The winner of the Shaw and Hunter Trophy
10-Nevada State Journal-SPORTS Tuesday, May 16, 1967
Famous Big Game Hunter in Reno learns of World Record Trophy Award.
Bali Mauladad
A professional hunter-guide who traveled halfway around the globe to attend a convention in the United States learned In Reno yesterday that he has won the world’s finest trophy in his field.
Mohammed Iqbal, known to his friends as “Bali” is the winner of the Shaw & Hunter Trophy, it was announced in Nairobi this week.
Bali” was visiting Chet Piazzo (of the Sportsman store in Reno whom he met in Africa, and his old friend John St. Clair, ex-professional hunter who now lives in Reno. when he learned of the award..
The Shaw & Hunter Trophy is to the professional big game hunter what the Oscar is to the movie business, .and is awarded annually to the pro hunter who produces the finest trophy for a client during the past year.
“Bali” is the first Mohammedan to become a member of’ the exclusive Professional Hunters Association. He is a native of Nairobi and commenced his career with the old Safari Company under chairmanship of Jim Corbett, greatest hunter of man-hunters in history.
“Bali” rapidly developed a flare for finding the biggest elephants and once took out a safari which returned with tusks from four elephants, averaging 107 pounds per tusk
The biggest which he has shot personally had tusks which weighed 152 and 150 pounds of ivory, respectively. .
This famous trophy was taken to Mecca as a gift to King Ibn Saud of Arabia.
Previous winners of the world championship trophy include such famous names as Donald Kerr, John Sutton, Miles Turner, Renee Babout, David Ommaney, Sidney Downey and Kingsley Heath.
Donald Harris
Iqbal has been in Reno for two weeks, after attending a world big game hunters.’ convention in Texas. He became ill upon arrival in Reno and spent a week in St. Mary`s hospital.
Presentation of the trophy was scheduled for yesterday in the New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi, and Iqbal presumed that it would be accepted on his behalf by the chairman of Kerr & Downey, Kenya’s biggest Safari outfitters.
Strange as it seems, Iqbal, greatest living elephant hunter, got his coveted trophy this year for guiding a client to a kill of a diminutive Oribi, a tiny African antelope.
The client Donald I. Harris of San Bernar-dino. Calif,, also bagged a good leopard and a fine buffalo, hut his Oribi took the prize. Its seven-inch horns exceeded the previous world record, six and a. quarter inches for this animal.
MOHAMMED IQBAL was In Reno yesterday when he learned he had won Africa’s famous trophy for professional hunters. He won the honor for guiding client Donald Harris (right) to a kill of a rare ORIBI. The tiny African antelope bore world record seven-inch horns.
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