Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-02
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WOMEN ENJOY TRAPsHOOTING
 MORE THAN ANY OTHER SPORT
Some Remarkably Clever Trapsho Have Been Discovered Among School Girls During the Past Season and the
 List is Growing.

There are now several thousand wo-
 men shooters in the United States and
 Canada, and the army is increasing
 rapidly. Quite some has been writ
 ten about the fair Dianas of the traps
 of late, but there is much more to be
 said and written as to the ability of
 many of them. Everyone, knows how
 good a shot Mrs. Topperwein is, and
 how Annie Oakley used to break 'em
 score of years ago, but there are
 many other women who can puIyerize
 the targets besides these two.
 Some of tR1m are still in school, but
 that doesn't prevent them from know
 ing. a great deal about the sport al-
 IuTinG'
 At Oil City. Pa. recently, Helen
 Walsh 13 years old, broke 14 targets
 out of 9 thrown from 16 yards. She
 used little 20-gauge gun. While this
 performance is very good it doesn't
 compare with the shooting of a fair
 young lady of Green Bay; Wis; This
 young woman is Lucille Meusel. She
 has just turned her fourteenth year
 Miss NfeuseI would feel rather peeved
 if she didn't smash 90 per cent. of her
 targets. On several occasions she has
 broken 47 targets in 50 "bird"
 match.
 Miss MeuseTs father is a practical
 trapshot, and he grasped the idea that
 along the lines of physical training for
 his daughter nothing could be more D6HGllCldl Juan OuJQOOG lI6 with a gun aheld or at the traps. So he purchased 3-4 pound 12-gauge gun, which he taught her to handle at home before she was permitted to face the traps. She swung, sighted and handled the gun until the muscles nHk@ssary for
 it's successful handling vera AeveIoped
 and hardened. With dummy shells
 she was taught to load the gun, so when she made her first appearance at the traps Miss Lucille acted the part of an experienced shot
 NTr MueseI had explained to his daughter that targets flew rapidly that it required a small fraction of time, both to start the load and for the load to connect with the swift flying object at a given point thus putting in the daylight" This the 1 young lady had understood and req soned out She shot straightaway targets with wonderful success, and then turned to angles. Now she stands at the traps of the Green Bay club, shoots in the regular events, and she more than holds her own in bringing down the blue rocks. Little Miss , Nuesel will be among the young lady competitors in the events for women 1 in the Grand American Handicap, to l be held in St. Louis, Mo-, August 21 | to 25. inclusive.
 Mrs Harold Almert. of Chicago. took to trapshooting because she want l ed to be interested in a. sport that at tracted her husband. and now her two children are learning many things about the sport alluring" Mrs. AL 1 bert, incide ntally, is the champion wo- man trapshooteT of the United States. 1 winning the title less than three months after she made her debut Tn 1 the spring tournament at Pinehurst, N. C., she gave a surprising exhibition 1 of strength, courage and nerve force when in six days she shot at HOO ! targets and broke 779 of them. This | is, indeed, a splendid performance for | a woman. Even more recently Mrs. AImert won the trapshOoting cham 1 piOnship of Illinois for women, the first State championship event for women sanctioned by the Interstate i association. She broke 94 targets out i of 100 thrown.
 Women are becoming more proficient at trapshOoting because they are de- voting more time to learning the in- l tricate points. Only the other day Miss i Clara Weller, a high school girl of | Iowa City, Ia. broke the girls rifle i shooting record for the United States, l when she scored 98-eight bulls l eyes in 10 shots. Even more recent ! Iy Mrs. D. B. Woodward won the club | trophy spoon of the South Royalton, 1 Vt, Gun club, equivalent to the club 1 championship, by breaking the great ! est number of targets in six shoots, 25 | targets being thrown each time.