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Show By PETER P. CARNXY. One of (lie very best trapshols in this j fair country of ours is Finnic M. Troeh of Vancoucer, Wash. Mr. Troeh Is a very unassuming young man, always with a smile on his countenance, counte-nance, as the above etching proves, and he can shoot. lie started out this year to ba;r every tiling In si ?ht and, take It from us, lie has done nobly. lie won high average honors in the championship ' shoot of the Sportsmen's Association of the Northwest, the Spokane. Gun club, the Washington state tournament, tourna-ment, the Lewis tun, low a. programme ana the Portland. Ore.. Gun club. All lie did at the Portland club was to break lit? out of u'uO targets. In winning the high average nt the Washington stal" shoot Troon al.o won the state championship. This entitled him to shoot with the champion of every other- state for the national amateur championship held in connection with the grand American tournament in St. IjOuIk. And Troeh J out shot every one of the other thirtysix utlehholders who faced the traps in what many trapshootors think is the best e cut in American trapshoollng circle.. Kvery spooler is on the tame mark sixteen yards and every ev-ery one has the same opportunity of winning. Troeh broke 79 targets before missing and then went the rest of the way 39 out of 100, the same score that won the title in 19H and HUTi. But 'this wasn't all that Troeh did at tit. Louis. He finished second in tho doubles championship cham-pionship to Allen Heil of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, getting S8 to Heil's Sf. Mo broke 99 out of luO in the Mound City over- , ture and was tied for first -with force others. Then he went out and broke twentv more and won first place. JJe tied for third, too. in the St. Louis introductory in-troductory with lMr out of '00. He, shot so well during tho week tiiat be was high average shooter in the greatest tournament of the year, lie broke out of H00 targets all events, all distances, dis-tances, all angles. Troeh lias an average of. better than, P6 for the shooting he has done this year. He averaged P6.34 for 2050 targets last year and iu 1914 he averaged 93.74 or -430 targets. ! Trapshooting is the sport of kings and Troeh is one of the kings. Trapshooting Is also the king of sports. Mrs. Frank A. Johnson of Philadel- FRANK M. TROEH f- r 7 T - j :v ; . 1 . t j f -t ' S vk j phla has traveled 1 0.000 miles this year to participate in trapshooting tournaments. tourna-ments. Mrs. Topper we in didn't make a s good a showing as was expected in the gr::nd American with the professionals-cause professionals-cause .she had to use new guns. Tce ones she had been using were broke) in transportation. Ford City. Pa., has a gun chili that boasts of eleven women members. Women instructors in the public schools of Victoria. B. C, have formed a rille dub. , . :; V One of the most interested women in trflpshooting is .Mr3. H.n-ry L. Potter Pot-ter of MndiPon. Wis. Mrs. Potter is a booster all the way. Phe wants a team race for women in the next G. A. JI. ard it will ror be her fault if the scheme doesn't go through. The Golden Gate club of Ahinda. to make t hints more com fort hie n nd 1 interesting for its women member.;, has huilt a reception room for the fair Diana?. More and more is attention being be-ing paid to the women trapshooters. A gun club was formed in Oil fily, Pa., the other day, and it hi one lone member from t lie so-call-d weaker sex. That one is Helen Walsh. 1! years of age, and Quite a traps'.iot. tic Annie Oakley (Mrs. F. K. .nutler") has, had .just as nmel: success at Xr-w Castle, N. I-t., this summer as she had at Pine-hurst Pine-hurst last winter. One of the most promising women trapshots in the east is Mrs. John L. Dcvenney of Trenton, X. J. |