The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-03
SHOOTING TOURNAMENT
Series Of Events to Be Held at Camp
Perry Ohio, Next August.

FeTTJt Onlo, NeSt August.
Washington April 3.-Arrange-
ments have been completed under
which the rife shooting tournament
which will be held at Camp Perry,
Ohio, next August will be the great
est shooting event which this coun-
try has ever seen The completed
program includes the matches of the
National Guard of Ohio, the Ohio
State Rifle Association, and the De-
partment of the Lakes Rifle Associa-
ton. to be held prior to August 20.
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
it is expected there will be more than
fifty teams representing states. terri
tories and the regular services, viii
being on 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
Association. which will Immediately
follow the national match and which
Will continue for from 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
Association, for which matches several
valuable trophies and prizes have
been secured The Ohio State Rife
Association has raised more than 81
600 for cash prizes in its matches.
Congress has appropriated an addit-
ional $4,000 for the use of the ma
tional board for the promotion of
rifle practice, the bulk of which will
be utilized in increasing the prizes in
the national match. 1t is estimated
that next August the prize list will be
greater by $1,000 than that of any pre-
ceding national meeting.
A number Of new matches will be
added to the National Rifle Associa-
tion list The most important will be
that for the Marine Corps trophy pre-
scented by the officers of the United
States Marine Corps. This will be a
squadded individual match open TO
everybody, with any military rife, any
military site, any ammunition, and
any position. There will be 20 shots
for records at 500 yards and 20 shots
at 1000 yards, with two sighting shots
at each range.
Another new match is one for an
nual members of the National Rifle
Association. such membership having
been provided for at the last meeting
of the board of directors and there
will also be new individual match
for rapid fire. The conditions of the
revolver team match have been
changed so that any organization in
the regular or volunteer service,
armed with the pistol, and whose unit
is not larger than squadron or
battalion can enter the match and
regiments may enter teams composed
of commissioned and non-commission-
ed officers. The inter-cmb match has
been restricted TO entries from civil
ian clubs and military companies
which are members of the National
Rife Association. Members of state
teams are barred.
To render the national press rife
match more attractive to the profes-
sion. members and alternates of state
teams will be barred from participa-
tiOn. This match was established for
the benefit of working newspaper men
who take an interest in rifle shooting
but who have not the advantage of
practice and ammunition incidental
to membership on state teams. The
permanent Press trophy is a silver
loving cup and there are a number OF
other prizes including life member
ship in the National Rifle association
and cash
Col. John Jacob Aston of New York,
a life member of the National Rife as
ISOLATION. has given the association a
trophy for the interscholastic indoor
championship match, which will be
shot on the galleries of the various
schoolboy clubs in April. The match
will be confined to schools not giving
a degree, except that permission has
been given to the Central high school
of Philadelphia to enter team This
school is authorized TO give degrees
by a special act of the Pennsylvania
legislature and is the only public high
school in the country which does 80.
1t is expected that between twenty
and thirty schools will enter teams for
this match The Aston trophy will
cost $500 and will remain in Compel
ition for twenty years at the end OF
which time it will go as a permanent
trophy to the school which shall have
won it the greatest number of times.
It is expected that it will be later &C
companied by an endowment fund OF