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Show WESTERN GUNS WILL TRY FOR G. A. H. HONORS .u - -TTr ' i -r - " C' . y . .AvA, V.AAAA ' j AiAA?; 1 s i! rO - 1 J'.-. - . ''Hr- -a j ' - A: A Uf -AT;. i3 AArA , AA & J) v, ' - .-A O , AA 1 x , m r cSrjt-'"r&'y:.$JB ) 'tfSw- av v ? a ' , . jwA vi i y -i f i'r.ill i ' Af N W " - WF A - ' B 0AUvAif r . : J&mP x"5 A AAr &j . , . fir & -ri AAAA ' A1" o---i;MKUU--..----.o j Utah Will Be Represented by Four Experts; Wyoming, Idaho and Aontana Will Also Send Some Crack Gunners. 1 U. TAH will be represented by at least four men, possibly more, when trnpshooters from all parts I of the L'nited States gather at j St. Louis for the seventeenth annual Grand American handicap traps-hooting tournament to be held August 'Jl to -o, 'imlnsive. This event, sponsored by the ! Interstate association, is the American 'classic of the ti apshoot iitg world. In ' addition to the valuable trophies and division of the entry stakes there will be more than $4t)o0 m cash awards for the successful shooters who participate 1:1 the six main events, i More than ordinary honors fall to the ; lot of this state in this year's tourna-j tourna-j ment for the reason that A. P. Higelow !of Ogden will be one of the eight state ! representatives out of a total of thirty -1 six who enter as state champions with 'a perfect score of 1U0 breaks. U. L. Becker, also of Ogden. runner-up in the Mate championship match recently held j at Springville. will be another I'tah jtrapsman in the St. Louis tournament twith a score of 99 out of a possible 1'H) I in the state event. C. H. Keilley, Jr., j of Salt Lake C ity, will be another Utah amateur in the grand tournament, and K. -i. Morgan, professional, will also take j part. Idaho will be represented bv Mnvor K M. Sweelev of Twin Falls, L. ('. Par-sous Par-sous and 0. t Tib'.ey, the latter state champion, will represent Montana. Max Weick. state champion of Wyoming, of Laramie, aid F. Nelson, a noted shooter ot Rawlins, will represent Wyoming. Wy-oming. Big Entry List. "With a total of almost 1000 entries in 1015. it is expected by local trapshooters that the Grand American handicap lor 1010 will establish even a new record for attendance. The annual event has grown in size until it has been found impossible to attempt more than two main events per day, and in most instances in-stances only one event is held. Being a handicap affair, scatter-gun artists who fall short of a perfect score are attracted at-tracted to the event and have equal chances with the best amateur shots in competing for valuable priz.es and national na-tional honors. As a mat tor of brief history of the G rand American handicap under direction direc-tion of the Interstate association, the first annual tournament was hold at Interstate In-terstate Park, N. Y., in 1900 with a total of seventy-four entries. At Chicago Chi-cago last vear the tournament attracted SS-t trapshooters. A complete list of the ("J 1 and American handicap tournaments, tourna-ments, together with the national champion cham-pion and number of entries, is as follows fol-lows : 1PO0 Interstate Park, N. Y.. R. O. 1 eikes, 7 I entries. inni Interstate Park, X. Y., F.. C. Griffin, 75 entries. 1902 Interstate Park, X. Y., C. W. Plm-d. 01 entries. 10O3 Kansas City. Mo.. M. Diefen-derfer, Diefen-derfer, 102 entries. 1904 Indianapolis. Ind., R. P. Gup-till. Gup-till. 00O entries 190. Indianapolis. Ind., R. R. Barber, Bar-ber, X52 entries. ipn(i Tnrlinnnpolis, Tnd.f F. F. Rogers Rog-ers 290 entries. 1907 Chicago, Jeff J. Blanks, 495 entries. 190S Columbus, Ohio, Fred Harlow, 002 entries. 1909 Chicago, Fred Shattuek, 457 entrb's. 1010 Chicago, Riley Thompson. 33 entries. 1911 Columbus, Ohio, ITarve Pixon, 4 1 S intries. 1912 Springfield, 111., W. E. Phillips, Phil-lips, o77 entries. I 1913 Davton, Ohio, M. S. Hootman, o0l entries, j 191 -1 Dayton. Ohio. Woolfolk Hen-. Hen-. derson, i15 entries. I 1915 Chicago. L. B. Clarke, SS-i en-It en-It ries. ! Mostly for Amateurs. j V hi!e there are events for the pro- fessionuls. the tournament is held al-most al-most exclusively for amateur trapshoor- ers, who must give their rating as ama-j ama-j teurs in filing application for eutrv. I The present officers of the Interstate association are T. E. Doremus. president; pres-ident; (.'. R. Babsou. vice president; F. I Reed Shaner, secretary, and Elmer E. Shaner, treasurer and manager. This year '3 tournament will be given under auspices of the St. Louis Trapshooters' association. The event which is deemed the principal prin-cipal feature of the entire bill, and in which Mr. Bigelow will participate with other state champions or runners-up, is the national amateur championship at single targets, scheduled for Tuesdav, August 22. The rules governing this are that only dulv qualified state'haj-pions state'haj-pions and the next highest to the state titleholder may participate. As a result re-sult of this, both Mr. Bigelow and Mr. Becker of Ogden are eligible to represent repre-sent Utah and probably will participate in the event. Both of the Ogden men are prominent members of the Sportsmen's Association of the Northwest, an organization that is older than the Interstate association. associa-tion. It is composed of the states of Vtah. Idaho. Montana. Oregon, Washington, Wash-ington, California and British Columbia. Mr. Becker is especially prominent in this association, "having won in 1914 the Globe trophy after' it had been in the association for twenty-five vears. Coveted Trophies. This trophy, which contains five diamonds dia-monds and is valued at several hundred dollars, was awarded bv the Morning Globe of Taeoma, Wash., in 1SS9, with the understanding that it must be won three times at annual championship tournaments of the association before becoming the permanent proportv of any individual member. The Ogden trap-shooter trap-shooter accomplished this feat in 1914 ami holds the trophy as the most prized possession of his many trophies won at the traps. In return for the honor of holding the Globe trophy the Ogden mau in 1915 replaced it with the Becker trophy, tro-phy, which is also decorated with five diamonds and represents a value fully equal to the newspaper prize. The same conditions govern the competition for the Becker trophy, which will not be permanently awarded until it has been won three times by an association member at the annual tournaments. The shooters from this state who intend in-tend to ma ke the trip will compose a party leaving for St. Louis on Fridav night. August IS. They are hopeful that tt will not be necessary for them to remain for the final day's event, which is a consolation handicap open to only those trapshooters who have not won an award in any of the previous events. Programme of Events. The following is a complete programme pro-gramme 01 the tournament: Monday, August 21 St. Louis intro ductorv, 200 siugio targets. Tuesday, August 22 S:39 a. m.. Mound city overture. 100 single targets: tar-gets: National amateur championship, 50 double targets; I! p. m., National amateur championship, 100 single targets, tar-gets, open to winners or runner-ups in state championship tournaments, Wednesday, August 23 S : 3 0 a . m . , (Continued on Pago Tliree.) WESTERN GUNNERS WILL TRY FOR G. A. H. HONORS (Continued from Fase One.) Preliminary handicap, 100 single targets. tar-gets. 1 hursday, A ugut -4 S : "'1 a. m., G rand American ha 11 di cap, Bid single targe's, $.0U added to the purse. Friday, August L'.3 S:3i) a. in.. Consolation Conso-lation handicap. Bin single targets, open to those who have not been money winners win-ners in any previous event of the tournament. tour-nament. G. A. H. 'WORLD SERIES' FOR TRAPSHOOTERS Ey PETES P. GARNET. Baseball has its ''world's series," tennis its Fa vis cup competition ami golf its international matches, but not one of these titular contests is to be compared with the blue ribbon event of the trapshooting season the Grand American handicap. We are aware of the broadness of this assertion and fully realize that there will be many doubting Thomases, but we can prove our assertion to anv ami every one who cares to jonrnev to Sportsman '5 park in St. Louis, "Mo., during the week beginning Monday, August Au-gust 21, for on that day the Grand American handicap guts going and continues con-tinues with unabated enthusiasm for fivo days. Any sporting event that will take hundreds of men away from their business for a week or more, and take several hundred women away from their homes for the snruo period oftime, is a real sporting event. That is i.iust what the Grand American handicap is. Last year the tournament was held in Grant park, Chicago, HI., and was witnessed wit-nessed by some o,h)0 persons not ono paying an admission fee. Jn the various vari-ous trapshooting events nearly fJOOO persons per-sons participated, aud in the Grand American handicap there were S3H shooters out of SS-1 entrants. Have you ever witnessed n sporting event in which there were isW active participants? You have not unless it was the Grand American handicap last August. Trap-shooting Trap-shooting is not a proxy sport. It is something you can do you rscl f : something some-thing vou enjoy because you can do it yourself. Bigger Than Ever. Big as last year's tournament was, all indications are that the St. Louis tournament will be the greatest ever. While the official list of entries is still far from being complete, it is expected that the entry list will total more than 1000 trapshooters. Think of it 1000 shooters in one event, " Sort 0 ' puts the other sport classics in the shade. It has taken the Grand American handicap han-dicap sixteen years to arrive at its present pres-ent stage of development. There were but seventy-four entrants in the tirst championship tournament, held in .1000. Little by little tho tournament grew for a number of years, but in the past five seasons the ha ndieap has made great leaps forward. Two years ago. in Bay-ton, Bay-ton, Ohio, when the handicap had a few more than ni0 entrants, the feeling prevailed pre-vailed that trapshooting was at its height, but la-t year in Chicago the entrants en-trants neared the 900 mark and every one is pulling for 1000 or more this time. There was a time when two traps were a great sufficiency for the "G. A. IT.."' as it is known to trapshooters now ten are in use. There was a time when a Grand Ameri.-an handicap resembled re-sembled a mammoth cireu-, with ail its tents, but there will be no tents in St. Louis. The buildings are per 11:3 nent. J Then will be locket rooms, restaurant, pavilion tor men and a women 's ret-room. ret-room. The equipment will be modern. There will be a grand stand behind the pro! es:onal trap, on which all the special spe-cial eents will take place. Sportsman's park is the finest trapshooting park in the Fnited States which, iu broader words, means the world. The ' " G . A. H. ' ' is boin g conducted this year by the St. Louis Trap.-honnng association, which is comprised of nearly all of the trapshooting c h; b in and about St. Louis. The association is operated op-erated solely in the interest of trap-shooting. trap-shooting. Shoot Whole Week. The tournament cpc- on Monday, the 21t. at II o'clock, with the St. Louis int rod uc tory, an event at -00 targets, eighteen yards ' rise. Tin's, as well as all other scheduled events that follow, is open only to amateurs. Beginniilg Tuesday, the trapshooting will begin at :30 a. m. The tirst event on Tuesday Tues-day will be the Mound City overture at targets, sixteen yards. Prize-winners in tho St. Louis introductory are not eligible for this event. At 1 1 o'clock the national amateur championship champion-ship at doubles will be shot. Fifty pairs of doubles will be thrown. At o 'clock the national amateur singles championship will begin. This event will be 100 targets, sixteen yards' rise. This event is for the winners of the different state championships. In ease the champion cham-pion cannot attend, the runner-up is allowed to take his place. At 4 o'clock this afternoon and on the following two afternoons there will he a fifty-bird event for the fair Fianas who are in attendance. at-tendance. There will also be two prizes in the "G. A. H. " for the fair shots who make the highest scores. On the :rd the preliminary handicap, at 100 targets, sixteen to twenty-three yards, will be shot. The same handicaps as in tho " G. A. H. ' ' will prevail. The handicap committee, comprised of J. W. Bell, chairman; K. K. Loring. G. K. Mickie, G. V. Bering and J. II. Xoel, will convene on the ISth and announce the handicaps on the Cnth. The Grand American handicap will be shot on the 24th. This will be at 100 targets, sixteen six-teen to twenty-three yards. On the 2ith there will be a consolation handicap. .100 targets, sixteen to twenty-three vards. Xo pri":e-winner is eligible in thi-; event. There will be special matches between professionals, anil a 1 00-target match I open to all professionals for the lbms-paugh lbms-paugh trophy, during the tournament. These matches will" take place at 3 every afternoon. Trophies will be awarded award-ed the shooters who make the best score from sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, nine-teen, twenty, twenty -one. twenty-two and twentv-three yards in the Grand American handicap. |