The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-13
N ARKSMEu FOR
TWENTY YEARS
A Memorable Anniversary
for the Old CreedmoOr
Team.
Once More the Champions Show
Their Ability at Shell
Mound.
Interesting Day for Hundreds of Rifle
men Over the Bay-Some Good
Scores.

Twenty years ago little team of Cali
fornia Inarksmen, the pick OF riflemen of
the Golden West, Assem- bled a: the we'll
known range at Creedmoor Long Island,
and competed for the honors of their
State against the finest shots of New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut Their
efforts on the 200 and the 500-yard ranges
were crowned with success and the Creed
moor team of California returned TO this
State bearing the trophy OF the contest,
beautiful piece OF statuary known as 1.-THE
Soldier of Marathon" 1t was a great
victory. for the California team defeated
the Eastern military shots by many
points. California stood 995, Connecticut
GIL, New York 967 ana New Jersey IA
These were all good scores, for it must be
remem bered that in those days the mill.
tary rifles were not as perfect as they are
now. but the men who shot them were
the best in the land and there were no
cigarette smokers in any of those teams.
1t was proba bly, one OF the greatest in
terstate military matches ever shot in the
United States, and the California team
wa, justly proud of its achievement. In
condemnation OF the victory the Creed
moor am has been accustomed to hold
yearly banquets on the M morable date,
September II. Those gatherings have
always been well attended, for the old
team has chung well together. The first
10 dron out of the team forever, was Cap
tain William FL. Brock hoff. The next
was General John McComb. who took the
team East as its captain. All of the others
are alive, although time has streased
their hair with gray and placed wrinkles
upon their features.
The last gathering, the twentieth ami
versary, was held yesterday at the Shell
Mound range. The old rfl men wanted
to see to what extent their fingers had lost
their touch and their eyes their clearness,
SO a match was arranged with some OF the
best shots OF other days, team from the
Veterans Association of the National
Guard of California.
The match was for dinner, ten shots
at 200 yards, military muskets and tar
gets the losing team to pay for the repast.
Besides General McComb and Captain
Brockho there were two others of the
Or, edmoor team missing-J. Ii. Maher
and Sergeant John 2. Warren. who are in
the southern part of the State. For an
hour or two the old riflemen banged away
at the targets, and the result was one
more victory for the Greed moor team,
whose score was 482 to the Veterans ATS
Colonel j. III. Burns was the captain of
the victors and Captain J. E. Klein looked
after the interests Of the Veterans. The
CREEDMooR TEAM.
Colonel J. H. Burns 49, Harry Hook 80, E
II. Ladd 40. Captain J. II. Robinson SO, Ser
geant E. \. Shook 40. William Wright 81,
Lieutenant J. w. Maher SO. Captain C. z. La
Breton SO, W. f. Leeman Al. Lieutenant L.
Barriere A, Lieutenant G. H. Strong AZ, Ser
geaut Charles Mast 44-total 4S2.
VETERAN ASSOCIATION TEAM.
Captain J. f. Klein 40, A. H. Brod 80, Lieu
tenant A. J. Ruddock 80. C. Meyer AZ, Charles
u iafO 7
broke 81, Lieutenant W. II. Cobbledick So, NJ.
Doame 81, Captain George Filmer 81. Lieu
tenant E. c. Goodell a., Sergeant ]. +. Norton
4l-total 475.
After the contest was over the rifiemen
repaired to the restaurant, where they
found fine spread prepared by Captain
John L. Siebe. Around the table The rifle
contests OF the past We're gone over again In
the shape of stores. now ancient history
in the range annals of California. The
repast lasted unio late hour and none
felt thai 1t was other tnan the greatest OF
pleasures to be thus reunited with his Old
mpanions of the rife range.
There was plenty of other shoe ting CT
CARNATIONS on the range besides the two
older ones, and every stand was filed all
day. Good work was done by the mem
bers of the Columbia Pistol and Rife
CLUB, who held their monthly contests tor
club med ais and the prizes in the re-entry
iiGtSuCo' L. ". IOuiiS WAS HlSn HldH III
the pistol class contests with score OF
forty on the Columbia target, on which
all the clubs contests are held.
On the three-shot Bushnell medal re-
entry, A. FL. Pape cut another notch in
his stock with a score of f. l, 1-6. bring
ing his total for his best ten scores down
to H. or Ii points better than m ade in the
Whole of last years shoot by A. Strecker,
who carried off the three-shot Uufreo
medal. This beats the best score of Mich
ael Dorrler OF New York. as his SIX was
1, 4 1. Z. Jacobsen, +. H. Bushnell, Ell
Hovey and J. f. German lowered their