Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-02-12 | Page 30 | Trap and Field

i I I By PETER P. P CARN CARNEY EY Editor National Sports Syndicate CAPTAIN THOMAS K LEE known own j C CAPTAIN In the shooting world as Tack V hole and whom we have on more than one occasion in the past called your attention to as being one of the bes best shooters In the world with all kinds o of ot firearms recently at tho tile Birmingham Ala Gun club broke 96 targets In succession succession suc sue yards ards cession standing at twenty-three twenty This ve we believe is the best record from twenty-three twenty yards ever made by an amateur amateur ama ama- and might be termed In the vernacular vernacular vernacular ver ver- of th day some shooting The record was made in the first of a series of handicap shoots under the tile auspices of the Birmingham Gun club A yardage trophy was offered for the tho best score from each mark marl and Leo Lee being tho the only shooter at twenty-three twenty yards know knew he was sure of one trophy The Tile event was at fifty targets Lee Iee broke the fifty and was WS then requested reQuest d dby by a P. number of the shooters to see how far he could go before missing and the slim Southerner puffed putted out tho the targets until his seventh ninety when a a. straightaway straightaway straight straight- away sailed away But six ninety-six straight from twenty-three twenty yards is no mean shooting Charley Young as a professional professional broke straight from twentythree twentythree twentythree twenty- twenty three yards some years ago aFO In Peru Ind md kind for forand forand forand but we have no record of ot any and amateur at twenty-three twenty yar yards s targets tar tar- gets Lee in this shooting used a a. Winchester ventilated rib gun and a peep sight We Ve when capitalize the peep sight because Lee put the tile sight on the shotgun a couple of years ago there were a number of people peo peo- I who voiced the opinion that he lie was pie looney All Lee did with the peep sight was to punch out one of the best averages of any shooter In the South South and and he lIe never picked his targets IF HE tiE DIDN'T DIDN'T- 7 The second time Lee Iee used a n. he second In the Alabama state finished championship and he has won the doubles of Alabama three successive successive successive championship 48 out and In 1921 he broke sive years in the championship championship champion champion- 50 the 10 the highest made Of event during the year And the peep OP ship Lee went to last sight was and on shot without the sight and not January once In the tile weeks week's shooting did he break 90 in iii Then he put on the thi peep he and in tho the following 19 1950 O targets sight averaged 97 per cent On the 1000 targets he lIe averaged and on the last cent averaged 98 93 per he had remained away from Pine Pine- If H Lee If It he had used the peep sight sight- hurt hurt or or he be would be bo the high average rage he figures of 1921 But he went to Pinehurst Pinehurst Pine- Pine hurst burst and he lIe too took It off oft the sight and he ho is down In the averages Once quite a ways the Lee had a run of 40 41 during year veer unregistered straight at doubles and at had runs of and he targets winning the all round championship championship champion champlon- ship and in of Alabama he broke out of not believe any shooter put up al a We Ve do In winning the tile all round l title better etter Lee average broke 96 from two twenty-two In the state handicap and averaged yards cent for tor targets targets doubles doubles handicap 97 per pel and singles We Ve recite these things Just to l prove rove our contention that he lIe Is la a good shot eIlOt As we finish this word comes to us that Lee Jee has been proclaimed the winner of the tho revolver championship for 1921 with witha a score of 68 out of ot 5 lie He has ilas won the revolver championship several years ears running l also the tile small bore rifle championship championship championship cham cham- a number of times Lee has won more shooting titles than any other marksman marksman and and is still In the early thir thir- ties