Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-10
CONSOLATION CLOSES
THE GRAND AMERICAN
Ralph Rosentheil of Freeport, ILL.,,
Captures Final Event OF
Big Shoot.

Chicago, III, Aug. 10.-Thc nineteenth
Grand American Handicap trapshooting
tournament is history, 1t concluded
Yesterday when Ralph Rosentheil. of
Freeport. Ill won the consolation handl-
cap from II wards with a 90 score.
The consolation handicap is staged for
the shooters who participated in the pre-
liminarv and Grand American handicaps
and who failed 10 land IN the division OF
the prize money. With 100 moneys IN
the preliminary and Grand American
handicaps this wear. the consolation drew
but 17q entries, the purse totalled s995
Of which the winner drew down s99 %
and the thirtv-ninth shooter Sl3 %.
The great majority Of the Pennsylvania.
New Jersey and Delaware shooters
fastened away when the Grand American
handicap was concluded, leaving only
four Pennsvlvanians to participate IN the
consolation. Not one OF them got IN the
money. Second place was won ny X, K.
Merrill. Of Milwaukee, and third was
won'on the shoot-off by ; j kommsky,
of Tcxarkana. The Red Cross event,
which has been gong on all week. netted
the Red Cross S7I3, besides the amount
collected last Sunday
The high money winner Of the week
was II ] Pendergast, Of Phoenix, y. =,
who collected $50 more than 81 900 To
prove that the targets were hard to Int
one needs but to glance at the long runs
While there were lS3 runs more than 30,
ONLY three shooters had runs over 100.
With Dave Fauskee, of Northlngton,
MINI, high with l53.
One of the features of the weeks shoot
ing was that of George Andrew Miller,
9 wears old. Of Brewton, Ala. Firing a
20 gauge gun, he broke "A targets IN
the consolation.
The number of targets thrown was
2l4.74O, which is considerably less than
in the past three years.
Scores of Pennsylvania shooters in the
consolation follow
A. NJ. Heillnan, Butler ......... IL %
H. T. Funess. Pittsburg ....... Is II
J. Y Husher. Monessene. e...-.... 10 80
II. W Jeffrey, Philadelphia. .... is So
Eugene Murray, Sewickley 10 80
HENRY WINS GRAND AMERICAN.
OF the IO4 trapsbooters who figured in
the division of the War Savings Stamps
and Liberty Bonds in the Grand American
Handicap, the premiere event OF trapdOm,
at the South Shore Country Club, yester-
dav. only three came from Pennsylvania,
and these three from the western section.
They were George Cochran, Of Option;
J. r. Johnston. Jr, of Pittsburg former
captain of the Princeton University Gun
Club. and ". : Land, Of Edgeworth. 1t
took % or better TO get in. Fred Tomlin,
the Jersey champion, got IN with a 90
score from q wards, the best work done
bv anyone from the Pennsylvania dis
trict
The handicap was won by John D.
Henry. bari er, Of EIkhart, Ind Henry
is listed as an IS per cent shooter in the
average book, but on this occasion he
managed to break 81 perfectly good clay
targets He shot from 10 yards. HI.
Pendergast, the Phoenix, y. y, cattle
raiser, also turned in 97 score, from %
yards, making the second year in success
sion that a 22-yard trapshot tied for the
g. A H., only TO lose in the shoot-off.
Henry broke IS targets and Pendergast
II.
Charley Newcomb got away we'll on the
Suicide trap" which is otherwise known
as trap No 9, breaking 20 straight He
was one down in 40, and then on the third
20 lost five targets Fred Tomlin was
two down in 90, and then the targets
began to get away.
The woman : championship was won by
Mrs Harold Almort, Of Chicago, who won
from Miss Emma Wettleaf of Nichols, Ind.
They tied at 50, and on the shoot-off Mrs
Almort broke 10 TO her opponents 16
The contest for the Columbus Cup re-
suited in tie between Frank Troeh, Of
Vancouver, Warh, mi Mark Arle of
Thomasboro, Ill, each losing 38 targets
in 600. On the shoot-off, at 100 targets.
20 from IS yards, 20 from Is yards, 40
from % yards and 10 pairs, Arie broke 9,]
targets and Troeh 80
The purse amounted TO S6,095, the two
high guns dividing 81 900 in Liberty Bonds
and War Savings Stamps.
One indian, 10 men in service uniforms,
a 9-year-old boy and a veteran of ~
wears were among the 598 starters of 620
entries