The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-08-05
S. l.. Rotter in News and Observer.

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S. l.. Rotter in News and Observer.
Camp Glenn, n G., July 2G-An-
other successful, orderly encamp-
ment Of the North Carolina National
Guard is just over here. The Third
Regiment was on the ground for a
week, breaking camp Saturday night
With it was Battery A, the field ar
tillery company, of Charlotte. Like
the encampment on this ground last
year, and the one of the Second Regi-
ment a couple of weeks ago, this was
a camp for the rifle practice and in
structiOn, and now the Guardsmen
have gone home to put into constant
repetition during the winter at their
| home stations the lessons and prin-
ciples learned here under the guild
ance OF tie officer detailed by the
War Department to this encampment
and from the attrition of ideas of
| fellow officers in the Guard.
The complete rife range Of more
than one thousand yards and nearly
thirty targets, constructed at the ex-
pense of the War Department and
| placed at the disposal and under the
care of the North Carolina Guard,
and one OF the finest ranges in all the
country, is beginning to bear the fruit
of results.
The Second Regiment turned out
this year forty-eight marksmen with
the new high-power Springfield rifle
| of the United State Army, which is
a slight Improvement on the krag,
of Spanish-American war days. Now
the Third Regiments records of the
past few days shooting showing that
she possesses no less than fifty-two
| marksmen.
A marksman in military rifle par
lance is Il soldier who has made nine
| ty-eight or more points of a possible
one hundred and fifty, firing from the
two hundred, three hundred and five
hundred yard lines, using ten shots at
each distance, the maximum or bulls
eye in each case counting five, the
ring next to the bulls eye four, the
next ring three and the next two.
The record of the Third is a big
gain over the regiments achieve
ments in the shooting line last year,
and points with no uncertain index
to rapidly increasing efficiency, for
shooting straight is as important an
element of the soldiers education to-
day as in the days OF ancient Persia
when youth were taught first of all
and last of all to "shoOt straight,
ride q horse and tell the truth" 1t
means that in the Third are more
| than half a hundred men who in case
of necessity, would know how to set
| the elevation and windage of their
sights and have the trained muscles
and steady nerves to hold their rifles
tremorless with deadly bead on any
enemy at practically any distance he
might let himself be seen. Such men
in time of action are generally posted
in selected places OF vantage to pick
OFF the enemy's officers every time
one gets from under cover. For it
must be remembered that the new rife
carries n steel jacketed and pointed
bullet for couple or so of miles with
as unerring accurac, as for five hun
dred or thousand yards. Only the
man behind it must know how to set
his sights, and that is one of the
things he is learning on the range.
Besides the fifty-two men there
were many more who came within
two or three points of qualifying, SO
that the list of marksmen does not
by any means include all the good
shots in the regiment
A SHOOTING PARSON.
An interesting fact developed on
the firing line is that the Third has a
chaplain who can shoot as we'll as
preach to the point, Rev DR.. a. Nc
Cullen, Presiding Elder Of the Wash
ington District of the NJ. f. church,
who has been chaplain for about ten
years, getting ninety-eight points,
| the required number.
In this connection it might be men
toned that Rev. Mr.. Malmckrodt,
rector of st. Peters church, Charlotte,
is an enlisted man in Battery \, of
Charlotte, having been a member for
several years. now holding the rank
of sergeant.
Other clergymen in camp were Rev.
r. {. Craven, Methodist, of Hender-
son. chaplain OF CompanyC, Rev. Mr..
Justice, Presbyterian, chaplain of the
Oxford Company, and Rev. Mr.. Lon
don, of Louisburg, Episcopal.
Noticed among the enlisted men OF
Company A, OF Lexington, was White
head kluttz, of Salisbury, president
pro TEN. of the North Carolina SEN
ate of 1909.
The highest score on the range was
made by Corporal W. 0. Wyckoff, OF
Company c, Henderson, whose, total
was 120 points. Second was X. {.
Stone, Company NJ, Durham, with
11S, and third was Capt. l. II. kear-
ney, of Company F, Franklinton
with III.
THE SCORES OF MARkSMEN.
Here are the Individual scores OF
the marksmen'
REGIMENTAL STAFF.
Lieut-Col. S. W. Minor, of Dur
Capt. A. McCullen (chaplaih)...... 9e
Capt. c. ]. Smith, HendersOn......1Oj
inspector Small Arms Practice