Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-03
efficiency, and will be subject to further
and special inspection.

The battalion and regimental rife
matches for February gave substantial EVIL
dence Of the increase in skill of the gal
lery shots Of the guard. The totals which
follow show the aggregate Of the winning
team in the battalion match of last year
to have been less than the lowest team
aggregate OF the present year.
Team totals for 1907 follow: Third Bat
talon, 423: LIST Separate Battalion, 421; 5th
Battalion. 40: 4th Battalion, 402, and 9Th
Battalion, 395. The 9Th Battalion was high
in 1906 with a total of 379. The Naval Bat
TALON was not represented.
The following are the eligibles for the
Burkhart match: Private T. NJ. Regis,
Company D, I'd Regiment, 4S: Private G.
r. Hutchinson. Company e, I'd Regiment.
4S: Private W: B. White, Company E, ID
Regiment, 4S.
The score of the winning team in the
battalion match follows: Lieut.. E. B. Car
rier. Company L. LIST Regiment. a; Lieut..
Samuel Peacock, Company K. 1st Regiment.
40; Lieut.. J. B. Coffman. staff Sd Battalion.
A: Hosp Steward H. c. Caldwell, staff Sd
Battalion, 40; Sergt. Jackson Morris, Com
pany I. LIST Regiment, A; Private 8. E.
Bomar. Company L, LIST Regiment, "A; Pri-
waite E. L. Baldwin, Company l.. LIST Regi-
ment. 80; Private L. c. winters Company
L, LIST Regiment. 35; Private H. ]. Council.
Company X. LIST Regiment. 80; Private E.
Beale. Company K, 1st Regiment AZ. To-
tai, 423.
The winning score of the team of the I'd
Regiment came very close to tieing the
record of Al per man. When the differ
ence> In the size of the .30-caliber bullet, as
compared with the .45-callber Springfield
with which the record score was made the
total of aga may reasonably be considered
the gallery record The totals were: I'd
Regiment 464; LIST Regiment. 41S
Capt. Cookson was compelled to substitute
the Sd Battalion team in it's entirety as his
regimental team. as some of the organiza-
tons of the LIST Regiment were not rep
resented.
The score of the I'd Regiment team fol-
lows: Capt. c. V. Thayer, Company G, I'd
Brown. 9th Battalion. 4s: sergt T. G.
Lakeland. Company X. I'd Regiment. A.;
Private c. R. Hutchinson. Company E, I'd
Regiment so: Private o. De Care, Com
day. Company D, I'd Regiment, 46; Private
T. U. Regis, Company D, I'd Regiment, 43;
Private N. C. Mcdonald. Company G., 2d
Regiment. 40: Private W. Nelson. Company
/. I'd Regiment. 46: Private E. McGovern,
Company 1, I'd Regiment. A. Total, 484.
Private c. r. Hutchinson, Company E,
I'd Regiment. who made the Burkhart score
in this match. as he did in the battalion,
made three possibles (25s) and total of %
out Of 100 points In the two matches
The name of Hospital Steward Henry c.
Caldwell of the ID Battalion was mad
vertently omitted from the list of expert
rifemen submitted to headquarters.
AS prizes provided by the guard for the
company, battalion and regiment making
the best figure of merit. respectively. in
rifle practice, three beautiful bronze statues
about twenty inches in height have been
procured. They are Victory" by e. Pr
cault; "Sower," by August Moreau, and
Blacksmith, by E. Picault.
1t is stated that the company will have
first choice of the prizes, the battalion Sec
ond and the regiment third.
Military pictures are to be provided rs
prizes for gallery qualifications.
Lieut.. Col, L. H. Reichelderfer, LIST Regi-
ment, leads in the expert class. He has a
record of 4S out of a possible SO in five
shots on the Standard American target at
twenty yards, and his scores of ten or more
consecutive shots are also best.
Capt. Summers and Lieut.. Holt are shoot
ing uniformly we'll
The best work of the intermediate class
Is being done by First Lieut.. A. B. Weir
Quartermaster, 9th Battalion. This class
Is smaller than the others, but Lieut.
Weir's shooting Is good enough to lead a
much larger one.
The third class. which includes sharp
shooters, marksmen and others without
records, Is quite large, and, OF course the
bulk OF the practice is in that class, and
principally at ten and fifteen yards.
Capt. c. v. Sayer is conspicuous in this
ranges and done good work at twenty
yards. His Improvement SO far has been
faster than others and most certain.
Others who are doing well, but principally