The San Francisco call., 1896-08-29
RIFLE AND RANGE.
A Number of Interesting Events for
the Near Future.


the Near Future.
The new rifle range and park of the San
Jose Turn Verein will be opened to-mor-
row with grand shooting festival and
picnic. Marksmen from all over the coast
have been invited to attend and many in
vitations have been accepted. San Fran
cisco clubs will be well represented. A
large nu mber of cash and honorary prizes
will be con tested for. When the train
from this City reaches San Jose, a little
after 8 O'CLOCK in the morning, the visitors
will be met at the depot by the Turner's
in full uniform and escorted through the
principal streets to the park. The Turn
ers of San Francisco will go to the Garden
City in full uniform. The shooting will
last two days, tomorrow and Monday.
On Monday evening there will be the dis
tribution of prizes followed by a grand
ball.
The Eintracht, San Francisco Turn
Verein and the Deutschen Krieger shoot
ing sections of San Francisco are prepar-
ing for big joint picnic and prize shoot
ing festival, to be held in Schuetzen Park,
near San Rafael, on the first Sunday in
October. On Monday night representa-
tives of the three organizations met and
made the preliminary arrangements for
the event.
In order to carry on the work system
atically, they formally organized with the
following officers and committees:
Robert Wieneke president f. Attinger
vice president, o. Burmeister secretary,
Captain f. Kuhls treasurer. Press COM
mittee-O. Burmeister, +. Kaiser. Shoot
ing mmittee-Captain Kuhls, Captain
Attinger, Captain Wieneke. Music COM
mittee-Charles Gumpel, Joe Straub. G.
Maritzen. Park and railroad committee
~ lie
Com mittee for bowling alley-J. Young,
c. Rudolph, A. FRANKIE. Rattle COM
mittee-L. Schmidt, ]. Straub, f. Kaiser.
1t was decided to offer large number
of valuable honorary prizes. At present
all of the events have not been decided
upon. An invitation will be extended TO
all rifle clubs and marksmen to attend the
shooting festival and merrymaking.
For several days past Captain Sebe of
Shell Mound has been putting the rife
range in order for the thirty-eighth an
nual festival of the San Francisco Schuet-
zez Verein, which will be held on Sunday,
September 6. About $400 in cash will be
shot for, The usual range rules will gov
ern. On the point target there will be
20 cash prizes, from $25 to 81, for the best
centers, and 20 prizes, from $25 to 50, for
the most points. Besides these $50 will
be divided into Is cash premiums, from
$l2 to 81, for the most red flags in 30 shots;
tickets, So, unlimited. Ties will be de-
cided by the most blue flags. The distri-
button of prizes will be held on Thursday
evening, Septem ber 10, at California Hall,
$40 Bush street. The distribution will be
followed by social.
On Thursday evening at the California
Schuetzen Clubs distribution of prizes
the question of superiority among the
champions arose, and the subject mar
rowed down to the qualifications of A.
Strecker and D. w. Mclaughlin. This
question will be decided on the third Sun
day in September, when these two marks
men will shoot 100-shot match for 500 a
side. The match is looked forward to
with great interest by local marksnen,
and some interest in the event will surely
be felt by Eastern ritiemen, to whom
Strecker and Mclaughlin are known per-
sonally and by reputation.
California is noted all over the United
States, and in fact all over the world. for
the number of her expert marksmen who
have won honors and prizes on every range
and under every sun. This is not to be
wondered al considering the large number
of riflemen in the State, and particularly
in and around San Francisco. Within the
past few months interest in rifle and re-
volver practice has been increasing and
the local clubs membership rolls are con-
stantly growing larger. In the interior of
the State this interest has been marked by
These CLUBS 1t seems are being formed by
the younger generation. guided to some
extent by the older marksmen, men who
have ''seen their best days" as rifle and
pistol shots. The young marksmen, how
ever, desire modern methods and ideas for
their guidance, as indicated by several let-
ters OF inquiry that have come to hand.
These inquiries are for information as to
how to construct rifle ranges, targets, the
best nrearms, both large and small, and
the best ammunition and the methods of
loading the same.
Lack Of time has prevented the answer
ing OF all OF these letters at length, but a
few suggestions can be made here that
VIII place many OF these inquirers in the |
right direction for obtaining the Informal
ton they desire. There are several we'll |
written works on rife and revolver shoot |
ing and the proper firearms to select for |
special purposes. Two are by A. C. Gould |
OF 293 Broadway New York, entitled ssThe