The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
MINNEAPOLIS
Man CHAMPION
H. G. Hirschy Wins the Great
American Handicap at
Kansas City.
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Kills Every Bird From the
Start and His Finish Is
Sensational.

minneapolis, Mimi, with q handicap OF
twenty nine yards, to-day won the great
American handicap and thus became the
champion wing shot Of America. The last
man to stand up with him on the shoot
scores yesterday was G. G. Spencer of
St. Louis, also twenty Vineyard man,
who finally failed to kill his fifty-third
bird, a towering out-goer. Spencer will
receive second money, R. O. Heikes Of
Dayton, Ohio, third; J. D. Pollard, Chi
cago. fourth. and ]. L. Owen OF Cushing.
Okla, fifth.
The race, which was for twenty-five
birds, proved to be one of the most SEN
sational in the annals Of shooting tourna-
ments. The shoot-off to-day began with
bright and clear weather, but with hard
wind blowing. In the second round two
men dropped, q third missed out in the
third, three lost in the fourth, two more
in the seventh, one in the eleventh and
another In the fourteenth. Fred Gilbert
Of Spirit Lake, Iowa, was one of the first
men to quit. and Heikes, after making
many sensational shots, lost his thirty
first
Champions Only Competitors.
This left Spencer and Hirschy alone in
the race. They killed their birds with
ease and regularity, and soon passed the
record-mark for straight kills Of thirty
four, set by Bates in 1900. Hirschy's
cho tho or no
the last rounds, and many picked him fol
the winner after the fortieth bird ha6
been killed Both men were straight VI
to the ffty-second bird. The fifty thir6
was towering out-goer. Spencer sho1
| first, and although he hit it the bird fel
! dead out of bounds. Hirschy's f1fty-thirt
4 was an ordinary right quarterer. HI
Killed 1t with his first barrel, but uset
theEsecond to make sure.
! Hirschy had not only won the grea
] American handicap, but he had placed tt
4 his record. a score of seventy-eig
straight birds for this event and a grand
sEtetal OF 102 for the week, having grasset
severy one since the tournament begal
on Monday morning.
/ When Hirschy killed his last bird hi
j admirers swarmed around him and bor'
1 him flssm the field on their shoulders.
1sich Prize for Winner.
/ The winner not omSy becomes champion
shot Of the United States but he viii
receive the handsome trophy captured las
year by E. C. Griffith, Of Pascoag, R. L.
and 1888 as the portion Of the prize mon
i ey The balance Of the $11,401 prize
money will be divided among the remain
ing sixty-two high guns. The shoot ha:
! proved the greatest ever held by the as
ISOLATION and perhaps brought togethe
the most imposing array of cracks eve
convened.
+ When the eleventh round in the shoe
off was begun this morning a hard sout]
wind was blowing, but the weather wa
bright and clear.
TO-day's Rounds.
; All fourteen men made clean stDre
in the eleventh round. In tn
twelfth round R. W. Cool, of Aledc
out. In the thirteenth Fred Gilbert 6
Spirit Lake, Iowa, missed hard LEI
Quartering drive. The bird was hit bu
was able to fly away. In the fourteenth
L. J. Squier, Cincinnati, J. I. D. Morrison
St. Paul, and G. w. Clay, usterlitz, KY
missed This left but eight men in tn
race, all of whom shot clean in the fl
teenth and sixteenth rounds In the sey
enteenth Guy V. Deering, Columbus, Wis
anu H.. Suyuef, CfdW1OfuSVllle, 1nQ., los
out. The six remaining men she
straight in the eighteenth, nineteenth an
twentieth with the second barrel whe
the bird was fifty yards straight down th
field. George J.. Roll lost his twenty
first.
J There were no misses in the twenty
second and twenty-third rounds. L. f
| Owen lost his twenty fourth, which die
out of bounds. Spencer, Heikes, Hirsch
and Pollard were straight at the end {
| the twenty-fifth. There were no misse
| in the twenty sixth and twenty seventh
' but Pollard lost his tWenty-ei
! Heikes making many long sensations
t shots. This left Spencer, Heikes an
: Hirschey alone in the race. All thre
r killed their 29th and 30th. Heikes final]
r lost out on his thirty-frst hard on,
: going driver. This left but two men IN til
J. race, G. s. Spencer, of St. Louis, and F
> G.. Hirschy, of Minneapolis, each with
> handicap Of 20 yards. Hirschy had nc
f missed sbird since the tournament bega
!. on Monday, including the two prelifinar
. events. Then came the finish, as detaile
- above