Show HANDY WITH A GUN The EcmarkJiMc Feats of a Girl Witu a Eiflc Miss Lilian F Smith who styles herself her-self the California Girl Champion Rifle Shot of the World gave a remarkablj interesting exhibition of her I wonderful skill and unerring precision with the rifle yesterday in Eintracht Hall I on Post street near Stockton Around the wooden figure of a deer suspended in midair a number of glass balls were attached wires Miss Jilian by with a sevenpound Ballard rifle carrying a 22 calibre cartridge broke ball after ball at a distance of thirtythree feet with unfailing unfail-ing aim firing both from the right and left shoulder shooting with the rifle held upside down and backwards over the shoulder sighting sight-ing with a handmirror These shots she repeated with the sights obscured bv a card in the muzzle of the rifle One of her most remarkable feats was the i breaking of a glass ball revolving on a wire cord in a horizontal circle with a radius of six feet This feat she also performed per-formed shooting backward using a hand mirror to sight with Ten glass balls were sprang from a trap with only a four foot rise and every one broken before they touched the floor Twenty balls were attached to the deer which was caused to swing and every one broken inside of a minute without a miss Two small balls no larger than a hazel nut shared the same fate and a nickel 5 cent piece concealed behind a card was perforated per-forated in the center This evening she will essay to beat this record by breaking 100 glass balls in a minute The attendance was not large but highly appreciative ap-preciative After the programme only a small portion of which is here mentioned had been completed Crittenden Robinson Robin-son the wellknown wing shot had acquired ac-quired such confidence in the accuracy of the aim of the young ladywho is really only a child of 14 years of age that he volunteered to hold the ace of clubs which he took from a pack ol cards inhis hand while she endeavored to perforate it and she justified his confidence by putting put-ting a ball clean through the centre of the ice spotSan Francisco Chronich |