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Show Carney Gives Facts I On Shooting Events More Than 20C0 Men and Women Participated in the National Rifle Matches and Grand American Handicap Trapshooting Tournament By PETER B. CARNEY Editor National Sports Syndicate A To one who has never witnt s I .a nation's! rule match ol a grand American handicap ii-opshootim; j tnurnatm" m, il is not tho ejaio-d task (in the world to prove that i1ic:c- arc I the bigaenl events in a Sporting w ay i th it wo have in these United States. Those who have been to tin e Bbool ! ing tournaments know Jusl ho big and how imp'""snt they arc The average tender nf the sporting ! pag has no Idea Just bow big these shooting events are, and II Is to 111. 'rsadeTS that w-o wish to impart some information. The majorit) of those who peruse the -p'.itinc pages are I inclined to the opinion Hint lhe jworltl's baaebSII fsries games ate , j ii -1 about tho biggest ever In a ! sporting way. nnd these games are ;v.irn Ii comes to the number1 tif ieop'0 who are attracted as sperm tOrs, but the biggest tinners in sports , fr.im a crmpotltor's standpoint iire iho iific ; nd trapshooting competi-, competi-, tiphs. One of these days yoti will wake ! up i nd fi.id that rifle nnd IropshOOt-.jtng IropshOOt-.jtng are being given the attention (hgi ihey deserve and whon thai day arrives you will discover that shoot : ins i. ore of our m.i.i.i -i"" 1 -ACTUAL FIGURES. Let us gft down to lignr. Then were I$60 Individual shoot cr iti ih? national rifle matches i hi year anti abbttl 7u Indiv iduals in the 'grand American handicap trapshooting trapshoot-ing lournamen;. These Bhooters in Hi" rifle malches had to spend one raonui kl Gamp Perry", Ohio, tb en-z'tn- iii the various competitions, These men and women came Mom every state in He union, from Alas ka trom the Philippines and one m'sn lrave)ed from Shanghai China. :-')i:t" poll ion of the expenses of a greal raajoritj Ql these shooters was . dpi rayed b !h- United States , eroment, bu when you consider thai 1200 mpn and women gave up their I 'business nhd other pleasures for a period or five or six weeks, hav an idea of the interest that these people have in 'le sport. HONESTLY, DO YOU ? ! Pej you know of another sport j thai will attract more than lUOO con-I con-I for one month? The grand American handicap iraphootfnag tournament lasts one v. cok. There, shooters' live in Ihobcisi hotels, noi in army tents Bitch as do the rifle men nnd Kom'-n, pay for everything, they use, and give six days io shooting. Man; nf thorn give MM i lea;t the same amount Of time i av . ling In order u, get to nnd from mm the snoot It is cafe to -ay that the MM average entrant In lhe grand Amerl-can Amerl-can handicap irapshboting tbttrna- MM v. ill expend -it least I860 Oters are the best : pcrtsmon In You nii;:eM be Interested In the f amount ol .immuniiion used in these i '.i- matches In the grs nd Ann ri- -can I and leap 334 7"" large) i were M ihroMi. and .juite- naturally the same he mt hargels ccst about five cents each. M IhC shells about five cents each. Every shooter has one gun and a lot of tl em have a half dozen. Guns are it. i the cheaposi thlpgs in the world Loda bul more of them arc being fl Hold now than over before. Value cadi gun at 100 and then figure WM tilings up and you Tvill have ;,n Idea '.f. ested in . p y ing oad then remember that Ihe shooters in the grand American are ohlj a small percentage of the trap-'shooters. trap-'shooters. i here wore 2.0JB5 thirty calibre Kl cartridges fifed In tie national rifle mal. lies, as well as 1 158,400 cart- of other calibres and 100,000 Mm shot gun shells, Some shooting, we II say So will you if you SVCT see ne oi these tuatches. MM |