The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-01-01
SHOOTING
TROPHIES
READY
.Sharpshootsrs and Marksmsn's S
Medals Will IGo 10 AdJutant
General In a Few Days.

Brigadier General Herbert 8. Tanner.
commanding the brigade Rhode Island
militia, and under whose directions the
sharpshooters and marksmen trophies
won on the state range last season are
being made. has all the medals down
from brigade headquarters 10 Co. III or
the First regiment and they will be for
warded 10 Adjutant General sackett I'm
day or two for distribution to the win
ners. ~
The number this year is considerably
smaller than last. but ISL men winning
bars or badges. or this number nine won
expert bars. 81 sharpshooters bars and
473 marksmen's bars
Troop B OF the cavalry won the govern
or's trophy for. qualifying the largest
number OF men Of any command In the
state militia. being the second time this
crack organization has won the honor.
During the season the members OF the
troop won one expert bar II sharpshoot-
er's and 30 marksmen's bars
The Machine Gun battery was a very
good second upholding Its record for n
great shooting organization with l3
sharpshooters and 16 marksmen. and
missing having an expert by single
point. CO. q, First Regiment was third
with nine sharpshooters and 12 marksmen.
The records for the season for the
various commands follows:
Brigade staff-Experts 2, sharpshoot-
ers 2 marksmen 4.
First Regiment--Fie and stan. sharp
shooters A. marksmen g. Company A,
sharpshooters /, marksmen Is: Company
r. marksmen II; Company c. marksmen
4; Company ID, experts ], sharpshooters
4. marksmen 10: Company r.. Experts J.,
sharpshooters s. marksmen H. Company
+, marksmen 2. Company q, experts l..
sharpshooters 3. marksmen IL; Company
III, marksmen T.
Second Regiment Field and stan.
sharpshooters 2 marksmen 2: Company
A. marksmen S: Company n, sharpshoot-
ers T. marksmen 3. Company T., marks
men 2; Company f. sharpshooters ,.
marksmen 10; Company q. sharpshooters
/; Company II, sharpshooters !. marks
men Is.
Firs: Separate Company-Sharpshoote
@ marksmen 3
Cavalry-Field and staff sharpshooters
g. marksmen 4: Troop A, sharpshooters i.
marksmen Q; Troop b. experts ]. sharp
shooters IL. marksmen 30.
Battery A. marksmen s; Machine Gun
Battery, sharpshooters IL. marksmen is:
Hospital Corps. sharpshooters l. marks
men Z.
Naval Battalion-Field and stan,
marksmen 2; First divison.- msrksmen
4; Second division. marksmen Is: Third
division, 'sharpshooters 2, marksmen z.
Fourth division, experts 2. sharpshooters
8. marksmen 5.
United Train OF Artilery-Fied and
staff, sharpshooters 4. marksmen /: Com
pany A, sharpshooters 2. marksmen /;
Company b, sharpshooters ].
Bristol artillery - Sharpshooters, IL
marksmen, s. Warren artilery-Experts.
J.: sharpshooters, z; marksmen, g. New
port liery--Sharpshooters. 2. Kentish
Guards-Marksmen. l.
Company G, Second regiment, OF Brfs-
tol, and Company ID, Second regiment,
of Woonsccket, had no practice.
The medals have been ready for some
time, but during the holiday season IL
was utterly impossible TO get them en-
graved. this being the cause OF their not
being delivered before, but IA it IL the
medals will be presented much earlier
than has been the case In any former
year with one exception.
The medals for the other commands
will doubtless be ready In a very few
davs,