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cap, ioo targets, unknown angles, 16 to 23 yards 
handicap. 
Shooting in a high wind, and firing from the 
twenty yard rise, George Nicolai of Kansas City, 
Missouri, a former Nebraska scattergun and live- 
bird marksman, won the Preliminary Handicap. 
But Nicolai needed all of his targets. He was 
closely followed by L. R. Coon of Panama, Neb., 
0 . H. Coleman of Osceola, la., and E. (Bob) 
Tappin of Hoagland, Neb., who cracked 96 each 
in this program, firing from the sixteen, seven¬ 
teen and nineteen yard levels, respectively. 
More than 200 shooters competed in the two 
100-bird programs and sensational scores were 
the rule, despite the handicaps, imposed by the 
handicap committee and the high wind, which 
swept the traps from west to east, causing the 
targets to take difficult angles all afternoon. 
In one instance, six consecutive squads shot 
better than 90 per cent. This is unheard of at 
a big tournament. Occasionally there are squads 
that shoot 90 per cent, or better, and sometimes 
there are three or four of them consecutively, 
but never before has a record of half a dozen 
squads, all shooting better than 90 per cent, been 
hung up. 
Ninety-two out of 100 men won the Western 
Handicap on the closing afternoon of the big 
shoot, and that too under as difficult and tan¬ 
talizing conditions as ever afflicted this great 
' event before. A fierce, old wind blew transverse¬ 
ly across the grounds with hurricane speed, caus¬ 
ing the flying saucers to commit all sorts of 
depredations in the way of sudden jumps, both 
up and down, contrary angles and culs-de-sac 
without number, and yet despite it all, a lad from 
Bleeding Kansas, E. T. Gibbs by name, was 
sturdy and steady enough to outstrip 151 oppo¬ 
nents with a score of 92, the lowest notch at 
which the event has ever been won during the 
eleven years of its existence. 
Along came J. Gilbert-Fye of Ollie, Iowa, a 
wee bit of a village on the eastern side. Gilbert 
had an excellent chance to beat Gibbs, but 
cracked under the strain. He tied him, however, 
and after the balance of the fellows had com¬ 
pleted the program, the big shoot-off was staged. 
Gibbs ultimately won this, but it required two 
twenty-target events to settle the argument. East 
was down four in the first twenty, and in the 
second event Fye dropped his last target, being 
down five to Gibbs’ four. There were 500 per¬ 
sons about the trap watching the fight for the 
Western Handicap honor, the premier event in 
the big three-day shooting tournament at the 
Omaha Gun Club Park. 
Ray Ericson of Lake View, Iowa, and O. C. 
Bottger of Ollie, Iowa, got into a double-knotted 
tie in the race for third position. Both broke 
ninety-one targets in the 100-target race, and in 
the first shoot-off both cracked sixteen. But the 
second shoot-off Bottger fell off his stride and 
shattered but fourteen, while Ericson nailed fif¬ 
teen. 
B. F. Elbert of. Des Moines and W. S. Fritz 
of Kansas City tied for fifth place with ninety 
out of 100. 
H. L. Kennicott, the Evanston, Ill., Profes¬ 
sional, did some remarkable shooting. Firing from 
the twenty-two yard line he broke ninety-five 
out of a possible 100, the best mark of the day. 
To Billy Hoon of Jewell, Iowa, and C. C. Tap- 
pan of Hoagland, Neb., went the honors for high 
average. Both broke 339 out of a possible 350 in 
the sixteen yard events. Ed. Varner of Adams, 
Neb., was third with 337 out of 350, and C. E. 
Eaton of Fayette, Mo.; William Ridley of What 
Cheer, Iowa, and John Gauer of Louisville, Neb., 
tied for fourth with 336 out of 350. 
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