The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 18, 1901, Page 4

N FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1901. ADOLPH STRECKER OF THIS CITY MAY E NEXT KING S HOOTER OF A MERICA - % Fourth Day of the Third National Shooting Festival Gives Assurance of the Com- plete Success of the Entire Celebration Crack Shots Will Appear on the Ranges To-Day and Will Try Their Marksman- ship for the Many Rich Prizes Offered and more accretions to shooting reputa- tions. This is the order of the day, and it has made a mild sort of delirium_out of the schuetzen gathering at Shell Mound. “SWEAT BOX” IS TRYING ON THE NERVES OF ALL The glass cases that set off the hon- orary targets are veritable ‘‘sweat boxes.” When a suspect is taken in hand by the HREE days came and went at | Shell Mound Park this week | and when the shooting ceased each night all that was heard was: ““Wait until to-morrow The to-morrow was yesterday When the long shadows fell on | the shooting ranges last night and | athwart the tables where the shooters | congregate after their rifle labors, there ! o = was many a toast to the Third National Bundes Fest. They were honestly given. The Third National Bundes Fest is a success. Rhine wine and shooting divided the honors of the fourth day. Good scores always call for good wine with these marksmen who make the schuetzenfest & prolonged holiday. And good scores were found on every hand yesterday. From the early chill hours of the morning untfl the ruddy sunset the shooters poured into the rifie stands. The rifles spat their fire In an unbroken stream. Every range received more than its due of patronage and the shooting secretaries were in & stew of labor and excitement all the time. News travels quickly in the range sec- tion. Whenever a big score is made a shout goes up and then a rush is made to the platform where the tables and the y waiters are. Congratulations, toasts, general hilarity come in train and then a return to the butts for more honor captain of detectives or the Chief .of Po- lice and put through the mill of danger- ous cross-question he goes through no more trying ordeal than these men who shoot on the homorary target for the handsome prizes offered for the three best shots. Men of iron nerve and steel cold eves, men who never falter in ordinary rifle competition shake like a leaf when undergoing_the test of the honorary shooting. Their hands shake, their eyes become dimmed and they come out of the stand full of boyish apologles. This hep- pens to the best of them, and that is why walk away with a prize that far exceeds his merit for consistent shooting. Men llke Willlam Hayes, the shooting king of a_ continent, would not venture into the glass case until nerves, temper and eye are all attuned to the work before them. KING HAYES TRIES HIS HAND AT SHOOTING King Hayes essayed a few random shots yesterday. He Is not yet right, and no one knows it better than himself, This man, cool, accurate and precise, will not What S. S. S. Does for Children Children are constantly exposed to all sorts of dis- eases. The air they breathe is filled with germs, sewer and dust from the filthy streets are inhaled into the ungs and taken into the blood. At the crowded school rooms and other public places they come in contact almost daily with others recovering from or in the first stages of comtagious diseases, You can’t quarantine against the balance of the world, and the best you can do is to keep their blpod in good condition, and thus prevent or at least mitigate the disecase. You have haps learned from observation or experience that g:lthy, robust children (and this means, of course, children whose blood is pure) are not nearly so liable to contract diseases peculiar to them, and when they do it is generally in a mild form. On the other hand, weak, emaciated and sickly ones seem to catch every disease that comes along. This is because their blood is lack- ing in all the elements necessary to sustain and build up the body. Poisons of every description "accumulate in the system, because the polluted and sluggish blood is unable to perform its proper functions. Such children need a blood purifier and tonic to give strength and vitality to their blood, and S. S. S., being a purely vegetable remedy, makes it the safestand best%or the delicate constitutions of children. S.S.S. isnotonly a perfect blood medicine, but is pre-eminently the tonic for children; it increases their appetites and strengthens the digestion and assimilation of food. If your child- ren have any hereditary or acquired taint in their blood, give them S, 8. 8. and write to our physicians for any information or advice wanted ; this will cost you noth- ing, and will start the little weaklings on the road to recovery. Book on Blood and Skin Diseases free, THE SWIFT SPECIFIC C0., ATLANTA, GA. | some dark horse is likely to step in and | S B NSIOEN T rUHLS wetLcoqa TOREI TN MHING i g | B William Glindemann of the San Francisco Schuetzen Verein Makes the High Score on the Ring Target Up to the Present Date Dr. F. Schumacher of the San Jose Rifle Club Is Highest get With a Scor on the Honorary Tar- e of Seventy Points “pobbies” were seen yesterday at Shell | Mound, and rumor has it that the officers expended several dollars for gunpowder and entry tickets to enable them to get 2 line on the ranges. Sergeant Helms and Officer Kavanagh, two of the finest, caught facing the butts several times during the day, but they refused to shoot in the presence of witnesses. The scores made by the peace preservers were not made public, as it wag feared that their averages would act as a dampener on the were | Cups, James York for scores of 300 points and above— Vogel, New Uekotter, | Pope, Cmein- nati; F. ; O. H. Westcott, | Los ‘Angeles se: F. H. Bango, San Jose; C. F._P. Schuster, Otto Bremer, F. E. Mason, M. F. Blasse, Mocker, Lou! el, ph Strecker, | Lada, J. W H C. Meyer, GLNPER 7 41y kS <= —_— — PROMINENT MEN WHO DISTINGUISHED THEMSELVES AT THE RANGES AT SHELL MOUND ON THE HON- | ORARY AND GENERAL PRIZE DAY OF THE THIRD NATIONAL TARGETS DURING THE FOURTH | SCHUETZEN BUNDES FESTIVAL. e e SHERE S | do his best work for a few days at least. He has an eye that makes itself feit even {to the movice. It s cold, calculating, | used to weighing matters and ranging dis- tances to the smallest {raction of an inch. When asked if he would go into the hon- | orary ge vesterday he gave\an em- hatic no. “I am not ready for the tesk,” {he sald. “When I am properly strung | then I shall shoot my string.”” In blue coat, the only change of dress he makes for ‘shooting, King Hayes prepared his | cartridges and his zun for the work of the next few days. Ho does not expect to equal his formes record, for it is some | time since he hos done any religlous prac- tice with the rifle. ADOLPH STRECKER, THE MAN FOR THE KINGSHIP The saplent are beginning to sift the shoaters and select the king for this fes- tival. Four men seem to stand on a pre- eminent step ‘n the contest. They are M. C. Ramsey of Grand Junction, Colo.; Adolph Strecker of the California Schuetzen, D. W. McLaughlin of the Gold- en Gate Rifle and Pistol Club and Fred Schuester of the Germania Schuetzen. These men are shooting like demons, pick- ing off poirts thet startle the markers and scorers. “Look out for Strecker,” is the cry. There is a substantial foundation for it, too, for Strecker is outdoing his own rémarkable records hour after hour. This kingship will not be settled for some days, and it keeps all in a conjectural, nervous boil all the time. Strecker has fired 170 of his 200 shots for the kingship. He was in such good form that he di({, not waste a minute of the day,,perforating the targets until the closing hour. In one atrlng of ten shots he registered 2 out of 3. Strecker has a comfortable lead on all competitors up to the present time. YOUNG MR. PAPE FALLS IN HIS HONORARY WORK If there was any chance of big honors on the honorary target for young Mr. Pape they have vanished. His fall was registered on the Eureka target, where he did not find it. Full of hope, A. Pape attempteq to gurpass his father, who reg- istered 67 on Tucsday. It was son not like father. Fifty-two was the young man's score, and now there is deep mourning in the Pape family. Many others will gu the same way, for they step into the honorary stand with visions of the tem- ple of prizes pefore their eyes. It seems as If the handsome, valuable cups and shining twentles were dangling before £ - - & + ADOLPH STRECKER, WHO I8 PICKED AS KING SHOOTER. OF THE UNITED STATES. + their optics to blot out judgment, sight and nerve. PRESIDENT WELCOMES KING OF OLD WORLD All this is constantly recurring in, the shooting stand. Outside in the park the side life goes on. Here the kings of other days, monarchs of the rifie, who have reigned, abdicated or been deposed, keep their small audiences attent with tales of forgotten times. The bands play and the glasses tinkle, and reminiscences flow like the wine that gurgles out of the long- necked bottles. One of the Old World who made a figure yesterday was Julius Beeker, for many years a resident of San Francisco, a shoot- ing king in his native country and a wear- er of medals stamped with the marks of foreign glory. He is a Knight of the Or- der of Winrich von Knieprode, the father of shooting guilds. Becker was at Marien- XS berg and Dantzig for the great German shooting festivals and has carved silver to show for it. Taken in hand by Presi- dent Kuhls, he was the guest of honor of the day. President Kuhls welcomed him in the name of all the shooters of North America and sald other kind things that made the heart of Jullus Beeker beat with pride NOTEWORTHY SHOOTING OF THE FOURTH DAY The big men of the fourth day's shoot- ing were Dr. F. Schumacher of the San Jose Rifle Club, President Kuhls and W. Glindemann of the San Francisco Schuet zen Verein. Schumacher earned his laurels on the Eureka, the honorary target, and is up to date the high man for special prize winnings. His three shots were made on the Eureka and they added up just 70 points. On his first shot Dr. Schu- macher made 24 points. Then he repeated this performance, something far out of the ordinary. His third shot was 22. Altogether there were fifty-one shooters on the honorary range. Max Schmidt of the San Jose Rifle Club made 65, the next highest score for the day. M. Reubold of San Francisco made 64, and Jacob Grueh- ler of Sacramento made the same score. F. W. Belknap of Los Angeles made 63. W. C. Morken and Antone Lemaire of San Francisco made 61 each, and George Kef- fel of San Jose made 60, as did Willlam Dressler of San Francisco. These were the best scores on the honorary target for the day. . Willlam Glindemann's shooting was of the stem-winder kind. On the ring target he reached the high score of 73 out of a possible 75. He shot 23 on the first trial and 25 twice right after_it. Glindemann shot three other cards, 70, 71 and 66. He uses his own manufactured trigger. Other high scores were as _follows: Standard American—E. Berg, Towa, 45; Louts Bendel, San Franeisco, 43. Bear tar- get—F. W. Belknap, Los Angeles, 15. Man umiet-.rohn Utschig, 77; Charles F. Thier- bach, 77. F. P. Schuster made the first and Wil- liam Glindemann the last bullseye of the day. rles Thierbach, -who holds the world’s record on the man target, on a score of 79 out of a possible 80, made his first appearance on the range yesterday, and again went at the man target, scoring 71, though he promised to try and make the possible before the festival closes. The “‘coppers’ shoot”” to-morrow will not find all the %)‘Hco officers of this city un- practiced. e portly forms of several | gold and silver medals spirits of their police brothers who have entered the prize shoot. POPULAR MERCHANTS FAIL TO HIT TARGET One of the amusing features of “all people’'s day” was the contest between Pete Weniger and Louis Schiatter. Both of these gentlemen cater to the tastes of the eating and drinking public. They be- came imbued with were intended for greater things than catering to the wants of the “inner man and spoke loudly of their skill with the gun. Each one had probably used a rifle before starting for Shell Mound, but thajr scores were not of the kind that made any great impression on those who know what a good score is. They shot for points and out of a pos- sible thirty in ten shots Schlatter made one. Weniger used up ten shots and &d not even see the flag which tells the shooter that the target had been hit. At the close of the contest Schlatter and Weniger were informed by an unfeeling scorer that they would make good “farm- ers” as they had plowéd up more ground than all the participants in the festival, Emil Berckman of Hoboken, New Jer- sey, was one of the steady shooters of the day. PLUCKY MRS. MANNEL SCARES CRACK SHOTS The marksmen at Shell Mound Park vesterday were greatly surprised when Mrs. G. F. Mannel stepped up to the en- trance of the glass case facing the hon- orary target and presented a ticket enti- tling her to a try for ome of the big prizes. She got her “try,” and incident- ally made site of the ~crack shots feel rather small. When she relinquished her gun she had 44 scored opposite her name, and left the booth with the knowledge that many of the men who tried for hon- ors would not get as many points. Mrs. Mannel was nervous, otherwise she would have made a higher score. To shoot in the presence of so many men who had national reputations as sharpshooters was a little too much for the brave little wom- an, and she failed to come as close to a dead center as she might. She succeeded, however, in frightening the ‘“‘cracks.” More than one expert rifieman was heard to remark that “Mrs. Mannel would make them hustle to hold a place in the first ranks if allowed to shoot under more fa- vorable circumstances.” Mrs. Manrel is the wife of G. F. Man- nel. president of the Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club, and enjoys the distinction of being the champion woman revolver shot of the coast. NOTES ALONG THE LINE AS THE MARKSMEN SHOOT E. H. Goetze earned one of the f: cups yesterday by scoring more n?.-ffi“&?é 0‘6&1}” p?ln; target. e of the nurprises of Hans Becker, a 15-year-old lt,g; by pifeed played great skill with the rifis and s ceeded in scoring three twenty-ones u; the ring target. His scores at the other targets when footed up amounted to much more than the average and stamped him as on: counliy‘? @ future sharpshooters of the Dr. Fred Bangs, one among the members sharpshooters, of the best shots useq consideratie SO uni- g‘;!x% {:':terflny and wasted but few of his e following were awarded cups ’utel’du:p 29 the idea that they | | Salfield, Johnp Utschig, August Hintermann, John Brugger and H. Hinkel of San Francisco. Silver medals, for 50 points and over—H. M. Pope, Massachusetts; M. C. Ramsey, Colorado: F. D. East, Colorado: F. S. Speth, Cincinnat!; F. Mathie, Wisconsin F. Richter, Milwau~ kee: P. J. Malana, Chicage; Willlam Hayes, New York; F. 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