The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-20
ALL TROPHIES MAY GO BACK.
CAPT. PoSTELL RELIEVES THEY
SHOULD BE RETURNED.

He Thinks 1t should Not He the Hill
ton Trophy AIone-SeveFnI other
Trophies and Cups Are Held, and
One Member of the Team Suggests
They Be Returned 90 the New Jer-
sey Ride Association Crepe-Bound.
Meeting of the Sharpshooters,
Club May BE Held to Consider
These Things-Members Are Bitter
Toward the Association.
The Hilton trophy may not be the only
Sea Girt prize sent back to New Jersey.
1t is quite possible the Sharpshooters'
Club may decide to send them all back.
The sentiment among those who have been
approached indicates that the proposition
of one of the members to return every
shield, cup or figure won by Georgians
to the New Jersey Rifle Association is re-
garded favorably. and ii would be no sur
prise If an early meeting of the team were
held and that decision reached
Capt ]. c. Postell is among the MEM
bers of the club and of the Sea Girt team
who feel most keeniy the treatment the
Georgians sustained from the Executive
Committee of the Rifle Association. He
is thoroughly convinced that the Georgi-
ans were robbed of the trophy which
should have been accorded them on the
showing they made of gnfairness and
fraud in the pits, the target shot at by
the New Jersey rilemen showing fewer
buHeyes than the scores gave them credit
for.
The match for inspectors of rifle prac-
tice at Sea Girt was won by Capt Pos
tell at the last, meeting He would be
glad, he says. to. send that back 1t is
quite possible that he wiz 40 so in any
event. but il is his wish to see the holders
of trophies combine in The general return
of them all crepe-bound one member of
the team suggests as a token of the dea tn
of honorable and fair dealing at Sea Girt.
Several trophies VIII remain in Savan-
nah after the Hilton trophy goes, unless
the suggestion of Capt. Postell is adopt
ed Lieut.. F. c. Wilson won the VIM
bieton cup, which is now in the Guards
Club. Besides, there is the trophy for the
regmental match. held by the Guards,
| and the cup won by the Georgia Hussars'
team In the revolver contest. Some of
the members of the team want a clean
sweep of them all made.
All this talk indicates quite clearly that
pearing at Sea Girt. The veterans in rifle
practice feel that they could not go with
any assurance of fair treatment, and the
bitterness raukles with many, for the loss
of the Hilton trophy contest was a keen
disappointment In itself, and with the
avowed certainty that it was not fairly
wrested from them, the feeling has become
such as would make it impossible for
the meeting on the rahge to be friendly
and pleasant.
Capt w. w. Williamson is of the opinion
that there viii be no more Sea Girt con-
tests for Georgians. He does not favor
the idea of their going on to take part,
and it is doubtful If there is a member of
the team who does.
The evidence submitted in the hearing
before the committee has never been made
public. Capt. PosteIl favors its publica-
ton in a brief form. giving all the essen
tials, in one of the journals devoted to the
shooting. He Is. quite convinced that the
verdict of all that might read Ii would be
that rendered by the committee In New
York, with the addition that the Georgi-
ans, besides having every ground for a
protest, as declared by the committee,
showed conclusively that they had been
swindled out of the trophy.
While the hearing was in progress in
New York care was taken to introduce
nothing of bitterness. 1t was quite evil
dent to the members of the team from this
state that the officials of the Rifle Associ-
alton were fully persuaded that the hear
ing would take on something of that ma
ture but the Georgians carefully avoided
anything of the kind 1t was clearly I'M
derstood among them that there should
be no reflections or aspersions cast upon
the integrity of the association. 1t is very
probable, however, that Gen. Spencer will
hear from a member of the team person.
ally in a way that will indicate quite
plainly to him that the Georglans think
but little of his actions In the case.