The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-30
sHARPsHoorERs TO SHOOT.
The Hussars to Challenge the Guards
for the State Championship.

for the State Championship.
The Georgia Hussars win challenge the
savannah Volunteer Guards rifle team
for a competitive shoot, to decide the
question Of the state championship. So
a member Of the Hussars who is in posi-
ton to know said yesterday. The Hus-
sars are now endeavoring to secure a
team Of 20 men to meet a similar team
from the Guards They win waive all
questions as to separate companies and
VIII issue the challenge to the battalion
as a whole.
The Hussars are confident that they are
the champions andprOpOse TO esta blish that
IacU by a decisive contest. The shoot viii
probably take place at the Guards rife
range at Gibbs farm, between Savannah
and Ihunderbolt and Lieut. Satterlee
Will be invited to be present. The contest
Will be most interesting and the result
viii be anxiously awaited by the MEM
0ers and friends Of the two commands.
Ihere are some points to be decided,
however before the contest is begun. One
OF these is the weapons to be used.
Whether both carbue and rife will be
used by the contestants, or whether the
huSSdtS Will use the carblne and the
Guards the rife with the handicap Of / 2
points allowed in favor of the carbine,
or whether both teams will use rifles.
The Hussars are about as familiar with
the use of the rife as they are with the
carolne, ana may waive all questions of
difference and accept the rife. The
Hussars have got their blood up, and
mean business
As the Hussars secured two sharp
shooters and five marksmen in Camp
Northen, while the Guards secured three
sharpshOoters and three marksmen, the
former claims to be still slightly ahead.
They also maintain that the score of 119
made by Private Wilson is still unexcelled,
as this score was made with a carbine
and is entitled, as they claim, to an ad-
dltlon OF twelve points in comparison
with the rifles, which
would place Private Wilson's
score three points ahead of the score Of
Lieut. Cam, which the Guards claimed
to be the highest yet made at Camp
NOrthen.
The Guards claim on thier side that in
addition to their high scores the average
score of the team exceeds the average
score OF the Hussars at Camp Northen by
several points.
This is important, as it will be by the
dint of merit that the contest for the
championship will be determined
There will be several points to be de-
clded before the contest is entered upon,
and one is whether active and enlisted
members only shall be allowed to shoot,
or whether any pay, honorary or exempt,
member of the two commands can be al
| lowed upon the teams. In this question
Private Wilson will cut a conspicuous
figure.
Mr.. Wilson has been member of the
Guards for a number of years, and is now
upon the exempt list. He has been pay
member of the Hussars for some time,
| and enlisted for the purpose of going to
| Camp NOrthen to take his chances at
making a record upon the rife range.
He had been practicing with the
Guards team, but decided to 90 with
the Hussars because it was not certain
that the Guards team would be given q
chance to go TO camp. The Guards claim
that his enlistment was a mere matter
of form and that by rights he belongs to
them by reason of his continued men,
| bership of several years. If the rule as
to enlisted men is rigidlyapplied however,
DR. Wilson viii be in the ranks of the
! Hussars. If, however, members of all
| classes are allowed upon the two teams,
he will have the option of going with the
Guards.
The contest for the championship may
be put down as a certainty and the chal-
lenge will probably be sent this week.