the sport for its personal challenge, and competition 
     
     was not a serious consideration, although late in the 
     
     1948 season, many members, like their counterparts in 
     
     the old Belvidere Club, were organizing team contests 
     
     with squads of three, four or five who would, witha 
     
     25 cents entry fee, challenge a like number to a round 
     
     with the winners splitting a box of shells. It was a 
     
     start, and it would be less than one year before a 
     
     serious competition was considered. Scores were 
     
     gradually getting better and the average round had 
     
     increased by one or two targets but there was still no 
     
     discussion about shooting 'straight that is, hitting 
     
     all 25 targets in a round, because at this point it 
     
     was considered an almost insurmountable challenge. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tam Gillies was elected President of the Club in 
     
     1949, and his leadership energy would lead to the 
     
     organization of the first skeet shooting competition 
     
     ever held on Prince Edward Island. The shoot was 
     
     scheduled for Tuesday, May 24th, and all of the 
     
     members worked through the spring to make the 
     
     competition one to remember. They would throw 50 
     
     skeet targets (two rounds) for every entrant, and it 
     
     was open to any Island shotgunner. The Club did not 
     
     have a classification system, but they designated 
     
     three classes, A, B, and C, and a committee of three 
     
     was appointed to place each entrant in one of the 
     
     classes, based on his known ability. One might think 
     
     today that this type of situation might create some 
     
     ill feeling or petty jealousy, but if it did, the 
     
     evidence is lost to memory. To promote the shoot Art 
     
     Hogan and Ollie Harper prepared a programme, and the 
     
     members pitched in and sold 48 ads in the small twelve 
     
     page booklet, at an average of $5.00 each, to provide 
     
     the prizes, and make some extra money for club repairs 
     
     and expenses. The cover of the programme told the 
     
     story: 
     
    
   
   
    
     "Charlottetown Skeet Club 
     
     Programme 
     
     FIRST ANNUAL SHOOT 
     
    
   
   
    
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