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...Major event of the Grand American Trapshoot, official name for the whole program of events at Vandalia, is the Grand American Handicap, in which anyone with a registered handicap may enter to shoot from a line measured off from the traps at a distance corresponding to his rating. The Grand American has never been won twice by the same shooter, rarely by a shooter of national reputation. Last week's was no exception...
...shoot-off. Winner was a 51 -year-old Seabord Air Line Railway conductor from Tallahassee, Fla., named Jordan B. Royall. No novice, Royall has been shooting for nine years, has been a Florida champion for four of the last five. Nonetheless, partly because he had never entered the Grand American before, few shooters at Vandalia knew who he was until, firing from 20 yd., he broke 98 targets out of the first 100 to tie Sam G. Vance of Tillsonburg, Ont. The rest of the field and 1,000 or so spectators gathered behind the backs...
...French Legion of Honor; in Paris. Upon Albert Feugas, waiter at Galatoire's Restaurant, New Orleans, was bestowed the rank of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for his World War Service, which included five wounds. To His Eminence William Henry Cardinal O'Connell of Boston was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, highest honor of the French Republic...
...thoroughbreds, which lacked stamina for long distances in harness, with a strain of small but tough Canadian mares, the U. S. trotting horse was gradually evolved until it neared perfection with Hambletonian X, foaled at Chester, near Goshen, in 1849. In 1873. a group of Eastern sportsmen organized the Grand Circuit, which became to trotting what the major leagues are to baseball. The Grand Circuit, a series of meetings on mile tracks, last year included eight cities, this year nine (Toledo, Cleveland, Toronto, Salem, N. H., Goshen, Springfield, Ill., Syracuse, Indianapolis, Lexington, Ky.). There are 200 minor circuits...
...which Goldsmith Maid reached her prime seems strange, the age of trotting-horse drivers seems stranger still. Most sports have one "grand old man," but trotting contains almost no other kind and a driver with less than 20 years experience is rarely seen on first-rate tracks. Famed Pop Geers was only one of many who drove for more than 50 years. Trotting drivers ordinarily start as stable boys, work slowly upward through the stages of being grooms, second-trainers, and finally trainer-drivers with public stables of their own. Most good drivers train the horses which they drive. They...