The San Francisco call., 1896-07-27

light, which was little uncertain ct
times, some fine scores were made. How
ard Carr was on the range with fine 90
caliber Winchester magazine rife Of the
latest pattern, which taxes the new smoke
less cartridge
He was experimenting with q telescope
attachment, and despite all that has been
stated about the new smokelessammuni-
ton carry ing the steel-jacketed and the
''soft-nosed" bullets being inaccurate on
the 20o-vard ranges, Carr made some very
pretty patterns on the Columbia target.
He also used black powder, bus the nitro
prove d its equal for accuracy and the
speed and penetration were much greater
While many are 10th 10 part with the old
black powder, their decision as 10 merits is
due more to prejudice than actual tests
and experiments
For an hour or so there was consider
able interest manifest in q fifty-shot p
caliber rife match between E. jacobson
and smith Carr for q small purse The
shooting was on the Columbia target. fifry
yards, offHand. Several weeks ago these
two sharpshooters met and jacobson
won. He gave Carr q return match
and when they met yesterday each was
determined to win. Jacobson proved the
superior OF the two. He won by q score of
III to Carr's IA. Bv Creedmore count
Jacobson's score was 229.
One of the happies: marksmen on the
pistol range was A. II. Pane While
shooting in the Blanding medal match he
broke all previous pistol records with q
score OF 1, 2, IL. In other words. two OF
his bullets punctured the incn center and
the other shot was less than half an inch
from the center. This pats him ahead of
Daiss in the ten best scores. In the ten
k-z para r.. ~ :.
German yesterday pulled ahead to So.
Yesterdays records show the following
to have made the most flags Tor one-inch
csnters) during the month: PistoI-Gor-
man 4, Pape 3. Young 2. Daiss , Rifle.
% caliber-Hovey Is. jacobson s. Mrs.
Crane L Target rife, Unfred medal
Ioung /, Dr. Rodgers /, Utschig l. These
| flags or centess entitle the msrksmen ~
the cash prizes In each match stated.
On the 2OO-ysrd range the Colum bia's
members did considerable praetieing. but
only few record scores were made. f. E.
Mason ran up practice string OF such
merit that it was pity it was not on Z
record match His hits were 1, 5, 5, 6, :, 4
| 3, 4. s, 3, total fl, which is q score that i,
hard to beat The records on the CoIum
bia target were as follows:
/ Unfred diamond medal three shots-D- 7
Q. Rodgers L. ., 1-1O; J. 'Unfred" IL, F. o
/ Young Is
/ niue record Iue4hit Ten SGOLk-E- O. Young z
3, 8. 4. 3, 4, 9, ), 2, 4-56- DR.. L o Rodgers 80
F. E Mason %, p. Bohr 90, a. B. DoweII 20.
On the short range, nifty yards, the reyoI
yer, pistol and small rife sharps were con
gregated nearly all day Many score,
were shot on the Blanding pistol media
match. The scores for the three STYLES o.
arms we're as follows:
Pistol. BIsnding medal, three shots. open Il
all comers-A- Il Pape 1. 2, IA. j. E. Cor
man 1, ), Ii. c. VI. Daiss >, l. 4-IO. F. 3
| Young 3, 5. 6-14
Pocket revolver. Carr medal, five shots-M
]. White 5. 4, 10, z. S-34
Revolver trophy, all comers match six shots
II. J.White 10, 8, IA. 8, Z, So. A. n. Pane So
! With 22-caliber rife, all corners medal, iv,
shots-E- Jacobson 2, ?, 1, 3, 2-10. Ed Hove,
/ 1, 3, 2. 4, Ill
Ladies 22-cAliber rife, Glirdemann trophv
ten shots-Mrs. NJ J. White ?, 3, 2, 3, 5, 2, 8,
l. 6-46.
The German sharpshooters were greatly
/ interested IN two buIiseye events. and al
/ day the members OF the San Francisco
| SchuetZen Verein and the Germanis
| Schuetzen Club were busy trying TO knock
| down the small black six-inch disks.
| The San Francisco Scnuetzen Yerein'i