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Show ilSwS Two Have Perfect Scores; Salt Lake Man on Western West-ern Team. By WALTER ECKERSALL. Special to The Tribune. CHICAGO, Aug. 12. Kstablishing a new world's record for shooting at 200 targets from the eighteen-vard rise, Frank M. Tro.-h of Vancouver, Wash., and Bart Lewis of Auburn, 111., today won the national na-tional amateur and professional trap-shooting trap-shooting championships, respectively, the fuaturo races of the second day's events in the Crand American handicap now being be-ing held at the South Shore Country club. , Troth and Lewis registered perfect scores. In addition to hanging up a new indi-' indi-' vi'.lual mark, Troeh earned the added , honor of shooting with a squad which , established a new world's record for , shooting at 1000 targets from eighteen 1 ya rds. The squad, composed of Troeh, ! Nick and Tdark Aric, Chan Powers and K. V. Kirby, broke ft"7 targets. As there I was no record for a five-man squad shoot- ing at this number of targets from i eighteen yards, today's squad record will stand. Tho best amateur squad record for shooting at 1000 targets from sixteen yards is 962. Contest for Place. I Second place in the amateur race was ! won by Joe Jennings of Tori morton, I Canada, while T. V. l-Mens of Phoenix, 'Ariz., and "Wool folk Henderson of Lex-: Lex-: ington, Ky., winner of the Grand Ameri-j Ameri-j can handicap in IfU-i, tied for second place with scores of 1117., As three trophies are offered in the amateur shoot, Edens and Henderson had to shoot off the tie. In the first shoot-off shoot-off at twenty targets, both experts broke all the targets. In their second attempt to settle ownership of the trophy, each broke nineteen birds. In the third attempt at-tempt to determine the place, Henderson won by a score of 20 to 19. Edens missed , his fifth target. ! Fred Gilbert of Spirit Lake, Iowa, who j holds the world's record for breaking ; straight targets at 5S9, and Charley Spen-! Spen-! cer of St. Ixmis tied for second place in : the professional race with totals of 19S. ! Hill. Crosby of O'Fallon, 111., was third I with 107. In establishing his new world's j record. Troeh used the same gun he pur-i pur-i chased in irll for 19.25, second-handed. He bought the gun to shoot ducks, but ' has became so attached to it he would I not part with it for thousands of dollars, j Luring the time he has shot with the i gun, Troeh said he has earned in the neighborhood of $10,000. Each Is Clean Break. There was no disputing the manner in ; which Troeh and Lewis broke the targets. '. There was not the semblance of a dusted target, and after each had broken 100 straight birds, the rail fans followed them wherever they shot, and would have been quick to call a doubtful target. The fact that Troeh makes a study of trapshooting was shown just before he shot at his last twenty targets. The event was to be shot over trap-i at the nor I h end of the grounds. It was late in the afternoon and a brisk wind blew up from the east. Just before the squad I ahead of the Washington state expert's quintet shot their string, Troeh walked ; over behind the shooters to get an idea i as to how the targets were acting in the air. He studied every target thrown, with the result he broke his twentj' tar- gets to bits when his turn came to shoot. I In tho course of the amateur race, the teams which will represent the east and west in the intersect onal shoot at 100 targets from sixteen yards Thursday were selected. It was understood that the ten men from each section having the highest scores should compose each team. The sectional dividing lines are the western boundaries of Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan and the western boundary of Ontario in Canada. Sam Sharman on Team. The western shooters having the highest high-est scores were Frank Troeh, Vancouver, Wash., 200; T. V. Edens, Phoenix, Ariz., 197; Mark A. Arie, Thomasboro, 111., 196; .M. Seavey, Portland, Ore., 195; Or. A. Smith, Marshalltown, Iowa, 195; W. H. lliioii, Jewell, Iowa, 195; Nick Arie, Menard, Texas, 194; George Roll, Blue Island. 111., 194; R. V. Kirby, Urbana, 111., 191; D. F. Fesaicr, Chicago, 194; S. H. Sharman, Salt Lake City, Utah, 194; F. W. draper, Custer Park, 111., 194; C. U. Fa ton. Fayette, Mo., 194; C. H. Larson, Greeicv, Neb., 194, and Forrest McNeir, Hnuslon. Texas, 194. Following are the shooters eligible for the eastern team: Joe Jennings, Tod-niorton, Tod-niorton, Canada, 19S; Wool folk Henderson. Hender-son. I a-x ington, Ky., 197; L. C. Rogers, Logansport, 1 ml., I9C; W. M. Thompson, Jackson. Mich., 195; L. M. Wecden, Cleveland, Ohio, 195; J. B. La Lance, Huntington, AV. Ya., 195; It. Bruns, Brock-ville, Brock-ville, lnd., 195; F. S. Wright, Buffalo, 191; A. C. Skutt, Morion, N. Y., 194, and J. S. McLaughlin, Detroit, Mich, 193. S 12 in G. A. H. Entries for the Grand American handicap handi-cap to be shot on Friday closed today at 7, o'clock. W lien all nominations, including includ-ing penalty entries, had been checked, it was found that M2 will face tho traps in tho big race of the tournament. It will be. championship day at the shoot tomorrow. In the morning at y o'clock the American amateur championship champion-ship at double targets will be started. Thin event cails for fifty double targets to be thrown from the sixteen-yard rise. At noon the junior championship, open to shooters under 1 $ years of age, will be held. At 2 o'clock in tho afternoon the American Ameri-can amateur championship at single targets tar-gets will be held. This event calls for 2tio targets from the sixteen-yard rise, and is uiV'U only to those who have state championships or were runners-up. Idaho a ml Y iru una will not bo represented by i heir champions, but the runners-up will compete. Maine and 1 ela ware wiil not he represent ed by cither Its cha m pious or runners-up, while no registered tourney tour-ney was held in Louisiana this year. |