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Show SHOULD BE IRE SHOOTING CLUBS League Races Would Elevate frapshooting Just as They Have Baseball What trapshootlng needs about as much as anything else we know of Ls league competition. There are about 25 trapshootlng leagues In the United States and there might Just as well be one hundred end twenty-five, it is all a matter of promotion. pro-motion. The American Trapshootlng Association should get behind a moc-ment moc-ment io promote trapshootlng leagues. j League competition will Interest hum dreds of thousands of shooters who Just dabble tn trapshootlng today. . There Is something at stake in i ague shoots. It means something CD I win. It means something to defeat I some other team Take fop instance the final match of the Philadelphia Trapshopters' League last spring in! which the Pennsylvania Railroad and Wilmington teams met The Railroaders Railroad-ers had "S shooters oat and the Po -der City shooters had 100 on the firing line. Wilmington won by two targets, .ind In winning won its second 1 1 1; 1 1 championship, and the 22rd successive match. Do you think 178 shooters w ould have come out for an ordinary j shooting match? They would not. It was the league competition that' drought theni out. Ju the opening shoot of the Western Pennsylvania league this fall 153 1 shooters came and fired at 100 target.M. i The Western Pennsylvania League is: a wonderful organization, has a won- derful lot of fine troipshooters, and does a wealth of good for trapshoot-Ing trapshoot-Ing in Western Pennsylvania. It Is, such leagues as the Philadelphia Trap-shooters' Trap-shooters' ami Western Pennsylvania League 'bat keep trapr.hooting llw. Wh there Isn't more of them is be-, yond us. Where would basebnll he without Its leagues? How many people do you i think would look at a baseball game between independent baseball league i teams? Very few They are Inter-i estcd In leairue competition because they feel that thobe playluc will put! forth greater effort than they would' In an ordin.it match They are right, i II would be lust the same In trap- shooting Most any Irapshot would rather shoot In a league match than In a small club mutch. There is lots of room for county and trl-county leagues and wherever leagues are i formed we arc firmly convinced that Mie clubS interested will thrive with the league. The Central Ohid. Northern North-ern Ohio. Central Nebraska, and Colorado Col-orado Trapshootlng Leagues are proof of this. |