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Show Among other things "upheld" by Uncle Sam's Olympic athletes at Stockholm was the reputation of the United States as a nation of "Kidders. " One of the most amusing and effective effec-tive of the many good humored stunts pulled off at the exper.se of the foreigners for-eigners was executed by a part of the Yankee trap-shooting team. Before the day of the match, J. R. Graham , with Hall, Lyon ar.tl Billings, other members of the trap team, went out to ! the shooting grounds for a practice I hour. The party was trailed by a num- j ber of members of the Russian trap- j shooting team, who were anxious to get a line on the Yankee brand of marksmanship. Hall scented the "inspection," "in-spection," and suggested to Graham that a little ".-care" be funded to the j Czar's subject. So when the practice ! began Graham, using Reminington UMC Arrow Steel-Lined Shells, with! which he shot his way to the world's! individual championship at clay targets ! a few clays later, started off conservatively conser-vatively by missing two of the first three targets. This gait -looked in-couraging in-couraging to the Russians, who saw visions of a "first" for their team in the trap-shooting event. Then Gra-! Gra-! ham unlimbered and broke forty-nine straight. Hall and Billings each fob lowed by driving the same American-made American-made shells to but one miss in fifty, j and completed their strings of one' I hundred with but one miss apiece, i Graham missed three in his hundred j "a poor day for him," said the press I reports. I On the afternoon of the. same day the Slavs officially withdrew from the trap shooting contest. |