I first visited Kerr Sport Shop in Beverly Hills in the spring of 1969 when I was an E-3 in the Navy, stationed at San Diego. The thing I remember most about that visit was that they had an Ithaca NID Grade 7E 20-gauge for sale. Unfortunately that was a bit beyond an E-3's $137.70 a month at that time. After I came back to San Diego as an officer in 1971, I began shooting NSSA skeet and remembered Alex Kerr arriving at registered shoots at Winchester West at Long Beach and at El Monte, in his white Rolls Royce. At that time, bursitus (sp?) in his shoulder limited him to shooting only the .410-bore events with his Winchester Model 42.
From the USC Trojan, Spring 2000 --
ALEXANDER H. KERR ’36, of Toluca Lake, Calif.; March 25, 1999, at the age of 85. He owned and operated the Kerr Sport Shop in Beverly Hills, Calif., from 1936 until 1982. During World War II, he was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, serving as head of gunnery training at Alameda, Calif., naval base. He was called into the service because of his excellent reputation as a skeet shooter, holding several world records for consecutive hits in competition, as well as many individual and dual team meet championships, the latter with actor Robert Stack. Kerr was also a member of the California Fish and Game Commission for many years. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Carolyn, two children, and a brother.
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