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THE WESTERN HANDICAP 
ONE OF THE LATER CLASSICS OF THE 
SEASON PROVES A BRILLIANT SUCCESS 
W ITH the dial hovering around the hour of 
6 o’clock, the curtain dropped Thursday 
evening, June 15th, on the big shooting 
tournament on the Omaha Gun Club’s model 
grounds across the Big Bridge. This was the 
eleventh session of the great Western Handicap 
under the splendid auspices of The Interstate 
Association, with the Hon. Elmer E. Shaner, as 
usual, the master hand. 
As is generally known, the Western Handicap 
is one of the five stellar Interstate shoots, and 
second only to the Grand American. This is the 
third time Omaha, and the Omaha Gun Club, 
have been honored with this event, and they are 
already laying their plans to outbid all competi¬ 
tors for the 1917 session, which it is hardly likely 
in opposition with so many enterprising and de¬ 
serving cities, that they will be successful in their 
laudable ambition. At that, no better point could 
be possibly selected in all the fair land, as the 
Omaha Gun Club’s park, located as it is on the 
Iowa side of the river, atop an eminence on the 
rolling Missouri and commanding a grand out¬ 
look over river, hill, bluff and vale, and with a 
wide expanse of sky for a background to shoot 
against, makes it one of the most satisfactory, 
cleanest and fastest shotgun grounds in the world. 
But the big handicap. The weather was ideal 
—the perfect Nebraska article, which can be 
beaten nowhere. A tremendous downpour Mon¬ 
day night served to put the grounds in admirable 
condition and tempered the atmosphere to a 
point that was absolutely heavenly and the 
grounds were never in better shape for a shoot¬ 
ing carnival. There was $1,000 added money to 
the prize list—$500 by the Omaha Gun Club and 
$500 by The Interstate Association. These fig¬ 
ures show that trapshooting is no piker’s sport. 
While the real tournament did not start until 
Tuesday morning, at 9 o’clock, Monday was 
occupied by over 100 arrivals in practice, and 
some cracking good shooting was done. For in¬ 
stance, Claiborn B. Eaton of Fayette, Mo., broke 
his 100 straight. 
Eaton isn’t unknown as a tournament shooter. 
He won the Grand American Preliminary Handi¬ 
cap a year or so ago, and last month won the 
Missouri State Championship at St. Louis, com¬ 
pletely outdistancing a big field of sportsmen 
from all sections. 
The amateur who came nearest Eaton here 
broke only ninety-seven, so it is easy to see just 
how fast a pace the Missourian was setting. 
Considering that this Tournament was shot 
across five traps, twenty targets to an event, 
and considering the fact that the traps are all 
new, the targets fifty-yard targets, the pullers 
slow at times, and the sky line entirely new to 
this shooter, his performance was quite remark¬ 
able. 
William R. Crosby, of O’Fallon, Ills., a profes¬ 
sional, drew a century run in the preliminary 
too, but, being a “pro,” his score counts for noth¬ 
ing but a run. 
Del Gross of Kansas City and Ed. O’Brien of 
Florence, Kans., also professionals, broke 99 out 
of a possible 100. 
Mrs. Ad Topperwein of San Antonio, a pro¬ 
fessional, broke ninety-six. 
Ray Kingsley, -treasurer of the Omaha Gun 
Club, broke ninety-six. 
$1,000 or more added money applied to the 
several events as follows: 
Added to the Western Handicap, $200.00. 
Added to the Preliminary Handicap, $100.00. 
Trophies for the winners of the first three 
places in the Western Overture, $25.00. 
Trophies for the women, $25.00. 
One cent for each target trapped in the nine¬ 
teen regular program events, added to the Squier 
Money-Back Special Fund, $400 or more. 
On opening morning exactly 148 gallant knights 
of the scatter tube faced the traps, fully 60 short 
of the number sanguinely expected. Still that was 
an array of talent any tournament may feel 
proud of. The card, 150 targets, 16 yards, and 15 
pairs, and Billy Hoon, of Jewell, Iowa, spilled 
the beans with 100 straight, winning the Introduc¬ 
tory trophy over the field, setting the record, and 
spoiling what would otherwise have been a de¬ 
lightful day to several other ambitious contest¬ 
ants. In passant, Billy is one of the star amateurs 
of the country. 
He won the Preliminary Handicap at Spring- 
field in 1912, and tied for the amateur cham¬ 
pionship the same year, but was shot out by 
Ed. Varner. Hoon won the Grant Park Pre¬ 
liminary at Chicago last year. He also annexed 
the Western Preliminary at Denver in 1906. 
Eddie Varner of Adams, Neb., took second 
prize with a score of 99 out of 100, while W. H. 
Fickle won the third prize with the same score, 
Varner having defeated him in the shoot-off of 
their tie. 
Bart Lewis, a professional, also broke his 150 
birds, but all he received was a lot of congratula¬ 
tions. That comes of being a professional. 
The first 100 birds in the program counted in 
the Western Introductory, Varner shot eighty 
before he missed one. His afternoon’s work was 
perfect until he reached his final event. Then 
he made a jump-up on the fourteenth target. 
The big gallery gathered about the traps hoped 
Varner would get a straight so the two wizards, 
he and Hoon, could shoot it off. 
Claiborn B. Eaton, the Fayette, Mo., wizard 
who shot out the 100 bird program Monday, 
continued his good work and took third place 
among the high run shots. 
Bart Lewis, the professional, broke 150 straight 
dividing honors with Hoon. Billy Crosby was 
credited in the professional ranks with 148. 
The double event was the gallery attraction, 
15 pairs. The veteran professionals Fred Gil¬ 
bert, Charley Spencer and Tom Marshall were 
high with 28. Of the amateurs, J. H. Severson 
was high with 27. There were at least 2,000 on¬ 
lookers at this event. 
Six members of the Olympic Team that went to 
the International Games in London in 1901, com¬ 
pletely vanquishing the British shots, and at 
their own style of shooting, were on the traps 
on the opening day, for the first time since they 
returned from abroad, covered with glory and 
lots of medals. There were ten members of the 
Olympic Team. The six here were Tom Mar¬ 
shall, the Chicago authority; Frank Parmelee, 
Omaha’s veteran; Fred Gilbert, of Spirit Lake, 
Iowa; William Crosby, the O’Fallon, Ill., pro¬ 
fessional; Ed. Banks, the popular Hercules Pow¬ 
der man, of Wilmington, Del., and Chan Pow¬ 
ers, another eastern scattergun shark, and one 
of the old coteries that never again we fear will 
see a replica. 
Wednesday’s card—Western Special, 100 sin¬ 
gles, 16 yards rise, and the Preliminary Handi- 
