The San Francisco call., 1896-05-31
COMPETE At THE
STOCKTON BUTTS.
California MarkSmen Try
for Championship
Trophies.
FINE SCORES ARE MADE.
Six Men Shoot a Tie for the
Gold Dust Diamond
Medal.
AN EXCITING TEAM MATCH.
Los Angeles and Stockton Break Even
in the Contest for the Over.
land Prize.
AN EXCITING TEAM MATCH.

STOCKTON, CAL, May 30.-The State
| bluerock tournament attracted several
| thousand people to the Stockton Associa-
tion grounds to-day, and they were
treated to unusually exciting contests.
| During the shoots in the forenoon the
| chief interest centered in the contest for
| the gold-dust diamond medal. The best
squad that shot in this match was COM
| posed OF Charles Haas, Frank and Charles
Merrill, Charles Gall, Len Hauxhurst and
ID. l. Dustin. All but Dustin are Stockton
men. Haas made clean score Of 20, ty-
| ing Martinez Chick OF San Diego and L. A.
Barney of the Lincoln Gun Club. The ties
for first place will be shot off in the morn
ing. Flickinger of the Lincoln Club won
sscond place in this contest; J. w. She'll
of the San Joaquin Valley Gun Club, third
place; Tanning OF the Olymplcs, fourth; /;
Van Valken berg of the Los Angeles Gun
Club, fifth; Trombone of the Reliance,
sixth, with "Gilt Edge seventh, and
next, in the order named.
There were so many entries that it was
late in the afternoon before the team hoo
for the Overland trophy was commenced.
The chief interest of the day was centered
in this shoot, and the space back of the
scorers stand and back of the ropes that
separated the crowd from the contestants
was black with people, while that in front
of the big blackboard on which the results
of each teams work were posted was
crowded with spectators, all eager TO see
how their favorite club came out in the
contest.
The Capital City Gun Club was the first
to face the traps, but it could do no better
than S4 out of possible 10.
Then the Olympic Gun Club took up the
fight for the trophy. Tanning, Webb and
Naumann started out bravely, but Fan
ming missed his eighth bird in the next
two as well as the thirteenth. Webb
missed his fourteenth and Nauman the
eleventh bluerock K. The clubs total was
100, much better than the work at last
years tournament at the Oakland Trot-
ting Park.
The gun club annex of the Stockton
Athletic Association next faced the traps
and came away with total of 102. Len
Hauxhnrst and Frank Merrill made clean
scores of twenty birds each and were
loudly cheered by the crowd. This team
was tied by the crack shots from Los An
geles amid the greatest of excitement. The
tie will be shot off tomorrow, and as the
Los Angeles Gun Club has such shots as
Mason, Chick, Parker, Van Valkenberg,
Ralphs and Leighton in its team the men
from the City of Angels are offering to bet
to tonight that the Southern Califor-
mans will win out on the snoot-off. This
was by far the most exciting event of the
day.
Following is the complete score for the
Overland trophy shoot:
Capital City Gun Club-Steyens Is, Newbert
10, Yoerk II, Upson IL, Nicolaus IL, Ruhstaller
To- total 81
Olympic Gun club-Fanning 16, Feudner
II, Webb 10, Naumann 10, Golcher ii, Haight
ID; total, 100.
Stockton Athletic Association = Hauxhurst
20, winders 16, Gall II, Haas II, F. Merrill2o
Garden CITY Cyclers Gun Club-Carror ID,
F. Coykendall II, Delmas H. Anderson Is, r.
| Coykendall Is, Heiuelberger 18; total ga
Stockton Gun Club-C. Merrill IL, Balkvell
16, Ellis l3, Payne 1S, Jessen II, Lonjers 15;
Reliance Gun Club-cadman 16, Gross IA,
| Tubbs Is, Trombone 1S, Kellogg I3, Baker II ;
| total, 8S.
ham 13, Proctor 16, Remfree IL, Taylor IL.
| Total, "a.
san Joaquin Valley club-F6x 1s. AEmitage
| IA, McVeagh IA, q. w. Wood 13, J. c. Rice II,
j. W. Shell 20. Total, 96
Lincoln Gun Club No: 1-Robertson II,
Daniels IA. Karney 16,, Flickinger Is, Barney
Lincoln Gun Club No. 2-Murdock 1S. Potter
| 13, Wengall II, Cate 10, Eugene Forster 10,
Franzen 10. Total, 90.
Empire Gun Club--Young 10, King IL, Bill
linger II, Andrews 15, Winning II, Quinton
Los Angeles Gun club-Mason 10. Chick 10,
Leighton Is. Total, 1O2.
Amador City Gun Clnb-Esola II, Whitfield
18, Proctor 15, Vorhies 10, Solari II, Jarvis 10.
| Total, 81.
Excitement ran high during this shoot,
and the three men who made CLEAN scores