Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-21
RIFLES BEATEN
BY ONE SCORE
FLUKY WEATHER INTERFERES
WITH EXPERTS
RIVAL CLUBS AGAIN SHOOT TO A
TIGHT FIT
Los Angeles Rifle and Revolver Club
Marksmen Win Out in the Sec
ond Match with the South
ern California Boys

BY the scant margin of single
point, the Los Angeles Rifle and Re
volver club took the Southern Calfor-
MIA Rifles into camp at Schuetzen park
yesterday. the final scores being 9S4 to
9S3. In the first match between the two
clubs, shot at Glendale two weeks ago.
the Rifle and Revolver club shot pre-
cisely the same total the Rifles scoring
three points higher and winning the
match. The close scores demonstrate
that the two clubs are about in the
same class, as a win of three points in
one case and one point in the other can
hardly be considered as decisive ue-
feats.
The conditions called for the three
ranges, 200, 800 and 800 yards, but in
stead of picking teams before the shoot
the plan was used of allowing any num-
Der from either club to shoot and
using the eight high men in each club
for the teams Any rifles and any
sights were allowed, but the whole
bunch used the army new Sprlngheld.
The date was that of the spring
equinox and the weather stood on its
hind legs and did things to the shoot
ers. Misses were present in greater
array than at q college sorority party
only these misses were of less at
tractive sort, judging from the IAN
guaCe used when one hove in slght.
The hard luck stories had Gloomy Gus
backed into the real estate section of
the paper and the atmosphere took on
a salty taste from the grabbing going
on The clubs decided to fire tho
markers after the first hour, to tar and
feather them by noon, and at p. m.
started over to the butts to gather i'm
the scoundrels and boil them in oil
as the fate most BETTING them. But
the markers had left after listening to
the choicest lot of mule skinner Ian
guage that ever busted a hofflned
Sabbath.
At times a 2O-mle zephyr blew up
the canyon in which the range is To-
Gated, settling down one and half
seconds later to a dead calm and then
blowing the other way to prevent
things from getting monotonous. They
didn't. Clouds scudded overhead, al
ways picking out the particular patch
of sky in which the sun played hide
a glarng whiteness to gloom deeper
than that of the man who backed Jim
Flynn for place, show or win, Thurs
day. Schuetzen park is fine range
for guessing contest.
c. f. Nichols ran into good calm
mOment-When the WIND fOrgot ltSeu
and blew the same direction for ten
minutes hand running-and bored out
the fine score of 48. His kid brother,
e. D., squared himself with the team
captain with a fine run of 126 for his
poor showing two weeks ago.
For the bunch, Backus was high with
a good 1872, Wotkyns and c. f. Nichols
tying for second with 12S. Hubbs, who
shot the phenomenal score of 14O two
weeks ago, ran into an unfortunate
miss at 300 yards, due to his shooting
on the wrong target and later, at 500
yards, he and Crossman, his shooting
partner, slid into the worst conglomer-
alton of puffy gales and tricky light
seen during the entire day, Hubbs
grabbing off enough twos and threes
and bulls to score 43, while Xman was
tickled to death with 80.
Kellogg blew in from Newhall to
shoot with his team and saved the
match for the club, although he also
struck the same conditions as Hubbs
and Crossman, getting AZ in place of
his usual Al or AS. The 500 yard stage
at Schuetzen park is much like the
poem about the little girl who was
very good when she was inclined that