Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
NATIONAL RIFLE MATCHES
Arrangements for the Great TOurna.
ment Are Now Complete.
THREE WEEKS OF SOLID SHOOTING
Camp Perry Range 60 witness GREAT
est Contest of Marksman.hip
Ever PuIIed on Under Com
dttions of Peace.

rangements have been completed under
which the rifle Shooting tournament. which
VIII be held at Camp Perry. o., next Az
gust, will be the greatest shooting event
which this country has ever seen. The
completed program includes the matches
or the National Guard Of Ohio. the Ohio
state Rifle association and the Department
OF thu Lakes Rifle association, to be held
prior to August % August 20 and p will
be set aside for practice for the great ma
tional matches which are conducted under
the auspices Of the War department and
the National Board for Promotion Of Rifle
Practice. The national team match. in
which It is expected there will be more
than fifty teams representing states. terri
tories and the regular services. will begin
or Monday, August %. and will be fol-
lowed by the national Individual rifle
match and the national pistol match.
The tournament will conclude with
the matches OF the National Rifle associa-
ton. which will Immediately follow the
national match, and which will continue
for from six TO ten days. The whole pro-
gram will cover about three weeks solid
shooting. This will he the occasion OF the
first meeting Of the Department of the
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several valuable trophies and prizes have
been secured. The Ohio State Rifle assoc
citation has raised moro than 5000 for cash
prizes in its matches. Congress has ap-
propriated an additional 1900 for the use
OF the National Board for the Promotion
Of Rifle Practice. the bulk OF which will
be utilized in increasing the prizes in the
national match. IT is estimated that next
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5000 than that OF any preceding national
meeting.
Some Novel Features.
Among the interesting features Of the
new arrangements is the action taken by
the National Rifle association. Heretofore
it's matches nave been conducted by the
state association where the matches were
held and the National Rifle association
received 20 per cent of the gross receipts.
This year the National Rifle association
will conduct it's own matches and will pay
back in the form of prizes all money re-
ceived from entrance fees. with the ex-
ception of the necessary expense of operat-
as the Wal department will supply regular
troops for marking and scoring. the same
as II does for the national board matches.
A number of new matches will be added
to the National Rifle association list. The
most important will be that for the Marine
Corps trophy. presented by the officers of
the United States Marine corps, This will
he a squadded individual match, open TO
everybody, with any military rifle. any
military sight, any ammunition and any
position. There will be twenty shots for
records at 600 yards and twenty shots at
100 yards. with two sighting shots at each
range.
Another new match is one for annual
members of the National Rifle association,
such membership having been provided for
at the last meeting of the board of diret-
tors, and there will also be a new indi-
viduaI match for rapid fire. The conditions
OF the revolver team match have been
changed so that any organization in the
regular or volunteer service, armed with
the pistol. and whose unit is net larger
than a squadron or battalion can enter
the match, and regiments may enter teams
composed of commissioned and non-com-
missioncd officers. The inter-club match
has been restricted to entries from civilian
clubs and military companies which are
ing the range, which will be very small.
members OF the National Rifle association.
Members OF state, teams are barred.
To render the national press rifle match
more attractive to the profession, members
and alternates OF state teams will be barred
from participation. This match was estab-
lished for the benefit of working newspaper
men who take an interest in rifle shooting.
but who have not the advantages OF prac-
tice and Ammunition incidental to member
ship on state teams. The permanent press
trophy is a magnificent silver loving cup.
and there are a number of other prizes.
including life membership in the National
Rifle association and cash.
For the school Boys.
Colonel John Jacob Aston of New York,
a life member of the National Rifle aaso-
citation. has given the association a trophy
for the interscholastic indoor championship
match. which will be shot on the galleries
of the various sehoolboy clubs in April,
The match will be confined to schools not
giving a degree, except that permission
has been given to the Central High school
OF Philadelphia TO enter a team. This
school ia authorized to give degrees by a
special act of the Pennsylvania legislature,
and is the only public high school In the
country which does so. 1t is expected that
between twenty and thirty schools will
enter teams for this match. The AstDr
trophy will cost $500 and VIII remain in
competition for twenty years, at the end
of which time II will go as a permanent
trophy to the school which shall have won
it the greatest number of lines. 1t is ex-
peCted that IL win be later accompanied by
an endowment fund Of $1,000 to furnish the
medals for the match.
Through the courtesy OF the state Of New
Jersey the intercollegiate outdoor cham
pionship rifle matches will be held on the
famous Sea Girt range some time in June.
This contest is for teams OF six, the prize
being a magnificnet trophy in the form OF
a shield. II was won in 1905 by Princeton
university and in 1906 and 1905 by George
Washington university. There was no con-
test in 1907. In 1905 it was shot on the
Massachusetts, range at Wakefield, among
the competing teams being those from
Harvard university, University Of Pennsyl-
yania and the Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology. II Is expected there viii be
at least ten entries In the match In June.
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married Mrs. Hulda Dobler. his laundress
and woman OF all work. The bridegroom