The Washington times., 1902-07-20
SEA GIRT SHOOT TO
BE BEST IN HISTORY

and Fifth regiments will also be in evil
dence. as will the Maryland Troop. Ohio.
a newcomer last year. WHO came out
is now equipped with the Krag. and
is expected to forge toward the frcnt.
Maine, who came last year after
n long absence. is again entered. The
Brigade Hospital Troop has also enter
ed team
District in Line.
The District OF Columbia champions
OF 1890 and 1901 will, of course, be here.
That New York and New Jersey and the
rest of. the big field will have a hard
battle to stop the Washingtonians Is
evident from the practice work Major
Bells team has been doing-work which
shows them in better condition than any
team that ever represented the District
at the Sea Girt tourney.
Fer the international match for the
Palma Trophy and the championship OF
the world. TO be shot this year at OF
tawa. Canada. the week beginning Au-
gust %, American riaemen are prepar-
ing with the hope of getting up team
which shall recover the trophy lost last
year to the Canadians by rs points.
At Sea Girt, Washington, Walnut Hill,
Mass. and Philadelphia the crack shots
are turning up, and their records are
being kept on official score sheets sent
from here by the secretary Of the Ma
tional Rifle Association. Lieut.. A. 5.
Jones. n. G. n. J. The competitors
making the best records will come to
Sea Girt and engage in the final compe-
.,s ;oL nil tolr rla rroha -
August 10 and is.
To Visit Canada.
Ten men will be chosen at that time.
who will be trained for four or five days
as a team. The team will leave for
Canada on August 81. The competing
teams for the Palma this year will 10
from the United States. Canada. Great
Britain, Australia. and New Zealand.
The aspirants for places on the Amer
lean team that goes to Ottawa. who are
practicing here, are the following from
New Jersey: Lieut.. W. B. Martin, Sec
ond Regiment Elizabeth, who won the
Wimbledon cup last year; Capt. William
!. whittemore, Fourth Regiment, Ho-
boken, winner of the Presidents match
in 1900; Lieut.. Albert S. Jones, Passaic:
Lieut.. Horace NJ Bell, Pompton, who
has shot on the District of Columbia
team for several years; Sergt- W. A.
Tenes, Fourth Regiment; Col. Charles A.
Reid, Trenton.
The other contestants are DR.. W. 9.
Hudson, New York. member OF the
New Jersey Signal Corps; Capt Leslie
C. Bruce, OF New York. a member of th5
American team that went to England in
rI ta,,t z Claude Goddard 0f
the Sixth Pennsylvania.
OF new matches this year the most i'm
portant are the National Rifle Associa-
tons inter-club match. and the National
Revolver Associations Match D. mill
tary revolver match, The inter-club
contest will take place on Labor Day
on the ranges of the clubs that enter.
The match will be shot at targets sent
from Sea Girt, and to be returned here
Tor inspection. The contest is open to
teams of five men, and is for banner
and the club championship of the United
States. For this competition entries are
coming in from all over the country.
One OF the latest entries. for instance,
IS the Daniel Boone Club. Of Muncie,
Ind.
Open to ALI Shooters.
The new military revolver match 10
,pen to everybody, five strings of five
shots each, at fifty yards, for a gold tro-
,hy, to be held until the next annual
and to become the property
II the competitor who wins it three
lines.
Wholesale improvements have been
made at the range since last year. All
II the old butts were torn out, and,
With the exception of those at 600 yards.
he new ones are concrete. At 600.
hey are yellow pine.
The total number of targets from 200
o LOCO yards inclusive is now SO. There
S also a new revolver range, with twen-
y-fve targets-ten at 25 yards, ten at
10 yards. and five at 10 yards.
The small house which used to do
service as magazine and gun room, has
,een razed, and between the clubhouse
" the New Jersey Rifle Association and
he Manasquan River. and facing the
00-yard butts. has been erected 4 COM
nodlous building. including a locker
DOM, gun room, and the offices.
In the rear of 1t is a detached brick
magazine. Hereafter the man on the
iring line will not have to travel down
o the main offices to buy tickets; he
nay purchase them at the new booth OF
he officer who does the telephone sig
alirg to the markers in the pits.