Trapshooting is the only U. S. sport in which amateurs win cash while professionals get cups. Last week 1,000 of the 7,000,000 U. S. residents who took out hunting licenses this year toted their shotguns to Vandalia, ten miles north of Dayton, Ohio. The birds they were after were clay pigeons. The occasion was the No. 1 trapshooting event of the year: the Grand American Tournament.
One big gun came to the "Grand" in a $20,000 private railroad car. Others came in trailers, camped behind the clubhouse. A doctor commuted from Cincinnati by plane....
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