Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-05
.B|RS|jHY IS CHAMPION
Minneapolis Man Wins Grand
American Handicap Shoot
at Kansas City.
Becomes Champion Wing Shot
OF United States and Receives
Handsome Trophy.
C. S. Spencer, Of St. Louis Takes
Second Money..Heikes in
Third Place.


the grand American handicap shoot.
thereby becoming the champion wing
shot of the United States. He received
the handsome trophy captured last
year by e. C. Griffith, of Pascogg, N. j.,
and $6SS as prize money.
The balance of the $11,4Ol prize
money will be divided among siXty-two
high guns. The shoot has proven tne
greatest ever held by the associatlon
and perhaps brought together the most
imposing array of cracks ever conVen-
ed. At the close of the first days shoot
ing Wednesday, 143 men had stfalght
scores of eight birds. Most OF the weak
ones and many of those with national
reputation had missed their birds mt the
close of the second day and only forty
four men came out with straight scores
of sixteen birds to their credlt. Wheh
the full twenty-five rounds hao peeh
shot yesterday there remained put
thirty-three with clean scores. Ihen
came the shoot-off. When darkness
prevented further work last evening
nineteen men had missed out on the
chance for first money, leaving four
teen with perfect scores. These 1our-
teen began the final round this morn
ing and one by one they missed and
dropped out until the thirty-first round
when Hirschy and c. s. Spencer, of st.
Louis. alone remained. These two con-
tinued to kill bird after bird until the
SDenCof
missed his bird and Hirschy became
champion. Hirschy placed to his rec
ord a score of seventy-eight straigh'
birds for this event and grant total OF
102 for the week, having grassed every
one since the tournament began. Spen-
Ger will receive second money. X. y
Heikes, Dayton, o., third; j. D. Pollard
Chicago, fourth; j. Lowen, Cushing
Okla, fifth.
The shoot-off today began with
bright clear weather. but with hare
wind blowing. In the second roune
two men dropped, "a third missed on,
lin 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, wa:
one of the first men to quit and Heikes
after making many sensational shot:
lost his thirty first. This left Hirschl
and Spencer alone in the race. The.
killed three birds with ease and regu
larity and soon passed the RECORD
mark for straight kills of "a, set D!
Bates in 1900. Hirschy was shooting
steadier than Spencer on the las
rounds and many picked him for
winner after the fourth bird had beer
killed. Both men were straight up t.
the fifty-second bird. The fifty thirt
was a towering out-goer Spence
shot first and altho he hit it the birt
fell dead out of the bounds. Hirschy'
lfifty-third was an ordinary right quar-
| terer He killed it with the first bar
lrel. but used the second to make sure
| When Hirschy killed his last bird hi
admirers swarmed around him ant
bore him from the field on thei
| shoulders.
| Kansas City, April 5.-Thirty- thre
wing shots made a straight score o
twenty-five birds yesterday in tn
Grand American Handicap. and at tn
end of the tenth round of the shoot -of
fourteen men remained who had no
yet missed bird.
| The shooting stopped at the end
the tenth round of the shoot off ol
account of darkness. The contest wa
resumed at o'clock.
1 The shoot-off commenced shortl
after O'Clock, and thousands of spec
ltators gathered around No. set
traps, where the wing shot supremac
was to be decided. So great was tn
lcrowd that it required much effort o.
the part of the management to kee
the people outside the dead line. Fac
of the thirty-three men who tied TO
first honors had a great following an
was a favorite with some portion O
the crowd. Every good shot met wit
spontaneous applause, and when a mis-
was recorded many expressions of re
gret were heard.
The first man to miss in the shoot-oi
was j. Kaintuck of Harris, Ky. II
drew hard right quarterer on tn
first round of the shoot-off and sho
under the bird with both barrels.
j "Eugenie," of ST. Louis, was the onl
other man to miss out on this rount
He had been shooting rare form u
to this time, but he hesitated to
Ilong on this bird, and, altho hit, tn
bird did not fall. Ed Banks and Sil
i Glover, of New York, w. w. Turner, {
Marlin, Tex, and w. II. Herman, G
Kansas City, each missed his bird o
the next round. Glover killed hi
bird, but it fell out of bounds.
i At the end of the third round {
the shoot off three more men ha
dropped out of the race. They wei
w. r.. Crosby, of O'Fallon, ILL.,, c.
Adams, of Rockwell City, Ia, and job
e. Avery, of Atlanta, Ga.
Besides killing twentyseven straigf
in this match, Crosby made straigi
scores in the Kansas City sweepstake
and the Nitro Powder Handicap. II
was looked upon as a winner by man
and his large following of admirel
was sorely disappointed when he let
. bird get away He shot from the 3:
Z yard mark and his big handicap We
responsible for his miss He hit tt
bird and it fell dead out of bounds.
II. b. Hill, of Aurora, Ind, lost bin
On the next round. Hood Waters,
Baltimore, and T. H. Holmes, of Chic
ride, Ariz., missed their fifth birds. w;
], tiers was a favorite with many of Il
, spectators. There We're no misses {
1.-THE next round, but five men droppt
out in the seventh. They were: T