Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-27
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IS REAL CHAMn
To Be Eligible for National
Shoot, Entree Must Be
State Champion
why Is q champion ?

why Is q CHAMPION
Speaking generally, we don't knows
Now, If you will change the Ques<
ton to a specific one and ask. why
is the national amateur t~rapshootiua
champion?" you'll start something. :
But before the something" gets
going and monopolizes all of the al
lotted space, it Is but fair that We
explain why we cannot tell just why.
is a, for instance, a golf or tennt9
champion, though we are strong for
those games as well as for all other
outdoor sports.
However u%nneutral you may BE-
with reference to any particular re-
creation, you will admit that facts Ii
facts" Just the same as pigs is pigs,t
and 1t is q toss up as to which Is the
more pigheaded at times, so not be-
ing responsible for either pigs os
facts, we must ask you to put the
blame where 1t belongs If you don't
approve of pigs or don't like the way
facts affect a phase of your favorits
sport.
To resume, the winning of a golf
or tennis championship is simply d
matter of an aspirant taking a pot
shot at the champion who has won
the champ who, in turn, has wrested
the title from a preceding "cham-
pion" much on the order of the end
less story that depended for its end
lessness on a repetition OF the words,
then another locust went in and took
out another grain of corn. then an
other locust" etc.. ETC., etc. !
Certainly it is true that our best
friends are those who gently and
kindly (and privately tell US u
faults, therefore. golfers and Tennis
ers will drink heartily from our prof.
fered loving cup. Incidentally, 1t IL
to be remarked h a if Great Britain
ever tried to take golf back home to
| Scotland, some half-million American
trapshooters would rally in defense OF
the game, and instead of "Hoot
monl' 1t would be "Shoot, mohl"
Ditto for tennis in event of an at-
tempt to suppress 1t.
A Champion of Champions
Penning the pigs and again trottin4
out the facts, the national AMATEUR
trapshooting championship Is 9
championship, and the shooter VINO
wins it is a Champion champion
of champions. in fact, for In order to
qualify to compete for the national
title contestants must first win the
championship of their respective
states by o~utshooting all corners 81
state championship tournaments havr
ing the official sanction of the InterS
state -Trapshooting Association.
Ordinarily, shooters with high az,
erages are handicapped from one 70
seven yards-shooting from the six
teen to twenty-three-yard line-ao1
cording to their records, but in the
event to determine a state champions
ship. all contestants, from novices TO
experts, fire from sixteen yards bacB
to the trap, thereby making each e
scratch man and leaving skill alone
to be the determining factor in ting
scores registered. The s~ixteen-yarQ
rule is in effect also when the chamk
pions of the different states meet to
try conclusions in the national coma
petition at the Grand American
Handicap Trapshooting Tournament
The National Amateur Trapshoot-
ing Championship title for 1913 VIII
be decided on August 6, the second
day of the Grand American Handicap
Trapshooting Tournament, which VIII
be conducted by the South Snore
Country Club, Chicago, Ill. The tours
nament will begin on August 8 ana
conclude on August Q.
This will be the fifth running on
the championship event. 1t was won
in 1914 by Voolfolk Henderson, OF
Lexington, KY. Charles H. New-
comb, of Philadelphia, won the event
in 1915. Frank Troeh, of V~ancouvers
Wash, won the title in 1915 and
Mark Arie. of ~Thomasboro, ILL.,, won
the title in 1917. Each n of these
shooters broke 90 targets. Thirtys
four states were represented the hrst
year, IS h second, 81 the third and,
Al the fourth.
Concluding this article, we might
add that the Grand American Handle
cap T~rapshooting Tournament is the
classic event of American sportdom-
1t is an even larger spectacle than
the worlds baseball series. For the
last Ave years the Grand Amertca4
Trapshooting event has averaged
more than 700 entrants. and the galE
lery has averaged about $4,000 daily
for the weeks shooting.