April 4, 1903
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1903/VOL_41_NO_03/SL4103011.pdfBrenham, Texas, March 27. Editor "Sporting Life"
The twenty-ninth annual tournament of the Texas State Sportsmen's Association, March 23 to 27, inclusive, closed in a rain Thursday evening, the first three and a half days being very pretty weather, barring the high wind that ruined the scores at live birds on the first day.
The shoot was under the management of Mr. Alf. Gardiner, proprietor of the Sunny South Shooting Park...There is a picture in the 2nd column
1905. The Sunny South Handicap was a major shoot
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1905/VOL_44_NO_19/SL4419014.pdf "Alf Gardiner was the originator of the event"
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1915/VOL_64_NO_23/SL6423019.pdf Lots of hits on Alf here - you'll need to cut and paste
http://search.la84foundation.org/search?q=alf+gardiner&Author=&Keywords=&btnG=Search+LA84&entqr=0&proxycustom=&getfields=*&output=xml_no_dtd&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&client=default_frontend&filter=0&ud=1&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&partialfields=&proxyreload=1
The January 28, 1912 "Houston Post" has a report on the Sunny South Handicap and possibly a pic of Alf.
Now we know how the gun made it to TX
Very cool Red!
Could the dimensions fit a lady?
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1906/VOL_47_NO_14/SL4714022.pdfMrs. Alf. Gardiner and Mrs.Atchison took part in a recent tournament at Brenham, Texas, and made some very creditable scores.
