The San Francisco call., 1895-12-23
Columbia Pistol and Rifle Clubs
Final Shoot for the
Season.
THE MUsKET RECORD BROKEN.
After the Last Shot Many Beautiful
Prizes Were Presented to
the MarkSmen.

valuable medals and the banquet that fol-
lowed, which took place yesterday at the
Shell Mound Shooting Range, will long be
remembered with pleasure by the marks
men and their invited guests.
Three years ago a dozen of marksmen
who were fairly proficient in the use of
pistols and revolvers organized a pistol
club which became known as the Colum bia
Pistol Club. Nearly every member was
also good rifle shot and belonged to one
or more rifle clubs, but they decided to
widen the scope of the Pistol Club by in
Guiding rifle practice and the "and rifle"
was inserted in the name.
Now the clubs roll shows over 60 mem
bers, all of whom are so expert in ne use
of the rifle and pistol that they stand
ready to issue or accept a challenge from
any club for contest with their favorite
firearms
The Columbias are not selfish in their
favorite sport. for they included the ladies
IN their mem bership and offered medals
and valuable prizes to the fair sharp
shooters, who, of course, use light rifles.
During the past year sixteen prizes have
been contested for and several thousand
scores have been shot for each medal. The
iiHcLuCu nave uOt COuuUeu ID6In selves TO
the use of one or two firearms. but their
records have been made with military
rifles, fancy sporting rifles, pocket revol-
vers, large revolvers, sporting pistols, and
22-caliber rifles, at all distances, from so
to 500 yards, and with hair triggers to
triggers with six and eight pound pulls.
This practice has brought out two young
the world with the military rifle. Ed Ho-
vey uses a Sharp's and Frank Poulter
United States Springfield. Their records
on the eight-inch military bullseyes show
an average OF 46 points on twenty-five
scores. None of the authorities upon mil
ltary rifle matters name any rifleman in
the United States, or in the world, for that
matter, who has anywhere near reached
the records of Hoyey and Poulter.
Yesterday being the last shoot of the
season the club mem bers were outin goodly
mum bers and the final contests for medals
were spirited in the extreme. On the rifle
range the following final scores were made:
Kuhnle medal, target rihes-F. Q. Young 81,
D. W. Mclaughlin 81, A. II. Pape 79. Climber
Young AZ, Dr. L. o. Rodgers 46, F. Poulter 46,
]. B. McCutcheon Az. Pistol, Blanding medal
F. 0. Young 80, Smith Carr SO, j. B. Nc
% medaHoyard oS I'd Carr, " g. s. tos; a. Ss J. Jar E.
German, %, "a, 10, IS; A. H. Pape, 1S, II, II, q,
13; F. o. Young, Is, 10, TO- s.
In shooting for the Carr medal, rapid
firing, the practical use of the pocket re-
volver was demonstrated and those who
saw the performances of Carr and German
yesterday were astonished at what can be
done in the way of rapid firing with ac-
curacy. Carr shot with an ordinary self
cooking revolver and his first, third and
fourth scores. with five shots each, were
made in eight seconds to the score, every
bullet hitting the buliseye, fifty yards
away. His second score was made in seven
seconds. Carr's total was 106, while Cor
mans was 1O3 in about the same space of
time.
Before closing for the day DR.. Rodgers
and D. W. Mclaughlin picked teams of
eleven men and shot friendly match of
three shots each on the ring target at 200
yards, possible thirty points. McLaugh-
Inns team won, as seen by the annexed
scores, which show an average of so per
cent to the twenty-five men:
Mclaughlin %, Poulter 10, Pape g. Gran
"a Bohr d. Barley 49, Daiss IS, kennedy 90
Glindermann 26, Hess %, Lowry %. Total,
245.
Rodgers "a, Young 25, Hovey 21, DorreIl "a,
German 20, Shultz %, Klein %, Helburg IL,
Unfred 23 II. Carr %, McCutcheon %. Total,
244.
When the darkness began to creep in
over the range and the last shot was fired
the marksmen repaired to the dining hall,
where Captain l.. Siebe had spread a fine
turkey dinner. with ell of the good things
that are supposed to accompany banquet
where the American bird predominates.
President DR.. Rodgers presided at the
head of one of the long tables and Howard
Carr at the other table,
After the keen edge had been taken from
the appetites of the hungry ri1emen sew
eral addresses were made. President
Rodgers reviewed the progress and sue
cess of the club, and Congratulated the
winners upon their success and the others
their craftsmanship. He emphasized the
fact that rifle and pistol shooting is clean,
moral sport-a sport in which there is less
gambling and corruption than in any
other.
Its votaries, he said, are less given to evil
habits and practices than any other, be-
cause to be a good marksman, one must
restrict himself in the use of liquors and
tobacco and keep good hours in order to
preserve steady nerves, q keen, clear eve
and quick comprehensive intellect. In
the course of his remarks he called atten-
tion to THE CALLS appreciation Of clean
sports. and particularly to its accurate and
impartial accounts OF all rifle and pistol
matches.
+. O. Young, the clubs secretary, and
one of the most enthusiastic workers in the
organization, made pleasing address IN
which he outlined pro obab BILE plan for the
clubs operations in 1896. Many of the
other officers and visitors also made short
addresses.
The president then distributed the prizes,
and more beautiful collection of medals
is rarely seen in one place. The medals
were distributed on the basis of the four
best scores of the season by each marks
man. The winners and scores were as
follows:
Rifle, champion class-Dr. L. o. Rodgers 81,
90, 80, 84-354. First clasp Bohr 81, S6,
80, S1-336. Second class-A. Fetz 70, IA, "a,
71-291.
Pistol. champion class-A. II. Pape o. "a
90, 90-370. First class. E. German 93 81 :,
80, SS-362. DR.. Rodgers made tie with
German on the score of 362, but the latter was
the winner according to the Creedmoor rules
Second class-F. Dennis S4, S3, 73, S3-323
[. o. Rodgers-94, 81, 90, 92-369. f. O..
ing this score on scores OF 361.
Glindermann medal military rifle, won by
+. Poulter-4S, 4S, As, 46-19O. He was closely
followed by Hovey with 1S9. Young with 1856,
Rodgers with $50 and Pape with 1874.
Siebe medal, rifle, pistol and musket, won
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