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...doubles, paired with Keith Gledhill, against Allison and John Van Ryn, U. S. champions. ¶ Fred Tomlin, professional trapshooter of Glassboro. N. J.: the Open Championship in the Grand American trapshooting tournament; with a perfect score of 200 targets at a 16-yd. rise; at Vandalia. Ohio. Frank Troeh of Portland, Ore. won the shoot-off for second place against three other shooters who had tied with...
...Garrison Roebuck, United Brethren Minister of McClure, Ohio: the Grand American Handicap of the Amateur Trapshooting Association; at Vandalia, Ohio. Shooting at clay pigeons for the tenth time in his life, Trapshooter Roebuck broke 96 out of a 100 at 17 yards, won the shoot-off against Fred Harlow of Newark, Ohio and Ray F. Willbaum of Greenville, Ohio. He was awarded a silver replica of the A. Bennett Gates trophy, on which his name will be engraved; a $600 tea set; and $1,000 in cash...
...Steve Crothers, trapshooting champion of Pennsylvania: a shoot against the champions of 40 other states, the canal zone, and Alberta; by breaking 200 consecutive birds, as he had done in winning his state championship; at Vandalia, Ohio...
...Clyde Mitchell, Milwaukee professional trapshooter: the World's Open Championship, at Vandalia, Ohio. In the final, Champion Mitchell and runner-up Joe Heistand, state singles champion of Ohio, each broke 199 out of 200 birds. In the shoot-off, Champion Mitchell broke 50, Runner-up Heistand...
...Vandalia, Ohio, three Ohio men and a Texas boy tied ahead of 962 other contestants, with 97 birds out of 100, for the country's most important trapshooting championship - the Grand American Handicap. The men, taut-faced, middleaged, were J. L. Scott and Dan Casey of Toledo and Lawrence Crampton of Dayton. The boy, least nervous of the four, was Alfred Rufus King Jr. of Wichita Falls, son of famed Marksman Rufus A. King, 1921 winner of the Governor's cup. Short and slender for his 14 years, he looked out of place beside his competitors as they...