Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-28
SOME coon SHOOTING.
me FIRST Regiment Team wins In the Prslim-
mary Trials at Sea Girt.
6ta1 Co-rssponstenee Of The fvar,jnx Star

mary Trials nj Sea Girt.
Bta1 Correspondents Of The EVENING Star.
CAMP PoLLARp, SEA GIRr, Nj,
August 3s, 1891
There may have been at some time two
eanizations more keenly anxious TO eclipse each
others record than are the teams Of the first
and second regiments, but history has failed to
show The existence OF such bodies. Today the
second and last stage Of preliminary practice
for rss1mental teams WAS shot, and when the
skirmish runs ended great was the iubilation of
Capt Cash and his men. for their victory of
yesterday Was made complete. At known dis
Auces-200 snd so yards-Capt Cash and his
team we're winners by seventeen points This
morning IN the skfrmish run they upset Capt.
Bell and his aggregation without turning more
than three or four hairs. IL was done tins way.
Long before sunrise the sound OF voices and
the rattle Of tin wash basins disturbed
tie sfImbers Of those who had failed to get up
When gray daylight first put m an appearance.
rusherS being clad after the fashion adopted
several summers ago by the Apollo Bevedere.
the Greek slave and severai other social headers
efprominence, the only deviation from the rrtfs-
tic rule being garments Of exceeding thinness
and muchiy abbreviated. When the washing
and dresSpg had been disposed q hsH an hour
was devoted to fhe rifles. most Of the time being
ueed up I'm company with some yards Of canton
uAhbetl III scr4DDfH& We 1nterlOtr Vi IT,
spectise hsrrel& A few Of the Wsshingtonlsns
partook OF light breakfast, hat q'nte as many
dfd not. they wanted a square meni ana go H.
CsrtrNise belts. with twenty rounds of AMIN AMI
uon N each, we're adlnssed, and shoftly after
o el0ek every one OF the District of Columbans
was awaiting orders at the 500 yard firing point
Gen Spencer Gen Howard and all the other
necessary officers were on hand AZ the appointed
Szrne and without any delay everybody moved
back to the 800 yards firing point, from which
place the skfrnish runs were TO start The
District ran I'VE at a time, aisernaeed be-
tween Jersey soldiers, there being ten mer IN
the 1fno that faced the ten tarsyts- To be
strictly correct skirmish firing shOah be done
ut Silhouette injuries representing men m the
three POSITIONS OF standing. kneeiing and lying
down. bot tire authorfties here, realizing that
only n few aarioraf guardsrnen could give suft-
cient time for the practice which weafd be
Becessary. substitutedffo for the regulation figures
mirf-rarge turgets. At the sound of q Bugle
the men advanced, first IN common. then IN
double Tune, halted. fired, arose. proceeded
forward and backward, until they had been
halted ten times Each man was supposed to
average two shots nc each halt he being allowed
THIRTY seconds between the two signals COM
menee firing and cease firing but most OF
the men had fred the las. OF their twenty snots
at the eighth or ninth halt IL took foar runs
20 dispose of the competitors, and as soon as
RE last test was complete there was very gem
er..l anxiety 20 know what the results looked
Ike So far az Washington Is concerned they
look like this: