New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-25
NEW.JERSEY NEWS.
AT THE ELKWOOD TRAPS.
THE GRAND AMERICAN HANDICAP BE-
GUN IN A transform.
AN UNUSUALLY LARGE NUMBER OF coNiH'
ANTs-rHE MATCH SAID TO BE THE GREAT


ANrs-rHE MATCH SAID TO BE THE GREAT
EST EVER HELD-scoREs FOR THE
FIRST TWENTY ONE ROUNDS.
rorg Branch. March 4-Elkwood Park. near this
| Mace was the Mecca for all sportsmen yesterday
and the shooting in the Grand American tanu'oaP
began on the beautiful grounds soon after ~ cio'N
There were about thousand spectators prese"'
to sec the best trap-shooters in the land compete
for the prizes offered by the Interstate Assocaon
Judging from the number of entries, wmch reacheu
l46 the handicap was the greatest pigeon match
that ever took place either In this country OF
Europe.
CAPTAIN Jake" Brewer the wonderful but errauc
marskmaD who has kept the shooters or ooth "hS
country and Europe guessing for many years. was
much incensed at being barred out from taxing part
in the big match at the eleventh hour
Elmer +. Shaner manager Of the association III
speaking of Captain Brewer being barrel. SAID:
In the programme OF the shoot Issued by the asso-
citation the latter reserved the right to refuse any
entry Il saw fit. Everybody could send In his name
and receipt was forwarded him for his entrance
fee. The committee passed on all names af'erwaTd.
do not 10 say much about the barring or Cap
tain Brewer further than there was a wide sent-
ment among the other marksmen that he should not
be allowed TO compete.
The rain falling and gentle easterly wind
blew across the traps when the shooting began
More than three thousand pigeons had been provided
by !. NJ Gilbert. of Philadelphia. and they were Il
good lot of birds. Under the conditions OF the
match each was to shoot al twenty-five birds
handicaps ranging from twenty-six 10 thrty-two
yards. with a ffty-yard boundary The entrance fee
SIS. and the Interstate Association guaranteed
81 Oo0 TO be divided among the frs, three high guns
the basis OF 500 TO the first. $500 10 the second
and 500 10 the third All the entrance money In ex-
OF the 81 900 be divided among the other
marksmen who succeeded in making the best scores
As the surplus reached about $500 this year, 1t
rather overshadowed the purse but a good many
men in TO share II. II formed series OF
classes of small consolation purses graded down
low as per cent Of the whole. II divided up
among twenty-three of the shooters.
The first man TO face the traps A. w. du
Bray. of Dayton, Ky. and he killed his bird, did
also the five marksmen who followed him. !. Ben
nett was the first man to miss. and Messner. the
crack Pitsburg shot. also missed the first round
The first man 10 retire from the contest on the
three miss and-out rule was r. S. Waddell of Gin
cnnati, who was compelled 10 stop at the end Of
the fifth round. c. NJ. Hostetter and T. Leuth-
hauser. OF Newark, also retired on this round as
did j. c. Haskell of Lynn, Mass. At the end of
the sixth round Charles Matter and F. Lawrence
of NewYork. dropped out. and also two
others. The wind shifted in tho afternoon and 1t
rained and hailed by turns Most of the birds
left-quarterers. and fast ones at that. The shoot
kept dropping out fast that the spectators
wondered why some of them had entered the race
at all. OF the CRACKS r. Trimble, OF Covington.
Ky. and Phil DAILY. jr., compelled to give up
at the end Of the ninth round: Sim Glover, of Roch-
ester: w. S. Eddy. Of this city. and G. f. Grief
the fourteenth round Frank Glass, of Morris
town. the fifteenth round: Captain Money, OF
Oakland; Neat Apgar. of Plainfeld, and j. S. Pad
dleford. of Sherburne. NJ Y, on the eighteenth
round: T. s. Parmelee. Of Omaha on the nineteenth
round G.. J.. Brucker OF Omaha, on the twentieth
round; A. II. King Of Pittsburg. and T. w. Nor
fey on the twenty-frst round. and i. ID. Fulford
on the eighteenth round.
1t was hoped that the shooters would be enabled
to finish the match to-day. but 1t was impossible.
as only twenty-one rounds had been finished when
II began TO grow dark. There were then only thr
ty-three left in the Of the 1875 who actual
~ started. OF these only three had clean scores.
They DR. Carver. OF Chicago; Henry See OF
Newark. and Thomas Marshall OF Keithsburg.
Wis.
The remaining four rounds Of the big match will
be shot to-day.