Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-23
GOOD SCORES IN
SHOOT BY WIRE
L. A. RIFLE AND REVOLVER
CLUB COMPLETES
CLOSE CONTEST UNDECIDED UP
TO PRESS TIME
Local Team Is Handicapped by Loss
of Several Men, but Expect VIC
tory-Rapid Fire Work Will
Decide Match

tory-Rapid Fire Work Will
Decide Match
Half a dozen brown uniformed. sun
burned men composing the rifle team
of the Los Angeles Rifle and Revolver
club perspired in the heat Sunday try
ing to squeeze out more bullseyes than
the team of the Tacoma Rifle and Re-
volver club but up to the time of going
to press the Tacoma end OF the story
is unknown.
The local men believe they have won,
owing to the fact that they shot up TO
within two points OF their score in the
former matcn at 200, 800 and 500 yards
slow fire. when the Tacoma club was
beaten by seven points. The condi-
tions Sunday called for an additional
feature of rapid fire at 200 yards, and
this stage will probably either win or
lose the match for the local men.
The local team was handicapped by
the loss of capt. Pearson of the regular
army, who has gone to the Yosemite,
and by the absence of Sergeants Kel-
logg and Decius, who are shooting
with the California state rifle team at
Camp Perry this week.
In spite of this loss Of half the for
meH team, the team Sunday bored out
within two points of the former score
at slow fire, the score July II against
Tacoma being 737 and Sunday being
1885, Rapid fire was not used in the
former match, so no comparison can
be made of this stage.
Crossman High at 900
The local men started the match at
gE nf CHI n
range, as usual, owing to the mirage
and fshtail winds that play over the
long range during the middle of the
day on the Glendale range. Crossman,
team captain, started the ball rolling
with a AZ, while Umsted, his company
mate in the militia, nearly matched
him with a good AZ. c. F. Nichols
landed 43, with a mysterious two for
his last shot that cut his score from
the score of 46 he had coming to him.
Hanson fished for the target for his
four shots to start with, said fishing
costing him 1.-TWO" and a miss on his
record string and dropping him down
to SO in spite of his 29 for his last five
shots. DR.. Felsenthal and Miles con-
tributed 40 and 80 for their share at
this stage. At 300 yards Umsted
squeezed out a Al, while Crossman du-
plicated it. Nichols and Miles bored
out a couple of 40s, while Felsenthal
and Hanson blew UP TO the tune of 36
each. The shooting at this range was
very poor, but the bull seemed to have
crawled into a hole and pulled the hole
in after it from the infrequency of hits
made on the spot. At 200 yards the
surprise of the match was the score of
as bored out by the new man, G. F.
Nichols, the highest made at this stage
in any club competition. Miles squared
himself here with 43, Crossman kinked
his gun trying to beat it, but got only
AZ, Hanson got 80, with Felsenthal
landing a measly 38.
Good Rapid rire Work
The rapid fire showed several large
noises besides the cracks of the rifles.
Miles blew up with % for his ten
shots, and Nichols popped nearly as
loud with q, due to his lack of prac-
tice Crossman spent his time fighting
with a jamming bolt, firing a shot now
and then to break the monotony and
cover up the language used finally
getting 35. Felsenthal came through
with ga good score-Umsted did still
better, with 3S, while Hanson, getting
a jamming shell and only making IA
his first five shots, bored out the rec
ord-breaking score of % for his last
string of five shots-better than he did
at slow fire.
The rapdi-flre game is proving a
puzzle to the local men. Crossman un-
blushingly admits putting in this stage
in the hope of catching the northern
team mapping, but feels that perhaps
his own team members are the fall
guys, from the showing made. Miles
and Nichols fell out of bed SO hard at
this stage they bulged the floor, and it
is possible their unexpected toboggan-
ing may leave the northern team to
the good at this stage.
The rapld-fire is fired on the regular
200-yard target, having eight-inch
bullseye, the riheman being given
twenty seconds for each five-shot
string, two strings being fired in all
The time given is ample, providing no
Jams occur and the shooter is familiar
with his rifle and can fire his shots
without taking the arm down during
his string With a jam or balk of any
sort the rattles interfere and the twen-
ty seconds disappear while the rifle
man waltzes around with his refractory
shooting iron and sulphurizes the sur
rounding air. Nichols showing IL
chargeable to his lack of familiarity
with the game, but Miles score is SIM
ply an unaccountable accident which
comes to the hurried rifeman.
Crossman was high man for the
shoot, with his 1876, including a poor
rapid-fire string, while Umsted landed
but one point short, with 1866, due to
his weak range of 200 yards.
The showing Of Nichols was sur
prise, as he is a new hand at the game,
although an old and tried shotgun eX-
pert. He will form one of the team for
the big match September if his rapid
fire work comes up to standard.
Big Shoot September
September will see the biggest rife
club match shot on the Pacific coast
when the local club locks horns with
teams representing the Seattle Rifle
and Revolver association, the North
Yakima Rifle cub, the Spokane Rifle
and Revolver club and the Tacoma Ri