JULY 19, 1964    CORTEZ, COLORADO FIRST 100 EVER FROM THE 27 YARD LINE The mark that trapshooters had tried nine years to enter in the record books was made July 19 at the Cortez ( Colo. ) Trap Club by a man who had attempted the feat for just one week and 300 targets. It was on this date that Lt. Col. E. S. Throckmorton, shooting for the third time from 27yards-smashed 100 straight from that maximum back-yardage to rewrite the trapshooting record book. It was the first time in the history of the 27-yard line (which was introduced in 1955) that a shooter had accomplished this feat. And after nine years of no one being able to establish this record, another shooter did the same thing within 11 days. This time it was a shooter who himself had been trying for those nine years. In that period he had registered 11 near-perfect 99s from the 27-yard line, but he had never be able to get that elusive 100. But on July 30 at the Denver , Colorado Municipal T&SC during the preliminary handicap of the Mile-Hi shoot, Dan Orlich smashed all his handicap clays from the maximum 27. Orlich, one of the stars of the trapshooting world since his entry into it in 1952, lost one 16-yard target the day he broke all of them from the 27. The very next day, Friday, July 31, he proceeded to break everything thrown at him-which included 100 singles and 100 doubles. This was the fifth time in ATA registered records that Orlich had broken 100 straight in doubles, and the first time one man had ever accomplished such a feat. Starts Shooting in 1956 Lt. Col. Throckmorton, a native of Missouri who has lived most frequently in Texas the past few years and who is now moving to Nebraska, joined the ATA in 1952 (the same year as Orlich) but did not start shooting until 1956. He is an 18-year Army man, currently with USA Artillery. A past director of the Texas State Trap Association, Throckmorton has attended two Grand Americans, last year winning Class A in a preliminary singles race. In 1961 he was the Texas state singles champion, and he has won out-of-state awards in Pennsylvania and Wyoming. Lt. Col. Throckmorton had not shot at Cortez since July 1963, and then he broke 97 in the handicap to be moved back to the 26-yard line. Seventeen days short of one year later, he broke 98 from 26 at Ent R&GC at Colorado Springs to be moved back to the 27. He had shot 2,800 targets from the 26 between those dates. On July 12 this year he shot at his first 100 registered birds from the 27-yard line, with an 89 result. This was at the Pueblo T&SC. On July 17 he broke 94 from 27 at Cortez, and two days later rewrote the record books with the perfect score.