"The Phantom of Spirit Lake"

[Drew Hause]

While touring for Winchester & DuPont in 1907, Gilbert (98), W.R. Crosby (100), J. M. Hawkins (99), John Taylor (100), and Lee Barkley (99) set a new World's Record at Columbia, S.C. breaking 496x500 targets. Gilbert and Crosby used Parkers; the other Winchester 1897 Repeaters.

[Drew Hause]

Fred used his Smith in the 1899 GAH then switched to a Parker. Parker Brothers Order Book No. 41 records BH SN 83855 placed into stock in January, 1896 consigned to Fred Gilbert.
http://www.shootingsportsman.com/mag...gilbert-parker

Could someone please confirm the specifications for SN 83855 and thanks!

[Drew Hause]

More about Fred, and other Parker and Smith shooters here http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfg2hmx7_337gqdvwccf

No Parkers, but an amazing picture taken at the Madison Square Garden during the 1901 Sportsmen's Exposition. Note the sign that says "Annie Oakley" and the time of her appearance



R.O. Heikes (Remington Hammerless), Ed Banks (Winchester Repeater), W.R. Crosby (Smith), Jack Fanning (Smith), possibly B. LeRoy (Remington)

They, and Fred, were all together that summer for the 1901 Anglo-American competition, and Heikes and LeRoy switched to Parkers. Scroll down a bit here
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfg2hmx7_309ckt6hmd4

[Drew Hause]

Entertaining reading about the Southern tour of the 1907 Winchester Squad by Ed Banks

http://www.la84foundation.org/Sports.../SL5013012.pdf
http://www.la84foundation.org/Sports.../SL5013015.pdf

Those were different times. While touring the South with the 1904 U.M.C. squad, Rolla Heikes acquired Typhoid fever and his son Horace, Malaria