and twice a week the members met and pursued their 
     
     favorite pastime although the volume of shooting fell 
     
     off noticeably. Yellow topped targets were becoming 
     
     more popular in the Maritimes. Tam Gillies became 
     
     ill, retired, and returned to Moncton where he passed 
     
     away shortly thereafter. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In Summerside a couple of flying officers, who 
     
     had recently been transferred to the R.C.A.F. Station 
     
     at St. Eleanors, convinced the brass that clay target 
     
     shooting was a part of the training procedure (even in 
     
     Navigation School) and set up a skeet field. The new 
     
     field at the air base was used only on an occasional 
     
     Sunday afternoon as the enthusiasts more or less kept 
     
     it to themselves, and their short posting to the 
     
     Island did little more than leave some equipment here 
     
     that was not available to everyone. Summerside clay 
     
     target enthusiast J. Harold Arsenault made an effort 
     
     to co-ordinate the two Western Capital Clubs by or- 
     
     ganizing a shoot at the base and inviting 
     
     Charlottetown and Montague to participate but it was 
     
     poorly attended, and the meld failed to materialize. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Provincial Championships had a small but 
     
     enthusiastic entry and Bob Hyndman followed the 
     
     footsteps of his grandfather Fred, and father Eardley, 
     
     by winning a major Island clay target event, when he 
     
     took the skeet championship for the first time. The 
     
     trap title went to his longtime gunning friend, Dr. 
     
     Gil Houston. 
     
    
   
   
    
     SKEET 
     
     PROVINCIAL CHAMPION - Bob Hyndman 48 X 50 
     
     CLASS A - Ron Atkinson 46 
     
     RUNNER-UP - Walter Carver 45 
     
     CLASS B - Roy Vessey 35 
     
     RUNNER-UP - Lea Windsor 35 
     
     TRAP 
     
     PROVINCIAL CHAMPION - Dr. Gil Houston 41 
     
     CLASS A - Bill Morrell 40 
     
     RUNNER-UP - Walter Carver 36 
     
     CLASS B - Ralph Jenkins 37 
     
     RUNNER-UP - John McKenna 37 
     
    
   
   
    
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