Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-27
MARKSMAN MAKES
A PERFECT SCORE
Thirteen Members of Los Angeles
Rifle and Revolver Club at
Glendale Range
LEATHER MEDAL PRESENTED
CroSsman Is High for Regular
String of Ten Shots at
Each Distance
LEATHER MEDAL PRESENTED

Thirteen of the members of the Los
Angeles Rifle and Revolver club fore
gathered at the Glendale range Sun
day for a practice shoot, both in prep
aration for the last match of the Pa
cifc Coast Rifle league against Spo-
kane and to allow the militia contin-
gent to get in some final practice for
the regimental shoot of the Seventh in
fantry, to be held on the state range
July and 4.
AS far as scores go, the number pres
ent proved to be the same old hoodoo,
and it would have been hard to select
six good shots from the kit and
billing of the shooters on hand.
The feature of the shoot was the
clean possible of so pulled off by Kel-
lOgg at 500 yards in his second try at
that range. This is the first possible
scored on the Glendale range at any
distance. Another member of the club
has two possibles scored on the old
Schuetzen park 500-yard range when
the club used it, but the Glendale
range has so far refused to give UP
more than nine bulls out of string
of ten shots to any one man.
Crossman was high for the regular
string Of ten shots at each range, fol-
lowed in the league matches with the
total of 1872. Umsted got the possible
habit and pulled off five straight bulls
on the 300 yards, following the good
example set by Kellogg at 500 and
Xman at the 200-yard range a week
ago.
e. C. Price, a new hand with the
military gun, got good clean 46 at
500 yards, the second high string at
this distance for the day.
j. r. Edwards registered a nice AZ
in rapid fire on the I'D" target, clean
ing UP the field in this stage.
LEATHER MEDAL PRESENTED
A. Richmond was presented with a
richly engraved sole leather medal for
his score of 27 at 200 yards, a score
not excelled for it's all round cussed-
ness since the famous match between
the two blindfolded men. The club
team captain feels confident that Rich
mond will be valuable member OF
the club team some time-or at least
that some of his children will, if they
live long enough.
The shoot was marred by lively
scrap between Kline and j. S. May.
May brought out two fried squads for
his lunch. He had hardly eaten them
and settled down for a comfortable
lounge after lunch than Kline came by
whistling the good old song, I'm AS
Happy as the Birds in May" 1t took
the entire assemblage to persuade May
that Kline's music did not refer TO MIN
and his two squads.
Owing to the regimental shoot fall
ing on the day of the match with
Spokane, July 3, the shoot will be
pulled off on July 10 instead, putting
the date back one week. The "off-
hand" and rapid fire medals will also
be shot for on that date, after which
the club will take three weeks rest
after the steady shooting of the past
three months.
Sam Crawford, an old-time militia
shot, was out and put up a remark
ABLY good score for a man out of prac-
tice. DR.. Felsenthal went home happy,
even though his shooting was not up
to the standard. He declared he had
discovered the reason for his poor
shooting-he wasn't holding steadily on
the bull when the rifle went off. The
EXPLANATION strikes the rest of the
bunch as being about as near the truth
as anything they've heard, and the
originality of the reason is beyond all
doubt.
Kerbin added to the ten thousand
and one excuses of the clubmen for
getting poor shots. He declared that
an unfortunate 1.-TWO" at 300 yards was
because his foot slipped. He will wear
the Cheerful Idjits medal until it is
taken from him by cleverer man.
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