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Show tournament in Wilmington, Del., recently re-cently and collected over 4100. This money was used to purchase material for war supplies. ' , Policemen of Wilmington, Del., have become quite proficient in the handling han-dling of firearms since practice was inaugurated in-augurated with tho riot gun. Trapshooters are inclined to the opinion opin-ion that iu breaking 495 of the 500 registered targets at Maplewood, Frank Wright, of Buffalo, N. Y., created a world record. According to the dope we have, the best previous performances perform-ances at 500 targets were by Charles H. Newcomb, of Philadelphia, and Koy Burns, of Brookville, Ind., both having broken 4EU. Wright was in wonderful form at Maplewood, missing only ten targets in a thousand and having four runs over 100, ono of them being 250 straight. Everv member of the Boise, Idaho, Rifle and Gun club has been sworn in as a 'deputy sheriff. Before the Pacific Coast Baseball league passed out of existence, the Los Angeles club was in Salt Lake City, and the plavjrs adjourned to the traps of the Salt'Lake City Gun club. Otis Crandall, who toured the middle west some years ago ori the ball players' trapshooting team, was high, with 23 breaks in 25 targets; Walter Boles broke 21, Pan Fittery 17 and Rube Ellis 16. There was great rejoicing among the Cubs when Charley 'Hollocher passed the 100-hit mark. He made six hits in one afternoon and the Cubs lost two games. N 1 With the prevailing shortage of raw meat, it might be interesting to know what brought the Tigers back to life. TRAP AND FIELD 4 - By PETER P. CAENEY. Helping the government prosecute the war against the Hun and giving ad-' ditional aid and comfort to the boys "over there" are the things that interest in-terest trapshooting clubs most just now. Hundreds of clubs are weekly staging shoots and turning over the receipts re-ceipts to various war charities. The combined total contributed weekly makes a neat sum. The West End Gun club of Richmond, Va., staged something some-thing new recently in a .-"tobacco shoot." The proceeds were used to purchase and send tobacco to absent members. The Woman's War Relief association of the Pennsylvania Railroad Rail-road company managed a trapshooting |