San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-02-03
GUNSMEN ON THE COAST.
ONE OF THE GREATEST T0URNA-
MENTS ON RECORD.
Preparations Being Made for Mardi
GraS Festivities.
ANOTHER GREAT SKATING
EVENT BEING HELD AT
MONTREAL.
St. Louis First Fl ench Bsli-Samuel
Gompers to Speak-A Wrestling
Match in Cincinnati-For the Ben
eft of New York's Destitute, a
Concert to be Given.
The Great Coast Tournament.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3.-One of
the biggest shooting festivals ever
arranged will take place at Shell
Mound Park, Berkeley, beginning
tomorrow. The San Francisco
Schuetzen Verein has the arrange
ments in hand, and no labor or ex-
pense has been spared to make the
gathering of riflemen gigantic
success. Ten thousand dollars
worth of prizes and trophies will be
awarded to the marksmen partici-
pating, and a most cordial and
pressing invitation has been eX-
tended by the Verein to all marks
men, wherever they may hail from
whether from foreign countries
or from any part of the United
States--tO come and participate
thereby contributing to the success
of the greatest shooting meet ever
projected. The shooting will COM
mence tomorrow, and will continue
Monday and thereafter will be con-
tinued every Wednesday and Sum
day until the conclusion of the fes-
tival, Sunday, March %.
One of the targets to be shot at
will be known as the Golden Gate
Target. 1t will be a twelve-inch
circular, black, with three-inch
centre (white flag, one and one
half inch intermediate (blue flag,
and three-inch outside ring cred
flag. The entrance fee for 100
shots at this target will be $50 and
the prizes will be awarded to those
who make the most red flags. AS
a souvenir of the festival a solid
"Golden Gate Medal" will be
awarded to each marksman upon
his making the first flag, either red,
white or blue. Int his competition
prizes eggregating $500 will be
awarded. The Midwinter Fair
Target will contain twenty-five
three-quarter-inch rings, and for
each entry of three shots, 81 will
be charged. There will be $4,000
worth of prizes, consisting of a
large assortment of valuable gold
and silverware goblets, jewelry,
ETC., presented to the Nerein
by its friends and ad
mirers. The marksman attain
ing the best score will have
the privilege of first selection, he
second best comes next and so on
until all the prizes are taken.
There will be point target on the
same principle as the Golden Gate
target, at which entries of six
shots each will cost 81, and prizes
amounting to $1,000 will be forth
coming, $500 to be divided among
"best centres" and $500 among
those making the most points.
The main target will rep
resent the upper part of
a mans body and it will
be divided into forty perpendicu-
lar lines. The space between the
two centre lines will count twenty,
and the others decline from these
to the right and left down to one.
Cost of entry, three shots, will be
ST., and there will be cash prizes to
the amount of 5000. Then there
will be a ring target, with four shot
entries 81, and $500 in cash prizes,
while the marks man who at
tains the highest average on all
targets (best centres only exclud-
ed) will be proclaimed King of the
Shooting Festival, and will be
awarded diamond king medal of
the value of SIS. There will be mil
itary team,shooting under the i'm
mediate supervision of General
John H. Dickinson, Colonel r. D.
Laidlaw and Colonel Thomas F.
Barry. The prizes will be $3.50 in
trophies and 800 in cash.