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Creedmoor
and the
International Matches
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C.E. Blydenburg (c1855-?)
1877: Member of
the USA team at Creedmoor, USA.
Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper, 15 September 1877
"C.E. Blydenburg is the most distinguished rifleman of his years,
for he is not over twenty-two. He is a young man of liberal education,
having graduated at Columbia College Schoool of Mines, and is, therefore,
a civil and mining engineer by profession. But for his extreme youth
he might have been on last year's team, and this season he has won his
way into the charmed circle of representative riflemen in the face of
a field full of competitors. He shoots from the Fulton
position, and uses the same kind of rifle (Remington]. He wins his way
this year inot the team on a total of 1,169 out of a possible 1,350
points, a fine record, equal to the high average of 194 5-6."
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