The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-27

welt. together with eight cash prizes.
The membership match, for the cham
pionship Of the National Rifle assocla-
ton, is a gold medal and seven cash
prizes The rezimentaF championship
team match will this year have a new
trophy, contributed by the regiments OF
the United States and valued at $500.
to become the permanent property OIL
the organization winning it three times.
This carries with It q medal to each
member Of the winning team and $3.50
in cash, and there are three other casn
prizes. The z. I. Du Ponts company has.
donated q solid silver trophy valued at
$3.50 for the championship regimental
skiruish match, which becomes the pro-
perty of any team winning it twice The.
Inter-Cof1Gg match carries g trophy,
g. medal to each member of the winning
team and two cash prizes This trophy
was won last year by the team from
Princeton university. The 1nter-Club
match for the rife club championship
Of the United States has a number OF
gold. silver and bronze medals and
three cash prizes. This trophy has been
won twice by the Manhattan Rife and
Revolver association and once by the
Ohio State Rifle association. The Ma
tional Marksmanss match IS open to
any citizen of the United States be-
tween the ages of 18 and 60.
Shooting for the Boys.
The interest which is being created In
rms SuOCllIS tAG DOSo u Liz
country as evidenced by the U. M. C.
Co.. match, is more marked in New
York city and New York state than IN
any other part of the country. This is
due to the efforts of General George W
Wingate, president of the Public
Schools Athletic league Of the city of
New York who has been ably assisted
by such men as Harry Payne Whitney,
Edward Lauterbach, S. r. Guggenheim
and others, among them the members
of the national board for the promotion
of rife practice. Both France and Eng
land have for some years past been
making strenuous efforts to teach their
school boys the use of the rife and sew
eral years ago there was a competition
in France in which 1862 French schools
shot a simultaneous rifle match under
army supervision. Although a number
of army Officers are assigned to col
leges and schools in this country where
more or less military training is given,
very little attention is paid to rifle prac-
tlce, largely because of the expense OF
Constructing and maintaining ranges
and OF obtaining ammunition. The Pub
lie Schools Athletic league has introduce
ed into ten of the New York high
schools subtarget gun machine by
which shot is electrically recorded
The apparatus makes no noise and there
Is no expense involved in its operation.
These subtarget machines have been
contributed to the high schools of New
York city by various citizens of that
state. The league also employs Capt.
G. ". Corwin, inspector of rifle practice
of the Seventy-first regiment who Sc
lected in each school a teacher inter-
ested in the subject as superintendent
of shooting and in each class four boys
as sergeant instructors" A marks
mans badge has been esta blished to be
given to each boy who annually shows
nally adopted was 40 out of a possible
so -off-hand" but the standard has been
increased to AZ, which, fred from the
shoulder, is a very high score. Over
200 boys qualified as marksmen during
the past year to each of which the
Brooklyn Eagle presented a bronze
badge suspended from a bar. Harry
Payne Whitney presented q bronze
teams from each Of the schools and
won by the Morris high school with
score OF. $40.
At the solicitation of those inter
ested, the New York State Rife asso-
citation has included in the pro-
gramme of its matches an interscho-
lastic rifle match to be shot on July
Is, to be open to teams Of I'VE from
each college, high and elementary
school, in the United States and Can
ada The league has arranged to take
to the Creedmoor, n. Y. range, on
three practice days during July, all of
the boys who have been members. of
the team which shot for the Whitney
trophy. The league provides the
rifles, furnishes the ammunition and
pays the expenses Of transportation.
Mr.. J. A. Haskell, a director Of the
National Rife association and a mem
Der of the national board for the pro-
motion of rife practice, has presented
on behalf of the E. L Du Pont Powder
company a trophy costing $500, to be
annually contested for in this COM
petition and to be held by the school
making the highest score. Mr. Simon
Uhlman has presented a bronze fig
ure of rif1eman as the second prize
in this match. This movement Is at
tracing a great deal of attention
throughout the country and the Pub
lice Schools Athletic league has re-
ceived many inquiries indicating that
schools in other cities viii take up
the matter and in many instances will
include instruction in subtarget work
and range and gallery practice where
possible as part of their regular in
struction.