The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-10
BIG SHOOTING MEET
To Be Held by the Green
Vile Rifle Club on
August 20, 80 and 81.
CHAMPION spRINTERs TO MEET
Grum and Stage Will Run at the
N. ]. A. C. Games-Wheel-
ing and Baseball.

The Greenville Rife Club will hold a
combined prize shooting and prize bowl
ing festival at the Greenyille Schuetzen
Park on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day. August 80. 80 and 81, and judging
from the programme that has been ar
ranged. the affair will be the most inn
portant of its kind ever held in this
country. The Greenville Sshuetzen Park
is located on the Newark Bay shore, at
Sea View avenue. The New County road
passes the entrance. 1t is easily reached
from New York by either the trolley
cars or the Contra Railroad and visit
ing marksemen are expected in great
numbers.
The shooting will at one
O'Clock Thursday afternoon. nine o'clock
Friday and Saturday mornings and close
at half past sis o'clock each day. The
Zettler Brothers will furnish rifles and
ammunition during the festival for the
accommodation of visiting rifemen The
shooting will be in charge of the follow
ing committee: c. Boag. Chairman;
Charles Rothweiler. Secretary; George w.
Plaisted. Henry Lutz. Henry Gotthardt,
C. Sheeline. M. Douler. William C. Col
Inns and B. Goldenhorn.
The bowling alleys will be opened at
one o'clock each afternoon. The fol-
lowing committee will have charge of
the alleys: Valentine Holzappe1, chair
man; Henry Lutz. John Hill. E.. A..
Graef. Joseph Kaiser, A. Huelsen, E.
Wuestner. Jr.. Edward Schultz and Rob
ert Zeiger. The game will be head pin,
each ticket emitting the player to three
balls. The three best tickets will count,
and no player can obtain more than one
prize. The prizes will be as follows:
first. s25: second. SIS: third, $40; fourth,
So; fifth. IS: SIXTH, So; seventh. 81; eighth,
50; ninth. 81; tenth, 81. Premiums: for
best ten tickets. SO; for second best
ten tickets. s7;sfor third best ten tick
cts, 81. .
In the shooting competition there will
be four targets. including the judges tar
get. open to judges only. The prizes,
which will be many in number, will be
in cash. The Schuetzenbund rules will
govern the contest. The competitions will
be as follows
,,I Rip eta target g distance 200 yards; 2 inch
to all corners. First ticket 81, each fol-
lowing 81 Three best tickets to count
ticket t to nf Count nte for pf'f fhe fo dhe heg' p slihese
In case of ties. next best ticket to count.
Tickets unlimited. Only one prize OBJ
raias0i So; Oy second sas I pri9e. $40: pf fhird p giTst
ss5: fourth prize, SIS; fifth prize $40; sixth
prize. SIS; seventh. prize, sl2;. eighth
So: eleventh prize. S.; twelfth prize, SIS;
fifteenth prize S.; sixteenth prize, s.;
s.; nineteenth prize, IS: twensieth PRIZE Prize,
target: SIS; second best I'VE tickets on
ring target target. 81 s.: ' fourth 1ef BEST aVf five se't tieke aa
Three shefs. Tickets $. Open to ali
Judges and members. First prize guar.
anteed to be $50. Judges Target: Three
shots; open to judges only. 4 fine tro-
Point Target-Open to all corners. This
target has a black of IL inches diameter.
d div Id, into three parts, the innner circle
8 inches in diameter. counts 8 points: the
next circle of 6 inches diameter counts
points; s sbd the e, balance Ia s Of plack count
count. TIL shooter hitting the bulls'-eye
nearest the centre shall take hrst prize.
tain but one prize. Prizes. First prize.
$40; second prize. sse; third prize. SO;
8; ninth Nth; prissee. s.; tenth prize, g; elev-
f fssnth prize az;ze s; s. f slrFseeqs nr,1 prize. s.;
enth prize. 81; eighteenth prize. ST.; nine
teenth prize. So: twentieth prize, So.
Premiums for the most points shot by
one shooter during the festival:-1st
premium. SIS; second premium, 81; third
premium, SO; fourth premium. ST: fifth
premium, s.; sixth premium, 81; seventh
premium. SO. For first bull's-eye on each
day of the festival, 81 cash; for last
bull's-eye or each day of the festival, 81
cash. Bulrs-eye target will close at five
r M. Saturday.
Champion trophy. A valuable trophy
will be presented to the shooter making
the greatest number OF points on the
Point Target in his first 100 shots.