Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-25
LAST DAY OF THE SHOOTING
District of Columbia Fourteenth
With 2,522.
;ERGT. BROWN LED SCORE
Events Concluded With the Skin
ditions Marked the Contests.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CAMP PERRY. Ohio, August 25.-That
the United States Navy will win the ma
tional match seemed highly probable
when the teams went to the skirmish
targets this afternoon. for at rapid-firing
the navy's twelve marksmen steamed far
in the lead The navys score at the
start Of the concluding stage was 2,6T0.
Mississippi held her second place with
1926.
The infantry was third, with 2,617; Ohio
fourth, with 160S; the Naval Academy
fifth. with 2,503: New York sixth, with
1850; Wisconsin seventh. with 2,5S5; Iowa
eighth, with 2.57S: United States Cavalry
ninth, with 1914; Pennsylvania tenth,
with 1850: the United States Marine
Corps, eleventh. with 2,56S: Texas twelfth
with Ass; Maryland thirteenth, with
2,522, and the District of Columbia
fourteenth, with 2,522.
The Districts score, led by Sergt.
Browns 40. was: McAnally. 35: Clon-
ser. 81: Holt, "a: Cloe, 81; Clausell,
So; Caldwell, 34;> Brown. 40;. Schriver.
IS; Cookson, 80; Dennison, 10; Alder
man, 81. and Putnam. SO. Total. 431.
Almost perfect conditions marked this.
the third and last day of the National
Rifle team matches. The events were
concluded with the skirmish fire. For
both contests there was excellent light
still.
No Contestant Confident.
On the basis of the score at the end
of the slow fire stages last evening, nc
contestant in the national rifle match
would venture a heavy stake as to Its
position when the last volley dies away
this afternoon on the skirmish field. for
it Is the rapid-fire at 200 yards and the
skirmishes that decides the contest. And
it is here that the regulars for three
years now have whipped the National
Guard teams-the Infantry and Cavalry
in 1905 lin first and second places, the
Navy in 1907, and .the Infantry, Navy
Cavalry and Marine Corps last year.
Higher Scores Than Ever.
Higher scores than ever characterized
the national match this year. On the 200
yard slow-fire stage the Navy did 81
points better than 1t did in 190s-Massa.
chusetts, "a; New York. IS: Naval Acad-
envy Il; Pennsylvania, II; District OF
II: Infantry, %; Marine Corps. %: Mary
land. 81: Virginia, 50. At 600 yards the
increases for these teams were: Navy
"a; Massachusetts, 81; New York. IS
Pennsylvania. As: District of Columbia
IL; New Jersey %: Cavalry, 30: Infantry
As; Marine Corps. IL; Maryland, 20; Vir-
ginia. 55.
New York's Good Work.
Upon the New York team-the only
National Guard organization which has
won the national trophy, which it took
In 1908, 1904 and again in 19O5-the camp
Is keeping a sharp eye. The New York
ers came here under the same serious
handicap as last year-they have had
no range since Gov. Hughes closed UP
Creedmore early in 1908. The team never
has been together this year until 1t got
here. since three of the men live in
Buffalo. What little training the mem
bers who live at New York had they
got by journeying down to the New Jer-
sey range at Sea Girt, where they shot
over the national match five times. Yet
Col. n. B. Thurston's sharpshooters took
second honors Monday. only six points
behind the Nays 1.cs1; beating the other
service teams-the Infantry by twelve
points. the Cavalry by thirty and the
Marines by thirty.
Low Scores Of Marines.
The unexpectedly low score Of the Ma
rines came as a surprise to the camp,
which was impressed by the three months
and more of constant practice the Ma
rines had had at Sea Girt, where they
ran school of instruction In rife, shoot
Ing. On the first days shooting the Dis
trict with 1.O51, was six ahead of the
Marines, who were in eighteenth place
with the Cavalry seventeenth
The national individual match will be-
gin tomorrow morning