The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17
THE SCHUE ITEMS
YEARLY FESTIVAL
Large Gathering of German
Citizens at Shell
Mound.
Rifle Shooting Was the Prin.
cipal Feature of the
Occasion.
Well.Known Marksmen Garry Off All
the Choice Pr z,s-The King
Shoot To-Day.

The thlrty.elghth annual picnic ana
shooting festival of the San Francisco
Schuetzen Verein was held at Shell Mound
yesterday, and it was a success in every
particular. The early boats and trains to
the park carried large crowds.
The day was passed in dancing, games
and contests Of various kinds for various
prizes, in the bowling alley alone amount
ing to $l75
The festival will continue to-day rain or
shine. 1t is really a two. days picnic.
The verein had all of the rifle targets
engaged during the entire day, for there
was $3.50 in cash prizes offered This was
divided as follows: For best ceniers, in
six-shot tickets, on the point target,
$112 SO. in amounts from $25 to 81, fifteen
prizes. Man-rarget $163. in amounts from
S25 to 81 80, twenty prizes, four-shot tick
cts. Most points on point target six-shot
tickets SIP so. fifteen prizes from $25 to
81. Besides these there were prizes TOR
first and last bullseyes, first and last red
flags on the man-target and three pre-
miums on the man-target for the most
red flags. In addition to this there were
over 100 merchandise prizes for the men,
bers of the club only. These were shot
for on the company's German 25-ring
target. The highest AZ riflemen OF the LA
who shot, and their scores i'll the order of
their winning were as follows:
/, N. Ahrens 70; 2, L. n. Ritzau 81; 3, A.
H. Pape So; 4, George Alpers "a; 5, D. B. Fax
tor "a; 6, A. Mocker "a; Z. L. NJ 'Weismann
63; 8, H. Helberg 81; 8. J. Lankennu 50; 10,
T. P schuster 81: II, II. Wicker 81; 12, c.
Therbach 81; 13, H. n. Bur;eind 80; Ia, F;
58; II, L. Bendel 81; 18, Il f. LiIkendey 81;
l9, R. Stettin Sc; 20, A. Huber Sc; p, J.
Utschig So; %, John Dewitt 56; %. {. Gellert
26, H. Tie,jen 50; 81, J. Tiedemann 55: %, A.
Bertelsen 55; 20, L. Haake sd; 80, H. Selling
Sd; 81. =. Won der Mehden So; 80, w. EhreI-
bf9r1 5s s. Wagner os 81 HRher * Me!t sa
81, II. gemann So; 3S. o. Lemke 81; 80, J.
Peters 81; 40, F. Brandt so: Al, J. &. Waller
so; AZ, A. Browning SO.
The man and point targets were re-entry
events open to the public and representa-
tives Of every rifle club in this locality
which was in attendance. Naturally the
com petition was very keen. On the man
target j. Usschig's "a was high until late
in the day when ID. w. McLaugh HIN went
to the front with one point better, making
IL, 20, 20. 1915. In tact it was McLaugh-
Inns day for on the point target he went
10 the front and beat the thirty-shot coast
record on that target with si1ry-three
points. Some of the other high prize
winners on the man target were:
J. Utschig "a. A. strecker "a, F. Attinger 73,
D. Heise 5s. A. H. Pape T3, H. PIagemann q 60,
70, L. Bindel 70, L. Haake 50, AL Ehrenpiort
72, G. Alpens ~, H. Huber SO. A. II. Pape 73,
c; Nobmann n, F. r. schuster %, W.
Ehrenpfort 81, N. Ahrens g.
On the point-target D. B. Faktor went
to the front with eleven red flags and 81
fn1 with
flags and 62 points. D. w. Mclaughlin
also m ade ten flags and beat Pape Dy one
point, which, as stated. sets the coast
record one notch higher. Nick Ahrens
brought up eight flags and made 48 points.
The other winners will not be known until
all the tickets are counted on Tuesday
evening, at which time the winners on the
man-target will be known.
To-day the principal event will be
shooting the eagle from the top OF the
pole for the king medal and the honors
tuat 60 with it, and other prizes The
oldest king medal in the company is
owned bv A. Browning who won it in
1868 The distribution Of prizes will be
held in California Hall. 620 Bush street,
on Thursday evening" and the affair will
close with a social dance.
A large numb2r OF militiamen were on
the military range. Their scores, ten
shots, Blunt target, were as follows:
Company F. Fifth Infantry, of Oakland
Sergeant Covait 40, Lieutenant w. H. Cobbe-
dick AZ. Darling AZ, Mitchell! Al, Kennedy Al,
Morse 40, A. Sears 40, Gent 40, Lieutenant
Wenk 80, Dade SO, Leonard 80, Peterson 49,
R Hansen 80, Pearce 49, Serseant A. D. Will
son 81, Brsndes 81, Bake. SO, Cary 80, W. ].
Wilson SO. Johnson 80, Barker 80. Corporal
Carney IS, F. b. Wilson "a, CARPENTER "a,
G. Hanson "a, AK 33, c. Mohr 80: Hartford
SO, Lutgen 49, Sergeant Bennett 81 A. Han
sen 32 Davis 80, Moreno 81, Frazier 81,
Whaite 81 Corporal Nickerson 81, Corporal
Stevenson 20, EggcIson 30, LIE Ballister 20,
Corporal Swanson %. Owens 28, Clark %,
Nc ilan 27, Bray 81, Harbridge 26. Ger
rish 25, w. z. Griffin %. L. c. Davis 22, j. P.
McCr udden 10, Crew IA, FurIe 10.
Company (City Guard)-J. w. Milen 33, J.
R. Wear 36, A. R. Ramm Al, G; Sullivan 81, G.
Claussenlus 43, A. Apthorpe 38, W. H. Krug
35, E. S. Fitzgerald As, A. Mctulloch 43, T.
Woods 35, E. c. Cordell 80, w. n. Kelly 81, G.
Bell 81 II. B. Taylor 80.
Company L-Captain Eggert Al, Sergeant
Goertzhain 43, Sergeant Grundman 81. Cor
poral Foley SO, s. French 27. ]. LAUDER 3S, B.
Davis 2S, H. Gordon 80, Henry Mangels Al, ].
Slattery 81, H. G. Lehman 81
Knights of the Red Branch (practice)-David
Russell A., u. Gaui 3S. NJ. O'Neill %, NJ Brady
2S, J. J. Loughrey SO, NJ. J. Connolly %. E..
Rahil 40, P. Hayes 23 James Smith 46, Lieut..
NJ Casey SO, Patrick Rahi4l %, John Fay 27,
Phil Brady 30.