The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-30
SHOTGUN EXPERTS
IN COMPETITION
Marksmen's Tourna-
ment at Antioch.
STATE ASSOCIATION SHOOT
BARKER'S AVERAGE THE BEST
OF THE FIRST DAY:
Garden City Gun Club Wins the Roos
Trophy and Clarence Haight
Makes the First Clean
Score.
BARKER'S AVERAGE THE BEST
OF THE FIRST DAY.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

ANTIOCH, May 29.-The State Inani-
mate Target Associations seventh annual
tournament commenced here to-day. and
will last two days. Crack shots are as
sembed here from all over the State OF
course in d town like Antioch the hotel
accommodation is inadequate for such
an unusual crowd, but the citizens have
thrown open their homes to the visitors.
All Of the shooters are we'll pleased with
the grounds. There was a little confu-
sion this morning in getting the teams
strung out in their rlgular order. but Sec
rotary Gunsenderfer and his assistants
Michael and Wills, now have things well
in hand and everything is working
smoothly. The wind blew hard to-day,
and interfered with the calculations of
some of the boys who expected to make
clean scores, but it has not prevented
Clarence Haight from getting one to his
credit 1t was the first clean twenty
birds of the tournament. and as soon as
Haight brought them down he received
the applause of the grand stand and was
soon surrounded by friends offering him
their congratulations.
The Olympic Club boys are much in
evidence in their pretty uniforms They
have their tent pitched on the grounds,
with the name of their club painted on
the roof. Charles Nauman is easily the
Beau BrummeI of his squad. Nauman
is good shot. too. and that makes him
all the more conspicuous. He made d
phenomenal score in the practice shoot
yesterday, but was not in as good form
to-day.
The shooting grounds have been
equipped by the Antioch Gun Club with
out cost to the State Association The
equipment is electrical throughout and up
TO date in every particular. The State
Association has entire charge of the
grounds and all the profits from trap
ping birds go into the association treas
ury. one of the trophies to be shot for at
this tournament is handsome solid
silver loving cup contributed by the citi-
zens Of Antioch
Cold weather has prevented as large at
tendance of spectators as there would
have been had the weather been more
pleasant. This afternoon the wind blew
almost a gale. To add to the ANNOYANCE
Valley railroad contractors are grading
their roadbed on the windy side of the
grounds and a times dust sweeps across
the markSmen. The new system of shoot
ing is receiving plenty of praise. Under
il the best shots do not receive all the
money, but any one who breaks over
sixteen saucers is entitled to a share.
In this way the money is pretty equally
divided. 1t is good for the tailenders, but
the crack shots get the worst OF il. AS
they are in the minority, however, their
objection to the method would have little
weight.
A. NJ Barker of San Jose made the
highest average score to-day. John kar-
ney Of the Lincoln Gun Club was second
and Nauman of the Olympics third. The
summary follows:
Lincoln Gun Club trophy twenty singles
Won by W. H. Seaver, shooting under the nom
de plume of Trombone.
Empire Gun Club trophy-Won by Ed
Schultz.
+ T. Allen cup-Won by c. A. Haight, who
made clean score Of twenty saucers.
Gold Dust diamond medal-Won by Webb.
Garden City Gun Club trophy-Won by Bar
ker.
Contest for Roos three-man team trophy
Won by Garden City Gun Club. Its team broke
Il out of 10. The score for this event was as
San francisco Gun Club-w. Sears "a. E
Schultz 90 f. Klevesahl 21 Total 6s.
Union Gun Club-George HauXhurst 49, J. B.
McCutcheon II. w. Robertson IS. Total. SO.
Lincoln Gun Cube. Bear p, j. Bruins 81
J. Karney q. Total, 60
Antioch Gun Club Ross 20, A. G. Flick
enger r. Lee Durham %. Total. 60.
Garden City Gun club No. Pr. Coykendall
81 ". B. Hobson q. w. H Varien p. To-
MERGED Gun Cuba T. Hyde 23 Fox o.
l. Ingalsbe q. Total, S..
Garden City Gun Club No heidelberg
25 George Anderson %. F. Merrill "a. Total. Il
Empire Gun Club-C. W Debenham 49, J. H.
burst % Fred Feudner %. Total 81,
The complete score for the day was as
follows: