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good effect that H. J. Pendergast, Mark 
Arie and C. D. Coburn of Mechanicsburg, 
Ohio, only skipped one target each. The 
preliminary handicap in the afternoon 
lived up to the name of handicap most 
nobly; or so the distance men thought, for 
the best three of them handed in a 92 
apiece. The three-cornered tie was just 
what was needed to give the proper trap¬ 
shooting atmosphere, and Messrs. Mc¬ 
Mahon, Heil and Andrews who had each 
plucked a 92 out of the wind came up to 
the score as a most fitting climax for the 
day’s doings. McMahon carried off the 
honors in the first heat with 4 19 x 20. 
The best weather and the big day ar¬ 
rived together. Friday morning four men. 
each with a 79 x 80, headed a long list of 
78s, and, as it would seem, most honorably 
paved the way for the big afternoon event. 
A11 average $f 154 contestants shot through 
the four days’ program, and of them Ira 
Galbraith, of West Frankfort, Ill., was 
crowned king of the midwinter handicap, 
the star event. It was shot on Friday 
afternoon and won with a score of 97 x 
100 from 21 yards. The winner went 
straight on his last 25. Besides the honor, 
the winner’s work in this half day of 
pleasure paid him $350. 
. A good many stayed over Saturday to 
hear the last gun, and of these C. B. Platt 
and S. M. Crothers went straight on the 
80 targets of the morning program. In the 
afternoon E. Doerken of Paterson, N. J., 
shooting from the 19-yard peg, won, the 
consolation handicap with 95 x 100. 
NAVY TO PARTICIPATE IN 
GRAND AMERICAN HANDICAP. 
By George L. Buguey. 
W ITHOUT question the Interstate As¬ 
sociation for the Encouragement of 
Trapshooting made “a straight run” 
when it announced that the winner of the 
trapshooting championship of the Atlantic 
Fleet, U. S. N., which is held every spring 
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be allowed 
to enter the trapshooting classic—the Grand 
American Handicap, and slyoot for the na¬ 
tional amateur championship. 
Up to the recent announcement men¬ 
tioned above the national championship 
event has been for State champions only, 
which, of course, brought together the best 
shots in the country, but now that the men 
of the Navy have taken up the “sport al¬ 
luring,” and as their scores will show have 
become quite proficient in the shoot ’em 
high, shoot ’em low game, their champion 
will be an added attraction to this already 
most important event. 
It is said that the men in the Navy have 
at times complained that they have been 
unaffle to take part in the various State 
championships on account of always being 
somewhere else when these shoots take 
place, consequently , through Paymaster 
Williams, who is the present champion of 
the Navy in this particular sport, presented 
a request to the Inter-State Association to 
be allowed to enter their champion against 
the State champions. While this is of 
course somewhat of a new departure the 
Navy champion will be welcomed with 
open arms and here is the wish of the 
writer—May he come through. 
It may be of interest to the lover of the 
pull, bang, dead game to know that at the 
present time there are no less than one 
thousand trapshooters in the Navy of your 
Uncle Samuel and that at least twelve of 
the big ships support flourishing clubs 
whose main idea is to break the clays. 
Why should not the Army champion be 
invited to compete? The more the merrier. 
According to Peter P. Carney, the trap¬ 
shooting scribe, Iowa leads in the number 
of trapshooting clubs formed during the 
past year and also takes the plum for hold¬ 
ing more registered shoots than any other 
State in the Union. Following the figures 
of the above mentioned scribe the States 
of Iowa, Pennsylvania and Illinois held 
over fifty registered tournaments during 
the year, the Buckeye State having fifty- 
six to its credit, Illinois fifty-five, and 
Pennsylvania fifty-two. The last men¬ 
tioned State having only thirty-eight dur¬ 
ing 1915. The following figures prepared 
by Mr. Carney tell the tale of the advance 
in this ever-popular sport better than all 
the stories ever written: 
State 
1916 1915 
State 1916 1915 
Iowa . 
..56 
29 
Mass. 
5 
5 
Illinois . 
32 
Montana . 
5 
2 
Pennsylvania 
..52 
38 
Utah . 
5 
4 
New York.... 
..26 
18 
New Tersey ... 
4 
5 
Indiana . 
..24 
14 
Oregon . 
4 
5 
Minnesota ... 
..22 
9 
New Hamp. 
4 
3 
Nebraska .... 
..19 
10 
N. Carolina_ 
4 
1 
Missouri . 
..18 
14 
Mississippi .... 
4 
2 
Kansas . 
..18 
12 
Cuba and Canal 
Ohio . 
..17 
. 15 
Zone . 
3 
0 
Wisconsin ... 
..17 
8 
Arizona . 
3 
2 
Canada . 
..16 
11 
Wyoming . 
3 
3 
Kentucky .... 
4 
Delaware . 
3 
5 
Oklahoma 
..10 
5 
Georgia . 
3 
2 
Maryland .. • ■ 
..10 
6 
Idaho . 
3 
1 
California 
.. 9 
8 
Louisiana . 
2 
2 
South Dak.... 
.. 8 
4 
Florida . 
2 
0 
Virginia . 
.. 8 
8 
Rhode Island.. 
2 
0 
North Dak... 
.. 8 
1 
Vermont . 
2 
2 
Michigan .... 
.. 8 
5 
Alabama . 
2 
1 
Arkansas .... 
.. 8 
5 
Texas .. 
2 
1 
Connecticut 
.. 7 
6 
D. of Col. 
1 
1 
Washington . 
.. 6 
4 
Maine . 
1 
1 
Tennessee ... 
.. 5 
5 
New Mexico... 
1 
1 
West Va. 
.. 5 
5 
S. Carolina. 
1 
1 
Colorado . 
.. 5 
4 
CLOSE SCORES AT P1NEHURST. 
Twenty-one guns took part in the handi¬ 
cap trapshooting contest at Pinehurst the 
week of February 23, and five of them tied 
for first honors at a net of ico each, the 
five being C. A. Magoon, Pittsburgh; G. M. 
Howard, Halifax; C. T. Crocker, Fitch¬ 
burg; Jay Hall, Lansing; and J. H. An¬ 
drews, of Akron. 
Three shoot-offs were required to settle 
the winning, Hall being eliminated on the 
first attempt and Howard and Andrews 
falling out at the second, G. A. Magoon 
and C. T. Crocker finding themselves tied 
again for first prize with one miss each. 
Swift falling darkness interfered with first- 
class marksmanship in the final shoot-off, 
and Magoon’s 22 was good enough to win. 
G. M. Howard did the best shooting in 
the contest proper, breaking 92, with Par¬ 
ker Whittemore, of Brookline, second, at 
90. 
During the past fiscal year there were 
constructed on the national forests 227 
miles of new road, 1,975 miles of trails, 
2,124 miles of telephone line, 89 miles of 
fire lines, 81 lookout structures, 40 bridges, 
222 miles of fence, 545 dwellings, barns and 
other structures, 17 corrals, and 202 water 
improvements. 
