Forest and Stream is an Honorary Member of the Interstate Association for the Promotion of Trapshooting. 
Pacific Coast Trap Shooting Tournament 
By Our Special Correspondent. 
San Diego, California. 
The Interstate Association’s Tenth Pacific 
Coast Trapshooting Tournament was held at San 
Diego, California, July 8, 9 and 10, under the 
auspices of the Pastime Gun Club. 
The Tournament was originally scheduled to be 
held on July 5, 6 and 7, as these dates fit in 
nicely with two other tournaments on the Pacific 
Slope. The dates were changed at the request 
of the Pastime Gun Club, the request being made 
by said club on the strength of a telegram received 
by it from Dayton, Ohio, stating that fifty shoot¬ 
ers in a special train would arrive in San Diego 
on the morning of July 7, and asking that the 
dates of the tournament be changed accordingly. 
Contrary to the advice of The Interstate Associa¬ 
tion to investigate the situation closely before 
making any change, the club requested that the 
dates be made July 8, 9 and 10, and the associa¬ 
tion acquiesced. Much to the disappointment of 
the officers and members of the club, not one 
Eastern amateur put in an appearance, and as at 
least three California men were kept from par¬ 
ticipating in the tournament by reason of the 
dates being changed, the local management were 
somewhat outspoken in their denunciation of 
those responsible for the situation. The “San 
Diego Union,” the local morning paper, referred 
to the matter in a decidedly uncomplimentary 
manner, and the “fifty shooters from the East” 
came in for sarcastic comment on numerous oc¬ 
casions, during the progress of the tournament. 
Practice Day, July 7. 
A dark horse pranced into the glare at the 
opening session'of the Tenth Pacific Coast Trap¬ 
shooting Tournament. Unheralded, unsung and 
without a suspicion that he had a look-in, Dr. 
R. N. Fuller of Tulare, California, rambled out 
to the firing line and rambled back again with 
100 clean breaks to his credit, high gun in the 
century practice string that opened the big tour¬ 
nament. 
The doctor arrived at trap five with 80 straight 
and then the crowd wised that the midnight steed 
had arrived and had an outside chance to dash 
under the wire a winner. Down the firing line, 
from peg to peg, Dr. Fuller pointed, each shot 
bringing the welcome call, “Dead!” When the 
last target was thrown, the Tulare medicine man 
calmly kicked the tar out of it and the trick 
was turned—100 straight for a genuine amateur; 
his really and truly first in his whole life. Con¬ 
gratulations were showered on the physician, who 
accepted his sudden honors with modest de¬ 
meanor, but with supreme joy shining in his eyes. 
Toney Prior, of San Francisco, a hard shoot¬ 
ing, genial little hombre, was first to “show” 
with a chance for high honors, his 96 looking 
rosy to a few uninitiated, but his chance faded into 
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