Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-26
WINS NATIONAL MATCH
United States Infantry VIC
torious at Camp Perry.
DISTRICT FINISHES NINTH
Local Men Receive Congratulations
for Good Work.
EXCELLENT SKIRMISH SCORE
Individual Competition Begins This
Afternoon-General News Of
the Big Tournament.
DISTRICT FINISHES NINTH
EXCELLENT sK1RM1sH SCORE
Special Dispatch to The Star.

CAMP PERRY. Ohio, August 26.-The
National Trophy match was won to-
day by the United States Infantry team.
which scored a total of 1924. The Navy
took second place, and earned the Hilton
trophy, with a score of 1910. The Cavalry
ranks third. with $3.50. and receives the
Bronze Soldier of Marathon. The Marine
Corps is fourth. with 3.117.
The District of Columbia dropped to
ninth place. ending with 3,O25. Wisconsin
led the National Guard teams, with 3,O73.
followed by Massachusetts,. with 3.O56.
The Naval Academy was seventh, 3O55.
and Pennsylvania eighth 3.O3S. Wash
ington was tenth with 1900. New York
quit at 2.773 and New Jersay 2,751.
High thousand yards score for the Dis
trict of Columbia was 40 by Capt.
Forsythe.
The Districts score at 1000 yards fol-
lows: Alderman. 80: Forsythe. As; Lack
land, SO; Clausel, 81; Summers. IS: Wind
sor, 20; Schriver,42; Brown, SO; Farrow,
%; Putnam. Al; Holt, 49, and Heidenreick,
%; total. Ala.
Good Work by District.
District of Columbia brigade rifle teams,
with total score of 1921 up to that point,
began firing in the ''home-run' thousand
yard stage Of the national match this
morning, leading all the other national
guard teams and led only by the four
service teams, the United States infantry,
navy, cavalry and Marine Corps, but
closely pursued by the Annapolis cadets,
with 2.61S and Massachusetts with 2.o9S
Mai Robbins and his district riflemen
were congratulated on all sides for their
exceptionally fine skirmish score of 1OS
and for their superiority up to that point
over all the national guard organization.
The Districts skirmish scores were as
follows: Alderman. g.: Forsythe, 70:
Lockland. 81: Clausel, 81: Summers. 33;
Windsor. so: Schriver. 60; Brown, 81; Far
row. 10: Putnam, %; Holt, IL; Heiden-
reich. GO.
at 1:30 this afternoon
Gossip Of the Range.
The chief range officer assisting Lieut..
Col Evans and Maj. Dickman at the
firing point yesterday morning was Capt.
F. Sayre of the Sth Cavalry. In the pits
Capt. G. H. B. Smith of the 4th Infantry
was in charge. For the afternoon Skin
mish work Capt. w. 8. Scott of the list
Cavalry was at the firing line and Capt.
Smith was again in the pit.
The United States Hospital Corps has
fully equipped field hospital in camp.
The block of tents, in charge Of Capt H.
F. Pipes Of the Medical Corps, Is located
east of the District camp, near the camp
mess.
Camp Perry's new mess hall was not
| finished for the national matches. Only
| part of what is to be the dining room.
seating 1000 persons, has been In use.
| But the fact is that such large mess ac-
commodations are not demanded as last
year, when all the teams ate at the gen
eral mess The District of Columbia Ok
lahoma, Maryland, Rhode Island ana
West Virginia have their own messes.
and a half dozen other teams 60 out or
camp for their meals.
The advantage which the navy team
has over all other contestants In recruit
ing itself namely, its power to take
the trained shots from the Naval Acad-
deal of dissatisfaction, among the Ma
tional Guard teams in particular.
Regarded as Handicap.
Some of the team officials are outspoken
in their opinion that it is handicap
which. in fairness to everybody. ought to
be lifted.
The west. which only two years ago
cut small figure in the match, is now
telling the "effete easterner'' teams from
the National Guard that they must look
to their laurels or some more of them will
speedily go west. Washington took fifth
place in the money last year. At the
conclusion of Mondays firing, of the six
National Guard teams in the first ten,
three were from the west-Wisconsin,
sixth; Oklahoma. eighth, and Oregon.
ninth, and Minnesota. Illinois, Washing
ton and California had all outshot New
Jersey and New York.
The Georgians. who used to divide the
pot at Sea Grit with the District. are out
classed these days. Monday night they
ranked twenty-third. sixteen places (sev-
enty-one points, below the District.
The New York and New Jersey teams
will leave for home this afternoon in