of dllllculty. Itazee Is certainly quite at home with any kind of firearm fitloT shotgun, revolver, re-volver, pistol. Ho knows the whole family. Almost anything 11 boy's smallest marble, an orange, n walnut. 11 saucer will do for n target. In many cases tho marksman uses several targets tar-gets of different kinds, the regulation kind, and, It might nlmost be said, whatever tho grocer happens to havo handy. Even when Itazeo Is sighting with mirrors thero may bo moving as well ns stationary targets. lie sights a revolver with two mirrors und lilts n swinging target, and In the shots mado with the rifle or shotgun ho usually usu-ally throws the targets into tho air himself. Talk about thrills! Bazco has been known to Bhoot four cigarettes from between a man's lingers, twenty feet nwny, nnd knock tho ashes from tho end of a clgnr held In the smoker's mo ith. lie docs that with n small-boio small-boio rifle. It makes you tbUik of Wll- Ham Tell. A friend of mine, nfter" seeing see-ing Itnzec furnish cntcitultimcnt at 11 shooting tournament, wioto me: "01-1II0 "01-1II0 l.nwieuce held a card edgewise In his hand, and Itazee. at 11 distance of fifteen feet, split It In two the first shot, using a revolver and sighting with a mirror. It made my hair stand on end, but Ollle acted as If It wero 11 common, eer,dny matter." With a i2 caliber rljle Itazeo shoots dime nnd eoppers tossed Into the air. or he bioaks small metal rings, or he ejects n IT.' short cartridge from the chamber and before It reaches the ground hits It with a shot from the same 1 Hie. What elso? Oh. lie covets up the sights and "doubles" 011 sm.ill potatoes. Potatoes? Yes. and smash es 'marbles Into powder. With the sights stllj obstructed he makes a sieve out of a tomato can. Itemember. these nre all Hying targets. Ono of Hazee's illuming stunts Is to roll 11 tomato can urouuil on tho ground, trundling It along with carefully placed shots, tho rifle being held upside down. Next he takes from his array of 'Itemlugtons a :." caliber auto-lo.idlug rltle and tosses up a tiny marble, which, hardly llble before the shot, suddenly vanishes Into space when struck by the ton blow which the trigger trig-ger releiiM-s. The mushrooming qualities quali-ties of the soft-point bullet are shown in several ways. When an oiauge Is lilt by a soft-point nothing Is left but the aroma. A can of tomatoes simply disappears. An ordinary bullet make 11 very small hole In 11 cake of soap. whereas a soft-point mushrooms nnd makes a hole of more deadly appear-anco. appear-anco. But don't forget that this "ordinary "or-dinary bullet" goes clear through on ox blade with apparently no trouble nt all. Using on uuto-londlng shotgun upside down, ltii7oc breaks three dying targets tar-gets and. turning the gun over, breaks the remaining two of the five taigets thrown." Again, he throws two targets, tar-gets, bleaks one, then faces about and breaks the other. He "doubles" from his left shoulder and then hits a third target, shooting this one from his right shoulder. How quickly Itazee works Is tdiown throughout the whole of his novel lepertorj, f He throws a clny target, takes a shell from his pocket, puts It Into his pump gun and breaks the target. Ho ejects two empty shells and hits both with separate shots. With an empty in thu chamber ho throws two targets Into the air. ejects the empty, hits ono target, then the empty, then tho other target. Ho throws two targets, breaking one with the pump gun and tho other with the outo-loader. He ejects an empty from tho pump gun. lays the gun aside and with the auto-loader lilts the empty. My enumeration of Itazeo's shooting accomplishments Is neither exhaustive nor adequate, and It Is worth remembering remem-bering that there nre at least a score of his bewildering feats that no other fancy shooter even attempts, Itazeo says that In his early days "the days of real sport" ho was no precocious marksman. Llko many otli- er boys, ho had n 'J2 caliber rifle, with HH which he used to shout groundhogs (or H Vtoodchucks, If you preferi. Sometimes H he would throw small objects Into thu jHI air for targets It was only a few fll jears ago, however, that he began spe- Sl elalllng In maiksmaushlp. At that n'l time ho was 11 mechanical engineer. In fjlfl ehaige of mining work hi the lllaek flH Hills of North Dakota. His home now tall I In Curtis, Neb. Perhaps thu mine HH fact that he Is a Westerner has some- BH thing to do with his cleverness in the 11 handling of llieaims. BH Besides Itazee, several other famous UH shooters of today ore Western men. jBI George W. .Maxwell, tho one-armed lEjl marksman, who ranks with the world's Ul foremost trap shooters, is 11 Nebraskan. nl J. W. Aland, who broko 10,000 clay 'iH targets without 11 miss, lives In tho 11 strikingly named Missouri town of m! Fair Play. 'Ifl Itazeo Is nothing If not original and 1 inventive. Ho uses two weapons slmul- tnncously, or ho inverts his weapons, lil or ho covers up tho sights, or he nlms ill by tho use of mirrors. Hard enough, al any one of theso stunts, you may say, Bl but It Is when ho mixes up such cle- Hl ments of dllllculty nnd, ns a sporting ftl writer said, "Invariably makes .good" Rill that you wonder If tho controlling lo- Ijtll vcr ot your Imagination has slipped. IIH You run your hand suspiciously over IH your bump of credulity. Wizardry or 1 only supcrlntlvo expertness? Thnt is I'l ' 11 question which you had better dc- MH cldo for yourself nfter you havo seen 91 tho master marksman In action. Ifl |