| Show r WIW3SFOTSASSEBiE Big Live Bird Tournament Opens Today I 461 SHOOTERS ARE ENTERED r I Grand American Handicap Live Bird Tournaiaeiit at Kansas City Attracts At-tracts Tany < Aspiring Wing Shots i Hatch Will Open Today With Sweepstakes at Twelve Birds From ThirtyYard Hark Big Event Will Occur on Wednesday Cal Collison of Salt lake Entered in Events Kansas City Mo March 30Most or the 451 wing ahots who have entered for the Grand American handicap live bird tournament at Blue River park In this city are here tonight Delegations hive arrived on evens train during the past twentyfour hours Among the large delegations today was 150 wing ahots from Chicago who came In this evening on the Rice special Nearly all of the prominent wing chots In tho United States will participate par-ticipate in the big shoot this year Many who arc hero have participated in every Grand American handicap since tho annual shooting event was inaugurated The unprecedented entry let brings to the front many aspirants for wlnsrahot honors who have never been heard of before Manager Shaner who has managed every Grand American Ameri-can handicap since 1893 says that almost al-most half of those entered arc strangers stran-gers to him The preliminary events will be the Kansas City sweepstakes at twelve birds to be shot from the thirtyyard mark and which will tako place tomorrow to-morrow morning and the nitropowder handicap at sixteen birds on Tuesday Tues-day The handicap In the latter will be the tame aa that In the Grand American handicap and both events will serve as practice for the big event on Wednesday Cal Calllson of Salt Lake la i entered In mtiny of the events and his past record encourages his friends to hope that he will land pretty close to the top |
