The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
THE GUN.

Ina inmate Target Shooters The
Duck-ShootIng Clubs.
The Reliance Gun Club of Oakland will
meet tomorrow in an open-to-all tourna-
ment which will be held on the grounds
of the Pacific Tournament Association
The Salinas Rod and Gun Club will
meet tomorrow at the Salinas trap shoot
ing grounds, where tournament open to
all will be held. Monterey, San Jose Gill
roy, Stockton and San Francisco sports
men will participate. A frst-class time is
guaranteed.
The Empire and San Jose Gun Clubs
will meet on the Goth inst. at San Jose.
where match shoot at inanimate targets
will be held. The consideration is a 500
trophy. Each club will pay one-half of
its cost. The teams will be composed of
twelve men, twenty-five birds known
angles. Betting favors the San Jose team.
The Los Angeles Gun Club is making
extensive preparations for its annual
tournament, which will be held on the
25th, 26th and 9th of this month. Among
the teams that will take part are the
| Olympics of this City and Empires of Oak
land.
The Stockton Gun Club when SHOOTING
matches at the traps don q uniform con-
sisting OF a white hat, red sweater and
| white pants,
Chinese pheasant shooting promises to
be first class this year in Oregon, and the
| sportsmen of Portland are already making
preparations for the slaughter of the Mon
| golians.
Rattlesnakes are very numerous this
year in the nelghborhood of Pieta, and
sportsmen have given that part of the
country the cold shoulder.
According to the secretary of the Sports
mems Protective Association of this CITY.
brisk war will be waged this winter
against those clubs that have leased large
sections of overfiowed country for the sole
purpose of shooting wild ducks. There
are now two suits pending in the courts,
the principal one of which being the suit
OF the Ibis Gun Club against members of
the Mallard Gun Club. The member of
the latter club are very anxious to have
the question of sportsmen's rights decided
before the opening of the season when it
Will be lawful to shoot wild ducks The
Protective Association has now q mem ber-
ship OF 753 and is daily growing stronger.
The following letter has been received
from prominent sportsman, whose vera
city cannot be doubted:
CITY. September 3.
Editor Call: L. D. Anderson and Ed Randall
OF Pacheco, accompanied by T. p E. Troy of
San Francisco, spent few days last week on
Mount Diablo hunting deer While the object
VI eiloII nunt ulu HoC IaVor the sportsmen with
a chance 10 get within range considerable
smaller game was oyertaken and bagged So
the trio were quite well pleased with their
expedition; MIR. Troy returned home Tuesday
looking as Drown as a berry and badly sun
burnt. He would insist on being modest
about hatrbreadth escape with a mountain
line. although he said that deer was very
scarce and tmid the mountain Three
bucks were sighted in the higher attitudes at
long range, whittier they have retreated be-
tore the army OF hunters who industriously
DelaDOr the SLOPES OF MOuut Dis
81 had always heard, /" remarked Troy, ssthst
Dlablo was noted for its lions, but could not
get shot at one anywhere
In Pacheco the sportsmen failed to explain
that the special quest OF their companion was
survey lines, and he still insists that 1.-The
woods are full of EN-"