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Show 1 TROEH IS THE COBB OF TRAPDOM O O O O O O O O 00 o o I VANCOUVER EXPERT SETS RECORD o O O O O O O O O O 00 ji GRAND AVERAGE IS 97 PER CENT! Ill by. rami p oaiwet Wo doubt If any amateur trapshooter in the United States or Canada, or pro-P pro-P fesston.il either, has an average that J can be comr"n"il with the one I hat ! has boen complied by Frank MTroeh. j of Vancouver, Yuh.. during tlie peel nine year. In thu period of time 1 Troeh hia shot at 44.6&r targets, broke 43.213 for a general average of .!C7. There arc thousands of shooters who i would die happy If they could but average 06 per cint for one year. j j Yet here is a shooter who go.- doe n It the line year after ye.ir. In tha rain 3 .inl the snow, the hall and the wind, 3 , and smashes the targets to antitiereeni J for an average close to 97 per cent over a period of nine years, and In 1 doing this he shoots at more targets than any other amnteur In the land.! j Troeh travels the 1'nlted States anl 1 Canada and takes in all tin important j 1 shoots, and it is up to him to be up i and Oolng If he hopes to mukf his ex-j ex-j ptniM, All thf time he has been i shooting Troeh has taken car" oi hlm-1 hlm-1 self. I He has won every trapshooiing -f championship in the United States. 5 Canada, and England, anil the only ! thing ho has missed la the lymplc' 4J title Cfldes the trapshootinu Ji rhumplonihips hfl bus won the Inter-1, Inter-1, national Inn shot championship, belt be-lt lng Just as prof Icient at shooting live birds as the clay one. Me has also A won the live bird championshl of ' Kngland. He has won the singles I championship of Washington no less than seven times, losinsr the title In 1S13, 1916. 1917. He has won championships cham-pionships until it Is no novelty any more to write about Frank Troeh winning win-ning a trapshootlng title. It would bo eaaler for the printer to keep the typo ready for use. You will note by the averages that Troeh has led ill 'he shooters of the United Mates and Canada twice in the past four years, that his average for thf past four years has been better than 9750, and that If you omitted his i -1 two years his average would be xccptlonal. It Is not only In compiling excellent averages and winning championships cham-pionships that Troeh shines Year after af-ter yo;ir hi puts up more long runs than :iny 'tli r -diooter. He mad th greatest number of runs over GO, 100 and 200 iat year and the year before, and In thfl handicap and doubles ecnt.s 1321 he established a lot of new records- Ono of Troeh'a best foots in 192 was his broking 99 from 23 yard! In the Colorado state handicap. Ho baa boon In the first 50 in the averages aver-ages 6lnce 1 f 1 3. All of Troeh's shooting has been I done with a 97 model Winchester. Which was second hand when Troeh bought it for $19 In the fall of 1912.1 This gun has an eight ound trtgKor pull, and Mn only one who can shoot With it nd break targets besides Troeh is the lattor'fl son liarle. When you' are talking about shooters never omit Frank Troeh. He Is one of the best in the world. |