Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-09
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
The Prizes Captured.

Up to yesterday the District of Columbia
had captured the inspectors match, the
Wimbledon cup match first and third
prizes, and possibly second prize, In the
company team match; the Leech cup
match and a prize in the revolver team
match a showing not surpassed by any
other detachment of rifiemen participating
in the tournament.
Cease firing" will be sounded at 5 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon. and then the thirty
second annual meeting of the National
Rifle Association, of America, combined
with the thirteenth annual meeting of the
New Jersey State Rifle Association, will
terminate The principal event scheduled
for tomorrow is the Presidents match for
the individual, military championship of
the United States. 1t is open to all the
members of the army. navy, marine corps,
naval reserve and National Guard. The
conditions call for the use of the United
States army service rifle, with any ammu-
milton. Each competitor will fire seven
shots at 200 yards, 300 yards, 500 yards,
GOO yards, 500 yards and 1000 yards The
match will be shot in two stages. The first
stage will comprise the 200, 800 500 and
600 yards ranges, and the second stage,
the 500 and 1000 yards ranges. The fifty
competitors having the highest aggregate
scores in the first stage will shoot in the
second stage. The same rifle must be used
throughout the match. The competitor
having the highest aggregate scores of all
ranges will be declared the winner. The
prizes follow:
To the competitor making the highest
aggregate score of the first stage, who does
not qualify for the second stage, $25; to the
competitor making the highest aggregate
score at all ranges. the military champion
ship of America for one year. the cham
pionship medal and an autograph common
datory letter from the President of the
United States, and 500; second prize, S25;
third prize, SIS; fourth prize. $40; fifth
prize, s1O and five additional prizes of So
each.
The Presidents Match.
The Presidents match was won last year
by Lieut. X K. V. Casey of New York,
and he will defend the championship title
tomorrow George E. Cook finished fourth
in the match year ago. the standing of
other District rifemen being follows: s.
I Scott SIXTH E. j. Fink. seventh; s. b.
Wetherald. eighth Maurice Appleby,
tenth: r. l.. Pile. fourteenth: Frank w.
Holt twenty-fourth W. w. Cookson,
twenty-fifth: w. Nj. Farrow, twenty-sxth.
fifty-nine competitors.
In his report to the National Rifle Asso-
ciation of America at its annual meeting
held here last evening Lieut. Albert >.
matter which, he declared, is of vital
interest to tbesrihemen of this country-the
dividing up and extending over such a long
neriod the fall competitions. at Is utterly
imnoss;ble'' Eieuto Jones asserted. "for
business men land most of the National
C,uard shooters to give from four to six
weeks of their time away from business
and their homes to attend these different
events. The tiistice of this is clearly SEEM
as is the advantage in having all the shoot
ing competitions consolidated into one big
For the National Trophy.
1.-THE contest for the national trophy
should be combined with those of the
National Rifle Association. 1t was never
intended that 1t should be otherwise but
somehow the national match got side-track-
ed into a strictly army competition, con-
trary to the wishes of the national board
which brought the national trophy into ex-
istence Wherever the national trophy is
shot for next year, there the N, r.. A.
matches should also be shot. mad 7 hone
that this winter the national board viii SO
fix it when they are arranging for the
national trophy shoot for 1905. have no
doubt that any state that should succeed
in securing the national shoot for 1908
would gladly extend to this association the
hand of welcome that New Jersey has
done for so many years"
Another suggestion made by the secre-
tary was that all affiliated military organi-
cations hold a competition for the N r. a
medal previous to the fall meeting and
send to such meeting, at the orpaniya TONS
expense. the winner as the official renre-
sentative of that organization in the presi-
dents match for the Individual military