The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-07
THE SOLDIER GOES TO-DAY.
BUT THE HILTON TROPHY WILL BE
HELD UP For A WHILE.

No Delay I'm Forwarding the Bronze
Prize to the Team That Honestly
Won It-A Meeting of the Sea Gfrt
Men in Savannah to Be Held Mon
day Night to Push Their Demand
for an Investigation by the New
jersey Rife Association in the Hill
ton Trophy Contest.
The Soldier of Marathon. the handsome
bronze figure that has graced the armories
of the Savannah Volunteer Guards and
the Georgia Hussars for three or four
years, viii be sent to-day to Washington,
The team Of rihemen from the District Of
Columbia having won it in the Sea Girt
contests No question about the victory
Of the District of Columbia team has ever
been raised, and the Georgians yield grace
fully 10 the demands of the situation and
send on the trophy without protest or
murmur. The figure viii be packed and
addressed to she adiutant general of the
volunteer forces of the District, who will
make the proper disposition of it.
But with the Hilton Trophy matters are
different. It VIII not be sent on just yet.
request has been received by the Geor-
gia team from the New Jersey State Rife
Association fer the trophy 10 be sent on
to that state, but it will not be conforned
TO until after some further development in
the mudd.e that grew out of the strange
conduct of The authorities in charge at the
Sea Grit range. Capt Williamson said
yesterday that he did not know when the
trophy would be forwarded
meeting of the sharpshooters' Club
will be held at the Guards Armory Mon
day night. when the situation will be fully
discussed. There has been some CORE
spondenee with Gen. Bird Spencer and
the members of the club will learn some
thing more than they have known in re-
gard to the investigation which they are
pushing. The officers of the club have
been In consultation with Col. William
Garrard and Capt W. w. Mackall, and
they are assured of their ground.
If the Georgia team desires to wait for
months before sending on the Hilton
trophy TO New Jersey it may do so with
out any fear of establishing a precedent,
for il was not until after months of wait
ing that it was finally received In savan-
nah after being won at Sea Girt, from the
~
TO have been sent on mmedia tely to Sa-
vannah, but the District of Columbia Off
GERS delayed so long that it began to look
as if they did not intend to send it at ell.
Pending research into the merits of the
victory the New Jersey team achieved in
what Is commonly regarded as a question
able manner. the trophy may be kept here
without any fear of a claim that the Geor-
gians are acting without precedent.
The Soldier of Marathon will reach the
District of Columbia team with a celebrity
that will be wholly in contrast to the sloth
the Washington marksmen displayed in
sending on the Hilton trophy. The Sa-
vannahians would hardly care to hold of
| the figure, however, for it was won honest
| ly by the District team. and the Washing
ton soldiers showed themselves the friends
| Of the Georgians at Sea Grit. In fact, il
! is surprising that none of them were de-
| barred by the Executive Committee, for
| there were representatives of the District
| team in the party that visited the rifle pits