Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-24

. The eleventh annual tournament Of the
CniteH States Revolver association IL now
being held in The various large cities m
the country This tournament rs held
under the auspices n the constituent cluhs
u the association. and is but one Of scores
Of important Agencies or the encourage
ment of craftsmanship with small arms.
The National Rifle Association ~ America.
with it's big meetings az Seagirt and Camp
Perry, together with its various state
meetings. Is accomplishing vast deal in
making good marssmen. For full Genera
ton there have not been so many expert
rifiemen IN the United States a. there are
today. In the old davs. when every nan
had his trusty nint-iocS and could he de-
pended upon 90 bore cut the eye 81
squirrel In a tail tree. there was no need
Cf prizes "a encourage men 20 become good
rEarskmen. The game ufe OF the forest
and the neiEhborhuod shooting bees did
that
Aside from the revolver and rifle matrheg
there is another agency that il doing much
TO make the citizens who constitute the
unorganized militia OF the country efIlci-
ent handlers Of small arms. This agency
is the National Association N T-ap-shoot-
I
in the United States which have frequent
contests, some with clay pigeons. others
/ with I've birds, and stun others with tar
/ gets. September ~ one of the ~rr-atsst
months Of the year for trap shooting and
/ there are no less than fifty local events
scheduled Tor the month. Troy. n. y has
/ an important shoot for today: Beliairas
{ Grove. Mo-. and Lowell. Ind. for Sepyem-
her 2 and Is; Guthrie. OkL. for the - and
/ 2. and Toledo. O.. and Decatur NJ. for
the =. y and -
The great American handicap. which is
/ the blue ribbon event OF the trap shooting
world. was held in Chicago in June More
( than 300 shooters took part in the various
[ events OF the meeting. For the first rime
/ IN the history Of the handicap IL was won
I with perfect score. Riley Thompson, one
| OF the best amateur marksmen OF the
I United states, made a clean record OF 100
straight His closest competitor was Har-
( vey McMurchey who made ninety-nihe
hits OGt OF a possible l00 This was the
frst time that the handicap ever lost
on 50 excellent score. Only once before
has first honor reached evsa as high as
the ninety-nine which was second honor
1 in this shoot More than Ig7.0O0 targets
were shot at during the meeting.
All trap shooting events throughout tbs
/ United States are conducted under the
rules OF the Interstate association rhi.
I was organiEed number of years ago. and
under its activities nearly every former
world record has been broken. In 1917
many former records We're shattered and
I the year marked a higher order OF marks
manship than was ever before displayed
But the successes of 1919 have been eciipsec
| by those Of the present year Even tn,
women have been displaying unusual skill
n the art of shooting, and Mrs. a. Topper
Vein OF San Antonio, Tex lut ~ target
out Of a possible 100.
In the shoot held at Berrerron Md IN
latter part OF July, H s Welles SCI
worlds record bv shooting 1iS target
without a miss. the previous record havinl
been held by J. NOVEL; Hawkins. with u
straight Edward z. largest a I2-year-oI,
boy Of Baltimore. Nd, is thought 20 holt
the record for a child of his age. In
recent contest he hit Sc out Of 100 at on
time and - out OF 20 at another time. TIL
results OF trap shooting with clay pigeon
in the United States have been 50 salts
factory that the English have been le-
10 adopt the clay target and the sport {
growing as popular ON the other side as
is in the United States
In the United States there ara two svs
TENS OF awarding prizes IN target shooting
One system is known as the Jack Rabbi
and the other as the Money Back Unde
the former entrants paid according I
the scores they make. Under the latte
the entrance Zee Is returned 10 those VIII
do not win enough prize money to paw 70
the fee The experts do not Ike the JAG
Rabbit system scontending that II does no
pay them we'll enough for their skill Bu
in spite OF some dissatisfaction with IN
prize allOtting systems in vogue. Their
never have been so many trap shooters a
there are today. nor have the records q
the rank and Tile. as well as those OF N
prize winners. been as high as thew ar
now This shows conclusively that expeI
Workmanship is answering TO the method
OF stimulation adopted by the various o.
ganizaJions.
The object OF the National Rane associ
alton of the United states is particularly
10 encourage craftsmanship among ind
viduals VINO would be Needed as silarr
shooters in case OF war. The association
advocates program which includes tn