Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-21
READY FOR NATIONAL MATCH
RIFLENEN AT CAMP PERRY
WAIT FOR THE BIG EVENT.
Will Start Shooting Monday Morn
ing in Contest Authorized by
Congress-Ostrict Records.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
CAMP PERRY. August 2i.-Lieut. Ralph
Alderman won fourteenth place and a
prize of 81 in the Presidents match. with
a score Of DO. twelve points behind the
winning 3O4 Of Sergt. Brest. United States
Infantry. Lieut. Putnam finished among
the twenty-five leaders. ranking twenty
three. with $50. Lieut.. Holt made a pos
sible 50 at 500 yards. Lieut. -Farrow's ~
at rapid fire was excelled by only Al.
The Districts aggregate scores were:
Alderman, go: Putnam. $50; Forsythe.
2s4: Holt, 277: McAnaily. 275: Clauset.
2sS; Farrow. 267: Heidenreich. 264: Schri-
Yer. 3Ss: Lakeland. 263: Clauser, 80:
Brown, 252: Powers. 20: Summers. 24s;
Windsor. 235. and Cole, 919.
CAMP PERRY. Ohio. August 21.-The
firing today in the rife tournament began
at $50 O'Clock with the concluding thou
sand-yard stage of the Herrick trophy
match, with Massachusetts leading the
navy by four points,. 1874 to 1.13l: Penn
sylvania third, 1,126; the Massachusetts
secoad team fourth. 1,123; Ohio fifth
1.122; the Marine Corps. two teams. sixth
and seventh. Lie and lilo; the infan-
trys second team eighth, 1.1OS; the ma
vys second team ninth. 1.1O6; the infan-
try's first team tenth. 1.1O5: the second
District fifteenth. 1,062: Maryland six
teenth, 1852; New Jersey seventeenth.
1850 and the first District eighteenth.
with -1.O4s. This afternoon at o'clock
the final thousand-yard test in the cham
pionship regimental match was begun
Today and tomorrow are specially sci
aside for preliminary firing for the ma
tional matches. and all the teams on the
grounds which were not In the herrscf
took the short and mid ranges this morn
ing for practice. Practically all OF The
state teams are now here.
The New York and New Jersey teams
arrived yesterday afternoon in their pri-
vate cars. Because they are the only
guardsmen who have ever won the ma
tional match the New Workers attract
particular attention. Lieut.. Col. ~. b.
Thurston is team captain. Brig. Gen.
Bird w. Spencer is captain OF the New
Jersey team.
The District rifle and revolver shots will
return home this year with much bigger
pot of money than they won in 1897.
Then Mai. James E. Bell was the only
member to return victorious. He won
the medal and $40 in the state secretaries
match.
Honors Already Captured.
Already this year the Capital City Rifle
and Revolver Association has taken Sec
ond honors and $40 in the intercluh
match for the rife club championship OF
the United States: the I'd District has
captured second place and SO in the
championship revolver team match. with
a score of 919 to the 500 by Squadron A.
New York, the six-year winner, and
Lieut.. Frederick Heidenreich won sixth
money. SO. in the race for the .'imble'
don cup, scoring g. breaking the VIM
bledon record of 81 by Capt. Richard OF
Ohio, in 1903, but failing by five points
to overtake Casey, the Delaware wonder.
with 81.
To the initiative of Maj. A. p. Robbins,
80 per cent cut in skirmish fees on the
range-a cut from 81 to 80 cents man
for twenty shots in practice .Or about
fifteen minutes. When several teams
day, the Ohio range Ofiicials arranged for
1t, but charged Maj. Robbins the 81 fee
per man. Later Maj. Robbins objected
to the exorbitant fee and several team
captains Joined him in a stiH informal
protest. The next morning the lee was
announced as 20 cents.
In the Districts skirnish firing Tues
day, Farr0w was high at 50, with sum-
mers and Heidenreich tied at "a. The
other scores were: McAnally, Al: For
SyIne. o. AIQcTIndus I1Oits A/AS
land, 63: Clausel 90: Powers, 40; Putnam.
n; Windsor. 80: Brown, 81; Schriver.
81: Cole. 80; Clauser, 81.
Five Men in First Hundred.
The District landed five men in the first
hundred in the 1.O00-yard. twenty-shot
Wimbledon cup match-Lieut. Heiden-
reich. sixth; Lieut.. Holt. seventeenth;
Lieut.. Powers. thirty-fifth: Lieut.. Put
nam, fifty fourth, and Scrgt. Schr1ver.
sixty-second That the scoring this
year is extraordinarily high appears from
the fact that Capt. Casey's winning score
of 50 last year ranked thirtythird this
year.
The prizes Won in the National Rife
Associations tournament will be award
ed with fitting ceremonies this evening
on the piazza OF the Administration build
ing by the president Of the association.
Gen. James A. Drain.