The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-05
FORTY YEARS
AS MARKSMEN
San Francisco Schuet-
zens' Festival.
GOOD RIFLE SCORES MADE
MANY VALUABLE CASH PRIZES
FOR THE SHOOTERS.
Mclaughlin, Strecker, Bendel, Ut
schig and Faktor Lead-Special
Trophies for Club Mem
bers.
MANY VALUABLE CASH PRIZES
FOR THE SHOOTERS.

It was a great day for the rifiemen al
the Shell Mound range yesterday, the oc-
casion being the fortieth annual outing
and shooting festival Of the San Fran
cisco Schuetzen Verein. The members Of
the organization assembled at their nal
early in the morning and marched to the
boat headed by band. On reaching the
park many went to the pavilion where
there was dancing all day, but nearly al
of the men gathered on the shooting
range, where they banged away at the
bullseyes until o'clock. AS there was
$400 in cash prizes offered there was lively
shooting and several made very credit
able records during the day. All of the
public shooting was done on the point
target on which the tWelve-inch black
is divided into three points, counting
three, two and one. All of the three
inch cardboard centers struck were taken
off to be measured by the machine and
for the twenty best centers prizes run
ming from SIS to 81 were offered. Prizes
of similar number and value were offered
for the most points made during the day.
AS premiums prizes amounting TO $40
were offered for the marksrnan making
the most red flags 0hree-inch centers) in
thirty-shot tickets, the straight tickets
lots ranging from s12 to 81 so for the
twenty prizes. In addition there were
So 50 and 81 offered to those making the
first and last bullseyes in the forenoon
and afternoon. The winners of these
were: First in the forenoon, ]. c. Wal
Ter; last in the forenoon, d. w: Nc
Laughlin; first in the afternoon, f. At
finger; last in the afternoon, d. w. Nc
Laughlin A Strecker won the first pre-
MUM prize of $12 for the most red flags
ten; D. W. Mclaughlin second prize on
eight, and Utschig third on seven. One
of the best runs of the day was vas. by NC
put forty-eight bullets into the siX-ineh
circle and the other twelve shots We're
kept within the twelve-inch circle. Ut
schig, Strecker, Finking, Factor, Pape,
Clindemann and number of others held
well, but they did not keep their shots
so well punched as Mclaughlin The re-
suits of the shooting on the point target
will not be known until the committee
has chance to figure up the tickets and
meas IRE the centers, but annexed are
some of the best six-shot tickets as re-
corded:
D. w Mclaughlin. II. 10. a. ]. GefSin. 9.
Thierbach, 10, 10. III A. Lott, 10; H: zecher,
81 j. Utschig. Il. II. 10; A. strecker, IA, H. 12
William Ehrenpfort 6; ID. Satisfied. T. 6. s; J.
c. Waller 4: G. Van der Mehden. 5. 6; c. Mob
mann, s. J. W. Goethe. s. 10; A. H Pape ~
10, II; o. Burmeister. I. 10; A. Bertelsen; II;
Burfeind, Il, 10; F. Attinger. 9. TO-, 10; R.
Thinking. 10. IL; ". Glendermann. Y. Y. 70; H.
G. II: Pein, 6; F. Rust. L. p; ]. Lankenau. 10;
j t :. 8. .; G. H Bahrs. 10. Ii.
In addition to the public target the
their own for merchandise prizes, and
the shooting was done on the German
twenty-five ring target, three shots each.
possible seventy-five The prize win
over sixty rings the individual shots are
given: