Word: trapshooting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no particular prejudice against an 18-year-old girl who enters a national trapshooting contest. But she is not supposed to win. In the Grand American Trapshoot at Vandalia, Ohio last week, to the utter consternation of a 98% male field, one of them did just that...
...earned the right to compete in the champion-of-champions event when Florida Champion Clyde Wells was unable to make the trip. Joan was runner-up to Wells this year. Her coach, Fred Etchen, once a pupil of the great Annie Oakley and captain of the 1924 U.S. Olympic trapshoot team, was inclined to regard Joan's Annie Oakley feat as a fluke. "It wouldn't happen again in a thousand years," he said. In the 51 years of the Grand American Trapshoot, certainly, nothing like it had ever happened before...