"The Phantom of Spirit Lake"

[Big D]

I don't know where the "DuPont Trap Shooting Club" was located. When I was growing up in Wilmington in the late '50's, I learned my limited skills at the DuPont Club near Newark, Delaware.

[Drew Hause]

http://books.google.com/books?id=EV5...page&q&f=false

Mrs. Harriet Hammond



Aug. 23, 1913 Sporting Life
THE advent of women into trap shooting in great numbers this Summer is one of the signs of the healthy normal growth of the sport and an indication that it is thoroughly clean and wholesome. Ever since the start of the clay bird shooting there have been a number of women who appreciated the value of the sport as a recreation and pleasure bringer, and who followed it closely, competing in many big tournaments. Some of them have even be come high-class shots. This is the first year, however, that the pastime has had the accession of whole groups of women, and it is the first that has seen a club composed wholly of women enter the sport.
The Nemours Gun Club, of Wilmington, Del., occupies this unique position, and it is to be earnestly hoped that many other women's gun clubs will take up the sport. There is nothing in trap shooting too hard for women, or anything that would not appeal to feminine tastes. As more women take up the sport the general tone of the game will be raised. There is no good reason why there should not be a big yearly championship tournament similar to the Grand American Handicap, to which only women would be eligible. Such an event would certainly receive the support it would merit. Next to the increasing number of women into the sport, the most encouraging feature can be found in the number of boys who are entering the sport. It is never too early to begin shooting and never so late that it need be dropped.

So in the older labels- E.I. DuPont de Nemours et Fils- E.I. Dupont (aka- "Uncle Dupey" to the citizens of Wilmington DE) of Nemours, France and Sons-- my sister Mary Francis was a French major at Bryn Mayr- her first husband was a Chemical Engineer ( yeah- go figure that hey) for DuPont- she still lives in Wilmington and teaches French in the area schools-

As far as this "Phantom" stuff is concerned, there was only ONE "Phantom"- the late LaMont Cranston- no wait, he was the Shadow-- Bella Lugosi was the "Phantom" of the Opera--

Wonder how old Freddie Boy would have fared if he had stayed with LC Smith--??

[Bill Murphy]

Harriet Hammons name came up somewhere on the web recently, can't remember where. However, I seem to remember the name was connected with a shotgun, maybe her name on the shotgun or in a letter of provenance. Anyone remember? She was a Dupont employee.