The sun., 1897-03-06
PHILIDELPHIA,s BIG SHOOT.
A. y. Williams or Cleveisna wins the River
ton Handicap.

| chiefly OF wealthy Philadclphans. has inaugu-
rated the spring pigeon shooting season with
| two days tournament on its picturesque
| grounds on the Delaware River. The event this
| year was successfully opened yesterday with
| 10O.bird shoot, which Is known as the Rivcrton
| Handicap. To-day II enough entries can be Sc
| cured there will be u team race, four men on
side, between New York and Philadelphia; that
| Is, II tho Quaker City men can get u team 10 go
| against the Carteret representatives, Mcssrs.
Davenport McAlpin, welch. and Coland.
While New York was we'll represented yes
| terday by such cracks rs McAlpin and Davon-
| port, Murphy. Work, Knapp, 1locy, and
| Wa,rous. who have taken part in the contests
| OF previous years, were conspicuous by their
absence. as was Charley Macalcstcr. who used
| to bo the best OF tho Philadelphia contingent.
| II not the greatest wing shot In the country. In
spite OF the absentecs. the shooters fairly
| representative lot, md consisted of A. ID. WI.
lians OF Cleveland. 30 yards; l.. T. Davenport OF
| Larcbmont, 80 yards; VI. Cloland Of Philadcl-
phia, 30 yards; g. :. McAlpin Of the Cnrtercts.
80 yards; II. a. Wclch OF Philadelphia, 10 yards;
Il. Toland OF Philadelphia, - yards; l.. G. Smith
OF ltivcrton 80 yards, and l.. Count OF Pniladel-
phL, 30 yard.
III view OF McAlpin's good shooting during the
past few months and Wcch's victory In the
amateur championship they were pronounced
f9yoritcs ~ the bettins before the contest began.
although Davenport and Smith had many ad.
mrcrs. Toe winner, however, proved to lie A.
ID. Williams "a rank outsider. who surprised tho
Wcich, Davenport, and Ccland tied for second,
third. and fourth money, with scores OF e2 each.
McAIpiu also would have come in for some OF
the money only Tor an unfortunate miss OF his
nincty.ninth bird. lie might have finished
RH fSr r1n % wGr ror he o ma b1
pigeon that had. according to the referce.
already taken wing, Then he sho; SO hurricdly
White J. &. smith Of Philadelphia was at the
score for his forty ninth bird his gun burst as he
Injured or killed was little short OF u rnirace as
the barrel burst right up near the stock. with
hSnd d1SSTP.H he ., vtbnn E ppw"er '"rn o" MS
While 1t rained of and on all day. which made
4 wet and disagrecabc for the contestants.
there was little or no wind. This accounted for
the large number Of good scores Tho condi-
tons OF the contest we're 100 birds per man,
Of traps at hiycrton. the men shot in
al % the odd grounds" and then af,y birds Is' at
what are known the river grounds" The
result was that the shoot ing was done rapidly,
and the match was over by o'clock. Tho birds
were fair lot of flyers, and while the fast
were about equally distributed, McAlpin and
OF them.
At the end Of tho twenty. NTH round welch
aud 1t looked as II tho former would repeat his
Larchmont victory. Williams, Davenport, Gle
land McAlpin, ana smith each scored twenty;
three and Toand twenty Wclch missed
after killing thirty one straight, and AT the end
o. the rftieth round the score was: Wclch. a;
| Cleland, a: Toland, a; Count. a; smith I3.
Williams then did some splendid shooting and
gave the lead to him a, the end OF the seventy.
| hth round with seventy TO his credit. The
other scores were McAlpin and Davenport. 80
each; Cleland and Welch. Us each; Toland. ~:
| Count. til; Smith, 81. There was little change
in this order to the finish, except that McAlpin
| Cleland and Welch killed twcnty.fou and Dav.
enport twenty three which LETT the last three a
| iie for second place, with McAlpin one bird be-
Williams, the winner, missed his third eighth,
hfty-second, which died outside, and ninety first
birds, drivers, together with his forty ninth,
! easy incomer. and his sxty-lifth, n right quar-.
terer, Davenport's misses were on his cigh-
and eighty.cighth, all drivers. and his twenty.
eighth, thirty.sixth. and rfty-scvcnth left quar-
ty,sixih and fifty:scventh birds ali died out out.
| side. Welchs misses were on his thirty
second, thirty fourth, ifty.anh, sixty.afh
siNty-siNth. and scvcnty-second, drivers and his
fortieth and eighty-hfth, rightquRrtercrs. OF
these his thirty second thirty fourth, sixtyafth,
| lands misses were drivers or lcft-quartcrers.
| McAlpin's errors were on his nineteenth twenty
eighiy.oighth and ninety.third, drivers; his
thrd' ir righ'9TartSsrcr and dninieiE;ninth
| and ninety ninth birds died outside. Summary
a. d. wILLIAMs-20 YARDS.
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| L. T. DAVENPORT. 80 yARps.
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| NJ. CLELASD-3O YARDS.
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R.A. WEIGH. 80 YARDS.
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O. g. M'ALPIN, 80 YARDs.
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r. ToLAND, ~ YARDS.
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L. COUNT. 20 YARDS.
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