The Washington times., 1910-08-16
DISTRICT SOLDIERS
IN FEATURE SHOOT
Regimental Teams Take TO
Range at Camp
Perry, Ohio.

CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Aug. 15.-On
the second days card OF the National
Rife Associations tournament are the
Coward stages Of the championship
regimental match, IN which the First
and Second District are competing, and
Of the Presidents match, and three new
conIests-the Evans service skiFmish.
the championship company team, and
the lonE-range individual tyro. The
Evans match, which was started last
year by Lieut. Col R K Evans, Cen
eraI staff. L s a, the executive CT
fcer Of the matches, IS the most spec
tacuIar event Of the shoot, and one OF
the most popular
Last year, when the District team
came near killing the L. 5. Infantry
team and winning the battle, the
camp lined up on the sidelines and
cheered as at a football game. Be
ginning back Of the L,200-yard line,
teams Of eigilt-twO teams running to
gether-fire at their opponents targets.
when a target is hit, an enemy"
drops. The team having the most sur
vivors at she end Of the run IS the
winner.
The District has figured large in the
history Of the championship company
II
Regimeat, won It in 103 and 1904; Com
pauy {. sixth Battalion, in 1902. Corr
pany A, sixth Battalion. IN 1901 and
1900 The Marine Corps was victor in
1908. and Company F, Fist Minnesota
came out of the West and took the
Championship last year
The District teams nearest neighbors
in the big camp are the New jersey
men. who are Immediately at tbs right.
Missouri in front and the Hawaiians
in the rear
The District rifemen's greatest camp
luxury this year are three shower
baths-an innovation on the Camp Perry
range They are only a block from the
District street"
A new flag floats al the end Of the
District street" Instead Of the brigade
pennant that has fiOated over so many
victories, is a ten-foot red-and-white
pennant having the words District
Rife Team"
On the S00-yard stage Of the Leech
match cup- Captain Brian, Lieutenant
Alderman and Lieutenant HOCtif- OF the
District second pOsSibles. ranking sew
enty- siSty-siXth. and sixty seventh. re
seventy-One pOssibles- Private FebeT
scored 3, Lieutenant Powers, 32 The
District scores at 80 and 200 yards IN the
Presidents match follow
Captain COOksOn, -. Private I>ehr 2.
Corporal Schmidt, 43; Captain Heiden-
rich, Il; Lieutenant ausel, n; Cor
DOral FoTsythe, IS; Lieutenant Alder
man. -; Private Clouse- -; Lieutenant
Powers, y; Lieutenant TIolt, A: Private
Groome, q; Sergeant Cole. A; Captain
Brian, g; Sergeant Brown. 2 The
above scores were made at 200 yards
In the tyrO match IN which Sergeant
L Scott Clark. Of Indiana. scored nine
teen straight bulls. az Sergeant II E.
Ctedie- Thirteenth UpiteI States Infan n
t1y. and Captain Hendrick, Of the Dis
trict. got fort~-eiE7t-
The other District scores were Fehr.
Il. Caldwell 4; Alderman. IS: Brian. -:
Brown =: Schmidt. a: CIouser. e:
Bowers, -: Clausel, .; Cole, II; H I.
81. ForSyfhe 26
At 500 yards IN the Regiment /
match the Second District second, %. .
ard the First, go. The range offic- +
called Sergeant Browns last shot a
miss on the ground that It was not
within the time limit Lfeutera nj
Colonel Young has protested the re :
ord The score is as follows.
First District. Alderman as. Cafd-
wen a, Powers'47, CIouser IS, Cook
son a. Brown Il; Second District
ClauseI IS, GrOome 45, Heidenerefch
IS, FOFsythe A, Holt IS, Cole A.