Evening journal., 1915-08-21
unknown CAPTURES
THE GRANDANERICAN
Louis B. Clarke, Inexper-
fenced Shooter, Walks Off
With Blue Ribbon Event
DELAWAREANS
IN THE MONEY

CHICAGO, H.. Aug 21.-The call
Of the wild has penetrated the heart
Of Chicago's banking world and sum-
moned Louis B. Clarke to stand at
the head of Americas marksmen.
Grizzled veterans from Kentucky.
Virginia and Colorado mountains
must keep in the background, for
heredity has swept aside environment
and given the sixteenth annual Grand
American handicap honors TO a city
bred
Clarke tied with three other shoot
ers on 90 breaks out OF 100 targets
and broke 20 straight on the shoot
off. Those with whom Clarke tied
and their scores on the shoot-off
were NJ E. Dewire, Hamilton. Ind,
10, J. J. Randall. Greensburg, Kan
sas. rs and c. c. Hickman. Yeoman,
Iowa. II.
The event carried with II purse
OF S7S13 to be divided among the
fifty high guns and five trophies.
Clarke's winnings amounted to
$751;. 80, Dewire's S703.50: Randall's,
$62S.05 and Hickman's $4,000.
Louis B. Clarke has been a trap
shooter for little longer than a year
lie never bid for shooting laurels in
the days OF the live bird shoots as did
many of the S3l gun experts he de-
feated yesterday in the worlds gun
powder classic So Il was not ex-
perience that won him his title.
Clarke was certainly a dark horse
in the tournament His records for
ItI4 40 ID a..
much attention by the handicappers.
who placed him on the 1S-yard line,
penalizing him but six feet The men
with the trap shooting regulations
We're back on the 23-yard mark.
When the fourth event OF the big
match was finished Thursday evening
six shooters were tied for first place,
with scores of as out of So That left
20 target TO be shot for by each of the
SSl who started Clarke was one Of
/ the rs scorers. The shoot was re-
sumed this morning and when each
of the remaining contestants had
been handed his 100 opportunity. four
OF the men who were tied the pre-
vious day we're still deadlocked
A shoot-off was arranged, each of
the four taking twenty birds. Clarke
ran out his string without a miss.
NJ y. Dewire, of Hamilton, Ind, was
the first of the quartet to falter His
sixth target dropped into Lake Michi-
gan without a scratch. G. c. Hick-
man. of Yeoman. Ia. was the next TO
fall behind, missing his twelfth. then
his fourteenth and fifteenth. That
left J J. Randall. OF Greenburg, Kan.
but he slipped on the next target
his nineteenth. Dewire shot next and
shattered his twentieth while IL was
still sailing upward. The target to
be thrown was Clarke's twentieth II
he missed he would be tied with De-
wire, necessitating another shoot-off,
but he got a clean break on his next
shot and won.
Although only about a fourth OF
the shooters who competed in the
Grand American returned to Grant
Park for the end of the match and
the consolation handicap. competi-
tion was just as close. The consola-
tion Of 100 targets resulted in a tie
at 81 between Sam Leever, former
! Pittsburgh National League pitcher
and NJ l.. Hammersmith took the
trophy and shoot-off Is to II. showing
Sam into second place. d. Living.
stone, Of Youngstown. Ohio landed
third honors after a quadruple tie.
The event brought out 247 entries
The purse totaled S1450 Hammer.
smith drew down S145 and a trophy
Lever. too, added some silverwar,
; TO his Goshen, Ohio. home.
Only fourteen of the marksmeI
from Philadelphia and vicinity re
turned to the traps to finish the shoot
But a few of those who did fnisl
got into the money division. as fift!
I prizes we're given.
q J. d. Elliott. Of New Wilmington
4. Pa. had only eight misses in the tw,
r days, finishing with a total Of 9
breaks out OF 100 al Carskaden. .
, Pittsburgh, broke 81, and c. H. New
T. comb. OF Philadelphia. also had min
e misses. The scores OF those who fin
e ished today follow: Dale Bakwell. Sc
}, wickley. Pa. 70; George ]. Elliot
New Wilmington. SO: William \
Foord. Wilmington. Del. 73; Eugen
), Murray. Sewickley. Pa. 50; Frank +
Mellon, Pittsburgh, SO; w. P. Nc