Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 3 | What a Physician Has to Say and Advise About the Sport of Trapshooting

What a Physician Has IJas to Say and Advise About the Sport of Trapshooting n H lly Dr Br LeRoy A. A X S Seattle 1 Wash Nearly twenty years ears ago I be began an to hunt for or some form of or recreation best suited to the busy bURY professional man that would offer oct the maximum amount of or pleasure and relaxation from tom the steady tc grind and long hours of or the thebus bus busy doctor The Tue annual trip into the Bi Big Woods Is 18 certainly a life hife e saver er and many professional proCessional men look forward to this to nature jaunt with all al the pleasure and anticipation and after such a trip feel rejuvenated and physically physically phy phy- fit ft for some ome time But two weeks isn't enough to keep one in iii good condition for Cor a whole year as IS I learned from experience so I IJac gave Ja trapshooting a thorough trial tria and andI I believe belo e after all these years ears that truly It I is the sport alluring I am glad to note that doctors and business businessmen men are appearing at the tho traps In largo large numbers and I know knos' very CIT well that the they will wil stick for Cor once a trap- trap shooter always a Some time ago ao I was asked b by a doctor friend to look him over o and make out opt a repair slip He Tie said jol jokingly My I wife wIre sa says sais s 's I r appear all al run down Like man many other profession sion slon men men he was making a big biJ effort eort to sell sel about sixteen hours of his time each day dav without the necessary relaxation relaxation tion ton and as he started out with wih a pretty good bOll both body It required several years ears of oC I continued effort eHolt before he discovered that the tine human machine has Its Is limits Cant Can't Work orl All 1 tine the Time rime The old saying saying- that all ahi al work worle and no pIa play makes Jack a dull dul boy is a n atrue atrue true one one and it i applies apples to tho the grownup grownup grown up as 5 w well as ns the boy I This Is applies apples especially to the doctor for o Th the reason reason th that t. t unlike e t the man of regular nouns nour ne is on OUt an au ui ot I the da day or night and complete relaxation ton Hon from professional duties dutes are arc de denied ie- ie do- do nied him him unless he gets gels entirely aw away from his place of or business and selects some form Corm of recreation that will wil absolutely make him him forget that ho lie is a physician anti and on only Iv remind him that he Is just a man Such is also true of the bus busy office man be before before be- be Perhaps this Is a long Ions preamble fore ore Introducing tho subject but It is well sometimes to get down to funda funda- First of oC a nil all trapshooting and anil ani socia sociability aro are Inseparable and it I is the sociability of competition the friendly striving str to do as well wel as or a little betten better bet bet- ten ter than the other fellow elow Second trapshooting takes one absolutely ab absolutely ab- ab and entirely I awa away from Crom an any and au all business which affords com com- 70 relaxation from Com business or professional professional pro pro- cares and I know lenow that t this one thing alone Is worth the price Trapshooting is an outdoor game Jame The shooting grounds rounds are usually lo located ho- ho ater a little out o of town In the open whore where lots o of room and fresh air are ale assured And there I Is a goodly amount of or exercise connected with the lie game The Tho raising o of an pound eight gun to tho the shoulder a n. n hundred times the swing swill of or the thc gun un to follow the flight night of or the swiftly t flying ln target and the set setoC of oC the muscles against the tho recoil of or orthe the load the telegraphic message e from rom the eye eve eye to the lie lar target et back hack to the thc brain brainand brainand brainand and then to the trl trigger er finger In er in the smallest fraction of ot ota a second means mean exercise with wih a capital E E. And one ono of oC the very cr first important valuable facts one learns early earh in tho the game ame Is that the nervous ous ner system must be he in tune or oras oras oras as near perfect as Is human humanly possible had Ind HabiH Are Arc Taboo This Is one sport that lint will wil make maee a aman aman aman man cut out bad habits habis wh when n he learns as he will wi that bad habits and trapshooting cannot go 0 together I know men who train fo for a tournament ment just a as carefully a as does the prize fighter They leave lea o off alcohol tea and coffee coree cut down tobacco Jo o the minimum minimum min min- amount and eat cat Plain food seeIng seeIng seeing see- see Ing particularly that the waste products prod prod- nets of the thc hod body are ar eliminated and nd when they step out on the thie firing line lne they her feel fit to brcik them all This is tIll tho Ideal condition and not always s 's possible for the thc doctor who ra may ha have haic been out all al night on an case case or wIno who has worried for twenty four to forty eight forty hours over overn overa n a seriously Ill II patient or th the tho business or financial man who ho Is worried over pr a abig II big hig deal hut If ho lie ha has once tried trapshooting trapshooting trap- trap shooting he lie will wiil wi find himself o of the subject frequently nl and will wil gradually adopt a a 3 c course course that will wl give I e I him the maximum amount of or good Ii health ca 1 t hi Dont Don't go out to the traps with wih a al alight alight l light ht gun gl Eight ht pounds or over o I Ithe Is the proper weight to take up sonic some of oC tho recoil You should master the few fe ferules rules usual usually posted In alt all al clubhouses and then Uen you vou need never think of accidents I 1 will wil venture to 10 say that among the in this country countr there Is 15 not one accident In five f e years In fact there Is not as much lall danger er eras as In lii baseball football or other sports A Age e i Is no bar I have known several sew say eral men well over 70 jO who could shoot around 90 per pcr cent through h a two day t tournament 0 Ii ma ni e n t. t Tr Try It Iti It will wil keep you ou physically fit ft and make male a better beter man o of you vou In every respect I