ii i i TRAP AND FIELD I I BY Ily lI TIn P. P It I Is Interesting to know where tho who participate In tho the Grand American merican Handicap hootIng hoot hoot- Ing Ing tournament come core from This trapshooting event the vent the classic of ot tho tho tho greatest sporting spectacle of ot modern times attracts from virtually every state and Canad Can Can- ad ada a. a There was a feeling that with wih the country at war and so man many trap trap- shooters In tho the service that tho the entry list in the Grand American would be bo cut In two two two-or or In other words that there would not be more than OO en en- en trants But the fact that the country countr Is at war has helped trapshooting It Itis' Itis IH is' I. I true that th thoro thero re were not as many entries as In other years years but but al-but but when ono one tal takes cs Into consideration that C O entered and SOS 59 started trapshooting must be reckoned as the sport of ot then tho the n nation a t i 0 Ti ton The Learn to Shoot slogan has haa been Instilled Into young America and It was the young mon men that brought up the numbers In the tho Grand American this year With Ith traps In the cantonments canton canton- ments In the tl flying schools behind the trenches In France and with trapshooting trapshooting trap- trap shooting ns as ono one of the courses In which proficiency must bo he attained to become an al aviator there will win be bo hundreds hundreds hun hun- of ot thousands mono when th the tue war Is over o than there are arc aren n now ow Ion In Arm Army 1 It t was a pleasure to note In the tho Grand American Handicap so 10 man many men In service uniforms The rhe champion champion cham chain pion of oC Indiana G. G R. R Shuck had a 1 two days day days leave to defend the tho honors he won In his state II It It II I. I AnIn Arvin Who was wan the up runner-up In Indiana Is In the thenay nay navy and ho lie heas was as on hand in ill tile the event that Shuck could not defend th the title tite There wore dozens of ot others other In khaki Including Walter Hofe Instructor In shooting at Scott field eld Belleville Ill Il who represented tho the aviation branch of ot the tho service in the tournament tournament In last yearn Grand American Louis Louis- lana iana Maine New cw Hampshire Nevada e aca New ew Mexico and Rhode Island were not represented These hese states were again I without t representation ton Idaho a antI and rl ArU Mi- IlI Il- Il I zona were also without representation 1 one Forty states and aud Canada were 1 j represented in ill the handicap Hankers farmers clerks mechanics men and women of or a all walks walk of or life met and shot on equal terms term One could go godown godown godown down the lie list and find many man names of ot prominence There was n Remy m of or tho tue Pem Remy Jemy magneto Stutz the builder of ot the Stutz car Inventor of the Indian motorcycle end and man many others others others oth oth- ers of ot equal Importance In tho the business busi hual- ness world Illinois led In the tile number of ot entries as it has bps his for COl the pass pact five years There wort 20 entries from Illinois about one half of them being from Chicago I The entries front from each state are arc herewith herewith here here- with wih given hel I Alabama 5 Arkansas Dakota 3 I California 1 Jersey e 18 1 I Colorado York 9 Canada k 9 Connecticut Carolina 1 Columbia 9 ii Delaware S Ohio 46 Florida 2 Oregon 1 I t Georgia Pennsylvania uh 22 Illinois 20 th Dakota 9 Iowa 60 South Carolina 4 Indiana 44 Texas 7 Kansas 14 14 Tennessee 4 Kentucky I 2 Michigan ermont 1 Massachusetts 1 1 Minnesota Virginia 1 l Mississippi 4 Washington 1 1 Maryland 1 I r Wyoming C 5 t I Missouri 10 Wisconsin 45