The morning call., 1891-01-11
AT THE BUTTS.
The Tobin Trophy VIII Be Shot For by
the Third Infantry.

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the Third Infantry.
a monthly medal shoot will be held to-day
at Harbur View by the Swiss Rifle Club.
The Independent Rifles will assemble for
their final medal shoot for this month at
Shell Mound Park to-day.
Company OF the Third Infantry Regi-
ment will likewise have medal shoot at
Shell Mound Park to-day.
Companies c and G (Nationals) of the
First Infantry Regiment will hold their
monthly shoot at Shell Mound to-day.
The following named members of Com
pany B, Third Infantry Regiment. have
been appointed to act as Range Committee
for the ensuing year: II. r.. Brown, 7. J.
Carroll, ii. Heeth, +. l.. Pritchard and f.
C. Muller.
The members of the Third Infantry Regi-
ment will shoot for the Tobn Trophy at
Shell Mound to-day. The trophy is in the
possession of Company Il. which won it at
the first competition in 1890.
A match with military rifles, which will
be holly contested. will be that at Shell
Mound to-day, with John Utschig, William
Glinderman and E. Ehrenpfort as the con-
testants. Each participant will fire one
hundred shots, and Creedmoor rules will
govern the contest.
At the recent meeting of the Germania
Sehutzen Club the following named were
elected to serve as officers for the ensuing
year: President, Leo Klotz; Vice-Presi-
dent, DR.. Riehl; Secretary. H. +. Koepcke:
Treasurer, Christopher Adams; Shooting
Masters, Peter Faller, Charles Heeth, Max
SpOerl; TruStees-George Schultz Charles
Seeman and l.. Bendel.
The San Francisco Schuetzen Verein will
hold its monthly medal shoot at Shell
Mound to-day. Ii Will also soon have a
competitive match in which about fifty
members of the organization will take part
The contest promises 10 be one of
the best that has taken place at the
butts for a long time Nearly every
prominent German rifleman in the city will
have MS reputation as a mark sman at stake
on that day, ana as the German shooters
pride themselves on their good scores it is
SAFE 10 predict that some excellent records
Will be the result. The match will take
place at Shell Mound and the TWENTY-FIVE
ring target will be used.
Although nearly all the factory-made rifles
are made with slots cut for front and rear
barrel sights, 1t Is question whether this is
the best way to attach sights to rifles; many
think not, and believe the inexpensive
ness of the mode of attaching sights
is the chief cause of its being so gener-
ally adopted. One or two small screws,
or screw, in base of sight, would permit
attaching and detaching or interchanging
target and hunting sights much more expe-
dlt:ously than by knocking sights from Slots
In general orders, issued from the Adj
1utant-Generar office, appears the follow
Ing paragraph: " The reports of target
practice Of Companies A and of the Third
Regiment Of Infantry, Second Brigade, and
Company e Of the, Eighth Battalion of In
fantry, Fifth Brigade, having failed to
reach these headquarters, their scores
cannot be published, and the men,
bers Of those companies will not re-
ceive State decorations for that reason"
Ihls IS hardship on the men who have ap-
peared at the butts and did what the State
required OF them. Through the negligence
OF their officers, who had the matter in
charge, but who did not forward the re-
ports, the men will be deprived of their
hard-earned decorations