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Show EXCITING FINISH AT SHOOTING TOURNAMENT INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Juno 3. With a thousand enthusiasts crowded about tho handicap lines and In what was probably the most exciting finish ever witnessed In a Grand American tournament, Richard Rich-ard L. Guphlll of Altkon, Minn., handicapped handi-capped at nlnoteen yards, wono the Grand American trophy, a silver tea service and $1000 In cash In tho third shoot off of a He with William Randall of Tellurlde, Colx. with S5 breaks. A brisk wind blowing blow-ing across tho course toduy offered a natural nat-ural handicap. Late in the afternoon the contestants began to string out and It becamo apparent appar-ent that Guphill and Randr.il were tho probable winners. Guphill finished first, with a score of 6. Randall then faced tho traps, breaking nineteen straight targets nnd tlcing thc scoro. In the llrst shoot off at twenty targots tlui result wits a tie with nineteen breaks. Tho. second re-suited In another tic with seventeen breaks. In tho third the acoro stood: Guphill, 19; Randall, 15. Immediately Immedi-ately he was lifted to tho shoulders of an excited crowd and carried pft the field. The scoro of SG for thc Grand American handicap Is gi cater by two than tho previous pre-vious record, which was mado at Kansas City last year. |