Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-14
SHOOT WON
BY LOCAL CLUB
NORTH YAKIMA BOYS LOSE BY
TWENTY-FOUR POINTS
SEATTLE AND SPOKANE MATCHES
ARE POSTPONED
Los Angeles Rifle and Revolver Club
Now Well In Van of Coast
Agsreeatlons-chaIIenge
Accepted

The rifle team of the Los Angeles
Rifle and Revolver club defeated the
rifle team of the North Yakima, Wash,
Rifle and Revolver club Sunday by the
score of 1858 to 342. According to agree
ment, the clubs were to shoot either
five or ten shots, the wires to state
number of shots and the first shots of
the ten-shot strings to count on the
match If any other club only wished to
shoot five-shot strings instead of ten.
The North Yakima wire read, Five
shots, siX-man team, total 342," the
local club wiring back its total for its
first five shots at each range. The
total for the local clubs ten shots at
each range was TAT, half of this being
376, showing that the beat was a COM
plete one. as the first five shots were
the low ones for the local club The
total Of the local mems last five shots
at 200, 300 and 500 yards is S79, showing
the consistent shooting in both strings.
The Seattle and Spokane clubs wired,
putting off their matches until the 22d
of this month, when four clubs will
shoot.
Poor marking by an incompetent
scorer marred the first half of the 10
cal clubs score, the first three men
up at 500 yards getting an assortment
of "threes' that glasses showed to be
false, and it was necessary to send
check the marker. The first three men
got possibles at this range. although
the latter half of their strings and
their first scores would have been pro-
tested but for the lack Of time. This
cut off some ten or twelve points that
would otherwise have rUn up the total
of the club team.
Yakima Club Strong
The North Yakima club has been
touted as the strongest club in Wash
ington. where rifle clubs are many, the
local men getting the tip that the club
consisted mostly Of Camp Perry and
Sea Girt rifle veterans, and the local
men expected a beating when they
tackled this aggregation.
With dozen good men to pick from,
the local club believes it can give a
good account of itself even during the
absence of Kellogg and Decius, two Of
the best shots, absent in the east with
the California state rifle team. With
these men, however, the club does not
fear any other aggregation on the Pa
cific coast. The Seattle Rife and Re
volver association is probably the
strongest aggregation shooting on the
Pacific coast while the Bisbee club is
a close second. The local men have
challenged the Bisbee club to a match
which probably will be held in Oc-
toDer
The Los Angeles Rifle and Revolver
club now has to it's credit in the series
shot this fall defeats of Tacoma in two
different matches, a defeat of Spokane
and another of North Yakima. Seattle
got away with the local men on July
IL and the club lost to the Southern
California Rifles last spring, due to
having to shoot three men who had
never fired a military rife.
Tacoma proposes a revolver match
and, while the local men devote their
attention mostly 20 the rife end of the
game, the challenge OF Tacoma will be
accepted and the match neld in the
near future.
There are several men in the club
who can make good with little prac-
tice, Bathey of the signal corps, Cross
man of the former Revolver and Rife
club, Hanson, E. D. Nichols, Lockwood
Huddleston, Yark and c. #. Nichols
all having shot the handgun at some
former period of their careers. The
Glendale range is supplied with re-
volver pit and target ready for use.
The scores: