Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1916 — BOOST FOR SHOOTING SPORT [ARTICLE]

BOOST FOR SHOOTING SPORT

Placing of Women on Even Terms With Men Has Helped Game— Sousa Expresses Opinion.

John Philip Sousa, the band leader, is an enthusiastic trap shooter. When asked his opinion on women taking up the sport, he said: -*< “Women are finding trap shooting even more enjoyable than golf, tennis and the other games they now play. In the shotgun game she is not classified as a woman. She is not segregated from the men. She meetSv men shooters on an equal footing, and there is nothing that pleases her more than to beat her lord and master at his own game. Indeed, women have so far advanced in trap shooting that they will be permitted to enter the Grand Amer-_ ican handicap this year. “Shooting mak J es r a woman agile and alert. I have shot at the traps with many women, and never have I seen an ungraceful one who used a shotgun well.”