Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-12

WOkDs OF
Sorry II had not cleaned up everything At
Sea Girt. yet intensely happy over the woudrous
victory achieved in the New Jersey interstate
contest the detachment OF the District National
Guard that left the city On September 1 re-
turned home Saturday evening. The train
stopped in the Pennsylvania station minute or
two after 6,45-its schedule ttms-and Ave min
uses later the crowd that had been 50 closely
associated for ten days was in disintesrAted
motion toward something like thirty
three dwelling places. Everybody seemed
to have had pleasant and profitable
string Of experiences and not a member
Of the party but was in much better physical
condition for the encampment and the conse-
quent exercise. Before leaving the train many
Of the soldiers gave expression 10 their feelings
by warmly thanking Lieut.. Harries, the team
captain, and Capt. Parmenter, team quarter
master. tor what had been done looking 10 tho
comfort of the detachment. Several of the
team members were greeted by friend0 who had
come down to meet them. and from these and
Others came showers Of congratulations on the
magnificent showing made BY the four teams in
that memorable struggle for the big bronze
trophy, which. for the second time, has been
won b. the first regiment team
TIE FIRST MOMENTS SUCCESS.
To say that great many people were sur
prised when they heard Of the frsts success
would be to soy too little. At Sea Girt there
was q well-developed belief that the second New
jersey was q certain winner, and the beEef had
reasonable foun dalton. Ever since the second
was defeated year ago Capt. DECKER has been
toiling 10 put In q team which could hardly fail
TO win; that he failed 10 get there reflects no
discredit on him or his men They have worked
for success the very ground over which the
match was shot and had all the advantages
which must necessarily follow that fact, but
from the outset the pace was too rapid for them.
Then there were other Jersey teams who might
well be feared competitors, but their poles
were all too short to reach the tempting per-
sirnmor. But the most formidable rivals were
the men sent TO the range BY the sixteenth Penn
svlvania: one Of the finest teams of six that
ever faced targets. In the calcula lions of those
Pennsylvanians, defeat was al unknown guam
tity; they had been winning for so long that the
idea OF being upset b. nvthing less than q team
Of such world bss.sTs rs Massachusetts, once
had was hardly less than ludicrous. They were
veteran shots and deened themselves invincible,
aud vet how easily they fell down before not
only the first regiment but before the engineer
corps and tie second regiment also.
TREMENDOUS TUMBLE.
II was a'treme ndous tumble. and the bruises
hurt 50 much the more because they were in
ficted in soldiers contest The day Of mill
tary matches Mt known distances is passing
away and the Of skirInish firing has arrived
In this latter work the District soldiers excel,
and il was because of their proficiency in that
practical branch of mari smanship that Penn
sylvania and New jersey had to succumb. In
cidentally, 1t NAV be interesting to Washington
ians to know that Capt Cash team broke the
skirmish team record in TO fragments. the average
for each man being 50 per cent. When the Of
fetal figures were made public il was seen that
the first regiment was l29 points ahead Of the
keystone shsrps and 2ol points In front of the
highest New Jersey team. The winning score
last wear was l,242. out the team that made that
score this year was seventh on the list
THE sKIRxIsH SCORES.
The STAR has already published the indi-
vidual known distance scores Of the local teams.
The skirmish scores were not accessible until
Saturday. They will be found in the following
tables: