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Show Trapshooting Experts Oldest and Youngest i CAPTAIN J. F. BHEITENSTEIN, W. E. PHILLIPS, JE., of Oskaloosa, la. y of Chicago, HI. J " v . r : w r - , ft r ' i " v f k " j. " 1 - " - A ' ' 3 - - 1 f s J C u,- i - ? f ,J -( T-H i " V M i . . .... : a V iff- t t - r J f - J K 4 Iowa Veteran, 78, and Master Mas-ter Phillips, 14, Rivals in Grand American. By PETER P. CARNEY. TRAPSyiOOTIXG is the real sport of contrasting ages. One of our best known and most widely read golf critics discovered the remarkable fact to him that in the United States golf championship cham-pionship tournament the ages of the entrants en-trants ran from 14 to 62 years and right off the reel put over the statement state-ment that no other sport could produce such an ' ago-defying combination. ' ' His trouble was that he only knew and was interested in golf. It Would have paid him to give a few minutes to trapshooting. He would have louud many little things to interest him. in the Grand American tournament in fct. Louis in August there were 68o entrants, and the ages of the contestants contes-tants ran from 14 years to 7S years. The youngest one was as young as the youngest in the golf tournament, and the oldest was many years further) along in years, but not in spirit. Arid, as in the golf championship, the youngster was a real star. Master WiliiaiH K. Phillips Jr., is the lad. He hails from Chicago, and is the son of William K. Phillips, who won the Grand American five years ago. Young Phillips Phil-lips was back oh the eighteen-yard mark which is the best evidence that he is an expert. Ho broke over 90 per cent all week and in the consolation tournament broke 97 and tied for first place. Tying for firBt place in competition com-petition with 200 trapshooters isn't at all bad for a lad of 14 years, The senior se-nior Phillips was also in the consolation consola-tion handicap, but when he discovered that his offspring was hitting the clays so well he retired and watched the youngster. Now we come to the real Veteran. There were dozens of men past the three-score mark in the Grand American, Amer-ican, but the only two past the three score and ten were Andy Meade rs of Nashville, Tenn., and Captain J. F. Breitenstein of Oskaloosa, Iowa. The venerable captain is 78 years young. He broke better than 80 per cent throughout the week. Ho isn't the oldest trapshooter ii America, but he was the oldest in rears in the Grand American. The combination of Phillips, Jr., and Breitenstein at the traps caused many to stop and reflect upon their ages. Phillips, Jr., in short trousers, looked younger than 14 against the grav-whiskered shot from Iowa. Breitenstein attends nearly all of ?Fo important trapshooting tournaments of the middle west, and has for many years. Everyone knew him and his record for ho is the only surviving member of the crew of the Confederate fighter, the Merrimae, which mixed it up with the Monitor at Hampton Roads w-ny back in the Civil war days. Ab far as the captain is concerned, nothing remains but the memory of the incident, though he docs say "it wag some shooting shoot-ing match. ' ' Yes, sir; golf is a good sport, but when contrasting ages do not forget trapshooting. |