DECEMBER 31, 1919
PAGE ELEVEN
(Continued from Page Sips)
pHpermen to shoot 100 shots against her.
Only one of them tried it.
Tie unbended himself and hit 18 out
of tlie possible 100. And he was an ex-
IMatteb’irsc Lieiitenant, too. Then the
fjirl took the same rifle. By the time
slie had clipped the bull’s eye 80 times
out of her first 90 or so shots, the news-
papcM'iiian found ho very much wanted to
see ilie baseball game bctAveeii the Ma-
riiiOM and the Sailors down by the M.
C. A. hut.
A feAv of the girls and the ex-loouy
went at it again. She beat him then, too,
but only last Saturday she was saying
he coubl make an average of 80 now,
;iii(l that she thought it high time for
li(‘r to get out and do a little practicing
on lu r OAvn hook.
Tiiat is the way rifle shooting gets
yon. In this case, of course, the news-
pajK’rmiMi had liad ndlitai^y tiraining.
lie hail Avon a, Croix de Guerre at St.
Mihiel among other things, but his actual
experience in rifle sliooting had not been
('xttMisive. He had l>een too hard pressed
for time during those hectic months at
l’latts’)urg, and after that found more
jiourishmcnt in becoming trained as a
cootio snatcher than as a rifle expert.
IlMving misplaced the cooties, he is now
ready to give his entire attention to the
bull’s eye.
I>ut he is only one in a million. It is
( ertain that there are a million persons
in the country today who are becoming
i-ifle shot or trap shooting fanatics. You
can also get a good line on the progress
of any sport by the space given it in the
daily pa])ors. There was a time when
only one New York paper carried a col-
lunn of shooting news. Today, even
Grant Hice finds room in which to make
blood-stirring comment on the game.
Out in Chicago there is a chap who is
72 years old and wiio can hit anything
with a shot gun with his eyes closed. In
l’iiilad(*lphia there is an eight year old
gill who tosses back lier flaxen curl's,
gtabs a. rifle and does tricks with it regu
larly, and over in Brooklyn there is old
Louis de Casanova who is sporting writer
writer and Avho confines his attention in
a literary way to shooting. He takes
almost as many prizes with his writing as
he does with his gun, for, in spare time,
he wins cup shoots with deadly regularity.
The old man and Louis are real fans.
They have never known anything else,
and now they are being joined by a
great many others who are as violent as
they are.
Perhaps it Avas the Avar. Perhaps it
A\a,s the spirit of preparedness that swept
over the land. It might even be William
J. Tiryan who caused it. And why
William, you ask? Don’t you remember
his assertion that in case of war there
would be an army of Americans spring
up over night ready to do battle And
Avhat, pray, Avould they use to do battle
Avith if they couTdn’t shoot? Pitchforks
and pens? No, Americans have^ never
liked the idea of making a liar out of a
national statesman if it could be avoided,
so j)erliaps Americans are learning to
shoot to keep the Nebraskan’s record
pure and sweet.
Whatever has caused the rise in the
tide, it is certain it is engulfing us with
a very pleasant surf. We are reverting
to the time of Daniel Boone and Davey
Crockett. It would seem to be probable
that the day may come when the first re
quisite necessary to the search for eternal
happiness is the shooting ability. Can^t
you picture the coy damsel of tomorrow
as she hears the ardent SAvain assert he
joA^es her and can’t you see her as she
asks, “can you shoot?”
Pinehurst, you may be sure, has always
T)ceu in the front rank in the shooting
game. The midAvinter tournaments have
l)een institutions there. Yet Pinehurst
isn’t alone any more. Sea Girt, Chicago,
Westlake, CaldAA'ell, Westbury—yes, and
eA’en our oaau Ncav York Traver’s Island
are putting on shoots that merely prove
the contention that the game is coming
along apace.
As I said before, everybody knows
Annie Oakley. Down in Pinehurst, it
Avould seem, everybody knoAvs her pretty
Avell. But because she is so good with a
gun is no reason Avhy the rest of us
shouldn’t try to qual her marks. As Mr.
Dempsey remarked AAiien he heard Mr.
Willard Avas about ready to commenca
the former’s total demolition, “Bring
him on. Let’s go.”
WALL STREET NEWS
By Ilornhlowcr & Weeks
Confining one’s opinion of the market
to its actual performances we find that
20 industrial stocks did not quite go
thru the high of the first December re
covery and that, therefore, we are not
yet out of the trading area. Neverthe
less, the recovery since the curmination
of the Dec. liquidation which may fairly
be said to have stopped when the indus
trial average doubled bottom on Dec.
12th, which has been sufficient to in
dicate two reasonable probabilities:
First, that the big reaction which
started Nov. 3rd has definitely ended
and that even in February when we ex
pect a sagging movement to around
previous Ioavs, the market on a whole
should not go thru those points and,
Secondly, that there is sufficient pur
chasing power in the market to warrant
the expectation of at least a normal
performance before this January rise is
completed; namely, the recovery of at
least one-half the ground that was lost
from November 3rd to recent lows.
We cannot see that the neAVS is against
a recovery logical upon technical condi
tions alone. The last time a deficit was
reported by New York banks was ex
actly three months ago and the market
advanced on an average of 4 points the
folloAving week, beginning the last phase
of the fall rally. We look for a similar
result this time because cash is flowing
from the banks to the interior and the
improvement in the Federal Reserve
Bank position more than offset the loss
of condition in the member bank state
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