Sport: Southpaw Skeeter

The sharp eyes of some of the best marksmen in the country watched hopefully for the least sign of score-spoiling tension. But Alabama's loose-jointed Miner Cliett a 14-year-old eighth grader, stepped to the mark in the Royal Palm Open Skeet Championship at West Palm

Beach last week as casually as any less gifted youngster getting ready to plink tin cans off a roadside fence. His gun swung on target with military precision; the clay birds came apart regularly like puffs of smoke. Miner shot 97 out of a possible 100 to become AA 12-gauge...

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