| Show SHOOTING IN RECENT TOURNEY REMARKABLE By B DORSEY DORSET BURGESS The ninth annual trap shooters shooters' tournament of tho the Idaho Utah Idaho Uta- Uta association concluded It Its meet on tho grounds of or orthe the tho Salt Fait Lake Lako Gun club near Fort Douglas last Saturday and our boys are aro still trying to figure out why hy they did not win enough h money to build a home for the tho has hils beens For 1 several 80 wee weeks s the boys have haVo been shooting splendidly and nd they began to worry worn over what they should do with mth all on tho time mon money y tIle tho they confidently confidently con con- expected to win The They were the most enthusiastic crowd I have ever met Now for the shoot hoot The They wore were oT la favored with ith ideal v weather cat her conditions and tho time traps worked 1 beautifully The attendance attendance attend attend- ance was wan not as bl big as M we A had hoped for but bul wo we accounted for this b by think think- thinking lag ing our Idaho friends were afraid of ot us Ui Ve We e had as contesting visitors Mr 11 Sam I an nn expert professional and probably th the tho heat beat blue rock hot Phot In 10 the world toda today Fred King of or Denver er one of or the tho very er best belt amateur blue rock shots In the country In fact Mr Ir offers orren to take Mr tr King as a partner and shoot an any two men mon III in the tho world orld at single ant and nth tifty pair of blue rocks each for SOO OO a a. side with no takers Before the shoot had progressed essed ed half a aday aday aday day It was as evident It was Wl a contest for high honors between Dr John JohnF F F. Sharp Fred King Buck Duck Anderson Gus Becker and Moroni Skeen about In Inthe tho the order named Runs of ot fifty arty straight w were rf frequent occurrences and straight ht and more were made mode b by Mr r. r Huntle and Dr John F. F Sharp Mr Mills MUlA also made one run o of and over At the end of the first day the time score stood stood- Huntley Sharp 00 Anderson IOn IOn- Skeen Becker With the tho others shooting an exceptionally exceptionally good salt gait and ns as good perhaps or b better than they ever shot hot before but without nn en any chance whatever er o ot of u winning Inning anything unless It bo be some sonie tin Un medals donated by powder manufacturers and King not being members member of ot the tho association were vere not eligible to shoot for or association trophies The three man team shoot was WIlS as won b by the tho OGden tf team lm Anderson 20 2020 Skeen 1910 Becker Decker Total Total Nearly ever every Og Ogden en man roan took home a atrophy atrophy trophy troph In lieu of the money he had lost Salt Snit Lake kept the other two Dr Sharp I winning one Mills tho the other and Mr r. lIun tJ e took the money Tho highest honors In fri a tournament arc aro tho high a averages Mr lr Huntley Huntle won high over 01 professionals and all nil with the time marvelous Jf ice ice- C. C ord of over o 99 19 per ler cent Dr John F. F Sharp was s second cond I consider Dr Sharps Sharp's record as phenomenal phe pime- considering th the fact that he has haft had little or no practice and nd went ent Into the time shoot solely to help the boys make a n. success of th the tournament The Tho race between Dr Sharp and Fred I King ICing will ill long Jong bo be remembered ns Os time th t that per ever happened 1 In 5 S 5 i iSAM SAM SAltI A. A HUNTLEY Trap shooter whose splendid record of birds out of a p possible in the recent loc local tournament is 1 still the talk of or Western gun scatter artists the West Western rn country countr The one ona e event ent that stands out most mot prominently prominent to my mind was the tho trophy event In lii which I L J. E. E TUtor Riter Gus Becker anti and Dr Sharp tied Mr lr Becker and Dr Sharp each broke forty orty straight In tho the and then divided dl beca because use they r wore were tired of smashing them Both stood on the time firing firing fir fir- ing inS line like automatons Target after target was reduced to dust with clock clock- like precision until It seemed that time the breaking target the time report of oC the gun un and the man who ho held It were one identical Identical iden Idea tic tic-il piece of ot machinery The Time six high scores follow Total number num ber her of birds birdo shot at nt S. S A A. Huntley broke o Dr J. J S. S Sharp broke broko Fred red King KInS' broke Buck Anderson broke broko 30 Moroni Skeen broko broke ZOO G G. G L. L Becker broke O |
