The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-30
JERSEY MARKSMEN !
ARE FEARED IN BIG
NATIONAL MATCH
Eastern Teams Face Hard
Battle for Rifle
H0nOrs.
FRED q. SNELLEN, OF
NEWARK, A MEMBER
Lieutenant=COlOnel Tewes and
Rowland on the Firing
Line.

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CAMP PERRY. O.. July 8o-In the
biggest Workmanship battle ever
Tough out on the continent. the rattle
of rifles has begun to resound here on
the Lake Erie shore. where Ohio has
built its mammoth range.
From August 3 to September A from
1000 10 1,2O0 Of the most expert marks
men in the United States Will compete
for the great national trophy (authof-
lied by Congress-; for the $4,000 Hilton
trophy. which the New Jersey team.
with second honors. captured at Sea
Grit in the national match in 1913, aud
which it had repeatedly captured be-
fore that in the Hilton trophy MATCH.
for the Bronze Soldier of Marathon,
which the Jerseymen carried off at
Sea Grit; for the $500 Wimbledon cup.
which Colonel William 4.
Tewes. then of the First New Jersey,
won in 1905. and which Major ". S.
Martin. of the Second New Jersey. won
in 1901; for the military championship
OF the United States in the Presidents
match, which Private Howard Gensch,
First New Jersey. captured in 1904, and
for the honors in other matches in
which New Jersey has won honors. In
all eighty-three matches offer prizes
amounting to nearly $4,000.
Eastern Teams Rivals.
jersey, New York and Pennsylvania
and some OF the other States which
1a11-a = nl-aa higG IN Tho #pati1r,a match
will this year face the hardest fight
they have ever fought for the rife
honors of the National Guard. The
rivalry between the regulars and the
guardsmen, which first became rife
in Sea Grit in 1909. when the regulars
grabbed three of the four prizes. last
yea here at Camp Perry became in
tensely rife. and it has grown during
the year. Brigadier-Genera Bird w.
Spencer. captain of the New Jersey
team. and Lieutenant-Colon y. b.
Thurston, captain of the New York
team, were both outspoken in favor of
making the contest more fair by means
of l division, which would put the regu-
lars and militia in separate classes.
The regulars practise shooting all the
time, the Jersey and other national
guardsmen when business allows them.
The infantry, cavalry, navy and marine
corps teams have been at the targets
since early spring. The marines have
had a school of instruction at Sea Grit
since April, where William c. Harlee,
captain of the team, has been inces-
sanity training the hundred best shots
picked from the entire marine corps.
Jersey Team Hopeful.
Notwithstanding rather meagre prac-
tise, the Jersey team will take the butts
here this year with higher hopes of a
prize than in 1908, when it came in
twenty-second in the field Of fifty. The
team is no longer deprived of officers
above the rank of captain, which a rule
enforced last year blocked from all
teams, a rule which, however, was
speedily annulled. Lieutenant-Colon
William A. Tewes, of Jersey City, and
Lieut.-Col. Arthur Rowland, of New
ark, and Major Winfield s. Price, of
Camden, and also Major William +.
Martin, of Elizabeth. each of whom did
valiant work on the team for several
years. will again be on the firing-line.
The other members of the Jersey team
viii be Lieutenant-C Colonel William
A@ADPS u 4 AAAAANNbAls assistant inspector
general of rifle practise; Captain
Charles F. Sylvester. staff Second Regi-
nent, Princeton; Captain Adolph H.
Pfeil, staff Third Regiment, Captain
John Malcolm, staff Fifth Regiment,
Jersey City; Captain William A. Hig-
gins, Fourth Regiment. Jersey city;
Captain owen Smith, staff Fourth
Regiment; Captain John ]. Feron,
Third Regiment, Camden; Captain
Raymond b. Vanderhof. Second ReEi-
n1ent, Freehold; First Lieutenant
Arthur G. Jaggard. Third Regiment,
Woodbury.; Color-Sergeant c. W. P.
Sylvester, Second Regiment. Princeton;
Sergeant a. W. Muller. Third Regi-
ment, Woodbury.; Sergeant \. c. Mayer.
Second Regiment, Trenton; Private
W c. Dancer, Second Regiment. Free
hold, and Private Fred G. sneilen. Of
Company L, First Regiment. Newark.
The cam reaches here August 70, COM
ing in their private car.