Show LIVE BIRD SHOOT Great American Handicap Begins at Interstate Park New York April 3 3Most of the prominent shooters who will take part In the grand American handicap at Hvo birds which will begin tomorrow morning were at Interstate Park L T today and had a chance of testing their capabilities and probable possibilities possi-bilities for the blue ribbon event in the Nltro handicap The conditions the handcap are similar to those governing govern-ing the biff event and tho handicap claimed for those entered for the grand American maintained in todays shoot At the end of the handicap only sixteen six-teen of the contestants were left standing stand-ing with clean scores of sixteen kills each Thirtyeight of the remainder were tied with fifteen kills each and waite tneir moro untortunato brothers received 30260 apiece each of the thir tyeight only got J310 or about one third of their entry money of 10 Mrs S S Johnston of Cincinnati killed fifteen out of a possible sixteen and Miss Annie Oakley of Nuttey N J grassed thirteen out of her sixteen chances Mrs Johnston shot from the 25yiml mark while Miss Oakley had a 26yard handicap The Western contingent allowed up to good advantage In todays shoot as eight out of the sixteen who killed straights represented the Western team The high guns wore II C1 Illrachey St Puul 2S yards C if Stanley Cleveland 27 yards A L Ivlns Red Bank N J JS yards J Wayman Cleveland 28 yards Jay ElI Milwaukee 20 yards C F Lambert Lam-bert Lynn Mass 27 yards J H Mackle Cincinnati 28 yards A H Fox Baltimore 28 yards R ar Stout Cir clevlllc O 27 yards IT j LyonK Louisville Ky 28 yards M M May hew Marcy N T 27 yards G D Llnderman Adams Neb 2 yards R O llelkcs liayton 0 no yards Sol Martin Bluffton S 0 2S yards Dr Weller Rochester N Y 2C yards end A G Courtney Syracuse N Y 2S yards |