St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-26
CRACKS WITH A GUN
- NOTABLE COLLECTION OF SHOTS
..z' THE ELKWOOD TOURNA-
MEiNT.
-CLIPSES THE GRAND PRlx.
MORE ENTRIES NOW FOR THE
GREAT EVENT AT MONTE
CARLO.
THE AMERICAN HANDICAP is ON.
Thirteen Men Can show Clear Scores
At the End Of the Tenth
Round.

NEW YORK, March 25.-The inter
state association had good reason for
feeling pleased today over the signal
success which attended its fourth an
nual shooting tournament, which had
for its chief feature the grand Amerl-
can handicap. This event. although
only four years established, has out
done, SO far as entries are concerned,
the Grand PriX, of Monte Carlo, which
this year had 102 entries, While the
Grand American attracted 109. The
tournament began yesterday, with a
programme of four events, but the en-
tries in two of them were so large that
they were not decided until today, and
the other two had to be put over until
later in the week. The Elkwood intro
ductory was concluded this forenoon
about IL o'clock. Later in the afternoon
the Nitro Powder handicap was decid-
ed with six men dividing first money,
% persons dividing second, IS dividing
third and u dividing fourth money.
The six winners of first money killed
Is straight, the % seconds IA each, and
by a coincidence, the thirteen divided
third money, killing 13 each, and u
split fourth money after killing II each.
When the shooters for the Grand
American handicap had been called,
Referee Jacob Pentz informed them
that each one of them should shoot two
birds in succession. The terms of the
handicap provided that a shooter, after
having missed three birds, should drop
out of the race, with the privilege of
re-enterng in case there was possible
chance of his or her gaining a prize.
The first man to face the traps was NJ.
F. Lindsey, CT Cincinnati, who graZed
his first bird with the second barrel In
the absence of E. S. Rice, of Chicago,
Frey Hoey, the well-known trap shoot
er, stepped to the thirty-Cne-yard mark,
but he failed to score. Throughout the
afternoon the birds proved to be a very
lively lot. and at the end of the sixth
round no less than twenty of the con-
testants had to retire, owing to their
having missed three birds each.
Mrs. NJ. F. Lindsey CWanda), of Gin
cinnati, was very successful in her eff
forts, as she brought down her first
three birds, but the last one fell dead
out of bounds She missed the fourth,
hit the fifth and lost the sixth, which
was a very difficult quarterer, and the
Western woman had to retire. Miss
Annie Oakley brought down her first
DlIu Will the second Ddrrel, Out SHe
missed the second one. grazed the
third with one barrel, and missed the
fourth and fifth, thus making it neces-
sary for her to retire.
Judging from the numerous entries
the shoot for the big prize may pos
sibly last until Friday afternoon, and
at dusk this evening there were thir-
teen men standing with clean scores at
the end of the tenth round.
The leaders in the handicap are
George Clabberly, Morning Star; James
Timmons, Yardville; Fen Cooper, Ma
honey City; o. r. Dickey, Boston; B.
w. Claridge, Boston; r. o. Heikes,
Dayton; G. H. Wellington, Harrisburg;
G. Won Lengerke, Jersey City; E. W.
Dubray, Dayton; j. S. Dustan, New
ark; A. Woodruff, Elizabeth; Dr. Won
lie, Brooklyn; J. S. Paddleford, Sher-
burn. Western men entered in the
handicap, with their scores, are: Fred
Gilbert, Duluth, killed s, missed 2; r.
r. Merrill, Milwaukee, killed S, missed