The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-19
Amy and Navy News

A battle royal will be fought out
Saturday morning when the shooting
teams ofethe z. S. Marine Corps and
OF His Britannia Majesty's cruiser
/ tambrlan meet in a shooting match on
the kakaako range It was not known
at first that the Britishers had any
especially crack shots. but when they
heard the brags of the local bows. thew
| Immediately got busy with little
scheme Of their own; and, as a eonse-
.quence, the international shooting com
petition for Saturday has been ar
ranged.
Eight men on each side will compose
the teams, and there has been the
keenest kind of rivalry aroused. The
Marine Battalion has put up a SPLEEN
! dld loving cup, which will go as a
prize for the winners as a special in
centlve for fine shooting. The cup.
which stands about twelve inches high
and IS very attractive, will probably
be on exhibition in the windows OF II.
WIchman d Co. today
The names of the rifemen from the
British cruiser have not yet been learn
ed, but the men will be in charge of
lieutenant Downs, who is rumored to
be crack shot. The men of the Cam
brian are said to be a splendid aepre-
cation of marksmen, and the outcome
Of the match between them and the
y4-a1l r oh G IL.
Corps will be awaited with great inter
est. The following are the men who
will compose the team of the Marine
Corps, in the order in which they will
fire: Captain Fay, Lieut. Kilgore,
Lieut.. shearer, Private Gilliland. Cap
tain Low, Private Davis, Corporal Fry
berger, and Private Robbins.
The teams will shoot at 200, 500 and
600-yard ranges. The match begins at
$50 Saturday morning.
Just as Good as New.
One Of the veteran battleships of the
United States Navy. the Massachu-
sets. whose activities cover more than
a decade, is about TO s. into service
again after three years of rest. Dur
ing that time she has been so com
pletely overhauled at the New York
Navy Yard that she will take her
place in the front rank of fighting
ships of the present day. just as she
occupied foremost place among the
vessels of her former dav. Her reen-
trance into service viii take place
early in April. The chief improve
ment on the Massachusetts is the steel
skeleton mast. This new feature in
battleship construction is regarded by
many as detracting from the hand
some appearance of the vessel. But
experiments have proved its value, and
the Navy Department plans to install
them on all frst-class battleships. The
repairs to the Massachusetts have cost
about half a million dollars. The skel-
eton steel mast cost 10000
Small Arms Competitions.
Maj.-Gen. Bell, chief of staff, has is
sued instructions for holding the an
nual small arms competition of the
Army during the present year. They
contemplate combined departmental
rifle and pistol competitions instead of
the divisional contests prescribed in the
firing regulations.
The places at which they are to be
held are as follows:
Atlantic, comprising troops in the de.
partments of the east and the gulf, at
Fort Niagara, N. Y.
Northern, comprising troops in the
departments of Dakota, lakes and Mis-
souri,, at Fort Sheridan, I'll.
Pacific, comprising troops In the de-
partments of California and Columbia,
at the Preside of Monterey, Cal.
Southwestern, including troops in the
departments of Colorado and Texas,
at Leon Springs, Texas.
All the combined competitions must
be finished by July l, so that COMPETE
tors for the Army rifle and pistol teams
may reach Fort Sheridan, Ill.,. by Au-
gust 4, where record firing will begin
August 9. Matches of the National
Rifle Association are to begin at Camp
Perry, Ohio, August 20.
Important Naval Changes.
Rear Admiral Uriel Sebree, COM
handing the second divisions of the
Pacific feet, will assume command of
the fleet on the retirement of Rear Ad-
miral William T. Swinburne next sum-
mer. Rear Admiral r. p Rodgers
will succeed to the command vacated
by Rear Admiral Sebrees and Capt. c.
E. Vreeland, now commanding the bat
tleship Kansas, will become chief in
telligence officer of the Navy Depart
ment.
Feeding Troops in Action.
The Army subsistence officers have
made exhaustive tests at Fort Riley, |
Kan, of various devices for the prep
aration of food in the field. This is an
important matter, as it includes provid