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Show DOBEMUS HEUDS . I CIA ROTH I Other Snappy Events in Trap World: Elbert Makes New Amateur Mark T E. Doremus, form'er urehUnt JtQ of the American TrapsWpOtlng asj n I tlon. and now the eastern gen ial Qlanagsr for the IniPont TCxport com- ,1 :i!:. has been elected president of the Itotary club of Shanghai, China. B It H known, too. that Doremus Is shooting from scratch In the trapshooting H tournaments there Trapshootlng Is quite u sport In China. There Is ver.V little game to DC shot there. We kick H I about the hlKh prices of goods here ; but read this Shells that cost $1.10 B a box of 'J.'. In r. opt $S.50 a box In Sfa mghal and 112 50 bos In Tientsin POY SHOOT! R WHO l . ! K Alabama Is boasting of a bo shooter H who looks like a real champion. He Is Nat Mason. 1 years old. of Selma. He hroke JSC out of 100 targets In the state shool. broke 0 from 18 yardi 1 In the handicap event and tied f ! H I first and in a 100 target event ha WM brOks 57. He don I have to improve 1 much to In- a rcil nr WHAT l HI Y THINK. Th 1 1 some people have different idem Of what Is good trapshootlng was very well Illustrated in a recent event in Which Mr?. Topperwein was shooling In her usual snappy style, breaking KB them about 20 yards from the trap Wt hoiip A spectator remarked: H "Gee! that woman Is some shooter; VI look how she busts them." Cs individual 0 whom the rem.tiV WJ w s addressed replied VJ 'She sure ooes bust em. but look ai that other fellow He breaks them :iu out there he gives them a chance. ' Vw i m.ti I li RECORD, m When he won the Hazard troph the W , i) prior to thi Grand American v ith f 97 breaks In jO pairs, "Kip" Elbert of lies Moines, la., established a new amateUJ record and tl?d the profes-gionsl profes-gionsl record recently mad by Charle Spi ncer. The prev ious record was 9S. N M. ZONJE HAS FINE CLUB. Balboa Flights In the canal zone has a trapshootlng club with 235 mem-bei. mem-bei. 0 per cent of the population, i i lull house that has a rifle and pistol pis-tol range, baths, etc. Looks as if WS have to co away from homo to find the ideal shooting club More than sj 10, onii targets are throw n each month M at this club. Mfl LIKE ot it STYLE IBROAD. Our shooters to the Olympic games ME brinq home rlie word that the shooters Hxj of the European nations became con- Slj Vinced through the shooting In the English championships and in the Olympic games that the style in vogue i i niti d State "-is the b si and It Vfl w ouldn't be surprising to see our stylo -'j in use on the continent within the rhe POUc and firemen of San An- OTA tonio. Tex., practice rifle and revol- jLfcu er shooting once cachnionth . a regl- Bl nu-nt of l.oou sharpshooters has been mCd organized in the New York police de- PVlQ partment and the employees of the BB hvrgesl banking houses in the world IeS now practice with firearms so as to MM know what to do in case of necessity. BflJ I: shows the trend of the times. |