The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-05
PIGEONS FLEW SLOW
AMI High RESULTED IN
THE AMERICAN HANDICAP.
Twenty straight Kills by Forty of the
COntestants-RecOrd Made by 4.
Ii. Fox-UnIucky Thirteen,

NEW YORK. April THE shoot for the
Grand American handicap, which was
postponed yesterday, began this morning
and continued up to dusk this evening.
With the exception of a brief interval in
the middle of the day. the shooting at live
birds was kept up without interruption
and nearly 5000 birds were trapped. The
weather conditions were anything but con-
dueive to the comfort of the gunners. POI
of whom tried conclusions for champion
ship honors. During the entire shoot rain
fell continuously, and this made what
would otherwise have been fast flyers very
slow birds indeed. Their wing and tail
feathers were thoroughly soaked with the
rain and the birds. which were specially
picked for this OCCASION, were for the most
part easy marks. However there were oc-
casional exception, when some very tricky
pigeons flew from the traps as swiftly as
a snipe, and in some instances while on
the wing they went in such a zig-zag fash
ion that they evaded the efforts of the ex-
perts TO grass them.
All told there were DOB entries for the
event, ten of which were post entries.
Twenty men failed to toe their marks when
their turns came, and these absentees for
feited SO each. which went TO swell the
purse. The entire amount of money
which will be distributed among the fifty
four high guns when the event is con-
cluded tomorrow is So, 1856.
When the shooting was concluded this
evening there We're forty men with straight
scores of twenty kills each and ifty-three
with IS. During the day several We're
forced out OF the contest after having had
five misses scored against them. Or the
leaders the work of Ansley H.. Fox, of Bal
tlmore, was by far the most creditable.
Twelve months ago on the same set of
traps FOX succeeded in killing more birds
than any contestant on the grounds, and
this year he has made "A remarkable record.
Since the shoot began Fox has taken in
every event on the programme and has not
missed one bird in any of these. In actual
competition he has shot sixty-three birds
without missing any In addition to this he
has shot at sixty bye-birds and the only
miss recorded against him among these
was one which died out of bounds. This
maSGS a total for the four days OF l22 killed
GU of 13 birds shot at by the Baltimore
man, who is loked upon as a likely winder
OF this years blue ribbon of trap shooting.
Up to the end of the fifteenth round to-day
W. X. Crosby. of O'Fallon, ILL.,, and H.. ID.
Bates, of Ridgeton, ont, Canada, the win
ner of last years Grand American, had
killed the same number of birds in cOmpe-
tition as Fox had, but both Of these missed
their sixteenth bird. and, consequently,
lett Fox to enjoy the individual honor.
BY a peculiar coincidence Phil DAILY, jr,
whose number was thirteen i'm order Of
shooting. killed all of his birds in the
handicap until he came to the thirteenth
bird. This was an Out-go wing tOwerer and
DAILY missed it with both barrels. He killed
straight after this, winding up with a total
OF nineteen kills. Among the other promi-
nent shooters who missed one bird out OF
the twenty trapped for them were j. y. II.
Elliott, Il. w. Claridge, 5. NJ. Van Allen,
Harold Money. Captain Money, G.. r.. Mink,
Sim Glover, W. W Hassinger. F. W. Coop
ems, j. r. Malone, 70. y. tuliord' Tom
Among the forty who have top scores SO
far, Fred Gilbert. Of Spirit Lake, Ia; c. {.
Nauman, of San Francisco; y. II. Fox. h.
;. johnson. of Atlantic City. and +. s.
Parmelee. of Omaha, as well as Ed lick
man, of Kansas City. are looked UPON as
the most likely bunch in which the winner
may be found. Following are names and
handicaps of those who are credited with
twenty straight kills. so far, in the big
handicap: \. d. Stevens, Guilford. Conn,
% yards: c.. II. Pierce. Jersey City. p. G.
c. Nauman. San Francisco, IS: DIR. j. G.
Knowlton, New York, %; a.: II; FOX, Bal
timore. 80; Jim Jones. New York, %; r. l..
Pierce. Wytheville. Va. -; Dr. h. Duncan,
Louisville. Ky, %: Fred Gilbert Spirit
Lake. Ia. 81; II. ;. Bond, Jessup, Nd. q;
j. S. Boss, New York, q; Z. Emmers, Roy
ersford. Pa, %: j. l.. ID. Morrison, st. Pau.
Mimi, %; c. Won Longerke, Chicago. y;
w. ID. Townsend. Omaha. q; Henry. New
%; f. r.. Mackay MINNEAPOLIS, MIMI =;
w. +. Quimby. Newark, y. j., q; j. l. Al
MiIwaukee. wis, %: IL. Schimmell. East
ON. Pa, u: T.. 5. johnson, Atlantic City,
d: ]. w. Hoffman. New Germantown, y.
I y. ]. b. Barto. Chicago, y; @. \. Com
stock. Racine. Wis, q. r. 5: Parmelee.
Omaha. Neb.. 80: A. Attire. Woodlyn, o.
%: f.. c. Fort. FOstoria. o.. 2$ G. w. Eel
genspan. Newark, y. j., 80: William Wag-
ner, Washington. ID. c., q; c: A. Lockwood
Jamaica. n. Y, %: II. Trunbausr. Rogers
ford. Pa, 2S; G.. r. Greif. New York, :; Z.
r Geikler. Philadelphia. 20; j. Won Lon
gerke. Orange. ". j., 2S; e. Hickman, Kan
80. Ettx- -