Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-13
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There Is Place for Trapshooting
 That No Other Sport Can Fill.
By Dr. W. A. Bruette. .

By Dr.. W. A. Bruette.
 The American trapshot is man in deadly earnest; for the last~t twen- t5-five years he has beer spreading his propaganda so widely that trap shooting promises to become a ra ticnal pastime, and far-seeing men who have studied the sport in it's re- lationship to and influence upon our national-1ife and the pecuiiarities Of cur character say hasten the day. fo- there is use and place for trap shooting that no other sport can fill
 We have said that the trapshot was a man in earnest; more than earnest ness--real,, sincere, play out the string earnestness-is an American charac- teriStic.
 The successful American as a rule is intoIerant of the idea of conserving the slightest portion of nervous ener gE that could be used in any way to ielp spell that which. passes for and is termed success.
 We are not going deeply into the subject of nerves-so many have them that it is unnecessary to do so. We all know that long continued concen- tration upon one lire of thought oft eI results in complete nervous ex- haustion that sleep or rest but par italy restores, and for which the only surcease is to direct the mind through action into another channel of thought
 Instalis New Life.
 There is no sport in the world that demands such tremendous concentra- ton as trapshooting, and that is the very reason that trapShooting affords minds exhausted by concentration along other lines such. complete re- lief.
 There is something about the pop ping shells, the pulverized targets. the rythmatic squad work, and the cheer full earnestness of the devoteees that holds a man long enough to move his nf thoughts 0f -ov. kausted brain cells into a new and untouched field: his subconscious mind becomes more alert, his nervous gan gia stimulate each other. the worn, exhausted conscious mind is allowed to rest and a quiet reStfuf evening and dream1ess sleep follow an hour or two at the traps after high pres sure day.
 Golf and a dozen other sports are all right in their way, exalt them as you win, but there IS always time be- tween strokes for the mind to drift back to business cares.
 Even in rifle shooting you can hesi- tate, you can shift your aim, change position, or even let down your wea- pOn; but the man at the traps has got to do business and do it fast, for the next instant a brown saucer. trav- cling like the proverbial, blue streak slips out of the, trap house, and in addition to it's visualization a dozen highly important questions relating to speed, height. distance, angle, wind age. etc.. have got to be settled. a gun pointed, and a trigger pressed. Concentration is the only answer con centration first, last and all the time
 But if all of these problems be cor rect1y solved the result is so absolute ly. conclusive, so inpressively express ed in the complete extinction of the target that floats in the air as a cloud of dust, that the mind registers in up- per case characters Success.
 Doctors Like the Sport.
 . A complete relation of one field of nervous energy through a delightful stimulation of another is. the reason that you find men of all. ages, of all degrees of strength and frQm every walk in. life gathered in wholesome, democracy at the traps, and for the same reason the most advanced mem. bers of the medical profession and the, greatest nerve specialists advise take up trapshooting', as a standard pre-. scription for mental exhaustion and overwrought nervous systems
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