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THE WORLD.

PHIL DALY'S PIGEON SHOOT.

THE NATIONAL HANDICAP WON BY WM. SEIGLER, OF NEWARK

The Second and Third Prizes won by C. S. Wertsner and J. R. Stice - The Shooting Was Done Under Difficulties - Racing Results Yesterday at New Orleans and Guttenburg - Today's Entries

An excessively cold day, coupled with half a gale of wind and unlimited whiskey, made the sceond day of Phil Daly pigeon shoot at Long Branch anything but enjoyable yesterday. In fact, if Mr. Daly wishes to inaugurate winter or any kind of pigeon shooting in the Monaco style he will have to make some radical changes. The crwod present was such that shooters found it difficult to reach the score, while so utterly unqualified were the ofiicials that even the referees, Messrs. Heritage and Quimby, gave binds as "dead" that flew out of bounds before they were gathered, while correct scoring was a task that puzzled the most expert at the buisness. The shooting, however, as a whole, was very good, and some of the best of amateurs owuld have found it difficult to equal the top scores. Mr. Wm. Seigler, of Newark, winning the first prize, $1,000, with a score of 47 out of 50; C. S. Wersner, of Baltimore, taking second money $800 , with 46, and J. R. Stice, of Des Moines, Ia., third money, $200, with 45 killed, with two others at 44, three at 43 and two at 43 each killed. At the Monaco boundary (21 yards) no such scores could have been made, but even at the eighty yards it was very creditable shooting. The feature of the shooting was Mr. Seigler's straigh 85, his thirty-sixth, a fast driver, falling dead just over the boundary. The English representative, W. C. Graham- who was the favorite, starting at 3 to 1 against- did very well on the first day killing 20 straight. But the weather was too cold for him yesterday and he failed to sustain his reputation. A special feature of the shooting was an iside match between Miss Annie Oakley and Phil Daly, jr., as to which would make the best score. The result was in the lady's favor, she killing 36 to Mr. Daly's 32. Both did some good shooting but with the wind blowing as it did yesterday Miss Oakley's gun was a great handcip. It has a 12-bore and only weight 6 pounds 6 ounces, and her "shells" are as lightly charged in proportion. The conditions of the shoot are as follows:

Long Branch, N. J., Feb. 14 and 15. - Purse $1,5000. of which %1,000 to the winner, $300 to the second, $200 to the third: entrance $75 eacj: to shoot at 50 birds each, handicap rise, 80 yards boundary : Hurlingham rules, except that guns of No. 10 bore weighing 10 lb may be used.