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Show 1 M J 'HI nMIIM'IIH llil m in l Ml1 1 f 1 1 TTrtWltvrirWFfWr i rl By PETER P. CARNEY. Fifteen women shot in the exhihition events held in connection with the Grand American tournament. Women shooters will add attractiveness to trapshoot ins. There were eighteen women who handled han-dled a gun tor the first time at the beginners' be-ginners' day event nf the Carondelet Heights (Jun ciub in St. Louis, Mo. Five hundred ami twenty-two women participated in t lie beginneis' day events in lftlo. but that number will be east in the shade this year. Four hundred and ninety have already taken part, and many clubs have slill to send in their data. Miss Marion Fuller ot" Boston, Mass.. recently re-cently killed a white deer in the Adiron-dacks Adiron-dacks and v offered the specimen to the Museum oH Natural History. With an average of better than per cent, Mrs. Dick Lonaldson recently won the Reiber trophy, si yen by the Thoniburg Gun cluh, near 1 'ittsburg', for competition among women shooters. The lute estate association is doing1 a wonderful lot to aid the women in the spurt alluring. Additional prizes are being offered in ail larpe tournaments, and it is up to tho fail Dianas themselves to see that the enthusiasm does not wane. The annual tournament of the Westy Hosans at Atlantic City brings out more women trnpshooters than any other tournament. tour-nament. This year the Mo.ans put on a special event for the women shots. Rill Crosby, who was high gun in the international match between American and Knglish shooters some sixteen years ago, is shooting just as well now. Mrs. D. C. Vogel of Detroit, Mieb., the lies! of the amateur women trapshooters, began shooting over the traps in U)f)9. and broke twenty straight on her first effort. The first "night trapshooting carnival" was staged a year ago by the Salem (N. J.) Yacht, Hod and Gun club, and now a week doesn't go by without some organization organiza-tion announcing a shoot under electric lights. Trapshoot inp is the oldest of outdoor sports. It came into voeue in England in 1 1 .40, and in 1S31 made its debut in America in Cincinnati. Xo one took the trouble to keep the early records of trapshooting, and the history his-tory of the sport is indefinite; hut in years to come there will he just as many statisticians on trapshooting as there are on baseball today. The first substitute for live pigeons was glass balls. They were first used in 1S66. Since that time there have been many improvements. Records compiled in trapshooting for eleven years show that there lias not been an accident in that period. When one thinks of the hundreds of tournaments and thousands of trapshooters, this is remarkable. |