Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-23
RECORD BROKEN
At TRAP SHOOTERS
TOURNAMENT
SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB
SEES WONDERFUL SCORES
DAY.

A number of records were smash
ed at the Grand American handical
tourny at the South Shore COuntr!
club yesterday when Mark Arie o
ThomosOboro won the national anna
teur championship at single targets
by breaking seventy-fve targets
straight in their shootoff
Clarence b. Pratt of Bridgeton, n
j., was winner of the national cham
pionship in doubles, and John Peter
son. of Randall. Ia, won the incom
pleted preliminary handicap. He
broke 80 of 100 tragets from the eigh-
teen yard rise, and although a
number of contestants must shoot
their last event, none has a chance
to beat the Iowa mans score,
Shootoff Sets Record,
The shootoff for the national sin.
giles championship was one of the
most remarkable ever held in con
nection with the classic. The shoot
off was postponed from Tuesday
when three were tied for premier hon
ors. The contestants were ordered
TO shoot at twenty targets from
the sixteen yard rise, Arie and Roy
McTntire of Butler, Pa, went straight,
while Jay Clark of Worcester. Mass.
missed his eighteenth bird. thereby
eliminating him from the race
Arie and MsIntire broke the targets
into dust in the second string and
each finished with another perfect
After a brief rest the contestants
again toed the sixteen yard mark and
the easterner dropped his tftvninth
and seventyfirst birds. Arie again
finished with a perfect score, giving
him the championship. He was Civ
en- great ovation by not only his
Dwn admirers from his home state
but also by shooters from coast TO
coast and from Houston, Tex. on the
south to Vancouver. Wash, on the
north.
Plat Ties World Mark.
Clarence B. Plat, of Bridgeton, ~
]. had to equal the worlds record to
beat Arie out of the championship
in double targets. Arie finished by
breaking IS targets out Of the fifty
pairs on Tuesday Plat shot his last
event yesterday, and when the scores
were tabulated he had broken 96
William Ridley of What Cheer, Ia,
broke the same number of targets
in Denver three years ago. In this
race the contestants shot from the
sixteen yard rise
John Peterson, of Randall, la, broke
the targets to bits in the preliminary
handicap and finished with % score
out of 100 from the eighteen yard
rise. Although no records have been
kept Of this race old timers such as
Bill Crosby and Fred Gilbert assert
ed this is record Elmer Shaner Of
the Interstate Association who is
of the shoot said he could
not remember any score which equal
ed that made by the Iowa shooter
John L. Lump. of Youngstown O..
was the only contestant who had
chance to beat Peterson when dark
ness started to fall over the traps
The Buckeye expert broke 70 out of
his first so targets He then had to
go straight in his last frame. or TWEEN.
ty targets, to beat Peterson In the
third bird and thereby the opportuni
ty of going into a shootoif with Pet
ersOn for the trophy and title.
Showing some of her real skill,
Mrs. A. II Winkler won the special
Womens race, a fifty target event
from sixteen yards, with score of
AZ Mrs. Winkler is a local woman.
Mrs. II 6. Snodgrass, Of Chicago. was
second with score of 49, and Mrs.
Friend and Mrs II. Almert tied for
third place with As.
II. ID, Gibbs, of Union City. Tenn.
was high professional In the 100 tar
get event from sixteen yards. Ne
broke 49, and the one he missed he
busted Bill Crosby of O'Fallon. I'LL.
was second with 9S. Homer Clarke.
of Alton, H.. and Lester German, of
Aberdeen Md. tide for third place
scores of o. In q special match race
at 100 targets from sixteen years Bill
Crosby defeated Fred Gilbert, of
Spirit Lake Ia, 90 to 92
Start Grand American Today.
Shooting today will start at $50
o'clock The preliminary handicap
will be completed AZ soon as possible,
then shootngi in the Grand American
handicap, the feature OF the tourney
Will start In this event there are sos
entries, and they will shoot at 100 tar.
gets from distances ranging from six
teen to twenty.thrce yards.
Friend calling on DENTIST Ny head
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