The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12
But One Day Remains to
Prepare for the Ma
tional Shoot.
MIDDIES AT WORK
UNDER HANDICAP
Camp Perry, Ohio, a Busy Place as
Marksmen Assemble for
Match-Judges Arrive.

CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Aug. l2.-With
only one day remaining for practice be-
fore the National Rife Association S
tEeuty-sixth annual tournament opens,
the District OF Columbia team went out
promptly at O'clock Jnis morning foI
a stiff days work.
Major A. z. Robbins, the team cap
tain, expresses himself as satisfied with
the work Of the team 30 far on the
range where the battles will be fought
out.
The routine OF the day for the Dis
trict team-for the entire camp-begins
at . O'clock, when the reveille sounds.
The camp mess cali sounds at o O'Clock,
but the District shots do not eat until
G:3O.
At 7:20 the bugler sounds commence
fringr' Work continues uninterrupted
until 1870, when the recall sounds. Ness
is at J., and firing begins again at
O'Clock, and lasts until ..
The general mess call sounds "a go,
but the District delays until O'Clock
Retreat comes at g. tattoo at 9. and
taps at Il.
Middies Attract Attention.
The Annapolis ''middies" who took
the firing line here for practice on Au-
gust ,. in command again Of Lieut. \.
P. Fairfield. are att -acting much atten-
ton. The cadets walked of with sixth
money last year in the national match
in the field of forty-eight contestants,
and two of its members bagged the
three biggest individual matches OF the
tournament.
Willis J, Lee, jr., of Kentucky,
thrashed all Corners in the national in
4 q
yol cracks OF the United States in the
national pistol match. H. T. Smith. OF
Seattle, surprised the camp by grabbing
the military championship of the
United States.
Short Several Men.
This year The team takes the field
with seven Of its last years shots miss
Ing. BY the rules of the match, it has
TO eliminate four men, and by gradua-
ton 1t loses three more-a double pen
atty which no other team has TO suffer
It loses Lee, but it retains Smith. The
other four members Of the 1907 team
who are on this year are Z. c. Davis,
of Washington; c. T. w. Mayley, H II.
Porter. and r. Bradley. The two alter
mates OF last year are also back-T. A.
CoTbett and E. /. Guenther
The midshipmen do not live in the
main camp, but of on the extreme
eastern edge of the grounds. nor do
they eat the general camp mess. They
hoard at the nearby clubhouse of tie
Ohio State Rifle Association.
Officers Arrive.
To serve as range officers during the
National Rife Association matches. the
following army officers have arrived
in camp:
Major Dickman, OF the Thirteenth
Cavalry, who will be chief range Of
ffcer. which position he held last year;
Capt. r. o. Van Horn, Seventeenth IN
fantTy; Capt. Robert NJ. Carter, Six
teenth Infantry; Lieut. A G. Guten-
sohn, Nineteenth Infantry, and Lieut..
II. +. WirZman. and Lieut.. +. d. Kill
gore, of the Marine Corps.
The rifiemen's practice today was de-
layed about an hour by a violent thun-
derstorEI, which sent the camp adrift
The District team began work vester-
day at slow and rapid fire. and then
went 10 the 1,OOO-yard range Iieuten-
ant Colonel r. X Evans. Z. S. A. eX-
ecutive officer Of the meeting, arrived
last evening.