Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-22
TO HOLD GREAT
RIFLE CONTEST
EVENT AT CAMP PERRY, O., TO
BE UNUSUALLY HUGE
NUMEROUS TEAMS AND AssocIA.
TloNs TO ENTER
National Meeting of Shooting Organ.
izatlons Next August Will Have
Largest List of Prizes Ever
Arranged

WASHINGTON, d. c., March 21.-
Arrangements have been completed un-
der which the rifle shooting tourna-
ment, which will be held at Camp
Perry, o., next August, will be the
greatest shooting event which this
country has ever seen.
The completed program includes tho
matches OF the National Guard of Ohio,
the Ohio State Rifle association and the
Department of the Lakes Rifle aSSo-
citation, to be held prior to August 20.
August 20 and 81 will be set aside
for practice for the great national
matches which are conducted under
the auspices of the war department and
the national board for promotion OF
rifle practice.
The national team match, in which 1t
is expected there will be more than
fifty teams, representing states, terri
tories and the regular services, will
begin Monday, August %, and will be
followed by the national individual
rifle match and the national pistol
match.
The tournament will conclude with
the matches of the national rife asso-
citation, which will follow Immediately
the national match, and which will
continue six to ten days.
The whole program will cover about
three weeks solid shooting. This will
be the occasion of the first meeting OF
the Department of the Lakes Rifle as
ISOLATION, for which matches several
valuable trophies and prizes have been
secured. The Ohio State Rife associa-
ton has raised more than $4,000 for
cash prizes in its matches. Congress
has appropriated an additional $4,000 for
the use of the national board for the
promotion of rifle practice, the bulk OF
which will be utilized in increasing the
prizes in the national match. 1t is esti-
mated that next August the prize list
will be greater by $1,000 than that OF
any preceding national meeting.
New Features Introduced
Among the interesting features OF
the new arrangements is the action
taken by the National Rife associa-
ton. Heretofore its matches have been
conducted by the state association
where the matches were held, and the
N. r. A. received 20 per cent of the
gross receipts. This year the N. r. A
will conduct its own matches and will
pay back in the form of prizes all
money received from entrance fees
with the exception of the necessary ex-
pense of operating the range, which will
be very small, as the war department
will supply regular troops for marking
and scoring, the same as it does for the
national board matches.
A number of new matches will be
added to the National Rifle association
list. The most important will be that
for the marine corps trophy, presented
by the officers of the United States ma
rine corps. This will be a squadded
individual match, open to everybody
with any military rifle, any military
site, any ammunition and any position
There will be twenty shots for records
at 600 yards, and twenty shots at 100(
yards, with two sighting shots at each
range.
Another new match is one for annua
members of the National Rifle associa'
ton, such membership having beer
provided for at the last meeting of the
board of directors, and there also vii
be a new individual match for rapio
fire. The conditions of the revolver
team match have been changed so thai
any organization in the regular or vol
unteer service, armed with any kind OF
pistol, and whose unit is not larger
than a squadron or battalion, may en-
ter the match. and regiments may en-
ter teams composed of commissioned
and commissioned officers. The in
terclub match has been restricted t.
entries from civilian clubs and military
companies which are members of the
National Rifle association. Members
of state teams are barred.
Newspaper Men VIII Start
To render the national press riff
match more attractive to the profes
sion, members and alternates of state
teams will be barred from participa
ton. This match was established fol
the benefit of working newspaper mer
who take an interest in rifle shooting
but who have not the advantages O.
ataJ e.
membership on state teams. The per
manent press trophy is a magnificen
silver loving cup. and there are mum
Der of other prizes, including life mem
bership In the National Rifle associa
ton and cash.
Col. John Jacob Aston of New York
a life member OF the National Rife as
ISOLATION, has given the association
trophy for the interscholastic indoor
championship match, which will bt
shot on the galleries of the various
schoolboy clubs in April. The mattel
will be confined to schools not giving {
degree, except that permission has beer
given to the Central high school O.
Philadelphia to enter a team. Thu
school Is authorized to give degrees b,
special act of the Pennsylvania legis
lature, and is the only public school il
the country which does so. 1t Is ex
pected that between twenty and thirt.
schools will enter teams for this match
The Astor trophy will cost $500, an(
will remain in competition for twenty
years. at the end of which time 1T viii
go as a permanent trophy to the schoo
which shall have won it the creates
number of times. 1t is expected that i
will be later accompanied by an en-
dowment fund of $1,000 to furnish the
medals for the match.
Through the courtesy of the state o.
New Jersey the intercollegiate outdoor
championship rifle matches will be helc
on the famous Sea Grit range some
time in June. This contest is for teams
Of six. the prize being a magnihcent
trophy in the form of shield. 1t was
won in 1905 by Princeton university
and in 1906 and 1908 by George Wash
ington university There was no con
test in 1907. In 1908 it was shot on the
Massachusetts, range at Wakefield
among the competing teams being those
from Harvard university, University o.
Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts
institute of Technology. 1t is expected
there will be at least ten entries in tn;