The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-24
MARKSMEN ARE
BACK FROM THE
NATIONAL MATCH
Long and firing Trip Prevented the Boys From
Making Their Best Showing Enjoyed
Trip Nevertheless.

Vanilla Ice Cream Assorted Cakes
American and Roquefort Cheese
Nuts and Raisins Cupid Chips
Bents Water Crackers
Tea coffee
Sunday, September Is, 1907.
On the way up to San Francisco sew
eral members of the team met a DR..
Bracket, who had been in this city
,, on a vacation with his wife and fam
: lily, and who had been rather lonesome
(, here, not making many friends. He
became very friendly with the men
on the team and made them promise
TO let him know as soon as they re-
turned to San Francisco. They did
this and he set out to entertain them
all the time that they were in the
California city. He and two other
friends who had automobiles took the
members of the team all over the city
on several occasions. He gave them a
dinner at his home and in every way
did everything possible to make their
stay in California a pleasant one. Each
member of the team had something
pleasant to say in regard to his kind
ness and hospitality.
On the second night of the shoot
at Camp Perry banquet was given
to all the teams, at which there were
more marksmen present than at any
similar affair ever given in the Unit
ed States. Major Riley was seated
next to an officer who proved to be an
cid friend, Captain Harlee, who was
stationed here at one time as a mem
-x.f r fad al
All the members of the team who went
to Seagirt on the first trip, found many
old friends at the shoot and as a re-
suit there were many stories told of
former days. The members of the
team state that there seemed to be
a universal inquiry for Colonel Sam
johnson from the men who had met
him on previous occasions and he was
greatly missed.
On the evening after the National
shoot the members of the Hawaiian,
Massachusetts and Navy teams cele-
brated with a concert on Massachu-
setts street in the camp, at which
Adjutant General Drain and many Of
ficers of high rank were present. The
music was furnished by the Hawaiian
quintet and a string orchestra from
the Navy team.
The explanation for the falling down
of the scores on the 1OOO-yard range Is
that the targets were diffently arranged
from any which the local boys had
been accustomed to. They were ele-
waited eighteen inches from the ground
with a skyline underneath and the
change was hard to become accustom-
ed to. The boys did well in practise
- .sr.Nz - II hoe
took place, but in the general excite
ment, with eight teams firing at once
and the commands being given by bu-
gle calls, they did not keep up to
their mark in the actual contest.
Captain Neely left the team at Camp
Perry and went on to Boston, to visit
relatives, and Lieutenant Colonel
Coyne returned by the Canadian Pa
cific, instead of coming through with
the other members of the Hawaii con-
tingent on the Union Pacific. |
From now on Colonel Johnson states |
that he will keep the men hard at |
work on the 1000-yard range and at |
skirmish fire and next year hopes to |
turn out marksmen who will do we'll I
at all ranges. He also wishes to make I
sure that next year the team can
leave here early enough to have at
least a weeks practise at the range
before the national contests commence.
None Of the members of the Hawaii
team could take part in the individual
shooting as they arrived too late TO
enter and, in fact almost all the in
lividual contests had been completed
before the Hawaii boys reached their
destination. If it had not been for the
'act that they were able to make al
most perfect connections on the trains
hey went through they would have
been too late for the National shoot
tseIf
while in Chicago the boys of the
cam had a chance to see ball games
n the American League and they have
ome home filled with stories of the
gonderful playing which they We're able
o take in. Close criticism of the local
players and That's not the way they
10 it in the East" may be expected
t the League grounds from now on.