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Show By PETEK P. CARNEY. The National Amateur Trapshooters' association is an organization of the past. The American Amateur Trapshooters' association as-sociation now has the field all to itself. The A. A. T. A. is a very active body, and has a club membership of 595. The club membership is increasing at the rate of about fifty clubs each month. The organization, or-ganization, headed by Bandmaster Sousa, is doing a wealth of good for the individual indi-vidual traps I looters, and when its worth becomes known to all devotees of the "sport alluring,' the individual membership member-ship will run into the hundreds of thousands. thou-sands. Pennsylvania Is the leading state in club membership in the A. A. T. A., with 131 clubs, with Illinois second with an even 1 00 clubs. The appended table shows the number of clubs enrolled from the various states: Pennsylvania . ..134Montana 7 Iiiinois IOAlabama fi Iowa 7U Connecticut .... 6 Indiana 4SLouisiana ti Maryland 21Minnesota 5 Michigan 20Oklahoma 4 Massachusetts . . 1!) Kansas 3 California lSQregon 3 i New York IS West Virginia ..; 3 Wisconsin l-JArkansas 2 ' Missouri 13Kentucky 2 Delaware lNebraska 2 New Jersey lVirginia 2 Ohio Nevada l Colorado 9Xew Hampshire . 1 Washington . ... S North Carolina .. 1 Idaho Tuanada 3 The New York Athletic club will add a George Lyon memorial shoot to its annual spring tournament beginning in 0 1 7. -The 1917 Missouri state tournament will be conducted in Springfield. Hereafter not more than two championship meetings meet-ings can be held in one Missouri city in succession. In a recent shoot at the Portland (Ore.) Gun club, Mrs. James Reed and Mrs. Carl J. Schilling tied for first honors and it was not until the ninth shoot-off that Mrs. Reed obtained a verdict. The Green Lake club of Seattle, Wash., 1 will stage the L'17 Washington state . tournament. Mrs. 7-Tarold Almert of Chicago is a real champion. She won the, title in the recent Illinois state tournament in which the first state championship for women was conducted. She broke 94 targets, and in the, three days' shoot she broke 36S out of ,400 targets, the best average ever compiled by a woman amateur shot in a registered tournament. Eugene E. Reed, former mayor of Manchester, Man-chester, N. H., and one of the best known trapshooters in New England, lias been appointed a federal commissioner of the Philippine islands and left for Manila on June 15. The office carries a four-year term. One of the most improved of the many women trapshooters on the Pacific coast is Miss Genevieve J. Meyers of San Jose, Cal. She is always to be found near the So mark. A row of giant cottonwood trees on the new grounds of the Los Angeles Gun club prevents the sun from reaching the shooter at any time during the day. |