Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-24
SEA GIRE RIFLE TEAM
Those Who Will Represent the District
Guardsmen in the Match.
Officers and Men Detailed to Accom-
pany the Teams-InspectOr Bell
to Connmand 1t.

The members OF tho brigade rife team
to represent the District of Columbia Ma
| tional Guard as an organization during the
eighth annual meeting of the New Jersey
State Rifle Association at Sea Girt next
| month were finally selected today. The bril-
gade team consists of twelve shooting men,
bers and four alternates. The twelve men
to do the firing In the matches will not be
Iamed until the moment arrives for open
irg the respective contests. The sixteen
men are:
Private Maurice Appleby, Company A,
9th Battalion; Private Robert P. Carleton,
Company A, 9th Battalion; First Lieut.. W..
w. Cookson. inspector of rifle practice, 9th
Battalion; Private William e. Colladay,
Company D, 9th Battalion; First Lieut..
George q. Dennison- inspector of rifle prac-
t1ce, 9th Battalion; Private Clarence W.
Diekey, Company D, 9th Battalion; Private
W.: Milton Farrow, Company A, 9th Bat
talon; First Lieut. Frank w. Holt, quar-
termaster, 9th Battalion; Sergeant H. H.
Le1zear, Company A, 9Th Battalion; First
Lieut.. Luther H. Reichelderfer, inspector
OF rine practice, I'd Battalion; Private Sam
uel d. Rotramei, Company D. 9th Battalion;
First Lieut.. Frank E. Skinner, Company c,
9th Battalion; Private James M. Stewart,
Company D, 9Th Battalion; Private C. McC.
Iaylor, Company A, 9Th Battalion: Private
Albert Whitacre, Company A, 9Th Battalion
and Captain Glende B. Young, Company d,
9th Battalion,
The Detail.
The following officers and enlisted men
will be detailed to accompany the brigade
team to Sea Girt: Maj. w. E. Harvey, 9th
Battalion; Maj R. D. Smms, 9Th Bat
talon; Capt. Z. Fred. Cook, aid-de-camp,
general staff; Capt. ]. s. Tominson. Com
ns.ny "A, 9Th Battalion Capt. c. A. Weaver,
surgeon lst Regiment: First Lieut. A. M.
Lieut.. Howard Beall, inspector of rifle
practice, 1st Battalion: First Lieut.. w. E.
Crist Company c, I'd Battalion: First
Lieut.. P. ]. Haltigan. quartermaster, 4th
Battalion; First Lieut.. L. T. Boiseau, ad
jutant, 9Th Battalion Corporal NJ Dooan,
Company d, 9th Battalion; Private Horace
M. Bell, Company B. 4th Battalion; Pri-
vate M. F. Britain, Company A, I'd Bat
c, 9th Battalion.
OF the foregoing, Lieut.. Allison, Lieut..
Beall, Private Britain, Private Bode.
Lieut.. Crist and Capt. Weaver are men,
bers of the 1st Regiment team; Private
Bell and Corporal Doolan are members Of
the I'd Regiment team; Maj. Harvey is an
alternate of the 9th Battalion team. and
Capt. TomliEson is an alternate of the
team that Will represent Company A, 9Th
Battalion.
Gen. George H. Harries, commanding the
District of Columbia militia, will be at Sea
Girt during the meeting. Mai. James f.
Bell, inspector general of rifle practice,
District of Columbia militia. is the captain
of the brigade team. The transportation of
the Washington party will be under the
superintendent Of Maj. II. II. Parmenter,
quartermaster general. District of Column
bia militia. Capt. Alfred P. Robbins, aid
de-camp, District Of Columbia militia, will
serve as adjutant and ordnance officer of
the brigade team. Maj. E. H. Neumeyer,
ccmmissary general District of Columbia
militia. will also be on duty with the de-
tachment.
Date Of Departure.
The Washington contingent will leave
this city the evening of Friday, September
1, reaching Sea Girt early the next morn
ing. Saturday, September 2, will be de-
voted to practice on the Jersey range The
meeting opens the morning of Monday,
September T. and viii continue the re-
will participate in the Hilton Trophy
match and the Interstate Military match.
The other teams from Washington will try
to win prizes in the company, battalion
and special matches while the majority of
the officers and men will enter the indi-
vidual matches.
The District of Columbia has won the
Hilton Trophy four times. in 1895 with
total score of 1,097 the highest ever re-
corded in that match. The Interstate Mil
itary match was won by the District in
1893.
By reason Of the war with Spain no
meeting was held at Sea Girt last year. In
1897 the District did not send a brigade
team. Greater interest than ever before is
manifested in the coming contests. More
teams will participate and more states will
be represented. The meeting will be unique,
in that in the team matches all partici-
pants must use ammunition of one grade
and manufacture and all rifles must be OF
a certain standard. This is a material de-
parture from the past, when the use of
special rifles and ammunition was permit
ted, thus giving certain teams an advan-