Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-25
Five Different Rifle Shooting Tour
namenls to be IN Progress
During Month
THOUSANDS OF MARKsMEH GOING
Regular Army, Volunteers, Civilians
and Newspaper Men to Participate
In Various Events-ohio Matches
Begin August GLOW Press Trophy
Custom Originated.

WASHINGTON d. C.. July "a
From August 3 to September tne
] rifle range at Camp Perry, ONO, VIII
\ be in constant use. FIVE uistiic'
| tournaments will be in progress, Win
| thousands of marksmen. scorers alin
attendants in camp on the range Inc
program includes the Seventh annual
Matches under the National Board Tor
| Promotion Rifle Practice; the twenty
| Seventh Annual Matches or the
National Rifle Association; the Skin
Annual Matches of the ONO state
| Rife Association, the First Annual
| Matches of the Department or the
Lakes Rife Association, and the regu-
| lar annual competition of the ONO
National Guard. The Ohio Nation
al Gaurd matches are for mem
bers of that organization ex
clusively They will begin August
Is and number five matcnes-
Immediately following comes the
| matches OF the Ohio State Rifle AS
ISOLATION which are open TO its mem
bers and members of the Ohi9 Nation
al Guard, thirteen matches In all.
Next in order are the matches OF the
Ohio State Rifle Association which
| rea open to all corners. They Will
number twenty eight. making the to-
| tai number of matches of the 0. 5.
r. A. forty-one.
The matches of the Department OF
| the. Lakes r, A., which will be shot
| under the direction of the o. S. K A.
number six. They will be confined TO
teams and citizens from Ohio, lndi-
ana, Illinois. Wisconsin, Michigan and
| Kentucky, which state comprise the
Department of the Lakes.
Preliminary practice for the Nation
al Matches will begin on Friday, Au-
/ gust 90, and continues on Saturday
/ Sunday the range will be closed. On
| Monday. August 90 the National Team
Match will be opened. to be followed
by the National Individual Rife
| Match and the National Individual
Pistol Match. These matches should
be completed by Friday August "a,
when the National Association Match
es begin. They include II matches
During the period from August to
20 the targets will be manned by
brigade of the Ohio National Guard,
and shooting will be in progress from
Is to 1870 a. m. and from l to D
o'clock in the afternoon. During the
matches OF the National Board for
| Promotion of Rifle Practice and the
| national Rifle Association the range
will be Differed and manned by the
| U s. Army and the National Guard.
Markers and scorers will be furnished
/ by the army a regiment being de-
tailed for duty at s6e range. Teams
entering the National Match will
either subsist themselves or be sub
sisted at the mess hall. Congress
has appropriated $4,000 for the mess
ing Of competitors during the Nation
| al Matches
Each competitor is entitled to a
cot and mattress and necessary camp
furniture, such as stool, wash-basin,
water-bucket. tin cup, broom, ETC.,
and ample tentage will be furnished.
all through the courtesy OF the state
of Ohio. Competitors well be expect
ed to supply their own blankets and
bedding other than mattresses
| A careful estimate of the number OF
men expected at Camp Perry for the
matches include 100 Regular Army
Oficers: 1000 enlisted men. U. 8. A.,
team contestants and officers. 900; Ma
tional Guardsmen not attached to
teams and civilian rifle club members,
300 20 500; brigade o. n. G.. 500.
The prize list at the matches at
Camp Perry next month Is very attrac-
tive to rifemen as the money will be
largely in excess OF any heretofore
divided and the prize list win be much
larger. In the National Team Match
THE prizes are as follows: Class A.
$3.50. $500, and $3.50: Glass y. S350,
$3.50. s225 and 5000: Class c. $500.
5000. s175 and $3.50. In additional
there is a trophy for each and every
class and every member OF the twelve
/ teams will receive a medal in the
National Individual Match there viii
be thirty nine prizes amounting 20
| 1890 with the same number OF medals
In the Dupont Tyro match shot under
the auspices of The o. ;. r. A. the
prize money amounts TO 500. divided
| into ~ prizes. TIE Ohio matches all
carry from four 10 twelve or more
prizes. As the matches OF the Nation
al Rifle Association will be conducted
/ on a percentage basis Il Is Impossible
20 tell how much money viii be divld-
ed or the number OF the prizes IN the
Dig matches. II Is expected. however.
that in some Of the great individual
matches like the I,eech Cup Match The
total prize money viii approximate
lave or six hundred dollars and per
lhaps more. All the entrances fees iess
1.-The actual expense Of operatirg the
range viii be returned 70 the contest
ants In the y. r. A matches. for
1.-The National Matches Congress inf-
lnishes the prize money
prize Championship.
As fas a. IL anown the Press IMAM
pionship Trophy for rife snoounE.
which Il contested for each year ar
1.-The National rice Matches. - the