The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-01
SHOT FLYING BLUEROCKS,
An Interesting Tournament
over at the Berkeley
Bird Traps.
Macdonald's ArtIllerymen and the
Columbia Club Crack at
the Targets.

The rife, revolver and bluerock ranges
oyer Berkeley way we're attended by con-
siderable number of marksmen yesterday.
Ifwas not precisely day of all days in
the year for shooting at whirring bits Of
pigeon-imaged wood, or even at the black
centers Of stationary targets. The cross
range wind was rather too strong for the
niceties of professional craftsmanship, and
certain of the scores evidenced that the
bullets had hard time to hold the proper
course. Shell Mound Park was the scene
of picnic given under the auspices of the
Portuguese Protective and Benevolent
Association. The bronzed sons and the
dark-eyed daughters OF the land were
N,here in the conspicuous raiment of early
simmer, and everybody danced with
everybody else, and walked the pretty
glOunds and laughed and chatted and had
SOod time generally.
With the marksmen the trap-shooting
tournament was easily first in importance.
1t was open to all and the birds were blue
rocks. Al extremely interesting match
was one IN WHICH each contestant fired al
twenty blue-ocks. There were fftv-six
marksmen on the line in squads of six,
and during sev-al hours of the morning
there was an ilcessant banging of shot
guns and toierabi! frequent disruption OF
the wooden BIRDS as they whizzed through
The prizes offered foftbis sbootinr we're ere Of II
a considerable value inthe line of sporting
equipments. Following is the entire score
as recorded at the scorers box:
Woods 20, Webbs19, Melville Is. slade ~. Fl
Golcher 10, Tanning II, Sharp II. Flickenger
II, Nauman II, Eugene Forstr II. Bahr is,
R RsRe6fm TO- B6 meTFIs0n White 1s
Fisher Is, B l. Hoxie Is, Young ( Robertson
-, Andrews IA Ellington IA, Cui IA, olsen
u, Stewart IL, Daniels ID, Bruins L, Murdoch
ID, Cohn IL, Williams ~. Mike IL, Potter 10,
Liddle IL, W. Golcher u, Bekeart 10 Glen,
more II, scoyern H. G. B. Hoxie II, 4llen u,
Rickleson 10, Little 8. Matt 8, lie Long z
Schaper g, Smith 6, Barrere q, Wagner
In ten-bird contest, which led of the
series of matches, there were number of
good scores in the list of twenty-four reg
istered on the entry books. These were the
results, In their order of merit:
Zeimer 10, Tanning 10, Slade g. Nauman Q
Hoxie 9, Edward Forster 9, Woods 9, Olsen s
Melville 8, Haight g, Young 8, Rickleson z
Goss 2, Ross 2. Young 6, Eugene Forster s
4, Nickson 4, Cohn 4, Ross4
In another match in which each man hac
chance at ten bIuerocks the scores were
as follows:
Zeiner 10, varney 10, Webb TO- Haigbt 9
Burgans 8, Hoxie g. Woods 8, Daniels 8. Fishe
9, Forster 8, White 8, Melville 8, Goss s
Dung ., SHADE Z, Nauman z, Tanning z, An
drews z, Kerrison g, scovern 6, Stewart 6
Olsen 6, Heider 5, Fay s.
There was also match in which twenty
five of the wooden birds we're thrown. fr
this the scores were:
Webb "a, Kidd %, Daniels %. FIickcnoer "a
II. C. Golcher 81, Burgans 81 Ed Foster 81
Andrews 81, Woods 20, Tanning 20, ingalls, II
Eugene Forster II, Potter II. Allen IL Brun,
10, White 10, Haight Is, Bekeart ID. Baker IA
Grubb IL, Little 10. Barrere 9, Wagner 8.
The marksmen whose firing resulted in
Tie scores in the twenty bird contest did
another bit of shooting afterwards to de.
termlne the prize-winners. Woods carried
oil the hrst prize and Webb the second
honors. Slade was the third winner and
Eugene FORSTER divided the fourth prize
with Tanning, each man scoring five in the
shoot-off Ed Forster was the fifth win.
ner, Robertson the sixth and Gull the sew
art. Nv