The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-30
Trapshooting Records Going
By The Boards and Many New
Champs Appearing This Year
Frank Troeh Breaks 3ee Out of 400
Targets in Recent Prairie
Zone Tourney.

From the standpoint of sterling per-
Torrance trapshooting is having its
greatest year. Seldom does a day go
by that we do not hear of some record
breaking feat. Some times they come
so fast that we have had trouble in
chronicling them. Many of these per-
formances, too, have been made by
men who until this year were never
heard tell Of It might interest you to
know that one-half of the state trap
shooting champions Of 1922 never be-
fore won a championship. This indi-
Gates new blood in the sport of trap
shooting, but with all the new blood
and the new champions, there are
lot Of veterans who will still stand up
and take good licking.
In the Prairie Zone tournament
Frank Troeh broke S99 out of 400 tar
gets in three days from 16 yards,
breaking 100 straight the first day, 200
straight the second and getting 80 out
of 100 the third. with a run Of s44
straight. This equalled the worlds
record made by Phil Miller one year
previous. When Miller made his rec
ord Troeh was only one target behind
him. On several occasions Troeh had
broken 39S out of 400. In the same
shoot at Coffeyville Frank Hughes
broke $50 out of 200 pairs. That's what
we call doubles shooting. We doubt
if anything better than this has ever
been done.
And on July in Houston, Tex. E.
F. Woodward broke SO out of so pairs
equalling the record that he and
Hughes made earlier in the season. 1t
seems strange that no one ever broke
SO in so pairs until this year and then
to have it happen three times, twice
by the same shooter.
A squad comprised of Chief Wheel
er, Billy Her. Frank Troeh. Fred
Etchen and Phil Miller broke $50 out
of 1000 targets and 1877 out of 1000
targets in the CoffeyvilIe Shoot, both
OF which we believe are worlds rec
ords. In the Texas state shoot a
squad comprised of E. F. Woodward.
John Clay, Art Killam, J. L. Scott and
Charley Spencer broke 30S straight A
new shooter by the name of France
turned the Texas State shoot upside
down by winning the state title, tieing
E. F. Woodward on 1919 and then win
ming on the shoot off. In the Pennsyl-
vania State Shoot Stewart Crothers
naQ TO Dreak 1UO StralShC In the shoot
offs to win the title. In winning the
Florida title Tom Aycock had to break
so straight in a shoot off.
Fred Tornlin, the Winchester profes-
sional, has been blazing his way
through all the Eastern shoots. In
the Pennsylvania tournament he
broke 534 out of his last 535, running
345 straight. He went out with a run
Of 1873 unfinished and then went to
Little Falls and added another $50
straight. Charley Spencer, a team
mate Of Tom1in's, ran 235 straight in
the Texas shoot.
The women have been shooting ex-
well this season Mrs.
won the championship OF
Illinois with 1872 out of 200. Mrs. J. L.
Doggett won second place in the 10
yards championship at the Southern
Zone, beating out several first class
male shooters in shoot offs. In the |
Ohio State shoot Mrs. Pike scored 81 /!
in 100 and won after three shoot offs. |
The five man team championship |
race at the Grand American should be |
fine. The Prairie Zone team is made |
up of Cunning, Hughes, King, Heer |
and Miller, each man scoring 1919 out |
Of 200 to make the team. VIII take a |
ot Of good shooting to beat this bunch. |