The morning call., 1893-08-28
CENTER STRIKERS.
Shell Mound Range and
Recent Records.
BULLSEYES BY THE HUNDRED
German and American Sharpshooters
Knock Out Close Centers ON
the Black Circle.

The Germania Schuetzen Verein men,
bers participated in the general shoot at
Shell Mound yesterday, and r. Finking
succeeded in landing a truly remarkable
bulIseye, as determined by the one-thou-
sandth gauga. 1t only lacked .O13 of an
exact center and its position on the target
is rarely equaled in these days of machine
measurement. During the day 137 bulls
eyes were made by the twenty-one princi-
pal contestants.
The best results were as follows: r.
FInking 1917. l.. Haacke %, G. Bahrs 30R,
n. Ahrens 81. l.. Klatz AZ, F. p. Schuste
80. S. Salfeld 56 w. Gljndeman 90, +. o.
Young 70. o. Ringen %. II. Zeicher 90.
l.. c. Babin 9S. A. Macher 102, Won der
Mel.den 10S, c. Thierb bach Ill, Z. Scheer-
baum 116.
Money prizes ranging from SO down.
ward were awarded 10 the ten best mark $
men. The average scores were greatly
better than those of any previous shoot.
Many OF the marksmen OF the San Fran
cisco SchuetZen Nerein were in bulseye
humor yesterday. and IN consequences they
perforated number OF the black circles
that hung at the far end OF Shell Mounds
200-yard range. During the day they man.
aged to plump out 135 counters. but the
center measurement was not in the small
numbers.
In fact, a bullseye that seems convinc-
ing center at the first glance may prove TO
be at a material remove when the circle is
placed in the delicate measuring machine.
This little contrivance is absolutely cor
rect and has the further advantage of
being entirely impartial. 1t has saved
years of argument aud settled tens OF
thousands of wrangles. 1t is not within
the range of probabilities that two similar
shots will ever be registered in match. as
there is certain TO be the difference OF re-
mote fraction of an inch, taking the stand
ard diameter of the target as O-1000
inches. In this class of shooting only
such targets are measured as bear the ap-
prevail OF the judges vision.
There were 10 prizes yesterday, ana out of
135 bullseyes only thirteen measurements
were made. The results and the order OF
winning are as follows: w. Fakior 63. l..
II. Ritzau lS2, W. Ecker 354, A. Finklng
54l. Ii. ThierDa ch 623, =. Herstman 672. f.
Hensrl 677, A. SchuSteT us. John Gefken
S72. \. Abrens SS2. w. Platt 97S, G. Bahrs
1U6S, Hy Helbers 1888.
4 medal shout by the NoTddeutsche er
SchuetZen CLUB was among the features lat
the She'll Mound range in the earlyspart Uf
yesterday. Owing 10 the absence If many
OF The mem bers there was no particular
interest In the affair. The work of the
day gave the first class medal 10 w. Heeth.
second class to IL. Stelling, third class to
c. Glese and the fourth class To j. de
Witt. T. Ipsen made the first best shot nf
the day and g. Schulz made the last best
pluuker.
Company d. \. G. c., was on the range
for practice. bat failed to materialize q
shooting quad and ron sequently no official
scores were recorded.
The scores made during the day were as
follows: A. w. Baker 81. J. J. Yea ger 81.
A. r. Mccartney %, A. J. KiogIn 2S. il.
". turlong 2S, K. A. Lunstein %. 4. 2.
Il, *. Kiirstein 40, V. Mills IS. Joseph
Meyer SO. A. Whitehead 81. ID. J. Sullivan
36. r. COyl- 36. r. j. Weir 80, Murden 80,
Duuphy SO, Burdick 33
The racetrack in Oakland was devoid of
marksuen, owing to the meet at Del
Monte. Live pigeons and clay birds will
be the programme next Sunday.