San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-10
THE TOURNAMENT.
WESTERN MAN WINS THE SILVER
CUP.
Today's Events are Sure Of Draw
ing a Big Crowd-A Sweep
stake for Sunday.

ing day of the big Midwinter
shooting tournament thus far, and
as the weather was so perfect,
quite a large attendance was on
hand from the city to watch the
shooters and sympathize with
them, when any one missed one or
two birds out of hundred. The
regularity with which all the
shooters break their clay saucers
is a source of general comment
and surprise.
The event of the day was the
con test for the E.. G. Powder COM
pany's trophy, a silver cup
and 500 added money. This
brought out the crack cracks
men, and there were twenty-one
entries. 1t was 60 at fifty birds
and soon 1t was seen that the con-
test was between Parmalee, Of
Omaha, and Redwing, of Cleveland,
Ohio. The Omaha man won after
a very close contest, by a score of
AZ to Redwing's As. Parmalee also
led in the average for the days
shooting with 95.8. Heikes and
Dickey tied in the average for sec
ond place, on 95.3.
There were seventeen events on
the program yesterday, and plenty
of high averages were made, and
good sport was the rule. On Sunday
afternoon the management has
added a grand sweepstake event,
which will be participated in by
all the shooters, who express them
selves as being 10th to leave San
Antonio now that they are here
and having so much fun.
This afternoon the interstate
team shoot will be the event Of the
day. This will be for one or more
teams of four each from each state,
so birds to man, with 500 added
to first place.
AMONG THE CRACKS.
Tom Keller, the Rapid man,
says his freak show has disbanded.
All the freaks except the bearded
ladies left the show. 1t is said,
without foundation, however, that
the company asked for their back
salary, and 80 Tom discharged
them and disbanded the show.
Frank Parmelee halls from Oma-
ha, Neb., and is known to all sports.
men of the west. Frank is quite a
character, and is a man of but few
thousand words. He is ever ready
to crack joke, il he has time, and
always enjoys one. Many a good
story is told of Parmelee, and he
Is the centre of all fun.loving
sportsmen whenever he attends a
tournament. AS a live pigeon shot
he stands very high, and killed
100 straight pigeons not long since.
He uses Greener gun, and shoots
American E. G. powder.
Among the Texans that attended
the thirty-seventh annual trap
shooting tournament of the New
York state association at Saratoga
Springs, n. Y, last June was the
lamented August Holzapfel, of
Cuero, one Of the best shots the
Lone Star state ever produced,
says paragraph in Sporting Life
of last July g.: Holzapfel, Miller
and Moore, the Texas sportsmen
who followed the circuit on to Sar-
atoga, are the right kind of men
to attend tournaments. They never
kick on anything, enter in every
event, and shoot good race right
through. Such men are welcome
wherever they go.
Jim Elliott attends all the shoot
ing events Of note throughout the
country. He has won some of the
best prizes offered for pigeon shoot
ing in the United States, notably
the American field cup, which he
won ten times in succession, de-
feating all corners, and scored As,
40 and so straight in some of the
matches. He defeated Frank Glass
in series of matches, making an
average Of nearly 90 per cent. He
has defeated all the marksmen OF
prominence in America, either in
sweepstakes or individual matches
and is gentlemanly and quiet, de
pending on his skill to win, and
uses no "bluff" against an antag'
onist. A score Of note was killing
. 100 straight live birds in mattel
against DR.. Carver.
Charles en-. Grimm resides a.
Clear Lake, Ia, and is running
mate of Charlie Budd's. He PROVED
a dark horse at the Worlds fail
: tournament, held in Chicago in