Bisbee daily review., 1908-08-16
PERRY SHOOT BEGINS
 TOMORROW
There Will Be Great Sport the coming week leading up to the Big Event.-contestantS on Field.

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 on Field.
 CAMP PERRY RANGE, Ohio, Aug.
 l5.-On Monday morning the s.cat-
 est military shooting tournament ey-
 sr seen in this country will be in-
 augurated on, the Ohio state range.
 Already hundreds of contestants a..
 on the ground and during the next
 ten days they will be constantly ar
 irving for the National team match. The great shooting event does not
 begin until one week fron tomor. row. Meanwhile, however, there will
 be an abundance of exciting sport to keep the contestants and spectators interested, fer the coming week
 VIII be fully occupied by the matches
 or the National Rifle association, une Ohio National guard and the Ohio
 State Rifle association. The unl. matches will be shot first and wIa consume Monday, Tuesday, Wednes and Thursday. Those of the Ohio National guard vii be open oly 10 members of that organization, but all of the Ohio Rife association will be
 open to members of the Ohio National guard as well as of the association,
 while many will be open to all regi- mental team match, for teams of twelve, and will be followed by the Company Team match, the state in- diyidual rifle match, company pistol match and individual pistol match.
 The matches of the Ohio State Rife association to which entrance is linn tied, are as follows: The Hall Medal match, Bryant Novice match, Sixth Infantry Novice match, Second Brf- gade Trophy Novice match. Experrs short range, Experts 600-yard. Experts S00-yard, Experts 1,00O-yard, Lilley medal, Clement medal, Naval trophy, Novice Aggregate and Expert Aggre- gate matches. Other matches of the Ohio State Rifle association to which the entrance restrictions do not ap- py are the All-Comers offhand, All Corners 600-yard, the Hale, the Pe- ter's trophy O. s. E. A trophy. All Corners 300-yard, Buckeye match
 1,000-yard), due Pont Tyro, 80 per cent medal, go per cent medal. Individ- ual Rapid Fire, AIlComers Mil-range, Second Brigade, All-Comers Short Range aggregate, All-Comers Mid Range aggregate, Grand du Pont ag- All-Couers Long Range az gregate, and the Herrick Tropay match. There will also be a number Of revolver matches. among them Lhe so per cent medal matches at 20, 50 and 15 yards. Rapid Fire revolver match, Al[Comers Military revolver match. automatic pistol match, caval. v revolver match and the champion ship service team match.
 Of these the most important is the HeTrick Trophy mach for the tro- i Dhy presented by eX-GOyernor MyFOn T. Herrick of Ohio. This is an i'm 1 mensc and unusually handsome solid | silver loving cup costing about $500 1 and presented by Governor Herrick ! for annual competition on the Camp | Perry range. It is shot at 800. 900 and i 900 yards, 15 shots per man, and is l open to teams of eight from the army, i navy marine corps. military and na- ! val academies and the national guard |, It is accompanied by S200 casbs and | medals to the winning team, with ! other cash prizes of $100, $50 and Sx5. 1 In the other matches there are nu- [ neroas medals, trophies and cash | prizes aggresaIing several thousand | ioIIark = fs !
 On August 14th the annual matches l of the National Rifle association | began with the Championship Compa- | ny Team match, the Inter Club, Life i
 Members, State Secretaries and the ] Press match. The prizes in t4....v l consist of medals and casa ] with the exception of the Press match, l which is the feature of the day. In l this the prize is a handsome silver l owing cup presented by the press i committee of the N. B. P. R. P, | through the National Rifle assoeia- | .ion, to be competed for annually by l bona fide newspaper men. This cup | remains in the custody of the publi- ! cation represented by the winner for | Jne year while the winner receives a | replica for himself. There are sever l al other prizes in this event. the prin- cipaI one being life membership in he Natonal Rifle association. There | were nineteen competitors last year, the first prize being won by Major M. | J. Phillips of the OwosSo Press Amer ican with a score of 4S out of a possi. l ole 50.
 On Monday comes the Cham | 1ionship Regimental Skirmish match | Or teams of six, one of l he most important of the meeting. ,arrying with il the trophy valued at $500 and a number of cash pl.4es- There will be a hot contest over this rophy, as, if won three times by the | iane organization, it becomes it's property. The same day the Wimble- | Ion Cup match will be shot This is | ,ne of the most historic of rife i matches. The cup is valued at s56V md was presented by the National | Rifle association of America of Great Britain to the National Rife 4 lssociation of America for peTpetaai This match is open to sH citizens and residents of the United | States and is shot with any rifles or ammunition, 20 shots for record. at I | 900 yards. 1t was first won by Major Fulton in 1875 and is literally cosesca 1y the scores and names Of the yari- 1us winners It Is a happy custom 'or the winner to fill the cup the | evening of the contest and it holds ! about four gallons. On Tuesday, Ar-