. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. =FOR THE YEAR 1915= WAS WON BY MR. WOOLFOLK HENDERSON, OF LEXINGTON, KY., USING WfcpS SHELLS He Shot at 2800 Registered Targets, Broke 2731; Percentage .9753 .. „.,.,,, THE HIGHEST YEARLY AMATEUR AVERAGE ON RECORD. The wonderful record of Mr. Henderson in 1914, when he won the Four great amateur honors, is still fresh in the minds of the shooting frater- nity. In that year he captured the Grand American Handicap, the Single Target and Double Target Championships of the United States and the High Amateur Average. His performance in 1915 is therefore but the cont
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. =FOR THE YEAR 1915= WAS WON BY MR. WOOLFOLK HENDERSON, OF LEXINGTON, KY., USING WfcpS SHELLS He Shot at 2800 Registered Targets, Broke 2731; Percentage .9753 .. „.,.,,, THE HIGHEST YEARLY AMATEUR AVERAGE ON RECORD. The wonderful record of Mr. Henderson in 1914, when he won the Four great amateur honors, is still fresh in the minds of the shooting frater- nity. In that year he captured the Grand American Handicap, the Single Target and Double Target Championships of the United States and the High Amateur Average. His performance in 1915 is therefore but the continuation of a marvelous and thoroughly consistent record, made possible by ammunition of superlative quality. PETERS SHELLS have been used by the winner of the United States Hight Amateur Average (official) FIVE OUT OF THE PAST SIX YEARS THE PETERS CARTRIDGE CO., Pacific Coast Branch, 585-587 Howard Street, San Francisco, Cal. T/w? Big Winner In 1915 The Interstate Association's Official High Professional Average for the season of 1915 was won by Charles G. Spencer, of St. Louis, Mo., with the marvelous record of for 5620 targets. Such an average for such a large number of targets not only shows Mr. Spencer's great skill, but also proves the uniform and unequalled quality of C. G. Spencer WINCHESTER LOADED SHELLS AND SHOTGUNS which Mr. Spencer used exclusively. It was this same combination that he used when he made his mar- velous straight run of 565 targets — the World's Record. Contests for the Season's Trapshooting Averages have been held 16 times and 12 of them have been won by yy shells or guns, or both, which is undeniable evidence of then- superiority. Lester German, of Aberdeen, Md., who was second high for the season, and who also made the greatest score of the year for a single tournament—499 x 500—used Winchester shells in performing this great feat. J. Mownell Hawkins, of Baltimore, Md., shot 7,265 targets in competition during 1915, and made the splen
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