FOREST AND STREAM 
875 
Forest and Stream is an Honorary Member of the Interstate Association for the Promotion of Trapshooting. 
ALL-AMERICAN TRAPSHOOTING TEAMS. 
By Peter P. Carney. 
Some few weeks ago several writers broke forth with 
selections of All-Eastern and All-Western trapshooting 
teams, and in the main these teams were chosen from 
the highest ten men from each section in the averages. 
Very few writers differed on the teams—but in picking 
a representative team of the nation there will be quite 
a difference of opinion, so the writer goes to it first 'to 
give all the others a chance to shoot his team to pieces 
—if they can. 
Here are the teams—ten amateur and the same num¬ 
ber of professionals, teams which if combined could de¬ 
feat any twenty trapshooters on the face of the globe: 
AMATEURS. 
Shooter Place from Shot at Broke P. C. 
Henderson, Lexington, Ky. 2,800 2,731 97.53 
Huntley, Chicago, 111 . 3>9oo 3,775 96.79 
Wright, Buffalo, N. Y. 3,455 3,333 96.46 
Ridley, What Cheer, la.2,300 2,215 96.30 
Jahn, Davenport, la.2,100 2,019 96.14 
Richardson, Dover, Del. 3,480 3,329 95.66 
Behm, Easterly, Pa.4,285 4,098 95.63 
Graper, Custer Park, Ill. 3,480 3,328 95.63 
Ftord, Wilmington, Del.2,805 2,689 95-54 
Newcomb, Philadelphia, Pa.4,600 4,385 95.32 
Totals . 33,205 31,893 96.04 
PROFESSIONALS. 
Spencer, St. Louis, Mo. 5,620 5,480 97.50 
German, Aberdeen, Md. 4,550 4,433 97.42 
Reid, Seattle, Wash. 2,550 2,482 97.33 
Yeung, Springfield, 0 . 3,415 3,319 97.18 
Killiam, St. Louis, Mo. 5,520 5,364 97.17 
Gibbs, Union City, Tenn. 3,000 2,898 96.60 
Clark, Alton, Ill. 3,880 3,743 96.47 
Crosby, O’Fallon, Ill. 4,050 3,906 96.44 
Taylor, Newark, 0 . 3,755 3,620 96.40 
Lewis, Auburn, Ill. 2,625 2,528 96.30 
Totals .38,965 37,273 96.17 
These figures quite naturally show the professionals 
to be the better shots, but the margin is extremely 
slight. No amateur was seleoted who had shot at less 
than 2,100 targets, and no professional who had shot 
at less than 2,500 targets. The amateurs shot at 33,205 
targets and missed 1,312 of that number. The profes¬ 
sionals fired at 38,965 targets, and of 'that number missed 
connections on but 1,692. Team averages of the ama¬ 
teurs give them 96.04, while the professionals have a 
team average of 96.17. 
Some one of these days there will be a competition 
between just such teams as the ones selected above. It 
would be interesting if such a contest could be staged 
in the immediate future, but of course, there isn’t much 
likelihood of such a thing this season. 
In connection with the teams there are several little 
things that are also worth mentioning. Woolfolk Hen¬ 
derson, the leading amateur shot, had an average of 
96.63 last year, one less in every hundred than his 
record of this year. Spencer, who leads the pro’s, 
had an average of 96.33 in 1914, so he also bettered his 
mark one in a 100 over the year previous. Newcomb, 
the amateur handicap champion, has the lowest average 
of the ten amateur shooters, yet there are many who 
think he is the best amateur gun in the land. 
Little Delaware furnished two of the ten amateurs 
seleoted. Pennsylvania, with its 500 gun clubs, couldn’t 
furnish more than that in the select gathering. Both 
are amateurs. St. Louis, Mo., furnished two of the ten 
professionals shots. It is a noticeable fact that few 
of the real good trapshots come from the large cities. 
THE PINEHURST TRAPSHOOTING 
TOURNAMENT. 
When the Pinehurst (N. C.) Country Club announced 
its first, midwinter handcap trapshooting tournament 
nine years ago, but a handful of entries was secured. 
At that the club thought it was doing well. Now at 
the rate the tournament is growing the Pinehurst Club 
will have to build a couple of new hotels to take care 
of the shooters and their friends. 
From a sprinkling of shooters the meet has grown 
until at the recent fixture there were 137 actual con¬ 
testants, representing 29 States, including Canada and 
Nova Scotia, Maine and California. One hundred and 
twenty-five of the shooters were amateurs. In the 
tournament matches 74,300 targets were thrown, and 
in the week’s shooting 130,000 targets were discharged 
from the traps. Very few, if any, of the 1916 tourna¬ 
ments will go above that number. 
This, like all other important competitions uncovered 
a dark horse. W. G. Ramsey, of Plymouth, O., was 
the winner of the handicap, breaking 95 targets from 
17 yards. He tied with R. L. Spotts, of the New York 
Athletic Club. In the shoot-off Ramsey broke 25 straight. 
The preliminary handicap was won by Charles H. New¬ 
comb, the Pennsylvania State and American amateur 
champion. Newcomb also won the general average 
trophy at 800 targets, breaking 759. J. R. Jahn won the 
general average trophy at 600 targets with 578 breaks. 
Other trophy winners in the preliminary handicap 
were B. A. Whrlick, S. S. Foster, A. B. Shobe and W. 
J. Stoddard, and the trophy winners in the midwinter 
handicap were W. H. Yule, R. L. Spotts, F. P. Wil¬ 
liams and H. J. Burlington. The best shooting of the 
tournament was done by J. M. Hawkins, the profes¬ 
sional, who broke 584 out of 600 thrown targets, having 
193 x 200, 196 x 200, 98 x 100, 95 x 100. The best run for 
an amateur was by D. L. Culver, the winner of the 
Lakewood handicap, who broke 126 straight, finishing 
up his string the first day. This run gave him 194 
out of 200, but it wasn’t enough. 
