TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND. SEPTEMBER 7, 1919.
SEIVEY BRIGHT tIGHT
AMONG TRAPSHOOTERS
Oregon Champion Likely to
Win Place on Olympic Team.
SEASON'S RECORD IS HIGH
for
Po-iblc Membership on Team
J20 Spurs Amateur Shooters to
Make Excellent Marks.
James W. Seavcy. trap.shootins
(hamplon of Oregon, is giving sratter
irun artists throughout the United
States a great run to be amons the
first ten shooters in this country, who
will get the opportunity to represent
America In the lSl'O Olympic (tames. At
the annual meeting of the heads of
the American trpshootin(t .-ssociation
veveral months ago it was decided that
the ten htsrh average men this year
would compose the team to the Olympic
frames. The percentages are based on
aul registered targets shot at.
Jim Seavey has attended every regis
tered shoot that he could possibly make
this year. Including the grand Ameri
can handicap, and In every case has
turned In exceptionally good scores,
good enough in fact to kerp him up in
the blue ribbon class so far this year.
Unless his shooting should fall off de
cidedly within the next few months or
some of the other trapshots should
make a great spurt Seavcy is practi
cally certain to be one of the ten
American shooters to make the trip to
Antwerp. Belgium, next year.
Possible membership on the trap
shooting team is spurring the amateur
(hooters to better shooting than ever
before In the history of the game. In
the averages received on 1250 targets
or more the first 50 shooters have an
average of about 95 per cent or better,
with 17 of them ranging 98 per cent,
or better and five 'over 97 per cent.
Avowed candidates for the team are
Jim Seavey. Sam Sharman of Salt Lake
City, and' Frank M. Troeh of Vancouver.
Wash., who shoots under the colors of
the Portland Gun club. Troeh is in
his usual place at the top. with an
average of .9750. Not only has Troeh
the best average but he has shot at
the greatest number of targets. In
shooting at 4350 clay pigeons the Van-
couver wizard has dropped only 104.
With a number of the members of
the Portland Gun club on their way
home from the annual Pacific Indians
shoot at Lake Crescent. Wash., some
thing In the line of special tournaments
can be looked for within the next few
weeks. Nothing outside of a 50-target
practice event is billed for the Port
land Gun club today.
During the first six months of the
year more than 4000 persons were given
Instruction in trapshooting at the
school on the million-dollar pier at
Atlantic City. This was an increase of
over 1000 from the corresponding half
of the previous year. Of the patrons
of the school more than half were
novices. No record of the scores made
is available, but it is said that, con
sidering the bathing widows and other
distractions they were creditable in the
extreme.
Only a little thing like a rule kept
W. N. (Nick) Koylston of Leesburg,
Kla., from being the champion of five
states. The rule Is simply that a trap
shooter cannot win a championship
outside of his own state, unless it be a
national title.
Boylston rules supreme in his
own state, in whose championship
tournament he broke 291. Journeying
afield, the Florida man entered the
North Carolina championship, where he
broke 287 against a score of 279 by
the winner. In the Rhode Island shoot
he again topped the crowned victor
with 290 to 2S2. In Massachusetts his
290 was three breaks better than the
score that carried off the trophy, while
In New Hampshire he was six better
than Mayor Read's 279. His string
might have been threatened in the Ver
mont titular shoot, where he tied with
the champion with 2S5.
"It's a cruel rule." laments Boylston.
but there are several titleholders who
will not agree with him.
Autumn, a handicap for 3-year-olds and
over at one mile and a sixteenth, $5000
added, 54; the Twin City, a handicap
for 3-year-olds and over at one mile
and five furlongs. 15000 added, 52; the
Latonia Cup, a handicap for 3-year-olds
and over at two miles and a quarter,
$7500 added, 46. and the Lexington Cup,
a handicap for 3-year-olds and over at
one mile and a half. $5000 added. 27.
The Golden Rod, Kalis City and Louis
ville Cup will be run at Churchill
Downs, the Fort Thomas, Autumn.' La
tonia Handicap, Twin City and Latonia
Cup at Latonia, and the Lexington Cup
at Lexington.
As regards value the races that closed
on August 20 represent less than half
of the sum that will be distributed
through the medium of stakes among
the horsemen who participate in Ken
tucky racing In September and October.
The richest of the races to be decided
on the Blue Grass circuit this fall will
be the Latonia Championship, a gallop
of one mile and three-quarters for 3-
year-olds that will have a total value
of about $55,000. One hundred and
fifty-seven of the smartest 3-yar-olds
In training are still eligible for the La
tonia Championship, which bids fair
to attract a field of ten or a dozen
colts and fillies.
Then there will be the Breeders' Fu
turity, a produce race of three-quarters
of a mile for 2-year-olds, which will be
run at Lexington, and the Queen City
Handicap, a race of one mile for 2-
ear-olds, that will be run at Latonia.
L'pward of 200 2-year-olds, many of
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OFFICIALLY
RECOGNIZED
CHAMP
Mrs. Albert Winkler First U. S.
Trapshot Titleholder.
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Mm. Albert H. Winkler, flrat of- J
flrlally recognised vromeaa I
tional champion trapnhooter. -
them youngsters of the first class that
have been winning distinction at Sara
toga and Belmont Park, are eligible
for the Breeders' Futurity and the
Queen City. The Breeders' Futurity
will have a value of between $10,000
and $15,000. The Queen City will pay
$10,000 in added money.
The best of American sportsman
ship is represented among the nomi
nating owners of these Kentucky
stakes. The smartest horses of various
ages of which the strongest eastern and
western stables boast will compete for
the Lexington, Latonia and Louisville
prizes.
SEAVEY LEHD5 HT TRAPS
PORTLAND MAX HEADS STATE
SHOTGCX ARTISTS.
The boom that the war has given
the trapshooting game is evidenced by
the announcement that 221 new clubs
were formed during the first six
months of this year and that 242 clubs
inactive for a long time took new
leases on life.. It is worth noting that
the rural sections furnished most of
the new organizations.
Trapshooting was part of the train
ing of American aviators during the
war. That it may be extended to in
clude the entire army is now a prob
ability. An official report of the
tournament on the Le Mans range
urged that consideration be given to
the idea of making every soldier a
trapshot. The same report, by the way.
recommended that the twelve high men
at the A. K. F. shoot be sent to the
grand American handicap.
George Burt, a Denver professional,
made a score of 100 straight in the
Colorado state tournament, which leads
a contemporary to head the Item an
nouncing this, "A Hard Score to Beat."
Rather a neat way to using the obvious.
Three world's records were recently
broken by Fred Gilbert of Spirit Lake,
la. The records for a continuous run
on registered targets; for the longest
Ktraight run on both registered and
unregistered targets and for the high
est percentage of breaks made in four
ronsecuttve tournaments. To accom
plish all this Gilbert smashed 599 blue
rocks out of 600 shot at.
Rose City Marksman Ranks Close
to Frank Troeh, Mark Arie
and Other Topnotchers.
STAKES M OVERFLOWING
KENTUCKY CLlB RECEIVES 326
NOMINATION'S.
Nine Rich Events Draw Record
Number of Entries for Fall
Blue Grass Meetings.
COVINGTON. Ky.. Sept. . (Special.)
The group of nine stakes for horses
of various ages offered by the Ken
tucky Jockey club for decision in the
course of the fall meetings at Lexing
ton. Latonia and Louisville, which will
begin September 13 at the Kentucky
association's track at Lexington and
finish at Churchill Downs. Louisville,
on November 1. have attracted a total
of 526 nominations. These stakes closed
on August 20. but inasmuch as entries
have been coming in to the offices of
the Kentucky Jockey club from all
parts of the United States and Canada,
the totals have Just been figured.
The Golden Rod. a handicap for 2-year-olds
at one mile. $4000 added, drew
t nominations; the Falls City, a handi
cap for 3-year-olds and over at one
mile and a si :teenth. $40uo added. 61;
the Louisville Cup. a handicap for 3-year-olds
and over at two miles, $5000
added, 53: the Fort Thomas, a handicap
(r 2-ax olds, SJOuu added. the
In the latest averages compiled by
the American Trapshooting association
James W. Seavey of the Portland Gun
club is shown to be the leader over all
Oregon scatter-gun artists with an av
erage of .9704.
Trapshooting averages are better this
year than for a number of years back.
The leaders in five states have marks
better than 97 per cent and several
others are real close to rhat average.
Here is a list of the leaders in each
state compiled by the American Trap
shooting association on 1250 or more
targets:
State Ave.
Alabama. Lee Moody. Bessemer 0:i:i5
Arizona. B- A. Uillespie. Phoenix W4;i7
Arkansas. W. J. Buchanan. Texarkana !t.Y2
California. K. H. Bungay. Ocean Park .9ltMl
Canada. J. W. Hart. Dresden ."i33
Colorado. R. A. Kins;. Delta 9sti
Connecticut. H. C. Barstow. Rockvilte .UL's7
Delaware. T. C. Marshall. Vorklyn I1O00
Florida. W. N. Boylston. Leesburg r17
Cenrglu. J. It. Cnthran. Atlanta M.itl
Illinois, Mark Arie. Thomasboro H:!4
Indiana, M. E. Dewire. Hamilton r,!lS
Iowa. C. M. Anderson. Terrll
Kansas. F. J. Cairns. Tampa 1M."7
Kentucky. V. 11. Hall. Mayavllle 11.IS4
Maryland. K. L. Bartlett. Koland Park .SU12
Massachusetts. Jay Clarke Jr., Wor
cester .OrtOO
MtchiKi-n. W. M. Thompson. Jackson.. .9tlo4
Minnesota. Pave Fauskee. Wort hlngton .."S4
BY PETER P. CARNEY.
CHICAGO. HI., Sept. 6. (Special.)
Mrs. Albert H. Winkler, 6621 Calumet
avenue. Chicago, 11L, by winning the
woman's amateur trapshooting cham
pionship event in the grand American
handicap trapshooting tournament, be
comes the first officially recognized
champion of the fair Dianas.
The championship title for several
years has been awarded unofficially to
the woman making the highest score
in the grand American handicap, but
this method wasn't fair, because all of
the women were not placed on the same
handicap mark. So this year the
American Trapshooting association
rtaged a real championship event for
women, and to Mrs. Winkler went the
honors.
Ninety breaks in 100 targets was the
score made by Mrs. Winkler. Her near
est competitor was Mrs. C. E. Groat
of Los Angeles, Cal.. for four years the
woman s champion of California, and
In 1918 the compiler of the highest
average among the women trapshoot
ers. Mrs. Groat broke 87 targets. The
fair Diana from the west coast found
thooting conditions altogether differ
ent at the South Shore Country club
from on the coast, and the low targets
bothered her so much that she missed
all of them.
Mrs. Winkler has been shooting sev
eral years, being a regular attendant at
the larger shoots in the middle west
with her husband, who is also an ex
ceptionally good trapshot. Three years
ago Mrs. Winkler tied her husband and
another shooter for the championship
of the Chicago Gun club, with 99
Dreeks. and on the shoot-off the hon
ors went to her with a straight score
This is additional , proof that Mrs.
Winkler is a regular shot. Mrs. R. R.
Barber of Minneapolis was third, with
85; Mrs. Harold Almert of Chicago,
last year's champion, next, with 84, and
these women followed in order: Miss
Emma Wettleaf, Nichols. Ia., 82; Miss
Ruby Dreyhus, Milwaukee, and Mrs.
T. Randall, Lima, O., 81; Mrs. J. H.
May, Chicago, 79; Miss Harriet Smith,
Milwaukee, 77; Miss Lucile Meusel,
Green Bay, Wis., 67.
Because of the illness of her husband
Mrs. L. G. Vogel of Detroit, a promi
nent figure in trapshooting circles for
years, was unable to attend and shoot.
It is quite likely that the woman's
championship will be made an annual
affair, and if it is it will become a real
good event in time.
. While on the subject of women shoot
ers it Is worth mentioning the fact that
Miss Mamie Francis of Ridgeway, Colo.,
known in the show business as a won
derful shot, broke 50 targets straight at
Denver, Colo., the other day at a testi
monial shoot to George L. Carter, sec
retary of the Nebraska State Sports
man's association, and we might add
that she won the event.
TRAPSHOOTS POPULAR IX U. S.
Of 1812 Clubs 1703 Are Located in
America.
Out of 1842 trapshooting clubs in the
world, 1703 of these are located in the
The following table shows the clubs
while the Philippine islands zone has
one trap club.
The following table shows the elbs
as they are spread throughout the
country:
State.
Arkansas
Arizona .
Alabama
A laska
Clubs J State.
HIMaine
. ... Si Massachusetts
. ... fi'.New York
INew Jersey.
Canada 70'New Mexico..'..
Clubs.
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Mississippi. H- Densler. Aberdeen.
Missouri, Harve Dixon. UronoRO w-iii
Montana. T. W. Hatker. Billings 9407
Nebraska. Oscar Hansen. Fremont 9730
New Hampshire. Eugene E. Reed. Man
chester 9350
New Jersey. Ralph P. Wrllia, Penns-
grove 0735
New York. F. S. Wright. Buffalo !SS
North Carolina. H. A. Morson. charlotte .9J.1S
North Dakota. A. R. Chezlk. Portal !i."14
Ohio. Horace Bonser. Cincinnati .ftttTO
Oklahoma, W. H. Heer, Guthrie ItlOO
Oregon. J. W. Seavey. Portland !7i4
Pennsylvania. A. H. Aber, Dravosburg .OU.'IU
Rhode Island. C. H. Dillon. Auburn A1S5
South Carolina. G. M. Collins, Due West .9.1ft2
South Dakota. C. B. Adams. Custer 9H36
Tennessee, J. H. Noel. Naahvllle 01'94
Texas, F. W. McXier. Houston 94!0
t'tah. S. H. Sharman. Salt Lake City.. .9H8
Washington. F. M. Troeh, Vancouver.. .OTrtO
Wisconsin, CS. V. Derlng. Columbus (5'J
Wyoming, Joseph Garst, Douglas 94J0
MIDDLE-AGED M EX IX TEXXIS
More Veterans on Courts Than in
Any Other Form of Athletics.
Tennis, although calling for speed
and endurance to an unusual degree,
can show more veterans of advanced
middle age than any other form of
athletics. Two of the four semi-finalists
in the All-England tournament
at Wimbledon were well over 50. They
were Ritchie and C. P. Dixon. Dixon
nine years ago forced W. A. Lamed,
then among America's best, to go five
sets in the Davis cup matches, while
Ritchie was runner up for English
championships In 1902. 1903 and 1904.
There was a state champion out in
Montana for many years. J. H. Mc
Laughlin, a grandfather, who was 56
years old the last year he defended his
title. Samuel Hardy, who began tennis
as a contemporary of Lamed: Davis,
Wright and Holcomb Ward, recently
forced R. Lindley Murray, the player
of most dazzling speed now in the
game, to go a fierce five-set match to
beat him and Hardy is now actually
in his 30th year of tournament play.
Everett Scott Sets Record.
BOSTON. Sept. 6. (Special.) Statis
tics compiled here show that Everett
Scott, shortstop of the Boston Ameri
can Baseball club, has achieved a rec
ord by playing in 501 consecutive
league games, beginning June 20, 1916.
He has been at bat 1700 times, made
418 hits for a total of 511 bases and
attained a batting average of .246 and
a fielding average of .966. Previous
marks for consecutive playing were set
by Eddie Collins when he completed
run of 470 games, by George Burns
of the New York National League club,
who played 459 games. ,
Canal zone. .
Colorado
California
Connecticut .....
Delaware . . . . .
DIs. of Columbia.
Florida
For. countries
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana ........
Minnesota
Mississippi
Montana .........
Maryland
03
10
21
. . . . Jo.
.tH7 I Missouri
Michigan ' 59i
!.. Hampshire
201 North' Dakota.
5;INorth Carolina
Nebraska
13! Nevada
4IOhlo
1 1 lOregon
L'.IU kluhoma ....
6' Pennsylvania .
81 Rhode Island 7
.Viisouth Dakota 19
l.lllSouth .Carolina 5
!K Tennessee 11
21 1 Texas 22
lS!Utah 7
3'Virginia 'Jo
70!Vermont K
81 West Virginia 8
22! Washington no
4i Wisconsin 64
Wyoming 5
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THE successful sportsman
knows that his bag de
pends almost as much
upon the shot pattern, or even
ness with which the shot spreads
out and covers the game, as it
does upon his gun handling.
The secret of uniform game
getting patterns is in the control
of the gas blast from the exploding
powder. This in turn depends
upon the wadding in the shell.
The Winchester gas
control system
The Winchester system of
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to determine the most effective
control of the gas blast.
The base wads of Winchester
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A patchy palter often
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ROME. Aug. 20. With the thermom
eter registering 90 degrees in the shade,
soccer football, a winter sport in most
countries, has become the summer game
of Italy. The opening game of the sea
son was played recently under a t laz
ing eun. the players being unmindful
of the heat. During the week, teams
from elementary and high schools of
Rome play wherever there is a vacant
spot.
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List of Mitt Men Submitted to Frank
Kendall of Milwaukie Con
tains Much Talent.
SEATTLE. Wash., Sept. 6. (Special.)
Fred Winsor, manaeer of boxers now
hibernating in Seattle, has written
Frank Kendall, Milwaukie matchmaker,
giving him a list of some of his boys
whom he is anxious to have seen in
boxing shows at Milwaukie the coming
season.
The list includes Young Ketchell, Los
Australian light heavyweight: Cliff
Jordan, middleweight; Frar.kie Rogers,
Seattle welterweight: Frank Haynie,
Pu:ific coast welterweight champion,
and Young France, lightweight.
Winsor is particularly anxious to
land a bout in Portland or Milwaukie
between Young Ketchell and Alex
Trambitas. or is willing to start
Frai'kie Haynie against any boy that
can be obtained to meet him. At the
present time there is talk in Seattle
of staging a four-round bout between
Hayr. ie and Jack Britton.
Jack Hall, the Australian light heavy-
j weint, IS also in eaiue unuer vv 111
sor's wing and would like to tangle
with Valley Trambitas here.
25 .TRY FOR HARVARD TEAM
Eodie Casey and Other ex-Soldiers
Renort on Gridiron.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Twenty-five
Angeles lightweight: Tommy Richards, I candidates for the Harvard football
San Francis-co lightweight: Jack Hall, I eleven reported for practice. Eddie
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Casey, crack back of two years ago,
and possible captain of the learn, wtiri
other returned service men, will be in
the early training group.
Head Coach Fisher's assistants will
include Wigglesworth. Gardner, Wat
son. Logan, Parmenter, Trumbull,
Snow, Leo Leary. and C. A. Coolidge.
Lieutenant Kd ward Ma nan of the ma
rine corps, who is in service in Rou
mania, is expected to return in lime
to coach.
Tommy Murphy has a comfortable
lead in the race for money-winninq
honors on the prand circuit this season."
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