Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-27
SHOOTS STRAIGHT
THE OF 93
Veterans of the Trap, Keen as
Ever, Making Wonderful
Workmanship Records

who is the oldest trapshooter in
,the country" asks Peter B. Carney,
IN an interesting article dealing with
the veterans, and he cites Uncle Joe
Heineman. of wausaw. Wis, who is
now inhis 93d year, and who still
participates in the tournaments of the
still shatter the targets without the
aid of eyeglasses.
Captain Andy Meaders. of Nash
Vile. Tenn, is II years old and he
broke eighty-eight targets in the last
Grand American Handicap.
At 76 years-in 1917-Dr. A. ].
Lamson won the trapshooting cham
pionship of Alabama.
Captain j. f. Brietenstein is 75
years of age, and no tournament in
Burlington. Ia. would be complete
4 without him.. The captain has never
missed a Grand American Handicap
|. at clay targets and asserts he will
attend every one as long as he can
walk about.
NJ. d. Towne is 81 years of age. but
still attends the Los Angeles Gun Club
every Saturday afternoon. He shoots
siXteen-gauge gun. His long run
last year was 81 straight and he fin
ished the string with a score of 46
out of so.
S. d. Fowler, of wolcott. N. Y, is
81 years old, and during the past forty
years has been shooting over the traps
at live birds, glass balls and clay
pigeons. He shoots and reads without
the aid of glasses.
A. 4. Mayors, a druggist: Of Saln Madi,
trapshooting in 1854. That he can
still set pace too fast for most of the
younger boys was demonstrated IN
the 'Old Timers Shoot at the Madi-
son Gun Club the other day when he
broke As targets out of 80 and carried
off the gold trophy Mr.. Mayors says
nothing drives away business cares
and worries as quickly as trapshoot-
ing.
John T. Glover. of Milwaukee, Wis.
, started trapshooting in the eighties.
II Before blue rocks were known he and
several other Chicago men devised a
trap for throwing glass balls and used
that for one season: In 1883 they
formed the Auburn Park Gun Club.
OF the members of tins club MI
Glover thinks he and w, X. Morgan
now of Moline. Ill, are the only sur,
vivors. In 1890 the Auburn Park and
Morgan Park Gun clubs united to
form the Eureka Gun Club, which
several years ago consolidated WIN Tt,n
the present Chicago Gun Club. The
roster of the old Eureka Gun club
Included such wel1-known shooters
as Tom Marshall. Charles Willard. F.
P. Stannard, Rollo Heikes and A. J.
F. B. Garden. of Wheeling, w. Va,
recalls the time when they used to
shoot glass balls filled with feathers
thrown from handmade trap. Last
fail he was quail shooting Tor week ,t!
and juS ~irg by the number OF "hlts
Sco~o! ne was able to equal his record
of twenty years ago. Nothing IKE
shooting to keep man young 49,.
DR.. D. A. Allen. president of the
West Toledo Gun Club, commenced
thirty-six years ago to shoot. glass
balls from a trap. He has in his pos
session some glass balls tnat were
picled up at a match between Cap
tain Bogardus and Mr.. Hicks at In
dianapols in June. 1877. on these
halls is tamped "Bogardus Glass Ball
Paid April 10. lS77.+ hoa,th Dr; hlifn tn-day atv
largely to his shooting habits; He has
been shooting long time, put ms
registered average of over 81 per cent,
last year is evidence that ne lsh
shot out by any means.
II had in my coops in Fast SYRIA
when 15O shooters from all over the
country-Maine to California-gath-
cred at the Nichols farm range to
shoot at the VIII
nne Yards rise on single birds and
eighteen yards on doubles. eighty
wards boundary. There was grand
stand lunch and everything that goes
10 make it pleasant for the shooters.
I'm those days the man that had
a breech-loading gun was dandy.
The loading tables were there. to ac-
commodate the men with the old-time
muZzle-Ioaders. Those were In the
\ majority and they got there just the
same 1t would take long time to
tell the changes that have taken place
since" :,
the-wool sportsmen and it is only fit.
ting that every gun club should set
aside one day a year for an "Old
Timers Shoot"