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...Marksmen Ed Wylie, of New York City, and S. L. Hutcheson, of Greenwich, Conn.: the North American .20-gauge and all-bore skeet championships, respectively; from a field of 114 shooters at the Remington Gun Club, Lordship, Conn. Both broke 100 straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Antonio's Charles H. Poulton, 41 : the national all-gauge skeet championship; outshooting 28-year-old Alex Kerr of California in a 175-bird shoot-off, after each had broken 250 straight in the regular event; at Indianapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 18, 1941 | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...Montana sportsman. He is daft about guns (his favorite: a .22 Hornet with a German telescope sight). His mind is encyclopedic as to velocities, trajectories. He and "Rocky"-Mrs. Cooper-hunt coyotes and bobcats together in the mountains near Malibu. In 1939 she won the California Women's Skeet Shooting Championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Coop | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

Dick Shaughnessy is known as bit of a miracle. Nine months after he shouldered his first shotgun, he smashed 313 consecutive birds in recognized skeet tournaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Skeeters | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...following year, at 14, he floored the skeet fraternity by winning the national all-gauge championship with 248 out of 250. Since then, he has won more titles than any other skeeter. Last year he averaged .9910 out of 1,000 in tournament shoots, highest average ever recorded. No one has ever bettered his long-run record: 564 straight targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Skeeters | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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