The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29
The Result of the Police Rifle
Match at Shell Mound
Park.
SAN FRANCISCO mot IN IT.
The Winning Team Entertained a
Dinner at the Expense of the
Losers.

The rife match between ten men from
the San Francisco and Oakland police de-
nartments, which has been for some
months past arousing the greatest interest
in the departments, took place at Shell
Mound Park yesterday afternoon and re-
suited in a victory for the Oakland men by
IA points.
The San Francisco team, accompanied
hv Captain Whitman and several friends,
went across the bay with the II O'Clock
boat. and on arriving at the park they
found the Oakland men with Captain
Fletcher waiting for them. Chief Lloyd
of Oakland was also with his men and
watched the contest with the greatest IN
terest Among others present We're: Cen
eral ]. G. Wall, Captain Bradley, Captain
Hinde of the Pinkerton agency. Colouel
Burns. ex-inspector of rifle practice in the
militia, ex-Captain Short, Sergeant Bethel
and ex-Sergeant Harmon.
Colonel Sam Beaver of the Bank OF Cali
fornia ard Colonel MckiIlican, ex-Sheriff
of Alameda County, were referees Tor the
San Francisco aud Oakland teams respect
ivelv. Policemen c. Peters and Merrick
were scorers for San Francisco and police
men Stahl and Carsen for Oakland.
Fletcher had each taken his team quietly
aside and spoken a few words OF caution
and announcement TO them no time was
lost in starting the shooting.
The teams were as follows:
San Francisco-Harry Hook. o. c. Phil
lips, L. c. Peters, W. w. Wilson, John
Fleming Thomas A. AtChison, George +.
Mulcahey, j. ID. Fhnn, smith carr ana
Sergeant Nash.
Oakland-D. W. Swain. J. NJ. Cockerton,
T.. E. Andrews, W. Kingsbury, C. E.
Clarke, J. F. Sill, Frank Schroeder, J. j..
Mccarthy, Nick Williams and IL. c. Ar
nest.
The distance was 200 yards, each man
firing ten shots, the possible being 80.
There were two targets, NJ and z, and
man from each team fired alternately at
each target for his ten shots. Each man
was allowed TWO sighting shots.
Harry Hook and d. W. Swain, two old
time rivals and comrades, laced each other
at NJ target, Hook firing the first shot in
the match and scoring a center. Swain
followed with center, and the pair i'm
ished with Swain, who is 81 years OF age, 3
points ahead.
Phillips and Cockerton opened the ball
at P target, the former firing the first shot,
a center. At the finish Cockerton was
ahead.
The prettiest and most exciting compe-
titiOn was between Peters and Andrews,
who followed Hook and Swain. Peters
opened with a bullseye, Andrews with a
center. Peters scored another bullseye
and Andrews center, and the spirits of
the San Francisco men rose. Peters then
made four centers and Andrews two bulls
eyes and two centers, which made them
equal. Then each made bullseye, a CEN
ter and two bullseyes, ending in a tie-45
each
After this Oakland increased their lead.
The greatest gain was that of Schroeder
over Mulcahey, seven points. Sergeant
Nash was unfortunate. His rife was a
little under weight at the trigger and was
rejected. He borrowed Fleming's. and as
he had never shot with it before he made
the poor score of 80, while his opponent
made 43. Finn defeated Mccarthy by
four points and Smith Carr defeated Will
liams by one point. These were the only
two of the San Francisco team TO defeat
their opponents. As stated before Peters
and Andrews tied at As and Atchison and
Sill tied at IL. Schroeder, with 46, was
the highest scorer of both teams and he
won a pair of trousers as the highest
scorer OF the Oakland team. Peters, with
45, won an ivory police whistle as the
highest scorer of the San Francisco team.
None of the San Francisco team shot up
to their average, with the exception of
Peters. On the contrary all the Oakland
men, except Mccarthy, were up TO their
average and two or three were ahead of it..
Mccarthy of Oakland was the lowest
scorer, with SO, and Wilson of San Fran
cisco next, with SO.
The total for the San Francisco team
was 400 anG for the Oakland team 423, a
majority for Oakland of IA. Following is