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Show MARK ARIE, WORLD TRAP , CHAMP, REMARKABLE SH01 Illinois Trapshooter Broke 174 Out of 175 Tai gets to Win National Amateur Title and Created Record by Breaking 108 Straight From 22 Yards. By PETEK P. CATDTEY. , Two eve-a". Mand on: fr:n all Ibc o:'"i'i-s in the ::nn,l Aineni-:iii iiai---.iiu.it-iiii; tournament. They aie the national amateur eliani ionship at sin-erf :uul the grand American !iau lieap. Shooters are iiu-iined to the opinion thai the national .nr.iatenr championship is the evenl of the programme, for it is restricted to the winners of state championship.-, or the runner-up iu case the champion cannot utiend. The graml Ann-ncan handicap is the- bit; money event by reason of the groat number ot entrants who come iu and taho a chance on the handicaps they receive to yet them in front. Scores of I'll have won the national title each year. .Not one of the three previous winners had to work as hard to win the title as Mark Arie of Illinois Illi-nois had this vear. Henderson of Ken-tnckv, Ken-tnckv, Xewco'mb of Pennsylvania and Troth of Washington were alone with PP. Arie was tied by Jay Clark, the Yforeesier, Mass., attorney, and Iuy Melntyre, the Butler, Pa,,' farmer. Broke 171 of 175 to Win. Then was witnessed one of the greatest great-est shoot-offs in history, (.'lark missed his twentieth ta: get on the first shoot-off, shoot-off, and. the'break in his string eliminated elimi-nated him from further competition, as Melntyre and Arie went straight. Twenty-five more were thrown to each shooter and neither missed. On the third twenty Melntyre missed his ninth and tw-enty:first targets, and Arie agaiai broke every one 17-i out of 175 to win the national amateur title. Arie is without question one of the greatest shots that has ever faced the traps. Cool and collected, with nerves of steel and eyes and finger that work in unison, he went from one event to the other, alwavs near the front. Fr viims to winning the national chat pionship he won the Hercules nmate' all round trophy, and had collect. . 17 40 in the South Shore mtrodticto: cm a IPl score, lie finished secoud Clarence P. Piatt of Brighton, N. . for the national doubles championshi breaking P.". out of fid pairs. This sco under or.linarv conditions would ha won, but this was no ordinary shot Fi htv-nine won the championship la vear 'ami P0 is a fine score at. double but in this tournament. Piatt broke PG equaling the world 'a record and t shooters broke PO or more. 108 Straight From 22 Yards. To top this off Arie finished with run of ii in the preliminary handle and bcoan the grand American with run of '70 all from twenty-two van The best previous record from twent two vards was 100 straight. He cc tinned for a PS score in the handle: beiu" tied bv C. H. Larson, tlieY consin state champion, who was si iuc from twenty yards. Any yom follow who is good enough to win state championship event must be prettv good shot. Larson denvmstrat lie was, for after missing Ins first ti rct i" the shoot-off he broke straight. As Arie missed one, they sh another string, and in this Arie had 1 first bad five minutes of the wee missing four in his last seven. Aide's work in the grand Americ -,.ihcnn netted him $743.30-. Lars received the same amount. In the tin events in which he qualified for mon prices Arie won $SP8.70 No trapshot ever performed as w in" a grand American tournament Arie did this year. It is doubtful his performance for twenty-two yai will ever be equaled. |