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Trapshooting is the only U. S. sport in which amateurs win cash while professionals get cups. Last week 1,000 of the 7,000,000 U. S. residents who took out hunting licenses this year toted their shotguns to Vandalia, ten miles north of Dayton, Ohio. The birds they were after were clay pigeons. The occasion was the No. 1 trapshooting event of the year: the Grand American Tournament...
...Grand American Handicap, trap-shooting's No. i event, with a score of 100 straight targets from the 19-yd. line; in his first championship tournament, upholding the tradition that an "unknown from nowhere'' usually wins the title, never held twice by the same person; at Vandalia, Ohio. Tied for second place were eleven gunners, who broke 99 out of 100, a score which would have been good enough to win 31 of the previous 37 annual tournaments...
...halls, adding their drawled excitement to the bustle and clank of an authentic oil boom. Farmers had their first intimation of it early last year when Chicago's great Pure Oil Co. started methodically buying oil rights on acre after acre in the country east and south of Vandalia...
...quarter-century when the State's oil production dwindled from a peak of 33,000,000 barrels in 1910 to a scant 4,000,000 last year in the old pumping grounds near the Indiana border. Most active of the new fields is the Patoka pool south of Vandalia, where a smart, young Texas company, Adams Oil & Gas, got in first and now has more than half of the 20 producing wells. Richest potential producer is Pure Oil Co., locally known as "The Pure," which brought in the well on Bunyan Travis' farm and now holds oil rights...
...Vandalia, Ill., a missing steel bridge over the Kaskaskia River was found in a junkyard, whither it had been carted after dismantling by a dealer who said he bought it from a nearby farmer...