Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-23
AT TER MANY PRIZES
District RifIemen in Competl-
ton at Camp Perry.
PUT WITH THE LEADERS
One of Fifteen Teams in the First
Glass.
HIGHLY VALUED TROPHIES UP
Changes in Rules of the Shoot.
Silhouette Target in Skin
mish Displaced.
HIGHLY VALUED TROPHIES UP
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
CAMP PERRY, PORT CLINTON. Ohio.
August En- the seventh annual compe-
tition for the national trophy which Con-
gress authorized. and for the three-thou-
sand-dollar Hilton trophy and the Bronze
Soldier of Marathon, both of which the
District riflemen used to win at Sea Grit
in the Hilton and interstate regimental
matches; for twelve cash prizes aggregat-
ing $40. and for medals. forty-eight rifle
teams started this morning, not to stop
until tomorrow night, and not then if one
of Lake Fries storms blockades the pro-
gram.
The conditions of the contest which the
District marksmen are in this year are
radically different from the plan followed
from 1903, when the match first took place
al Sea Grit. until last year. The contest
ants are now classified and the trophies
and prizes are distributed and Increased
in number so that the weaker teams have
the stimulus of possibly getting something
to take home.
TIE fifteen leaders in the match last
year are after four prizes. The list
includes the istrict, ranking ninth In the
field of fifty with a score of 3.D2o 1919
behind the winning I. S. Infantry.
The prizes are National trophy and
$3.50: second $3.50: third $500. and fourth
Second Fifteen.
The second fifteen in the 1908 finish is
competing for four prizes-the Hilton tro-
ply, which heretofore, went to the second
lis; team i'm the entire field, and $3.50, $3.50,
S22I and 500 and medals and the re-
mainder of the competitors are cunning
for four prizes-first, the bronze Soldier
of Marat hon and S3Co: second, 500: third,
Sl15; fourth. S1.n and medals That Is,
there are twice as many prizes as there
were last year and the cash aggregates
81 30 more.
In two other respects the match condi-
tons are new this year. The ammuni-
ton is not manufactured by the govern
ment, but by the private company whose
product was tested out-together with
that of the government and other private
companies at Sea Girt several months
ago by the committee appointed by the
national board for the promotion of rifle
practice, which conducts the nationa!
matches-team. Individual and pistol.
Another change-and a very important
one it Isis in the target used on the
skirmish run. which has hereto ore proved
the decisive factor OF the contest. Inc
silhouette target has been displaced ny
the bull's-eye target B. This change will
send up the skirmish scores i'll general,
and is counted Oh to help the national
guard teams in their tug-of-war with the
regulars, for IS and IS, winch on the Sill
houette target were misses, viii not count.
District Record.
The District team won fourth prize in
the first contest for the national trophy,
dropped to sixth in 1904 at Fort Riley,
where the contestants increased from the
1903 field Of fifteen to nineteen, got out
of the money down in tenth place in 1906,
with thirty-seven competitors; fell to six
teenth in 1906 when there were forty-one
contestants: pulled UP to fifteenth a year
later against fortySeyen opponents, and
up to eleventh place year ago, but thir-
ty-one points out of the money.
Members of the United States Marine
Corps-part of the Sea Grit rifle shooting
school-have been selected to act as
scorers throughout the national matches.
For this work the marines have had a
large amount of experience all summer
at Sea Grit. That the important work OF
scoring will be done better than ever in
these matches is the opinion of the
camp.
The District team had bad scare Fri
day night Capt. Frederick H. Heiden-
reich went to Toledo on a flying trip, but
missed his train on return. He stayed
all night in Port Clinton. What has be-
come of the team captain? was the CEN
trail thought of every District rfieman
until the captain landed in camp in time
for breakfast Saturday morning.