Looks like he was a rep for VL&D in 1914
http://www.la84foundation.org/Sports.../SL6402028.pdf
Carl Von Lengerke, one of the best-known of the trade representatives in the past, connected with the United States Cartridge Company, will be among the missing at the Westy Hogans shoot for the first time in years, owing to his duties in the sales department. O. R. Dickey, the veteran from Boston, will look after the interests of this company.