Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-03

ent every meeting nowadays if he don't
want to miss something good"
The company has been provided with
the new rifles and the men are well
pleased and are making every EFFORT to
make themselves familiar with them so
as to do creditable wor kon the range
and at drill.
Corporal Walters is having his squad
meet for voluntary practice i'm the COM
pany room every Wednesday night and
the members are making marked progress.
The corporal says he proposes to issue
a challenge soon to any squad In the
regiment for a competitive drill in the
manual and the squad movements The
other ''non-coms'' are going to get their
men in shape also.
Company J. and Company NJ will soon
go out for a practice camp from Saturday
night to Sunday night.
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Private William b. Cash. Company X.
I'd Regiment, has been transferred to the
Corps of Field Music. The discharge of
Private William Riley. Company G. I'd
Regiment, issued in special orders Feb
ruary %. has been revoked. The follow
ing enlisted men are ordered honorably
discharged on their own applications:
Private James Med. Shallcross. Company
/. LIST Regiment; Corp. Joseph Lorenzo,
Company M. LIST Regiment; Private Paul
j. Martin, Company X. I'd Regiment;
Private William Brown. Company d, LIST
Separate Battalion: Machinist Mate, sec
ond class. Henry H. Washington. 4th Di-
vision, Naval Battalion, Tin the interest
of the service
Seaman Apprentice Maurice III. King.
Sd Division. Naval Battalion. has been
ordered discharged.
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Companies A and B. I'd Regiment. are
To fhn riA
evening for practice. Tuesday and
Wednesday they will be relieved by the
Signal Corps and Company c. 1st Regi-
ment. which will be in camp Thursday
and Friday The range will be open Sat-
urday for voluntary practice. The ma jor
Of the LIST Battalion and his staff are TO
be in charge of the range for the four
days. Shower baths have been installed
and everything is first class for the
Guardsmen.
Maj Bell. inspector general Of rife
practice with twelve men of the brigade.
shot on the rife range yesterday after
noon at Congress Heights at the distances
which the District team will fire i'm the
match with the Naval Cadets at Annap-
oils.
An effort is to be made this year to
have the Military Academy at West
Point represented in the national. rifle
matches at Camp Perry. Ohio, in August.
While the War Department is encourage
ing rifle shooting in the army and Ma
tional Guard In every way possible, even
to setting aside $4,000 of the annual
National Guard appropriation for that
purpose, and while the navy Is progress
ing by leaps and bounds. the national
Military Academy is said to be holding
back. Brig. Gen. Bird w: Spencer, for
merly president of the National Rifle
Association of America. contrasts the
course of the Military Academy with that
of the Naval Academy. Gen. Spencer
was a member of the board of visitors
to the Military Academy last year and
gave the lack of rifle practice there con-
sideration. He points out that the sue
cess of the Naval Academy last year
when 1t finished sixth in field OF forty
eight teams. disproved the current opinion
that no team could hope to finish among
the prize winners unless composed large
ly of seasoned marksmen. fsi
The difficulty at West Point seems to
be the belief that the time for this work
is too limited" Gen. Spencer says, out
IL Il were the commandant Of cadets I
would make more time, even at the ex-
pense of something else.
After quoting the report of the CON-
mlttee on Smdl-dTIHS pidStiCc diAQ tile
memorandum OF Col. Robert L. Howe,
commandment of cadets. in connection
Herewith, Gen. Spencer quotes Lieut..
Col. r. X. Evans, executive officer of the
last national matches. and who will be IN
charge this year, as follow: MANY
competitors and spectators commented
with surprise on the fact that although
onnortunity was given in orders, yet the
United States Military Academy was not
represented in the national match. IN
these comments attention was frequently
invited to the fact that rifle practice Is
more especially the business of the army
than of the navy, and that while the
siasm for foot BALL base ball. polo and
tennis, it. is absent from the national
rife match. where the Naval Academy
wins conspicuous honors.
At recent meeting of the executive