Dec, 22, 1906
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Among the Parker Gun winners of 1906 is O. N. Ford, of Kansas City, who has been doing some extraordinary good work at the trap during the past season. Mr. Ford is a guard at the Federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and if he can do as well with the rifle as his record proves he can do with a shot gun, an escaping prisoner would certainly stand a poor show of making a successful break.
In April last Ford obtained a month's furlough and in seven shoots at Leavenworth, Kansas City, Great Bend, Wichita, Coffeyville, Blackwell. Okla., and Tulsa. I. T., broke 2887 out of a possible 3055, or 94 .5 percent., with a high run of 190 straight. Although an amateur, Mr. Ford has outshot champions in both the amateur and professional classes, in addition to the most noted experts in the trap shooting game, among these being Guy Ward and Walter Huff, amateur and professional champions respectively of 1900; Rogers and Barber, both G. A. H. winners; Riehl, Kahler, Vietmeyer, Heer, McMurchy, Vench, the great and only Crosby, and others of like calibre.
At Craig. Mo., on November 30. Mr. Ford won the Wyeth World's Championship trophy by breaking 46 out of 50 targets; also the high amateur average for the two days' shooting with 376 breaks out of 400 targets shot at. A splendid performance with a splendid gun.
If Mr. Ford continues in his present form and decides to take a crack at the 1907 Grand American, he will be very apt to make the best of them sit up and take notice. All of this shooting has been done with a Parker gun.