San Diego County Biographies
 
MARTINEZ CHICK 

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Among the gun sportsmen of Southern California, the subject of this sketch 
stands out with great prominence. He is a native of California and was born in 
San Joaquin valley, August 22, 1858. His early life was passed on the farm of 
his father, leaving home at the age of twenty years and coming to San Diego. 
Hunting has been his principal amusement, until he has become very skillful with 
the gun. In April, 1887, he sought a match with Co. Carver, who is famed for 
skillful shooting, and Mr. Chick won the match, killing ninety-one live birds 
out of 100, while Mr. Carver killed but ninety. At the State Sportsmen�s 
Association meeting at San Jose, Mr. Chick made the best average on blue rock 
and live birds, and won the prize. In blue rock shooting, he broke forty-nine 
out of fifty in singles and forty-four out of fifty in double rise. In 
sweepstake tournament in 1888, at Riverside, he made over seventy-five shots at 
blue rocks without making a miss.

Mr. Chick was married in San Diego in March, 1879, to Miss Cornelia Higgins a 
native of California.
 
An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San 
Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - 
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. pp 123