The morning call., 1894-07-16
SUNDAY SHOOTS.
Olympic Clubs Blue=ROCk
Contest.
Fisher of the Lincolns Lays Down
the Law to Military Officer.
Red Men Shoot at Shell Mound.

With the military still engaged in get
ting free rides on trains and willing away
the hours loungiDg on railroad tracks. the
gun clubs had things pretty much their
own way again yesterday at the different
shooting parks in Oakland and vicinity.
Any one with very lively imagination.
in riding up to Shell Mound station after
having passed line of military pickets on
duty and hearing the frequent cracks OF
the rifles of the clubmen at short Irregular
in tervals, might easily have thought him.
self in the midst of some sharpshooters'
skrmish in time of war.
Over in their own quarters al Alameda
Point the Lincoln Club had its usual shoot.
1t was apparent from the attendance that
a great many of the members placed but
little reliance in the reports that trains
were running, for there were very few
present.
Some of the military had eDcamped on
the gun clubs grounds and had Incident
ally used the trap section for repository
for garbage.
When the different members had ar
rived and seen the condition of their
grounds howl Of dismay that sounded
like that emitted by cracked toghoTn
with the asthma startled some OF the SOL,
diers into the belief that the time had
come for them to throw down their guns.
A lieutenant of the company came over
to the waiting gunners and U. FISHER pro-
cepQed to file a protest.
The officer agreeing to see that IL ala not
occur again, and furnishing Two men 10
clean up, the shoot progressed.
Out of 90 unknown traps Y. Karner got
Is and 0. Fisher got II.
While Fisher was having an understand
ing with the lieutenant relative to the gar
bage question, the Olympic Club was hav-
ing its usual semi-monthly shoot over On
the Oakland District track.
Nothing of startling nature was made
in the line of records, Phil Bekeart getting
the first with q out of possible 70, Stauf
coming close after him with only one less,
and Golcher making third with Is.
Thorn and Justins tied each other, with
for the lowest number
The score was as follows:
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Hughes -. 90 0l0ll 1l0l1 l0l0l lOOlOOO-l3
Stauf ...lIlIll1110ll1010ll1
morn OOOOOl OO1l Ol1Ol1O1OO0UOO s
GoIcher .......ill1 l011l l0l0lOlOllOliO-l8
IiddIe OO0O0OOO II 00Ol 1OlOlOlllO- 9
MacAIahon. =. .U00l010lll000 U01l100OO-ll
Justins...... :. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 8
The pool-shoots of fifteen birds each,
with 81 so entrance fee. resulted as
follows:
Golcher s. Ldde 8, human g. Thorn 6, Mac.
Mahon 5, ,Justins 5, Vandercook 4, Hughes 3.
Second-Vernon II, Stauf 10. human 8,
Bekearl 8, Golcher 8, Thorn z. MacMahon 8,
JustinS 5, Hughes 4.
A grand prize blue-rock shooting tour
manner mt will be held at the Oakland race
track this coming Saturday and Sunday.
The shooting section Of the Red Men had
a target-shoot at Shell Mound that was,
like the rest of the days events, very
poorly attended.
The Alta Gun Club held its weekly
shoot at the Eight-me House. Following
is the score of forty birds:
L. Holden 49, E. Van DOrlng 20. d. Van
Dorling 90 j. z. Roach 80, William Holden,
81, NJ. Wright 20, j. Doan 10, Patrick
o. Brlen 16.
Sam Wah King, Chinaman, has started
a cattle ranch In Montana with capital
of $4,000. He employs only Chinese on
his ranch