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Show 5 JULY BSC MONTH FOR tKM BIBDSMASHERS I Numerous State and Special Meets Flanned; CL A. H. in August. J! B; By PETER P. CAS KEY. July will ce a big month for trapshoot-0 trapshoot-0 ers. Sixty-eight trapshoot incr tournaments have been registered with the Interstate Transhooting association, of -which number num-ber eleven are state championship affairs and five others arc trapshooting events out of the ordinary: As the Grand American Handicap Trap-shooting Trap-shooting tournament. this year, takes place the first week in August it is nec- essary for each state that desires reprfi-sentatlon reprfi-sentatlon in the national amateur championship cham-pionship event to hold the state tournament tourna-ment prior to the G. A. H. Thirty-three state championships were decided in May ind June and with those listed in July, Virginia and Louisiana are the only states who are not among those present. Shoct at Army Camp. The Kansas state shoot will be something some-thing original in the way of .a state, shoot. It will be held at Camp Funston jdr the sanction of General "Wood. ( vie professional shooters who tour Kan-aas Kan-aas hope to make this event the biggest patriotic shoot of the season. All the money paid in wilj be donated to the American Red Cross. The prizes will be Liberty bonds and war savings stamps. Money to purchase the bonds and stamps has neen collected at the various shoots in the middle west for the past month. With the thousands of soldiers at Camp Funston who may participate or -watch. the Kansas tournament looks like one ; that will be instructive to the boys in j khaki. ' The Maplewood tournament is one that will attract shooters from all points of 1 the United States and Canada.but there i is a shoot to be held in ilmington, Delaware, the latter part of July that ; will make ail shooters sit up and take ! notice. This will be the Liberty Bond j special shoot. It will be a "shoot for shooters." One of the events will be i known as the Liberty Bond Champion- ship of the World. Tt will be necessary 1 for each shooter who participates in this event to put up a ?r0 Liberty bond and the Wilmington Trapshooting association asso-ciation guarantees the winner $300 . in i Libertv bonds. I The Pacific Indians this year will hold j forth at Lake Crescent in the heart of ! the Olympic mountains. With the West- ; ern handicap eliminated Omaha shooters i formed an organization that is promoting p. n event to lake its place. ! Where Shoots Take Place. Here are the dates of the suite cham- 1 pionships and special tournaments that will take place during July, and the places where they will be held: State. City. Tlme. Montana, Bozeman 7-S-9 -10 North Dakota, Grand Forks 9-10 Indiana, Indianapolis 9-10-11 Wyoming, Douglas 14.-15-16 Alabama, Birmingham 16-17 Vermont, Morrisville 17-1S Kentucky. Latonia tS-lf Connecticut, New Haven 19-20 Wisconsin. Wa uau 20-21-22 rfune, Portland 26-27 . .vansas. Camp Funston 2S-2y-30 ' SPECIAL TOCKXA.MEXTS. Canadian Indians, Xiagara-on-Lake. Canada 1-2 V .r. I. X. K. S., Omaha. Xeb 1-2-3-4 : Maplewood. Maplewood. X. H.. .2-3-4-5-6 -ifie Indians. Lake Crescent, Vash 16-17-1S-19 Liberty Bond, Wilmington, Del. . .25-26-27 I |