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Show ISTAHS SHATTER CUir TARGETS Spencer and Clark Break More Than 23.000 targets During 1920 ( By 11 i"r r arncj i John L Clay, 'i Houston, l ex., shot at more registered target! than an) other Urapshootcr In the Inked State or Canada In 1920. Clay shot at 12.-SSV 12.-SSV targets, of which number he missed only SoO. hhh him an average of .9343. Clay shot In 39 tournaments and In practically every section of tlje United .st ilus and Canada He is an amateur. Charles G. Spencer, of St. boms now-exploiting now-exploiting his ability in Texas, shot al more targets In registered competition than any other professional Spencer shot al 11,330 targets, of which number num-ber he broke 1 0 . y 4 4 . for an average of .S650. Spencer; like Clay, shot all through the country. In tln rain, the hall, and the wind and the snow. Spencer shot In 33 tournament. Spencer, Spen-cer, year in and year out, has shot at upwards of 10 'ioo registered targets and ever since the official averages have been maintained he lias always bettered 96 per cent. No other shool-er shool-er has such a record. SOME (. II l H.i RES, in the 1920 Grand American Handl-cap Handl-cap 336. 170 clay target were thrown, and for ever) target thrown a shell was fired, and In these shells were ten and a half tons of shot. BRITISH SHOOTERS IMPROVING They an- talking in Kngland about 1 1 apshootiiig in the 1924 Olympic sames in Home Thi Knlishmen learned a lot about shooting from the American Olympic shooter, so much that they are now purchasing American Ameri-can guns and targets, and It will nol Da long before they will have adopted adopt-ed the American system of shooting aa. ,n f've man squad. Before the , JfB Americans invaded Kngland the long- J Jki M st run. which stood for years, was 49. IjHi In a recent shoot one man broke 97x 100 1 here ti dozen runs be- 3js3B ond 50. They are getting all hel up IjgjfaB about the improvement in the shooting jJIcjH aud the onlv thing the shooting papers WgH nik about is the kind of a leant that ; England ii. product foui liencc RIFLE M K RES in LMPS w K Camp Sapphire, of Brevard. S . C. 'ifiVB funed in o score of IT; oul of i pos- sible aOu and won the first Boys and lhB GlralCanipa Rlflea championship con- aH ducted b! th-e Winchester Junior hlfle Corps In 97 boys and girls camps In he United Stales lu 1920. Camp I'WB -okokls Ot Bridpet"ii. Maine, ivas sec- iTjriflB ond and Camp Tlmanous of Raymond ItliiieMl w-as third. Highland Camp, girls. lPaal of 0lth 8ehago, Me, was eighth ''BitH There yc many girl who shooi the iinfl ""mall bore rlfla aa good as the great ljIilI percentage or boys UABDIXG M COX, SPORTSME gH Just as soon as (he pi esldentlal elec- H tion returns weie counted, the winner 3j9H and loser went away on vacations, or.o Sl 'o fish and thp other to fish and hunt President 11,-udlng vvnt after Tarpon QBH while Mr. Cox did a little fishing and SjQH then want after bear. Thev know the ft value of the life In the great outdoor?". |