The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-25

pulsory, which seems to be a question of
eApedience at present. 1t seems hardly
Lalr tnata the men should be required TO
furnish their own meals while at range
he would provide a dinner and a supper
az the range on each day, and If any de-
slrea TO stay over for further practice,
tney could do so, provided they furnish
their own meals, or arrange with the
Quartermaster Generals Department to
pay pay such rate as might be fixed by him.
This would relieve the State of the
necessity OF having a restaurant upon
the grounds. which 1t Is difficult to obtain
proper persons to carry on, those having
taaying had charge of it for the past few
Years having stated that they desired to
give 1t UP because there was no profit in
:, During the season 10 members of the
Natlonal Guard qualified for the fifteenth
time and will receive the gold decora-
TONS; II qualified for the tenth time
ana Will receive gold crosses of honor
ief qualified for the fifth time and will
Fecelve the silver crosses of honor.
The sixth annual competition OF the
New Jersey State Rifle Association took
place Place the week beginning August 81.
1886. The meeting was the most sue
cessful in the history OF the association,
and demonstrates most thoroughly that
competitions of this kind may be carried
on under State auspices for six consecu-
tive years without the slightest friction
and without resort to an appeal to the
Executive Committee of the Association
against any of the rulings OF decisions
Eleven regimental teams entered, from
Georgia, District of Columbia Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey Fourteen COM
pany teams entered, from Georgia Dis
vania and New Jersey. Five carbine
teams entered from Georgia, New York,
District of Columbia and New Jersey.
The States represented in them atches
of the National Rifle Association for the
Hilton Trophy and the Soldier Of Mara
thon We're Georgia, Massachusetts, Dis
trict Of Columbia, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey.
A feature of the meeting was the great
work done with the Winchester, 80
eahore, in the hands of Captain George
This rife won the Wimbledon Cup by a
score of 100.
The opportunity given for attest Of small
bore rifles, the Sea Girt range beng
particularly adapted to their use, was not
confined to the Winchester, but the Krag
Jorgensen, the Savage, the Lee, and sew
erai other small bore rifles were used In
tine competitions.
It. seems to have become necessary
however, that before another season
some more definite description Of the
rifles and thes ammunition to be used
matches
When the National Rife Association
established the competitions for the
solder OF Marathon. in 1879 and the
years ago, no such improved arms as
those now in use had been invented.
and the term any rifle and any ammu-
nition' meant the best then known, and
the term tany rifle authorized, issued or
adopted by any State or government, .
meant, by reason of the then existing
circumstances, the hest rifle of THAI day,
which is vastly inferior TO The modern
rife.
It is claimed that a team entering with
q rifle authorized by it's State, if that rife
be a tlree-groove Springfield 45-ealibre, Is
at great disadvantage as against a more
modern rifle which may have been adopt
ed by some other State entering teams
The consensus Of opinion seems to be that
all teams should shoot with rifle OF
equal efficiency, and believe that in or
der to continue these matches successfully
some such provision will have to be made,
or else it will be necessary to specify ex-
aetly what rifles may be used, so that all
teams will go to the matches fully adj
vised as to what they have to compete
against