The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-09
ECHOES OF SEA GRIT.
What Capt DOzier of the Horse
Guard says of .savannnhians.


Guard Says of .Savannnhians.
One by one the Sea Critters are return
ing home. and the greater part Of the
team will probably arrive Thursday night
or Friday morning having left New York
on the City Of Augusta yesterday after
noon. tis3ls
Savannah militiamen have never ceased
to talk about the many victories won by
the team, and though nothing definite
has been planned as yet, arrangements
are going to be made to give the proper
sort of a reception after all the team has
returned, as a slight testimonial of the
appreciation Of their excellent work.
Capt. Dozler of the Governors Horse
Guard, which sent a team OF nine men
from Atlanta, has just returned home. He
is thoroughly enthusiastic over the trip,
says the Atlanta journal, and the record
Georgia made in the contest, and as re-
CARDS the Savannahians. he Is especitlly
fervid.
He says, Sea Girt is a great place and
so are the people who were there.
The New Jersey state encampment had
just broken up when the various teams ar
rived, and the tents used by the militia of
the mosquito state were put at the service
Of the visitors.
The men boarded al a restaurant that
was conducted on the grounds. The tables
were long affairs, parttioned off with lit
tie signs bearing the names 'Pennsylva-
MA" New York" etc The Georgians
sat next to the men from Massachusetts.
The rivalry of cities was forgotten among
the men from the Cracker state, Capt.
Dozier said and all were Georgians. They
were cheered by the men from the other
states when they entered at meal time,
and the record they made on the range
has put them in the very front rank up
there. No people stood higher in the esti-
nation of the other contestants, as well
as of the residents, than the Georgians.
''The especial appreciation of Atlanta
ought to go out to Savannah" Capt. Do
zier declared. He says the men from the
Forest city we're the incest fellows mag
Unable, and to them the entire credit for
the honor they have brought the state is
due.
Speaking of the work of the team ed
itorfally, the Journal compliments the Sa-
vannah team. 1t says:
1.-The Savannah marksmen return from
Sea Girt laden with honors and with an
increased national fame The contestants
from Atlanta won no trophies, but they
rejoice in the numerous and brilliant vic
tories of their friends from Savannah
Georgia has won these honors, and all
patriotic Georgians join in congratula-
lions to the victors.
"As the press dispatches have said, 1t
will probably be a long time before any
state wins as many of the Sea Grit con-
tests as Georgia captured last week. OF
the twenty-three events for which Geor-
gia was eligible she won eleven, more than
twice as many as went to the teams from
any other state.
Georgia means to do still better next
year, and when she bears her trophies
home part of them will come to Atlanta"
The Washington Star has this in refer
ence to the Savannah team.
Interesting to riflemen generally is the
growth of the Georgia team. Two years
ago there was practically no team. A doz-
en- or so of. Savannah's citizen-soldiers
wandered up to Sea Girt at their own ex-
pense to gather experience and to size up
the crowds from other portions Of the
country. The District team at once adopt
ed them and loaded them to the muzzle
with information pertinent to successful
team work. The thousand and one details
essential to success were laid bare for the
Georgians' benefit. That they profited
much by the tuition is sure, for last year
they came to the front in a finely organ
lied condition, and so well trained that
they captured the Soldier of Marathon
match from the District, Massachusetts,,
New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
This year they came out in great force,
capable in every respect and provided
with an ample supply of the sinews of
war, so that every man was enabled to
crafty to the fullest extent any desire
he might have to enter the individual
matches with which the programme was
pleasingly enriched"