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Show DENVER SHOOT FAILED TO ' PLEASE Moroni Skeen, W. H. Anderson and George and T S Browning have le-turned le-turned from tho Denver trap shooting tournament, not ery well pleased with the affair The Ogden men say that while they did reasonably good shooting and succeeded suc-ceeded In winning some of the contests, con-tests, the tournament was unsatisfactory unsatisfac-tory in more than one feature. In tho first place, they eay, the Utah men were all handicapped because of the manner In which the traps were operated op-erated The bluerocks were thrown slowly, which made it possible for nearly all the shooters especially the eastern men, to make a high BCore and. secondly, because there was nol enough money offered the winners in the various events to justify one in shooting. First money In some instances in-stances was les9 than the -entrance fee nnd one had to break almost ev-, ery rock to win. Messrs. Skeen and AnJerson say that the shooting at the rocks In the tournament ranged above 92 per cent In nearly all the events, the eastern shooters being given the advantage of slow traps. Mr. Skeen shot as high as 91 birds out of a possible hundred and then was below the high men Anderson in the doubles broke 84 of 100 and yet he was fourth man The western men have been accustomed to shooting at marks from speedy traps, the result being that in Don-ver Don-ver they were always shooting ahead of the blnls. A little practice at tho slow one's, the Ogden men say, and they could break nearK every rock sprung. The Brownings also did good average shooting, but were handicapped handicap-ped the same as the other Utah men. Mr. Anderson states Lhat six Inches of snow was encountered over the high passes on tho Denver & Rio Grando road on the way home and on Saturday Satur-day morning It was snowing in Denver. Den-ver. Mr. AndcrbOQ and Cominicsionrr T. S. Browning returned home over the Rio Grando, while Mr. Skeen, accompanied ac-companied by his wife, returned ovor the Union Pacific. George Brownln? went east from Denvor. |