RIFLE SHOOTING.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15037, 4 August 1914, Page 6

RIFLE SHOOTING.

IMPORTANT EVENTS AT PANAMA EXPOSITION.

(lEOM A COEBEJI-roTOEKT.. SAN FRANCISCO, July 5. The marksmen of the World who compete for the King's Prize at Bisley or Randwick or ' Trentham, will exhibit unparalleled .interest in the rifle shooting features arranged in connexion with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which opens at San Francisco on February 20th, 1915. /- Among the many important events, that will- attract the attention of all nations is the grand prize shooting tour- . under the auspices of the San* Francisco International Shooting Festival Association, to b<|" held at ShellMound Park, an ideal range at San Francisco, from August Bth to September 26th, 1915, for which event tne As-, sociation has appropriated £10,000 in

prizes for a beginning, lue tournament , will include contests lor soldiers, sail-" ors, veterans, peace oihcers," civilians, ! militia, cadets, students, members. ot7 -riflo clubs and pistol dups, and marks- j a en of all,rations aiid countries, irre- [ spective of afiiliatio'n. There will be coutests..with rifles, pjsijois, and revolvers; i thoit and long raii_ico,"iiatural and arti- j tidal light, and an endless variety of weapons and taigets. ■'. J Tno Association is composed of the] leading shooting socioties of the Pacific j Slope, working harmoniously, with the i sole object of making the tournament the most successful held. The £10,.J00 appropriated by the Association for prizes is merely a starter. To * that sum may be added fully as - much more, and perhaps twice as much contributed. by,.indiviauajs, films,,and corporations, and by shooting societies that will send teams: to take part in the contests. " What can be expected m prizes for this event may be measured by what San Francisco nas achieved on former occasions. At the 1901 Bundes shooting festival held on Shell Mound Park, prizes aggregating £20,C00 in coin, medals, trophies, and other tokens, were cistrjbuted. At the -shoot of the San': Francisco Schuetzen Verein. in honour of its golden jubilee, in 1909, the prizes j awarded aggregated £8000.

The Shell Mound range occupies an ideal location on the eastern shore of the Bay of San Francisco, facing the Golden Gate, with a full. view of the opposite shore, yet far enough to be out of reach of bullets. The characteristics of the range are an almost even temperature all the year, never too warm nor too cold, steady light, cloudless sky, almost entire absence of wind during tho gieater part of the year, and ample vacant space in the wake of the bullets. Tho range is but a short distance from San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley. Fmitvale, Richmond, and a number of other thriving cities.

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