Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-16
Competition Arranged for
The School Boys
For Inter school Gallery Champ.
ionship Of United States.
Match Will Take Place Between
April 18th and Path.

Washington, D. c., Feb. 15.-(Spe-
ciaD.--An interesting competitor fol
schooiboys has been arranged by the
executive committee of the National
Rifle Association. 1t will be known as
the Inter Scholastic Ritle Match" and
will he for the Inter-School Gallery
Champion of the United States
To be shot this year for the first time
The match will be shot on the galleries
of the various schools which enter, the
schooling taking place on any date be-
tween April 12th and Gath. 1t will be
open to teams of ten pupils from any
public school. preparatory high school,
or private school, not comforting de-
grees. When the school has a club
affiliated with the National Rifle Asso-
citation no entrance fee will be charged
Other schools may enter teams on the
payment of 81. The distance will be
fifty feet and the N. r. A. target with
a one-inch bulls-eye will be supplied
by the n r. A. Each string will con-
sist Oh five shots and ten shots will be
fred in q standing position, and ten in
Il prone position, with TWO sighting
shots for each position. Any 30 cali
Dtl Illtc We uSS(t HIGH lids Sights
in front OF the hammer; any ammuni-
ton may be used. The competition is
open to oona-fde scholars only and a
certificate to this effect must be filed
with 1t. Albert S. Jones, Secretary of
the N. r. A., Washington, d. c., which
organization will designate a judge to
represent it at each school. The prize
Will he a handsome new "Champicn-
ship Trophy" to be held by the VIM
nins school for one year, and medals
to the individual members of the
teams. The National Rifle Association
now has affiliated with it about thirty
five scllpolboy clubs all OF which are
expected 70 enter the contest
The Inter Collegiate Rifle Match, for
the 1909 Gallery Championship of the
United States, will be shot on the local
ranges ut any time between March
18th and 9th. Targets will be fur
nishen by The ~ X. A. and the dis
tanco will be fifty feet. This match is
also for teams of ten bonafide students.
with twenty shots for record of which
ten shall be shot standing and ten
prone, two sighting shots allowed fc.
each position. The National Rifle AS
ISOLATION will appoint 4 judge to De
present When each team fires. Th.
conditions regarding rifles and ammu-
milton are the same as Yor the school
boy match. The trophy is the Cham.
pionship Trophy presented by the For.
est. Fish and Game Society OF the Un:-
ted States. to be held by the winning
university or college for one year ant
to bee one the permanent possession g.
the institution winning it three times
1t was won i'll 1908 for the first time ny
Columbia University, of New York
City. Colleges having clubs affiliated
with the National Rifle Association
will not be required to pay any en-
trance fee, but other teams will
be charged s. Colleges which arc
eligible by reason of atIiiiatlun are
College of st. Thomas. est. Paul. Uni
rersity of Nevada. University of Ida
10. Washington State College, Marisi
College. Atlanta, Ga, University Oh
California, University Of Pennsylvania
Delaware College State University @
Idaho, George Washington University
washington, D. c. Columbia Univer
sity. Cornell University, Harvard Uni
versity Massachusetts Institute o.
Technology. ard Yale University.