. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. C. NATJMA3* Winner ot the Fay Diamond Medal, State live Pigeon Tourna- ment, 1893. Winner of the Individual Championship Medal, California Inanimate Target Association Tournament, Ingleside, 1898. on paper, that targets can be trapped at a small profit to the club when one cent is charged. The profit at that figure is, it is true, almost infinitesimal, yet the fact that there is a profit at one cent a target, warrants the claim that there is a profit of two cents clear on each target thrown at three cents. At a tournament held in a Southern city a few yesrs ago
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. C. NATJMA3* Winner ot the Fay Diamond Medal, State live Pigeon Tourna- ment, 1893. Winner of the Individual Championship Medal, California Inanimate Target Association Tournament, Ingleside, 1898. on paper, that targets can be trapped at a small profit to the club when one cent is charged. The profit at that figure is, it is true, almost infinitesimal, yet the fact that there is a profit at one cent a target, warrants the claim that there is a profit of two cents clear on each target thrown at three cents. At a tournament held in a Southern city a few yesrs ago, the sum of $3,000 was added to the parses. This added money was obtained from various sources. A certain num- ber of manufacturers were asked to donate $50 apiece, a sum of $1,000 being obtained this way; then each shooter was taxed $10 before he was allowed to shoot, and this tax re- sulted in another $1,000 or thereabouts, 100 shooters paying their fee of $10. Thus $2,000 of the added money was ob- tained. The other $1,000 came from the excess of receipts over expenditures for targets, and the deficit was easily over- come, the club coming oat ahead instead of behind, thanks to the skillful and ingenious methods of financing the tourna- ment. But such shoots as the above are out of date now. When trap shooting was io its infancy, and before professionalism at tbe trap had risen to the pitch it reached a year or so ago, there weie anv number of fairly good shots and enthusiasts who were ready and willing to "donate" for the mere pleas- ure of competing in a tournament, on the bare chance of making a "; The 'killing" came, but it was always on the wrong side, and the enthusiasm died out. The pro- fessionals, the paid experts, invariably walked off with from 85 to 90 per cent, of the purses, and the semi experts had barely more than carfare when it was all over. As a natural result large tournaments were doomed, and it is now a hard matter to g
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