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Show TRAP SHOOTING IS POPULAR With Very Few Exceptions Every State in Union Participated in Grand American. With the exception of New Mexico, New Hampshire, Maine and Virginia, trap shooters from every state in the Union, and Canada too, participated in the recent grand American trap shooting tournament at St. Louis, There can be no question about the popularity of a sport that will attract 683 entrants from 44 states, the District Dis-trict of Columbia and Canada. Of this number Illinois supplied the greatest great-est number, 225; Missouri was next with not quite half as many as nii-uois, nii-uois, 112. Of Illinois' total, Chicago supplied 44, more than any other city in the country. The best representation of any city in the country, however, was made by Hillsboro, 111. This town of 7,000 population pop-ulation has a gun club of 40 members and of this number ten shot in the big handicap meet. The largest states do not always supply the greatest number num-ber of entrants in such a tournament as the grand American. Pennsylvania, for instance, contributed but six entrants, en-trants, while Iowa had 41 ; Indiana had 45, Ohio had 30. Kansas had 21, Oklahoma Okla-homa 19, Wisconsin and Tennessee 17 each, Michigan 12, Alabama 12 and Texas 11. These were the only states to get into double figures. |