The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-28

IT Alabama is to have a team at Sea l Girt That much has been decided up I on and the Governor has decided 10 pay the actual expenses of the team
 that is. all the expenses connected wi.a | and necessary to take part in the Il shoot.
 | The team is to be composed of esgn- | teen men and these are to be selected' | as far as possible. from the different | organizations of the Alabama Nntionai Il Guard, if the men can be found max ing the necessary record. pro-rated ac- I cording to the strength of each organi- 1 zation. If this cannot be done, then | the team is to be selected on the re- l cord of the men, lett hem come from | where they may. | Target matches are to be held in camp and practice is to be had be- | tween now and that time and upon the scores made the selections are to be had. The pro rata would be about five | to the 1st and 2nd Regiments, four to the 3rd, the latter having only ten companies and two each to the artillery and cavalry. provided they will shoot
 and make the regimental score
 I have been trying very hard recent ly to get up interest in rife practice among the different organizations here and am glad to know that have sue ceeded to some extent, that is the move ment has advanced so far that there Is likely to be a range built somewhere on the line of the street railway where all the local organizations can have regular practice and all who desire do- ing so learn how to shoot the hrag
 rifle.
 The Governor has always been an enthusiastic believer in rifle practice and it Is safe to say that he VIII do
 everything reasonable to encourage practice, realizing as he does that prac. tice is very necessary for effective and accurate shooting and that the "man behind the gun" does the work. and if he can shoot to the spot his shooting shows results. In the Spanish Ameri- can war the poor craftsmanship of the Spaniards possibly spared our President and Little Joe" Wheeler could hardly
 have escaped if he had climbed q tree
 before almost any other army in the world.
 hope the members of the Alabama
 National Guard are at last aroused to
 the utmost importance of rife practice
 and that much more attention will be paid to 1t in the future in all branches of the service.
 The Camps This Year. It has about been settled that the 1st regiment will go to Chickamauga- The 3rd wants to go and the Governor may get 1t in.
 The War Department has proposed to take one regiment from Alabama un- der the pending appropriation of SToo,- 900, now incorporated in the general appropriation bill and which Is regarded as reasonably certain to pass. one regiment means the full authorized strength and 1t is only fair to presume that the calculation Is based upon | full regiment, which Is 1,212 men. Upon | this basis of calculation, the 1st and | 3rd regiments can get in, as they both combined, with the present status, could
 not possibly get that many men before ! time to go.
 It is thought that If they both go, l they will go at different times, or if at the same time, as separate and distinct organizations under the command or | their respective commanding officers. l Colonel duMont was very positive
 about his request to go and Coloneh ! McKleroy, while yielding preference
 to Colonel duMont, was equally as anx-
 ious to go to Chickamauga, and 1t IS
 possible now, under present lights oe- | fore us, that he will get in. | The Governor will do all he can 10 gratify these most efficient officers, and | if he does not succeed in getting both | in, 1t will not be his fault. If the 3rd does not go to Chickamau- ga, Colonel McKleroy stated that his officers had expressed preference for
 Mobile, and it is probable they Will
 camp there if they camp in the State. The End regiment has about agreed
 on Selma, and 1t will go there If the
 pending details are satisfactorily ar | ranged.
 1 The artillery and cavalry have not expressed themselves, but 1t Is pre-
 sumed that they will want to so to the
 seashore and will do so if suitaple
 place for camp can be found.
 The camps of all the organizations
 this year are sure to be as pleasant and | profitable as usual.