The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
Annual Shooting Classic OF
Year Will Be Held August
20 at the Chicago Club
REVISED FOOT FAULT
RULE HELPS TENNIS
Larsen Fails in Effort to Better Rec
ord for High Jump-Trial Meets
to Select Teams for A. A. U.
Championship Games

New York July 2S.-The completed pro-
gramme for the eighteenth annual grand
American handicap. as announced by the
Interstate Trap Shooting association
forecasts one of the best tournaments
ever staged by that organization. Inc
flve-day shoot will be neld at chicago
under the auspices of the Southside Coun-
try club, with more than $4,000 added
money. The tournament will open on
Monday. August 20, with the South Shore
Introductory; Tuesday will witness the
entrants shooting for prizes in the Chi
cago Overture; the National Amateur
championships at singles and double tar
gets. On August % there Will be pre-
liminary handicap. while the Grand
American will be shot the following day
and the meet closed with consolation
handicap on August "a.
The winners and runners-up in the in
dividual state championships alone will
be eligible to shoot in the national anna
teur championships, while any amateur
can enter the Grand American handi-
cap which calls for 100 targets at un-
known angles to be shot from the 10
to the 23-yard mark, according to hand
leap. Entries will close on August 4, this
season. which Is wscH earlier than
usual.
The first Grand American handicap was
shot at Interstate Park. N. Y. in 1900,
and there were IA entries. The popularity
of the event drew rapidly and each sue
ceeding year brought larger fields of en-
trants, the record being held by Chi
cago, which attracted SS4 trapshooters for
the 1915 tournament Chicago also ng-
ures in another record for it was during
/ the 1910 tourney held in that city that
Riley Thompson won with perfect
| score: /. e., 1OOx100.
| Word has been received at the national
headquarters of the Amateur Athletic
union that Clinton Larsen, Utah high
| Jumper, failed in his recent special trial
| to better the worlds record held by Ed
ward Beeson of California. Larsen sew
eral weeks ago cleared the bar with the
pegs registering feet inches The
Jump was made in ala exhibition, how
ever, and according to Amateur Athletic
| union rules, could not be accepted. As
| a result a special event was staged a
\ few days later with Alma Richards and
| several other good jumpers competing
against Larsen but the latter was not
| quite on edge and the best he could do
| was feet 4 inches
| Richards carried Larsen along to 6
| feet 2 inches, where he was forced to
retire with sprained ankle Larsen
| then cleared the bar two inches higher
and had it placed at 6 feet inches, at
which point he failed in three attempts.
| He had no difficulty in winning the
broad jump with leap of over 20 feet,
| however and his admirers predict that
The will set new worlds record in the
high jump before the summer is over
| The revised tennis foot fault rule as
promulgated by the national association
has in the opinion of expert players
| and tennis authorities, cleared away
much of the uncertainty regarding the
meaning and enforcement of this regu-
llation According to the latest code,
| service is delivered the instant the ball
| and racquet come into contact; it is a
1 hop or jump if both feet are off the
| ground at the same time; the grounded
| foot may be turned or twisted in any
manner without violating the rule, pro-
vided it does not leave the ground
| After preparing to serve there must be
Inc movement of the foot that can be
construed as step, but no step can
| be said to be completed until the foot
| is replaced upon the ground. The server
must come to complete stop before
| serving the ball and both feet must be
behind the line; Furthermore. one foot
must remain upon the ground until the
ball is hit by the racquet. The racquet
and any portion of the body other than
the feet may however, cross the line
before the ball is hit
With the final determination of the
ST. Louis athletic authorities to hold the
A. A. U. championship games as origi-
naly scheduled, plan has been sus-
gested for the holding of one or two
| try-out meets in the east for the pur7
section.