The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-06-03
BIG SEASON FOR
The TRAP SHOTS
Thirty-Six States to Hold Events
For MaTkSmen.
ABOUT 1000 COMPETITIONS
With Shoots of Various Sizes and De-
scriptions, Tournaments VIII Total
This Number-Forty- three Registered
Shoots In Illinois.

Shoots In Illinois.
Thirty-six of the forty-three states
with associations affiliated with the
Interstate Association For the Encour-
agement of Trap Shooting have ar
ranged their annual championship
tournaments, and it is expected that
the tardy members will make known
their dates quickly. Arizona, Arkan-
sas, Delaware, Montana, Virginia,
South Carolina and South Dakota are
the states in which trap shooters have
not put their best foot forward.
Never before have so many trap
shooting tournaments been registered
or state championships listed at this
time of the year This speaks well
for the activity and the renewed inter
est in trap shooting as a sport.
Alabama, Georgia. Massachusetts,
Minnesota, Texas and Mississippi have
formed state associations within the
last year, and efforts are now being
made to get the trap shooting clubs of
Maine, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ken
lucky, Florida and the District of Co
lumbia into line There are many trap
shooting organizations in all of these
states, but somehow they have not
taken the time nor trouble to become
acquainted with the governing body.
| According to registered list of shoots
issued by the Interstate association
! some 412-shOOts are listed in Cuba
and the canal zone fertile fields for the
sport which have just been discovered
I The list Of shoots is by no means COM
plete When the state championship
! list is closed and the clubs make apph-
cations for the tournaments which will
follow the Grand American handicap
the number should total close to the
500 mark.
1000 Trap Shooting Competitions.
The total number of tournaments
held under interstate supervision last
year was 1853. This. of course, does not
include club tournaments, of which
there are hundreds Present indica-
tions are that there will be at least a
thousand trap shooting competitions Of
various sizes and descriptions within
the boundary of the United States this
year.
In the list of 412 shoots increases are
SuDN IL III " btIi -ift StailIS w IL lAtt
number of tournaments held last year
and in nine others decreases are noted
5 Inside of another month it is expected
that these nine will equal the mark OF
last year or better it. For Il good many
years PENNSYLVANIA has led in the mum
4 Der OF registered shoots, but this sea
i son Iowa seems to have the big bulge
on the sons of William Penn. lows
Il has fOrty-eight registered tournaments
as against forty-five for Pennsylvania
This makes Iowa look like the hes
trap shooting state in the country.
There are 200 gun clubs in Iowa
I Pennsylvania has 492 Iowa has fifty
seven clubs affiliated with the state as
= ISOLATION, while Pennsylvania has 121
The keystone shooters will have t
keep stepping to remain in front of Il
linois. as the Illinois shooters have an
nounced forty-three registered shoot
and have only forty-two clubs affiliate
with the state association. The ira
Z shooting is coming on faster i'll til
! middle west and far west than it is i
4 the eastern states, and there is no Ietu
in the east.
4 Twelve states have ten or more re:
& istered tournaments, ten have NOR
than fifteen and five have more tina
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