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Show BOOST FOR SHOOTING SPORT Placing of Women on Even Terms With Men Has Helped Game Sousa Expresses Opinion. John Philip Sousa, the band leader, Is an enthusiastic trap shooter. When asked his opinion on women taking up the sport, he said : "Women are finding trap shooting even more enjoyable than golf, tennis and the other games they now play. In the shotgun game she Is not classified classi-fied as a woman. She Is not segregated segre-gated from the men. She meets men shooters on an equal fooling, ami there is nothing that pleases her more than to beat her lord and master at. his ow n game. Indeed, women have so far advanced ad-vanced in trap shooting that they will be permitted to enter tlie Ornnd American Amer-ican handicap this year. "Shooting makes a woman agile and alert. I have shot at. the traps with many women, and never have I seen an ungraceful one who used a shotgun well." |