The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-03
SHOOT LIKE BUFFALO BILL
Kenosha Men Were Far Behind in Both
Events and Some Suggest They Were
Using Blanks-C lausen and Bienne-
man Prove Best of Kenosha Police.

/ That Horlick trophy offered by for
mer mayor of Racine for revolver com
petition between the members of the
Racine, Kenoshs and Milwaukee police
departments is not suited for the Ke-
nosna police Office. At any rate it is
not going to be one of the permanent
! fixtures of the city hall at present as
the Racine blue coats put an awful
mortgage on it out at the shoot at
! Central park on Tuesday afternoon de-
feating the Kenosha cops by the top
heavy score Of 157 to 81. The Keno
sha bunch are suspicious and they are
not at all certain that the Racine cops
| did not run in Buffalo Bill and Annie
Oakley and number of other crack
shots, as some of the men who walked
about in Racine uniforms shot with
such precision that the fact that they
are not travelling with f'Wild West -
show is due to the fact that no one
ever saw them shoot before. These fell
lows could hit targets looking at them
with mirror behind them and the
Kenosha bunch could not have hit the
side of a barn. 1t is just possible that
the man who slipped the cartridges to
the competing police officers had some
thing to do with the score by slipping
blanks to the Kenosha police officers.
AS the cartridges were handled by one
of the Xenosha department. this alibi
will hardly stick. 1t can be said, how
ever, without any fear of successful
contradiction, that the Kenosha blue
coats had it put all over them and they
came back wondering just what kind
of sprouts the Racine officers had been
put through to bring them up to such
a high degree of perfection. The
craftsmanship shown by the officers of
Racine is such that evil-doers who de-
sire to keep whole skin should throw
up their hands and walk turkey any
time a Racine police officer tells them
to do it for if the Racine cops start
shooting there will be no more chance
for criminal to escape than for an
Englishman to get out of Germany.
Socially the inter-city shoot out at
Central Park was big success and
there was 9 big crowd of officials and
hangers-on about the officers out at the
park. It didn It take the Racine bunch
long to get the measure Of the Kenosha
police officers and it was seen after the
first round that Racine was going to
distance the men from Southport
LaChappelle, of the Racine force, led
off in the first event with total Of
twenty two out Of twenty-five targets
and Kachuba, who shot third on the
list, had just as many bulls eyes to
his credit. Clausen led for Kenosha in
the first round and the best he could
get was fourteen and Biennemann was
second with twelve. 1t should be said
that Clausen and Biennemann got more
than nearly all the others put together.
The first round shot-off was at ten
yards and the Racine cops scored
total of 119 points in this event while
the Kenosha policemen got total of
a.. Then Gaze the disastrous second
round where they put the marksmen
tip had been passed about to the Racine
mel to let up little and they only
scored 80 points at this distance, but
the Kenosha rnarksmen took only IT.
Biennemann showed his Leadership in
the long distance shooting by scoring
ter points and he was just one point
behind, George of Racine who led in
the event. The big bunch of zeros
chalked up against some Of the Keno
sba officers showed that they will need
a lot more shooting before they can
hope to bring any trophies back with
them. The score Of the competition
follows:
Racine Police Department.
1Oyds. 20 yds.
LaChappelle -. 1880. %
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