Arizona republican., 1920-09-19

in taking advantage of all the winning tricks of trapshooting.
 At the sound of the bell both teams appeared. The American team of ten men average over 19O pounds in weight. well matched for height and all attired in new, smart. shooting Ssuits, with U. $. A. worked in gold across the front. 1 was proud of the team and had no misgiVings regarding the ultimate results. Names on the Amer ican score board to shoot the first event were Tom Marshall, Col E. H. Tripp, Charley Budd, Richard Merrill, J. A. R. Elliott, Frank Parmalee, Jack Tanning, Rolla Heikes, Fred Gulbert Billy Crosby, Capt. A. W. Money, act ing referee: Emil Werk and Frank Harrison, judges; Fred Pond, scorer; Edward Banks, purveyor to our mas cot the alligator. Seating capacity of the grounds were filled to capacity with the overflow on the side lines. MT Gayle, manager of Great BritaIn's s rep resentatives, introduced our team to the audience, they cut off the hand cuffs giving us a good hand. He then introduced the English team, with a hope that they might shoot IS well in this series of races. as the Americans in the sports world could r2de, fight wrestle and yacht. He announced the referee, scores and conditions under which the races would be shot. Gun and ammunition tables were back of the score lines. The English were shooting guns whose value ran up in the thousands, hand finished works of art and gunmakers' skill. Guns shot by the Americans told a different fl nancial story, the blooming lot would not average $75 each, wire machine made, unembellished, grabbed from the stock at hIff fnY-. fCf- ent shooting afield or trap, when load ed with American ammunition. It was our province to Shatter illusion and fallacy so long prevalent with a few sportsmen on our home side of the water, that high priced foreign guns and ammunition were requisites for ac- curate shooting. London papers fea- tured our ammunition. claiming tt was superior for target shooting, picturing the length of shells and describing our special wadding. After we had won, their papers stated we had then out gunned and amunitioned, at the same time testing about their handmade gold-trimmed and especially choked guns.
 As conclusive reason that we out classed them with guns and ammuni- tion, they cited the manner in which we ground up our targets. 'at all times blowing, them into a. puff of dust" A S11u4ilS DOdTQ was IlrSJ introduced 1n- dicating which one of the labyrinth of releasing levers to be pulled, the race then was on. Hold high up on the targets back, was our slogan, and sat- isfactory results followed
 From the opening of the event, we industriously crowded our British neighbors. Tripp, Parmalee and Gil- bert overplayed their hands in their effort to get in their neighbors' laps, regardless of the dirty looks handed them. Captain Butt came to me with the declarttion, You men are so deuced fast they are fatiguing my men," In exchange, explained to him that His men were so deuced slow it would be necessary for him to keep his men out of our way" With wind blowing towards the traps 65-yard targets which jumped and cut all kinds of capers, Ca shade more disconcerting to our British friends than ourselves) We gradually slipped out ahead, until the score board spelled safety The English broke S01. Americans S66, we
 won by a margin of 65. They broke t172 targets with their second shots.