Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-03
District Riaemen's Interest in Sea
Girt Shoot About Over.
CHANCE IN REGIMENTAL MATCH
Georgia Team Carries Off Pretty
Much Everything in Sight.
TALK OF NATIONAL TEAM
pecial From a Staff Correspondent.

enth annual meeting of the New Jersey
State Rifle Association IS the Hilton trophy
match, in which the District of Columbia
holds the worlds record. The District
is not competing for the trophy this year.
The firing at 800 yards has not yet been
completed, but was to be expected the
Georgia team is well in the lead and will
unquestionably win out
The competitions will end tomorrow with
the Wimbledon cup and Presidents
matches.
Several OF the Washington party have
already departed for home, while more are
to leave this evening. A few will remain
over to participate in the matches last
named and to conclude some of the indi-
vidual contests. The weather today is
clear, with strong wind prevailing.
The winner of the regimental match, in
winch the District IL represented by three
teams, will be known some time today. 1t
Is anybodys prize until the announcement
Is made. The skirmish runs will decide
the contest. AS predicted in The Star,
the skirmishins was a surprise to all the
competitors.
The Silhouette group targets were placed
dlagonaiIy across the range between the
200 and ::00-yard butts The skirmishers
We're started from a point near the camp
ard run diagonay across the range I'm
der this arrangement the old landmarks
were of no use The distances were alb
solutely unknown, and all the competitors
were on an equal footing.
The skirmishing began at ) o'clock yes
terday afternoon and was completed this
morning. Sergeant Groome of the District
I'd Regiment team, it is understood, made
the highest score on the skirmish, his total
being rs.
Georgia Won the Interstate Shoot.
Georgia naturally walked away with the
big interstate military match shoot yes
terday by a generous margin, the COMPETE
tors being New York and New Jersey. The
scores Were: Georgia. 1,107; New York
1912, and New Jersey. Loo. The winning
score was the highest ever made in this
match, but in this connection it must not
be overlooked that the new and easy sill
houette target was used yesterday. At the
2UD-yards range five Georgians scored pos
SbleS.'
Several protests have been filed today
against the entry of Captain w. T. Cam
of Georgia in the match for inspectors of
rifle practice. Captain Cam has been COM
petinS all the week in the team and other
matches as a company officer. Just before
coming to Sea Girt he was commissioned
inspector general of rifle practice of
Georgia, with the rank of colonel. After
competing as company officer he took
6ath TO-DAY before Gen Spencer of New
Jersey as inspector general of rifle practice
of Georgia, in order to be eligible for entry
in the match for inspectors of rifle prac-
tice. The point is taken that a New Jersey
officer has no authority to administer an
oath to a Georgia officer.
Talk of an American Team.
Now that the team captains and others
of the Sea Girt contingent are engaged in
discussing the probabilities of an Ameri-
can rifle team being organized and taken
over to England next year, some of the
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be generally interesting and undoubtedly
will be as soon as the public understands
that 1.-THE public-will CnQuestionably be
given an opportunity to subscribe. The
broad idea, as 1t now exists, is to invite
the various states, through their adjutan.s
general. to send to Sea Girt marksmen who
are eligible as competitors; the question OF
eligibility to be passed upon when the
proposition assumes more definite FORM
The competitors would. of course. be trans
ported and subsisted at the expense of the
state or the individual. Preliminary COM
petition would probably last a week and
would result in the selection of team of
twelve principals and two alternates.
Then would ensue about two weeks of
team practice at Sea Girt, after which
the team would depart for Bsley where
the British National Rifle Association holds
Its great annual meetings. From the time
the team is selected it will BE necessary
to pay its expenses from some general
fund. This fund. it is believed could be
raised in each of the states represented on
the team.
The chances are that the aggregation
will be composed entirely of men from
New York. Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Georgia, Massachusetts and the District
of Columbia. although it is possible that
some interest may be displayed in tie
matter by Illinois, Wisconsin or Mime
sofa.
Will Cost $500 Per Capita.
The cost of the trip per capita will not be
less than 500. For the expenses of the
preliminary practice, of Transports ton to
and from Bisley, of subsistence for from
six weeks to two months, of entries in
matches and of ammunition, has been fig
ured out AS closely approximating 5000.
II the District should succeed in having
three men on the team, it would mean that
the District National Guard and it's friends
would be given an opportunity to deposit
$1,000 in the fund, for which investment.
1t would receive in return a commensurate
share of the glory the team would certainly
secure.
AS was intimated in The Stars exclusive
stories as 70 the organization of an Amer
lcan team, there will be some little diff
Guilty as to the arm. but it is believed that
the difficulty can be overcome Instead of
making this an international competition
as TO armament, the proposition has been
advanced by Maj. George II. Harries that
the American team procure and use the
same rifle as is used by the English army
and by the English teams, namely. tha
Lee-Metford. With the two teams usino
the same gun and ammunition the only
point at issue would be that of marksman
ship. and that is the very point which the
enthusiasts desire to elucidate OF course
the Englishmen would have the advantage
OF shooting on their own ranges in their
own peculiar climate, and under conditions
with which they are intimately acquainted
but 1t Is not believed that those English
advantages would offer insuperab BILE ohsta
Giles to American success
Gen. Wingate, Col. Litchfield u 6
retired, and number of other veterans
who were at Sea Girt today have discussed
some of the details of the general nron,s;-
ton with Maj. Harries. 1t is quite POSSIBLE
that before Saturday next some definite
conclusion as to plan of action will he
reached. NC
GeOrGfans Have a Lawn Mower
1t is rumored that the Georgia autbori-
ties have secured the loan of a lawn
| mower. This was done in response to
earnest and piteous appeals from General
Spencer. who begged that the Georyians
| would merely take the grass of the sur
face of the Sea Girt range instead Of dig
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