Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-10
Selecting the Teams to Represent
the District at Sea Girt.
RESULTS OF RECENT COURTS-MARTIAL
Complaints Renewed About In
sufficient Light at the Armory.
THE NEW DRILL REG


tice will have a clear idea to the identity
of the twenty members of the District Ma
tiCnal Guard who Will shoot for places on
the brigade team rext Tuesday. Perhaps
the list of the fortunate twenty may not
be quite complete, but there will doubtless
be general understanding among the de-
capitated ones that their only chance for
getting on the brigade team of 1895 will be
to settle down to hard work at voluntary
practice, for voluntary scores will be
watched just as closely by the brigade
team captain as will be the totals put up
by the olG-time experts, who regard the
job Of getting place on the team as
soft thing Tuesdays work will be the
first team work of the season. The team
captain will pair off the men, and will
keep a minutely accurate record of every
shot fired by tire little handful of sharp
shooters selected from the big bunch of
competitors. By Wednesday 1t will doubt
less be definitely known who are the six
teen, ard within week from that time
things will have 50 settled down as to
make it probable that the shooting twelve
Will be announced. OF course, the scores
made will have great deal to do with the
scam selection, but hat undefna5le some
thing known among rflemen as the team
quality" will also have considerable influ-
ence Selfish men, who. by concealing some
atmospheric o. other change they have
noticed in the conditions will be entirely
who disturb everybody for twenty-five
yards around them; the same fate will be-
fall the man who is forever growing and
kicking. For at least two years past there
has been harmony enough in the team
to make membership in that organization
pleasure, and it will not be surprising if
the team of 1895 is quite par with the
teams that Immediately preceded it,
A Hot Fight On.
Regimental team captains have had their
u-i1a -;,
noon. There is hot fight between the
first ard second regiments and the engi-
neer corps. In 1881 and 1892 the first regi-
ment team walked away with the regi-
mental honors at Sea Grit; in 1893 and
1894 the engineer coHps captured the bronze
trophy for Ieeimental teams. Should either
the first regiment the engineer corps
win it next month. the bronze horse will
become the property of the successful
team. But the second regiment proposes
to have something to say about that
bronze horse, and great deal of first
class shooting may be looked for in that
competition this year. Skirmishing is the
principal feature of the regimental match.
To be sure each competitor fires ten shots
at 200 yards and ten shots at 500 yards,
but slight advantage gained in the known
distance work is easily wiped out by the
forty rounds of ammunition shot in the
two skirmish runs. Therefore the local
teams will pay especial attention to skir-
mish practice and they will do 1t Tuesdays
and Thursdays in August after o'clock
Of each evening. At 80 each Tuesday
and Thursday the brigade team practice
will open up. and it will. it is expected,
close by 5. Then the regimental teams
VIII be given the freedom of the 600 yards
range over which they will prance up
ard down until 6:45 when the range will
as usual. be shut up for the night. The
opportunities for skir,nish practice are
much more plentiful this year than they
have even been before, so that big scores
may be expected at the Sea Girt meeting
The First Regiment Team.
Capt. Cashs illness renders it impossible
for that officer to attend to the first regi-
ment team, SO Lieut.. T. S. King will take
charge. He has. not including himself.
seven good men from whom to select the
Necessary team of six. The candidates
are Sergt. c. Taylor, Sergt. w. E. Cola
day Private Crist, Sergt. Hadger, Major
O'Brien, Private Sneeden and Lieut.. F. E.
Gibson.
Capt. Bell will, of course, have command
of the second regiment team and may him
self be ore of the shooting half dozen;
the material the second has on hand just
row consists of Capt. w. II. Meyer, Lieut..
John a. Kirk, Col Clay. Lieut.. C. H. Laird
Corp, Appleby, Sergt. A. S. McClain, Q. NJ
serst. c. r. Byrne and Private Murray.
Lieut.. Glendie b. Young the engineer
corps captain, has wealth of good ma
terial. which he. of course, believes is bet
ter than any other material likely to be
found facing the targets in Jersey next
month. Tho engineer candidates are Lieut..
a. .. Hutterly, Corp. r. p. Carleton Fri
vate George Cook, Private RUSSELL Private
s. Il. Wetherald. Private H. H. Leizear,
Sergt. Z. w. Dickey and Sergt. r. B.
Smythe.
The National Rifle Association.
Next Tuesday evening the recently organ
lied National Rifle Association mot the Ma
tonal Rifles Association, as some people
have understood it to be- will begin active
existence. Saturday in each week has been
set apart as association day at the Ordway
range. The board of directors will hold
their first meeting on the range Tuesday
and will cndeavor to have things started in
good shape Saturday. A number of guards
men are all ready to become members and
inquiries as to membership have been made
by thirty or forty local rifemen who are
September 1t is confidently expected that
We association will have at least one hun
sed members.
Results in the First Separate.
The findings of Capt. John H. Campbell
and Capt. Peter B. Meredith, detailed by
Maj F. c. Revells to try the absentees
from the first separate battalion, have been
approved by the battalion commander and
forwarded to headquarters. They are as
follows:
Company A-Corp. Thomas Jones and
Private Cornelius Rufiin, recommended for
dishonorable discharge; Privates Henry f.
Gibson and George F. Selden excused
Company B-Privates George Contee, Ed
ward Hawkins, Benjamin keane and Wal
ter n. Stuart recommended for dishonor
able discharge; Privates John W. Bruce
William Dade, William II. Howard and
William Murray, excused. Company c.
Privates Anthony j Adams and William
Marshall excused; Private William II. But
Ter. not found. Company D-Privata Rob-
ert Edling, recommended for dishCGorable
discharge.
In the case of William H. Butler, not
found, Maj. Revells says 1t appears tina
there is no such place was given by him
as his address, and therefore his dishonor-
able discharge is recommended for the good
of the service.
Third Battalion Courts-NartiaI.
Maj. Wilson of the third battalion has
issued an order announcing the results OF
the courts martial recently held In his bat
TALON. of which Capt. Edgar II. Shilling,
COmDany A and Cant Clarence Saver