The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-04
RUN OF HIGH SCORES
Excellent Workmanship
Exhibited at the Marion
Range Saturday.
NUMBER OF SCORERS INCREASED
Let the Board of officers Erect
Another Target and Every
thing Will be Satisfactory.
NUMBER OF SCORERS INCREASED

The need of an additional target at the
Marion range for the use of the members of
the Fourth Regiment wa again made APP
parent on Saturday when the Range Com
mittee found it an almost Herculean task to
accommodate all the marksmen who put IN
an appearance for the weekly practice. The
National Guardsmen, however, owing to the
efficient management of affairs by Range
master Lieutenant Abel P. Brown, were all
accommodated.
The Range Committee recognizing the
value of the suggestion made by THE JER-
sEY CITY NEWS last week., that a scorer be
appointed for each target, adopted This
plan of scoring and as a result there was no
confusion in the scores. Every shot was
tailed correctly and the marksmen were
much pleased with the new system. All that
the range now needs is an additional target.
On Saturday, June 16, the company teams
will begin shooting for the prize offered by the
officers of the regiment to the company team
making the highest score and one and pos
sibly two of the three targets viii be
~monopolized almost the entire afternoon by
the teams. This competition Will ATTRACT
more National Guardsmen to the range
it is certain that some of the marksmen VINO
want to shoot will be disappointed. There
is no reason why the regiment with a range
of its own should not lead all the other regl-
ments of the State in rife practice and II the
officers will give the member every OPP
p~ortunity to perfect themselves the marks
men viii lose no time IN learning now 10
make big scores. The members of the reg1-
ment have never manifested as much inter-
est in rifle practice as this season and since
the range has been opened a marked I'M
provenent has taken place.
HIGH SCORES THIS YEAR.
Last year the non-marksman's badge was
won with a score of thjrty-nine, but this year
the score will be much higher. On Saturday
Private L. Pfeuger OF Company A, who
failed to qualify at Sea Girt last year., made
a score of forty-one, and took the lead Tor
the ACCOMPLISHMENTS badge. The improve
ment in the work of the marksmen is even
more marked. Heretofore a score OF forty
two was considered to be creditabie to the
best marksmen, but to gain prominence as a
crack shot this year the scores must be even
better than this, even though it is sufh-
GENTLY high to give those making it a sharp
shooters decoration. On Saturday, First
Sergeant William Maxon of Company A
made a score of forty-two, which gave him
the lead for the Second Battalion
Majors badge. Corporal Samuel Dayton
of the same company who held the lead with
a score of 40 was not to be outdone, however,
and shortly before the range closed he also
made a score of 42, tying Sergeant Maxon's
score.
Lieutenant Abel P. Brown captured the
donors of the day, with the remarkable score
of As, which equals the record of the range.
The score also gives him a ''cinch" on the
Colonel's Badge.
Corporal C. Stell, of Company B, still leads
for the First Battalion Majors Badge, with
the score of 80.
THE SCORES.
Following are Saturdays scores:-