The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-06
ROD W l G&a GUN
Seldom Is There Competition These Days That Some of the Fair Dianas Are Not Among the Entrants and Each Sea-
 son Adds to the
 Numbers
WOMEN MAKING RAPID
 STRIDES AS TRAPSHOOTERS
By PETER F. CARNEY

| Trapshooting inspires courage, pro-
 notes health, increases bodily vigo1
 and resistance to the ills flesh is her to. It creates boise and self-confidence
 making body and brain pull together 1 and improves the vision. These are a 1 few Of the many reasons why so many women are interested in the develop
 ment of "the sport alluring." A few years ago there was but a fair sprink-
 ling of women interested in trapshoot- l ing; now the number of fair Dianas who visit the traps reaches into the
 thousands.
 It is a fascinating sport without
 placing any strain on the nervous sys-
 tenn, in fact, trapshooting strengthens | the nerves. It combines sport with 1 fresh air and sunshine and saves many l doctors bills. Women physicians and
 nurses recommend the sport as 8 | health tonic, and if the patients fol- ] be much need for the physician and l the nurse. i Following the organization of the De Nemours Gun club, the first of the women's gun clubs, two years ago, it was predicted that within a few years every club worth while would be called
 upon to provide for women shooters and the prediction has come true. Nc gun club is complete now unless there are quarters for the fair Dianas. In | some rla ces the women form their own clubs and conduct them separately, but l in many places they are conducted in conjunction with the mems trapshoot- 1 ing club. There are several women s | gun clubs in the $50 organizations in Canada, and the women of Wilmington l Chicago, New York, Youngstown and Minneapolis have organizations that dc | credit to those cities. In Spokane l Wash, the fair shooters have formed 1 a women's auxiliary to the Spokane ! Gun club
 As women become more interested
 in trapshooting the proficiency of a great number becomes more marked | For the 10000 targets that Mrs. Ad Topperwein of San Antonio, Tex, shot at the past year she averaged 95 Mrs | Frank E. Butler (Annie Oakley) has | been recognized as one of the best shots in this country for a score oi | years, and Mrs. L. G. Vogel of Detroit has been holding her owL with men at the traps for several years.
 | In the 1915 averages of the Inter- state Trapshooting association Mrs | Ada Schilling is discovered among the ] number who shot at more than 200C | targets. She broke 2116 of the 243C shot at, giving her an average of S707 Mrs. Schilling Is but 4 feet Il inches | in height, and because of her smallness 1 of stature attracts unusual attention when she participates in competition | with men, She halls from San Jose | Cal. In the recent Pacific Coast handi- | cap shoot she scored 82 breaks in 10C | targets, and with Miss Genev1eve Mey- CTS won the double championship TOT 239 targets while Miss Meyers broke 15S of the flying discs During 1915
 Mrs Schilling shot at more than 300(
 targets and averaged shade better | than 88.
 There were two other women shoot ters who figlred in the interstate aver ages in 1915-Mrs. B. P. Remy and Mrs
 Frank Remy. The former broke BOSS
 out of cG3 0targets for an average o1 | 7737 while the latter broke 1901 tar | gets in 2155 thrown for an average o1 I 7439 These. however, are only few of the women who became quite promi- l nent by their performances in 1915
 Mrs. A. H. Winkler won the champions l ship of the Chicago Gun club, the largest trapshooting club in the coun- l try. Therefore, Mrs. Winkler must be | given credit for being quite proficient with the gun. One can't compile much of a score In trapshooting without breaking the targets. It iy one sport 1 in which the true ability of the con- 1 testant can be figured on the score sheets Another woman who won g club championship in 1915 was Mrs. O
 L. Carl. She broke gar in 2o0 tries al 1 the Birmingham Gun club, and not only won the club title. but captured the high average prize as well.
 | In the last Westy Hogan shoot Mrs Frank Remy participated in quite e | number of the competitions and made excellent scores. once breaking l34 and