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[Trap3]

From a 1911 Dupont Gun Club booklet is this ad. Start Your Shooting With The Parker Shotgun...



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[mobirdhunter]

A great piece, Randy. I hope to catch up with you in Chillicothe this summer. (Go Chiefs!)

[Trap3]

Thanks Garry... Yes hope Chillicothe is a go and Chiefs in the Super Bowl!

RD

[Drew Hause]

R.A. Welch won the 1893 inauguration of the Grand American Handicap with a Parker

T.W. Morfey won in 1894; gun unknown. (He used a Parker at the 1896 GAH with 53 gr. “E.C.” = 3 3/4 Dr. Eq.)

J.G. Messner won in 1895 with a Parker

O.R. Dickey won in 1896 with a Parker

T.A. Marshall won in 1897 and 1899 (the only 2 time winner) with a Cashmore

E.D. Fulford won in 1898 with a Remington Hammerless Model of 1894

H.D. Bates won the 1900 GAH at Live Birds with a Parker

Rolla Heikes won the (1st) 1900 GAH at Targets with a Remington Hammerless

E.C. Griffith used a Parker to win both the 1901 GAH at Live Birds and at Targets

H. C. Hirschy won the (last) 1902 GAH at Live Birds with a Smith

Charles Floyd won the 1902 GAH at Targets with a Parker

Martin Diefenderfer won the 1903 GAH with a Lefever

R.D. Guptil won in 1904 with Winchester Repeating Shotgun

R.R. Barber won both the 1905 Preliminary and Grand American Handicaps with a Lefever.

F.E. Rogers won the 1906 GAH with a Smith.
The 1st named "Professional Championship" was won by Walter Huff with a Parker; R.O. Heikes was 2nd with a Remington Autoloading Shotgun.

Jeff J. Blanks won in 1907 with a Remington Autoloading Shotgun. Professional Championship by W.R. Crosby with a Parker.

Fred Harlow won in 1908 with a Remington Autoloading Shotgun. George Roll won the Amateur Championship with a Stannard & Moran SBT. In the Professional Championship Fred Gilbert (Parker) and R.R. Barber (Lefever) tied; Gilbert won the shoot-off.

GAH in 1909 won by Fred Shattuck (Parker), of Columbus, Ohio by a score 116x120 in a shoot-off over John R. Livingston (Winchester pump), of Springville, Ala., (19 yds.), William Wettleaf, (Parker) of Nichols, Ia., (19 yds.) and George E. Burns (Winchester pump), of Cleveland, O., (16 yds.) High Professional Average for 16-Yard Single Targets won by Mrs. Ad. Topperwein (Winchester pump).
Fred Gilbert won the Professional Championship with a Parker.

Riley Thompson won the 1910 GAH with a Parker – 1st 100x100. Harvey McMurchey (Smith) was runner-up with 99.
C.G. Spencer (Winchester pump) won the Professional Championship.

Harvey Dixon won the 1911 GAH with a Smith. The (1st) "National Professional Championship at 200 singles" won by Les German with a Parker.

[Trap3]

Fred E. Rogers... from Bucklin, Missouri. His final resting place. Not far from where I lived as a little boy...

RD

[Drew Hause]

F.E. Rogers
https://books.google.com/books?id=rk...MAAJ&pg=PA1042

[Researcher]

Drew, do you have any information on the guns used by the winners at the International Flyer Championship held at Kansas City from 1917 to 1941? I can guess that Mark Arie may have used a Marlin Pump in 1930, and Spencer Olin probably a Model 21 in 1933.

[Drew Hause]

No, I'm sorry I don't have much Dave.

This is Randy's image at Elliott's Shooting Park in 1931. Arie, Jenny, and Frank Hughes (at the 1924 Olympics) all used Smith guns.



3-2-35 Alton Evening Telegraph
KANSAS CITY, March 2
The old shotgun with which Mark Arie has won thousands of dollars in trapshooting still is a moneymaker. The Champaign, Ill., veteran tied with two others for first place in the Flyer cup race at the Interstate Trapshoot Tournament yesterday and collected $96.60.
Arie was beaten in the shoot off by H. L. Cheek, Clinton, Ind.

His Marlin Model 28 hammerless trap gun, D grade which he received in 1914 and which he used in the 1920 Olympic Games?

[Trap3]

Dave...
Some of the old film I have from Elliott`s Interstate shoots shows most shot Model 12`s and Smiths...
and a few Parkers. Here is pic of Fred Etchen and George Nicolai. from the 22nd Annual Interstate Tournament held Feb. 8th through 15th, 1926 .. Shooting his Model 12 and Western ammunition...

RD

[Trap3]

Dave,
here is a list of Winners and guns used at the 1922, 23, 24 and 1925 100 bird flyer championship at Elliott`s Shooting Park