"The Phantom of Spirit Lake"

[Drew Hause]

Sporting Life August 24, 1912
Fred Gilbert and Lester S. German have made the announcement that they will shoot any pair of shooters in the world a team race at 100 pairs of doubles per man. Fred says the table is set. How about such guests as Bill Crosby, H. D. Freeman, Ed. O’Brien, H. W. Kahler, Geo. Lyon, Dick Clancy, Jim Day, Al Heil, Nick Arie, John Taylor, Jay Graham?

German of Aberdeen, Md. won the Professional Championship at the 1911 Grand American with 198x200 and Professional Doubles Championship with 89x100.
http://www.la84foundation.org/Sports.../SL5717022.PDF
http://www.la84foundation.org/Sports.../SL5717031.PDF

At the 1912 GAH
Day and Walter Huff (both Winchester pumps) tied for the Professional Doubles Championship with 84x100. Huff used a Parker to take the Professional Championship at the 1906 GAH.
Harry Kahler won the Amateur Doubles Championship with 88x100 using a Smith.
Crosby (Parker) won the Professional Singles Championship 198x200; Gilbert was second.

Fred and Les, another Parker shooter, tied for High Average on Doubles in 1912 with .8700.

Graham won Gold at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics using a Remington pump
http://www.la84foundation.org/Sports.../SL5919025.pdf
He had the high Doubles average in 1913

[Drew Hause]

http://www.la84foundation.org/Sports.../SL5719029.PDF

Fred Gilbert Defeats Lester German for Hazard Trophy
Wilmington, Del., July 10, 1911
Preliminary to the sixth annual Eastern Handicap shoot, which starts tomorrow, Fred Gilbert, of Spirit Lake, Iowa, and Lester S. German, of Aberdeen, Md., two of the best-known shots in the country, today shot at the du Pont Gun Club for the Hazard trophy, a $750 cup, offered for the double target championship. The match was won by Gilbert by the score of 183 to 178.

[Drew Hause]

Gilbert's averages 1897-1908
http://www.la84foundation.org/Sports.../SL5424020.pdf