The San Francisco call., 1896-11-01
To OPEN FIRE
ON THE TARGET IS
Rifle Clubs That Will Hold
Exciting Contests
To-Day.
Final Tournament of the Fly.
Casting Club at Stow
Lake.
RIFLES FOR DUCK HUNTERS.
Tom Sharkey Calls Corbstt Big Dog,
Who Won't Fight and Is Afraid
to Acknowledge It.

The California Schuetzen Club and the
Eintracht Schuetzen Club will meet to-day
at the California Schuetzen Club Park,
San Rafael, where their monthly shooting
contests will be held. The regular
monthly medal shoot Of the Gruetli
Schuetzen Club will also take place at the
same range.
At the monthly meeting Of the Cali
fornia Schuetzen Club, which was held in
the hall of the Eintracht Club, it was
decided that the great annual turkey
shooting tournament will be held at the
San Rafael park on the 18th inst. John
Utschig, William Nolte and Philo
Jacoby were appointed a committee of
arrangements. The committee elected
to nominate candidates for Office for
the year of 1897 is composed of Otto
Bremen, H. r. Brown and Philo Jacoby.
The secretary reported that the club is
financially in a nourishing condition and
that $500 is in its treasury.
The secretary of the Interstate Coursing
Clu states that the monthly meeting,
which should be held on Tuesday next,
has been postponed to the following Tues
day.
The San Rafael Gun Club was organized
recently with the following officers:
P resident T. J. Fallon; secretary, ]. j..
M urray; treasurer, Charles McAIlister.
Tne club has rented an ark, which will be
located in the Sonoma marshes during the
duck-shooting season.
John Lemmer, r. Brooks, James Mark
land ana ]. Burgez left yesterday for a
days duck-shooting in the vicinity of
Antioch. Mr.. Lemmer is considered a
splendid marksman, and his friends ex-
pect to receive some nice strings of "black
Jack'' on Monday.
are limited to twenty-five birds Several
of the members scored the full com ple-
ment last Sunday in a few hours shoot
ing. Quail are very plentiful on the clubs
preserve this year.
The annual hy-casting tournament of
the San Francisco Fly-casting Club will
be held on Saturday, the 7th inst, at
Stow Lake, Golden Gate Park, comlnenc-
ing at 10 A. n. sharp. The entries for
event 1 will close just prior to the COM
mencement of the tournament. A gold
championship medal will be given as first
prize in each event. A club dinner will
be held on the evening of the tourna-
ment at prominent rotisserrie. and the
price of each plate has been placed at 81.
Members and their friends are invited.
Judge John Hunt will act as toastmaster.
Secretary Vogelsang Is desirous that THE
appear in full dress that accident insur-
ance policies will be furnished upon appli-
cation to him before the mess.
Shooting and Fishing, a sportsman s
paper published in Boston, says editori-
ally, in reference to the existing war that
is pending in Solano County between the
preserve clubs and the resident sportsmen
who are forbidden to shoot on the Suisun
marshlandsi
With the coming of cold weather In the
north, and the great 6ocks OF ducks which
swarm along the Pacific Coast, there comes
the renewed rumble of discomfort, argument
and threatened trouble between various and
sundry individuals and organizations in the
vicinity of San Francisco, Cal. Who is right
and who is in the wrong 1t is not our purpose
now to mention, but it all shows that some
thing is radically wrong with the system fol-
lowed by gunner or sportsman, as the case
may be.
California sportsmen should at all hazards
take steps TO bring about an amfcable settle
ment Of the differences which have existed
and still exist in the coastwise counties of
their great State; they should endeavor to stop
wanton slaughter of waterfowl by shooters
throughout the cooler months ana far into
the spring, and stop the threats of violence
suits at law, and various difficulties which
have in the past not been creditable to the
fair name of themselves as sportsmen or the
State In which they take so much pride.
The protection of the very game whose loss
they deplore cannot be looked after while
there are petty quarrels to occupy their atten-
ton, and the game needs al the care that can
The opinion as expressed by the writer
of the above article will doubtless be ap-
proved by all fair-minded sportsmen.
There are game birds in abundance in this
State during the shooting season, and, as
the president of the State Sportsmen's
Protective Association remarked at a
mass-meeting which was held last Thurs
day in the Alcazar building: ''If the salt
marsh preserves and the professional m ar
ket-hunters were done away with, and the
game thoroughly protected during the
closed seasons, there will remain wild
birds and animals in sufficient mum bers to
satisfy the desires Of all classes of sports.
men,"
The MaIlard Club will be strongly rep
resented in the Suisun marshes tod ay.
Anticipating some hot shot from the rifles
of armed gamekeepers the club had
shipped to its ark fourteen Winchesters
last Tuesday.
Before SharkeY was matched to fight
Bob Fitzsimmons he penned a letter to
Joseph Donovan, the sporting editor of
the Chicago News which reads as follows:
I never felt better than since my arrival
home the last time. / am here waiting to
feeling more every day that he is afraid to
meet me and is not man enough to say So but
wants to sneak round and fight Fitzsimrnons
through the newspapers. / can't tell what I'll
do about 1t yet. Something may happen.
After Tom has finished with lanky Fitz
he will be then in position to know ex-
actly what he is capable of doing to Cor
bett in a ten-round contest