The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-29
DISTRICT RIFLE TEAM
SHOWS GREAT FORM
Major Bell Much Pleased
With the Practice.
STORM DRIVES MEN TO COVER
Practice Yesterday Had to Be Dispensed
With on That Account-Many
New Arrivals.

RIFLE RANGE. SEA GIRT, n. J.,
Aug. 29--ThorOughly chilled and disap-
pointed were the District of Columbia
and the other riiemen encamped here
for the tournament by the driving storm
which swept across the range all day
yesterday and made the days practice
impossible. Major Bell felt keenly the
interruption, as he did not get the team
through the 1,OO0-yard practice on Thurs
day
Thirty members Of the Massachusetts
State team and the First Corps cadets
team, of Boston, reached the range yes
terday afternoon, and thirty more will
follow early next week to represent the
old Guard, the Massachusetts Rife AS
ISOLATION. and Battery B. This Will
make the Bay State delegation the larg-
est II has ever had at the Sea Girt shoot.
Michigan entered team yesterday
afternoon through Quartermaster Cen
eral j. H. Kidd. The army navy maneu-
vers on the Maine coast may keep the
Maine team home. 1t sends word that it
will be here if the National Guard sue
ceeds in driving off the enemy in time.
The High Scores.
The best practice scores here so far
by the District team are: Five hundred
yards, Lieut.. w. NJ. Farrow, possible;
Lieut.. G. D. Dennison and Sergeant
Groom, 40. Six hundred yards five
shots), Private Maurice Appleby, posi-
BILE; Major Glendie B. Young. "a. Nine
hundred yards. Private c. E. Cook, As
The District of Columbia rife teams
practice Thursday afternoon for the
tournament which opens September
2. was altogether satisfactory to Major
James E. Bell.
Were knocking the bull's-eyes out
of the target" said he. at the end of the
500-yard practice, where the average
score was gratifyingly high. The top
man was Lieut.. W. Milton Farrow. At
200 yards. Private Maurice Appleby was
high, at A. The conditions were first
rate. and the men were on their mettle
after refreshing nights sleep.
Two New Arrivals.
To the District delegation several ad-
ditions have arrived since Wednesday
night. Major Glendie B. Young and Pri-
vate Edward J. Fink, of the Brigade
team, got in Thursday forenoon, and
Major William E. Harvey, also of the
Brigade Team, that evening.
Two of the detachment attended the
Reliance Shamrock race Thursday. Capt
Sheridan Ferree, of the Second Regi-
ment. who was on the revenue cutter,
and Lieut.. W. ". Cookson. inspector Of
rife practice. Second Regiment.
Four teams were hard at work at the
targets all day Thursday, and were al it
again yesterday morning-District OF Co
lumbia. Navy. Marine Corps, and New
Jersey-although the national match is
two full weeks off, Gen. Bird W. Spen-
Ger, executive officer of the range, is
coaching the local sharpshooters into
form. Like the Washingtonians they
had not miss. DR.. Scott, formerly Of
the District team. is tuning up the Ma
rines. and Lieutenant Bulmer. the Navy.
To the fourteen entries announced in
these columns on Sunday for the ma
tional match has been added Maine
That Michigan. a newcomer to the Sea
Girt tournament. will also be here. there
Is now little doubt.
Rear Admiral Read. L. S. N, and the
Army, Navy. and Marine Corps officers
on the range were the guests OF General
Spencer at dinner Thursday night at the
Beach House. Those present were Major
Ames, Lieutenant Christie. and Lieuten-
ant Carter OF the Army; Captain Dewey.
Holcomb OF the Marine Corps,
and Lieutenant Bulmer. of the Navy.