The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-26
Greet Work With the Guns at
Long Branch.
WAS A CLOSE CONTEST
CARVER AND KEoGLE ALSO
MAKE REMARKABLE SCORES.
Tips From San Francisco Concerning
Today's Races-Dunn Challenges
Fitzsimmons in Behalf of Sullivan
and Puts Up Cool Thousand
Maher Training For His Fight
With Sharkey-Turf Topics.

Long Branch, N. j.. March Is
Thomas A. Marshall of Keithsburg,
H., was the winner of the Grand
American handicap, which was de-
cided at Ellpwood park this morning.
Marshall made a clean score of 20
birds. His share of the prize money
is $500. This is insignificant, however,
compared to the honor of winning the
greatest shooting match in the history
of the sport.
DR.. w. F. Carver of Chicago and
Henry Keogle of Newark, who shoots
under the name OF Henry See," had
good show of tying Marshall. They
killed as many birds, but in each case
one fell dead out of bounds.
When the marksmen left the traps at
O'Clock last night u rounds OF the
Grand American handicap had been
shot. Marshall, Carver and Keogle
were tied With a straight score. There
were l5 men who had 20 killed and II
who had grassed IS out of their 81.
The continuation of the match com
menced at 1920 this morning. AT
that time the sun was shining bright
sweeping over the ground. The sports
men knew what this meant. The birds
were a fast lot, and with the help OF
the wind everyone agreed that it
would be difficult to kill them. The
first to face the traps was w. l.. Qua
nell, whose score was 10 out of 81.
Three birds went down before his sure
aim, when Dr. Carver faced the No. l
trap. He was cheered to the echo. An
easy bird was his prey. He picked a
harder one on the second trap and this
q rid with On M
No. 8 trap, while shooting his twenty
fourth round, ne had a towering in
conner. The first barrel hit the bird
square enough, but to make sure of
his kill the doctor sent another load
after the pigeon. The high wind car
ried the dead bird out of bounds and
in its fall it crashed through one of
the windows of the club house. The
doctor was chaSrined, but his friends
consoled him by saying that he still
had chance of winning first money.
Keogle brought down both of his birds
in the first and second traps. He went
to the third trap and drew a swift in
conner and flied it with shot. The
bird. however, fell dead out of BOUNDS.
This left only Marshall with straight
kills. His twenty-fifth bird was a left
quarterer. One barrel was enough to
dispose of it, and the WeSterner was
the winner of the Grand American
handicap. The nine men who were
second with "a kills were, Carver. Van
Dyke. DR.. Williamson, Keogle, Burk-
hart, Voris, Cubberty. Armo and APP
plegate. They divided s1696.5O.
The third men with % kills were W.
Dunnell E. d. Alkire, c.. w. Budd,
Cornelius Ferguson, .Arkansaw Trav-
eler." o. r. Dickey and w. S. King.
These men divided S1.094 To see who
were entitled to fourth money, or the
consolation prize, each contestant in
the han 1icap, with the exception of
those who had received first, second
and third moneys, was allowed to en-
ter. 1t was miss and out. After a
number of rounds had been shot th<
following divided fourth money, or
1854: Grimm, Hamilton, Power, Nc
Cassin, Truman, Parmalee, Phister,
Moore, Guthrie. c. Won Lengerke Reh-
rig, Colonel Dren and Colonel An
thony-
Mr. Marshall. the winner of the
Grand American handicap. was born
in Kentucky in 1855. He commenced
to shoot at an early age. and is now
considered one of the best shots in the
west. He has been mayor of Keiths-
burg. ILL.,, for II years and served in
the legislature from the Thirty-sixth
and Thirty seventh districts in 1889
and 1891