The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-01

The twenty-frst grand annual picnic
and midsummer night festival of the Nord.
deutscher Verein, which takes place or
Sunday, June 8, promises to be surpass
ing event. In the shooting contest on the
ring target there will be $SS in cash
divided into fifteen prizes. For most red
flags, "a or % rings, first prize $50, last
prize S..
w. Milton Farrow, the old-time rife shot
OF America who won the King medal al
the great American Bundles Festival in
New York in 1878, will compete at the great
forthcoming festival in New York. He
says that he will not take a back seat fol-
any of the new champions. Milton Far
row competed here fifteen years ago at the
fall shooting festival of the California
Schuetzen Club; he was beaten for shoot
ing king and first prize on the honorary
target by 2. Jacoby, and later in fifty shot
match by A. StrecRer.
The Columbia Pistol Club enthusiasts
continue to make scores that are the as
constituent of Eastern marksmen. AS
told in the CALL some time ago their sim
gular proficiency is in large measure due
to the weapons invented by the shooters
themselves or composed of rifle combina-
tions, which give nearly perfect results.
Gordon Banding got queer pistol from
France and makes remarkably high scores
Wioii ~. w ltHOoO SOluS lltO It's lntCIud
arrangement description is not possible,
for there is nothing to be seen but a barrel
and handle. Everything is covered up
hammer, trigger and action-and all Mr..
Banding has to do is to touch button.
The works inside do the rest.
ID. K. Brown uses magnificent weapon,
which was originally Smith d Wesson
perfect through remodeling as pistol can
be.
Colonel s. I. Kellogg, c. NJ. Daiss,
Colonel Beaver, E. Hoyey and j. r. Cor
man, all formidable marksmen, are the
only members who shoot with standard
pistols, unaltered either in action or bar
rel. They have changed the handles, how
ever, to suit their individual tastes.
ID. Z. Crane, who has made fifty-two
bulPs-eyes in succession with his pistol at
nifty yards, scores his successes with a
Remington rifle action, to which is lngenl-
ously united ten inches of 22-callber Win
chester barrel. There is not such another
weapon as this in existence.
Howard Carr has taken A revolver
frame and added part of rife after re-
moving the action, and by this means got
q nearly perfect pistol, in which is COM
blned two standard firearms. Shooting
with this weapon he runs up scores which
are at once the envy and surprise OF pistol
club men away from home.
L. ". 1Ouug 1aVOflIe is u Otefeno Soi-
lery pistol with the barrel cut off and a
rifle barrel substituted. He also shoots
with standard revolver, to which is added
on the top 22-caliber rife barrel 10 inches
long, from which cartridges are exploded
by an ingenious com bination with the ham,
mer. This gives him double-barreled re-
volver, an oddly in firearms.
Among the best shots is Smith Carr,
who holds the highest score, 81 out OF a
possible 100. He uses Smith d Wesson
a caliber with the action removed and a
22-caliber rife barrel substituted.
A. II. Pape. whose record is source OF
surprise to Eastern cracks, uses similar
weapon with ten inches of Winchester
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