Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-05-28
BIG WEEK FOR TRANSPORTER
Five State Championships Are
Scheduled for the Next
Seven Days.
THE SPORT IS NEW IN FLORIDA

New York, May 27.-state trap
shooting champions will be turned
out in patches for the next few
weeks, for until the beginning Of the
dog days" there will be from three
to six state trapshooting tournaments
weekly. Four championships have al
ready been decided in the states of
Oklahoma Georgia, Missouri and
Mississippi From this time, however.
the championships are more closely
scheduled.
The week at hand, for instance, has
five state championships listed. They
are to be held in Oregon, Kansas,
Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and
Florida. This is the twenty-sixth
championship tournament for Penn
sylvania trapshooters, and the first
for Florida. Pennsylvania has the old,
est trapshooting organization in ex-
istence, and Florida the youngest, for
the Sunshine state organization is less
than two months old.
In lWenty-tnree states.
This week, too, will be the biggest
OF the present season for tourna-
ments, as thirty-one are registered
with the Interstate association. These
thirty-one will be held in twenty
three states, as follows: Illinois,
three; Kansas, Minnesota, New
York, Ohio, Nebraska and Iowa,
two, and Arizona, Oregon, Indiana.
Missouri, Massachusetts,, New Mex
leo, West Virginia, Arkansas, Penn
sylyania, Kentucky, New Hampshire,
Connecticut, Wisconsin, California,
Florida and Washington, one each.
twenty-five tournaments were con-
Quoted last week and twenty-one the
week previous Week by week the
number grows. Already 400 tourna-
ments have been registered for this
year, as against 1913 last year. This
proved beyond all doubt the ques-
ton OF renewed interest and activity
in trapshooting as sport.
While every tournament and cham
pionship is OF more or less interest
to the shooters in their respective
territory, there is always one event
which Is larger than all the rest. Ore
gon will have big shoot, the biggest
Oregon has ever had, for there is
more interest on the Pacific coast
this year than ever before. Kansas
and New Hampshire will stage good
sized tournaments, and Florida will
surprise the trapshooting world by
the number Of entries in its classic
event. The Kissimmee club has in
terested the city and county authori-
ties In making the championship one
TO be remembered.
Most Interest in Penn State.
The Pennsylvania tournament,
however, will top all the others, be-
cause Of the immense size of the
state and the accessibility OF the
place in which the shoot is to be held
-Lansdale, just outside OF Philadel-
phia. Three thousand dollars in
cash and sixty trophies will be
awarded the scatter gun bugs, and S
an added attraction there will be a
shoot in which $1,000 worth OF mer-
chandise will be given One hundred
and fifty-six clubs are members of
the Pennsylvania State association.
and If each club enters two shooters
in the tournament it will be the larg-
est state tourney in the country. The
present Pennsylvania champion is
Charles II. Ncwcomb, who is also
national amateur champion. In all
these years the champion has repeat
ed but once in the Pennsylvania
championship, Fred Coleman win
ming in 1905 and 1907. Newcomb
may repeat, but the dope" is against
him.
In the Pennsylvania state shoot
there will also be a l00-target event
for women, which will decide the
women's championship OF the state.
This is the first trapshooting cham
pionship ever staged for the fair Di-
anas OF the traps, therefore, unusual
interest is being taken in the num-
Der that will turn out Illinois also
has women's championship listed
for its shoot the next week The
feeling is that it is only a matter OF
two or three years when every state
will have its women's state cham
pionship event, for the members OF
the fair sex are very much interested
in the doings of the sport-alluring