The Washington times., 1901-08-16


Local guardsmen are looking forward
eagerly to the Sea Girt, n. j., rifle meet,
which is to be held from August 80 to
September !. and are hard At work per
fecting themselves on the Ordway range
for the strenuous competition in which
they will participate there against the
crack shots of the country. The meet
will be the twenty-ninth annual meeting
of the National Rifle Association OF Amer
lea. the second annual meeting of the
, United states Revolver Association, and
the tenth annual meeting of the New
Jersey State Rifle Association. II will be
held under the auspices of the last-named
associat on.
At the same time there will be held
two international contests. the first in
twenty-three years. one of the contests
is for the Palma trophy, representing the
worlds championship. This trophy has
not been contested for since 1880, when the
American team won it by defeating 4
team from Great Britain. This year Can
ada is sending a team to try and take it
across the border. The other match is
special challenge match between teams
of eight men from the Ulster Rifle Asso-
citation, of Belfast, Ireland, and the New
Jersey State Rifle Association-iifteen
shots for each man at 500, 800, and 1000
yards. with any rifle.
The Irish team sails for America on the
2lst inst. In the party will be- besides the
team, the Marquis of Dufferin and six or
eight prominent Irish sportsmen, besides
several ladies. Composing the Irish team
are men who have been shooting on the
Irish eight" at Bisley for years. Such
men as Barnett. Braithwaite, Henry,
Tall luz THYME
Chadwick, whose names are well known
in the rifie-shooting world as expert long
range shots, are the material which the
young. inexperienced shooters of the New
Jersey Association have against them.
Not only are the Jersey men new at this
game. but they are also seriously handi-
capped by not having the proper kind of
small calibre rifles for such shooting. Mr..
Foulke, the well-known shot of Philadel-
phia, is coaching the New Jersey team,
and he predicts that Yankee ingenuity
and pluck will pull them through victors.
OF the men who have been doing the best
work on the New Jersey team are Cap
tain Whittemore, DIR. Hudson. Captain
Martin, Baker, Malcolm. futile. and
Foulke. New Jersey will take good care
of the visitors. Colonel Thompson. aide
de-camp to the Governor. has placed his
steam yacht at the disposal of the Enter
tainment Committee and the Irish team
will be met down the bay and taken to
Atlantic Highlands, where they will be
taken aboard the train for Sea Grit.
All of the interest in the coming tour
nament is not, by any means, centred in
the international matches. Never before
in the history of rifle shooting in this
country has there been so much interest
manifested In the annual interstate
matches by the guardsmen of the differ
ent States. AS against six States being
represented by State teams, which is the
largest number ever before assembled to-
gether in competition. there will this year
be about eight State teams on the grounds
to compete for the Hilton and Marathon
trophies The United States Marine Corps
will be represented by a strong team,
which has been training at the navy
range at Annapolis for over a month, and
the Department of the East, L. S. Army,
will also, in all probability. send a team
from Governors Island. Maine has al
ready selected her team. competitions for
that purpose having been held at Bruins
wick. Me, on August 2.
The Pennsylvania State team viii be
selected from the men making the highest
ma, Pa. August p, % and 20. Pennsylva-
MIA will also send the winning regimental
team and a squadron team to represent
her Guard at Sea Grit New York has
selected by competition twenty-five men,
who are now practicing at Creedmoor,
with the United States ma gazine rifle.
Later on the twelve men to compose the
State team will be selected by second
competition. The Empire State will also
be represented by regImental teams from
the Twelfth. Ninth, Seventy-tirst, Sew
enth. Seventy fourth Twenty-third and
Thirteenth regiments and a team from
Squadron a and the Naval Reserve. For
some reason, not fully understood, MaSsa-
chuSetts has decided not to send team.
For great many years Massachusetts
could boast of as fine a body of expert
rfiiemen in her militia as there was in
the country, but Of late years very little
has been heard from her in this respect
Battery b. Light Artillery, of Boston, will
send revolver team TO defend their title
TO the military team championship, won
last year. There will also be several regi-
mental teams from the State. The Rhode
Island team is in training at the Rum
ford range, and is putting up some very
une scores.
Both the District of Columbia and New
Jersey will enter State teams and the
usual number of regimental, troop and
company teams. The New Jersey Naval
Reserve and Batteries and Signal Corps
will this year, for the first time, be rep
resented in the matches. The revolver
team will also be entered from the Fourth
Regiment. Both the District and Jersey
teams are shooting with the United States
magazine rifle, and are doing such good
work that both ought to be near the top
of the list when the match is decided
Maryland will be represented by a team
from the Fifth Regiment of Baltimore and
a troop team in the carbine and revolver
matches.
Vermont, New Hampshire. Ohio, Michi-
gan, Minnesota and Delaware will be
represented by either a State or regimen
tai team, or both, but little is known of
the work being done at the local ranges.
At Sea Grit every arm of the service
will be represented, and the encampment
will be as near a national camp for our
armed forces as We are ever likely to
have.
Military rihemen are not going 10
monopolize all the interest at the meet
ing. The SchuetZen shooters are also
well locked after The National Rifle
Association of America. has in its pro-
gramme a team match for Civilian clubs,
and all of the larger clubs will send their
best men to try and win the pennant
and inter-club championship of the United
States. Such well-known clubs as the
Massachusetts Rifle Association. Ihila-
delphia Rifle Association. New Jersey
State Rifle Association. Manhattan Rife
and Revolver Association, District Of
Columbia Rife Association, Zettler Rife
Club Of New York. Pittsburg Rife Club,
Crescent City Rifle Club, of Scranton, Pa;
Iroquois Rifle Club. Of Pittsburg. Pa; Ho-
bOl,en Independent Schuetzen Corps, Elite
Rife Club. OF Brooklyn. San Antonio CTeN.)
Shooting Society, Syracuse IN. " Rifle
Club, and the Italian Shooting Associa-
ton, Of New York, Will be represented.
The success Of the Schuetzen shooting
end of the tournament is assured by hav-
ing such men as William Hayes. Gus
Zimmerman. Tom Keller. Emil Berck-
mann Dr. Hudson, Nathan Spering Dr.
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