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Show AMATEURS HAVE EDGE ON PROS. The average attendance at the trap-hoo;tng trap-hoo;tng tournaments registered by tle In i erst st e Trapehuoting aasociatlon thia year waa In keeping with prrvloua years; in fact, the aeason of 116 was the only one In which the average attendance waa greater. These figures show how trnpehootlng haa maintained ita pace through the paat asvea yeara: Average Attendance. Ama- Profea Year. " teur. nonal. IKiR , 27 6 )o 23 I 11 2? t 1 112 3& 1111 4& 7 lt4 4b 1116 47 1 J! 4 r. un 43 $ till 4T ft The 191! figures pre based on 3ft!i tournament a. More than seven thousand Ind (vidua la partlclimtad, and when one takea tlms to consider the great number of young men who shot at tha traps who are In the greatest shooting match of all time the figurea loom exceedingly large. New Jeraey topped the states with the great eat number of amateura in the events, averaging 9t. North Carolina showed the way for the proa with 14. North Carolina waa high in U.th amateur and profesalonala laat yea with 93 and 7. Xew Jeraey waa high the year before. The largest stale championship lourns-tnent lourns-tnent of the year waa held in Pennsylvania.7 Pennsyl-vania.7 201 residents parthtpating. Illinois Illi-nois was second, with lit home shooters: Kan SMS third, with 127, and Nebraska , fourth, wlih IIS. Kentucky had the great- i est numher of nonresident entries. M; ! North CaJorina had bO aiwl Missouri 47. Permavlvanta had the largest ahoot, with 1 211 entries; Illinois vu next, with 13, and aWanasvs third, with 17. Time wae when the profeeetonal shot 1 had It all ever the amateur, but that time j te no more. The atnion puree have Just a little on the pros If anything. Korty-ftve Korty-ftve etatee held amateur championships ard professional titles were dactded In 40 These statistics furnish a comparison f the scores that won the titles: ttcore. Amateur. i'rofesalonal. 100 2 S f 10 3 m a 1 H 14 M " I 4 Iff 4 I 1 i i ; ; 1 i i 1 K 0 1 under 9 ( |