The San Francisco call., 1897-02-08
COMPANIES SHOT
FOR GLORY ONLY
Yesterday Comparatively
Quiet at Shell Mound
Park.
Company D of the First Regi.
ment Resumes Active
Practice.
Madal, Class and Practice Firing, and
a Private Match Filled the
Programme.

day at the Shell Mound Park shooting
ranges, the attendance and the interest
attaching to the various events on the
afternoons programme both being smaller
than usual. The weather, too, proved de-
cidedly unfavorable to high scoring and
professional enthusiasm alone could in
duce the marksmen TO stay long at the
targets. The scorers noses were purple
and the mum bed fingers of the marksmen
sadly interfered with a steady aim. Un-
der such inauspicious conditions the aver
age maintained was highly commendable.
The members of Company D, First In
fantry Regiment, n. G. c., formerly
known as Company A, resumed rife prac-
tice yesterday after two years intermis-
sion, many of the old-time experts being
present.
The company has purchased four fine
medals, distributed as follows: Cham
pion and classes A, B and C. The first is
said to be one of the handsomest trophies
of the kind ever offered by the company
for mpetition, and the others, though
necessarily somewhat inferior, are we'll
worth winning.
A committee, composed of Lieutenant
I. J. McCreagh, Sergeant G. /. White and
Corporal ]. G. Seagraye, will hencefor-
tions. The committee fond ambition is
TO make Company D first in rank among
the military sharpshooters. In addition
to the medals mentioned above the COM
mittee has arranged for the bestowai of
fifteen prizes upon the members making
the highest average scores during the year.
The company turned out In force yester-
day, and, though rusty for want of prac-
tlce, made the following totals in the
class shooting:
Lieutenant F. J. McCreagh 80, Sergeant c.
G. White 40, Sergeant w. E. Meadows "a, Ser
geant F. w. Newbert Al, Corporal J. c. Sea-
Brown 25, j. o. Staples 8, Z. Scharf 10, o. Lam
ducci 3, w. Beck q, W. W. Cross 2, T. P.
Leonard p, I. I. PlaG q, A. c. Llewelling
J. G. Swan "a, w. Russell u, T. Taylor 49,
Divisions 1 and of the Naval Battalion
also did some class shooting in the course
of the afternoon. The first division COM
pleted both its January and February
shoots yesterday, the following scores re-
sulting:
Lieutenant C. C. Dennis &c and SO, Ensign
Gaild 80 and 25, Luderman 40 and AZ, Quin-
Ian 81 aud SO, Drogmuud 20 and 80, Corliss
81 and So, Toussaint "a and 10, Casey % and
IL, Healey % and Is, Rich 33 and "a, Lendon
D. Walker 9 and 4, J. Murray 8, Kearney 80
and SO, Emmrich 80 and 30, Peters 81 and 80,
Smith 3S and 81, ]. F. Murphy % and Sc.
The second division scored as follows:
C. P. o. Mills 35, R. Jones 80, Russell Reed
Sc, j. c. Kelly 80, Z. Donnellan 80, A. D.
Stevens 16, F. r. Sutton 81, d. Weir %, Henry
Peterson 81.
The Independent Rifles held their regu-
lar medal shoot, with The following result:
=Dr. F. Hau "A C. ]. staude 80, Lieutenant
e. Meenning 80, Corporal J. Mindermann 80,
J. a. Stang 50. p. Schonig 25, Dr. r. A. Morris
IS, n. Biegel "a, Charles Andrews 20, j. Dsneri
IA C. Hilsz %.
Company A of the Fifth Regiment, n.
G, c., did little practice shooting, some
of the best scores being as follows:
Captain Poulter 45. Sergeant Poulter 45,
Pucket SO, Sergeant Mccormick 49, A.
Jahnfgan Al, G. Poulter Jr. 80. Cleveland Al,
Corporal Llttlefeld 80, C. II. Ellis AZ. Brink 81.
The Deutscher Krieger Verein held its
monthly medal shoot on the German ring
target, the result being:
Champion class, C. Weggemann, 391 first
class, \: Piegel, 321; second class, w. Linde-
man. 315; third class, Mohr, 262; most bulls
eyes, C. Weggemann; first best shot, c. Wegge-
mann, "a; last best shot, l. Bendel, "a.
A special match was decided yesterday
between III. Wicker and TWO teams com
posed of F. o. Young and F. T. Bushnell,
J. E. German and A. II. Pape respectively.
Wicker was given 90 points on the Column
bia target, and won by virtue of his handi-
cap, with 277 points against Toung's 303.
the next best. 1t should be added by way
of explanation that the lowest numerical
score indicates the best Workmanship
on the Columbia target. The complete
scores were:'
Young 80, 4S, 70, 81, 45-3O3.
Bushnell 113, 93, SO, 80, s6-4S4.
Total 7S7.
Pape 63, 81, 63. 81, 61-3o5.
German 90. 63, 78, 90, 73-70S.
Wicker 54, 60, 7S, 6s, 67-327, less 5o-277.
Pape's team, therefore, beat Youngs,
and Wicker, solus, defeated both.
Captain l.. Siebe, proprietor of the
range, announces that he has enlarged
the stalls occupied by the Columbia Club
some three feet and has put in side
table and another wheel on target c.
The Nord Deutscher Schuetzen Club
will hold a competition on the man target
on Sunday, March Z. for S225 in cash
prizes. This competition will mark the
opening of the park for the picnic season
of 1897.