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right—if your co-ordination was work¬ 
ing, a black ink spot on the atmosphere 
registers your kill and you experience a 
regular lily pad-black bass thrill. If you 
miss—well, it’s like a backlash and the 
more uncanny things you say under your 
breath the more human you are. 
It isn’t deemed wise to put all of one’s 
eggs in the same basket and if you are 
inclined to be a one-sport sportsman, 
perchance allowing golf, tennis, fishing 
or the canoe to suffice, better give trap¬ 
shooting a try-out. It is there that you 
will find a spine-stiffening sport, con¬ 
ducive to health both mental and physi¬ 
cal and for companions the finest lot 
of he men that the continent produces. 
T HE Grand American Handicap Tour¬ 
nament for 1918, the largest trap¬ 
shooting event of the world, will be 
held in Chicago and at the South Shore 
Country Club. 
This choice of location is one which 
will be enthusiastically approved by all 
who attend the 1918 Handicap, for every 
participant and spectator will testify that 
he was royally welcomed and entertained 
by this great club of this great metrop¬ 
olis at the foot of the lakes. 
Chicago is always interesting, but this 
summer it will be more interesting than 
ever. In addition to the usual attractions 
of huge stores, stockyards, wholesale 
houses, giant office buildings, brilliant 
theatres, beautiful parks, lake excursions, 
bathing beaches, its Lincoln Park Zoo, 
and dozens of other features, there is the 
fascinating atmosphere of the war about 
the city. 
Situated only a few miles from the 
Great Lakes Naval Training Station, the 
streets are always full of “Jackies” on 
leave and the wonderful Jackie Band led 
by Lieut John Philip Sousa is often seen 
in parades and concerts. Fort Sheridan 
with its thousands of soldiers is even 
•closer. Boys in khaki by the hundred 
pass through Chicago every day on their 
way to or from their cantonments. Offi¬ 
cers from the rank of General down, 
brush elbows with visitors in hotels and 
clubs and always there are many French, 
Belgian and English officers and army 
men in the city on recruiting missions 
or sent here to recuperate from wounds. 
There are frequent opportunities to hear 
these men direct from the fighting front, 
tell of their experiences. 
The 67 acres of ground around are 
dotted with other fine buildings and are 
as handsomely kept as any park; they 
contain golf links, bathing beaches, and 
facilities for tennis, horseback riding and 
other sports beside trapshooting, which 
is, of course, one of the chief pastimes 
of the two thousand and more members. 
The general headquarters of the Grand 
There is always some one ready to ad¬ 
vise the beginner. This time the re¬ 
doubtable Jack Fanning is coaching a 
newcomer in fundamental principles. 
It can truthfully be said that visitors 
last year were amazed at the beauty and 
completeness of the South Shore Coun¬ 
try Club grounds and buildings. On en¬ 
tering the Club House one is impressed 
with the magnificence of the architecture 
and furnishings. The main building is 
550 feet, or nearly two blocks long, cov¬ 
ering a ground area of 90,000 square feet, 
and has every possible equipment for 
pleasure and convenience — including 
dining rooms, ball rooms, sleeping apart¬ 
ments, library, billiard room, immense 
hallways and lounging rooms, a colossal 
kitchen and wonderful draperies and 
other furnishings aggregating a cost in 
all totaling over $500,000 for the building 
and contents. 
American Handicap will be in the 
Club’s shooting lodge, which is at the 
north end of the grounds adjoining 
Jackson ark and is convenient access 
by street car, railroad or automobile. 
Strung along the lake for almost a 
half mile will be the traps and other 
equipment necessary for the meet. As 
was the case last year, the targets will 
be thrown out over the water, thus 
providing the perfect sky background 
unbroken by trees or buildings which 
makes for high scores and close con¬ 
tests. The club has made every ar¬ 
rangement for the convenience and 
comfort of its guests during the shoot 
and the different events are scheduled 
to be run off in the same perfect way as 
characterized the 1917 Handicap. 
Visitors can find reasonable priced ac¬ 
commodations at the club or at nearby 
hotels in the vicinity of the grounds or 
in the heart of the city itself. The Illi¬ 
nois Central Railroad furnishes the most 
frequent and rapid transportation of any 
suburban service in the world, and one 
may sleep in the famous loop district, 
eat breakfast at some well-known res¬ 
taurant, and reach the grounds in. plenty 
of time for the first shot on any day’s 
program, and yet not be hurried. 
Since every trapshooter is a potential 
defender of this country, Chicago will be 
doubly glad this year to welcome the 
best gun experts from every section of 
the United States. 
A sport that can be indulged in most any place and any time 
T HE invasion of France by goodly 
numbers of the finest specimens 
of American manhood, each and 
every one quite intent on feeding the 
Kaiser’s co-workers a plentiful supply 
of American lead, recalls the invasion 
of England by a band of American 
shooters in 1901, but this band was not 
in a war-like mood. 
It was the idea of the shooters who 
journeyed to England 16 years ago to 
wise up the Britishers on some angles 
of the shooting game they had no 
knowledge of—and they did—just as 
the young men of to-day are going to 
enlighten the followers of Wilhelm. 
It was a classy gang of gun pointers 
that invaded England and it is a classy 
gang of gun pointers now in France. 
General Pershing is the leader of the 
present force, while Paul North was 
the leader of the army of 1901. North 
discovered that the British were 
anxious to meet a team of American 
trapshooters and North with Tom 
Marshall made arrangements with 
Captain Butts for the overseas trip. 
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