Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-08
TOURNAMENT AT SEA G|RI WILL BE GREAT

ohSts th~ AhoSN o>eafiAefs sh <sce sA> mos: commodious in the Union. has ever seen. During the summer the New York and New Jersey troops will use the range almost constantly while the marines from New York. Brooklyn and hilaPdelphia will re- hands of Captain William C. Harllee, and his assistants. The New Jersey, New York and marine teams will be made up from the men shooting on the Sea Girt range.
 The season will end in a blaze of glory with a tournament in which the states of New Jersey. New York and Pennsylvania have combined to offer a program of unusual attractveness. It will continue from September to September II. and will close the shooting season of 1909, as far 2s outdoor work is concerned. The Jer- sey coast is at it's best at this time and attractions of Sea Girt and the vicinity are known to all rifiemen.
 The principal match of New Jer- sey State Rife association will be the Dryden match for teams of eight at 200. 600 and 1000 yards with S30o cash and the Dryden trophy. For teams of six there is the Briggs tro- phy, presented by Senator Briggs, ic be shot at 200. 500 and 1000 yards. With this goes Sll0 in prizes. The marine corps. which won the matcn last year, is ineligible this year. the match being confined to regimental and battalion organizations. The company team match for teams O. fiv ecarrier medals for the three win ming teams and cash prizes. The dis tances are 200 and 500 yards The company team match (Tyro) will be shot at the same distance and the winning team will receive the ePters trophy and gold medals. with medals ct the members of the second and third teams.
 The Columbia trophy match, for teams of six will be shot at POO, 800, GOO and 900 yards. with five cash prizes aEd medals and the trophy to the winning team. The Cavalry team match will be restricted to teams O. five from regiments, squadrons or troops of cavalry, signal corps or engineer corps, or the division brigade staff or any regimental field and staff. Here again the distances will be 200 and 800 yards. There will be three cash prizes with gold medals to the members of the winning team. Tn the Gould rapid fire match the con ditions call for skirmish run and ten shots at 200 yards.
 This match is open to teams cf six men and there will be five cash prizes, the Gould trophy and med als.
 Unusual interest attaches to the Nevada trophy match. which will be shot for the first time in many years, the match having been revived by the Army and Navy Journal. in whose custody the trophy has been for a long time. It now seems as though it would be the first match in Amer ica in which the modern rifle will Je used at 1.200 yards. The conditions call for ten shots at 600. 300 and l.2)0 yards. The winner will receive the the Nevada trophy and a medallion, and there will be nine cash prizes. The Spencer match has also hesn moved back to 1,200 yards to encouE' age long distance shooting. It calls for fifteen shots per man at this dis tance and carries q gold medal pre- sented by General Bird W. Spencer and eight cash prizes. It will at- tract a large field of cracks" who are anxious to get at the 1.200 yard range. Another match is entitled the Swiss Trophy Match the prize for which will be a bronze figure presented by Hugo Neuburger of New York and Zurich, rife enthusi- ast. It will be shot at 800 yards, probably the easiest distance on tn ? range, and will serve it's purpose oi attracting as many contestants as pos sible, even among amateurs, as it is open to everybody. The Swiss tro- phy match will carry eight cash prizes
 Other matches are the Veteran Or. ganiZation team match; Sea Girt championship match, for which the medal is given by Governor Franklin 1 Fort, and which has fifteen cast | prizes: off-hand match, with four casf | prizes; Hale match, for trophy and 1 eight cash prizes; press match, foi trophy and three cash prizes; officers and inspectors match, with badge ant ten cash prizes: individual rapid fir; match at 300 yards. with five casl prizes; all-comers military match with five cash prizes; Hays match with six cash prizes: General E- ? Meany match. gold badge and si, cash prizes; N J. R s. A. troph. match, for prize and five cash prizes
 Reading match for gold medal am eight cash prizes; Lehmberg troph
 match for American Flag and casi
 prizes. together with souvenir meda
 and various revolver matches.
 The matches of the New Tor
 State Rifle association include tn
 following. all prizes being on the pei
 centage basis: Company team matcf
 three prizes; McAlpin trophy, at 2ot
 600 and 1000 yards. trophy and tw | prizes; Cruikshank trophy match, 20'
 800 and 500 yards, trophy and thre
 prizes; Seventy-frst regiment troph
 rapid fire and skirmish match, troph
 and two cash prizes: old guard troph
 match, 200 yards, trophy and two cas-
 prizes; Thurston match, open to al
 800 yards and 15 shots at 300 yard
 five prizes: New York State Rife 8,
 sociation match. 800. 800 and 100
 yards. seven shots. gold medal an
 five percentage prizes; Wingate al
 corners match, 200 yards. Wingate tr'
 phy and a number of guaranteed cas
 prizes: Roe all-comers match. 10 sho'
 at 1000 yards. the Major Gener.
 Charles F. Roe cup and eight qua
 anteed cash prizes; rapid lire mate
 at POO yards. with three guarantee
 cash prizes. members match fc
 members of the x. |. s. R. A. cply
 membership match and revolver tea match.
 The matches of the Pennsylyani
 State Rifle association, which has ne'
 CT been shot at Sea Girt before, |
 clude the following The Main Lon
 Range match. which will show som
 thing new to the rife world as th