Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-07-13

has played tennis in worlds matches
FOR a generation and is still one OF
the best. Chick" Evans has been
one OF our very best golfers for a
number of years and for dozen
years or more Jay Gould has proved
supreme as q court tennis player. Not
once has he been defeated.
And for eleven years Charley Spen-
Ger has been one of the real top
notchers in the art of trapshooting
and his average for this II year per-
iod far excells that of any other trap
shooter in the world.
Not once in these IL years has his
average been lower than SO meaning
by this hat he has always been able
to break more than So targets IN
every hundred all the way up in the
thousands for Spencer fred at close
to 5000 targets year in registered
tournaments. Averages are main
tanned only on the tournaments that
are registered by the American Trap
shooting Association. The targets
shot at in club competition and
friendly exhibitions are not listed.
Spencer shot just as many II not more
targets in club matches as he did in
registered competition and in these
events his average was even better
than in registered tournaments. OF
these we cannot ak, however, for
there is nothing official about them.
Spencer's average for II years is
.9677. He shot at 53,435 targets and
broke 51,7O6. Twice in this period
has he led all the trapshooters in
the country in the averages-in 1908
and 1915, No shoter has ever equal
led his mark of 1907, that OF aver
aging 1920 on more than 5000 tar
gets, nor has any one ever touched
his 1915 figures when he averaged
1850 on nearly 5000 targets. In
1909 at Viola, ILL.,, Spencer complied
a run of SOS straight-meaning thai
he broke SOS targets in succession
the shoot lasted two days. Spencer
broke the entire program Of 200 tar
gets each day and then on the secont
day he continued for a record. Aftel
breaking 565 he was forced to dis
continue shooting because he had nj
more shells. This record still hold
good.
Spencer is of the opinion that hi
record run is more than 700 straigh
He claims to have broken in tn
neighborhood of $50 straight in tn
next shoot he went to after leavin
Viola, but has as we have been un
able to locate the figures his recor
will have to stand as it appears II
the record book SOS straight.
| And you can take it from me tina
breaking sos straight isn't the eas
lest thing in the world. to accomplish
We know hundreds of shooters VIII
would give up gladly the remaining
days of heir life If they could breal
100 straight. We were at Pinehurs
recently and watched PIT shooter
perform over a stretch Of seven hour
and the best run in all that time wa
70. At the Grand American Handi
cap in Chicago a year or so ago /
the neighborhood Of 500 shooter
fred ton or more of powder at NOR
than 100000 clay targets in six day
and not one of these shooters brok
100 straight at any time during tn
week. That gives you an idea ho'
easy it is to break SOS straight.
When a shooter gets going on
string like this It is quite . load o.
his mind. Several years ago Harr
Lorenson of Neuman, California
made a run Of 345 straight afte
missing his first two targets in
shoot at Los Angeles and the strait
, was so great that Lorenson has no
performed with meritorious abilit
since.
Quite q number of trapshoOters i
the course Of q year make runs
80 straight. and a number 60 owe
100 straight. but above these figure
they always begun to wonder whe
lone is going to get away" and afte
that one gets away then they 60 afte
another string. Spencer believes h
can break them all--and tries
hreak every one--and that is tn
main reason he is today the creates
of all trapshocters. Most trapshoo