The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-19


tional Guard, for the selection of a
state rifle team to represent Michi-
gan at the National competition,
Saturday noon at Port Huron, after
week of hard work, and although
the team has not been officially an
nounced, it is certain that three
Owosso men have landed on the state
team, and a fourth on the regiment
al team.
Following are the aggregate
| scores of the first fifteen of the sew
enty-five riflemen who competed:
Corp. Percy Patterson, 3rd Infantry,
500, 571; Major George B. McCaung-
ma Bird Infantry, Owosso, 523; Pri-
yate Fred Hauser, LIST, Infantry, Ann
Arbor, SIG; Corp. William H. Con-
boy. 3rd Cheboygan,, 504; Major
Harry B. Britton, list, Ypsilanti,
sol; First Lieut.. A. G. Wilson, LIST
Ann Arbor, 497; Sergt. A. B. Newton
End Grand Rapids, 495; First Lieut.
M. j. Phillips, battalion adjutant,
Srd, Owosso, 1922 First Lieut.. Clyde
e. Wilson, battalion adjutant, LIST,
Ann Arbor. ASS; Bert butcher, 3rd,
Owosso, Az; Second Lieut.. Charles
Howard, End, Grand Rapids, 476;
Cook |. G.. Parmeley, End, Kalama-
zoo, 473 Sergt. j. e. Meads, Engi-
neer Corps, Calumet, 466; Sergt. N.
p. Geedy, End, Big Rapids, 461 and
Sergt. Conrad Lucus, 1st, Ann Arbor,
461.
Private Frank Mier, of Owosso, is
seventeenth on the list with an ag-
gregate of ASS, and as there are but
five Third Regiment men on the
team, and each regiment Is entitled
to six-man team to compete in the
regimental match at Camp Perry, to
be shot the same week as the nation
al match, Private Mier will undoubt-
edly make the trip, and will have the
same privileges and experiences as
the others who go excepting that he
will shoot in one less match.
The two other Owosso boys who
stayed to the finish have no reason
to feel ashamed of their failure to
land. Private Converse shot very
we'll indeed, but had a little hard
luck at the long ranges, and was not
up to his usual form on skirmish
and rapid fire. Sergt Lahman rap
ped out As at 600 yards, the second
time over the range, decidedly an
impressive performance. He kept
up his average we'll, but despite the
fact that there were fewer brilliant
hi
than last, the average was higher,
and the competitors more venally
punched. Sergt. Lahman, Private
Converse, Lieut. Tick and First
Lieut., Van Dyne should all, if they
continue to improve, land on one or
the other of the teams next year
Private Mier gave an exhibition
at 500 yards, the second time over,
that caused the cracks to sit up and
take notice. He got four for his first
sighting shot, then got into the bulls
eye and stayed there for six consecu-
tive shots-five of them for record.
On his sixth shot for record, the
Markers In the pit waved a miss, al
though Mier declared it a good get
away. The markers were inexperi-
eaced, and none of the Owosso boys
believed that they signaled correctly,
undoubtedly overlooking another
bullseye. Mier refused to be rat
tied by the occurance, which was lit
tie short Of heart-breaker, and
calmly stung out four more bulls
eyes, making nine bulls anda miss, a
total of As men out Of so. He had
total of "a men out of so. Had he
been given his deserts, there is no
doubt his score would have been so.
Major McCaunghna also showed
the boys a little something at
thousand yards Saturday. He rap
ped out five bullseyes for record on
on his first five shots, then a shift of
the wind hung him just outside the
black for four He made the neces-
sary correction, and got back in for
two more bulls. This brought him
up to his ninth shot for record.
He decided to sacrifice a 40 score
which was almost a certainty and do
little experimenting for the good of
the whole outfit in the future.
Company II owns micrometer.
which measures down to 10000
OF an inch, and all the bullets he and
his shooting partner had fired had
been measured. All but two measur-
ed 1907 Of an inch; these two cal
ipered .30075. or one two-thousandth
of an inch large. 1t would seem that
this almost infinite small variation
could make no difference, but the
fact is that bullets of that size fit the
barrel more snugly, and keep back a
little more gas, which otherwise
would escape ahead of the bullet.
This gas is consequently forced to
expend its strength behind the bullet,
and higher velocity is the result.
That was only theory among the
Owosso shots, but it is proven a fact
now, for the two bullets we're high
three inches nearer the top of the
target. Major McCaughna conse-
quently did not tie Corp. Patterson's
score of 40 ont of so, as he had a
license to do, but he got the second
high total at 100 of 45, and avalua-
h1n hiff pf g. f..t