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Show CALIFORNIA TRAPSTAR ' TURNS M NIFTY TOTAL j FOR 1921 SHOOTING YEAR I :Mrs. Groat of Long Beach Averages Better Than W 92 Per Cent on 1425 Targets; Mrs. Lou Piercy v Captures National Indoor Title I Despite the fact that she Is perhaps per-haps the smallest in stature of any of the women stars of trapshooting. Mrs. C. E Oroat. of Long Beach, California, during the season of 1HJ1 proved herself the mightiest With the shotgun. At 1425 registered targets, Mrs Croat made the splendid overage over-age of .OL'Jl. and thus is ranged in Number 1 position. No shooter was considered for a position unless ehe had shot at 1000 or more registered targets. To top the list Mrs. t;roat was compelled to beat out many worthy rivals, anions them being Mrs Toots Randall, who holds the women's championship .it single targets, and Mrs Lou Piercy. who won the Indoor In-door championship at Madison Square Garden last winter. Four former national champions succeeded In making places Th- y are Mrs. l. Q Vdgel of Detroit; Mrs A. H Winkler, i nl.-.io; .Mr D. J. Dalton, Warsaw. Indian an I Mrs J. H Bruff. Pittsburg. Pa. Of all the former champions none ever htinp up sui h a record as Mrs Randall Ran-dall did In winning the 1921 championship cham-pionship when sho broke 98x100 The showing of Mrs c W. Buchanan Bu-chanan of Mitchell, south Dakota, who stands second, was not surprising, surpris-ing, for not only wm he champion of her stat In lsi'O. but she successfully success-fully defended her laurels In lfi'l, and likewise carried off the Prairie Zone championship. Mrs Groat won her state rham-I rham-I plonshlp in m'O and 1821, ..s lll Mra Winkler of Illinois, Mrs Vogel of MlchlVan Mrs Edmlston of tfi -Ibraska, Mrs. Bruff of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Moon of Wisconsin. Mi- Alice Doerken of Paterson, New Jcr- j se . perhaps IS th.- ' oUTlROSt of t ni shooters on the list. Miss Doerk'. n 1 1 stands thirteenth. Her most sensa- B ttonal teat of the year was to defect jM Randall tor the Eastern 7,om Whll Mrs. .i l. Doggett of Clerks- 'il ' state championship in 1921, the cap- It Southern Zone champion llA i ship title and at that tournament did some remarkable shooting. Her per- I formanco of 97x100 trom the 18-yard IM ; mark In the Southern Handicap W ' - I sp-. iti creditable because II Is j doni that women are required, to BJt ', shfiot from the traphouse. .Moreover. B 12 i loublei i he A toui n.iimnl Is a i'iie- mart. I One of the outstanding feats of trapshooting during the past "ear 1 open coinpi itljon : With ihe best of the men shooters In ! on the i yard I ' 1 mark and broke 90 tarKets out of- 100. IB : She cleaned up the field, and was Jfl , the only woman to win one of the Ittf I medals at a state or provincial co- Bn j BCme unusual features might HB mentioned about the shooting of each of the wOmen on the ijRt. but in tha mm, ' matter of endurance shootln;'. Mr-.. H0 i Fred Etchen of Cof feyvllle. Kansas, mmm carries off the prize. Rho shot more I registered targets than any other mm 3 10 tfg i , of 4?.;0. ilrs. Btchen 'turned In an Mmj average of s37 She shot nt threo mWt times as many targets as Mrs. r.r.iat. mma Thi t tho more eastern n j, ' sui i t -i In obi lining a rating h in their western slaters, also note- .JH worthy. Using the Mississippi 'river mW as the iiividintr line the east has four- f toon representatives and th- v. . t H |
