Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-10 | Page 44 | Trap and Field

FIELD O By PETER P. CARNEY. The annual meeting of-, the Interstate Trapshooting association the parent trapshooting body will take place at the Hotel Astor. New York, beginning at 11 o'clock on the morning of November 7. The session usually continues for two days. This meeting should be a vital one. Trapshooting matters Cor the coming year will be gone over, and there will be one thing to consider that has never be fore been discussed. That is the po.si-bllities po.si-bllities of trapshooting after the war! " Two million or more Americans who never before handled a shotgun or trampled tram-pled the fields will bo interested in shooting shoot-ing and the great out of doors when the XJnited States has chased the kaiser and his horde to their caves, and all of these are prospective trapshooters. The war will change many things. One of the changes will take men from the office to enjoy outdoor pastimes more, and another idea we have is that not so many men will remain caged In office "buildings as in the past. This Is tho time for the trapshooting organization to make Its plans for the future. It isn't possible to erect a rifle range in the city limits, but It is possible to nave trapshooting clubs in baseball parks, fair grounds, city parks In fact, any place where there arc a couple of hundred hun-dred yards of ground not being utilized. Now is the time to sow the seed. One of the chief topics of the meeting will be the awarding of the Grand American Amer-ican Handicap for 1919. It is said the South Shore Country club, of Chicago, which club has staged the tournament-for tournament-for the past two years, will take the tournament, providing it can get it for a period of three years. Trapshooters would feel perfectly happy if the South Shore Country club was awarded the tournamen for a dozen years. Quite a number of suggestions for the betterment, of trnpshootlng will be brought up. An effort will be made to get the association to adopt class shooting, shoot-ing, also to devise seme equitable handU cap system. Many systems have been tried, but no system has been uncovered that pleases every one. It isn't likely that such system will be unearthed, but there Is a likelihood that improvement can be made on existing conditions. The Interstate Trapshooting association associa-tion advocatcl a year ago the cutting down of trapuhioting programs, and it Js likely they will ask the club:; to still further decrease the number of targets thrown in 1 D 1 U in order to conserve the supply of lead. At the meeting last year a rule was adopted which aoes into effect on January Janu-ary 1, 1919, that the Hi-ounce load be the .standard load for target shooting in registered competition.