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Show BECKER TOPS ; TRAP SHARKS AT HANDICAPS logdenite Leads United ; States Performers With Average of .9470. Gus L. Becker, sportsman of Og-den, Og-den, Is the Handicap King of the L9B1 trapshootlng season The distance handicap record Jssuwd by S'toney . McLinn, secretary of the American Trapshootlng association gives Becker the splendid average of .9-170 on 770 registered handicap target, which la nearly a full point better than th average credited to the second man on the list. The remarkable part about Becker's handicap shooting la that the greater l pan of it was done from tho "hack marks." From the - - yards he shat-Lered shat-Lered 879x400, His score from 21 yards totaled 256x276. From 20 yards lie has a winning score of 99 out of 1 Oo. The Chili gunner did not win 1 anv of tho national or zone handl-cap handl-cap events, but in those where he was among the contestants he was near the top. Becker la a crack all-around I marksman and holds records for j r;lass hall shooting while astride a ' horse galloping at a fast clip-DODOS clip-DODOS SECOND The - id gunner in th.- officials handicap list Is Syd L. Dodds, the 'southern trapshootlng Impressaiia who ' ih" way of pastime, annually - - a tournament In bis home city, Clarkadale, Miss, in 1&20 the "Sd Iodds Shoot" had more than 4uo en-Ctles, en-Ctles, sportsmen traveling from all ' parts of the United States and Canada Can-ada to shoot in Clarksdale. Dodds I last year shot at 600 handicap tar-gel tar-gel . 200 from 19 yards and the remainder re-mainder from 17 yards; his average was .93S3. Dave Fauskee of "VN'orthlngton. 1 Minn., third on the list, average .930 on 500 targets and won the" Great Lakes Zone handicap ovent. Ho shot 200 from the 22 yard line, and 30 i from 21 yards. Fauakee is at pre.sont the American Amateur doubles oham- pion, C. B. Piatt, Cridgeton. X. J.. a form-) er American doubles target champion, proved his ability to break targets by; v. i'lninc, fourth pcsltion in 1921 in tho' bandlcap list He averaged 93ti on 6tn) targets, BO from 23 ard and the 11 ' it from 22 yard. M. L. D'ox. Emery S. D.. who divided his time between the IS and 19 yard marks is plat ed fifth, his average on 500 tar- gc! l.r jriff .936M. 17KUSU L PERFORM 1 ; Perhaps the most unusual distance handicap performance of the year is credited to Frank M. Tresh, a tropshot Who has won many titles and average aver-age honors and who resides at Vancouver. Van-couver. Wash He pointed his no'. gun .it 1625 registered targc-t He 81 1 on the limit mark. 28 yards, to break 1044x1100 among his "victories being iirst pla- e in the Pacific Coasr 1 Zone handicap race. From 22 yards Tresh shot at 625 targets. His average aver-age on 1,625 targets was 3323. C. A. Gunning. Longmont, Colo.j Itood at L'.l yards every tlmo he shot ' registered targets and yet on the! 660 largets he averaged .9200. Gunning Gun-ning is the man w ho broke 1 73x1 75 hoot off from IS yards at the Grand American Handicap tournament and' then iost to Ben Meontz, Ashkum. 111.,! who shattered 184. Art Rls-ser. Paris. 111., the 1921 winner win-ner of the high .Bverage on registered! 16 yard slngl targets with .9789 per -em proved that he also know? how. to break handicap targets from the' g at 100 from 2? yards and 300 from 22 yards, Riier' averaged .9251. |