The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-24
FIRST REGIMENT
 GETS ALL PRIZES
Its Team Won Trophyin Rife
 Contest Yesterday
BoTHWtLL TAXES MEDAL
Captain Coleman Won Second lnd- vidual Prze-Both Are From Company D, First Reel-
 ment.

The First regiment, A. N o., yesterday won the handsome silver 1oving-cup offer ed by Brigadier General Clark for the best score in the rife contest and two members of It's team carried off the med als offered for the first and second high est individual scores.
 Privates o. L. Bothwell, Of Company D. First regiment won the gold medal of- fered by Col H. B. Gray of the goVerns or's staff by making a score f6 out or a possible 100 points. Captain N. II. Cole man of Company D won the medal of- sered by the Age-Herald for the second- hest individual score, by making P points out of a possible 100. Lieut. Hugh Miller of the Jefferson volunteers, Third regi- ment, made the third best score oS out of a possible 100 points.
 Flne Marksmanshlp.
 The scores are remarkably fine con- sidering that this Is the first time many of the contestants ever shot on rife range. and especially is this true of some of the men on the teams from the Second and Third regiments. The First regiment team had the advantage. In hav- Ing several crack shots, and also gen. eral team which was more accustomed to rifle range shooting than the members of the other two teams.
 In justice to the Second regiment. 1t might be said that 1t went on the field with practically no training. Three of the men on the team stated that they had never shot at targets before. There were at least two members of the Third regiment team who had never shot on range before. That, however, does not lessen the glory of the First regiment team, the members of which shot well. They were coached by men who are thor oughly familiar with target shooting, and the lowest score made on the team was 30, while the lowest on the other teams were 22 and 16 out of a possible 100.
 Fired Twenty Times.
 Each soldier fired twenty times ten from the 2oO-yard line and ten from the s0O-yd. line. Five of each of these ten shots was with as much time aS was desired, but the other five were fired at rapld-fire, which means all five shots were fired in thirty seconds. It was at this that the First regiment team proved superior to the others. It was also in the rapid-fire at the 200-yard line that Lieutenant Miller lost his lead for the first prize.
 Great credit should be given Major Teb- betts of Mobile. inspector of rife prac- tice on the staff of General Clark, for the efficiency of the rifle practice during the encampment. With practically no mater ial he built the targets and made the ranges. and he did well. By the time of the next brigade encampment he will have completed more modern targets and a better range at his disposal.
 Owing to the rain yesterday morning, the soldiers were unable to commence shooting until about o'clock, and there was some rush to get through, but all finished before darkness made accurate shooting impossible.
 In the scores given below each man had twenty shots. and had the chance to make possible five with each shot. A bulrs-eye was worth five points. and they ranged in value down to nothing. which was miss of the entire target
 The Scores.
 First Regiment-Capt H. N. Coleman, Company D, 72;Lt. c. J. Morris, Company F. 70; Ut. James J. crary, Company r, 6S; Sergt. c. F. Baker. Company F, 5l: Sergt B. W. Baker. Company F. 62; Sergt. Charles Stucliffe. Company H, 66; Sergt. B. R. Sawyer. Company D, 57; Corp. A. Duncan, Company H. 35; H. Murphy, Company F, 65; E. D. Hoomes, Company F, CT; O. l.. Boutwell,, Company D, 76; B. F. Autrey, Company D, 57. Total, 746.
 Second Regiment-W. F. Stone, Com pany D. 33; J. c. Cummings, Company D. 16; J. P. Bibb, Company D. A; E. Fay lor Company F, 30; Corporal Lancaster, Company E, 42: Sergeant Wheelock. Com pany c. 61; Corporal Pruett Company c. 46; Private Summer. Company F, 53; Ser geant Wilson Company l.. 4S; Private Windham. Company L. 62; Private Esler, Company L, 45; Private Reid, 5S. Total 532
 Third Regiment-G. L. Harbin, Company F. 60; Oliver Frazer, Company F. p; w. T. Bounces, Company B. 26; Lieutenant Miller, Company G, 69; S. T. Watson, Company c, 6; c. E. Rice Company c, N: Tom Randall Company l., 6l; w D. Bowman, Company l., 5S; H. J. Puckett, Company L, 45; H. H. Constantine Com pany D, 52; H. Blackwell, Company D, 85: Joe Hawkins. Company l. 63 Total.