The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-01
MANY RIFLE TEAMS
WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE INTER-
STATE SHOOT.
ASSURANCES ARE FLATTERING
NONE SAVE A ROSEATE VIEW CAN
BE TAKEN OF PROSPECTS.

Capt. Walter Il. COney Returned
Yesterday From JacksohNiIle.
Greatly EIated Over the EncOur-
agement He Received There-Other
Places in Florida Will Also Send
Teams-AIabamnA Adds to the Prom
Uses Made a Few Days AgO-Capt.
Conveys Next Trip Will Be TO North
Carolina.
The hopes of the Savannah officers,
who have displayed the greatest in
terest in the Interstate Rifle Shoot to
be held here Aug. $3.50, are being out
stripped by reahzations. They had ex-
pected that promises would be gained
from some companies, but they never
anticipated that as many would pledge
themselves to send teams for the shoot
as have already done SO.
To the efforts of Capt. Walter E.
Coney will credit be due for most of
the teams that will come from neigh
boring states He has visited cities
in Alabama and Florida, and from both
states he has received promises Of
teams. Within a day or two he will
leave for Charlotte. there to take up
the matter with North Carolina COM
panies. After his trip to North Caro-
lima he will have a try at the South
Carolina companies, from some of
which promises have already been
gained by dint of correspondence.
Back From Florida.
Yesterday afternoon Capt. Coney re-
turned from his trip to Jacksonville
He was seen by a representative of the
Morning News, to whom he talked of
his success. Some of the other officers
interested in the shoot expressed the
greatest satisfaction in the results
achieved by Capt. Coney.
Enthusiasm in rife shooting is more
marked in Jacksonville than any other
city Capt. Coney has visited, and he
found the officers there thoroughly res
ponsive. They were keenly alive to
the advantages it would mean for their
organizations to attend the shoot, and
a number of them gave every assur-
ance they would be present with the
teams that Jacksonville will sent.
Ten roster coming.
Adjutant General ]. Clifford r. Fos-
ter of he Florida troops will probably
be in attendance upon the shoot, and
other officers Capt. Coney expects are
Col. c. p. Lowell, who commanded the
First Florida in the Spanish War and
is known TO many officers who served
in the Second Georgia, Maj John s.
Maxwell, Maj. Jacob Gumbinger. Capt.
William lie Fills and Lieut. w. A.
Jones of the Jacksonville Rifles, and
Lieut.. b. b. MacDonell of the Jack
sonville Light Infantry.
The Jacksonville Light Infantry, the
Jacksonville Rifles and Wilson's Light
Battery are all expected to send teams
Capt. Coney believes that some of
these commands will send ten or more
men. He met with the Rifles and the
battery, and the commands seemed
well pleased with the prospect of at
tending the Savannah shoot. The bat
terry is fresh from a success at Fer
nandina, where, on July 4, it won in
rife match. There, by the way, the
Jacksonville marksmen met Mr.. Garlic
ton, whom Savannah Sea Critters may
recall as a member of the Washing
ton, D. c. team.
Jacl<sonViIle's Range.
A rife range is maintained at Jack
sonville, but this is to be given up for
a new one. The military of that city
is fortunate in having a street railway
company that offers to build and equip
range for it. A committee of Jack
sonville officers will come to SaVan-
nah, either before or during the shoot,
to get few dots about a thoroughly
up-to-date range.
Other Florida companies are expect
ed to send teams. The Fernandina Vol
unteers and the Ocala Rifles are count
ed upon as certainties. Capt. G. A.
Nash of the latter company has writ
ten, expressing the intention of the
Rifles to send a team.
Reports from Alabama continue
very encouraging. Mr.. Hugh Miller,
formerly the best shot in the Ogle-
thorpe Light Infantry in Savannah.
and now the best drilled man in the
Jefferson Volunteers at Birmingham,
has written Capt. Coney of several
companies besides those in Birming-
ham that expect to send teams. Capt
Coney has also heard from Capt. c. H.
Waite of Wilmington. N. c., who
thinks that the Wilmington Rifles will
send a team.