The Boy Wonder

[Drew Hause]

Recreation April 1899



Sporting Life Dec. 10, 1898
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3212013.pdf
"What Phenomenal Guy Grigsby Has Achieved With His Parker Gun"
The Parker gun, in the hands of Master Guy Grigsby, of Louisville, Ky. (the 13-year old wonder of the shooting world), is entitled to special mention. Master Guy won the Kentucky Futurity, a 50 live bird match, at the Kentucky Gun Club grounds, on Nov. 24, 1898, with 49 kills and one dead out of bounds. He killed 44 straight, losing his fifth bird, dead out, hit hard with both barrels.
He also won the Nelson County Fair handicap, score 14 out of 15. On Nov. 18, in another match, he killed 18 straight, all he shot at. On Nov. 23 he won the club "gold" button, killing 10 straight.
All of these phenomenal scores were made in company with Kentucky's best trap shots, and there are many and some good ones. Master Guy is small for his age, weighing 75 pounds, and has always shot a Parker gun. He uses a 12-bore, 28-inch "Titanic steel" barrel gun, weighing 7 1/2 pounds, and in the Futurity had a 25yds. handicap.
Master Guy says the Parker gun is superb (as do many others) and that it is correctly named the "Old Reliable."

Shoot report
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3207012.pdf
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3211011.pdf

Sporting Life April 1, 1899
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3302013.pdf
If you want a calendar from March, 1899, to March, 1900, address Parker Bros., Meriden, Conn. It will be sent to any individual by Parker Bros, on receipt of 10 cents in stamps to pay postage, or free to any gun club. It is a handsome calendar. Among the portraits will be found some thirty "Parker gun" enthusiasts, including thirteen-year old Guy Grigsby of Louisville, Ky., who killed 49 Handicap with his "Titanic" steel Parker out of 50 birds, winning the Louisville gun. Besides the portraits there is much valuable statistical information on the calendar.