LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE DECLINE OF RIFLE-SHOOTING.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:]
SIR,-I should feel grateful if you could find space for the following brief remarks respecting your article in the Spectator of September 30th, in which you deal with my paper in the September number of the Nineteenth Century on rifle-shooting. In the first place, the statement that at the recent international rifle match in Holland each competitor fired one hundred and twenty rounds in each of the three positions is not correct, as forty rounds were fired in each, exclusive of the practice shots. In the second place, you speak throughout the article of a decline of rifle-shooting in this country, and, in fact, you say that the article is written from that point of view. A pernsal of my paper will, I think, show you that I have not made use of this word once in the sense you attribute to it, for though my experience does not go back further than a quarter of a century or so, I think rifle-shooting was always a much neglected sport in this country. Of course I may be wrong, but that is cer- tainly my impression. I am very glad indeed that my humble attempt to awaken interest in it has found such general support in the Press.—I am, Sir, lac.,
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