Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-20
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of Nevada, Louisiana State Universit
and Delaware College.

| The Inter-Club Indoor Rife Shooting
League Is now engaged in an interesting
series Of indoor rifle matches. 1t Is com
posed Of a number of clubs affiliated with
the National Rifle Association, which is
conducting the matches. Each week the
clubs meet in their own galleries and
shoot q team of five men, twenty shots
per man, at a distance of seventy-tiye
feet. Any rife of ID caliber, weighing
mot more than ten pounds, may be used,
with any ammunition and any sights in
front of the firing pin and not contain
ing glass The National Rifle Association
has appointed judge in each city where
a club is participating in the matches,
who furnishes the targets and collects
| them after the firing, marks them for
Identification and forwards them to the
secretary of the association in this city.
Immediately after the shoot the results
are tie egraphed to this city and an
nounced from here. The clubs in the
league are the Port Pitt Rifle Club of
Pittsburg. Warren Rifle and Revolver
Club, Warren. Pa; Italian Rife Associa-
tioa. New York city; Winchester Rod and
Gun Club. New Haven. Conn; Birming-
ham Athletic Club Rifle Association, Bir-
mingham, Ga: Triangle Cadets Y. NJ. c.
Al Rife Club. Los Angeles, Cal: Ia
coma Rifle and Revolver Club, Tacoma.
Wash; St Paul Rifle and Pistol Associa-
ton. ST. Paul. Mimi; Seattle Rifle and
Revolver Association, Seattle, Wash.
Rocky Mountain Rifle Club. Butte. Mont ;
MI es Standish Rife Club, Portland, Me-,
and the Los Angeles Rifle Club, Los An
geles, Cal. The matches began in jan
uary and run through March, and the
club winning the most matches will re-
ceive the indoor championship of the
United States.
Il
Within he 60
places on the American team which will
represent this country in the three-cor-
! nered International small-bore rifle match
with England and Australia will be in
progress. Each country is to be repre-
sented by a team of fifty men, who will
shoot fifty shots each. five shots to the
arget. The distance will be seventy-five
feet and any position may be assumed.
Any rifle may be used not over $50 cali
Der, and any sights, including telescopes.
The targets will be furnished by the sec
rotary of the Society Of Miniature Rifle
Clubs of Great Britain, through the Ma
tional Rifle Association of America. They
will be circular. with an inner ring one
half of an inch in diameter, in which
the competitor may blacken as much as
he pleases for sighting bull This is
surrounded by concentric circles one
quarter of an inch apart counting from
9 down to l.
Hc tlS -culo VIII tdht pace Tie
week ending March IL and the targets
will be sent at once to the n. r. A. head
quarters here and the team picked ard
announced. The match will be shot in
the week ending April >, and the results
telegraphed to Washington and then ca
bled to London. The targets will also be
sent to London after being verified here.
This match carries with it the hand
some Dewar trophy. presented by Sir
Thomas Dewar. lately sheriff Of London.
1t was won last year by Great Britain.
with America second and Australia third.
The division Of militia affairs of the
War Department has announced that per-
sons holding certificates of eligibility for
commissions in any volunteer force which
may hereafter be called for and organized
under the authority of Congress are
authorized to attend military schools or
colleges of the United States other than
the Military Academy at West Point, the
periods Of instruction being as follows:
Garrison Schools for Officers. November
1 to March 81: the Army School of the
Line, the Army Signal School and the
Army Staff College, at Fort Leaven-
worth. Kan, September ! to June 80:
the Coast Artillery School. Fort Monroe,
Va, September 1 to August !. and the
Army Medical School. Washington, D.
c., eight months, from October l.
No provision is made for the attend
ance at joint camps Of instruction of any