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...traps, each manned by a corps of trap loaders, pullers, referees, scorers, with expert accountants in the manager's office to keep track of scores. After a week of minor events, Vandalia's shooters gathered last week for the biggest prizes in the two oldest events, the Preliminary Grand American Handicap and, a day later, the Grand American Handicap proper...
Only a half-dozen first-rate marksmen?men who consistently break more than 95 out of 100 targets?have won the Grand American. No one has ever won it more than once. In the huge field?722 last week?high-class shooters have an almost insuperable handicap in firing from as far away as 25 yd., 9 yd. farther than those with the lowest ratings. Last week, Rev. Garrison Roebuck, United Brethren minister of Defiance, Ohio who won last year, finished with a wretched 71. A heavy rain made the visibility so poor that from time to time all firing...
Strings of 100, common enough in other events, are almost unheard of in the Grand American. When Arthur E. Sheffield, railway postal clerk of Dixon. Ill., firing from 21 yd., broke 98 out of 100 last week he felt fairly confident about it. An experienced trapshooter but hitherto unfamed, he started shooting in 1912, gave it up in disgust at his inefficiency in 1917, started to shoot again four years ago. Last year he won his first big tournament, the Illinois State Handicap. Last week, after waiting for several other shooters who knew his posted score to crack when they...
Legend says that once a youth of the Snake Clan, one Tiyo, forbidden to marry a clanswoman he loved, went away to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and plunged into the rushing water. He was swept into the underground realm of the immortal Snake people. He fell in love with one of their women, but when he embraced her, she and all the underground Snake people turned into real snakes. This did not dismay valiant Tiyo; so the snakes became people again and Tiyo took his bride back to his tribe on the mesa. But all of their offspring...
...Scripps and Editor Charles E. Lounsbury of the Rocky Mountain News for libel. He sued not because of any mean things said by the News, but because of things which the News said had been said by Walter Walker, retiring Democratic State Chairman and hard-hitting publisher of the Grand Junction Sentinel. Chairman Walker had made a speech in behalf of Governor William H. Adams before the Jane Jefferson Club, women's political organization, in Denver's rococo Brown Palace Hotel. Part of his speech, as reported by the News, charged the Post and Publisher Bonfils with foully...