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Show MRS, SCHILLING IS CHAMPION Amateur Trapshooter of Pa- cific Coast Ib True Champion. San Jose. Cal.. March 2. Mrs. Ada Schilling, society woman and champion cham-pion amateur trapshooter of the Pacific Pa-cific coast, has just resigned her membership In the San Jose Blue Rock club and removed to Portland, Ore., on account of tho business connections con-nections of her husband, Carl J Schilling, in that city. According to the interstate records recently Issued In New York, Mrs Schilling led all women trapshooteis of the United States during 1915. vslth an average of 87 08 per cent for the year. Mrs. B. F. Remy of Indianapolis, India-napolis, Ind her nearest opponent, finished with a percentage of 77.37. Mrs. Schilling is a little bit of a woman, weighing lesB than a hundred pounds, and spectators at trap contests con-tests who have seen her give waj under the recoil of her 12-g.uige have expressed astonishment that she has been ablo to stand up under the punishment pun-ishment of a hundred shots In a tournament tour-nament alongside of seasoned veterans veter-ans of the firing llnp. Mrs Schilling UBe'? an extremely light load and In order to get In her work before the target has sped beyond range her aim must be truer as the Bhot spread Is less, and her point quicker In order to compete with men Taking these Inets into consideration, her showing show-ing against the nation s army of shotgun shot-gun men during 1915 Is truly remarkable |