Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-07

must be sealed In the shells to the depth Of ai
least two-thirds the diameter Of the bore. Gen.
Ordway has in his possession specimens secured
on Saturday in which some Of the bullets are
not in one-half the required depth The mock
cry OF military competition with such am
munition must be apparent when it is stated
that the bullets would drop out Of the cartridges
II they we're placed in the service web belt. II
is therefore plain that. even under the loosely
constructed Creedmoor regulations, the match
was forfeited to Washington. but Washington
was not anxious to secure a trophy in any such
fashion. Gen. Ordway win officially place this
matter before the association in y letter to
Gen. Wingate, its president; that will end all
local interest in the affair. Hereafter rifle
clubs may compete for the Hilton and inter-
state trophies. but military teams will stay
away. II may be, at some future day when
much chloride of lime, as il were. has covered
up and rendered innoxious the Creedmoor of
today, that military sharpshooters will once
compete fairly and squarely for supremacy.
but unless some remarkable and unlooked-for
upheavai takes place Creedmoor is dead to all
but New York.
NEXT YEAR AT SEA arRr.
Next year Sea Girt will capture the crowd,
and if the Eastern Rifle Association turns GU,
% be the success it now promises to be defunci
Creedmoor will never again be heard Of.
NOT AT ALL sULKY.
There was nothing sulky in the demeanor Of
the losers on Saturday, as has been charged
New Workers cheered them at the depot and
had sufficient number of the Washingtoniaus
been available the compliment would have beer
returned; the home team was scattered and
could not be gathered together until the train
came. This fact was made known to the New
Workers and they accepted the statement with
renewed cheering. Between the teams there
was not nor is there any ill feeling: that will be
SHOWN when the New Workers shoot here OF
Saturday next.
wAsHISGToNIANs WHO WERE THERE.
The Washington team is under lasting obi
cations to its quartermaster, Capt. Psrmenter
He worked necessarily to make every one com
Portable and he succeeded wonderfully. The
quartermaster. as q rule is q target for cal
luminous profanity, but Capt. Parmenter is moi
that kind of a quartermaster
Col. Clay was the center Of attraction on the
range, both at Sea Girt and Creedmoor. THAI
a man with one arm, and that left one, should
DO such good shooting as he did excited the
wonder and admiration of every one.
The Washingtonians who visited Creedmool
on Saturday and who witnessed the defeat Of
their representatives were Maj. and Mrs. AID
rich, Maj. E. R. Campbell, Quar- termaster ]. l.
March. Quartermaster Sergeant S. ]. Brown Of
the fourth battalion, DR.. Mcdowell, who wa.
until recently adjutant of the sixth, and E. X
Lynch of the Richmond and Danville Railroad
Company.
THE MARKssfEN HOME AGAIN.
The team, with one or two exceptions, tool
the midnight train from Jersey City and ar
rived here yesterday morning at s. None o.
the men were discouraged because of their de
feat. The brightest members Of the party wer,
the members of the first regiment team. They
won the tig bronze interstate trophy at Sea
Girt and, therefore, had good cause fol
rejoicing.
How many individual prizes were won b,
local men at Creedmoor cannot yet be stated
as the work Of making up the prize list vii
not be complete until today.