Earl Williamson

Another of the shoot-off squad members was Earl Williamson, a 66-year-old retired GM worker from Xenia, OH. Williamson was in the Grand American Handicap shoot-offs in 1997, and finished third.This year he took the first shot of the main event from the first post on the first squad at 8:30 a.m. and finished fourth overall, eliminated in the first shoot-off round.