The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-01
TO GET READY FOR SEAGIRT.
SAVANNAH SHARP SHOOTERS CLUB
TO BIZ ORGANIZED NEXT WEEK.

4 Georgia Team TO Go to seagirt i'm
September With the Expectation
of Carrying on Some of the Prizes.
The Proposed Plan on Which the
Club il Likely to BE OrEanized-TO
Have Senior and Junior Grades
with Qualifications For Each-AII
Members TO Go in on an Equal Foot
ing.
The Sharpshooters' Club of Savannah
will be organized next Tuesday night at
the Guards armory. The design of this
organization viii be TO perfect a rifle
team which can 90 10 seagirt, y. j., en-
ter the interstate and international
matches there and carry off good share
of the prizes.
When the team that went to Seaglrt
last September returned it was realized
that these matches were of too great i'm
portance TO allow them to go by unnoticed.
In spite of the adverse circumstances UNI
der which the Savannah team made the
trip, its members came back determined
to prepare for them in a more business
like and systematic manner. 1t was de-
termined to organize sharpshooters as
ISOLATION which would afford the special
kind of training necessary for such shoot
ing as the ordinary military training does
not fit the rifemen for the finer grade of
work such as is necessary on these ranges.
Some of the points 10 which attention is
given IN this kind Of shooting are so fine
That they are not needed in military work,
and consequently are not taught
a meeting of all the officers, with the
members of the team. was held on its re-
turn from Seagirt, with a view to organ
izing some such association, but the first
requisite was a good range on whikh
the necessary kind of practice could be
mad. The energies of the militiamen were
then devoted to this subject with the re-
suit that the Avondale range has finally
Deen secured. The rifiemen are now go
club. '''' S'''' p'iiOo'e's
AT. meeting held in the Office of Mr..
a. ;. Eichberg, of which he was chair
man, and Mr.. J. G.. Nelson secretary the
subject was discussed, and il was decided
10 call meeting of representatives from
each OF the companies in the city to con-
slider the matter and take the necessary
steps toward the organization of the club.
rms meeting VIII be held Tues
day night in company AS room
at the Guards arsenal 1t
Is expected to have present two represen-
tatlVes from each company, probably the
best shots from each and the commanding
oiLcers Of each Of the companies. The
ana the question of the organization of
the club taken up.
The members of the team that went to
Seaglrt' II Is true, have a little prior claim
IN such an organization as is contem-
plated, but they do not expect to take adj
vantage OF It. They say they will enter
the club and work their way up on the
same basis with the other members who
enter it.
The plan on which it is expected to or
ganize the club Will put every member on
an equal footing, no matter what his
record is or has been. The idea is to have
two classes of rifemen, a senior and
junior. Every man is expected to start i'm
the junior class and will have to qualify
before he can enter the senior class. A
member of the senior class Will be ex-
pected to keep up his practice, and will
have to requalify every three months in
order to retain his standing.
The present idea is to put the qualihca-
ton very high, so as to bring the men up
TO as line point as possible. The mem
bers of the senior class will be known a 5
sharpshooters proper. The idea is to make
the qualification for those who enter the
junior class an average of tours on the
200-yard range only, and that for those
in the senior class an average of thirty
out of seven shots on the 200 300 800 and
6OO-yard ranges. This matter will f
course, be open to discussion by those
who enter the club 1t is by no means
intended TO keep out any member on ac-
count of bad shooting, and in order that
all may have an equal show il is intended
to let them join and have the qualihca-
d
members deem best.
The suggestion will probably be made ut
the meeting that this be made a state or
ganization, and one open to members from
any military company in the state. This
matter will also be discussed. Every team
that went to Seagirt, with the eXcep-
ton of the Georgia team, had its expenses
paid, either altogether or in part, by the
state from which it went. 1t is desired
now to arrange it so that a competent
team can be selected. of course from the
senior class of the club, and sent to Sea-
grt to enter the matches next Septem>
Der. The club will work with that emo
in view and will make arrangements for
the expenses of those members who are
selected to represent the state They have
not long to make preparations for these
matches, but going right to work with the
matter, and expect to show that Geor-
CLANS can compete at the target with any
of the shots in the country.
People rightly have faith in Ayers Sar-
saparilla, more than in any other blood