Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-02
SHOOT FOR 1S-YARD
TROPHY AT EASTERN
A. B. Richardson and Allen He'll
to Compete for Old Trophy
In Open Competition.
is OLD L1vE.B1RD PRIZE

New York, July 1.-The eighteen
yard-mark challenge championship
trophy, first competed for in Whining
ton, Del, in 1895, 10 to be placed in
competition for the first time this
year at the Great Eastern handicap
trap shooting tournament, which
takes place over the traps of the
Keystone Shooting league. Holmes
burg Junction, Philadelphia, July II,
10, 10 and 20.
The trophy will be shot for at the
Great Eastern handicap on Monday,
July II, beginning at 1880 a. m, be-
cause A. B. Richardson, champion Of
Delaware, has challenged Alien He'll
OF Allentown, Pa, the present holder
OF the trophy. He'll won It at the
Westy Hogan shoot last fall, with 81
breaks in 100 targets thrown sixty
FIVE yards, and standing on the eight
een-yard mark.
Seldom has such fine shooting been
seen, as the targets that day were
treacherous and Eighty, so caused by
the high wind which blew over the
fats.
The history OF this trophy is inter
esting. In 1895 it was first placed in
competition in Baltimore, Md. Live
bird shooting was then In its zenith.
Smokeless powder made in America
was just becoming reality, as up to
that time American sportsmen had to
depend on the makers abroad for their
smokeless powder. And last, but not
least, Fred Gilbert, most famous and
expert of all clay-target breakers OF
all times, was ushered into the lime
light by winning the famous live-bird
trophy the first time II was placed
| In competition. Gilbert was young
then, and also unknown, and what he
did to the bunch OF sharks that day
in October, twenty-one years ago, Is
still the talk Of trapshooters, old and
young.
In succeeding years the trophy
changed hands many times, and Gill
bert, Crosby, Heikes, the Elliotts,
Marshall and others claimed It for a
time. When live bird shooting passed
on, the trophy was removed from
competition. Later on It was put up
as q clay-target trophy, the condi-
tons being that 1t be shot for when
ever there was challenge. When
ever challenge match is shot, every
one desiring to do so may enter and
have equal rights In the competition
with the challenger and the chellen-
gee. The entrance is $40; IS goes to
the purse to be distributed among
the high guns; per cent target goes
to the club holding the shoot, and !
per cent target goes to the accumu-
lation purse. When the accumula-
ton purse amounts to $500, the cup
10 placed in open competition, and
those who have won the cup since
the previous shoot-off for an &C.
emulation purse, enter the competi-
ton for the accumulated $500. The
purse now amounts to $84.2S. The
following matches have been shot
~ Ju ~ \ i,0IH Pr, William roord. 9s;
September 20, 1918, Dart Lewis, 92;
April 9, 1874, Bart Lewis, 90, and Is
straight In shoot-off; May 81, 1914,
William Ridley, 90; June rs, 1914, J.
| N. Knox, ~, and Is straight in shoot
off; September Is, 1914, w. NJ
Foord, ~; September Is, 1915, Allen
He'll, 81. He'll was closely pressed
by w. S. Hoon, Jewell, Ia, with IS
and c. H. Newcomb Of Philadelphia
and Frank S. Wright, Buffalo, N. Y.
with IS. II He'll shoots in this event
the way he shot in the Pennsylvania
state shoot, when he won the state
championship with 100 straight, he
will make all work to win the trophy