Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-05
TlTULAR TRAP
SHOOTS DATED
FOR LANSDALE
Money and Trophy Prizes
to Be at Stake May II,
18, 19 and 20
BIG STATE TOURNAMENT

Three thousand dollars in cash and tro-
phies have been subscribed for the target
puverizers of the Keystone State to shoot
Tor At the 26th annual championship trap
shooting tournament OF the Pennsylvania
state Sportsmen's Association, which will
be held at the I.ansdale Gun Club on May
IL 1S, 1e and 20 The original date for
the opening Of the session was May is, but
because OF the primary election the shoot
was moved back one day
The shoot will be the biggest state tour
nament OF the year for the Pennsylvania
State Sportsmen's Association Ia not only
the oldest but is also the largest State
association in the country In the point Of
clubs and individual members. Milford,
Pa. had f50 entries last year. but the
Bansdale Club expects to have twice that
number of shooters at the traps. There
will be State championship event at 100
targets for women, the first State cham
pionship that has ever been conducted for
female shooters.
The Interstate Association conducted
women's championship event in connection
with the Southern Handicap this spring,
and the Illinois Association announces that
1t also will conduct a women's champion
ship event but Pennsylvania Is first. The
women will shoot their titular event in the
same competition the members of the
sterner sex bang away for the State title
lne laSt lUU targets on the last uaN OF
the shoot. II isn't expected that there will
be flood Of women shooters in the event,
because in scratch match the poorer
shooters haven't much Of chance. How
ever, Mrs William II. Ehle, of Idlewyle,
near Lansford Mrs. Frank Gallagher. of
Turtle Creek and Miss Helen Walsh, the
14-year -old shot OF Oil City. are expected
/ to compete. There will be number of
women shooters from other Statesj but
they are not eligible to compete for the
trophy.
Nearly every city in the state will have
a shooter In the tournament. and there is
much speculation as to the winner. Charley
Newcomb the present State champion and
national champion. is liked by many. but
Charles Fisher, the young shooter who
came along so fast In the Philadelphia
Trapshooters' League tournament has
many friends. SO has G.. +. Paynter, of
Pittsburgh; Frank Bender. of Lansdale /;
John G. Martin, OF Pittsburgh: H. B.
Shoop, of Harrisburg Allen He'll, of AL
lentown, and George McCarty, of Phila-
dephia. McCarty and Painter are former
| champions and have ambitions to possess
| the title again. Shoop has competed in
every one Of the previous 25 tournaments.
Besides the Interstate Association
trophy and du Pont championship trophy,
trophies will be awarded by the Lansdale
Board of Trade. Lansdale Citizens Club,
Lansdale Women's Club. Lansdae Gun
Club, business men of Lansdale, and the
gun clubs in and about Philadelphia; the
State association trophy, the Speer trophy
and the In the Open Cup. Five Leggett
traps will be in action under the direction
of Charley North. who will act as referee.
Lloyd r, Lewis will manage the shoot.
The annual election and selection of the
place for the 1917 shoot will take place
May 49, Bradford. Pa, wants the next
shoot, and has lined up many of the dele
gates.