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JuLy 6, 1907.] FORBoOrPFAND STREAM’. 




A SWEEPING VICTORY 
When the smoke had cleared away from the five hundred guns of the Chicago Grand 
American Handicap Tournament, June 18-21, the grand prize 
THE GRAND AMERICAN HANDICAP 
the chief event and coveted honor of the tournament around which all other events were 
grouped and for which the foremost trap shooters of the country gathered in competition, 
was won by Mr. J. J. Blanks, of Tennessee, with 


scoring 96 ex 1oo and 18 ex 20 on the shoot-off. He shot Nitro Club Shells and a 
Remington Autoloading Shotgun from 17 yards. This was not all. The 
Preliminary Handicap 
was won by George L. Lyon, of North Carolina, 96 per cent., with U. M. C. Arrow Shells 
from 19 yards. 
State Team Event 
Three of the five members of the winning “Illinois Team No. 3” shot U. M. C. Shells. 
In the Grand American Handicap there were U. M. C. winners in the first, second, 
fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh moneys. These were Messrs. Blanks, 96 per cent. ; Bolton, 
Poepeccit, setiuehesso5 per cent; Willard; 93 per cent.; Knuessel, 93 per cent.: 
Townsend, 92 per cent.; Blunt, 92 per cent.; Allen, 92 per cent.; Adams, 91 per cent.:; 
Dunnill, 91 per cent.; Plank, 91 per cent.; McCarty, gi per cent.; Park, 90 per cent; 
Anthony, go per cent. 
No Other Averages, Championships or Honors Can be Compared with These Wins 
Il of POG 18 Grand American Handicaps hawe been won by V.M.C. 
Shells. Does it pay to shoot them? 
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Agency, New York City. 



