The San Francisco call., 1897-05-31
A SLAUGHT TER At
ALAMEDA JUNCTION
Clay Pigeons Mangled and
Wounded in the Big
Tournament.
The Gale, However. Gave Some
of the Llfeles Discs Chances
to Escape.
Los Angeles and Stockton Triei for
Team Honors and Will Settle
Their D ffarences To-Day.

Enough powder and lead were shot
away at Alameda Junction yesterday to
stock good sized Government magazine.
1t was the opening day of the California
Inanimate Target Associations fourth an
nual tournament, and to say 1t was one
of the greatest gatherings of the shotgun
devotees ever held in California would be
but to draw it too mildly. 1t was a tri-
umph and the indications are that to-
days continuation of the contests will
find no falling off either in attendance or
enthusiasm. The crack men OF thirteen
different gun clubs located in every i'm
portant part of the State were there to
compete, and in addition to these there
were iunumerable experts on hand to take
part in the individual contests, of which
there were SIX.
Dramatically the day was not an ideal
one for good shooting. The morning
opened up balmy enough, but high wind
which eventually developed into a veri-
table gale put in an early appearance to
render accurate firing at the clay pigeons
extremely difficult. The blow would
cause the discs TO ricochet and dive and
twist through the air in a most tanta-
lizng manner, and this more than any
thing else accounts for the rather low
scores and the disa ppointment the cham.
pions inflicted upon their admirers. But
it was great sport nevertheless, and ex-
citing too.
The event around which most inte res t
centered was undoubtedly the contest be-
tween picked teams from the various
clubs represented on the ground. This
was for the Overland Monthly trophy and
| - Tka
and Stockton teams were found tied for
first and second places at the finish and
will have their shoot-off to-day. The Re-
lance Club No. team got third honors,
the Oily pic No. l fourth, Fresno fifth,
Olym pic No sixth, Empire OF Oakland
seventh, Lincoln eighth, Amador ninth
Garden City tenth, Reliance No. elev-
enth, Antioch twelfth and Golden GATE
last. TIE team scores were as follows,
each member being allowed twenty
"birds'':
Lincoln Gun Club-Daniels 13, Roberts on
10, Bruno IA, Karney 10. Z. Foster 8. Flick
niger 13; total, 80.
Whitfield IL, Fr,,eman IL VOORHEES, IL, Arditto
IL. T. H. EotEssa1 II; total. n.
Antioch Gu .lub-Ross IL, DR.. George 13,
Durham 8, Rentgas 16. Anderson IL, Hodapp
Garden city Cyclers' Gun Club-F. E. Coy.
kendall IL. Z. Coykendall 10, g. IL. Anderson
ID. L, .,
Reliance Gun Club No. Lake Is, Nc
Cutchen Is coffin IA, Trombone ID, Olsen ID,
Sands 10; total, SS.
Fresno Spor,sman's Club-Meher 16, Thomp-
son IL, Cowan II, Stone IL, Slim IA, ST. John
IA; total, 81.
Nicol I5, Ninders IL, G. Merrill 16, F. Merrill
1S; total 80.
Golden Gate Gun Club-Wollam 6, Gull @.
Bickers taft 8. Skinner Ia, Heider 8, Josewski
10; total, SO.
Nauma 4 Is, Webb ID, Haight II, w. Golcher
| IL f. Fe udner IS; total. 81.
OLYMPIC Gun Club No. 2-Murdock 16, Shaw
| 15, Whitney Is Grant 8, Mcmahon 10, F. YER
Reliance Gun Club No. 2-westley ID, Youn
| 10, oVerman IL, Tubbs 13, Williams IL, Dun
ming 15; total, IA.
Los Angeles Gun Club-van vaikenburg 16.
| Fishoack 10 Leighton 10, Ralphs Ia, Mason
Empire Gun Club-Judd 16. Eckers 49, Sears
| 13, Andrus ID, Granger 10, Ellington 10;
! total, 81.
| The competition for the Allen cup was
| petty throu rhout and quite exciting at
| tie finish. Mason, the Los Angeles crack,
| aad Ellington, the pride of the EN- pires,
| we're tied for top houors. and went out to
| shoot twenty more birds TO decide the
question of supremacy. Once more they
| broke even. each knocking down fifteen
of the spinning disks. Then they got at
il again. and this time the Oakland wizard
lost his nerve. Mason won the trophy by
a core of II to Ii.
The contest for the handsome Gold Dust
diamond medal also resulted In tie, the
rival claimants being Ralphs and G. Mer-
ri |. These gentlemen did not make 1t a
fight to q finish, however, preferring to
settle their differences to-day,
AS to the individual contests Tor money
prizes the following scores tell The story
of the day and also give an idea regarding