Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-07
LEAVING SEA GRIT
Few Of the Washington RiAemen
Remain There.
WILL REUNIHE NEXT MONDAY EVENING
Three Medal of Honor Men With
the Marksmen.
LIEUT.. HUTTERLY'S SCORE
Special From a Stan CORRESPONDENT.

Special From Stan Correspondent
SEA GRIT, N. j., September 7-Compar-
atively few members of the big detachment
of the Washington marksmen that left
home week ago can now be found at Sea
Girt, for the meeting is almost over
By early evening there will scarcely be
half dozen in camp the remainder being
scattered along the neighboring coast, or
else on their way to Washington. Lack of
funds on the part of the brigade and other
material considerations argued against hold
ing the entire team at Sea Girt until Mon
day noon, so 1t was decided to permit the
organization to temporarily disband, with
the understanding that it should reunite in
Washington Monday evening"
The last of the travellers is scheduled TO
arrive at the Pennsylvania depot shortly
after o'clock Monday evening, and there
and at that time those who have elected
to stay over, as well as those who have
been ordered to stay, will be Joined by the
others, whom business reasons compelled to
return to their occupations. Only the bri-
-gade team, principals and alternates, will
parade as a separate organization. The
engineer corps team, winner of the New
Jersey regiment interstate trophy, cannot
because all the members of the engineer
II.
This Is the Wimbledon cup day, and just
now it appears as If the weather was
going to be a trif1e more frisky than it has
been at any time during the week. for a
light rain Is falling steadily, and there
is probability of the coming of one of
these fogs which will render shooting ex-
tremely difficult, If not impossible. at the
longer ranges.
The department of rifle practice match
mid range competition for inspectors of
rife practice, will also be settled today.
The Presidents Match.
The District boys made a good showing
in the Presidents match for the military
championship Of the United States, but
meme of them could do what Sergeant
Dickey' did last year, when he walked
away with all the honors and the biggest
part Of the money.
This time the championship moved to
New York, 1t being captured by Sergt
William Boyle Of the twelfth New York.
whose score in the second and concluding
stage, seven shots by each at 100 and 60
yards, aggregated siNty-tive.. Sergt. Eud-
dleston of the first Massachusetts, was Sec
end with siXty-four, While F. L. Graham
of the d. c. engineer corps took third
place with sixtythree.
The only other local man who finished
among the final prize winners was Private
w. w. Cookson of company A, engineer
corps, who had fifty-eight to his credit.
three observation-disclosures Men.
Not frequently does it happen that three
nedal-of-honor men attend the meeting Of
any rifle association, but there We're three
Of those distinguished individuals at Sea
Grt this year. One of these was Col Cecil
Clay, the commanding officer of the second
D. c. He emptied his right sleeve in
winning his medal, and did it at Fort Har-
rison in 1864 No officer in the Union sery-
ice during all the four years of inter-
necine strife did anything more deserving
of congressional consideration than did
Col. Clay in the assault which his bravery
did so much toward making famous
Another of the wearers of the coveted
bronze-and he was one of the most popu-
lar men on the range throughout the en-
tire meeting-was Capt. Matthias W. Day
OF the ninth United States cavalry. He
was the first officer to receive the medal
fer services rendered in Indian campaigns
The particular act of heroism which
brought about his decora ton has been de-
picted in The Star.
Briefly, it was the rescuing from Indians
OF a trooper of the ninth cavalry in thu,
midst of a heated engagement with
Apaches in Las Animas canon in IS1o-s
deed that would have won him the Vic
toria cross had he been in the British sery-
ice, and the Victoria cross is harder to GET
than 1t would be now to secure a thousand
medals OF honor, for during late years, the
Aisuai has peen cneapened by prOmScuouS
and unwarranted distribution.
Inc third medalist At Sea Girt was Pri-
Eate Austin of the first Georgia cavalry.
lie was a seventh United States cavalry
man III the fight at Wounded Knee, S. b.
IN the winter of 1880, and conspicuous gal
iantry In that bloody fight gained him the
aStinction OF which he is properly proud.
All three of the medalists are expert shots:
Col. Clay necessarily less so than either of
the others, because he has to do his shoot
ing with an arm and quarter instead of
two arms.
Lieut.. ,Hutterly's Great Score.
Everybody in camp has been talking all
day of the wonderful skirmish score made
in the regimental interstate match by
Lieut.. A. o. Hutterly of the engineer corps.
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