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.
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