The San Francisco call., 1896-08-17
An Exciting Race Between Fax.
tor and schuster for
Most Centers.
MARKsMEN FROM SAN JOSE.
They Carry Off Their Share OF the
Laurels = Fred Kuhnle Still
in the Ranks.

day about 10, 600 rifle bullets were shot
over the Schuetzen Park rifle range. The
occasion of this fight of leaden pellets
was the annual shooting festival of the
California Schuetzen Club, which was a
success in every respect. Twenty targets
were in constant use all day, and the sale
of shooting tickets amounted to nearly
S15OO. It must not be inferred that this
was clear profit, for the club put up many
hundred dollars in cash prizes.
The big shoot was not ended yesterday,
but will be resumed on next Sunday, when
on the honorary target about $1,000 in
merchandise and special prizes will be
shot for. Besides this there will be sew
eral other interesting events.
As stated, the attendance was very
large, and included many members of the
San Francisco Schuetzen Club, Germania
Club, Red Mems shooting section, the Col.
um bia Pistol and Rife Club ana the San
Jose Turner Schuetzen section.
The representatives from the latter Or
ganization were Captain Fred-Schumacher,
the president of the club, DIR. Fred Bangs,
Kari Klein and ]. G. McMillen, the County
Surveyor of Santa Clara County. The San
Jose Club will hold shooting festival on
the last day of this month as a sort of a
house-warming of the new San Jose rifle
range, and the representatives yesterday
extended hearty invitation to all local
marksmen to attend their festival. These
gentlemen did credit to their club by get
ting in several excellent scores, as shown
hereafter.
There was one member of the California
Club whose presence was missed yester-
day. For years past Albert Ehrenpfort
has been a constant attendant on every
shoot and he has won many prizes. He
recently won a prize that puts all others in
the background for the time being. On
Wednesday he took to wife Miss Rebecca
Cornahrens and he is now in the southern
part OF the State taking pleasure tour
with his bride.
San Quentin Point was well represented
by marksmen who made few good scores.
For example, ]. Jones made GA rings on
the honorary target and 81 on the point
target, f. ]. Robinson ran up SO on the
honorary target and So on the point tar
get, c. J. WaIdon shot out 65 on the
honorary target and 81 on the point target.
There were number vino were deci-
dedly unfortunate. For example, Will
liam Glindemann, one of the best shots on
the coast, broke his trigger before firing a
shot, and he had to hold hard to make
even a fair score with strange gun.
Philo Jacoby met with similar acci-
dent and did all of his shooting by press
hammer fall, decidedly unique manner
of target shooting. Henry r. Brown was
equally unlucky. Some one knocked his
rifle off the rack and broke the front sight.
Those who considered themselves unfor-
tunate by their not having made better
scores need not be mentioned.
There were four events Oh the pro-
gramme, which were designated as the
Liam, king, point and honorary target
matches.
There were also special prizes given.
These were won as follows: Best first
bullseye in the morning, d. w. McLaugh-
lin. 25 rings, $5; last best bullseye before
noon, F. P. Schuster, "a, 81 SO; best first
bullseye in the afternoon, DR.. Fred Bangs,
25, 50 so; best last bullseye in the after
noon, j. B. Turner, "a, So so; first center
shot on the man target, Philc Jacoby,
So so; first % ring shot on the honorary
target. T. G. Carroll, 50 so; highest num-
ber of points on the point target, ID. B.
Faktor. S48: second highest, z. f. Schus-
ter, S27; third highest, Captain Fred
Kuhnle, $50; fourth highest, A. Strecker,
512
Only two men shot tickets for the honor
prize is $50 diamond medal, and eight
cash prizes will also be presented. Many
scores OF ten shots each will no doubt be
made in this event next Sunday. Or. L. O.
Rodgers made 205 rings ana Al Gehret 204
rings Both spoiled their scores by
"flier" that could not be accounted for.
On the four honorary targets German
ring) about 800 three-shot tickets were dis
posed Of and every effort was made to
reach the coveted possible OF 75 rings.
The first move toward high scores was
by Carroll who made g. which included
his 25 center previously mentioned. DIR.
Bangs of San Jose pulled up to TO- fol-
lowed by Charles Heeth with like num-
Der. They shot off the tie, the San Jose
marksman winning. DR.. L. o. Rodgers
beat this with IL.
The man target represented the upper
part of man. the center line being num-
bered 20. The other lines were half an
inch apart, the last on each side being
numbered 1. On this there were forty
cash prizes from $50 to 81.
Two of these targets we're in use, and
about 100 tickets, four shots to a score,
were sold. R. Finking set the pace by
score of 16 10, 20, 2o-75 out OF a possible
80 DR.. Rodgers followed by 10, Is, 10,
1915. For awhile these stood high, but
later #. Baum gartner dropped in with
18. 20. 10. 20-77, which still stands high.
The others who made good scores were:
F. Fay III. P. Brunette 20, DIV. McLaugh-
lin 20, j. Utschig Sr. 73, f. II. Bushnell
66, A. jung bIut 66, o. +. Bremen 81, DR.. F.
Bangs DO, j. u. Mlllen ot, ~ OtreCker 10,
C. Meyer 73 F. Altinger Y.
Probably the greatest interest centered
upon the point or center targets, fourteen
of which were in use. Fully 900 tickets,
eight shots to each, were sold, which shows
that over 1000 bullets were fired to. secure
the forty cash prizes and the twenty-five
special prizes for most points, etc.
The 12-inch black on these targets was
divided into three points. The 3-inch
center was of card board and when
punctured was detached, numbered and
measured after the shoot. The second
ring counted two points and the outside
ring one. It did not take long to see
that Schuster and Faktor were in a hot
race for the most points.
So keen was the competition that each
marksman shot with two rifles as fast as
be could load. Each had an attendant
who cleaned and cooled the hot barrels
and kept the marksmen well supplied with
tickets and ammunition. They shot for
the $40 prize for all they were worth, and
as seen in the foregoing Faktor won by 20
points. A. Strecker and Fred Kuhnle soon
locked horns for the most points, but not
to the extent of the other two.
They were satisfied with one rifle each
and they had no attendants. As seen,
U ,,br1o uoe third with 550 nointo opd