The herald., 1895-09-22
GUN CLUB TOURNAMENT
Result of the Opening Days
Shooting
TROPHY WON BY SANTA ANA
Parker Carries Off the H0nors of the
Day
Good Shooting by Hauerwaas, Leighton and
Packard Were Features-Van Valken.
berg Has Bad Luck In Q r1atch

The first day of the tournament OF the
Los Angeles City Gun club was an un-
doubted success. Excellent weather and
very little wind mades an almost ideal
Gay for the sport, and the larger nun Der
of the shooters were not slow to take ad-
vantage of the fact. The best shooting of
the day was done by Clarence Parker OF
Santa Ana. who made the best score OF
his team in the team match. and took
first money in the seventh event on the
card. John Hauerwaas of Los Angeles
and G. Packard of Riverside were not
far behind him, ana divided first money
in more than one event.
Shooting did not commence till nearly
1880 o'clock, and as consequence there
were only seven events out OF the eight
on the card that were shot off. Little
interest was aroused by the first three
events, the spectators reserving their APP
plause for the team match that was billed
as number four. Most of the spectators
had picked the Los Angeles team No.
to win, but they were doomed to disap-
pointment. The teams lined up as fol-
lows:
Santa Ana-C. Parker, E. Mason. E..
Riverside-C. Packard, G. Anderson.
W. II. Smith, M. E. Tabor. J. Bruner.
Los Angeles No. &c. Van Valken-
berg, James hatfield, G. Creighton, L..
Breer, l.. Ralphs.
Los Angeles No. "a. Ralphs, D.
Schenck, b. Osgoodsby, J. Hauer waas,
J. Cline.
From, this It vii! he seen that the
Azusa team did not compete, though it
was entered.
OF the individual mem bers Parker and
Mason of the Santa Ana team did the
best work for their side, the former max
ing % and the latter % outsof 25 Van
Valkenberg broke the firing pin of his
gun, which accounts for his making such
poor showing. Had this not happened
the Los Angeles team No. 1 would have
given the Santa Ana men hard run for
the trophy. Leighton of the Los An
geles No. l did some good shooting all
through the day, and pulled the score OF
his team up in the trophy match.
Then came match at 20 singles. 81
entrance, purse divided into four
moneys. leighton took this with Is
biros, bis shooting in this match bein 6
some OF the best work of the day.
The shooters then had chance at ten
singles, ST. entrance, three moneys. re-
verse rules to govern. BY this Is meant
that the shooters stand opposite one trap
die trap getting u straight away shot.
In this Mason showed up we'll, getting
ten Straight, with good clean shots. Sec
ond and third money was divided so
that it bore but slight resemblance 10
the original amount.
The last event of the day was match
at fifteen singles. $l50 entrance. three
moneys. In this event the shooting OF
Hauerwaas. Parker, Packard and Van
Valkenberg was the feature, all of them
making straight scores. Hauerwaas, in
particular, got frequent applause for his
steady shooting.
There are two events on the card to-
morrow that will be holly contested.
The first is the priz shoot at twenty
singles, where the ties Will be shot off. IN ISIS
and out. The other notable event is tn 9
championship singles, in which all the
best men in Southern California will COM
pete. For this event the club has hung
up handsome diam ond medal. TO be-
come the owners property after he has
won the same three times. The III edal
is to be contested for at the regular
semi-annual tournaments of the club.
should tomorrow's programme prove
too short there will be pool shooting for
the rest OF the day. Everybody on the
grounds is eligible to all the events, il
respective of club connections.