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Show BIG SHOOT AT ! TR A V ERSJ SL AND National Amateur Trap Shooting Shoot-ing Championship Series to Be Held Soon. New York. N. Y., March 2S. While arrangements for the national ama teur trap shooting championship have not yet been definitely made, It has been decided that the big event will be held at a later date than usual. The shoot will once more go to the New York Athletic club's traps at Travers Island. The matter of fixing fix-ing the dates rests with the Trap Shooting committee of the club, and present indications poiut to the. choice of either Wednesday and Thursday, April 29 and 30. or dates a week later, May C and 7. The club committee will have full charge of all arrangements, as there is no real national amateur trap shooting association. A movement Is ou foot for the organization of such a body, with the leading clubs of this city, Philadelphia and Boston as charter members. It is proposed to organize an association which will cater primarily to the "slmon pure" and take in as an affiliated member the Intercollegiate Trap Shooting league, composed of Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth. There is a national body at present die Interstate Trap Shooting association asso-ciation but It is a dead letter in this viefnity, and is absolutely lg i uored. Its mandates are not rec ognized and It is not called upon tc sanction tournaments in this section It is a pretty strong association in the south and west, but it is regarded regard-ed as too closely affiliated with the powder and cartridge manufacturing companies to suit gunners in the cities cit-ies which are at the head of the new movement. |