Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-17
TRAP w%l
and l%~ M
BY PETER r. CARNEY.

The only state trapEhooting champion
J who has repeated to this time is r. A. Kine
| Of Colorado.
c. A. Nash. runner up in the California,
| Nevada state shoot this year, was the run.
| ner up last year, too
It is estimated that there are at least
| 1000 boys under Is years Of age who are
| proficient trapshooters.
R. D. Morgan of Washington. D. c.. who
| Hogans shoot last fall, likes shooting SC
well that he took the trip to Tulsa for tht
Oklahoma state event.
The Oklahoma state shoot was the great
| est o-day trapshooting carnival ever held
| in the United States. Two hundred and
| twenty-five shooters were at the traps ir
| the state titular event
Ellwood, Ind claims title to the oldest ac-
tive maker Of guns in the world In A. E.
Chamness. He is so years of age and has
been making guns every day for sixty
years. Chamness says he is the only man
In Indiana who can make a gun from start
to finish.
The Coal Creek Country club Of Sheffield,
Ill, and the Hunderton Country Gun club
of High Bridge, N. j., were the organiZa- :
tions that received Interstate associa tion
trophies for newly organized gun clubs dur
ing May. To this time twenty -eight clubs
have been awarded trophies by the Inter-
state association,
Sapulpa, Okl., will be the scene Of the
1918 trapshooting event for the state title.
Mrs. C. E. Groat of Los Angeles, Cal,
has been doing some remarkable trapshoot-
ing this spring. On successive days late
in May she broke ninety-six of out 100 tar
gets and then 191, 1856 and 1S0 out of 200
and had straight runs Of 63, 10 and Sc.
Just to prove that It isn't the high priced
piece of mechanism that breaks the targets
Frank Troeh, the champions of champions,
carries around gun that set him back SIS.
Troeh broke 295 out of 500 targets in the
Washington state shoot, and just by way
of diversion opened the California state
shoot by breaking 1879 out of 2s0. He had
a run of 284 in the Washington state shoot.
There is no bar to age or size in trap
shooting-in fact. the restrictions are very
few. In the Grand American last year
w. f. Phillips, aged IA, and ]. H. Breiten-
stein, aged S4 shot in the same event. In
the recent Pacific coast handicap Mrs. Ada
Schllling weight ninety pounds, was at the
firing line with George j. Tucket, weight
$50. Mrs. Schilllng broke ninety-three tar
gets and her heavier opponent broke eighty
six.
There Is some agitation for a professional
trapshooting championship. There should be
such a thing. The amateurs have their state
and national events, and 1t would be fitting
to have state and national championships
for the professionals. Some states now nave
professional championship races. 1t would
be a wise move on the part of every state
association to put on its annual program
professional and woman's championships
events; to have the Interstate association
approve of these events and to conduct the
national championship in connection with
the grand American handicap.
A movement Is under way to inaugurate
an intercity trapshooting league In the
east 1t is the idea of the promoters to get
the league under 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 1t is the feeling that league
with Philadelphia, New York, Newark, Bos-
ton, Hartford. New Haven, Baltimore, Sy-
racuse, Buffalo and Wilmington would prove
a great success Such a league would slim
uate interest In the sport.
Fifty eight clubs were awarded trophies
for team competition by the Interstate as
sociation during April and May and ten
more clubs were given trophies during June.
They are Elkhart (Ind.) Gun club against
st. Joe Valley Gun club of South Bend,
Ind Capital City Rod and Gun club of Sa-
lem, Ore, against Woodburn (Ore) Gun
club; Harrisburg (Pa) Sportsmen's associ-
alton against West Fairview (Pa) Sports
mems association Minneapolis tMinn) Rod
and Gun club against st. Paul tMinn.) Rod
and Gun club; York (Pa.) Gun club again
Lancaster C,ounty (Pa1 Gun club,