The Washington times., 1907-08-18

Z. Stephenson, Second V. 3. North.
Fusileers; Col J. Hopton, late OF the
Highland Light Infantry and at present
chief Inspector OF small arms. viii be
the commandant OF the team: Mai. p
w. Richardson. Second V. B. North.
Fusileers. will ue the shooting captain
and Capt Lansford Lloyd D. s. O., r.
A. NJ. c., will Terform the duties OF ad-
jutant.
Sergeant Comber scored 81 out Of l05
for England in the Bisley meeting this
year for the National Challenge trophy.
Fraser shot for Scotland in the Ma
ucnal Challenge trophy, scoring "a. 4.
J. Fulton scored SOS in the Kings prize.
In the National Challenge trophy his
score for England was 81 A Lawrence
finished third in the Kings prize with
5lG. J. y. Martin scored % for Scot
land in the National Challenge trophy.
II. Ormundsen scored 3l3 In the Kings
prize. and shot for Scotland in the Ma
uonal Challenge trophy. leading all the
individuals with 103 Lieutenant ParnelI
got Sl2 in the Kings prize. and in the
National Challenge trophy he led the
English team with 101 II. r. Robinson
made 95 for England IN the National
Challenge trophy.
Work on the Stadium for the OIympien
games next year Is now In full progress
1t will undoubtedly be the finest ath-
letic arena the world has ever seen.
The length of the stadium will be loo
feet and the width 700 feet. The first
track will be for cycling and will be S5
feet wide and OF two and three-quarters
laps to the mile. Inside that will be a
running track % feet wide and three
laps 10 the mile.
Then there VIII be Il swimming tank
100 meterC long. and the remainder in
side will be turfed for lawn tennis and
numerous other contests The program,
for next years games has only been
Professionally fixed. for eacn nation is
at present considering the conditional
form
The swimming world IS interested in
the attempt which will be made next
week Of team Of four city policemen to
swim the British Channel in a relay.
It Will be held under the auspices Of
the Channel Club, which was formed
primarily with the object Of finding a
swimmer capable of emulating the feat
OF the late Captain Webb, who on
August d and 25, 1875, swan the English
Channel In p hours As minutes, and also
for the purpose of encouraging long dis
tance swimming IN the open sea
For the latter purpose a ten-mile race
viii be held at Dover next month for
4 challenge cup, presented by w. Proc
tor, of Manchester, and il is proba Bile
that this race will command a large
can easily cover this distance. notable
among them being ]. a. Jarvis who
won recent long-distance race in the
Seine, and p. Radmilovic, our present
long-dlStance champion.
Then there are Ooms, the Dutch
champion. who finished second TO Jar
Wis. and Matt Drake, of the city Of
London police.
other events, the dates Of which have
not yet been fixed. are fifteen miles
and TWENTY-FIVE miles ocean races for
the Challenge cups.
The grouse shooting season is now
with US and the glorious twelfth"
was appropriately celebrated with the
popping of guns throughout the grouse
country.
Opinions seem rather divided as to
what sort of a grouse shooting season
it viii be. Some say il viii be quite
up to the average. while others say
the winter. which lasted far into the
spring months, did so much damage
to the young birds that it will pre-
vent anything in the shape of record
bags being made. But Che abnormally
backward season has had at least one
advantage. Nesting began late, there
fore there were a considera Bile number
CT broods that survived which would
not have done so otherwise Had it
commenced earlier and they had expert
enced climatic conditions similar 10 that
they have actually gone through they
would have been decimated