Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-10-25
BIG REVOLVER
LEAGUE FORMED
ORGANIZATION TO HAVE Ma
TIONAL SCOPE
First Match to Be Held In November.
Score Will Be Wired
to the League
Secretary

For some time there has been con-
siderable talk among the pistol and
revolver marksmen throughout the
country of forming a league of revolv-
err clubs to be conducted along the
same lines as the baseball leagues. The
plan is to have each club enter a team
in the league and shoot once each
week, sending in the result of each
shoot to the secretary of the United
States Revolver association. The sec
rotary will prepare and keep up to
date table of percentages, which
would run regularly in the leading
sporting and shooting publications.
The league will operate under the su-
pervision of the United States Revolv-
er association. The rules and condi-
tions of the 1909-1910 contest of the
league are as follows:
League Conditions
Clubs desiring to enter teams in the
league to pay an entrance fee of $40
for suitable medals as prizes and SOU
association to supply all targets re-
quired at cost. Each club to pay for
the targets used by it, all transporta-
ton charges and one-half of the cost
of the kilograms of the official scores.
Six official scorers to be appointed by
the u. S. r. A.-two on the Pacific
coast, two in the middle west and two
in the east. These men to score only
in matches in which the club to which
they personally belong is not interest
ed. The scores to be telegraphed to
the secretary treasurer for publication
in the sporting papers.
Teams to consist of five men.
A man shooting on the team of any
club or shooting organization entering
a team in the league will not be eligi-
Bile to shoot on thu team of any other
club or shooting organization, no mat
ter If he should be a member of two
or more clubs. This applies both to
regular members of the teams and the
substitutes.
Guns on Equal Basis
The U. S. R, A. rules for matches
A and B to govern: Five shots on
target, % shots per man under U. S.
r, A. indoor conditions. The pistol
and revolver to be used on an equal
footing; the arms to comply with the
U. S. r. A. rules.
Joseph r. Trego of Oakland and I.
C. Douglas of the Los Angeles Re-
volver club of this city have been APP
pointed official scorers for the Pacific
coast.
Arrangements are to be perfected so
that the contest can DeSln uOt ldlSA
than November IL. A schedule of the
matches, dates and official scorers will
be mailed to each club prior to No
vember IL.
Enthusiastic Support
The United States Revolver associa-
ton will do much to advance the sport
of pistol and revolver shooting
throughout the United States, making
better marksmen of those now using
the hand gun, as well as bringing
good number of beginners into the
game.
The Los Angeles Revolver club will
enter the league ana shoot their scores
on their new indoor range.
The following members of the club
will compose the five-man team and
substitutes: A. B. Douglas, H. D.
Thaxter, DIR. L. NJ Packard, J. r. Hol-
comb Will A. Wright, w. e. Smith
and 1. c. Douglas.
Practice Scores
The following practice scores were
made on the indoor range at 2461a
South Hill street last Wednesday even
ing:
on r,r7tror VIM,