Wallace Miller's Shooting Tour a Big Success

Wallace Miller, who has been touring the state on an exhibition shooting tour, will be at home this week. He will give an exhibition shoot at Smithville today, and at Bastrop tomorrow, and then come home. While he was in Cuero the Cuero Record had the following to say of him:

"Wallace Miller of Austin, one of the champion shots of Texas, and one of the best in the United States, did some fancy shooting in Cuero yesterday that greatly amused the several spectators assembled to see him. He uses a Winchester repeating gun, made by the Winchester Repeating Arms company, which company he represents, and if buyers were assured they would become as expert with the guns as he is, to a certainty he would experience no difficulty in selling lots of them. Mr. Miller has the distinction of being one of the five out of a hundred and twenty-eight expert shots who entered a tournament in Chicago last summer, killing twenty-five birds straight, and has the reputation of being one of the best fancy shots anywhere in the country.

"Among other fancy shooting yesterday he placed an oyster can several yards away; shot in the ground near it, knocking it into the air some six feet, then shot and hit it three times before it struck the ground. He then laid his gun across his right foot, took a clay pigeon in each hand, threw them up simultaneously, tossed his gun up with his foot, grasped it and shot both birds before they struck the ground.

"He threw an empty shell out of his gun to a forward position, stepped backward and shot, striking it before it struck the ground. Then he asked a friend to toss up two birds at the same time, which he broke. Then three, then four, then five. The rapidity with which he had to shoot when the five were thrown up was something remarkable, but he broke a clay pigeon each shot and astonished the crowd. A body would have to see his shooting to fully appreciate it."