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Show InSra Provision Made by City Council Coun-cil to Install Free Trap-shooting Trap-shooting f The city council of "Worcester, Mass., the home of .lay Clark. Jr.. the captain of the United States trap-shooting trap-shooting team to the Olympic games, has authorized the construction of two traps and concrete trap houses on the city rifle range and upon their construction con-struction these traps will be available for the people of AVorccster. The traps will be open to the public at all times so that any one who wishes to shoot at clay targets can do so. This Is in line with public tennis courts, public golf links, public baseball base-ball diamonds, etc. There was n tlmo when there wasn't a public golf link in the United States. Now at least 50 cities have well kept public links. Thore was a time when public tonnls courts wero few and far between. Now you will find tennis courts In almost every public park in tho country. cials paid no attention to theso de-J tails but nowadays with so many per-i sens participating In outdoor activl-l tics the city fathers are Jcecnly Interested Inter-ested In seeing that those AVho pay, the bill get some thing for their money. There Is a time coming when there will be bathing popls in every recrca-1 tion park in the country; thore is aj time coming when thero will be recrc-l ation parks in every city, and the time! Ii coming, too. when every one of; these bathing spots will bo Ice skatingl rinks In the winter season. That is in the places where they have ice.) They don't know what ice skates look' like in Texas. And one of these finei days, too, there will be public traps! in the public parks of the country so! that the trapshooters can vie with the tennis players, golfers, ball play-1 ers, and others. I Other Modern Cities. The city of Worcester isn't the only city that has public traps. You will find them in a dozen cities. Cleveland Cleve-land has one hi one of tho public parks in which the trapshooters turn out en masse on Wednesdays and Saturdays- for open tournaments. In Lincoln Lin-coln and Washington parks, Chicago, there are traps open to the public audi In Lincoln park the city of Chicago! Is now erecting a trnpshootlng lodge: at a cost of $30,000. Right nt this J time the Lincoln park shooters do not need such a magnificent club house! but anything not so good would not harmonize with surrounding conditions. condi-tions. This magnificent club house, too, will nid in bringing out m.oro shooters. It Is over the Lincoln park traps that the Illinois state trap-shooting trap-shooting championship will be shot this year. The citizens of St. Thomas, Ont. have a beautiful place to shoot In Pinafore Pin-afore park. This Rark, a public one, is directly in the heart of St. Thomas, and is one of the finest shooting grounds in the world. At the opening of these grounds Frank Wright, the American champion, broke 4 97 out of 500 targets, which is a world's record. The chamber of commerce and tho city council arc interested In the promotion pro-motion of the St. Thomas Gun club, and is what this gun club tries to do. The boys of the collegiate. Institute spend one hour at practice every Wednesday Wed-nesday on the public traps, being instructed in-structed in the art of shooting by the members of the St. Thomas gun club. It is tho contention of this club, and should be of every club, that every boy and girl, man and woman, that should know how to handle a gun, and that the place to learn is at tho gun club. Why not public traps In this city? |