Researcher: I'd like to add that 1901 image here with your permission. What was the source?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I_5GfGqfidbrfhpwzMvsccjDxjCd39M6nERp99wVEBQ/preview

1901 GAH at Live Birds April 1 & 2, Interstate Park, New York
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1901/VOL_37_NO_03/SL3703012.pdf
Won by E. C. Griffith (Parker), of Pascoag, R. I. He killed 25 straight in the race and finished 18 more in the tie, shooting out twenty one other men who tied him.
2nd - J.L.D. Morrison (Winchester), 3rd - R.R. Bennett (Parker), 4th - J.B. Barto (Parker), 5th - Chris Gottlieb (Smith)
Shooters were handicapped from 25 to 33 yards: W. R. Crosby, J.A.R. Elliott and Fred Gilbert shot from 32 yards. Thomas A. Marshall & Jack Fanning at 31 yds.
E.D. Fulford & Rolla Heikes at 30yds. Charley “Sparrow” Young at 29 yds.
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1901/VOL_37_NO_04/SL3704018.pdf
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1901/VOL_37_NO_04/SL3704019.pdf
Guns:
Parker – 85, Smith - 34. Francotte - 21, Winchester - 11, Remington - 7. Scott - 6, Daly – 6, Cashmore – 5, Greener – 5, Lefever – 4, W. Richards - 3, Purdey - 2, Saxton, Clabrough, Cogswell, Churchill, James, Lang, Baltimore, Ithaca, Young, Reilly, Boss - 1 each.
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1901/VOL_37_NO_07/SL3707024.pdf
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1901/VOL_37_NO_04/SL3704021.pdf

Response by the New York Times April 2, 1901 ”Hundreds of Pigeons Killed to Make Sport”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F02E3DB1E38E733A25751C0A9629C946097D6CF

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