Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-09-23

! States Trapshootfng team to the
\ Olympic Games, Frank Troeh, of
Vancouver. Wash, broke 119 targets
in succession one day and 13S on an
other IN shooting of ties on ten
target events and Forest McNier, OF
Houston. Tex. broke 100 straight In
three events on the English Cham
&pionshjp program. for which he re-
vcsived the Gold Star and innumer-
able trophies.
McNier's perfect score was the
first aver recorded in this event. Be-
fore the advent of the Americans IN
the championships the longest
straight run in British Trapshooting
annals was forty-nine. In England
they shoot / is ounces OF powder
to ! Ia in this country, but they
9 both barrels in Great Britain
while We only use one here. There
were upwards OF 1000 runs of better
than fifty in the United States last
year. This shows more than any,
thing we know of the difference be-
tween the shooters of Britain and
America.
These long runs by the Americans
are more remarkable when one con-
sfders the difficulties encountered In
making them. English shooters have
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to the papers about the hard targets,
claiming that 1t vas Impossible to
break them. The Americans dis
covered that the targets were made
Of cement and the only way to break
them was to put the centre load in
the center and to put II there quick.
On his 1rst ten targets in England,
Mark Arie only broke three. No
one In this country who knows any
thing about shooting would even
think Of Arie missing one In ten.
Then the Americans investigated.
Frank Troeh went out in the field
and collected some OF the targets
that had been shot at. One of them
he fastened to q post and went back
sixteen yards and shot at II. He
put the entire charge on the target
without breaking IL. He brought It
home az q souvenier. This will give
you an idea of the hardness Of the
English targets and the difficulties
In compiling high scores and long
runs.
It also explains the lack of in
terest of trapshooting In England.
One cannot be expected to participate
in q sport in which he or she can
not obtain results. This was pointed
out to the Englishmen. The
American shooters went 70 far as to
80 to the factory where English clay
birds were manufactured and show
ed the producers tow targets are
made in the United States-and al0
convinced the Epgiishmen that II
they made targtes that would break
when they were hit that the sport
would benefit. and that Englishmen
would show considerable improve
ment-iu their shooting.
In the Olympic Games targets
made In America were used. They
broke when they were hit. The
longest run made by any shooter
In the Olympic Games was forty
three. This was made by McNier.
Arrangement OF Traps.
While the Americans were allow
ed to shoot from the position in
vogue in this country. other con-
uitions were vastly different. The
trap arrangement IL much different
than in the United States Here we
use q stationary trap erected in the
firing line. In Europe expert traps
r used. They are placed in a
trench built of stone. seventy-ive
feet long. five feet deep and five
feet wide. The trench is on a straight,
line. The firing line Is sixteen
metres. about seventeen yards, be-
hind the trench. The pegs are If
teen feet apart, also and a straight
line. There are three expert traps
in the trench in front of each
shooter and he never knows from
which of the three the target is
going to be released.
This Is difficult enough but the
hardest part Is to come. In the Eng
lish championship events ninety
targets were shot from the regular
from pegs. W and four, the shooters
Shooting this way each shooter had
nine traps to contend with, the
shooter on peg two having the
targets thrown for hinr from traps
In mont of positions one, two and
threeA and the shooter at number
four getting them from three, four
or five. In the Olympic Games the
nrst seventy targets were thrown as
in England, the next twenty as above
described and the final ten with one
shooter up at a time. He stood at
number three position and had to
take a chance on getting q target
from any n of fifteen traps. all
unknown angles. Mark Arie was
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In this style of shooting.
More OF q Walk Than Shoot.
The Americans have no use for the
European style of squad shooting,
six men up. and moving to the next
peg after each shot. They claim,
and rightly too. that 1t il more of
q walking match than a shooting
competition and readily understand
why the target events are mainly at
ten birds. The squad style of shoot
ing as in vogue in the United States
was demonstrated both In England
and In Belgium in practice matches
ana the shooters of these countries
were much interested.
In Europe two shots are allowed
at each target. The European idea
heretofore has been to fire the first
shot quick and the second shot
quicker, the shooter hoping to hit
the target without stopping to take
AIM Some of the members OF the
foreign teams shot both barrels every