The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-16
F. TROEH WORLDS BEST TRAPSHO l..
 ASSERTS CARNEY.
Vancouver Expert Winner of Every Open Championship
 Except Olympic.
By PETER p CARNEY Editor National Sports Syndicate


 branch of sport is more or less a matter of opinion.
 The experts who follow the various sport activities and write thereof, do not always agree so one cannot expect laymen, who see champions and near champions perform occas- ionally, make the right selections Laymen are swayed by the opinion of writer's
 The question of who is the best trapshooter in the United States was recently put up to me The best amateur trapshooter in the United States is the best in the world for the trapshooters of other countries do not class with the trapshots Of America.
 It is our humble opinion that Frank NJ. Troeh of Vancouver, Wash, is 1 the best amateur trapshooter in the world
 This opinion is not based solely on i the shooting that MT. Troeh has done this year but what he has accom- plished over a term of years. Since 1 his first performance in the clay target world Troeh has been star of the first magnitude. He has won every trapshooting championship and every live bird championship that any shooter can win in open compe- tition, except the Olympic Champion ship, which is virtually the worlds titular event. Troeh in this event was second to Mark Arie.
 Arie has a lot of friends who think he is the best trapshooter in the world, and they have a right to their opinion, and they are not far wrong. Arie is a wonderful shot, the great est handicap shooter the world has ever seen. but he does not shoot anywhere the number of targets each year that Troeh does. The Wash ington shooter fires at three of more l targets to every one that Arie fires at and this must be taken into con sideration when one is selecting the greatest shooters.
 Troeh's Wonderful Average
 The average over a term Of years shows the calibre of shooter. Troen for seven years has averaged better than ninety six per cent and for the past five years has averaged better 1 than ninety seven per cent and every year he has shot at more targets than any other amateur trapshooter in the United States and Canada. He has won the high average hon ors among the amateurs several times within the past five years and will win it again this year. At this particular time he has an average O. 1 .9764 on S.SS0 targets, which is a greater average than any trapshooter in the world, amateur or professional
 Troeh is one of thise shooters who seldom has an off day. He is good 1 today, tomorrow and every day. At the Grand American this year he had an average of .96 per cent on all of his targets This is not a poor aV- crage. but it is poor for Troeh. The more important the event, the better Troeh shoots. He never gets excited. never gets rushed never argues with anyone. He just goes ahead and shoots gets all the targets he can, and that is all anyone can do. The proverbial iceberg has nothing on Troeh for coolness. Until this year Troeh shot in a red sweater that be- came nearly as famous as his old 1 Winchester gun.
 This year Troeh discarded the red sweater and in a number Of instances he used other trapguns than the one he became famous with. The old smoke barrel that brought fame to Troeh cost him $19 about eight years ago in Portland, Ore, hardware store. It was a second hand gun 1 then. Troeh bought it to shoot ducks with.
 Some time after Troeh purchased l the gun. the Post Intelligencer or 1 Seattle. Wash, offered a trophy for the winner of the Washington State championship. Troeh entered and shot the second hand gun that no one believed he could break targets with because of the peculiar trigger null. but he did win the champion ship and five times since has won the ! tile with the same gun.
 The trigger pull is seven and one l half pounds. The average trigger pull on a gun is three and one half hounds. It is doubtful if any other ] shooter in the world could break one half the targets he shot at using the gun that Troeh shoots because of the difference in the weight of the trig7 ger pull
 II is just a freak in a gun that Troeh has become accustomed tO. IL is doubtful if the gun today could be purchased for s1.O0O from Troeh.