The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-19
MILITARY MATTERS;
 GUARD OF ALABAMA
By D. w. McIVER.

"a good rfdaance and we all again give praise to the President.
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 The National Rfne Association of America will make an effort Co be inc Lcorporated and a bill is to be present- ed to Congress for that purpose. This rifle association has done much 60 pro- mote and arouse interest In ride prac- tice and occupies the game position in America that the National Rtfe Assoc .ciatfon does to Great Britain. This As- sociatfon should be incorporated and given every facility to carry on it's good work. 1t ia HOW acknowledgea by all the experts and every one. who has given the matter any attention at all, that the accurate shooting ef the rife Is the all important thing m it's handling.
 The National Match.
 The question ef the next national rife match Is being discussed by the regulars and in National Guard circles and although the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice VII not decide where the next national match is to be shot untiI January next, the matter is exciting much interest among rifiemen. These matches in the past have been shot at Sea Girt, N. J., and Fort Riley, Kas., but this year Ohio is in the lead. and if she can sat- isfy the board her accomnlo lodations are ample. as seems most likely, she will probably receive the honor The Ohio range is located near Port Clinton, O., and faces north with the target butts at the lake front. The water Is copa- paratively shallow at this point, which would prevent boats getting in close enough to be in the danger zone. The Lake Erie sheNe at kiuise point has one of the finest tb0thiag beachas on the Great Lakes. The fEtng Is toward the north. so 1t can be continued through. out the day with the faaximum light on the targets all the time. The range is twenty miles from Toledo. nineteen from Sandusky and fifty-ntne from Cleveland. Put-ln-B Bay, the celebrated Lake Erie resort. is only twelve miles from the range, while eight miles north of the range is the scene of PevFys fa- maous victory. There are many other resorts within easy distance of the range, so there viii be no lack of re- creation for the soldiers. Next to the range the Ohio Rife Association has purchased about thirty acres and by next AaguGt expects to have a fine club house on the order Of iahe one at Sea Girt All riflemen will Be interested in knowing that the Ohio range ls so laid out that there will be fifty targets at GLIA VI hAA0 sEAA3b AAttAs e~AAA HAAOAE AAtAESNof thus enabling each team in the national match to have a target of it's own and to fire at the same time and under the same conditions as the others. There will be a telephone for each battery of ten targets. the wires being laid underground. The latest types of the signal corps telephone win be used and the eonduits are ready for installation. The slSirmish field VIII accommodate fifty man on A run vfhfrh n,,u1hav can be doubled by running on the long range Over one-thind of the concrete walls for the butts has been complet- ed, and over half the targets are on the ground. They are being erected as rapidly as possible. The Aiken tar get" an Rli-steel apparatus, Is being installed throughout the range. The water supply and sewerage will be un- derground and this feature will be a model one.
 The entire arrangement win be light ed by electricity and as Ohio has new