Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-05
RIFLES WIN IN
TARGET MATCH
DEFEAT |. A. R. AND R. CLUB
BY 43 POINTS
Southern California Team Grants Re-
turn Match for Next Month-Other
Contests Planned by Los
ing Members

Judging from the enthusiasm dis
PLAYED by the members of the Southern
California Rifles team yesterday AFTER
noon. after this team had defeated the
Los Angeles Rifle and Revolver clup
in a match shoot at Schuetzen park
there must have been some rivalry IN
volved in the match. The score was
1857 to S24 in favor of the Rlhes team
and the winners formed a ueciueuIy
happy aggregation afterWard.
The conditions of the match called
for seven men to the team, ranges 2OO'
300 and 500 yards, ten shots man at
each range. using the military rifles
as used in the army. The match was
in doubt until the last shot was nreu'
That is the rife of the last southern
California Rifle team man might nave
blown up or he might have been STRUCK
bv lightning or had a f1t-nothlng else
would have prevented his team from
winning, but then it makes the losers
feel better to say that the result was
in doubt until late in the game.
The Rifle and Revolver club team
was handicapped by the loss of Harry
Miles and Akin, both of them topnotcn-
ers, and had to use two substitutes,
The shooting by the winning team was
a splendid exhibition OF even, steauy
craftsmanship throughout, the sort
that wins matches, while the scores OF
the Rifle and Revolver club fiuctuated
from Crossman's score of As at 5OO
wards to York's score of 81 at 200
Yards. a difference of II points, and
fhe uneven shooting explains why the
match went to the Southern California
Rifles. Two of the Southern Calltornla
Rifles experts beat CHEESEMAN'S score OF
1923, high score for the Rifle ana Re-
volver club, while three of the Rifle
went lower
fine lowest man on the Southern Call
fornia Rifle team, showing that the
match was fairly won by good, even
shooting. York and Nichols OF the
Rifle and Revolver club were green
hands at the game, and While YORK
might have shot a fair score with a
pistol and Nichols undoubtedly coulu
have landed on the target with his pet
shotgun, neither accomplished much
with a military rifle. Hansen was out
of condition and slid into the basement
early in the game, after when all
Crossman's coaching could not even
get him started for the steps leading
out. ooo .s
The trouble started at the 200-yard
range. The targets stood still for the
Southern California Rife bunch put
the instant a Rife and Revolver clup
man aimed a rife the targets had
NICK oswald DetChSu OiL ~ >
dodging. Crossman got 80, about D
noints below form; Bathey Nichols
and Hansen came through with 80
each, while York added 81
AT 300 yards, where the men could
sit down to shoot, under the rules, the
Rifle and Revolver club men showed TO
good advantage Alden got miss. put
ting his bunch two points behind the
rifle club team at this range, but sun
rl6
AT 200 wards Backus, the rack shot
of the winning team, dug up a fine
score of AZ, while Kellogg's gun con-
tanned nothing better than Al for the
losing side. At this range only one
man of the Southern California Rifle
team fell below A. a good example OF
splendid even shooting as can be found
in the state rifle organization, bar
none. Crossman got his rifle muzzle'