The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-03
THE BEST SHOTS IN GEORGIA.
ARE WANTED TO COMPRISE THE
STATE TEAM AT SEA GIRT.


Selection of the Georgia Team Az
ter the Preliminary Practice at
Sea Grit, But Col. Brooks Says 1t
VIII De Chosen From Among the
Best shots in Attendance From
GeOrgia-The Atlanta Team Asks
for Information About Rates-It Is
Said Its Members Have Been Maxi
ing Good Scores-NO August Meet
ing of State Teams Here.
The Atlanta military men who have
been practic.ng with a view of going TO
| Sea Girt this fall seem to be in earnest
about it. Col. Jordan T. Brooks. vice
captain of the Savannah team, who is act
ing as captain in the absence of Capt. w.
w. williamson, has received letter from
Atlanta asking for information relative
to rates. 1t seems the Atlanta marks
men want to make the "trip via Savannah,
and go on at the same time with those
from this city.
Reports have been received from At
lanta showing that very good scores are
being made on the rifle range by mem
bers of the Governors Horse Guards who
are tired having all the honors fall to Sa-
vannah and the new infusion of interest
in the Atlanta military is due to a desire
to have that city represented on the team
that will represent Georgia this fail
Capt. Brooks said yesterday that the
Georgia team viii be made up of the best
shots from the state who appear at Sea
Grit 1t does not follow because Savan>
nah has been known as the home of the
best rife shots and that the officers of the
team are residents of this city that merit
discovered in other places will not be rec
ogniZed Should Atlanta, Macon, Pooler,
Sandhy or any other place come TO the
front with a better marksman than some
one that might be on the Georgia team
from Savannah his claim viii not be ig
nored.
AT the last contest at Sea Glrt there
were none but Savannah men on the GeOr-
gia team. 1t is believed here that it will
be comprised of Savannah men this year,
though that remains to be seen. If supe-
rior ability is demonstrated by an Atlanta
man, he will shoot, and the SaVanuahian
who had hoped for the honor of repre-
senting the state will have TO put up with
his disappointment as best he may. Those
who practice on the Avondale range are
understood TO have an advantage over
marksmen who have TO be content with
the easier ranges of the interior. The con-
ditions governing the range near Savannah
are practically Identical with those at Sea
Grit and there is where the advantage will
rest.
Col. Brooks has found that the ftful
winds that are often encountered
at the Avondale range are one of
the best preparations for the Sea
Grit contests that can be had.
Just such winds as pull down the score
here at Avondale will be encountered at
the New Jersey shoot, and the advantages
of having been accustomed to the condl-
tons that obtain on or near the seashore
will be an advantage with the Savannah
ians that the marksmen from Atlanta and
other places will find difficult to over
come
1 is often the case that the ranges that
are constructed in the interior are so laid
off to afford great shelter from winds,
and the result is that those who practice
on them are not as a rule, we'll Versed
in the finer science of shooting, as ex-
emplified in windage and elevation. Ere
quenty it is found that a range in the in
terror runs along between hills that keep
off the wind and when those who have
pracuced on such ranges are confronted
with winds that blow fresh and strong
from the ocean they are handicapped
The Sea Critters viii leave Savannah
the latter part of This month. They will
have something like a week in which TO
practice on the Sea Girt range before the
contests commence, and in that time il
viii he discovered whether or not Savan-
nahians viii have 10 come off the team
10 make place for superior talent from
other places in the state.
From time to time it may be seen in va
rious newspapers that teams of their To-
cal military are deeply and successfully
engaged in practice for an August shoot
that is TO be held in Savannah. If such
is the object in view, those who have been
SO hard at work will have but their labor
and the practice gained for their pains.
for there is TO be no such shoot. That
there is to be none the Morning News
has before published
The understanding that there would be
a military rifle contest for state troops at
Savannah during the summer, probably
in August, grew out of the expectation of
Col. George T. Cam, inspector general
of rife practice, that the state would have
some 1900 that it expended in getting
its volunteers ready for service in the
Spanish American war restored to 1t by
the general government. The claim has
been In for long while and there has
been considerable correspondence over it,
1t is believed that in course of time the |
claim will be honored, but Col. Cam was
especially anxious that 1t might be Sc
cured some time ago and part of it put
al the disposal of the companies that
might desire to send teams TO Savannah
to take part in the contests With the
falling through of the expectation of get
ting the money went up the prospect for |
a state shoot, and none will be pulled off |
IT Is suggested that any member of a |
military organization who has been prac- |
ticing with a view of coming with his |
team to Savannah for the state contests |
may aspire higher and make the trip to |
Sea Girt in the hope OF being one of the |
Georgia team in the national matches |
Waycross, it is said has had its range |
well patronized of late, and that place |
might be able to send forth few very |
good shots.