The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-09
NEW GUN CHAMPION
THE DUPONT LIVE BIRD TouRNA-
MENT AT CHICAGO WON BY
CLARAGE.
HEART DISEASE FINISH.
FIVE MEN WENT INTO THE
FINAL ROUND WITH CLEAN
SCORES.
PACE TOO HOT FOR GILBERT.
The Former Iowa Champion Drop
ped Out During the Day With
Two Birds Missed.
PACE TOO HOT FOR GILBERT.

CHICAGO, Aug. S.-The Dupont live
bird tournament has passed into his
tory and Bert Garage, of Baltimore,
is worlds champion. The finish was of
the heart disease kind. Even the spec
tatorS were ratified. Out of the 1913
nominations only five killed straight
Garage was the first to accomplish this
feat. The Eastern contingent went
wild with joy in consequence. A few
moments later Wallace Miller, of Aus
tin, Tex, scored his last bird, making
twenty-five consecutive kills. Then a
wild yell, in which all the Southern
ers joined, burst forth. Christopher S.
Gottlieb, of Kansas City, Mo-, was the
thir7 man to roll up this magnificent
score and his friends became jubi1ant.
When Harry Kirkover, of the Audubon
club, of Buffalo, went out straight the
New Workers almost went beside them
selves with joy, but it remained for
George Roll, of Blue Island, to create
unbounded enthusiasm. When the
referee announced twenty-five and
out" the enthusiasm of the Chicago
shooters, which had been bottled up all
the afternoon, broke loose in one
mighty cheer.
The battle had been in progress for
two days and on it's renewal this morn
ing a terrific finish was anticipated by
all. Gilbert, the scratch man. dropped
two birds early IN the day, Jack Wins
ton was the last Of the experts to fall
down. He lost his twenty-second bird.
The pigeons were a particularly strong
lot and some of them although hit
hard with both barrels, fell dead out of
bot nds.
1t was o'clock when Referee Wat
son called the five men to the A set
of traps and 1900 people, many of
whom were ladies, crowded about to
witness the, finish. AS the men came to
the score they were photographed in
a group together with Elliott S. Rice,
the manager of the tournament. Kirk
over stood at twenty-seven yards,
Garage, Miller and Gottlieb at twenty
nine yards, and Roll at thirty yards.
Garage was the first man to go to the
score. The excitement was tremend-
Gus. All the contestants save Roll
were pulsating with excitement Clar-
age killed clean. The Taxan followed
suit. Gottlieb shot under his bird with
both barrels and fell back. Roll
with his first barrel Then another
mighty cheer burst forth which the
management promptly checked, with
request not to repeat the demonstra-
ton until the race was over. The ten
sion on the four remaining men was
tremendous.
In the second round Garage killed
nicely, but used his second barrel for
safety. Miller killed with his first and
Kirkover grassed his bird beautifully.
Roll hit his bird hard with both bar
reIs. It was a hard driver and fell
dead out of bounds. In the third round
both Miller and Kirkover missed They
could stand the strain no longer. Clar-
age had to kill his next two birds,
which he did, but was SO nervous
when he went to the trap for the last
time that he sent load of shot in the
ground In front Of him before calling
pull
It was five minutes before the crowd
ceased cheering the victor. George
Beck, Of Indianapolis, has already
challenged the winner through the
Sportsmens Review. The five men
who killed their twenty-five birds d.
vided something like $1,000. George
Spross. of Toledo, Charlie Grimm, of
Spirit Lake, and Rollie Helkes, Of
Dayton. were among the men who
tied at twenty-four. like Gilbert. the
indian" from Spirit Lake, drew
'screamer" that a Howitzer could not
stop. g. w, Schiller, Of Cincinnati,
fell into the twenty-three hole with
Gilbert and McAllister. He also lost
two birds that fell dead out of ho1Iuds
SCHUYLER shot a splendid race, In fact,