The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-06
.HIRSCHY WINS
GRAND AMERICAN
Kills Seventy.tWo Birds Without
& Miss.
CALllSOH GETS IN MONEY
ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS BRoK-
EN- DURING SHOOT.

KANSAS CITY, April 5.-H. c.
II Hirschy. with handicap
Of twenty-nine yards, today
won the Grand American handi-
cap, and thus became the champion
wing shot of America. The last man
to stand W with him in the shOot-of
out OF the fourteen men who had clean
scores yesterday was c. G. Spencer Of
ST. Louis, also a twenty-nine-yard
man, who finally failed to kill his fifty
third bird. Spencer viii receive sec
ond money; r. o. Heikes of Dayton,
o., third; J. D. Pollard. Chicago,
fourth. and J. L. owen Of Gushing,
Okla. fifth.
The race, which was for twenty-five
birds proved 10 be one Of the most
sensational ia the annals of shooting
tournaments. The shoot-of today be-
gan with bright and clear weather but
with a hard wind blowing. The four
teen men who began the final race this
morning We're: r. w. Cool, Aledo, Ills;
Guy Y. Deering. Columbus, Wis. c. S.
Spencer, St Louis; G. B. D. Darby,
Philadelphia; r. .. Heikes Dayton. o.;
George A. RoOl. Blue Island, Ills; L.
J, Squier, Cincinnati; H. c. Hirschy,
Minneapolis; J. 1. D. Morrison, St
Paul; Fred Gilbert, Spirit Lake, Ia;
J. D. Pollard, Chicago; F. Snyder,
.Crawfordsvil' e. Ind: j. L. Owens. Gu n
ing, Okla; 6. W. Clay. Austerlitz, Ky.
Two Men Drop Out
In the second round two men dropped
out, a 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 Gil
bert OF Spirit Lake, Ia, was one Of
the first men to quit. and Heikes. after
making many sensational shots, lost
bis thirty first. This only left Spencer
and Hirschy 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
Eates in 1900 Hirschy's shooting was
steadier than SDencer's on the last
rounds. and many picked him for the
winner after the fortieth bird had been
killed. Both men were straight up to
the fifty-second bird. The fifty-third
was a lettering outgeer. Spencer shot
first, and although he hit the bird it
fell dead out of bounds. Hirschy's
ffty-third was an ordinary right quar-
terer- He killed it with his first bar
rel, but used the second to make sure.
Hirschy had not only won the Grand
American handicap, but he had placed
to his record a score of seventy eight
straight birds for the event, and a
grand total of 102 for the week. having
erased every one since the tournament
began on Monday morning. When
Hirschy killed his last bird his admir-
ers swarmed around him and bore him
from the field on their shoulders.
The Complete Score.
The complete scores in the shoot-of
follow:
II. c. Hirschy, Minneapolis. So; C.
G. Spencer, St. Louis, 81; Rolla o.
Heikes, Dayton, O., 80: J. D. Pollard.
Chicago. %; J. L. Owens, "A: George
Roll, Blue Island, Ills. 20 Guy Deer
ing, Columbus, Wis, 10; F Snyder,
Charlottesville, Ind. 16; L. J. Squier.
Cincinnati. Is; J. L. D. Morrison. st.
Paul, IS; G.. w. Clay. Is; Fred Gilbert,
Spirit Lake, Ia, u; r. ". Cool. Aledo,
his, Il: George Darby, Philadelphia,
II; H. Z. BOltensten. Galesburg, Ills.
9: T. B. Nichols. Nichols. Ia :: I'd
Bingham. Chicago, 8; T. T. Dockson.
Springfield, his, S; ''Watertown hid"
Watertown, S. D., 6; b. o." Herman,
Neb.. 6; J. H. Boisseau, Shreveport, La,
s; Hood Waters, Baltimore, f; ]. H.
Holmes Chloride, Ariz, s; II. B. Hill.
Aurora, Ind, 8; ". r. Crosby, ORAL
Ion, Ills, 2; c. B. Adams, Rockwell
City, Ia, ?; J. Z. Avery Atlanta, Ga.
2; W. w. Herman, Kansas City. /: Ed
Banks, New York, /; Sim Glover New
York, /; J. W. Turner, 1; J. Kaintuck,
Harris, Ky, 0; Eugenia," 0.
Missed But One Bird.
The following men, who finished in
the main shoot with scores Of p out
of p, having missed only one bird, will
share in the prizes: 0. VonIengerke.
Chicago; - Burke, Baltimore: Fred
ArnhOld, st. Joseph, Mo; w A VIII
{ liams, Bellevue, Ills; G. Buckeye, Day
ton, o.. A. D. Mermod, St. Louis: E. d.
Trotter, Kingsley, Ia; DR.. J. I. Will
hanson, Milwaukee; r. L. Trimble,
COvington. Ky; ElwOod Thornton, JOp-
lin, No; J. II. Sims, Collinsville, MS;
r. S. Rhodes Columbus, o.; A. NJ
Shaw, Belmont, s. D.; Cal Callison.
Salt Lakes z. c. Henshaw, Okoboji, Ia;
W. Wetleaf, Nichols, Ia; NJ E Atchi-
son, Giddings, Tex; George Selhbers,
Newton, Ia: c. E. Agard. GOIdfeId.
Els W. W. Washburn, New Rich
mOnd Ills: w VI. Howe, Kansas City:
/. g. Scranton, Weir City, Kan; z. Z.
UnO, Milwaukee; J. A. r. Elliott, Kan
sas City; J. w Garrett. Colorado
Springs, Colo: Robin Hood, Fostoria,
o.; c. 3. Cockriu. Platte City. No: c.
r. Mink, Philadelphia: B. p WoodfOrd.
Dixon. Ills: A. G. Allen, NJ. N. May
hew, Ben Dicks, Chicago.
The purse amounts to $1,000 and was
divided as follows: First money. H. c.
Hirschy, $68S.70; second, c. G. Spencer,
s5SS.70; third, RoIla o. Heikes, S4SS.70:
fourth. J. D. Pollard. S43S.70; fifth. J.
L. Owens, S338.70; sixth, George Roll,
S$35S-l0; seventh. Guy DeeTing, S2SS.70:
eighth to twelfth viii receive S23S. so
each, thirteenth to twenty fourth
$1SS.T0 each. and twenty-fifth 10 sixty
third, s13S.7O each.