Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-10
SCHOOL BOYS TO
SHOOT IN MATCH
FOUR CLUBS WILL COMPETE
FOR RIFLE H0N0RS
CONTEST TO BE HELD ON GLEN
DALE RANGE
Four Institutions Approve Plans and
VIII Send Teams Onto Field.
Plans Perfected at
Meeting

The school boy rifle clubs Of Los
Angeles are to hold their first outdoor
rifle shoot Saturday, December is, on
the Glendale range of the Los Angeles
Rifle and Revolver club. Harvard
Military academy, Urban academy and
the Los Angeles Military academy will
shoot for the school boy decorations
offered by the National Rife associa-
tion of America, while the rifle club
of the Triangle Cadet corps of the
Y. NJ. c. A. will compete for the Ma
tlonal Rifle association membe
medal hung up each year for every
civilian rifle club, andNin addition will
qualify as many men as possible for
the United States government marks
man reserve buttons.
This will be the first shoot of the
school boys in the history of the city,
and marks the beginning of the school
boy movement of the National Rife
association in California.
Meeting Held
At a meeting held at the Y. M. G.
A. Triangle club headquarters Thurs
day night plans for the shoot were
completed, tho Urban boys being rep
resented by their commandant, Colonel
Kelly, late of the New York national
guard; the Harvard club by Captain
Hague, and the Y M. c. A. by Cap
tain Young. The L. A. Military acad-
emy was not represented but will enter
the shoot according to the plans.
The National Rifle association is an
organization backed by the govern
ment in the effort to make rifle shoot
ing a popular sport in this country In
line with these plans the association
is working to arouse interest among
the school boys in the use of the rifle.
Clubs affiliating with the association
are given medals each year to be shot
for by the boys.
All of the clubs have been practicing
on the indoor rifle ranges of the
the outdoor range this year. While
shooting with three or four clubs to-
gether. the members having n chance
to watch the shooting of the other
clubs. is an entirely new departure.
Urban Team Youngest
The Urban team has the distinction
of being the youngest set Of boys af-
filiated with the National Rife asso-
citation. Some of the boys shooting are
hardly longer than their rifles, but in
spite of this make good scores on
the indoor range. Ten boys Will rep
resent this club Saturday.
The military boys have an ex-na-
tional guard officer and a good shot
for instructor, in the person of Cap
tain Lockwood, but having just Joined
the association, are of an unknown
quantity as yet.
The Harvard team is the strongest
of all from past records, but this
school will have difficulty in getting
team together for the reason that the
date set marks the beginning of the
Christmas holidays and many of the
boys, coming from out of town, will go
home instead of staying to shoot.
The Cadet corps riflemen are trained
only in the use of the subtarget gun,
a machine to teach men rifle shooting,
but using no cartridges and, of course,
with no noise or recoil Their work
with loaded rifles will be Of different
nature.
The Y. NJ. C. A officials will fit up
an indoor range for the use Of the
Cadet corps, and hope to have 1t
working by the first of the year. The
plans call for school boy rifle tourna-
ments for all the school boys in the
city desiring to take part and under
Is years of age. The central location
of the range makes it particularly de-
sirable for such matches