Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-25
MAKESAF|NE SHOWING
District Team Progressing in
National Match.
BIG STATES FALLING BACK
Westinghouse Advance From
Tenth to Seventh Place.
FIFTY COMPETITORS IN RACE
Three Service Teams in the Lead
at End of the First
Day.
BIG STATES FALLING BACK
FIFTY COMPETITORS IN RACE


reported at the SOO-yard butts at s
o'clock this morning for the second day
of the national match. ranking seventh in
the field of fifty. with a score of 1,4O1
which was excelled only by three service
teams. the navy. infantry and cavalry
and three state teams. Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Steadily
all through the struggle yesterday the
District riflemen kept pulling up. At the
end of the first oO0-yard stage they ranked
tenth. In the rapid-fire fight, where New
York pitched down thirteen notches and
New Jersey twelve, the District went UP
two, to eighth place. The 6OO-yard board
put up by the District was most credit
able. 1t sent the teams rank up another
notch, whereas Ohio slid back four and
New York one. The Districts 6OO-yard
scoring. led by the 45 of Summers and
Holt. was as follows:
Alderman, 20: ForSythe 43: Lockland
~: Clausel. a.; Summers, As; Windsor Al ;
Schriver. 43; Brown. 40; Farrow, 81:
Putnam. Al; Holt, 40; Heidenreich, ~:
total, SOB.
Authorized by Congress.
The national match for the national
trophy authorized by act of Congress is
under the auspices of the national board
for the promotion of riflce practice, with
United States Army officers in charge of
the range. Fifty teams are fighting for
supremacy-the United States cavalry. in
fantry, navy. Marine Corps. Naval Acad-
envy. the District of Columbia. Hawaii and
every state excepting Montana, Idaho.
Nevada and Florida, and every other ter
ritory except Alaska.
First shot in 1903 at Sea Girt with fif
teen teams in the race. the match at
tracted nineteen at Fort Riley Kan, in
1904, and thirty-seven and forty-One at
Sea Girt in 1905 and 1906, respectively.
Forty-eight fought over the range here a
year ago. The match Is for teams of
twelve. which must use the United States
service rife. model 1903, and also the gov
eminent ammunition. the latter rule
new one this year. The contest comprises
slow fire at 200 yards, rapid fire at 200
skirmish run of twenty shots and slow
fire at 1000 yards.
The national trophy and $500 cash prize
were won in 1907 by the United States
try, and the first three years of the match
by the state of New York. The second
prize. the Hilton trophy, valued at $4,000.
and often won by the District in the old
Hilton match at Sea Girt, and 500 went to
last year. to the cavalry in
1906 and New ersey In 1905, the navy in
1900 and New ersey in 1903. Third honors,
the bronze soldier of Marathon and $50.
were taken by the Ohioans last year and
in 1905. by Massachusetts in 1903 and 1905.
and by the infantry in 1904. The 500
fourth prize was won by the District of
Columbia in 1903, the cavalry in 1904 and
1907. the marine corps in 1905 and New
York in 1906. There are fifth and sixth
prizes Of 375 and $50 and the seventy-two
of the six teams are rewarded
with medals.
Scores in Several Matches.
The full score by ranges of the winning
team and the two District teams in the
regimental match. in which
the 2nd District took eleventh place.
one notch below it's RANK of last year,
it scored AZ more C32 against
1851. and in which the LIST District with
10 instead of 673 of a year ago came In
fifteenth again, was follows:
900 yds. 600 yds. 1000 yds. Total
s =, 5 c. g.: S $ 3: $ ::
s. "a pis,; Col; ssaas Ga 81 ,.Ss
A gale of wind was whistling from off
the lake when the rife teams went to
the O-yard targets this morning.
Brig Gen. William CrOzier, chief of ord
nance, United States army, arrived here
this morning.
Promiscious Firing Prohibited.
The regulations prohibiting certain
practices that prevailed heretofore in the
camp are being strictly enforced this
year. One is that which taboos the firing
of guns anywhere on the grounds ex-
cepting at the targets and from the firing
point. Last year there was good deal
Of promiscuous fouling with the ground
behind tents and on the edge Of camp by
the woods. Finally bullet hit a wom-
ans cow two miles across country. and
a member of the Ohio team was barred
from the matches. He was subsequently
reinstated. however. The penalty has
had its effect this year. The aiming of
guns. especially behind the firing point.
IS also prohibited. and Lieut.. Col Evans
has posted a bulletin directing attention
to the matter.
To keep the crowds of spectators-ri-
femen and rural visitors-from crowding
on the firing line and interfering with
the marksmen a rope has been stretched
lnirty Feet back OF the line Beyond this
no one can go unless he is a range officer
member of team or representative of
the press wearing the proper brassard.
Maj. George Henderson and Capt. Alex
ander Summers took seven-mile jaunt
Sunday morning down the lake shore to
the west. TO visit the preserve of the
Toyson Hunting Club. which has several
thousand acres Of marsh. If the Dis
tFitl representatives. na0 h3d pistol
they could have killed crane with a
fve-foot spread.
Plans for Return Trip.
Some of the members of the District
team will not return to Washington i'm
after the conclusion Of the
which Maj. J. +. Dickman
the chief range officer. hopes to have
finished by noon of next Friday. The
district team will. at all events. leave
the camp Friday afternoon, for Maj. Roll
Iins plans to show the members over
Cleveland for three or four hours before
they start for home Maj. Henderson Is
going to Rochester. n. Y. to visit his
daughter. Mrs. Benjamin TiltOn. Capt
Samuel Forsythe is going to stop off in
and Lieut.. Ralph Alderman
intends to visit Niagara Falls and then
friends in central New York.
The variety of mascots in camp is in
The Massachusetts monkey
holds the bulls-eye prize as an amuser
Indiana has a big possum. and Minnesota
a peacock.
The Pennsylvanians and Georgians have
become intimate friends. 1t has so hap
pened that for. five years in succession
they have been assigned to adjoining
streets
The rife camp at night presents beau
tiful spectacle. - There are only a few
electric lights in the hundred acres or so
over which the camp extends. The only
illuminnant is the camp fires. Last night
there was a fire in every one of the fifty
streets. An enterprising photographer
has built a SiXty-fOot tower over back of