Evening star., 1909-08-27
LONG RANGE TARGETS
National Individual Match Fin
ished This Afternoon.
RIFLEMEN AT CAMP PERRY
Ensign Stewart of Navy Team in
Lead at Opening.
LINR0TH AND WENTWORTH TIE
District to Compete in All the I'm
portant Matches-Pistol
Firing Yesterday.
RIFLEMEN AT CAMP PERRY
LINROTH AND WENTWORTH TIE

Special Dispatch n The Star
CAMP PERRY. Ohio. August 21.-The
ttianal individual match was finished
i lfternoon at 1000 wards, when the
.rksmen went subsequent to firing at
the G0e-yard and SnO-yard targets Ensign
i;alph Stewart of the Navy team, who
had scored 1SS, led at the beginning of to-
days firing. Linroth of Illinois and Whit
worth of Maine were tied for second place
ut ISL.
The National Rife Association hoped to
start its matches this afternoon. which
are now two days behind the schedule,
but they will not begin until tomorrow.
The Naval Academy team left today. the
members going on a furlough until Octo-
ber
Pistol Match Today.
The national pistol match was
scheduled for this afternoon, immediate
y following the national individual
match, which Lieut.. Col. f. *. Evans.
the executive officer, is rushing through.
The pistol contest is shot In three stages
ten shots slow fire at seventy-five yards,
twenty seconds shot; ten shots at timed
fire. twenty-five and fifty va. DIS, twenty
seconds for each string of five shots and
ten shots at fifteen and at twenty-five
Yards. rapid fire, eight seconds 10 five
shot string.
The Same ammunition is used as in the
other national matches.
Twenty -four prizes await the victors in
the pistol contest. The four leaders get
gold medals and $50 S25. $50 and $40
prizes. respectively. The four making the
next highest scores are awarded silver
medals and $15 each, and the next twelve
bronze medals and $SO-the first four
getting SO each and the eight others
a highest fl Vv-fly
and rapid-flre SEQ. es also win gold medals
and SIS and SO prizes.
In All Important Matches.
The Districts representatives will COM
pete in all of the important association
matches open to them. The 1st Infantry
will be in the regimental team match for
The championship Saturday. and the
whole delegation, except BILLY the cook,
will go after the Wimbledon and the
Leech cup and the new cup offered by
the officers of the Marine Corps.
The National Rife Associations pro-
gram. which opens tomorrow, includes
three individual matcheS-the press, state
secretaries and life and annual members.
The press match, open to any person
engaged in newspaper business, VINO is
not on national match team, is at 500
yards for the Dupont silver sup, to be
held for one year. and for seconu prize.
life membership in the association, and
for four money prizes.
The state secretaries match, which
Mai (now Lieut.. COLI James E. Bell
of the District took in 1907, with a score
of II is a 600-yard race for 30, 80 and 20
per cent of the entrance fees.
The life and annual members match,
which DR.. w. K Hudson of New York
captured in 1907 and again in 1908, is far
the association championship, two gold
medals for its two classes. of members and
for eight cash prizes. It is seven-shot
match, at 200 and 600 yards, with any
military rifle and any ammunition. Lieut..
Col. Bell is competing.
District Team in Dryden Match.
The team which is to represent the
District In the Dryden trophy match at
the Sea Girt tournament September 3-11,
has been selected by the team captain.
Capt. Frederick III. Heidenreich. The fol-
lowing will fire for the three-thousand
dollar trophy: Lieut. Frank Alderman,
Lieut.. c. NJ. Putnam, Lieut.. Frank w.
Holt. Lieut. T. #. McAnaiiy, Lieut.. Harry
=. Caldwell, Lieut.. Lewis A. Clausell,
Clausen. The alternates are Sergt. ]. f.
Waters and Sergt. Clifford c. Gardner.
The members were selected on the basis
of their practice scores since July IL and
of their work in the national match. The
Dryden and the rest of the District shots
intend TO leave Camp Perry for Sea Girt
september l, arriving at the Jersey
range the evening before the triple tour
nament Of the New Jersey, New York
and Pennsylvania Rifle Association
opens