Walter Winans, an outstanding shot and well known horse breeder, died in August 1920 of heart failure while driving in a trotting match at Parsloe Park in Essex. Son of Mr William L. Winans of Baltimore U.S.A., he was born and educated at Petrograd (St. Petersburg) but possessed of considerable wealth he spent the greater part of his life in England and on the Continent. Endowed with wonderful eyesight he first came to public notice as an expert rifle and revolver shot. In 1889 at the N.R.A. meeting on Wimbledon Common he made sixteen bull's-eyes in succession in a revolver competition and in the 1920 N.R.A. meeting at Bisley he made a highest possible score on the running-deer range. With rifle or revolver, either on the range or stalking deer or big game, he was probably the finest shot of his day. Relishing skilled marksmanship at a quickly moving quarry he incurred severe censure amongst some fellow sportsmen by indulging the ancient practice of deer driving when in Scotland. He had a large stud farm and stable at Vienna, but also maintained connections with the country of his birth, for besides being a Chevalier of the Imperial Order of St. Stanislas of Russia, he was also a member of the Imperial St. Petersburg Yacht Club. Winans was an accomplished linguist and sculptor and in addition wrote several books on revolver and rifle shooting, as well as on deer breeding