The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-04
GREAT INTEREST
IN RIFLE SHOOTING
Tournament VIII Open August
9 and Continue to Sep
tember 3.
PRESIDENT TAFT MAY
SEE WORK ON RANGE
Congress Appropriates Twelve
Thousand Dollars to Feed
Competitors.

WASHINGTON, July, 3.-Mcre djS
tlnguishcd visitors are cXpe I'D at
Camp Perry, o., in August next, to wit
ness the national rifle matches than
have ever attended similar matches 4
cordial invitation to visit tho matches
has been extended TO President Taft
Secretary of War Dickinson the mem
bers of the senate and house committees
on military affairs and other distin-
guished mon, by James A. Drain, prcs.-
dent of the National Rifle Association
Of America, The national rifle and re
volver matches begin on August %. and
VIII be followed Immediately by those
of tho National Rifle association, 1t
IS not probable that President Taft will
Ind 1t convenient 10 attend the
matches. although his interest in mill
tary rifle work and in the matches, to
say. nothing of the great range in his
native state, is such that he may run
down there for a day. He is life
member Of the n. r. a. and during his
administratlon of the war department,
rude Practice made great strides for
Yard. In presenting the matter to the
president, General Drain said:
III seems sure that your attendance
Tor even part Of one day within this
period would add immensely to the sue
cess of these truly national contests.
thus making for greater rifle eff
eicncy ana increased power Ia our ma
tlon us maker of and preservcr of
peace for ourselves and Others
In addressing the senators and repre-
sentatlvcs, General Drain said in part
These matches afford the greatest
possible incentive 10 the men of the
country to perfect themselves in the
use of the weapons which would be
placed in their hands for war. Without
the incentive thus afforded, it is doubt |
fuI ~ the widespread interest in target
practice which has been growing up in |
the United States for the last five wears |
could ever have been created 1t is felt |
mat IN no other way can the safety
OF the country be better conserved than
ny tne instruction of our men in rifle |
practlce. Such n course seems to prom. |
Use the most reasonable assurances Of |
power to the nation to preserve peace !
TO ourselves and other countries. -
Appropriation for Mess.
Secretary Dickinson is greatly inter |
ested IN rifle practice. as is his Young
son; and 1T is more than probable that |
both VIII be visitors to Camp Perry !
during the matches. The national
matches proper, as distinguished from
those of the National Rifle association,
are shot under the direction of the sec.
rotary Of war, the rules for the same
being prepared by the National Board
for. Promotion of Rifle Practice. of
which Assistant Secretary of War Rob
ert Shaw Oliver is president
lhe preparations for the national
matches are on a larger scale than ever
before Approximately one hundred
regular army officers and 1000 troops
VII be stationed at Camp Perry during
The matches. Congress has appropriated
Nl2,OUO Tor the messing of the compc.
tltors during the national matches, and
the prize money viii be largely in
creased. From 1000 TO 1900 competitors
will participate in the national matches
and those of the n. r. A.. and many
more in the Ohio National guard
matches and those of the Ohio State
Rifle association and the Department
of the Lakes Rifle association. which
precede the national matches, The con
tests begin August 9 and run to Sep
tember }, when the Sea Girt tourna-
fsAnt opens.