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Show MORE THAN 800 GUNS POP AWAY AT TARGETS IN AMERICAN HANDICAP Six Finish Day at Tie With 78 Breaks m 80 Attempts Remaining 20 Will Be Shot This Morning Holohan, Ciack Westerner, Beats Tom Marshall in Professional Pro-fessional Match Race By TOM MARSHALL B Interna ona News Se vice C UK AGO Aug 19 A f eld of q ore than 800 shooters d the Grand Araer can band cap proved too much for one day and ts a result the premier shoot event of the world was not settled per schedule at the Grant park traps today After I an dk away from early mora un ! t 1 n fcbt the field had shot through tbe fourth frame of twenty birds, so the rema ning twenty for each con tefetant w 11 be thrown from the tricky traps tomorrow morn ng When the event got under way early th s morn ng there were 827 shooters i ned p ready for bus nee a There were f ftv seven forfe ts and during he lay numerous contestants dropped out along the wav Bome d scouraged o er their showing and others peahz ng that the r chances to get into the money were nil Six Tie for Lead At the close of the event tonight six men were t ed for the lead ng pos t on w th cards of 78 breaks out of 80 birds shot at Se en participants tamed in 8cries "J a nuDier had 8 and 75, wh le the othe scores ran down almost to a 50 50 percentage. Altogether t was a poor dav for the contestants The leaders d d not seem to suffer however how-ever L. B flarke really d d the best work of the dav Ue was one of the six high guns but wa6 the onlv man to perform from the twentv vard mark J J Ean dal and C r Hickman registered 78 from nineteen ards M E Dewire and C B Helm turned d the tame scores from e ghteen vards while C W Irrpang d d the same from sixteen yards. The 77 Shooters Pat Graham member of the famous famtlj of shooters of that name d d a 7 from n neteen jards. C C Emery accomplished the same feat. B Gers tell Jr dd even better with a 77 from the twenty-one vard mark JL Gilson C II Beer and G K. Mackie broke the same number from e ghteen vards II W J eff ngwell has a like total from seventeen yards. It proved a bad dav for G A H winners of the 1 ast Eilev Thompson of Cainesville Mo who n 1910 woo the hand cap vv th 100 stra ght at the Ch cago Gun clnb was far off form He broke only 61 out of 80 shooting from the twentv vara 1 ne Woolfolk Hen lerson of Islington Kv who won the event la6t year at Davton Oh o w th a score of 9S from twenty two va ds broke onlv 63 todav He f red from the twenty three ard line The profess onals furnished a 1 ttle fancj shoot ng d r ng the dav the fea ture be eg a series of pro match races at 100 birds F G B Us was pa red with H C Henn cott and won bv 9 to 9 P J Holohan of Idaho, entered from Salt Lake defeated Tom ilarsnall bv 97 to 93 Fred Gilbe t and B 11 Crosbv were pa red n a be at 94 as were R O He kes and Jay Graham at 9i J M Hawkins had the better of H nkle Jr 98 to 96 Bart Lewis d d the best work of all with a 99 h h eas 1 beat a 95 bv Ed Graham In the ejrular professional event at 100 b ds -wo men we e high wl h os breaks They were C G Spencer and J R. Tavlor en tied at 98 they be n& Tom Ma sha ICE. Goodrich, C A loung J K Eastman Les er German Ger-man T H Kel er Jr and W Huff Best Scores Today s eaders with their points were 8 J J Dandall (18 vards) Greens bu e Kan C C Hickman (19) Yeoman Yeo-man Iowa C W Irrgang (16 Chicago L B C a ke ( 0 Ch cago M E Xe v e (18) Ham on Ind A B son (18 Ch ago C B He m (18 Rockford TH. Geo ge H Mack e (IS Lawrence Kan C M Bee s Rockford nl C C Emery (19 Chicago P J G aham 19) Ch cago R. GersteU, Jr 1 G afton TV V H. W Lefflni we 1 Ch cago 6 J S Frank ( 0) 'Wortliington, M nn B A Ehr ch (18) Terra Haute. Ind A. R Chez k (18 Portal N D E W Fo d (20 Wash ngton D C R. J Sta key (19) North Pla te Neb F Ca d (17 Chicago P L. Helnecke (6 B ue Is and n There wees n atch races between p ofe s ona s result ng as fo owe F G B s Ch cago s. H. Kennicott, S Lou s 9 92 P J Ho oha Sa t Lake vs T A M s a Ch cago 9 93 Fred G be t, Sp t Lake Iowa -vs W R Crosb O Fa on 1 1 94 94 R O He kes Day on Oh o vs J R Gra am Ch ago 98 08 J M Hawkns P ttsbu g vs J R H nk e Ok aho-na C ty SS 16 Ba t Le s Aubu n rl s Ed G a am C cago 99 Bo |
