Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-25

The eleventh. annual tournament OF the
United states Revolver association is now
being held In the various large cities OF
the country. This tournament Is held
under the auspices OF the constituent clubs
OF important agencies Cor the encourage
ment Of Workmanship with small arms.
The National Rifle Association OF America.
with its big meetings at seagirt and Camp
Perry, together with It's various state
meetings. Is accomplishing a vast deal in
making good marksmen. Fer full genera
ton there have not been so many expert
rtlemen In the United States as there are
today. In the old days, when every man
mad his trusty fint-lock and could be de-
pended upon TO bore out the eve Of A
squirrel in tall tree, there was no need
OF prizes to encourage men to become rood
marskmen. The game life Of the forest
ana the neighborhood shooting bees did
that
Asioe from the revolver and rifle matches
there Is another agency that Is doing much
70 make the citizens who constitute the
unorsanized militia Of the country effici-
ent hahulers OF small arms. This agency
10 tne Nauonal Association Of Trap shoot.
e's mere are several thousand gun clubs
III the United States which have frequent
oVn'ests' some with clay pigeons, others
with live birds, and stin others with tar
gets September is one Of the groo,a.,
months OF the year for trap shooting ana
there are no less than fifty local events
scheduled for the month. Troy. N. Y ba.
an important shoot for today; Bellaires
Grove Mo-, and Lowell, Ind, for Septem-
per 20 and Is; Guthrie, Okl for the 20 and
- and Toledo, o., and Decatur. Ill. for
the "a. Is and %.
me great American handicap. which Is
me oiue ribbon event OF the trap shooting
world, was held in Chicago in June. More
'nail So shooters took part In the various
e'ents OF the meeting. For the first time
III the history of the handicap It was won
with a perfect score. Riley THOMPSON. ons
OF the best amateur marksmen Of the
united states, made a clean record Of 100
straight. His closest competitor was Har-
Vey McMurchey, who made ninety-nine
hits out Of a possible 100 This was the
nrst time that the handicap was ever lost
on so excellent a score Only once before
mas first honor reached even as high as
the ninety-nlne which was second honor
IN this shoot. More than $4,000 targets
were shot at during the meeting.
All trap shooting events throughout the
United States are conducted under the
rules of the Interstate association. This
was organized a number OF years ago. and
under its activities nearly every former
world record has been broken. In 1909
many former records were shattered and
the year marked a higher order of marks
manship than was ever before displayed
But the successes of 1909 have been eclipsed
oy those OF the present year. Even the
women have been displaying unusual skill
in the art OF shooting. and Mrs. A. Topper
vein OF San Antonio. Tex, hit "a targets
out of a possible 1oo
In the shoot held at Betterton, Md, tho
latter part of July. H. s. Welles set
worlds record by shooting 1Ss targets
without a miss the previous record having
been held by ]. NOVEL; Hawkins, with 12S
straight. Edward e. largest. q 12-year-old
boy of Baltimore, Nd, is thought to hold
the record for a child of his age. In a
recent contest he hit 81 out of 100 at one
time and 4S out Of so at another time. The
results of trap shooting with clay pigeons
In the United States have been so salts
factory that the English have been led
to adopt the clay target, and the sport is
growing as popular on the other side as II
is in the United States.
In the United States there are two sys-
TENS Of awarding prizes in target shooting.
One system is known as the Jack Rabbit
and the other as the Money Back. Under
the former entrants are paid according to
the scores they make Under the latter
the entrance fee is returned to those who
do not win enough prize money to pay for
the fee. The experts do not like the Jack
Rabbit system, contendng that II does not
pay them we'll enough for their skill. But
in spite of some dissatisfaction with the
prize allotting systems in vogue. there
never have been so many trap shooters as
there are today. nor have the records OF
the rank and file. as we'll as those OF the
prize winners, been as high as they are
now. This shows conclusively that expert
Workmanship is answering to the methods
Of stimulation adopted by the various or
CARNATIONS.
The object of tha National Rifle associ-
alton of the United States Is particularly
to encourage craftsmanship among indi-
vlduals who would be needed as sharp
shooters in case of war. The association
advocates program which includes the