Schuetzenbob

I've just begun to read it, but do you know where the main event actually occurred? It sounds like they took the ferry, so they could have been anywhere in the bay area.  I don't recognize where it was they went.

I am a bit interested since I worked in and around Walnut Creek for a few years and worked (as a consultant) with the Industrial Waste Division of San Francisco for those years.

Chris Jens
Iowa

Hi Chris,

I'm sure you're more familiar with the bay area than I am, so far, I think that Shell Mound Park (Schutzen park) was in Emeryville, which is south of San Francisco;

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We're going to have lots more information on the match in the near future.

Wayne, I've looked for these articles for the past year or so, I found them in a book titled "Jack London Reports" published in 1970 by King Hendricks and Irving Shepard. If you contact me off the board, I can teel you where to find a copy.

Bob

Pete:

Schuetzenbob will have to supply the exact dates, I'm staying with events in the midwest.

Referring to wikepedia and the resulting references to the art on the mudflats and by the Bay Bridge tells me that its almost due east of San Francisco across the bay at the east end of the Bay Bridge.  Makes me wonder where they fit a rifle range, but I'll wait for Schuetzenbob to elaborate.

Chris Jens
Iowa

Well, here's what I came up with as to a location. To Quote S&F----

  "California Schuetzen park is the property of the California Schuetzen Club, or rather the California Schuetzen Park Association, from which it is leased by Andrew Brehm. It is a mile south of San Rafael, a suburb of San Francisco in Marin County, and contains fifty acres of land."

  A coupla issues previous to the above shows a picture of the park from an elevated position showing it and the "bay". Looks to be right on the shore, or very close to it.

  To quote- "The picture that appears with this is a view of the park and the bay from the old Indian mound of shells from which the name of the park was derived. The ranges are on the bay side and partly hidden by the trees."

PETE

I'll try to answer some of your questions as best I can;

#1 The Schutzen match itself was held from July 15 to July 24, however the shooting and celebrating started a week before and continued long afterward.

#2 There were several large Schutzen ranges in the bay area, at that time Schutzen shooting was very important. The match was held at Shell Mound Park, which was east of the City of San Francisco in an area which is now the City of Emeryville, which is just north of Oakland at the end of the Oakland Bay Bridge. Emeryville conducted an archaeological dig in the Shellmound area and unearthed thousands of fired 22 RF cases.

Bob