The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05
First Honors in the Team Match
Won by Olympic Club
Marksmen.
M'CoY TAKES THE GOLD DUST"
The Tournament Declared the Most
Successful Ever Held in
America.

SAN JOSE CAL. Oct. 4.-The first day
of the San Jose meet of the California In
animate Target Association was pro-
nounced by visiting marksmen by far the
most successful in the associations his
tory. In the number o! entries it even
eclipsed the celebrated meeting of trap
shooters in Rochester, N. Y, in 1895,
which was at the time pronounced the
largest ever held in the world. There
were 1853 entries for all the events, and the
marksmen kept the five electric traps busy
from o'clock this morning until it was
too dark to see the bluerocks this
evening.
The average shooting was poor, but the
Olympic Gun Club of San Francisco did
some phenomenal work and broke 108 blue
rocks out of a possible 120. This entities
this club to the Overland Monthly trophy
a silver punch bowl. The Lincoln Gun
Club of Oakland took second place IN the
team event, breaking 103 bluerocks out of
q possible 40. In the third event, for the
E. T. Allen cup, individual contest. DR..
W. S. George of Antioch proved the victor,
making the only clean score III the event
twenty birds straight.
Dust" diamond medal Martinez Chick
of the Los Angeles team and e. h. Mccoy
of the Stockton Athletic Association both
made clean scores of 20 each in this con-
test, and the tie was shot off. The match
proved very interesting, as the contest
ants have tied each other on several occa-
sions. Chick missed his last bird, and
Mccoy won the medal by score of II to
Chicks 16 There was great rejoicing in
the tent of the Stockton marksmen over
this victory.
The team shoots for the Overland
Monthly trophy resulted as follows:
Olympic Gun Club-o. Feudner 1s, Tanning
Is, Webb 10, Nauman 1S, Haight II, F. Feud-
ner IS. Total 108.
White IA, Whitney 16. Mcmahon IL, Jackson
16. Jurtins TO- Total 80.
Los Angeles-Fishbeek II, Ralph 16, Leigh
ton 10, Breer 16, Mason 19, Chick 10. Total 80.
Garden City Cvclers No. 3-H. NJ. n. Sprig
IA, J. T. Rucker s, o. Ingalsbe 8, w. Lipsett
Is, w. Taafe Is, R. sehilling 13; total 70
u, Few IL, Works 13, NOVEL; 10; total 79
san Joaquin Yaliey-Fox 16, Wood IL, Shell
II, Sensurby 10, Downing ID. McVeagh Is;
Garden City Cyclers No. 2-Holmes 16. Fhin
10, J. Lewis 13, W G. Flint Is, c. A. Hall 18,
w: B. Hoiron II; total 81.
L
ter 10, Robertson 1S, Murdoch IA, Daniels 20.
Total lob.
Empire No. Oscars II. King II, Andrews
13, Howe IA, Kerrison 13, Depue IA. Total
So.
Garden City Cyclers No. 1-R Coykendan
16 G. II. Anderson IT, F. Coykendall IA. j.
Delmas IL, j. ConoI 19, A. NJ. Barker II. To-
tai 80.
Empire No 1-Albron IL, Judd 13, Menden-
hall Is, Haxuhurst 16, Ecker IL, Ellington 16.
Total Sc.
Lincoln No. 2-Kearney Is, Horton Is.
Franzen Ia, Shaw 16, E. Foster Is. Alderton II.
Total, SO.
Stockton G. C-Balkwill Is, H. Relphs 10,
G. Detz Jr. IA, Payne 10, Ellis II, Fonzers 10.
Total, 90.
Stockton A A-Nieholl 13, F. Merrill 16, D..
Winders II, Mccoy 49, c. Merrill 13, C. J.
Eeas 16. Total, 90.
ReIiance-Tubbs Is, McCutchen Ia, Olsen
15, Sewers 16, Coffin Is, ]. C. Baker IA To-
tai, 80.
AUTHORITARIAN II, Altizer IL, Proctor 15
Taylor Is, Renfll II, J. Ross 16 Total, Sc.
Those making clean scores in the 20
bird contest were: R. H. Mccoy, Stock
ton; DR.. W. S. George, Antioch; j. Breer,
Los Angeles; E. E. Mason, Los Angeles,
and G. G. Nauman (two), San Francisco.
Those making clean scores in the 15-
bird events were: w. Sears, San Fran
cisco; D. Daniels and c. H. Shaw, Oak
land; M. Chick, Los Angeles; c. Haas
(two), j. Jeffrey, Salinas; Lee Durham
(two), Antioch; DR.. A. NJ. Barker and ].
Carroll, Garden City Cyclers.
The individual scores showed the fol-
lowing results as the number shot at and
bir.