Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-07

sissippi valley. except in Florida.
Generally fair weather may be expected
in all districts. followed by light showers
IL North Dakota, northern Minnesota and
VI per Michigan.
The following heavy precipitation Gin
The Hilton international trophy. emblem
of the worlds championship.
First prize In the company team match,
Company A. Engineer Corps. $50.
Regimental team match, Engineer Corps.
$50.
In the all-comers' match Corp. s. B.
Wetherald gathered in SO; Color Sergt. W.
w. Cookson, SO. and Lieut.. F. l.. Ora
ham, $40
In the Hayes match Corp. wetherald
took $50. while Corp. George E. Cook won
So.
In the New Jersey trophy match Lieut..
Glendie 3. Young captured $15.
In the first stage OF the Presidents match
Lieut.. G. B. Young took $40.
In the interstate fair match Lieut. G. B.
Young and Sergt F. E. Mclaughlin each
won So
Private E. W. Scott took $40 in the Sum-
ner match.
In the Meaney match SO were captured
by Sergt. Morris Appleby.
Lieut.. G. B. Young and Capt. J. E. Bell
each caught s. in the department of rife
practice endurance match.
The second skirmish prize for single runs
was taken by Corp. Geo. E. Cook, with
score of sc.
Altogether-in view of the extremely
small number of entries purchased by Dis
trict men-the local showing is good one.
Jersey Wants u Rifle Team.
Jersey Is tired of losing rife matches. 1t
is weary of being tail-ender. 1t wants to
win once in a while, and it proposes to do
So Prior to the Jersey tumble in the two
l.:
interest n the makeup and work of the
state team. AS a matter Of fact, there
wasn't any state team until the morning of
the Soldier of Marathon match. Twelve
men were hastily selected by Gen. Spencer
and by Col. kuser, who was team captain
this year. The men had never practiced
together before and could not, therefore. be
termed a team except by courtesy. Next
year there will be change. Gov. Grggs
was a member of this years aggregation
and when his share of the trouble was over
last Wednesday he thoroughly understood
the necessity for organization. The odds
low are that there will be money enough
provided for the selection and training of
team early in 1897. The governor of the
state is not likely to encourage the contin-
uance of such conditions as have harassed
jerseys department of rifle practice this
year. Mention of the governor brings up
the fact that Governor Griggs ia one OF the
most enthusiastic riflemen in the country.
lis presence en- the Jersey team was good
thing for military rifle shooting here and
elsewhere. Perhaps it may encourage the
President of the United States or one of
the District Commissioners to try for
place on the District team in the near
future.
MnscOts and Such Like.
Reference was made in The Star the other
day to the satisfaction with which some
members of the District detachment
garded the target assignment in the Hilton
match-the ID. c." arrangement at 500 and
600 yards. AS matter of fact, there has
been a great deal of superstition in camp.
Georgians have been the leaders in this.
They come from a section where oInens are
popular; where the folklore abounds in
"hants' and "hoodoos" and where no man
is regarded as equipped for anything un-
less he has rabbits foot concealed some
" here about his person. The Georgia team
had black boy and a black and white
goat, the combination being regarded by
Georgians as a mascot" of the highest
type. The little Ethiopian was about five
years old and was generally CARRIED in the
gaudy gray and crimson uniform Of the
Georgia Hussars. In camp the pickaninny
was noted mainly for his appetite and for
the artfulness with which he enticed nick
els and dimes and cents from the pockets
of sympathizers. Any serious attempt to
have fun with him invariably resulted in
his bursting into tears, and so persistent
" as his grief that only cash could dam up
his ever-ready tear ducts. The goat was
roted for his amiable disposition and for
tail that violated the physical rule of good
goat society by pointing downward; further
more, the goat was whlskerleSs. 1t was not
believed that any team, no matter how
good the men, guns and ammunition, could
hullify the pro-Georgian influences OF negro
and goat. But even mascots sometimes fall
down. According to Trooper Theodore Beck
of the Essex Troop the juvenile Senegam-
hial lost his grip when he sold button on
his coat to the aforementioned Beck, while
the goat was merely an incumbrance after
Trooper Beck succeeded in extracting a
liberal pinch of hair from the downcas.
caudal appendage previously mentioned
The goat and his attendant left New York
for Savannah last night on steamer. They
are regarded as failures so far as mascot
ting T.. concerned.
When the District team arrived at Sea
Girt, the Georgians declared aloud and We
he mently that 1.-The goat goes with the Hill
ton" But when the Hilton slipped away
from them, they went back on their offer,
alleging that the ownership of the animal
was in a small boy In Savannah, whom no
money could tempt. The goat might easily
have been kidnaped-there were Washing
tonians willing to do that very thing-but
the picture of the Savannah boy waiting
tearfully for the goat that would not come
prevented what might have been regarded
as semi-pardonable dishonesty. So the
goat will not march up Pennsylvania ave-
nue. tonight when the champions arrive.
Congratulatory letters and kilograms
have been coming into camp ever since
the concll sion Of the Hilton match. Gen.
general staff were among the first. Later
there came a dispatch from Captain NJ
W. Day, 9th U. 8. Cavalry. who was with
the District team at Sea Grit a year ago,
hr,f yxyhn 10 stationed at Fort DpfNhcsno
in far-away Utah.
The Limburger Club and the Ancient,
Honorable and Otherwise Generally Useless
Association of Federated American Rifle
men both held night sessions during the
pest week. OId-time rif1emen who were
wont to visit Creedmoor or who had deal