The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-09-08
Second New Jersey Carries
Of Columbia Trophy
Marines Take Possession
Of Dupont Cup.
EVANS OF FIRST N. J. HIGH
SAILORS OF L. s. s. HANCOCK
WIN TYRO NOTWITHSTANDING
OF THE TEAMS.

SEA GIRT, Sept. 8. 1905.-The Ma
rine Corps won the regimental team
skirmish match yesterday afternoon
from field of seventeen teams, but it
took the strongest skirmishing yet made
in an Amrican team match for the sea
soldiers to pocket the Dupont cup. By
two constant runs that bordered ON the
phenomenal they made 93S. The Sew
enty-irst New York won second place
with score of 919 and on their second
run scored the highest single run with
a total of 472, three points better than
the marines best effort.
By its brilliant windup of the rife sea
son the Marine Corps won permanent
possession of the Dupont cup, as the
conditions of the match award the
trophy to the team winning the match
twice. The marines won last year. Sew
eral high individual scores were made,
Sergeant Major General Evans, of the
First New Jersey, making SO with eight
teen hits on the papoose and two ON the
big figure.
The days work was begun with the
company "Tyro' match, open to teams Of
three men, none of whom had been on a
winning team at Sea Girt prior to this
meeting. The sailors of the q. S. S.
Hancock, members of the navy team,
won the match with total of 1856.
The Ideal company match was shot
over the 200 and 500 yard ranges, the
teams using reduced charges. The four
place winners We're: Company F. Fifth
Maryland, $780, Company G, Fourth New
Jersey. first team. 384; Company L, Sec
ond New Jersey. 1862; Company G,
Fourth New Jersey, second team, 359.
The standing of the teams in the regi-
mental skirmish match was: United
States Marine Corps. 933; Seventy-frst
New York, 919; United States Navy,
1856; Fifteenth United States Infantry,
S67; Second Washington, SAT; United
States Marine Corps, second team, S05;
Second New Jersey, Sol; Second Ohio,
755: First New Jersey, 1852; Fifth Mary
land, 742; Second Washington, 743; Sec
ond District of Columbia 1871; First Dis
trict of Columbia, 712: Third New Jer-
sey, 5S6; Fifth New Jersey, 4s3; First
Troop, P. c. c., All.
Five New Jersey teams competed for
the handsome Columbia trophy, the gift
of the national guard of the District of
Columbia. The first prize is the trophy
and 500: the second prize, $50; and the
third prize, $25. The match this year
had the 1,000-yard and skirnish run
added. The Second Regiment team won
the match with fine work. 1t was after
o'clock when the Third Regiment team
finished its score at the 1000 yards and
it was difficult to see the targets.
The teams finished in this order: Sec
ond New Jersey, 1,074: First New Jer-
sey, 1,O39; Fifth New Jersey. 900; Third
New Jersey, so2; Fourth New Jersey,
s71.
The Second Regiment team was COM
posed of the following: Captain Frank
lin Philips, inspector of rife practice;
Captain William B. Martin, Company
X; Captain William Libbey, Company
L; Lieutenant A. Gibby Spencer. Com
pany NJ Sergeant George F. w. Sylves-
ter, Company L; Sergeant John R. Will
liams, Company l.; Sergeant Guyot
Dohm, Company L; Sergeant Marcus S.
Farr, Company L; Sergeant Fisher
Howe, Company L; Private William NJ
Hooey. Company NJ Private Claude s.
Hudson, Company L; Private Edward
L. McRostie, Company L.