The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-08-16
MILITARY MATTERS.

Inspector of Rifle Practice Lewis II.
Garter has put the rifle team of the
Thirteenth regiment through hard and
energetic practice. all week, prepara-
tory To the trip to Mt Gretna and work
in the state matches. The team Will
leave the city Monday morning and eN-
poets to so into camp the same after
noon.
The matches will be begun Tuesday
morning and continue until Saturday.
The following week the Interstate
tournament will be held at Sea Girt
and will be continued into September
Lieutenant Carter is justly proud of
the work the local team has been doing
up to date. and declares that If they
can continue the pace there is no doubt
but that several members of the team
will be among the Pennsylvania guards
representatives ut Sea Girt.
The Keystone state Will send TO the
New Jersey range a state team of
twelve men and three reserves. consist
ing of the fifteen leading markSmen OF
the division. and also Il team which will
be known as the regimental team. 1t
is to consist of the regimental team
standing highest, for the regimental
practice and skirmish matches. The
Scranton team was taken to Pittston,
Wednesday. and given thorough prac-
tice at the 1,0O0-yard range. A number
Of good scores We're made and the gen.
eral work of the men was excellent
Ten or twelve shots We're allowed each
man.
Lieutenant Carter. Major Frank Rob-
ling and Musician Charles Moore We're
at the Dickson City range Thursday
afternoon. and yesterday the entire
team was exercised at the range. Up
to date the work of all the men has
been first-class, with Musician Moore
probably leading in general average.
The latter has made Il number OF
clean scores at the 500-yard range,
making a bulrseye each time, and his
work at the 1,OOO-yard range was also
of prize winning calibre.
The swimming pool at the armory
has proved a source OF almost untold
joy to the members of the regiment,
and since the board of trustees removed
the fee for use of the nata atorium, there
has hardly been a night that scores OF
the soldier boys We're not delightedly
SplaShing about in the big tank.
There is a lul in regimental matters
of late. owing to the fact that all drills
are suspended for the summer months,
and will not be resumed until the early
part of October. The armory has been
far from deserted, however. The per-
Sistent rumOrs in the air that the regi-
ment is to be called out have resulted
in large numbers of privates and Off
GERS assembling there and eagerly
awaiting the news from Harrisburg,
flashed over the wires to the newspaper
offices.
In event of Captain Thomas Murphy,
of Company G, remaining in Cincin-
natl, for the International Correspond
ence schools, his company will have
lost one Of the best captains in the
regiment, and, for the matter of that
in the brigade or division. Under his
leadership, C has made great onward
grade of excellence which was at it's
heighth when Major Frank Robling
was its commander.
Murphy was then second lieutenant,
and the interest he naturally feels in
the company is evident, In the energy
and persistence with which he has
worked for it. A strict disciplnarian,
he is yet one of the most popular Off
GERS of the regiment, and there would
not to return to it in the fall.