The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-24
SEVENTH AWAITS 6RTTONS.
Queen's Westminster Rins Experts Arrive
To-day for Trophy Match.

shooters are practising daily for the inter-
national rife match with the Queens Vest
minister Volunteers to be decided on October
? and , at the state Militia range at Creed
moor, J.. L., the committee In charge OF the
entertainment Of the representative Of
LondOn's crack reserve corps Ia planning a
warm reception for the English team upon
its arrival to-day on the Atlantic Transport
steamship MinnetonkA.
The visitors will be met at the pier and
escorted In uniform In an Informal auto
mobile parade to the Hotel Aston, and in the
evening will be the guests OF the officers Of
the Seventh at a mess dinner ut the Park
Avenue Armory. rendered to the teams prior
to their entrance into training" for the
contest In which the seventh hopes TO re-
cover the Sir Howard Vincent Anglo America
challenge shield which 1t lost by so narrow
a margin at Bisley last year. On Tuesday
the English team will 20 10 Creedmoor. where
IL will be quartered In the Seventh's club
house until the conclusion OF the match. after
which II will return to New York for a week
OF entertainment and sightseeing.
Col. Appleton has received an Official list
OF the eight men from whom the six members
OF the British team will be chosen. with their
rife records, as follows:
Sergeant MarEsmsn Edmund Tyrel; Age y.
Enlisted In the queens Westmlnsters 1873. Twenty
seven times q markSmsn and three the best sno,
SisIsy. FCur times IN winning team for SuIien's
prize, also in BrRsmesd Tslegrapn Dewsr and
Af isRce V SoTDoraS sGH s9Rs%.n n'S a. 9. Futon s1Hs Nv" son of
Amorer Sergeant ESl,on: the Queens Prize man
man Best shot rank and nile, Left battalion 1905.
Kings Hundred at Bisley 1905 and 1900. 81.
SsSrssns S sSUnns medal esSf. M EsSes.. 100 isca. cross '"~
MarksmAn Frederick Charles Sheppard. Age
Won SS%a eSrsssry q State for Wars priss 1905.
Msrksman G; GIL Age y Enlisted lss,
Kings prize. MddJeseI Championship bronze
measli lSOoS 81 s,ocu.r Ag,,. Enlisted ,sss.
Msrssman thirteen times. Bses, shot Of regiment.
1904 and 1905. Queens hundred. 1897. Middlesek
ssnsl' woolwicn Age .. Enlisted isSs; E, IS.
s SS2O isG.. rf FS G Pliss e es@;.a ~: smi ESG and dn r.iiss.s
G fU%dpe isSs and Hi iSos. sSo. for fTelssnd. 1904. isos
and iScs. and for Yorkshire I TSti, Ar, "a I'm.
listed 1895. Eleven times marksman Kings hun
SssS' s %aS iSSt; r sESnls sS SH%ssi aGano nssI's sssii
shot Of regiment three times; Trent range rec
ord go, so SSd 900 E IsSs 1904 g Thompson. Az.
.. Enlisted lsOa. Marksman seven times, In
Kings hundred. 1905.
Lance Corporal FultO. whose father has
for years been considered. the best shot, TN
the British militia, shot only one point below
his father on the English team in last years
match, in which his father led the WEST
minister's score with 2o2 out OF a possible
800. Sergt. Tyrell shot fourth on last years
HaIls and MarEsman sheppard we're Nth
and sixth. with scores OF 245 and 22o. All
the six contestants and two substitutes who
composed the Seventh's team last year are
in practice with several others in the squad
from which the American team will be named
on the opening day OF the match. and the
records OF the summeris work TO date indi-
cate a contest equally az close and exciting
as last years. in which both teams we're
tied after. SSS out OF a total OF 500 shots had
Among others to arrive on the Minnetonka
g.. eka UFnaNn,snuNar dalnUaNAnn uyin ha Cant
Montagu ShattOck. executive oficer Of
musketry. the team captain; Capt. Ward
Rifles. the latter a, Sr aduate or the. Royal
Military College. who served in. the siege Of
Ladysmith; and Cap.. T. p Gl"fier lieut. ktSd
Lieut., T. r Low. Lieut.. A. Moy. Lieut.. 4. =.
Southall, quartermaster Sergt, ". N. Pow
ministers. Sir Howard Vincent. M. p. for
twenty years Colonel OF the Westminsters.
VINO arrived in New York last week to repre-
ing the match. will return from Canada
to-day, to welcome his team and attend the
Col. vincent's army record covers forty
years OF service. After his graduation from
the Royal Military College he ;, served ,So for
rector, Of The London police. during WHICH
time he published his Police Code, which
is to-day the English police text book. He
served in the Prussian- Turkish War in 1877
as war GoTresp9ndent and was knighted
ny NANAk ~ ~ Ab, A"A. So E1A 80
the Boer war. in which about 900 OF the West
minister Volunteers served. When Sir Howard
retired from the active command OF the West
minister's In 1904 Lord Roberts declared the
Westminsters, as he left them, 10 be the most
perfect military organization he had ever
seen.
The plans for the entertainment Of the
visitors are !apidly rounding into form. The
opening of the Seventies drill season will
be postponed until the second week in October
to give the weekvof the match over to hos
pitality. The big regimental event Of the
week will be the dress review and reception at
the Park avenue armory on the evening OF
Thursday, October 4, the day following the
close OF the match, for which 5000 tickets
will be issued. Both teams will take time
from practice next Saturday to attend the
New York Athletic Clubs fall ga at Ira vers
Island, and on Sunday they will attend church
+ services in New York in full uniform. The
receptions at West Point and Governors
Island, and by the President at Washington,
will follow the match on October Z. 5 and g..
IL has been decided that the match will
begin each day at 1890 o'clock. each con-
testant firing fifteen shots at each of the
ranges on each day-the first days shooting
being at the 500 and 900 yard ranges and the
second days at 500 and 1000 yards. Col.
Robert l.. Howe. CommAndant Of the West
Point Cadets, will act as umpire for the Eng
lishmen. and Gen. Charles 4. Roe, Com
mander-in-C Chief OF the New York National
Guard. will referee the match. The Seventies
umpire has not yet been named.