A NEW RIVAL TO CARVER AND BOGARDUS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2242, 5 May 1881, Page 2

A NEW RIVAL TO CARVER AND BOGARDUS.

Otto, the wonderful marksman, the marvel sf the age, with whose amateur performances most of our military representatives are Familiar, says the San Francisco “ Sews Letter,” will, under the auspices of hie vainer and guardian, mate his professional iehiit at the State capital, under the immeiiato patronage of the G overnor and Executive heads of the State Departments. On this signal occasion he will display his wonderful proficiency, not alone in his insredible feats of marksmanship, but also in lie impressive and startling drill —which ;omprises both regulation and the difficult Zouave bayonet exorcise. This event will )e a memorable one for our sister city, and will doubtless be the means of attracting nany people from the surrounding places on .he occasion. Otto has already been the ecipient of marked attention from the beads if the National Government, including loncral Grant and Oarl Soliurz, Secretary of ho Interior. From the latter be was mnoured with an especial interview. He will oave shortly for Europe, with the gentleman 0 whose masterly skill and kindly offices he s now indebted for being unquestionably the est shot of the present century. Should iogardus, Carver, and Erb be unable to etain for America the world’s championship t glass ball and pigeon shooting, perhaps re can bring out Otto as a last resort. 1 San Francisco paper gave this account uf his performances some months ago in shooting at the paper figure of a man: “ A nickel flvo-oont. piece was glued to the figure, and the young sharpshooter, blindfolded, turned around in various directions and was finally placed in a direct lino of the object with a rifle minus a sight, and at a distance of some twenty-five feet. The first shot sent the nickel flying around the room, and os examination an indentation was found on its very edge. The second test consisted of placing a small piece of tinted paper on the glass used as an eye for the figure, and then piecing a piece of cardboard in front of and touching it so that it was completely hidden from view. The shooter was again blindfolded, and the first shot shattered the glass, the bullet having passed through the very centre of the tinted paper. There were were various other tests, such as breaking three swinging balls by one shot and breaking a ball placed immediately behind the attendant, the ball, owing to previous contact with the brass knobs or iron plates, taking a circuitous course. They couldn’t throw out Otto on the ground of hie not being a genuine American, Ho is the son of Chief Joseph, the Her Perce.