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Show HOMER CLARK BEST "i BUT IMPS! i - ! BY PETER P. CARNEY. ' The bost professional trupsiiootor in the Coiled States is Ilonior Clark, a young man who claims Alton, III., as Ills home towo. Borue folks wc know go a bit further an si assert that Mr. Clark is the best trupshuoier in the world. Clark, to our way or thinking, is the real "clM" of profciuuul ir.iii:.h'juiit:s clement. cle-ment. This is what ho did in 191S: Won the professional Irapshooting cliampion-shlp. cliampion-shlp. Won the season high average honors. Made t lie lougnst run of 1 he jcar. There was nothing else for Clark to win or be might have eont iuuert the list indefinitely. In winning the high average huimrs Clark broke 3L'L'S targets out of '6310 in registered competition com-petition for a grand average of .'.ITOl!. In lllllj he won the high average honors also, with average aver-age of .98 on -1UO targets ihe beat average ever compiled. The professional championship wus at IS yards, and Clark broke I'M targets out of 200. These targets were thrown OU yards. In th amateur championship race the targets are thrown fU yurde, from lti yards' rise, and 1 no are slmt at. Therefore, it will be noh'd that the professional championship is a much inure difficult event. American Ti'apshooting assochi lion records credit Clark wllti the longest professional run of the year 1M7 at Sioux Falls. H. I)., "n June 13. t'nofficiul records give Clark a run : of -112 at Chill icot ho, Ohio, on June 5 and (i. I He Is credited with breaking S7" straight on the 5th and with breaking 07 straight on the 6th before one got away. Clark went to Sioux Falls from Chillicothe i with au unfinished run of (57 and then turned in -17, which gave him a run of 31-1. This gave him straight runs of 412 and 31-1 iu successive suc-cessive tournaments. We doubt very much if better shooting lias ever been done. Later Clark broke 100 straight in an exhibition exhibi-tion shoot at Waterloo, Iowa, and then went to Maquoketo, Iowa, where he broke 1-11 before missing, giving him a run of 241. Official records give Clark 237 straight at Chillicothe. Of the four runs over 20u in the oficials records Clark has two of them. Clark began the year at the North Carolina state shoot by breaking 355 targets out of 3ti0. From there ho went to Jacksonville. Fla., and broke 2S2 out of 300. His next slop was at Memphis, Tenu., where he broke 4SG out of 500 targets. At Chillicothe he broke 3SS out nf 400 targets and at Sioux Falls he Hmashed 29S out of 300. Mason City, Iowa, was next on the list, and here Clark broke 437 out of 4511. At Manning. Iowa, he bcot 144 out of 150 and on the following days at Albert City, Iowa, and Maquoketo, Iowa, he broke 149 out of 15U. He finished t lie registered target season at Omaha, b.." the first week in July, by breaking break-ing 540 out of 550 targets. We'll' leave it to jou if he isn't some shooter. |