The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-26
DARK HORSE WINS
DUPONT TROPHY GOES 10 A FIRST
TIMER NAMED GILBERT.

He 10 m Iowa Man Who Kills HIS Twenty
Five Birds Straight Without the Culver
of an EyeIash and Thea Goes and has
His Picture Taken, Trophy and ALI
How Poor King Is Really Second In
Totals but Gets Nothing of
the shoot = Bicycle Races = General
Sporting News
Baltimore, Nd, Oct 2s-Fred Gilbert
dark horse in the race, who halls
from Spirit Lake. Ia, won the Dupont
cup, the wing championship OF the
world, and a fat purse in the pigeon
shooting tournament which came 10 an
end here this afternoon. IT is said Gil
bert never entered tournament before
in his life, but he shot like veteran.
thus repeating the performance OF j. c.
Messner of PittSourg, who won the
grand American handicap OF 1885. al
though it was his first tournament. Nc
Alester, the well known wing shot, who
formerly lived in Philadelphia, but now
lives in Baltimore, was Gilberts most
dangerous competitor, as no others than
these killed twenty-five straight birds
Captain Jack Brewer, the veteran New
Yorker, came very near IL, though. as
he did not fall down until the last bird
OF the twenty-five. Then he lost his tenn
per and missed his second bird in the
shoot off for third and fourth money
and got nothing.
When the shooters left off last night
twelve men had killed eleven straight
birds each, and as many more had bag
ged ten. The leaders We're Upson,,
Porterfield. Wiley, Coe, Wagner. Brew
er, Hayward (McAlester), Gilbert,
Clarke, Cooper, Millott and Schemeck.
Upon resuming this morning it was an
nounced that only those who had killed
ten birds would shoot, unless it happen
ed that all missed three birds, when the
tailenders might try it again. This
cut the list down materially and made
il possible TO finish the match today.
The day was bright and clear. with a
stiff wind that blew in gusts across the
field, making il a hard matter to hit a
bird if it flew with it. The pigeons did
not prove to be very lively today, how
ever, a large portion of them refusing
to rise at all at the fall Of the traps.
FOUR FIRSToMONEY MEN.
When each man had shot at his TWEEN
tistH Bird, but four we're IN the race for
first money. These were Gilbert, Coe,
Hayward and Brewer. Coe fell down
on his twenty-second. lively right
Brewer hung on until the twenty-fifth
bird was released and banged at il with
both barrels as it sailed quietly of 10
the right quarter Of the field. 1t was
such an easy one that the crowd was dis
posed to guy the captain little for miss
ing 1t, and when he got mad they laugh
ed at him. This LETT no one in it for
first money save Hayward" and the
smooth faced young man from Iowa
and 1T looked like a sure thing for the
man who once shot DR.. G. L. Knapp, in
Babylon, n. Y, for s., 900 side and won
it.
Something was wrong, however. and
he too, missed the second bird of the
i've that were to decide the champion
ship. Gilbert went right ahead with
his good shooting, killing the five
straight in magnificent shape and land
ing the trophy, the championship and
the money, in elegant syle. He was Wig
orousIy applauded and the trophy,
which is a handsome silver cup on a
stand of onyx, the whole valued at
$3.50, was handed to him, wfereupon he
went to an adjoining tent and had his
picture taken, trophy and all. Hay
ward got second money.
The men who killed twenty-four then
shot Off the ties for third money and
Wagner got 1t, fourth money going to
Coe. King had especially hard luck. as
after missing his first bird, which was
one of the most difficult during the
match, he killed twenty straight. In
the first tie he killed five straight, but
fell down on his first when the second
tie for third money was being shot Off
Thus he actually killed twenty-nine
straight, or only less than the new
champion, and does not get a cent of
the money.
SUMMARY OF THE SHOOT.
Dupont handicap for the Dupont