Evening star., 1895-09-06
| full those who not only won the Hilton
| trophy yesterday for the third time, but
who. in the doing OF it, broke the worlds

full as those who not only won the Hilton
trophy yesterday for the third time, but
who, in the doing CT 1t, broke the worlds
record.
The greatness of the achievement may
rot be at cnce appa1 ent to the uninterested
citizen, but to those who are concerned, In
the cleanest of amateur sport the magni-
tude of the result must be instantly and
conspicuously evident. -
Last year the trophy was won by Penn
sylvania with total of LOSS, the. District
being second with a score of 1,OS2, but that
was done on a perfect day with very little
wind to annoy the competitors. Yester-
days score was put up with wind enough
at 200 yards to prevent anything like a
record being made at that range. In fact
the Districts total Of 351 was seven points
less than the District team made last year
tran was made by New Jersey in the same
contest a year ago. The stars readers
know, however, what was done at 2Oo
yards, thus securing comfortable lead
The match, however, was anybody'S when
the second range was finished, although the
local team had quite comfortable lead.
With ordinary aggregations of a dozen
sharpshooters there is great deal OF
ficult of ranges and any number of teams
that can do well enough at 200, or 800, or
500 yards fail completely when they lie
down at GOO. Last year the District total
at GOO was 351, and it was better than any
other GOO-yard score in the match. This year
the total was the phenomenally large one
Of 365, and that gave the Washingtonians
an aggregate CT 1897 the worlds record
being thus broken by one satisfactory point.
Exciting Termination.
The conclusion of the competition was in
tensely exciting. All of the persons con-
cerned except those who were shooting u
coaching on the District target knew when
the tenth District man had completed his
score that 81 points made by the two last
men would tie the worlds record made by
Massachusetts at Creedmore in 1887, and
as a consequence everybody was figuring
as one shot after the other was fired.
Gen. Ordway, Gen. Guy V. Henry, US.
A., and Adjt. Gen. Mosher were immediate
ly in rear of the District score board, and
while no one would accuse those three SOL
diers of being nervous under any circum-
stances, yet it was evident to any one VINO
cared to watch the proceedings that they
were at least deeply interested. Private r.
L. Graham and Lieut.. A. o. Hutterly, both
of the engineer corps, were the men on
whom the hopeful ones leaned FOR the
points necessary to the breaking OF the
record, and many heads were shaken wnen
it was suggested that they would surely pull
out at least 81 points each. An 1ndividual
score of 81 at 500 yards is comparatively
easy, but at GOO yards there are so many
chances in favor of threes and even twos
and perhaps misses that not even the opti-
mistic in the watching crowd felt assured
as to a successful outcome.
The tabulated score Will snow now tne
respective totals were piled up, but the
figures cannot possibly convey any Inn
preston of the half-suppressed groan that
followed Hutterly's fourth shot that was a
three, nor can they sketch the appearance
of things when he followed the 'Magpie"
with two "bulls."
Then Graham finished his 33 by putting
in final bulls eye, and it was at once
apparent that even two by Hutterly
would tie the record. But to tie the record
was not sufficient 1t had to be beaten,
and there was no good reason for believing
that it would be beaten by at least 8
points, for just then there did rot seem to
be any likelihood Of Eutterly getting away
from the bulrs-eye. He did, though his
front sight slipped into the black and was
lost just at the critical moment and then
as the black crossed white disc moved
away up toward the upper edge of the
target the threatened groan was instantly
succeeded by an outburst of applause and
chorus Of congratulatory handshaking
and other evidence of temporary mental
arrangement on the part of several people
who are ordinarily supposed to be sane.
A Joyous Time.
General Ordway was undoubtedly the
happiest man Sea Girt has ever known, and
he and General Henry and Colonel Mosher
and General Spencer and General Wingate
and Colonel Minor, Pennsylvania's in
spector general of rifle practice, and Cap
tain Williamson of the Georgia team. and a