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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1914)
THE NATIONAL SUNDAY MAGAZINE ! "Ready! Pull! Dead!" ci M MY JOHN PHILIP SOUSA m fair is T: i HE vernacular of snorts is most mystifying to the uninitiated. As a gamr grows in popularity there is created a jargon, a cant, and a slang 'SS lK'ciiiiuriy its own. PHj Baseball furnishes t h o most familiar fHL example in this re nflMSJw spect, and when an old lady watching a game of tennis de plored the fact that those who accumulated "Love" the most, were the grouchiest. Had she known that "Love" means nothing, and nothing is so exasperating as nothing, she would have understood. Trap-shooting is the youngest of all the great sports; but It Is increas ing in popular esteem by jumps and bounds. It is estimated that there are over two hundred thousand men and women who face the Trap during the season. Gun Clubs exist In all cities and towns In the country. Like Baseball, Golf, Tennis and other pastimes, Trapshooting has risen to the dignity of a language of its own. When you hear a group of men and women discussing "Bulk" and "Dense," "Pull choke," "Drop," "Comb," "Pull," "Regulation birds," know ye, they are Trap-shooters. For "Bulk" and "Dense" mean the smokeless powders used by the shooters. "Pull choke" explains the special boring of the gun-barrel; "Drop," the Inches the heel of the stock Is below the sight when the gun is in position at the shoulder. "Comb" Is the crest of the stock. "Pull" the power required to release the trigger. "Regulation birds," the speed, height and angle of the saucer-like targets known as "Blue rocks," "White-filers," etc., when thrown from the trap. The flying target pastime makes many appeals to the lover of sports. It Is a wonderful developer of self reliance. It Is your own game, and no one can do it for you. It Is not a sport for the vacillating; for it requires great concentration and a happy blending of mental and physical attributes. The exercise in lifting to the shoulder, an eight pound gun hundreds of times dally is a muscle-building factor and a sure death to insomnia. The recoil of the gun acts as a stimulating massage for tired nerves and muscles. It has one great advantage over field shooting. There are many to whom It is abhorrent to destroy God's leathery creatures for sport. At the traps you shoot at Inanimate clay; and to the most tender hearted, there can be no compunction In smashing the little black discs. All one's 'mental faculties aro quickened, for the bird thrown from unknown angles with varying speed, made as illusive by the force of wind cur rents keeps one keenly allvo to new conditions. Shoot ing whoro they ain't" successfully, adds to the exhilaration of the game. As a promoter of correct living It Is ever on the job. Local option and Pletcherlsm are not In it as deter gents of one's appetites. A contestant desiring success must be temperate in all things. A foggy brain or a gorged, overworked stomach, means a sluggish shooter, and a sluggish shooter means a defeated con testant. Spartan abnegation is absolutely necessary to success. I recall some six years since, while attending an Important tourna ment in the Middle West, a young shooter led the field at the close of the first day. He shot with such splendid rhythm and accuracy that he was picked by the experts as the probable winner of the trophy. That night he proceeded to "paint the town." When he appeared at the traps next morning he was blear eyed, nervous and sluggish, and at. the end of the day he was at the tall-end of the field of over two hundred shooters. I have shot with him many times since, and nothing can persuade him to put another coat of paint on the town. The humilia tion of defeat was the greatest temperance lecture possible. Trap-shooting Is a splendid pas time for women. It Is a tonic for the nervous system and makes a woman agile and alert. I have shot In many matches with women and have never seen an ungraceful one at the traps. The sport Is most suit able to the gentle sex, for woman's quick perception both of eye and brain are splendid factors in the make-up of the shooter. In the be ginning, women did not take to the shot gun because It was synonymous with death to the feathery denizens of the air. She who we call Grand mother, Mother, Aunt, Sister, Wlfo nnd Daughter love Innocent naturo too much to destroy it for sport. With the coming of the clay bird women shooters have become nearly as numerous as women golfers and tennis players. In tho shooting gamo she is not segregated; she is not classified as a woman, but as a shooter. She meets all men shooters on an equality and there is nothing in which she so delights as beating mere-man at his own game. Among the growing number of women trap-shooters, it is significant that two prominent eastern clubs are composed of women members exclusively. The trap-shooting world embraces all from potentate to peasant, from octogenarian to callow youth, from grizzly warrior to sweet sixteen; and all are happy when they call "Pull" and hear the referee announce "Dead." On the Firing Line at Pinehurst Mr, Sousa is No. 2 IseeuTRARSHODTINGc The Sport Alluring jfor Everybody TRAPSHOOTING is tho "open door" loading to hours of pleasure and instruction. Thousands of men and women aro regular attendants at tho traps of tho threo thousand active gun clubs located in nearly every city and town. Tho country air, tho zest of competition, tho excitement attending tho actual shooting at tho elusive clay targets and the keen delight following a well-aimed shot account for its tremendous popularity. Learning to shoot Is Not Difficult as every club wolcomcs tho visitor. Instructions, puns and encouragement mako tho first trial a pleasure and frequently astonishes coachor because of unexpected ability of tho novice. Go out to your pun club. 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