Poor Bluerock... he had trouble holding on to his Parkers!

[Researcher]

Harold was recorded shooting Parker Guns in the late 1890s through the 1901 GAH, but by the 1902 GAH he was shucking his famous Winchester Model 1897.

Capt. A.W. Money also suffered some bad luck on December 28, 1900, when George McAlpin slugged him is his office in NYC, breaking a bone in his face, after the Moneys complained about George's work as handicapper at the Cartaret Gun Club.

[Bill Murphy]

Is trapshooting still that much fun today? I've been shooting skeet for years and have never seen a punch thrown, only empty threats.

[Don Kaas]

McAlpin must have been PO'ed in the extreme...the back story of this dispute regards amateur gentlemen and gentlemen who shot routinely with the professionals in such events as the GAH. A faction at the Carteret G.C. wished to ban the latter from membership but apparently decided handicapping them to the extreme would also do the trick. This amateur vs. professional thing echoed the Victorian attitude towards sportsmanship then being imbued in the revived Olympic Games. Tuxedo, Philadelphia, Westminster, Riverton as well as Carteret all went through this until the days of the wealthy amateur American pigeon shooter, (men like Hoey, McAlpin, Macalaester, Dolan, etc.) shooting outside the confines of their private clubs all but vanished. It wasn't until the decades of the 50s, 60s and early 1970s men like them would return to big money tournament pigeon shooting in earnest in places like Philadelphia, Chalfont, Somontes, Porto and Mexico City.