The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03
CRACK SHOTS At TRAPS
NITRO POWDER HANDICAP AT IN
TERSTATE PARK BRINGS OUT
A BIG FIELD
HAD TO MAKE CLEAN SCORES
Marksman Who Missed Bird
Might Well Have Stayed at
HOme-Thirty-O Split
Up Nearly $4,000.

NEW YORK, April 2.-Only one event
OF Importance was on today's programme
at the annual trapshooting tournament
at Interstate Park This was the Nitro
Powder handicap at sixteen birds, $40 en-
trance, handicap from thirty-tive TO
thirty-siX yards, the marks allotted by
the handicappers for the Grand Ameri-
can handicap to govern. Two hundred
entries were received UP to noon, and
only one man failed to toe the mark.
When all of them had finished the first
round of the four traps, it was found
that over ninety had killed four straight.
Among the first to fall down was young
Harold Money, the American amateur
champion. The wind blew directly into
the faces of the shooters, and Money,
when he stepped to the mark for his
first bird, felt confident of grasSing It.
When the trap was sprung, the bird
proved to be an incomer and although
the champion hit it with both barrels
the wind carried the bird over the dead
lime. Tod Sloan was not in Very good
form today. He shot from the twenty
seven yard mark, but missed his fourth
and eighth BIRDS and then withdrew
from the contest. He had plenty of COM
panionS who were forced to retire, hav-
ing missed two or more birds, and in
{ fact all those who missed a single bir1
out of their string of sixteen stood no
chance of getting into the money out
of the big field of 1879 starters only
lthirty-one succeeded in killing sixteen
birds straight.
II The weather conditions were more
Favorable to the shooters than on the
opening day, as the light was more sub
aued and the wind was not nearly so
strong, in addition to it's being in a diff
.serent direction.
FAST FLYERS.
The birds were equally as good as those
Trapped yesterday, but Tom Murphy, who
'Cns, SAID today that those picked out
ipr the grand American handicap which
I'm begin tomorrow and be continued on
Thursday and possibly Friday, would be
The SwifteSt flyers that ever flew from the
traps at Interstate park
lSlX additional entries We're received to-
gay for the big event, making in all 215.
is expected that at least a dozen
aaore will be received before the second
7bund has been shot tomorrow and the
lumber of contestants will probably be
larger than last years, when 221 took
part in the grand event.
Agents for the Society for Prevention
OF Cruelty to Animals were on hand to-
Gay. to see that birds which fell outside
of the boundary were picked up and killed
as quickly as possibly. This was done
at FREQUENT intervals during the day.
The shooting for the grand American
handicap Will be begun promptly at 8
o clock tomorrow morning, and Manager
SnaneS says he Will do hiS utmost to
have the contest finished by Thursday
evening at SHUTDOWN. In the Nitro Pow
der handicap today thirty-one killed six
teen %-raight and each man received 1884,
Follo-ging is a list of men with straight
kills to their credit:
THESE GOT THE MONEY.
]. A. R. Elliott. Kansas City; Charles
=. Mink. Philadelphia; Teal Columbus,
o: DR.. E. Duncan, Louisville Ky: r. L.
Irimble, Covington, KY; A. II. Fox Bal
9lmore; |. wv. Budd. Pemberton, N j.;
Bird, New FORK; A. B. Dover, Whining
ton, Del; E. S. Johnson Atlantic City, n
J.. George Darby, Philadelphia; J. D.
Pitts6urg; H. D. Bates Ridgeton, Ont,
Canada; George Roll, Blue Island, ILL.,;
J: Alabaster, Chicago; Herbert, New
York; w. s. Crosby, O'Fallon III: Fred
Gilbert, Spirit Lake, To-; P. Steubener,
Washington, d. c.; H. c. Hirschy New
York; j. Won Lengerke, Orange, N J.;
r: Emmers, Pennsylvania; Chris Colds,
Charles City, Mo-; l.. Howard Easton,
Pa; d. NJ. Forty WaterviMe. Me-; Col
Markham, Savannah, Ga; U. w Von-
derbos New York; Jack flaming Jersey
City; G. H. Piersy, Jersey City; W. E.
Parker, Meriden, Conn.
The following late entries have been
received for the grand American handi-
cap; S. 3. Mcpherson, Pittsburg; A J.
Horn, Philadelphia; w. A. Clark, Alton,
ILL.,; w B. Brown Minneapolis; H. c.
Hershey, Minneapolis, and S. c. White,