Breeder and sportsman . t. A. W. Du Bray, a recentacquisition of the club; (and one who has rarelymissed being on hand for the first match of the sea-son for twenty years), the favorite sportsman andadmirable shot, Mr. Harvey McMurchy. During the clubs career its matches have been heldin various localities around San Francisco; first, webelieve, at Millbrae, formerly and better known byearly day sportsmen as the Seventeen Mile House;at Birds Point, Alameda county; San Bruno for anumber of years (and where the best and swiftestbirds were always to be found), at the Oakland racetrack, in Emeryvi
Breeder and sportsman . t. A. W. Du Bray, a recentacquisition of the club; (and one who has rarelymissed being on hand for the first match of the sea-son for twenty years), the favorite sportsman andadmirable shot, Mr. Harvey McMurchy. During the clubs career its matches have been heldin various localities around San Francisco; first, webelieve, at Millbrae, formerly and better known byearly day sportsmen as the Seventeen Mile House;at Birds Point, Alameda county; San Bruno for anumber of years (and where the best and swiftestbirds were always to be found), at the Oakland racetrack, in Emeryville, and of later years at Ingleside,an admirable locality; from whence a move wasmade, last year, to the present shooting grounds atStege station, on the Southern Pacific railroad linein Contra Costa county. That the California Wing Shooting Club may con-tinue to prosper and keep up its present excellent andactive organization, in the days to come, is the sin-cere wish of its many friends and all true sportsmenas California Wing Shooting late Louis Rink (third from left) and John K. Orr (center). field and trap shots on our Coast, sportsmen who arecapable of holding their own, as a body, in anycompany, and so admitted by sportsmen generally. Its annual monthly matches are always fully attend-ed and looked forward to by its members and invitedguests with increasing interest, and those, as non-members, who are fortunate enough to be invited toparticipate on these occasions, anticipate with pleas-ure being present. The club is particularly noted for, its courtesy andwell known hospitality to visiting, outside sportsmen,and of these strangers within our gates the mem-bers always made welcome. So far as credible information is to be obtained atthis late day, the California Wing Shooting Club hadits origin in a club predating it by a few years, andknown as the Park Club, formed, we believe, about1870. The members of this club shot their matchesin a little valley, sou
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