Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-08
WILMINGTON STILL
AFTED PENNAA1
Though Its Showing in the Trap
shooters League This Year
is Discouraging.

The defeat handed the Wilmington
Club by West Chester last Saturday was
the third defeat recorded against the
Wilmington Trapshooting Association in
four starts this season. and the officials of
the club saw this is the poorest showing
over made by a Wilmington club In the
Philadelphia Trapshooters League.
Whether Wilmington defeats can be at
t-ibuted 20 overconfdence or to slump
no one can say, but President Ike
Turner feels certain that the Wilmington
team will make better showing from now
en-
Ihc Wilmington Club won the pennant
,Lrcc consecutive wears, and in that time
wprs, only defeated on one occasion, and it
now looks as though the other teams got
tIn,d of Wilmington always being called
the "champs" and decided that some club
other than Wilmington would win tho
bunting this wear. IS every club Whining
ron has stacked up against tins year has
been represented by their strongest line
mp.
Camden started Wilmington down hill
when that club defeated the locals in the
tirSt match of the season at Bellevue and
Uhen one looks over the names of the
shooters that invaded Wilmington there IS
little wonder why the locals were defeated.
Camden never WAS represented by such
strong team, and IL is not believed that
thcv will ever get such combination
together again. They were defeated at
I.an.dale last Saturday for the tlrst time
this season. but if Camden could have
mustered the same team that shot WI
uinCton. il is not believed that the Penn
svIvania club could have won the verdict.
After the Camden match Wilmington
@Ia Jotr,kvn 4n Chnat tho I tRHT-
view Club a match, and that club had also
made ARRANGEMENTS TO have their strong
s~t te.n on hand, but the locals managed
20 nose them out. The locals defeat at the
hands of the Meadow Springs Club can
be attributed 10 the small attendance, but
this cannot bAsaid Of last Saturday 5 match
a. the locals outnunhered the West
Chester team West Chester came here
last SATURDAY. with the best team that ever
represented thst CITY, and il Is question:
able whether they ever viii get such q
strong team together again this season.
The officials of the Wilmington Club
~slize that the chances OF NIlmlngta1
winning the pennant again this wear are
very slim, but say that 10 win the match
next Saturday in Philadelphia against the
Quaker City Gun Club the only club ln
the league which has not been defeated
this wear, will be q lot OF satisfaction, and
their members are dong everything IN
their power to take mp the strongest team
which has represented Wilmington this
wear All ewes will be centered on this
match for if Wilmington fails to stop the
Quaker City Club It IS a foregone con-
clIsion that they will 20 through the
season without defeat, as they have al
ready downed the West Chester and
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Clubs II Whining
ton can win the match next Saturday,
there Is apt to be great finish for high
honors this season for other clubs.
L. d. Willis, who has heretofore been
barred from shooting IN league matches on
account Of representing q shell company
several wears ago, has been granted per
mission 10 shoot in the league and his
services viii help the Wilmington Club
greatly.