Sport: Skeeters

During World War I, the marksmanship of U. S. soldiers amazed Europeans. Should the U. S. be invaded during World War II, enemy parachutists may have more than U. S. soldiers to reckon with. Sprinkled all over the country is an army of 100,000 amateur sharpshooters (20% of them women & children), developed in the past decade on the skeet fields of U. S. country clubs.

Had a fifth columnist been at Syracuse, N. Y. last week, he might well have been uneasy. There, at the Onondaga Skeet Club, 270 sharp shots met in...

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