This 1935 photograph shows Elmer Shaner of Slippery Rock, PA burning
the ATA mortgage. Looking on is Mayor Charles Brennan of Dayton.
Shaner gave the opening address at the Grand every year from 1900
until his death in 1939. He is the father of modern day trapshooting.
He never shot a registered target.  
(Photograph property of the Trapshooting Hall of Fame)