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Show This Saint Youngster Looks Like Real Comer : I PITCHER ROY BLISS. j v : . ,K.- -.-:r: ,. ' - . t . ' . v I - ? ' . f t '1 By PETER P. CARNEY. Although tho Interstate Association for the Encouragement of Trapshooting does not award the grand American trypshooting tournament for 1017 until its meeting in December, there are at this time no fewer than five cities in the field for the trapshooting classic. These cities are: Toledo, Ohio; Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, Wis.; St. Joseph, Mo.; Chicago, Chi-cago, HI., and Indianapolis, Ind. At the recent grand American tournament in -bt. Louis, Chicago trapshots talked it up for the " Queen City of the Lakes," and the St. Joe trapshooters buttonholed button-holed everv trapshooter and pinned a button on nim or her which declared in no uncertain language that St. Joe was the spot for the 1917 tournament. The Chicago trapshots said they would pull off the tournament at Grand park, with Lake Michigan as the background, back-ground, with ten traps, and would guarantee guar-antee the greatest trapshooting event ever held in these glorious states. And Chicago looks pretty good to many of the shooters. Tolecio, Indianapolis and Milwaukee were not very strong at the grand American, but they will present their claims at the annual meeting of the Interstate association. Indianapolis has one of the finest trapshooting grounds in the country; Milwaukee has several available places, while Toledo has the grounds of the Power Bay Gun club, 160 acres, room for any number of traps desired, and with the waters of the hay for the background. back-ground. And a clear background is going go-ing to heip a whole lot in the selection of the place for the Grand American handicap. The background at St. Louis didn't please all the shooters. There are many trapshots of the opinion opin-ion that a Grand American handicap in the east would be a great thing for the sport. The entries at the present time are mainly from the middle west. Eastern East-ern trapshots are inclined to the belief that if the tournament was held in one of the larger eastern cities there would be fully as many entries as in the tournaments tour-naments in Dayton and St. Louis. If one of the larger clubs in one of the larger eastern cities could stage the event it would be well worth a trial. |