Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-21
TOOK EVERY PRIZE.
The Wimbledon Cup Carried Into the
Washington Camp.
Our VICTORIOUS RIFLEMEN
New Triumphs Added to Their Sea
Git List
BIG INDIVIDUAL SCORES

CAMP SPENCER, SEA GIRT, N J.,
August 20. 1889.
Stsn Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
The District National Gusrdsmen who
were sent to Sea Girt have captured every
thing In the shape OF prizes. nineteen In
all, that was offered for competition by all
Corners. Foremost among the captures, of
course, was the Hilton trophy, then the
Soldier of Marathon" bronze, then the
reg1mental trophy which the engineers
took away from the first regiment Fol-
lowing these come the individual rewards
the principal Of which was the Wimbledon
cup, and next very fine Remington Hep
burn rifle made for Col. Bodine and pre-
sented by Col. A. r. Kuser. The first be-
longs to Private s. L. Scott, the second was
won by Private John A Kirk, company b.
sixth battalion, who after a succession of
endeavors succeeded in putting up lO2 out
of a possible los. Third prize In the same
match went to Lieut. ]. NJ. Pollard who
also had 102. The match reuuirements
called for three strings Of seven shots each
In the All Corners Match Lieut. NJ
Pollard caught first money with a IS; Prt-
vate II. II. Leizear second with AZ, zenith
captured the sixth and eighth prizes with
As and A and Maj. Harrtes twelfth with a.
The "All Corners" is shot at 200 and 800
yards, five rounds at each distance.
In the Schuetzen match-seven shots at
the American standard target, 200 yards
three strings to score-Private +. L. Ora
E. Cook sixth. with l62: Private s. ]. Scott
eighth, with ISL: Lieut.. A. o. Hutterly
ninth. with las; Lieut.. J. NJ. Pollard tenth.
with 1873, and Private Wetherald eleventh
with 133.
Many of the intervening rewards could
also have been captured had there been suf-
scores. but all Of the team men had about
as much as they could attend to in their
team practice, SO the individual business
was considerably checked.
When the team marches away from here
tomorrow II will not take the rife range
with it, nor will II disturb the camp. An
announcement to that effect was thank
fully received by Gen. Spencer.
Yesterday afternoon one District man was
coaching one of his comrades.
~ on must take more wind" said he. "A
great deal more" he added. Gen. Spencer
heard him, and in his most appealing tones
said: For goodness sake don't do it; at
least leave us the wind"
An Exciting Contest.
In very many ways the most interesting
of the Sea Girt matches was the competi-
ton for the Wimbledon cup. 1t took place
yesterday. and attracted a crowd OF spec
tators that at times enjoyed more than a
little excitement Fourteen riiemen entered
and were at the firing point when the dis
tant target was opened for pool shooting.
Then ensued great deal Of experimenting.
Some of the cracks" got on to the board at
once. while others struggled vainly. The
first buirs-eye was made by Private F. l.
Graham, and for some time IL seemed as
though II would be quite valuable, but be-
fore the practice closed so many more bull
lets penetrated the black that tickets were
worth but 42 cents. Precisely at 10 O'Clock
Brig. Gen G. E. p. Howard-who was range
officer-ordered Bugler Milburn to sound
attention" and commence firing" 1t had
been agreed among the competitors that
shooting should open on the right of the
line and move to the left until every one
had had one shot; then that procedure was
to be multiplied by thirty-for the match
conditions call for thirty shots Col. Clay
outer-counting .. Things moved slowly al
first, for II took fifteen minutes to dispose
of one round each for the crowd, but the
crowd diminished before noon many Of the
men missing the target so frequently as 70
render further use OF ammunition unneces-
AFFAIR and in times mast has been aiYnos,