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Bill Golden Repeats
In Georgia Trapshoot
W. S, (Bill) Golden, the Columbus target-buster, scattered
clay pigeons all over the green sod of the Capitol Gun Club
TARGET-BUSTER Bill Golden touches the trigger of his
cver-and-under and smashes both targets in the doubles of the
Georgia State Trapshoot in Atlanta.
in Atlanta last week to win both the singles and doubles
championships in the annual Georgia State Trapshoot.
Golden thus retained his doubles
title and replaced Dr. H. N. Al
ford, of Atlanta, as singles cham
pion. In the singles he broke 190x
200 birds and in the 100-target
doubles he dropped 10. Bob Aut-
rey, of Atlanta, finished strong to
pile up the dust of 91x100 and
grab the handicap championship,
won in 1945 tv H. J. Lewis.
Forty-seven shooters from four
states competed in what veteran
gunners called the most successful
trapshoot held in Atlanta in nearly
a decade.
MRS. McCLAIN STAR
Perhaps the outstanding perfor
mance of the program was the
shooting of Mrs. Donald McClain,
Atlanta Class C entry. The At
lanta sportswoman was runner-up
in both the singles and the handi
cap. She had a score of 188x200
in the singles and until Autrey
broke two of his last three birds,
Mrs. McClain’s 90x100 led the
handicap field. In her last eight
rounds in the singles she dropped
only three birds for a remarkably
strong finish.
Clyde King, Jr., of Atlanta, got
off to a slow start in the doubles,
but came back fast to break 89,
just one shy of Golden’s winning
score.
Out-of-state singles in Class A
went to Rudy Etchen, of Miami,
and Fred Etchen, his father, was
runner-up. Rudy had 197x200 and
Fred a 194. J. C. Ditto, of Miami,
won the B event with 194x200,
while Lewis and Charles Hight, of
Rome, tied for runner-up with
183x200. In Class C W C Leggett
led with 186x200 and runner-up
was John Halliburton at 183.
MIAMI TEAM LEADS
Miami led the team race with
923x200, with Eastern Airlines,
South Carolina, Capitol Gun Club
and Tennessee finishing in that
order.
In the doubles event three shoot
ers tied for high gun for out-of-
state participants. J. A. Chilton,
of Knoxville, won the trophy in a
coin-flipping with Halliburton and
Dr. T. L. Fitzgibbon, of Miami.
They broke 94 targets.
Scores by squads and classes of
individual shooters in the 200-
target singles:
Dr. H. N. Alford, A, 182; Jack
Tway, A, 183; Paul Earle, A, 193;
Clyde King, Jr., A, 181; J. O. Rog
ers A, 190.
H. J. Lewis, B, 183; W. C. Leg
gett, C, 186; W. S. Golden, A, 190;
Bernie Judd, A, 185; Mrs. Donald
McClain, C, 188.
Rudy Etchen, A, 197; J. Halli
burton, C, 183; J. Farmer, C, 178;
Mac Johnson, C, 164; Paul Foster,
C, 178.
Bob Autrey, B, 169; J. L. Frank
lin, B, 156; Dr. Dell Fleming, C,
155; Mrs. Clyde King, Jr., C, 165;
Dick Garlington, A, 182.
Dr. T. L. Fitzgibbon, B, 169; J.
C. Ditto, B, 194; Fred Etchen, A,
194; Bart Geiger, A, 184; Buddy
Jones (pro), 193.
J. A. Chilton, A, 182; Dr. N. G.
Riggins, A, 187; Blanche Chilton,
C, 153; Hubert Wright, C, 155; J.
M. Walker, B, 166.
H. Hamilton, B, 166; L. E. Grant,
C, 179; G. L. Hight, Jr., C, 172;
G. J. Hight, B, 177; Charles Hight,
B, 183.
Ike Andrews, B, 178; F. N. Hall,
B, 181; J. D. Foster, C, 156; Gray
Lancaster, C, 180; T. K. Lee, A,
187.
G. J. Creaden, A, 181; J. H. Full-
Tarheel
Tales
By GENE WIKE
Channel Bass Running
Manteo and Nags Head fisher
men report the channel bass are
hitting at last. Blaming the weath
er for their late run this season,
the big red drum had been ex
pected at Oregon Inlet some three
weeks ago, but bad northeast
weather had impeded their prog
ress.
But now that they’re hitting the
inlet in size and sizable numbers,
coastal sportsmen contend the
waiting was worth it. Fishing out
of Nags Head, a party from Tren
ton, N. J., took 36 from the coast
al waters in their initial run, the
largest weighing 61 pounds. An
gling with the same party, Dr. M.
D. Marcellus, of Trenton, had pre
viously reported a catch of seven
at Oregon Inlet.
Meanwhile, Charlie Perry skip
pered another Trenton party into
a catch of twenty-two bass in three
days’ angling. A party from Nor
folk, Va., B. S. Barker and Charles
R. Willard, reported a catch of
eight channel bass weighing 35 to
50 pounds each. Mr. and Mrs. T. E.
McKenzie of Washington, D. C.,
landed three averaging from 30 to
50 pounds, while Mr. and Mrs. R.
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er, C, 48x50 (withdrew); F. L.
Bailey, B, 172; Ferd Kahler, B,
165; R. C. Graham, B, 166.
W. M. McCratty, C, 173; Charles
A. Courtney, C, 131.
“Bring the family over to
night, Bill’s gone trapshooting
and I’m sure he’ll get more than
we can eat alone.”
Hill’s Trout
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ured 18 inches and Jack Hogg,
“Mr. Trout Fisherman Himself.”
creeled a 20-inch specimen. These
were the top catches on the first
two days of the state’s most heav
ily fished trout water.
MANY “LIMITS” TAKEN
Approximately 100 anglers came
here and many reported limit takes
of 10. Thirteen-inch rainbows were
common. Dick Hawkins, Lowell
Dowdell and Roy Moore, all of
Atlanta, reported limit catches av
eraging about 11 inches.
This was good considering the
conditions of the stream, which
was swollen and dingy after heavy
thundershowers.
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WORDS OF WISDOM
FROM A TKN-AQER:
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J.HUS WROTE Billy Gregory of Griffin -
written in his entry in oor recent Better Home Towns
letter-writing contest on the tourist business — on entry
that won for Billy a $500 Victory Bond, top prise.
This seventeen-year-old high school senior has the
right idea — the first step is to dean op -a city . . .
TIME OUT to check scoring gives trapshooters an oppor
tunity to explain how they are missing. Clyde King Jr., and Dick
Garlington talk in the foreground, and Dr. J. N. Alford consults
with the scorer.
plant flowering shrubs and small trees at its entrances
. . . inspire the citisens to become friendly, cordial . . .
provide clean, attractive sleeping accommodations . .
feed 'em properly . . . and last, hot not least, give the
tourist something to see.
Words of wisdom from a teen-ager—words, indeed,
that every city, town and hamlet in Georgia can heed
with profit!
AN ATTRACTIVE TOWN IS LIKE A MAGNET—
travelers go miles to places where they tike to stop.
Those places are towns that are clean, attractive and
progressive. Will your town be on the “let’s stop” list
of tourists—or will they race through it and oA to a
town that has more to offer?
There’s money — plenty of money — in the tourist
trade, make no mistake about that! Tourists WANT
to spend — and they don’t particularly count the cost
when they’re off on a
pleasure trip, regardless of
whether it’s for the day,
week-end or full ’
town — to decide whether sr not you want to cash in
on some of that new income. You’ll all profit! The
time is right at hand when you have to DO SOME
THING ABOUT YOUR TOWN—or be lost in the
parade of progress.
Get busy now — find out what you can do to make
your town attractive to tourists — what you, and your
town, can do to offer good food, good lodgings, inter
esting things to see, for the great hordes of tourists that
will soon he traveling in Georgia. Traveling—with
money to spend!
HERE’S HOW: Write for the free booklet that
explains the Georgia Better Home Towns Program.
It’s a plan of ocuon — that tells yon why, and vhat,
and how, to do the simple things to make your town
a BETTER home town. Or, if there is a Better Home
Town Committee already at work in your community,
it tells yon how to pat your shoulder to the wheel to
give them a hand. It’ll pay you—and your town—a
hundredfold!
So send for the Georgia Better Home Towns book
let— it’s chockful of many
thought-provoking sugges-
So it’s op to you — and
all the other folks in your
postal card to Georgia Pow
er Company, Box 1719,
Atlanta (1), Georgia.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
SOUTHERN OUTDOORS, MAY 15, 1946