Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-09
TELEGRAPH MATCH
SHOOTS STARTED
Pacific Coast League of Rifle and
Revolver Experts Holds
First Matches
RIFLEMEN ARE VICTORIOUS
Southern California Squad Beats
Los Angeles Team by Nine
Points at Glendale
RIFLEMEN ARE VICTORIOUS

shot yesterday, Tacoma being pitted
against Seattle, Spokane shooting
against Bisbee and the Southern Call
forna rifles against the Los Angeles
Rifle and Revolver club. The matches
were shot by telegraph. except in the
case of the Los Angeles Rifle and Re-
volver club and the Southern Califor-
mia rifles. who met on the Glendale
range of the former club to settle the
question.
The Southern California rifle team
proved to have too much class for the
Los Angeles team, defeating them by
the score of 759 to $50. This is the
third match of series between tho
two clubs prior to the organization of
the league and the Southern California
rifles have annexed two of the three,
the one going to the local club being
won by the scant margin of a single
point and the first one taken by the
rifles being in their favor by three
point margin.
The conditions called for the six high
men of each club as the deciding team,
any number being allowed to shoot.
the six high men being picked after
the shoot. The Southern California
boys won a well merited victory, as
they had but eight men out to pick
from, due to the distance of the Glen
volver club had thirteen shooters try
ing for places on the team. 1t was
demonstrated conclusively that half a
dozen fine shots cannot be defeated by
the pick from collection of more or
less good rif1emen in spite of the larger
number of the latter to select from
The Rifle and Revolver clubmen
however, do not feel much cast down
over the results. as they had an ex-
naa1lA M -
their rivals, an excuse that fully COW
ers the case and fully explains the
loss of the match The other fellows
were the best shots.
Opening up the excuse box is salts
flying to the shooters, but does not win
matches. However, some of the gems
gathered were
Il had sickness in my family
Kellogg.
Il just shot rotten. en."-Crossman.
THAT marker gave me a miss. I
know it wasn't a miss because 1 shot
at the target. Smith.
Il lost the combination to my shoot
ing bag. Gore.
The sun was spelling my complex
io."-Mrs. Crossman.
{. b. Hubbs shot a rattling good
score of 1876, with 46 at 300 and a fine
49 at 500 yards, with the last shot a
shots for which Hubbs SO anxiously
strained. Wotkyns drove out 40 at
500 yards firing as fast as he could
load and fire his gun to avoid the
constant change in the weather CON
ditions.
Sam Crawford tried hard to turn the
tide to victory, but couple of twos
and more threes spoiled the bulls he
claWed out. The teams We're tied be-
hn CHI Nf Wy
winning team, but he came to the
front nobly and put his team a good
nine points in the lead
DR. Alden was handicapped by
badly metal-fouled rifle and lost out
through his score at 500 yards. Umsted
ran into a bad score at 500 yards
through delay in the middle of his
string and then a failure on the part of
Team Captain Crossman to allow him
a sighting shot on the resumption of
his score.
Umsted, who is running for assistant
dog catcher brought out a lunch for
the whole crowd Of bachelors and near
bachelors, who were in their usual fam
ishing condition. and broke up the
shoot by sounding mess call and open
ing up the baked beans. Eight more
votes are now his'n. A branch of
Kellogg's family fell i'll during the
take two cars home.
The four married women brought out
seven children each. Ranchman Gill
lette, who runs the range ranch res
cued the cow locked up the family
cat, put up the bullet proof shutters
and climbed into his cyclone cellar
where he sat thanking his lucky stars
that he had sense enough to be a
bachelor. The kids state they had a
fine time.
Mrs. Crossman started off with
twenty three for her first five shots at
500 yards and then went through the
classic process of blowing up, landing
fifteen for the last five shots.
The usual trouble was experienced
with the markers. The only markers
who will hold their jobs in undisturbed
are those who can see through a hole
in milestone far enough to give only
fours and fives. Nobody ever chal-
lenges these marks. but let marker
score miss. even though the shooter
have his gun aimed nor'east bv nor
of the comet. and the victim will tear
his hair, throw ashes on his head and
wall to Glendale that the shot was in
the very center of the bull.
The next trouble will be May %,
when the Rifle and Revolver club
| tackles Bisbee, Southern California
shoots Seattle and Tacoma shoots
| Spokane.
The conditions will be the standard
conditions of the league. ten shots per
man at 200, 300 and 500 yards, the six
highest men to form the team. The
only departure will be that the 200
stage will be shot prone instead of in
the usual offhand position. on account
of the very heavy winds prevailing
around Bisbee this time of the year,
making it almost impossible to hold a
rifle offhand.
H. is probable that either Seattle or
Bisbee will turn up the winning team
at the end of the series, but the South
ern California boys have to be reckoned
with, and Spokane may spring sur
prise. as they did last year by winning
the Washington state championship.
The local civilian government clubs
are watching anxiously for the passage
Of the bill before congress appropriate.
ing 100000 for the encoura cement of
shooting in schools, colleges and
civilian rifle clubs. The bill has passed
the senate and is now before the
house. It's passage probably will mean