Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Paine ya shiga dukkan wasanni uku na bindiga a wasannin 1896, amma a zahiri ya yi gasa a daya kawai. Shi, tare da ɗan'uwansa Sumner Paine, an cire shi daga gasar bindiga mai sauri saboda ba shi da bindiga mai dacewa. Dukansu Paines sun yi amfani da bindigogi na Colt, bindigogi da suka fi kyau fiye da waɗanda abokan hamayyarsu suka yi amfani da su a cikin bindigogi na soja mai tsawon mita 25
John ya lashe gasar cikin sauki, inda ya zira kwallaye 442 a raga 25 daga cikin harbi 30, Sumner bai yi nisa ba, a raga 380 a raga 23; wanda ya kammala na uku, dan Girka Nikolaos Morakis, ya zira kwallaye 205 kawai.