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Peters, but Oh! Lord, it never came to pass. Bill 
Joslyn, champion of two offices in the DuPont build¬ 
ing, threw a defi at T. E. Doremus, but Ted had a bone 
in his trigger finger and decided to give us a page of 
advertising instead. Thanks, it will be found else¬ 
where. An attractive amateur event was one at two 
hundred rocks for the John H. Patterson Trophy, won 
by Mark Arie with one hundred ninety-four, seconded 
by a rather unpopular shooter, Sam Huntley. Sam is 
accused with being a tournament chaser, but be that 
as it may, he can shooit like ’ll with the brimstone 
eliminated. Third place went to a threesome between 
R. H. Bruns, ask any girl in Dayton; Woolfolk Hen¬ 
derson and F. A. Graper, whose record of last year is 
too well known to need elucidation. Each of these 
whirlwinds made brother Wiinans smile in absolute 
happiness, their breakage being one hundred ninety-two. 
The preliminary went into a tie at ninety-six between 
C. Riffe and A. R. Chezik; the shootoff was taken by 
Riffe. H. E. Wiedenbusch, H. F. Wihlon, G. Grubb 
and C. E. Dimitt tied for next alley with ninety-four. 
Any man with less than ninety-eight on the first day 
was not noticed. Walter Behm, one of the cleanest 
little shooters in the game, Tom Hale a welcome ama¬ 
teur, and J. R. Livingston, an excellent sportsman, 
tied for first with ninety-nine while ninety-eights, as 
plentiful as shaves in the free barber shop, went to Sam 
Huntley, C. A. Gunning, J. H’. Noel, W. Henderson, 
G. Vance, Joe Rummel and Mark Arie. Ninety-seven 
lagged the names of my room mate, a man of great 
patience and a winning smile, Norwood Johnson, J. 
W. Knox, R. D. Morgan, T. Prior, J. F. Couts, A. 
B. Richardson (the Senator’s son, you know), Danny 
McMahon and J. S. Young. We haven’t enough trap 
advertising to pay for space required to enumerate the 
ninety-sixers. The National Amateur Championships, 
an honor second not even to the Grand American 
Handicap, was as pretty a race as one could pay rail¬ 
road fare to hear. It was won, after a hellsfury finish, 
by Woolfolk Henderson of Kentucky with the ninety 
and nine; Walter Behm of the Keystone _ state and 
.1. M. Barrett of Georgia, tying for place with ninety- 
seven, being trailed with ninety-six by C. B. Homer, 
T R. Jahn. Tony Prior, A. B. Richardson and F. S. 
Wright, the latter winner of the Eastern Handicap 
this year; ninety-five had about the same chance as a 
bowlegged girl in ithe town in which she was raised 
or as a popular chap from Wilmington said: I he same 
chance as a pair of ice cream trousers in the vicinity 
of a mustard pot. A big mark of efficiency was regis¬ 
tered by Woolfolk Henderson (who shot better than 
he ever did as a professional) in the Doubles Cham¬ 
pionship. He caused the Western Cartridge Company 
to manufacture ninety more targets, for the invincible 
Kentuckian destroyed that number out of fifty pairs. 
Just imagine anyone Hanging it on A1 Heil and George 
Lyon at twin targets; well it was properly attended to 
by any number of scaler destroyers. George _ removed 
from competition only seventy-nine, while _ Heil’s quota 
numbered just seventy-seven; second high smasher 
was the aforesaid Huntley with one shy, while the 
third spoke was occupied by W. Wetitleaf whose crack- 
age totaled eighty-eight. This was the greatest double 
event ever seen on any grounds. The daily scores of 
the gentlemen who demonstrated the value of gun, shell 
and powder, erroneously termed professionals, war¬ 
ranted their continuance as helps to the man mistakenly 
entitled amateur. There isn’t a shooter that hasn’t a 
soft spot in his heart for these bully chaps, nor is 
there a man who is not helped by' shooting beside a 
professional in a squad. It lends confidence, teaches 
time and generally bolsters the weak shooter to watch 
the unruffled demeanor, break or miss, of these white- 
souled and generous shooters for wads only. On prac¬ 
tice day Homer Clark and ex-Giant pitcher. Lester 
German each snuffed out one hundred straight. In¬ 
cidentally, it was a pleasure to welcome into the ranks 
of demonstrators, a delightful young chap, just out 
of college. Murray Ballou, Jr., of Boston, respresenting 
the American Powder Mills of which Mr. Ballou’s 
father is president. This sort of chap will help the 
game muchly. On the first day C. O. Le Compte dup¬ 
licated the score of the day before, while in a match 
event Fred Gilbert, not yet entirelv recovered from 
rheumatism, tied Big Bill Crosby (we haven’t heard 
there was anything internally wrong with Bill) on ninety- 
five. On third day Fred Bills topped the bunch with 
a ninety-nine, followed by Fred Crosby, E. II. Taylor, 
J. R. Tailor. Walter Huff, P. Hollalian, with ninety- 
eight. The finals appear above on the Sanford Cup 
event. The big event opened with 515 entries, ex¬ 
clusively of professionals, who up to this year have 
figured in the regular entries, and to say that every 
one was excited is like saying that hades is situated 
in the temperate zone, which we understand it is not. 
Shooting a remarkable and memorable race, which up 
to the last string of twenty headed toward either A. C. 
Blair or F. J. Couts, Woolfolk Henderson kept his 
nerve and called upon his great reserve force and won 
out by one bird only because he killed his last string 
straight. One of these was just trimmed and no more 
but it was enough to win not only much honor but 
mucher gelt. When the handicap was interrupted Thurs¬ 
day night, by the shades of night being pulled low 
over the setting sun, Couts had shot eighty and was 
one down, Blair being two down on the same number, 
while Henderson had gone forty straight. Knowing 
the fettle of Henderson’s competitors it generally was • 
conceded. that either had a better chance than did the 
Kentuckian. Henderson was first to toe the score, 
visibly nervous and on too high tension, as well as 
knowing the attitude of manv shooters present; he 
dropped two birds, both right quarterers. This put him 
one down on Couts, who now came to target. He 
couldn’t stand the gaff and lost two rocks, going out 
with ninety-six. Blair strung like a violin cord came 
to score and coolly ground each offering to dust un¬ 
til the sixteenth scaler slipped through his pattern; he 
tightened up and went straight to the finish, going out 
with a Great Big ninety-seven, which certainly looked 
good to the wiseacres—and there a are a few of those 
same at every shoot. The hand shaking made Blair 
feel like the right wing of Colonel Heezaliar after re¬ 
discovering the uphill River of Doubt. 
The glad handers had reckoned without the “man 
from down there,” who now held his “three drams of 
Du Pont cyclone maker” for his last twenty aerosaucers 
—and woe betide the Zepplin that he is called upon to 
point at—it will blow up worse than Blair; and Cout’s 
prophets. There were twenty chances Henderson had 
of losing the big prize as he stood before that crowd 
of more than a thousand powder and shot fans, and— 
he didn’t accept adamone; he smashed the full twenty 
without the bat of an eye, ear or lip. He made that 
crowd, at least half of whom were hostile, put their 
paws together in unison and say one to another, “By 
gad he’s a wonder, and deserves all he got.” Its hard 
to beat the sportsman instinct of a real trapshooter, 
although of course, here and there we find a short 
skate. It was an event that will long be remembered 
by those fortunate enough to witness it. O. P. Goode 
also with ninety-seven, tied Blair for place and after 
three shootoffs, won with nineteen to eighteen for 
Blair; third of course went to Blair; fourth had six 
men at ninety-six. In the shootoff M. P. G. Hollman 
took the honor, with Couts in the next place. The 
consolation was carried over to Saturday, and unfortu¬ 
nately many shooters had to be on their way, so that 
the entry was much bigger than the participation. The 
winner shot a good race and from his score it looks 
as though only stage fright kept him out of the money 
in the preceding events. Fred Whitney, as usual cash¬ 
iered the shoot, and—oh well, what’s the use telling 
how he did it. There is only one way Fred would do 
the job, the best that it could be done. Bernerd 
Elsesser and D. H. Eaton had charge of scores, under 
direction of Luther (hoping you are the same) Squier, 
while White Rock traps were glanced at by the inimit¬ 
able Winins—glanced at covers the ground as the traps 
being automatic behaved as the name implies. Charley 
North, all over on the job, had about the same amount 
of trouble with the Blue Rock throwers. SUCCESS, 
in caps, spells the entire affair, and N. C. R. willing, 
we hope the tournament next year will be held in Day- 
ton, Ohio. 
GRAND AMERICAN HANDICAP, TOHN H. 
PATTERSON, INTRODUCTORY. 
Practice Day. 
Crothers, D . 
Graper, F. A . 
Jahn, J. R . 
Hoon, W. S. 
Frink, J. S . 
Andrews, T. I.. 
Stonehouse, W. L. 
Hicks, W. II. ... 
Arnold, C. W . 
Robison, L. J. 
Hotze, W. II. 
Reams, W. A . 
Flickinger, A. G. . 
Rains, R. C . 
Rogers, D. C. 
Grubb, Geo. 
Velvan, V. 
Mackie, Geo. 
Thorpe, D. B. ... 
Litherbury, C. W. 
Williams, F. P. 
Gunning, Chas. ... 
Moritz, B. F. 
King, R. A. 
Caldwell, J. F. .. 
Prior, T. 
Ridley, Wm. 
Huntley, S. A. .. 
Cou.ts, J. F. 
Staunton, W. C. 
Swearinger, H. A. 
Magill, C. S. ... 
Hiner, G. C. 
Montroth, S. O. 
Mul ford, W. L. .. 
Moore, R. J. 
Camp, G. R. 
Ford. E. S. 
Morgan. R. D. ... 
Stutz, H. C. 
Homer, C. B. 
Campbell, J. IT. .. 
Haynie, R. W. ... 
Skidmore. C. J. ... 
Kelsey, F. D. 
Lallance, T. B. 
Blunt. J. A. 
Connor, A. C. 
Coburn, C. D. 
Young, J. S. 
Wiedebusch, W. A. 
Dalby, W. A. 
Seaborn, Joe . 
Buckles, C. A. 
Graham, S. O. S. 
Chezik, A. R. 
Cowan, W. A. 
Folev, ,Tno. 
Kivits, W. IT . 
Henderson. W. 
Frericks. H. 
Sheets, C. A. 
Brandenberg, J. I. 
Cooper Guy . 
Plum, F. 
Speer. Jno. 
Edwards, F. M. 
Duckham, II. D. .. 
Hootman, H. S. .. 
Total 
. 180 
. 192 
. 182 
. 187 
. 183 
. 172 
. 170 
• 185 
. 181 
. 176 
. 178 
• 131 
. 183 
. 168 
173 
189 
172 
182 
182 
177 
171 
191 
179 
190 
179 
189 
185 
193 
187 
164 
163 
152 
175 
164 
166 
170 
176 
178 
181 
176 
165 
140 
167 
175 
174 
175 
185 
184 
184 
169 
182 
185 
176 
188 
180 
179 
173 
192 
168 
171 
178 
175 
180 
184 
177 
186 
186 
Ebberts, T. 
O’Brien, p. ii.'gl 
Owens, C. E. -a,. 
Riley, Chick . I7 ? 
Anderson, W. H. ,a 0 
wade, f.. 
Deaver, W. II. I72 
Tansii, j. r.:A..:..;::A::;;;;;;;;; l6o 
Williams, II. M. Id A 
Brown, W. L. . 147 
McDuffee, Dr. J. II.’ I72 
Shea, Albert . .fir 
Hale, T....."."i;" I77 
Roach, W. E. I 8e 
Burks, C. A. 180 
Galbraith, Ira . iyg 
Martin, J. G. I7 -> 
Englert, J. L.’ ’. I75 
Heil, Allen . x 8i 
Shrop, H. B. i 74 
Behm, W. S. I!.. 187 
Vance, S. G. 180 
Stur.t, E. II... 177 
Hart, J. W. 180 
Jones, J. E. 168 
Spencer, W. E. 160 
Probert, F. E. 181 
Wilcockson, J. M. 171 
Fry, E. W. 177 
Fletcher, R. N. 175 
Patterson, W. II. 172 
McMahon. D. F. 185 
Osborne, G. L. 181 
Williams, F. 0. 168 
Kneussl, Max . 184 
Beer, C. M.. 183 
Sellers, I. J. 178 
Delong, I. C. 173 
McKelvey, C. E. 171 
Whitney, H. E. 180 
Dreher, J. II. 133 
Livingston, J. R. 183 
Warren, J. I<. 174 
Austin, J. F. 180 
George, M. F. 163 
Hillman. M. P. G. 176 
Fuller, Frank . 19 1 
Lyons, G. L. 186 
Arie, Mark . 194 
Bruns, R. II. 192 
Wright, F. S. 189 
Wettleaf. Wm. 181 
Jones, W. H. 187 
Barnett, J. M. 185 
Galbraith, C. A. 164 
Key, G. M. L. i74 
Grant, L. C. 178 
Goode, O. P. i74 
Ryding, TI. C. U 1 
Hamm, Jno. J. '83 
Dunnill, Harry . 181 
Hood, H. C. 181 
Wulf, J. F. i75 
Richardson. A. B. 187 
Reitz, G. H. 167 
Wihlon, H. F. 183 
Pumphrey, J. II. 170 
Spangler, W. 1. 168 
Koch, F. C. 182 
Platt, J. D. 173 
Bippus, W. F. 172 
Williams, Lee . 170 
Parker, J. D. 180 
Rambo, L. S. 166 
Ditto, C. H. 171 
Hellyer, E. 180 
Brooks, H. E. 179 
Noel, J. H. 182 
Phillips, W. E. 171 
Heath, E. W. 170 
Wesner, A. M. 177 
Penrod, J. E. 140 
Heikes, Horace . 181 
Dolson, Fred A. 161 
Smith, Harry . 149 
Skutt, A. C. 189 
Tuckett, G. J. 153 
Bates, J. M. 172 
Markham, J. M. 182 
Ball, G. W. 189 
Seed. L. J. 150 
Lewis, H. S. 155 
SPECIAL EVENT IN PLACE OF “SHOOT FOR 
SHOOTERS.” 
First Day. 
Ball, G. W. 
Campbell, J. P. 
Andrews, T. L. 
Wulf, J. F. 
Duckham, H. D. 
Galbraith, Ira . 
Galbraith, C. A. 
Kneussl, Max . 
McMahon. D. F. 
Osborn, G. L. 
Williams, F. O. 
Flickinger. A. C. 
Huntley, S. A. 
Young. J. S. 
Homer, C. B. 
King, R. A. 
Richardson, A. B. 
Gunning. C. A. 
Bruns, R. H. 
Couts, J. F. 
(Continued on page 382.) 
Total 
100 
. 90 
• 85 
■ 76 
. 82 
. 86 
■ 95 
. 90 
96 
• 97 
, 94 
■ 93 
92 
9? 
97 
9i 
96 
96 
97 
