The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-19
TO BURY RATCHET
HORSE GUARD TEAM WANTS TO
SHOOT AT AvONDALE.
HOW ABOUT SEA GIRT?
WANTS TO KNOW If 1T WILL BE
ALLOWED TO GO.

Post Adjutant Coney Writes to Come
Ahend-Horse Guard Team Now Mt
the Range Is Not the Troops
Regular Tcam-Othcr Tennis Want
to Go to Sen Girt-Omcers Think
That Governors Order VIII Result
in Increased Attendance on the
Interstate Shoot Encouraging
News Received Daily.
The announcement that Georgia will
be represented at Sea Girt, as fore
casted in the Morning News and con-
firmed in the instructions issued by the
Governor to Col. Cam, inspector gen.
eral of rifle practice, will, the officers
believe, result in an increased attend
ance on the interstate shoot next week
Applicants for a place on the team
and there are many-cannot hope to
secure a place without attending the
competition, since the team will be
chosen at its conclusion by Col. Cam.
A communication from the Govern
or's Horse Guard, received by Post
Adjutant Coney yesterday, is to the
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will send their best team to the inter-
state shoot, in the event they may
enter under certain conditions. These
conditions are that they may use
Krag- Jorgensen rifles and that they
may be eligible for the Sea Girt team
Maj. Coney has informed them that
they will be allowed to use the Krags
in the competition and that if their
shooting warrants it they will be chos-
en- as members of the Sea Girt team.
The attendance of members of the
Savannah and Atlanta contingents as
single team will mark the last mend
in the breach occasioned by the I'M
pleasantness surrounding the attend
ance of the Horse Guards on the Sea
Grit competitions last year. 1t would
seem that both sides are willing to
bury the Ratchet
From other States.
The Albany Guards write that the
team which represents their command
at the state shoot is not their best
one, and that the team that they send
a
strong bid for first honors Regular
practice is being held and the men
have attained a high degree of eff
cheney.
Communications from out-of-the-
state commands indicate a large at
tendance on the shoot. A letter from
the Jacksonville Rifles announces that
team of ten men will attend the
competitions. 1t is understood by the
men here that the Jacksonville team
numbers some fine shots, and that the
Savannah marksmen will not have the
walk-over that they had at the inter-
state shoot last year.
From Alabama comes a communica-
ton from the commanding officer of
the Dothan Guards, in which he says
that if the Governor of Alabama does
not authorize the expenditure of a suf-
fcient sum to defray the expense in
cident to the attendance of their COM
pany team that the men will raise the
necessary amount themselves.
Interest Increases.
North Carolina also reports encour-
aging prospects. Col. Robertson, COM
handing officer of the North Carolina
encampment at Asheville has written
that he will recommend that every
team which can possibly attend come
to the competition. He says that he
believes that there will be several teams
from the North Carolina National
Guard in the shoot.
Interest in the interstate contests are
growing at Camp Lawton as the men
become familiar with the conditions of