The pair closed down several shooting galleries that hung silver dollars from strings. At a price of ten cents per shot, the marksmen won the dollars whenever their bullets snapped the strings. They were so successful that, according to classmate John E. Meredith, “This was long the subject of conversation in the Wardrooms of the fleets.” As Meredith pointed out, the feat was mentioned in Heiberg’s entry in the 1908 Naval Academy yearbook.
