the results of this bit of promotion became very evident as the total number of rounds almost doubled. Members who were shooting one round a week began to shoot two, and if there still was not an acceptable score there might even be a third. No score was published less than 12, which was just slightly below the Club's shooting average.

There was some talk of organizing a club, or provincial competition, but the required momentum to encourage this, in members that were programmed to casual shooting, had not arrived. The Maritime Trap and Skeet championships were held in Moncton on Labour Day, and although there were some Charlottetown members considering attendance, no one did. Dunc Morrison visited the Club at regular intervals and his enthusiasm to participate in competitions was gradually beginning to have an effect, as it had in both Yarmouth and Sydney where new skeet clubs had been established.

The Club membership grew in 1953 by six and included Ralph Jenkins' son, Paul; Jack Brown; tire dealer Wylie Bryenton; Reg Gay; George Vessey; and Con Gallant, a hunting friend of Art Hogan's from Nufrage, P.E.I., who left his fishing boat every Saturday to make the 60-mile trek to Charlottetown to shoot skeet. Of these new members only Wylie Bryenton and Con Gallant would endure and make a contribution to the evolution of the clay target games in this area.

The Charlottetown Skeet Club's annual get- together was held on Wednesday, September 30th with a shoot banquet, and meeting. Wives and friends joined the gunners for a delicious turkey dinner served by Sally and Wallie Rodd at their tourist home. At the meeting the 1953 executive were unanimously returned to office with the exception that this year for the first time the Club would add three directors; Ollie Harper, Wallace Rodd and Glydon Willis. The following are the skeet scores posted at the afternoon shoot; O. S. Harper 21, G. G. Houston 20, Bob Hyndman 20,

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