The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-29
PREPARING FOR
 NATIONAL MEET National Guardsmen Every where Selecting Their
 Teams. INTEREST IN FLORIDA A Regret That the Filipino Soldiers Cannot
 Compete.
INTEREST IN FLORIDA

held at Port Huron early in July. All who have qualified as sharpshooters during the last seasons practice, or this season up to July list, will be permitted to compete for places on this team provided they have performed seventyzave per cent. of military duty during the preceding twelve months. The Michigan Commandry of the Mill tary Order of Foreign Wars have pre- sented handsome gold medal to be competed for by officers of the Michi- gan National Guard. This competition will embrace both rifle and pistol shoot ing. It Is hoped that the Michigan range will be sufficiently completed by September of this year to permit the holding of State tournament in sep- tember.
 A handsome trophy to be known as the McGurrin Shield will be awarded to the company of the Michigan National Guard having the highest degree of merit In indoor target practice with the .22-calibre rife during the past winter. Ut viii be contested for annually. The background is of rosewood while the center is of highly polished silver It was donated by the friends of General McGurrin, who has taken such great interest in rife practice in the Michi- gan Guard.
 The prospect of It. B. R. Peale, of Massachusetts,, being debarred from a place on the Massachusetts team for the National matches is attracting con- siderable attention in that State, Lieut.. Peale is a member of Company E of the Naval Brigade and under the law Sno naval militiaman can be member of any team representing any State in the Union at the national match.
 In his annual report to Governor Broward of Florida, Major John A, Dupray, U. & A.. who has been acting as instructor of the Florida State troops, says that the opportunities for men to become familiar with firearms in Florida are such as lead to the ad- mission that with proper encourage ment and opportunity to practice with the military rife, Floridians will excel in their use. Admitting therefore that the chief aim of the military policy of q State Is to provide for the military reserve while at the same time main :. taining an efficient organized militia force for emergency use," says Major Dupray, ''it will be readily seen that the turning into civil life each year of several hundred expert marksmen will make Florida rich in a military reserve force of unusual value to the nation in time of war"
 Even Arizona expects to be repre- sented at the National Rifle Matches at Camp Perry next August. A team of twenty men will be sent under charge of Major L. w. Coggins, state inspector of rife practice. As there are many fine shots in the Arizona National Guard, it is expected the team will give good account of itself. Preliminary practice will take place at Camp Brody, seven miles northeast of Prescott, which is directly on the Whipple Barracks target range, one of the best in the southwest Adjutant General Leavell has received ship ment of 10000 pounds of ammunition, targets, target frames and other range facilities.
 By order of the Michigan Legislature every National Guard officer who com manded a troop, battery or battalion when President Roosevelt was in Lansing recently, will recive an en- grossed certificate testifying to the ap- pearance of their commands, their at- tention to duty and the soldierly man. ner in which such duty was performed. ANo state is doing more than Michigan to encourage rife practice and the work of its National Guard.
 The National Rifle association has received a number of accessions to membership Among them are: Sec ond class organizations; First Regl- ment Minnesota National Guard; Sec cnd Regiment Missouri National Guard; Fifth Regiment Georgia Ma tlQidt NuQt0s IAllu Cidpss CINllldIlt Harvard Rifle and Pistol club Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology Ri lie club; Seattle Rifle and Revolver as- soeiation, South Providence Rife and Revolver club Public Schools Athletic League of New Yorw City. Among those who have recently become life meberks of the association are Major General J. Franklin Bell, chief of staff, U. $. army; Senator George P. Wet more Rhode Island; Winchester Ben- nett, New Haven, Conn; former As- sistant Secretary of War Col Wm. Ca rey Sanger; Col. Alexander R. Lawton, Savannah, Ga,; Postmaster General George von L. Meyer; T. G, Bennett, New Haven, Conn.,. Gen, Wm. Crozier, chief of ordnance, U. S. army, and others.
 Col. w. L. McGhee of Franklinton, N. C., has been engaged in completing site for a rifle range at Camp Glenn, the state encampment grounds near Morehead City. The range has been inspected by a U. S. army officer and approved in every respect. The backstops will be thirty-five feet high and should a wild shot go over the top it would cross over a swamp and an uninhabited country one mile wide, 100 to 200 feet high and fall into the shallow waters of Bogue Sound.
 The permanent camp site commits sion of Florida has made a report ad- vocating that permanent camp for the Florida State troops be located at Philbroken, seven miles from Jackson