Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-28
AT THE TRAPs
Bv Peter P. Carney

Trapshooting has long been a matter of fact pastime. Thousands of tourna- nents. are held yearly and they are all pretty much alike just ordinary tournaments. Seldom is there one held that is out of the ordinary; one that appeals to the spectators as well as the shooters, but there is an event on the the card this season that is out of the ordinary and should do a great deal to liven up the clay target sport.
 Arrangement have been made for four cornered shooting match to be held at the annual tournament Of the Lakewood Gun club; the Illinois State Shoot in Chicago and the Oregon State shoot in Portland between:
 Frank s. Wright, of Buffalo, N. r., the amateur champion of the United States and Canada Mark P. Arie, of Thomasboro, IlI, the champion of Hi nois and high average leader of 19fs; Frank NJ. Troeh, of Vancouver, Wash, the champion of Washington and IS yards champion of the United States; and Woolfolk Henderson. Of Lexington, Ky, the champion of Kentucky and second high in the 1919 averages.
 Just the number of targets that these men will shoot at has not been determined but it is more than likely that they will shoot at 20 targets from 16 yards; 20 targets from IS yards; 20 targets from 20 yards; 20 targets from 22 yards and 10 pairs of doubles-100 targets in all.
 This should be a great contest. The shooters are tEe four best amateurs in the United States and Canada, Arie, Henderson and Troeh were the lead ing three in the averages and Wright was fifth. They are the trapshooting champions of their own states and Arie, Troeh and Henderson have been amateur champions of the United States and Canada a title that Wright now holds.
 All four are high class double tar get shooters. Troeh is a former cham p:on and Arie has been a runner up. All these shooters are equally at home on the back marks as they are on the front lines and competition such as mentioned above would in reality solve the all-round amateur -trapshooting championship of the country.
 The Lakewood and Oregon shoots are scheduled for May, while the Illi- nois championship is listed in June. There is a possibility that the shooters will continue their match at the Can adian National Exhibition at Toronto the last week in August, but this mat ter is in the hands of the exhibition people.
 Each of the three shooting organiza- tions mentioned have given $1,000 for the match and th-s money will be pool ed at the finish Of the entire affair the man breaking the greatest number of targets receiving about 75 per cent of the money.
 Trapshooting needs just such com petitions as this I would not be a bad scheme to arrange individua matches at the different state cham pionsh.p, shoots, between some of the leading professionals,- and two, three and five man squad races would De helpful
 Sid Dodds, who is managing the gigantic Mississippi state shoot al Clarksdale hopes to stage a profes- sional team match between team. representing Winchester, Remington Hercules, duPont, Western, Ithica anC the other organizations that employ professional shooters. If he can stag' i such a match he will have the prize shooting event of the year.