Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-27
PARMELEE DEFEATS ELLIOTT
Some Remarkable Shooting Done by Both
Of the Contestants
LOCAL MAN FALLS BEHIND AT THE START
shoots out the Last Half In Remark
able Form-Elliott Makes Run of
Forty-Onc STRAIGHT Kills and
Then Falls Down.

No one but a crank would tura out on such a
day as yesterday to see any kind OF sport
ing event, but IL there is one class more than
anothcr for whom inclement weather has no
terrors 1t is the man who loves a gun In the
face of bad weather, with absolutely no pro-
lection from the driving storm which swept
over the gun club grounds across the river,
fully a hundred of them assembled to Wit
ness the match shoot between +. S Parmelee
of this city and j. A. h. Elliott of Kansas
City, 100 live birds per man. $500 a side, and
they were rewarded by seeing the local man
win one of the most remarkable matches
ever shot in the country. parmelee demon
strated that he is not only capital shot, but
that he possesses nerve in a remarkable
degree. When each man had faced the
trap forty times Elliott had only one lost
bird to his credit while Parmelee had missed
five From that time on he braced up and
made a run of thirty-three straight kills
then eight and from his seventy-siXth bird
shot out his score clean.
Elliott started on with hard luck, his first
bird being a dead out of bound. From
that time he gave a remarkable exhibition of
shooting, making run of forty-one straight
kills. the best of the match. After that on
he did not shoot so well. He missed his
forty-giXth, ffty-seventh, and fifty eighth,
braced up again and made run of twenty
four missing his eighty-fourth. Either the
steady shooting of Parmelee or the cold
which seemed to affect him more than his
opponent ratified the man from the Kaw, and
he missed his ninety-fifth bird, an easy one,
which tied the score. The crowd set up
shout at this, but the next time he faced
the trap demonstrated IL was not partial
when it literally applauded clean, first
barrel kill of a dark bird, which left the
trap like a shot and performed corkSkrew
evolution. 1t was a beautiful kill and the
applause was richly earned.
When the veteran faced the trap for his
last bird, which IL killed would tie the score
he was evidently a little bit nervous. The
bird was a lively one and results showed
strong flyer II was hit hard with both
charges. but persisted in going over the
bounds to die. When the result was declared
he was among the first to congratulate his
successful opponent.
Parmelee. stated above started out
poorly. Of his first five misses at least two
were of easy birds, which should never have
gotten away His first lost bird was his
fifteenth dead out of bounds, the nineteenth
got away safely, the twenty second was a
deaG out of bounds, the twenty-ffth and
thirty-first we're missed and the thirty-ifth
went over the line to die With five lost
birds to his opponents one, the hearts of
the local contingent. who had placed money
on the home man at odds went down but
the colonel proceeded to show them what
he could do in an emergency. only letting
two birds get away during the remainder OF
the match, and both of these had ample
Gauss to remember him, being retrieved out
of bounds.
Parmelee made some remarkable kills of
hard drivers having a little the worst OF
1t on hard birds, his misses as a rule being
the easy ones not over two of them being
strong, swift niers They both of them
caught plenty Of hard birds. however.
The score so to 81. was a remarkable one
considering the conditions prevailing and IS
one of which neither need be ashamed at any
time. In addition to the cold which chilled
shooter and spectator alike, there was
nasty wind blowing quartering across the
grounds and the light was poor, making birds
very difficult to see. The birds were a good
lot, very few OF them refusing to take wing
promptly and many of them were drivers of
the worst sort
The retrieving was done by NJ. C. Peters
spaniel, and finer work in this line was
never seen anywhere. On several occasions
he picked up birds which would have given
a man plenty of trouble and might possibly
have gotten away. He did his work with
snap which showed he enjoyed it and never
seemed to tire.
Parmelee shot a Parker double barrel gun
and Elliott a Winchester pump gun.
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