Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-21
Large Attendance Of Distin-
guished Visitors Promised
At Big Rifle Shoot.
CADET CORPS ENTER MATC HE'S
For First Time Rcsimental and CONF.
pany Tournaments Thrown Open
To Youngsters Next Month.
lspecIal correspondenee.l

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washington, d. c.. July 1S.-IThosee
who propose to attend the rifle
matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, this
year. will he Interested in knowing
that larger attendance OF visitors
+ Is promised than at any preceding
match. Secretary Of War Dickinson
himself a good shot with both
the military rIfie3and the shotgun, will.
he at Camp Perry for several days.
Chairman John A. Z. Hull, Of the
house committee on military affairs.
Will probably spend two or three days
4 on the range while the entire mem
bership of the senate committee on
military affairs is expected at the
range for one day. The committee
Will be making ii tour of Inspection of
army posts at that time and the tin
yGrary will he arranged 50 as to bring
them to Camp Perry for one day II
possible Gen William Crozier, chief
ofsordancc, Rep.I. Il. Sherwood. Sen
ator Dick. of Ohio, Rep. Edwin Den by
Of Michigan; Captain Lcarnard, of
the general staff and Captain Kerth,
assistant shief of the militia division,
will be among the distinguished yisi-
tors. 1t y is matter of regret that
President Taft will be unable to ar
range his western trip 20 take in Camp
Perry. He Is a life member Oft the
< National Rifle association whose
matches will follow the national
matches. and as secretary of war was
greatly Interested in the work OF the
{ n, n "A. and the national board for
NY, tnf
Assistant Secretary Robert Shaw Oil
5ver Is president President Taft will
write tho winner. OF the individual
military championship of the United
states a personal letter Of congratula-
ton. The title goes 70 the marks arr s..
in the national Individual rifle match
and the presidents match com bined !
X s. CADET CORPS TO SHOOT.
s For the first time; the regimentalSl
and company matches of the National
Rifle association which will be shot |
at Camp Perry, O.,ain August next,
will be thrown open to cadet corps.
The progress made during the pre-
ceding year with shooting In the edu-
scational Institutions justties the be-4
sliefSthat i Will be only a. few years
until they are we'll represented at the
national matches. culver M litarS in
Camp Perry last year for observation 4
and practise and this yenr will have |
ii team on the ground read TO meet
all comers Cadets who belong to |
rifle clubs affiliated with the N. r, A.
Will be admitted to all Individual
in theaInter-Clubs match. Teams from
Princeton. Harvard and similar instt-
buttons, not having cadet CORPS will \
not. OF course, be eligible to shoot in
the regimental and company match es,
but individuals from such clubs can
shoot in a large number of Individual |
matches, The success of the young
$lnarksmen in late years gives the inl-
preston that ii teams from education
al institutions take to attending the 4
matches they will make the older
3rlarksinen look out for their laurels.
FORTY FIVE TEAMS.
1t is probable that not more than
8forty-tive teams representing the
states, territories and the regular sery-
ice, Will be on hand to compete at
Camp Perry this year. This will he a
decrease OF FIVE from the number last
year. a number of states which do not
have ranges or which have ranges
which need Improvement. have reached
the conclusion that for the current year
they can do more Nth the money by
improving their ranges than by send
ing a team 10 Camp Perry In many
Instances they are hard at work pre-
pairing for next year S contest OF the
81 100000 appropriated by Congress for
the National Guard, $500 1000 is set aside
for rifle practice. This sum is appor-
tiored among the states and can be
utilized for$the purchase and equip
ment Of ranges. In a few, years 1t Is
hoped that each state6Nili have at least
zone first class range.
SITES FOR RIFLE RANGE.
A difference of opinion exists as to
tho probable purchase by the United
States government 81 the Ohio rifle
range at Camp Perry, Its purchase ia
advocated because of It's central loca-
stion and because it is We'll equipped
has a north light and requires no ar
Y tificial backstops. or, the. other hand, 1
there is we'll defined expression of
opinion that Il national range should
be established near Washington. The
United states marine corps has re-
Gently secured 1000 acres of land at
Indian Head, about 80 miles down the
/ Potomac from Washington, which viii 8
II be utilized by that branch of the serg-s
lee, A number OF sites in Virginia
within easy reach OF Washington have
been inspected by army boards with u
vieWtof acquiring sufficient land for
maneuverlng and artillery fire as well
as rife practice. Ia addition to a fixed
rife range the army is DESTROYS of obs
tanning sufficient land to permit ,,f8ritie
z practice under services conditions.
Eventually tract .lf some 1000 to
$4,000 acres may be purchased, In this
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