Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-10-25
SHOOT BY WIRE
RESULTS in Tie
SEATTLE RIFLE EXPERTS ARE
GIVEN SURPRISE
Work of Local RfIemen, Is Above
Standard-Highest Score Yet
Made Is Reported by Both
Clubs, with 749

TIL rifle team of the Los Angeles
Rifle and Revolver club tied the UNI
beaten Seattle Rifle and Revolver as
ISOLATION team in the rifle match Sun
day. Both teams totaled 749, the high
est score yet shot by the local club
and within three points of the best
score put up by Seattle in either of
the big interclub matches heretofore
shot.
Spokane Rifle and Revolver club
also shot and wired their scores but
they shot ten men and also used the 500
yard range with a total of 1912, so
it will rot be known until the detailed
scores arrive Friday whether the local
team defeated them or not. The
Washington clubs shot for their state
cup Friday, Saturday and Sunday ana
they We're to have the privilege of
shooting either six or ten men and of
using the SEQ yard range also if they
chose, the wires to show the scores,
ranges and number of men on the
team. Spokane will pit it's best six
men at 200, 300 and 500 yards against
the scores of the Los Angeles team
to determine who won between the
two clubs.
Seattle defeated both the local club
and every club in Washington in the
two big interclub matches pulled Off
July 18th, and the early part of this
month, and the local rifiemen are feel
ing quite encouraged over their show
ing against the strong northern team.
Except for an unexpected fall from
grace on the part of Hanson, one of
the clubs best shots, the local team
would have run at least ten points
higher. Hanson was under the handi-
cap of having to work rather strenu-
ously for eighteen hours Saturday and
Saturday night, and arrived at the
club in a very shaky condition. Bad
conditions did not help any and be-
tween his condition and the bad light
of the early morning across the tar
gets, he hit the slide for ia points, the
worst he has done in months. The
team was weakened by the absence of
Decius, Bathey, Atl1in and Umsted, but
York and Miles held up their end
nobly.
Nichols Is Star
The feature of the shoot was the
work of C. f. Nichols. He arrived af-
ter the. majority of the shooters had
finished, and was compelled to shoot
his strings straight through without
alternating with anyone else and with
out a pause between ranges. Shooting
a military rifle with it's heavy recoll Is
no easy work and shooting one right
straight through a score without a
rest is not conducive to good shooting
as a rule.
In spite of this Nichols pulled out
high place on the team to the tune of
131, landed high at 300 yards with As
and high at 200 yards with A. Except
for bad start at 500 yards, netting
him but A, his total would have been
almost a record breaker.
Nichols work, off-hand is particular
ly good and his shooting Sunday was no
exception to his average.
Old Harry Miles, who has seen six
ty-eight summers and nearly as many
winters pass over his head, again got
back into form after a couple of
months layoff and bored out 1923 for
his total but two points below high
man, and tying with Crossman for
second place. The local rihemen have
right to class themselves with the
best of the northern clubs after the
summer and falls shooting. They
have a record of defeating Tacoma
twice, losing to that team once; de-
feating Spokane once and losing TO
them once; defeating North Yakima,
losing to Seattle twice and tying Seat
tie in the last match The showing
made against Spokane in the match
Sunday will be known Friday. but the