Schutzenbob
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Location: Nightingale, California
Joined: Oct 24 th, 2005
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Re: New Photo
Reply #10 - Jun 9th, 2024 at 2:29pm
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San Rafael History: Street Name the Only Remnant of Sharpshooter. In the late 19th century, world champion sharp-shooter Philo Jacoby created San Rafael's Schuetzen Park, a 37-acre amusement park for shooting, bowling, dancing and dining. Through this area runs Jacoby Street, named for Philo Jacoby, who founded an amusement park that once covered this vast region. Jacoby was a Schuetzen-Koenig, king of the sharpshooters, who reigned for many years as an international rifle champion. German and Swiss immigrants brought Schuetzen shooting, a precision offhand shooting style, to the United States in the 1880s. The clubs they formed, called Vereins, served both social and athletic interests, and members competed in shooting matches, or Schuetzenfests, both at home and abroad. Pomeranian-born Philo Jacoby began work as a printer in Sacramento, where he met Swiss immigrant John Sutter of Gold Rush fame at a shooting match. Responding to Jacoby’s intense enthusiasm for the sport, Sutter taught Jacoby marksmanship. Jacoby moved to San Francisco and in 1863, became editor and publisher of a weekly, The Hebrew, the first Jewish newspaper on the West Coast. He never missed an issue in 49 years, except for the week following the 1906 fire. Jacoby was admired for both his athletic prowess and his intellect. He served as a second for Mark Twain in a boxing match at the Olympic Club, of which he was a charter member. He was also a leader of the Hebrew Athletic Club and of the San Francisco Turnverein, an ethnic-German gymnastic club.
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