Word: skeet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glen B. Watts of Lynbrook, L. I. has often broken 25 skeet targets in a row but he never enjoyed doing it so much as last week, when he was firing in the last round of the Great Eastern Individual Championship at Lordship, Conn. It was a dark, blustering day. Frank Trager of Roseland, N. J. and Ollie Mitchell of Waltham, Mass, had contrived to run up creditable strings of 96 out of 100. With 73 targets already broken-in strings of 25, 23, 25-Watts knew that he needed a 23 to tie, a 24 to win. Moving slowly...
William Harnden Foster, editor of National Sportsman and Hunting and Fishing, claims credit for inventing skeet, in 1925. But as early as 1910 the late C. E. Davies and other Ballard Vale, Mass, gunners, Editor Foster among them, had hit on its basic idea. Ordinary trapshooting, with the gunner firing always from the same position, seemed too static to them. They wanted something more like real hunting. On the grounds of the Glen Rock Kennels they traced a great circle, set up a trap outside it, then moved around the circle potting the flying targets from all angles...
...tell the world about it-chiefly because he wanted to boom the arms & ammunition business, get more advertising into his magazines. In February 1926 he launched a nation-wide promotional campaign, offered $100 for a name. The money went to a Montana rancher's wife who suggested "skeet," an obsolete word, probably Scandinavian, meaning "to shoot...
There are now more than 800 skeet clubs with some 20,000 male & female skeeters in the U. S. and nine other countries. Twenty-six state associations in the U. S. are governed by a National Skeet Shooting Association, Inc. which publishes a monthly Skeet Shooting News (circulation, 1,500) patterned vaguely after TIME. Many U. S. sporting magazines carry a skeet department. Enthusiasts estimate 18,000,000 shotgun shells burned at skeet last year. Twenty-six state and some 20 intersectional shoots culminate yearly in the Great Eastern States and National Telegraphic Championships staged by the Remington Gun Club...