The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-23
ALL TRUE SHOTS.
Frank POulter Makes the
Possible.
SCORED AT SHELL MOUND.
Every Ball Through the Tiny
Black Disk.
BATTERY E AGAIN VICTORIOUS
An Excellent Shot by Eckmann al
the San Rafael Range-Other
Rifle Scores.

corporal r. POuiter 80. Oooooooooo-oV
II any of CALIFORNIA; crack military
markSmen have ever doubted the claim Of
Corporal Frank Pouter of the Fifth In
faDtry to the rifle-fring championship of
the National Guard, the remarkable per-
Torrance of the Oakland ''non-com"
yesterday was quite sufficient to demon
strate his superb skill in target hitting.
The possible" was made at Shell
Mound yesterday and Poulter did it. In
the parlance Of military and other varie-
ties of riflemen the possible" is under
stood TO mean full score or one or more
strings without credits less in merit than
bulseyes. The score made by the Oak
land guardsman was ten-shot string Of
ten bullseyes or fifty points. The shoot
ing was done in a match with j. NJ.
Vaughn, another excellent marksman. and
the conditions governing the contest were
perfectly in accord with those prescribed
for record competitions. The score will
be recognized as record In National
Guard circles, and in the dearth of superior
marksmen Corporal Pouter has every
title to the championship OF the Califor-
MIA National Guard.
There were only about dozen of Com
pany AS men over at Shell Mound when
the score was made. 1t was not day for
company prac ice, but then Company A
of the Fifth has men who are not willing
10 await the arrival of practice days to try
for hOnors on the range. 1t was men of
This kind-men who make marksmen of
themselves by their enthusiasm and appli-
cation to range wnrk-whO were at the
Berkeley targets. Friendly matches were
arranged, and the several promin ent rifle
men spent the ntire day in shooting. One
of these contests was between POulter and
Vaughn. Both men are cracks OF we'll
known ability. Poulter has done fine
shooting for several years. and In October
last he made just such score as no made
yesterday. Vaughn is one of the old
marksmen of the National Guard, and has
several records to boast. In 1884 he made
81 out of a possible 100 in a iwenty-s hot
match and won the championship. This
was done at Shell Mound when the old
Pacific Rife Club directed the work OF
Western rltlemen.
In the match yesterday Poulter led off
with a center, and Vaughn scored 4.
Poulter continued to register SIS, and
Vaughn found the target for As and GEN.
tiers alternately until the end of his score.
The surprising accuracy displayed by
POulter drew every marksman on the
range 10 Company AS firing place. The
enthusiasm of the crowd knew no bounds
when POulter rolled up DO in nine shots,
and there was a hush throughout the
range when he made ready for the tenth
shot. A center would make the possible
total, and the multitude OF marksmen
present seemed to realize that the best of
CALIFORNIA; receniirecOrd' was in danger.
Poulter drew the trigger after a careful
aim. The shell was thrown from the
chamber in a moment, the rife was in its
rack and Poulter turned around just as
the white disk shot up and covered the
black bullseye.
The possible" had been made.
PoulteI's 80 was scored on the Blunt
target, The bullseve OF which is in form an
ellipse and by 10 inches in diameter. At
the range distance-200 yards-the ellipse
seems a black circular mark about one
eighth Of an inch in diameter. The rife
used was the Springfield.
AtShell Mound Park yesterday Batteries
ID and E of the Second Artillery, National
Guard of California, did battle for a
bronze trophy. The match was between
teams of twenty men each. and under the
regulations prescribed by Blunt's book on
small-arms firing. The affair was inter-
esting, not on account of the scores, but
mainly because the citizen soldiers showed
such enthusiasm in practice with the rife
and laudabIe effort to excel in the target
hitting science. The result of the compe-
tition was what had been expected. Ba t.
terry ID was not in the fight to the extent
of fifty points. Still the vanQuished team
did well, and the members of both COM
panies felt satisfied over the outcome.
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