Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
RIFLE EXPERTS
SHOOT POORLY
Los Angeles Team Makes Only
739 in Contest with the
BiSbee Squad
PROBABLY LOSE THIS MATCH
Southern California Club Is Ex-
peCted to Beat Seattle, as
They Are in Form
PROBABLY LOSE THIS MATCH

The second of the summer series of
matches of the Pacific Coast Rifle and
Revolver league came off Sunday, Los
Angeles being pitted against the Bis
bee sharps, Tacoma against Spokane
and Seattle against the Southern Cali
folnia Rifles of this city The results
are not hard to prognosticate, particu-
larly in the case of the Bisbee and the
Los Angeles clubs. If the Bisbee boys
cannot beat 739, they should be herded
off to the Home for the Crippled, but
there is little danger of such q neces-
sity. The Southern California Rifles
will likely defeat Seattle from the show
ing of the clubs in the first series of
matches and Tacoma will knuckle
down to Spokane If the dope book is
any good as an oracle.
All the clubs followed the standard
condition of ten shots per man at 200,
300 to 500 yards, any number to
shoot, and the six high men to count
as the team.
The Los Angeles team foregathered
at the Glendale range to put up their
scores against the Bisbee club, Hansen,
c. F., Nichols and Felsenthal being de-
tanned by their church work to such a
late hour that they found 1t impossible
to attend. The club also shot the
monthly spasm for the "Offhand tro-
ply" and also for the rapid-fire medal
Umsted, after passing a ground rule
that no one man should gather in both
medals. even though his scores en-
titled him to them, won the Offhand
medal and the gang threw off the rap
id-fire trophy to see If he would renig
on his own proposition. He did, and
grabbing the rapidflre trophy, hit
down the road for home leaving Kel-
logg to bring home his wife and family
later A searching party has been or
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the club will get it back If they have
to follow him to Mexico.
The club might have shot poorer with
their eyes shut, although sentiment is
divided even on this proposition. Smith
and Crossman did fairly well with 1873
and 131, Umsted tagged along with a
halfway respectable 126 and the rest
of them were unmentionable. Kellogg
was too busy playing his regular part
as the club Court Fool" that he for
got how to shoot-which was quite
easy-and pulled the team down about
ten points behind what a good shot
would have done. Andrews struck
streak of hard luck in both the Bisbee
match and the off-hand shoot and did
not class to his usual form.
Kline attempted to break up a kid
riot among the seventeen imps on hand,
suecumbed to superior numbers and re-
ceived a drubbing that told when he
went to shoot his string. He states that
after this the kids can have the range,
he'll get out and find another one when
they take a notion to it. Three of the
kids were spilled out of the range into
the brush and have not been recovered.
Finders please keep them for their
trouble, as there are more than plenty
left for next Sunday.
John York appeared in his new 60
devil of Standardization persuasion.
but shot his strings with a preoccupied
air and frequent glances back along
the road ~to Glendale. The clubmen
are wondering if the wreck of buggy
on the road home had anything to do
with Yorl's worried look.
Crossman, who landed the rapd-fire
medal last month with 40, was the
victim of a crowd of hoodluns, led by
Chief Hoodlum Kellogg. who took it
upon themselves to rattle the gen.
tleman. A weird score of II for the
first five shots testified to the success
of the game, although a second string
of "a did something to bring the score
again level. Crossman states that Kel-
logs will shoot his next score under
difficulties to put it mildly
Andrews ambled out with a Reming-
ton automatic % with which he intend
ed to clean out the gang and annex the
medal. The scuffle resulting from Um-
steds barefaced attempt to swipe the
trophy put Andrews out of shooting
form and he failed to land in the
money. Anyhow, everybody had a good
time except the marker.
The club tackles Tacoma on June 5.
and the locals will make a strong eff
fort to clean out the northern layout.
who shot many matches with the Los
Angeles rihemen in the past. The score:
ebo