The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-29
SHOOTERS ARE
GETTING BUSY
N. G. H. Getting Ready to Select
Camp Perry Team---Mili-
tary Shoot Soon.

The elimination shoot in the n G. III.
will soon be over and then the three
dozen men who are trying for a place
on the team that goes to Camp Perry
will be reduced to eighteen. Fifteen
shooters go to Camp Perry besides three
officials, coach, captain and spotter.
There are twelve on the regular team
and three alternates.
The final shoot in the elimination
contest will he today and tomorrow
at Fort Shafter. After that a team
will be chosen to represent the N. G.
H. in the big military shoot on Sunday,
June 6, and after that again there will
be more shooting, with eighteen men
taking part and fifteen of these will
be chosen to go to the big mainland
meeting.
The government has introduced a
novelty this year by dividing the teams
into classes according to the scores
they made last year and giving prizes
in each class. There will be three
classes A. B and C. and the N. G. H
is well down in the B class. In order
to win the Hilton trophy and $3.50 in
cash, which is the first prize in their
class, our boys will have to beat ten
teams.
The order of the teams that compel
ed last year with their scores and the
class they belong to is as follows:
Glass A-United States Army Infan
/ try, 1924; United States Navy, 3210;
United States Army Cavalry, $3.50; Uni
ted States Marine Corps, 3117; Wiseon
sin, 3073; Massachusetts, 3056; United
States Naval Academy, 3055; Pennsyi
vania, 3044; District of Columbia, 1925
Washington, 5000; Illinois, 299S; Iowa
1894; Oregon, 2943; Maine, 2914; Ohio
! 1912.
Glass B-OkIahoma, 2S44; New Hamp
shire, 2S21; Colorado, 2S05; California
279s; New York, 2773; Maryland, 276S
New Jersey, 2751; Minnesota, 1880
Kansas. 1928; Missouri, 2718, Hawaii
2714; Indiana, 2710; Michigan, 2706
! West Virginia, 2706; Kentucky, 2691.
Glass C-Wyoming, 2677; Connecticut
2675; Georgia, 2675; Rhode Island
2666; Arizona, 1856; Alabama, 1868
South Carolina, 1926; Nebraska, 2509
Tennessee, PASS; Delaware, 2473; NORTH
Dakota, 2466; Texas, $3.50; Vermont
$3.50; Virginia, 2449; Arkansas, 24l0
New Mexico, 1892; Utah, 2246; Missis
| sippi, 2245; Louisiana, 2096; NORTH
Carolina, 1904.
| AT Camp Perry they fire in three
different ways, slow, rapid and skir
| mish Slow fire at 200, 900, 500 anc
1000 yards; rapid fire at 200 yards, anC
skirmish fire, one run. The position Il
standing at 200 yards and prone at al
other distances.
The N. G.. Fl. team will be eligible
for four prizes. First prize, the Hlitor
trophy and $3.50 in cash; second prize
| $3.50 in cash and bronze medal to eacI
member of the team; third prize, $22,
and medals; fourth prize, 5000 anf
medals.
On Sunday June 6, the teams from
/ the n. G. H., Marines, Twentieth In
fantry. Fifth Cavalry and the Engineer
will compete in a twelve-man team
! shoot at Fort Shafter. The distance:
will be 200 and 600 yards. Ten rounds
| at each range.
The following Saturday and Sunday
June u and 10, the final tryout fol
selecting the team to go to Camp Perry
/ will commence. -The shoot will begll
IN AUGUST 81 and lasts till August 70