The herald., 1894-09-15
PIGEON KILLING BY THE SEA
Annual Meet of the State
SpOrtsmen's Association.
Crack Shots Of tie State Come
Together in Contests.
Number Of Interesting Shoots
Which Occurred Yesterday.
weli-Known sportsmsn From All Over
the state-Ths Meet to Contin-
ne Three Dsys-Todsy's
Programme.

The thirteenth annual meeting and
shoot of the State Sportsmen's associa-
tion opened at Santa Monica yesterday
morning. The tournament will last
three days.
Sportsmen are in attendance from all
over the state.
The presence of northern shooters is
not ae conspicuous as it will be today,
when the remainder of the San Francis
co contingent will arrive upon the
ground. It looks as though the north
will send more visiting sportsmen to
this meeting than did the south to the
midwinter shoot held in San Francisco
last March. Among the members OF the
association from the north are: Critten-
den Robinson, of San Francisco, one OF
the best wing shots in the state; @. A.
Merrill, the shotgun expert OF Stockton /;
o. M. Judah (Fox), of Fresno. and @.
Z. Worden, of San Francisco.
San Diego is well represented by
Martin Chick, who knows more about
live bird shooting than all OF his county
put together. Riverside sends three
members of the association to the
tournament, two OF whom made excel
lent records at the last shoot OF the
organization. They are DR.. M. A. Ia
Dor, @. F. Packard and S. F. Smith. All
three are among the best gun wielders in
the state. DR.. Woodbury. comes from
Pasadena; Mr.. Allen, from Ontario; H..
M. Keller, Santa Monica; Archer Free
man, Inglewood.
Los Angeles is 80 far represented by
Eugene Maxwell, referee of the shoot
Sheriff J. G. Cline, E. Unger. Louis
Ralph, Mr.. Greening, John Schu-
macher, E. B. Tufts, Joseph Singer, and
others.
Gus Knight, one of the oldest MEM
bers of the association, is present from
San Bernafdino.
Santa Monica warmly Welcomed the
visitors, for whom q grand stand and
other accommodations had been ar.
ranged. Charles Mackenzie, the sport
ing goods dealer, has erected tent for
the sportsmen. Represhments can be
had upon the grounds, and altogether
the accommodations are excellent. The
grounds are located on the corner OF
Nevada avenue ana Eleventh street, on
the street car line.
Despite the warm weather large
uumD6r OI bp6CtatOEb was In atteuuhnce
yesterday, and all of the sportsmsn
mentioned took part in the matches. To.
day there will be decided increase in
both spectators and contestants, and
tomorrow, the biggest day OF them all,
there will be some exciting sport. The
committee in charge consists of E. B.
Tufts, E. Unger. John Schumacher and
Joseph Singer, and in the programme
they promise "high jinks."
All matches are conducted under
American association rules, and all
purses are divided 40, 80, 20 and 10 per
cont. Beside the scheduled shoots, there
will be numerous matches arraigned on
the ground at the pleasure of partici-
pants. An interesting match is ex-
pectsd today between the crack shots.
The tournament will use live birds exclu-
sively.
The meeting was opened yesterday
morning with shoot Of II birds, en-
trance $40. Only expert sportsmen
participated. The contest was exciting
throughout and resulted In an even VIC
tory ior Robinson, Fox and Tabor, who
dropped every pigeon that flew up be.
fore them. Chick, Ralph. Knight, Un-
ger and Packard divided second money.
tieing ON q score of 10 birds each. The
following is the