The Washington herald., 1921-01-06
TROEH'S BRILLIANT
WORK FEATURE OF
BEST TRAP YEAR
Nearly 100000 Targets
Thrown in 1920 Tour
naments.
By PETER p. CARNEY.
Editor National sports syndieate.)

CEditor National sports syndieate.)
While there wasn't the same num-
ber of sensational performances as
in 1918, the 1920 trapshooting season
will go down in the history OF that
sport as its best.
Never before were so many targets
thrown and in no other year was the
average number Of contestants as
great as in 1920. In the 500 tourna-
ments registered by the American
Trapshooting Association, 7,S44'524
targets were thrown, an average OF
1919 per tournament. The aver
age number Of contestants was 52.35
amateurs and 5.S7 professionals,
The total number of amateurs en-
tered in the shoots was 26,123 and
the total number of professionals
was 1888. The number of individual
shooters was s,945, which, we be-
lieve, is more active participants
than any other sport can boast of
Shooters representing the United
States won the Olympic Champion
ship as a team and Mark Arie won
the individual championship. In Eng
land the same shooters who were
successful in the Olympic games won
the team championship, and Frank
Troeh won the clay target and live
bird championships of Great Britain
Ben Donnelly the double targets IT,
tie; Forest McNier, the gold star
which is the classic event in Eng
land-and Frank Troeh made an
English and European record Of 13S
straight breaks.
TrOeh, the OutstandinE Figure.
We might break in at this time
with the remark that Troeh was the
outstanding figure of the 1920 sea-
son. Besides his performances
abroad he did excellent work here
His run Of 2ss was the longest made
by an amateur in one registered
shoot, he had seventeen runs of 1OC
or better, won every trapshooting
championship that he was eligible to
shoot for. except the Olympic title
was the high gun in FIVE State cham
pionship tournaments and tied fol-
nigh in another, and compiled an
average of 1852 on $3.50 targets
the best of the year. The greatest
honor that a trapshooter can win is
TO be the high average shooter OF
the year. Troeh was first in 1918
third in 1919, and first again this
year. The singular thing about his
1919 performance, when he finished
third is that his average was greater
than in the years he finished first
Troeh's average for the past three
years is .s746 on 2247O TARGETS
most remarkable shooting perform.
ance.
The longest run made by an am.
ateur in one shoot was 3I1 BY
Charles G. Spencer. Spencer also haC
eleven runs over 100. Three hun.
dred and siXty-four amateurs anC
siXty-eight professionals had run.
Of better than 100. Six runs ovel
200 were made by amateurs anc
seven by professionals. More thar
$500 shooters had runs better thar
50 straight. Guy Ward LED the pro.
fessionals in the averages will
-9726 on 6,425 targets. Rush Race
led the professionals in the double!
averages with 1866 on rs pairs
while Clarence COburn was higf
amateur with 9133 on IS pairs
John Clay. of Houston, Tex, sho
at more targets than anyone else
1850 Charley Spencer topped tn,
professionals in the greatest mum
Der shot at with 1880 and aver,
aged 1863. Spencer has averaged
better than 96 per cent for a dozer
years, and usually shoots at 10000
or more targets. Fred Harlow, sec.
ond to TrOeh in the averages; wa.
first in 1915 and third in 1917, anC
was inactive in 1918 and 1913