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Show iM UK TO 1 1 LEAD GI TEAM Captain of U. S. Trapshooting W Team Knows Game From lj : Every Angle jj j By PETER P. CARNEY. ) J We have an idea that you would like to know something about Jay Clark. Jr., who will captain tho trapshootlijg team that will represent the United jH 'States in the Olympic games. This .Olympiad is of more than usual inter jH est because it is eight years since there has been one, all because tho Germans decided to upset tho world! ' j Jay Clark, Jr., is a big man, man- j tally and physically. He is ono of the best lawyers in New England he lives f .In Worcester. Mass. and tips tho 1 VjH beams in the neighborhood of 230 llH pounds. Three years in succession ll I Clark has won the Mcrrimac valley 1 J trapshooting championship in the New 9 Hampshire state shoot; once ho has l '-IHS won the New England championship; Bj ho was runner up in the Massachu- E setts stale championship in 191G and Bl tied Mark Aric and Roy Mclntirc for m the national amateur championship flK that year, for the Massachusetts cham- 1 pion remained at home. and Clark rep- il resented the state in the national titn-lnr titn-lnr event. Clark lost a target in the first 25 and was eliminated. EH He won the Westy Hogans cham- lfl pionship in 1013; look down (he high IH average at IS and 22 yards targets at jMaplewood in 1917, and during tho rH I week's shooting missed only 20 targets HH I in 2000; he established the record' at IB ITravers island in 1D1S when he broke iHH !198 out of 200 targets and at gravers 'HE I Island last fall when he won the Allan- D0 I lie Indians championship. That's, tJo Rsr I kind of a shooter that dark ir. H? He was born in Newton, la., ,and Hrai look to shooting with tho same ease rKtrH that a duck takes to water. When Ho JHkI grew up Clark came east and settled iBUD in Worcester and while it is neces- PEb-' sary to practice law so that he can rcKB continue to shoot, he certainly givesa ttyBIT ' lot of time to tho improvement of tho. i lKiiLt; trapshooting game. Clark is the chair- liUr man of the Amateur committee that; Jl'Rfi? (meets In conjunction with tho e.xecu- lm K- ; tive committee of the American Trap- ' jH tr shooting association in all matters per- i ZK f'e" taining to ih? sport and therefore we iB "r conclude by saying he is one of the 5 1 big "guns" of trapshooting. 1MB -ft |