Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-16

plon VINO mas repeated to this time
is r. A. King. of Colorado.
Just to prove that 1t isn't the
high-priced piece of mechanism that
breaks the targets Frank Troeh, the
champion of champions" carries
around a gun that set him back SIG.
Troeh broke 295 out OF 500 targets
in the Washington State shoot, and
lust by way of diversion opened tho
California State shoot by breaking
1919 out of 200. He had a run of
2S4 in the Washington State shoot.
r. d. Morgan, of Washington. d.
c., who made the high run of 231
in the Westy Hogans shoot last fall,
likes shooting so we'll that he took
the trip to Tulsa for the Oklahoma
State event.
There is some agitation for a pro-
fessional trapshooting championship.
There should be such a thing. The
amateurs have their State and ma
tional events. and it would be fit
ting to have State and national
championships for the professionals.
Some States now have professional
cham pionship races. 1t would be a
wise move on the part of every State
association to put on it's annual pro-
gram professional and woman's
championships events; to have the
Interstate Association approve of
these events and to conduct the ma
tional championship in connection
with the Grand American Handicap.
The Oklahoma State shoot was
the greatest two-day trapshooting
carnival ever held in the United
States. Two hundred and twenty
five shooters were at the traps in
the State titular event.
The Coal Creek Country Club, of
Sheffield, ILL.,. and the Hunderton
Country Gun Club, of High Bridge,
N. J., were the organizations that
received Interstate Association
trophies for newly organized gun
clubs" during May. To this time
2S clubs have been awarded trophies
by the Interstate Association.
c. A. Nash, runner up in the CAL
ifornia- Nevada State shoot this year,
was the runner up last year, too.
A movement is under way to in
augurate an intercity trapshooting
league in the East. 1t is the idea of
the promoters to get the league un-
der way by next fall. The success of
the Philadelphia Trapshooters'
League, the team shoots of the New
York Athletic Club. and the various
other leagues throughout the East
has caused no end of comment, and
it is the feeling that league with
Philadelphia, New York, Newark,
Boston, Hartford, New Haven, Bal
timore, Syracuse, Buffalo and Will
mington would prove great sue
cess. Such a league would stimulate
interest in the sport
Fifty-eight clubs were awarded
trophies for team competition by the
Interstate Association during April
and May. and ten more clubs were
given trophies during June. They
st. Joe Valley Gun Club, of South
Bend, Ind: Capital City Rod and
Gun Club, of Salem. Ore, VS.. Wood
burn (Ore.) Gun Club; Harrisburg,
(Pa.) Sportsmen's Association VS..
West Fairview (Pa.) Sportsmen's As
sc cciation; Minneapolis (Minn) Rod
and Gun Club VS.. st. Paul (Minn)
Rod and Gun Club; York (Pa.) Gun
Club VS.. Lancaster (Pa.) County Gun
Club.
There is no bar to age or size in
trapshooting-in fact, the restric-
tions are very few. In the Grand
American last year w. e. Phillips,
aged IA. and ]. II. Breintensteln,
aged S4. shot in the same event. In
the recent Pacific Coast Handicap
Mrs. Ada Schilling, weight 80
was at the firing line with
George ]. Tuckett, weight $50. Mrs.
Schilling broke SO targets and her
heavier opponent broke SO.
Ellwood, Ind. claims title to the
oldest active maker of guns In the
world in A. E. Chamness. He is 80
wears of age and has been making
guns every day for 60 years. Cham
ness says he is the only man in In
diana who can make a gun from
start to finish.
Sapulpa, Okla, will be the scene
of the 1918 trapshooting event for
the State title.
Mrs. c. F.. Groat. Of Los Angeles,
Cal, has been doing some remarka-
BILE trapshooting this spring. On sue
cessive days late in May she. broke
96 out of 100 targets, and then 191,
1856 and 1S0 out of 200, and had
runs of 63, 70 and 56.
It is estimated that there are at
least 1000 boys under Is years of
age who are proficient trapshooters.