The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-25
QUEENS WESTMINSTERS HERE
BRITISH MARKSMEN ARRIVE FOR
RIFLE MATCH AT CREEDMOOR.
They VIII Face The Seventh Regimens
Team. Return for the Vincent Trophy
Contest At Bisley Last Year-visit
Grants Tomb and Lay wreath There.

Grants Tomb and Lay wreath There.
The rife team Of the Queens Westmin-
sters arrived yesterday from London for
a match with a team Of the Seventh Regi-
[ ment. They defeated the New York men
at Bisley last year when a team Of the Sew
enth Regiment visited their quarters. This
is a return visit, and the British volunteers
hope to again walk away with the laurels
OF victory.
They arrived on the steamship Mime
tonka. and that vessel as II steamed up the
harbor Hew E big gray flag at the fore on
which wa q red portcullis and the words
Queens Westminster" The trophy for
which these two teams will shoot is a shield
presented by Sir Howard Vincent. who for
twenty years was Colonel Of the regiment.
Sir Henry came across the Atlantic ahead
Of the team and has been in Canada. He
arrived in New York yesterday and will
represent Col. Trollope as honorary Colonel
and will have charge of the team. Sir
Henry vent down the bay and boarded the
Minnetonka at Quarantine. He was well
pleased when he heard that the Britishers
all were well.
AT the pier at the foot Of Houston street
several members OF the Seventh Regiment
were on hand to welcome the visitors. In
the party were Major Fiske, Capt. Tous-
saint. Capt. Mclean, Capt. McAlpin, Lieut..
Wall, Lieut.. Uhl and Walter Strouthers.
Az soon as the visi tors had got clear Of
the customs inspectors they were escorted
to the Hotel Aston, which will be their
headquarters while in this city, and their
room will be the Nimrod room. Their
flag will fly over the hotel VIII lie the men
are there.
1t did not take long for them to become
quite at home in their new quarters. There
was an informal reception which lasted
nearly all day. After luncheon the men
went for a drive about the city. and at 4
o'clock fetched up at Grants Toni on
Riverside Drive. They had brought with
them a wreath Of English oak nd laurel
entvined with the British Union Jack,
and this wreath was laid on the tomb.
It bore this inscription:
To the honoTed memory Of Gen. Ulysses
s. Grant, Rifieman, Patriot, Statesman,
from the Queens Westminster Volunteers
OF his Britannia Majesty Edward VII. the
Peacemaker. Let There Be Peace There
is peace between all the Anglo-Saxon
races. May it endure for ever.
In the evening the V listing rifemen
received their friends informally at the
hotel. and to-day they will begin their
practice at Creedmoor, where the Seventh
Regiment has extended to them the privi-
leges OF their clubhouse. Tonight they
will be entertained at a mess dinner in the
Seventh Regiment Armory.
The match is to be shot on October ? and
s. and until that is settled things will be
as quiet as possible for the contestants on
both sides so that they can get in the best
r0aafhlA Qhan0 Each ndmhQT nf tho
can OF six will have Is shots at each Of
the four ranges. On the first day they will
shoot from the 500 and 900 yard mark
and on the second day from the 800 a nd
1000 yard mark. Col. Robert l.. Howe.
Commandant at West Point, will act as
umpire for the Englishmen and Gen. Charles
F. Roe will referee the match.
After the question OF supremacy has
been settled the visitors will be entertained
continuously by the members of the Seventh
Regiment. There will be a dress review
and reception at the armory, after which
the visitors will be taken to West Point,
Governors Island n to Washington,
where they will be received by the Presi-
dent. The dates for these affairs are Octo-
Der I. S and 9. Next Saturday the team
will go to Travers Island to see the fall
games Of the New York Athletic Club and
on Sunday will attend church in this city
in full uniform.
Eight crack shots have been brought over,
and from these the six to a part in the
match will he selected These eight are
Sergeant Marksman Edmund Tyrrell. Lance
Corporal Marksman A. G. Fulton, Marksman
Frederick Charles Sheppard, Marksman c.
Gill, Marksman H. Stocker, Marksman r.
de Rupe Roche, Bugler Marksman W. A.
Halls and Marksman Frank G Thompson.
OF these Fulton, Tyrrell, Sheppard and
Halls were members of last years VIC
torious team.
The other members Of the British party
are Capt. Montagu Shattock. executive
officer Of musketry, the team captain; Capt.
f. F. Ward, and Capt. NJ. l.. Porter of the
Kings Royal Rifles, the latter a graduate
Of the Royal Military College, who served in
the siege of Ladysmith Capt. F.. B. CHASER,
Lieut.. Stanley C. Probyn, Lieut.. F.. r. Bird,
Lieut.. T. r. Low. Lieut.. A.. Moy. Lieut.. A. f.
Southall, quartermaster; Sergt. W. NJ.
Powers and Rifieman II. A. Schmitt, all Of
the Westminsters
The members Of the team said that the
trip was uneventful. we had splendid
weather all the way" said one Of them.
There is nothing else TO tell you Of the
trip except that the ships ompan and the
paseen gers showed us the greatest kindness
and-oh, yes-all the American women on
board hoped we would win"