Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-25
PRONE SHOOTING
is NOT POPULAR
SCORES MADE Do NOT SHOW
UP WELL
AVERAGES NO BETTER THAN AT
OFFHAND
Los Angeles Rifle and Revolver Club
Team Disappointed at Showing
Made in Bisbee Telegraph
Match

The Los Angeles Rife and Revolver
club outdoor rifle team shot their scores
In the match against the Bisbee Rifle
club last Sunday, the Bisbee team to
shoot next Sunday. The match had to
be postponed from two weeks ago be-
cause of rain, and the locals shot sun
day to avoid the possibility of more de-
lay from the same source. c. r.
Nichols was high with 1872, Kellogg be-
ing a close second with 131.
The conditions called for ten shots
per man, eight men per team. Owing
to the high wind blowing around Bis
bee this time of the year the Bisbee
team asked that the matches be shot
with all the ranges in the prone posi-
ton. This was done by the local club,
and the scores did not run as high as
they ordinarily do in the usual positions
of offhand at 200 yards and sitting at
300 yards. A dark day and changing
light made good scores difficult.
Reversals of form were many, Hague
hitting the slide for 118 points and scor-
ing only little better in the off-hand
medal contest. Decius of the state
rife team did not shoot up to his usual
form, scoring only AZ at 500 yards. The
range that looked to be the easiest and
that proved to be the hardest was the
200 yards, shot prone. The average was
but a trifle over 40, not much better
than the average when shot in the
usual off-hand position. The team to-
tailed 1923, averaging 421a point per
man.
The contest for the off-hand medal
of the Western Hardware and Arms
company was hotter than usual, and
the medal belonged to anyone until the
last three men finished.
Crossman won it for the third time,
4. 1t q
manent possession of it. c. F. Mich
oil, and Andrews, followed closely with
65 each, higher than the usual run
of scores shot for the medal but not
high enough to head the winner and
his Dutch" gun The medal was
won last month by e. d. Nichols with
81, the highest score recorded for the
medal at that time, with Hague tying
the winner with another 81, but losing
out on the shoot-off The departure
from the usual low scores seemed to
prove contagious, as Cheeseman's 6S is
the highest score put up for the medal
in its nine months of seesawing among
the club members.
The condition called for Is shots Off
hand at 200 yards, any rifle allowed.
Three wins gave permanent possession
of it and Crossman and c. r. Nichols
had scored two wins each. The other
members strained every effort to pre-
vent either of them from scoring a
third win and taking the medal away.
The rifle used by the winner is an
imported Sauer Mauser, with a special
barrel, but in the hunting rifle class
and of light weight Andrews ran a
good second with a Marlin $500, while
Nichols, who also scored, Co. used a
military rifle with special sight, just
purchased. The medal was hung up
last May and has been won by Miles,
Kellogg, Crossman, C. F. Nichols and
E. D. Nichols, with scores varying
from 60 to the winners 68 last Sun
day.
A feature of the shoot was the large
gallery present, the spectators in
Guiding a half dozen Glendale shots,
several women and half dozen men,
bers of the Triangle cadet corps. Sew
eral of the women participated in a
rifle match among themselves Mrs.
George T. Kellogg winning mainly
through the coaching of her expert
enced husbend. Mrs. 1. E. Hague shot
200, 300 and 50O yards with total of
Sc for her five shots at each range.
Sam Crawford. an old militia shot,
came out and shot 62 in the medal
contest, to show how little practice is
necessary to a really good shot. The
club has been invited to a feed" at
the palatial home of Kellogg on West
Adams street, and a good time is eX-
pected. The scores follow: