Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-13
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BOYS WHO GAN SHOOT
Remarkable Performances at the Traps by Lads in Their Teens Speaks We'll for the Nation and the Sport of Trapshooting.
By PETER P. CARNEY.
Editor National Sports syndica

Editor National Sports Syndicate.
 Your Uncle Samuel hasn't the least
 cause for worry over the shooting
 ability of Young America, for the lads
 of the coming generation are daily
 demonstrating that they are quite pro-
 ficient in the use of firearms, especially the trapgun. Great performances hare
 been recorded at the traps by boys
 wearing knickerbockers. These boys are not confined to any one locality;
 they can be found anywhere from
 Maine to Oregon.
 Possibly the best known and the best shot of the younger contingent of trapshooters is William E. Phillips, Jr., of Chicago, III. Master Phillips is 15 years old and one of the best shots of the Lincoln Park Gun club and the South Shore Country club. Shooting two years, he is now on the 19 yards mark in handicap events. He shot from the IS yards mark in the Grand American handicap in St. Louis last August. and in the Consolation handi- cap tied for first honors with 96 breaks in 100 targets.
 The poorest score that Phillips, Jr. is credited with in the past year was at the South Shore Country club tour nanlent, when he broke 92 out of 100 clay targets. Later at the same club he broke 95 targets in 100 thrown. In the Illinois state shoot at La Sale he broke IS out of 50 targets, and in the Metropolitan Gun club shoot (Chicago) he won first honors with 139 breaks in 150 targets. Here he had run of p straight In the tournament at Peru, Ind, last July he broke 99 out of 100, and in successive tournaments of the Lincoln Park Gun club he broke 97 for the Clarke trophy, 9S on Peters Shell day and 4S out of 90 on U. s. Shell day. He had a run of 1O1 straight on Peters Shell day. Young Phillips has hopes of being the cham pion of champions" and the G. A H. winner one of these das. His father won the Grand American in 1912.
 Chicago furnishes us with another remarkable trapshooting prodigy in g. yearOld Jimmy Cooper who is one of the regulars of the Long Lake Gun club His father is a veteran live bird shooter and is taking a great interest in the development of the coming champion" as he fondly calls him. Young Cooper broke 41 out of 50 tar gets with a 2s gauge gun recently and won a gun through this shooting.
 Another little fellow who inherited his shooting ability is A. Wade Strow- ger, the year old son of Allan w StrOwger, president of the Portland (Ore) Gun club. Young Strowger uses a. 2S gauge gun and appears in all of the Portland Gun club tournaments
 New England asserts it has the best Juvenile trapshot in America in Phipps e. Moshier of the Boston A. A. Mo- shier is the son of W. D. Moshier of Hopl<inton, Mass. The senior Moshier is president of the Brampton Gun club and it was here that young Moshier learned to break clay targets. He is Is years of age, a member of the Bos- ton A. A. trapshooting team, and one of its scratch shooters. Moshier re- gently averaged 92 per cent on 500 1 targets thrown in zero weather. He has | won the high average and high gun | trophy at the Brampton club for the l past two years.
 There are exceptional trapshots in | every section. Tn the neighborhood of | N. T., they claim that Perry Brevoort Turner, II years old. | is just about the best there is At a shoot of the Ossining -Briarcliff Gun club recently Perry broke 46 straight In one event and 47 out of 50 in an other. Young Turner Is the grandson of John I. D. Bristol and learned to l shoot on the estate of his grandfather. where traps were erected for his use He also has a gun especially made for him. In passing we might mention 1 hat Master Turner would be delighted o engage Master Moshier in a special LOO target event.
 Getting around the Philadelphia dis rict, the Quaker City folks have great -espect for the ability of Creighton | Armstrong, 13 years old, who shoots on 1 he team of the CEearview Gun club in he Philadelphia Trapshooters' league. He averaged better than 90 per cent. n the league shoots.
 From Philadelphia to San Diego is a ong jump, but we had to make it to ret in Archie Julian, a native son. IS -ears of age, who on several occasions # late has broken 96 and 97 out of 100 !