regular member, Bill Morrell, who swept both events and the overall, setting a pattern that would soon become his trade mark. The junior events, too, were dominated, as former champion Warren Doiron took both titles. There was no bear trap this year, but to add some excitement, a 'pattern' contest was held, using a 12" x 12" card at 40 yards, with the most pellets on it to count. Harley Ings won the event with an 88.

In the first week of September the Charlottetown Trap and Skeet Club invited Maritime gunners to come to their club, to enjoy a fun fall shoot they called the 'Potato Open,' with some rather obvious prizes. Bill McNeilly of Truro came, conquered, and took home 200 lbs. of good P.E.I. potatoes. This same week a Springhill, Nova Scotia, native moved back to the Maritimes with the Winchester organization. His name was Ray Woodill, and he would provide similar assistance to clubs, with the same enthusiasm that Dunc Morrison had provided two decades before. On September 14th some Island shooters went to the Atlantic Trap Championships being held at the Dartmouth Club on the Cole Harbour dykes. It was the Islanders' first attendance at a championship Atlantic event in many years, and Teddy Woodruff finished runner-up in Class A singles, third in handicap, and fifth overall. Harley Ings was runner-up in A doubles, and also C handicap.

On October 19th the Club's first awards banquet was held at MacLauchlan's Motel. It was a new idea to present all of the Club's annual prizes at once rather than after each shoot, and among the awards was a rather suspicious looking gift for Harley Ings, that, when opened, turned out to be a simple stick, with the suggestion that it be used to break targets when the gun failed. The evening was well attended, and should have been a gala occasion, but a rather somber membership was still reflecting on a tragedy only two weeks earlier, when former Island junior skeet champion Allen Myers was killed in a highway accident near Hazelbrook.

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