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Show TRAP GAME GOES ON FOREVER j WILMINGTON. Aug. 11 Seasonable sports come and go with their respective respec-tive seasons, but the trap game goes on forever, and 365 days a year at that. When Thanksgiving rolls around football follows baseball into the discard, dis-card, and tennis, golf, et al, reach the vanishing point close on the heels of football yet trapshooting, being the "fittest," survives, this for the double reason that clay target shooting is no more hampered by weather conditions con-ditions than is field shooting at live birds, and. too, because several hundred hun-dred thousand red-blooded Americans require something a bit more strenuous strenu-ous and exciting than checkers, pi- , nochle and other indoor games. Timo was when country club activities ac-tivities and yacht clubs boarded up their clubhouse until after the spring thaw; now, when snow or slush lies deep on the golf links, the lure of the traps draws erstwhile golfers to the club grounds to enjoy the shooting game, while across the distant meadows mead-ows come the popping reports of shotguns shot-guns as yatchsmen blaze away at the flying caucers skimming above the frozen river. |