The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-25
MALrrN's CRACK SHOOTING.
t,,-savannahian Now Champion AM
ateur shot of the Country.


The Morning News has already an
rsunced the winning of the amateur cham
,i,..bip pigeon shooting contest of the
r-r4d States in New York this week by
7tr George 5. McAlp.n. formerly Of this
.... now a member Of the CaHaret Gun
,-.rb of New York on a score of sc out Of
a possip.e 100 or one bird better than the
D. 81 record ever made in this event. Nc
,tp-n also won 500 and handsome silver
,I, presented by FoNhall keene.
i.lfs T. Duryea, OF the same club, was
.-rond with So and won $50, while Charles
painter. of Pittsburg. was third, with 80,
v.Inl.ns, $40. C. S. Guthrie, of Pittsburg;
cans. A. w. Money and R. A. Welch tied
far fourth money with scores of 80 each,
ana divided $3.50 between them.
N.Alpin killed 80 oul of his last 30 birds,
hi. only miss being in the eighly-ninth
round. when a fast-cireiihg incomer es-
r.ped his deadly second barrel. Duryea,
fo5 shot in great form, only losing three
brds. TWO of which died outside. Painter
also killed AZ out of his last 50 birds.
Mr. McAlpin went to New York from Sa-
vannah in 1888 He finished third in the
Jersey Target League in 1884, He also
be.an 10 shoot at live birds in 1891. Since
,Hen ne has beaten almost every amateur
of note in the country and finished second
i'm the amateur championship in 1887 and
also last year.
While the gFouBds and birds were fast,
says the Journal in it's report OF the match,
there was little wind, which accounted foI
tb5 nigh scores. A friendly breeze, sprung
no from the southwest and made left quar-
ior4nS birds hard 10 kll. During the first
twenty-five rounds Welch's gun broke. He
5ad TO snoot three birds with a strange
gun and he lost one bird he otherwise
would have got. In the twenty-third round
McAlpin's gun missed fire on the second
barrel but he fortunately killed the bird
with his first barrel.
Part of the shooting was on Tuesday, and
the finish was Wednesday.
The second day there was no change in
the position of the leaders until the fifty
fifth round, when Guthrie's bird. a cir
cling incomer died outside, which tied him
with Duryea and Money for first place
Guthrie lost two more birds in the fifty
seventh and ffty-eighth rounds, both
drivers. This put Duryea and Money in the
lead, while McAlpin, who was shooting
III beautiful form, passed the Pittsburg
crack. There was no further change
among the leaders until the sixtv-fourth
round, when Capt. Moneys bird, driver,
died outside. This put Duryea in the
lead. with McAlpin and Money tied for
second place,
In the sixty-sixth round, Duryea had a
Bit of hard luck, seeing his bird twist
ing incomer die outside. There was now a
triple tie for first place between McAlpin,
Duryea and Money. The latter could not
stand the pace, however. and lost his sew
eudeth, seventy-frst and seventy fourth
BIRDS.
The score at the end of the seventy fifth
round was Duryea. q; McAlpin, p; Guth-
RE, 20; Money. So; Painter, 50; Welch IS;
King, 81 Coleman, g.; Bradley, 81 Hood,
66; Thorne, &C.; Francis, 65; Keeney, CO.
Francis withdrew at the end of this
round. Hood at the seventy-sixth round,
Thorne and Coleman at he end of the
eighty-ffth, King at the nineueth and
Bradley at the ninety-first.
So far as the leaders were concerned
there was no change, but Painter was pull
ing up all the time In the eighty-first
round, Duryea lost a twisting incomer,
which gave McAipin the lead for the first
lime. McAlpin continued to kill straight
until the eighty-ninth round. when he lost
an incomer. From this point it was a
aeck and neck race between Duryea and
MeAlpin to the finish Unfortunately Dur
yea lost an neomer in the ninety-eigh h
round and McAlpin won the match.