Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-22

AL One OF the Interesting announcements
of the week was that q three cornered
pistol match Is to be shot at Fort
Douglas next Saturday between the
post officers, state prison guards and
officers of the national guard Pistol
practise has been neglected in the
guard since troop A was mustered out
and there arc few in the guard to-day
who wear the expert s badge. or the
number most of them are Ole rneHhcl.s
OF the troop, and they have not shot 70
requallfy since2t the disarmament OF TINS
organization. During the winter PTS
tol range was built by Captain Webb
{ comlaanoling First battery, where IN
door practise was ia ke1i up by the q r
tillcrymcn During the week several s
officers have been using the indoor
range in the drill hall for spisto' Ilac-
tjsc at small target, hoping to de-
vnlop sufficient accuracy or ainl and MI y
To at least make third place IN ti,a
meet next Saturday Much more ii Ni
this they do not expect for THIS llfst..
meet, but they do promise TO MAKE
matters Interesting after q few weeks lis
nractise on The Bonneville range
Among those Who viii particle in the
shoot Saturday are General Wed gWood,
Col. sPluinlncr, Major Williams Ga plain
Arms, Captain Webb and Captains Bas-l
sett and Barnes of the colonel's staff
The First battery and the Signal
corps, the only organizations equipped
throughout With pistols, viii probably.
begin range practise soon after the
course in firing with INC rifle ~ e.:,i',- i
pleted and teams from these two or Or
CARNATIONS will then be etsd 10
meet in a match. INVITING teams from
other orsanizat ions IN 7 ;ts guard 70 par
.ticipate. strong team could he.
picked from tho officers at sresiinental}
Headquarters and they sHill be 5espesi;sl-
~ invited to enter the match. During
The winter practise Of the battery sen
Ecral good pistol shots were developed.
antlS tile artillerynnef5pr promise to make
the going good for a | corners N the
Signal corps, Captain Bourne, Lieut.,
Foster and Corporal Pon1croy won ex-
pert's badges in troop n. but have done
no range practise since. Ca ptftins Bas-,
y ett and Bariies ali egltnental bead.
quarters Won experts abalge e'ol.,
Plumlner is repnted d good shot the
two majors, Williams and rsarillre rnlar,
each praise the Tiers worls, and mn
interesting competition would probably
result I'M; meet With many corners,
So far this year. Company &. is the
only one which has aiken a practls
march, 4 = Tactise m arches are prilnarai7fa
glys for, the purpose OF hardening men
Z for possible service and In this respect
are found VERY he pfil ms the regular
army, but for the litiumhn. II this
is the object, his e fort will iii a i1esl-s
sure be d failure, folS practise marches
Ito obtain the desired result Of harden
8 ing must be- tax en- ~ rcquent inter-
walls. otherwise q ma n soon becomes
54:tsofts'' But i'm the militia thereslsls
another object sought in practise
marches. They need not. be long
enough to harden d ina il, j, or ever, long
i enough to unduly fatigue n I'M neS
3 a 70 sure 10 interest him. r.. There " rs
nothing better III 3tlis direction. The
regular assembly for drills Interests
him. butssonletitng 4 little out OF the
z ordinary is fla better. ne marches
\ afford ali oppnrtunity to I axe up mat
tiers III Instruction that cannot be
taken up in the drill hall, CAPTAIN
Elakle, commanding Company g, de-
5clares that his company took more I'M
terest In the march and It's many In
5&cidents than anything else done since
8encamplnent and since the march not
R only the attendance at drills has I'm
fs proved, but the on commissioned Of
4icers are 1elving deeper into their
{ drill regulations, studying extended or
Z: der and many other little details OF
training that heretofore had been only
of passing interest Since the aappli-
cation of the principl set out itl8tlie
drill regulations the non-comss nave
L taken added interest In their SQUADS
Z and d marked increase in the interest
Il taken In their company by its mem
rllers IS evident. 4 sketch of the Shelf
er2 tent camp made BY Captain i1alle
sis reproduced herewith. The camp vas
pitched at 10 o'clock at night by the
light Of the bonfire against which the
form Of the sentry is dhnly si!ouhet-
4 ted. Within the dininntiNe shelter
tents the men OF the company nfe
peacefully sleeping after their long
march to Bonneville.
Governor Spry and the officers O
4 his staff We're guests OF. honor las