Show among other tings upheld by uncle sams olympic athletes at stockholm was the reputation ot of the united states as a nation of kidders one oae 0 at tile the most and effective pv tf bt the many joad humored stunts pulled off on ht at the expense of the foreigners was executed by a part of the yankee trapshooting trap shooting team defore before the day of the match J R graham with hall lyon Lyo lyonald nand and billings other members of the trap team went out to the shooting grounds for a practice hour tile the party was trailed by a number of members of tile the russian trapshooting trap shooting team who were anxious to get a line on the yankee brand of marksmanship hall scented the inspection and suggested to graham that a little scare be handed czars azars subjects z when the practice began geahart Gr Gra ahart halb using in remington ayrow steel lined shells with which lie he sh shot othis vis way to the world s individual championship at clay targets a few days later started off conservatively by missing two odthe of the first three targets this ga gait looked to the russians who inho saw x visions of it i first for their team in the trapshooting trap shooting event then graham un limbered and broke forty nine straight raight kt hall and billings eich ich ch followed by driving the same ameil cau can made shells to one miss in fifty and completed their strings of one hundred with but one miss apiece graham missed three in his hundred a poor day for lim hm said the press reports on the afternoon of the same day the slavs officially withdrew from froin the trapshooting trap shooting |