David Dudley's City Paper article about "the men behind the guns of autumn" has won the $500 1994 A. D. Emmart Memorial Prize.
He wrote: "The buck walks within ten yards of us. Bill slowly puts down his .30-.30 and pulls out a camera. . . ." It was an autumn morning in Western Maryland, and Mr. Dudley and Bill Burton were in a tree stand, waiting for deer to come within range.
Mr. Burton is the retired outdoors editor of The Evening Sun and a lifelong deer-shooter. Mr. Dudley is music editor of City Paper.
The prize will be presented tomorrow afternoon in a ceremony at Enoch Pratt Central Library.
Two $100 honorable mentions are being made: to Arthur J. Magida for his Jewish Times article, "Spielberg's Triumph: 'Schindler's List' Comes to the Screen," and to Patrick A. McGuire, formerly of The Baltimore Sun, for his Sun Magazine article "Divining Comedy: How a Worshiper From Way Back Got Gag Master Morey Amsterdam To Explain Laughing Matters."
The judges were Sun reporters Richard O'Mara, David Simon and John Bainbridge, a former Sun reporter. Esta C. Maril is chairman of the A. D. Emmart Memorial Prize Committee.
Mr. Emmart, during his 47 years at The Sun and The Evening Sun, served variously as art critic, foreign correspondent, editorial page editor and book review editor. The contest, founded in his memory 20 years ago, honors "writing in the humanities, as published in a Maryland general-reader newspaper or magazine."