Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-06
INTERNATIONAL
CONTEST COMING
Preliminary Arrangements for
Famous Palma Trophy
Held at Ottawa.
AMERICA VS.. GREAT BRITAIN.
Latter Now Holds Prize and VIII Sc.
lssct Team of Finest Rifle Shots
In England,

Washington, ID. c., June y1.---Pre-
llminary arrangements have been
completed FOR an International CON-
test for the famous Palma Trophy to
be held at Rock Cliff range, Ottawa,
Canada. on September 6. This
trophy is now in the hands OF Great
Britain and will be defended by
carefully selected team from the fin~
est rife shots in England. The Am
erican team 10 meet our cousins in
this friendly contest will be selected
about the last Of August.
When President Roosevelt spoke ut
Lansing. Mich, onMay 81 he paid ~
high tribute to the Michigan National
Guard and again evlnced hix interest
in rifle practise. He complimented
| Michigan on what It had done to inn
| prove the workmanship of itS citizens.
and said: Encourage craftsmanship
among our people as a whole. En-
| courage craftsmanship In the national
guard and give every chance To any
| body OF private citizens to practise In
the armories or elsewhere and give
Them all the opportunity that can BIO
given them. Put a premium upon
| Keeping up tho old American power of
shooting straight. You know in n
fight 1t is not the number of shots that
are fired. Its the number of shots
that hit that count And believe with
all my heart in peace. but In an hon
orable and just peace. We can keep
! peace pest by making 1t evident that
we do not ask peace because we are
afraid of war"
INTERESTING TESTS.
Some very interesting observations
| are contained in report OF a series
- a.E.-. n - a.
| Springfield Armory to determine
| whether 1t is possible to prolong the
| accuracy life of the musket barrel
without changing It's ballastic pualit-
| les. As result of these tests the re-
port states that without any material
improvement IN the one direction in
which we can look for any material
improvement In the length Of the ac
curacy life of the musket Is In the
use OF special, steel of greater err
osion resistancy and presumably the
same Is true for larger calibers The
improvement that could be obtained
in this way however is small COM
pared with that resulting from even
slight reduction in the pressure"
A formal contract has been made
with the manufacturers of the Colt
automatic pistol AS caliber 10 furnish
200 of these pieces for a years test.
They will be delivered early in 1908
ard be Issued to three troops OF cav-t
alary for trial in the field. The ques-
ton at issue is the possible change
from the self-actine to the automatic
COMMITTEE NAMED.
Gen. Chas. Dick OF Ohio, President
OF the Interstate National Guard as
ISOLATION. has appointed the following
committee to prepare a course for
revolver qualification TO be submitted
to the War department In time to
take effect during the present season:
Brig. Gen. william P. Hall, U. s, A.
OF the National Board for the Pro-
motion OF Rife Practise. chairman;
Col. Lloyd NJ Brett. Col. f. ]. Dim
mick. and Mai James r. Bell. all OF
the District OF Columbia and Maj. S.
j. Fort OF Elliscott City. Mo. The
committe was named with view of
it's members being able to frequently
confer.
SCORES RECENTLY MADE.
Attention is called to several scores
recently made at the School OF
Musketry, Presidio of Monterey. Cal
faptry made 30 out Of a possible 100
in skirmish run and In his record
Iuarksman's course made total OF
42G out OF n possible 500. Sergeant
Spree. Fourteenth cavalry also
student at the school made f46 ont OF
a possible 500 In a marksman's course
including skirmish run of 100 points
during which he landed 20 hits In the
prone figure without richochets.
The National Naval Academy will
be represented at the national rifle
matches this year by a first class
team. Unfortunately there will he no
team from the Military Academy. The
midshipmeT take much greater i'm
forest In rifle practise than the West
Pointers. In the annual competition
~ &. nd,I- ~. I.
Midshipman w A. Lee OF Owenton.
Ky, won the gold medal with Mid
shipman A. p. Denney OF Mountain
Grove, Mont. and w. Lee Herberg of
la Crosse, Wis. second and third res
pecsively with scores OF bs7. JOS and
800 out OF possible 500, Nidshipmar
Jules James OF GAINESVILLE, Va, has
been elected TO captain the MILDLY
rife team next year.
PISTOL PRACTISE.
Interest In revolver shooting among
the police OF the country is steadily
although somewhat slowly inereHs-
ing Saginaw, Mich. Cincinnati.
Washington, y. C.. and Savannah. Ca.
are among those cities which a.e
paying particular attention 70 this
work A. Savannah recently the
sergeants and mounted men OF the
police force have taken to firing az
silhouette targets from the backs OF
their horses while riding at a speed
OF 100 yards in ten seconds Some
excellent scores were made. The
police departments OF several east
ern cities conduct correspondence
matches, the records being taken IN
one city and forwarded TO the other
Pistol practise by the police appeals
very strongly 10 the average citizen
because OF the number OF innocent
bystanders who have suffered from
the inability OF policemen 10 shoot
straight Washington Is very for
tunste In this respect, as many OF its
policemen wero formerly soldiers or
sailors and they keep up their prac-
tise more or less faithfully.
A state competition for places on
the team lo represent Montana AT the
national IN r VIII DO held n Fort
William Henry Harrison IN that state.
a considerable number OF enteries are