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Show INDOOR SHOTGUN CHAMP BEGAN WITH A POP GUN PERTH AMBOY. X. J.. Keh 19. When Adam Schrimpf was a little j boy his fathr:- grave him u pop gun. Tho youngster noon could sboo' 1 where he was looking. Then his folhcr presented him t it h 1 a JC-callbro rifle. Recently Schrimpf won the indoor amateur trapMhooling championship by breaking 100 targets straight at Mad! on Square garden. 'I always could shoot prett) Rood," I a ilie c hamp. SH ARPSHOOTING ACT The Idea of puttlnc r.w firearm ability to actual use didn't come to ! nie undl one day I saw a shooting act in vaudeville. "The i eats of (ho sharpsboot ing per-tortnen per-tortnen didn't amaze me. "So I decided to try out some of their sun f. "There was a 30 -foot hall in my home "I rigged up a ra k anil spent a goo'l deal of my savings in penny clay pipe which I used as target. MIRROR SHOT "With a little practice I could hit 'em from tnj position, including the mirror shot "1 devised some new tricks I hadn't seen on ibe stage. "Then I went after a stage Job. "Among thing? I did was to snip rigarels from my partner mouth, am! cut In half pla iog cards with the edge held toward me. "Win n 1 got llred or this I look up irapshooting." Schrimpf Ll n structural iron worker by trade. His work high In the nir has dc-J eloped strong nerve.-. In a Hire day match against Frank Troeh thej tied with a score of 290 1 out of n possible 300. The Madison Square garden shoot was his first trial Indoors under artificial arti-ficial Ik-htp. He mifsed the nineteenth bird In bis 1 m fr " ' ADAM SCHRIMPF first sirin;r. After that he finished the 50. 2G and Inn bird events without a miss. The new indoor amateur champ uses a double barrel gun. Next summer Schrimpi will like try his double barrel (,-iin In the grand American handle I p. |