Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-02
To Be Held Beginning Aug. 22
Under Slightly Changed
Regulations.
COL. EVANS AGAIN EXECUTIVE
This Years Shooting TO bic severe
Test OF Workmanship, Espccinhy
In Rapid Fire Competitions
lspccIaI correspondence)

(SpCCidl Correspondence
Washington, D c., Jan 2'-As
result of the recommendations oil inc
national board for promotion oil rine
practise, which have been approved oy
tho secretary OF war. the national riflo
matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, whicn
win be held next August, beginning
Monday. Aug. %. Will present many
new features OF great Interest TO the
shooting profession. The national
board met In Washington in January
with 10 Of the 81 members present.
They were: Assistant Secy. OF war
Robert Shaw Oliver, president; Gen.
VIM P. Hall. Y. S. A.; Capt. II. G-
Lcarnard. e. S. ~. recorder; 1t Com
Inander Leigh c. Palmer. U. s. NJ,
Gen Bird w. Spencer and Gen P
Farmer Wanser. New Jersey; Gen.
Lawrason Riggs. Maryland; Gen,
George Fl. HarrIes. District Of Column
bIa; Gen. Carl A. Wagner, Mich; Gen.
George w wingate and Gen. Charles
II. Roe, New York: Gen. c. A. Kelley.
Colorado: Gen. James a. Drain, Wash
ington: Gen. Elliott G. Dill, Maine;
Gen. E, c. Young. Illinois; Col. A.
r. CritchHeld. Ohio; Col John Casweli.
Mass. Col. Roy Hoffman. Oklahoma,
and Maj. Claude e. Goddard. Pennsyl-
vanIa. II was agreed that the rcstric-
tions In regard 10 preliminary shoot
ing on the range, in force last year.
should be resclnded, The matches of
The Ohio State Rife association and
the National Rifle Association OF Amer
lea. will be held prior to the national
matches under arrangements to be
made between these associations and
the war department. The Ohio au-
thorities rendered the use of Camp Per-
ry range and equipment and the board
gave a vote of thanks to the governor
for The same, The equipment includes
the mess hall and this year II is cx-
pected the mess will be placed under
the direction OF regular army officer,
Congress approprIating $4,000 for the
messing of the competitors.
col. EVANS AGAIN NAMED,
Col. r. X. Evans. who has been ex-
ecutIve officer OF the last three national
matches has been selected by Sccy.
Dickinson as executive officer for 1910
and the rules were amended to provide
for two assistant executive officers, one
OF them to be from the organized mil
itia
The national boar dsustained the ac-
ton OF the executive officer in dis
qualifying the Naval academy team at
Camp Perry last year. but incorporat-
ca In It's proceedings paragraph from
his report In which Col Evans saws:
The executive officer avails himself
Of this opportunity to state that there
is nothing In this incident which can
reflect in the slightest degree on the
honor or good faith of the Naval aca-
DENY team" Col Evans also paid q
high compliment to the team. The
resolutions and quotation wero for
~arded to the secretary of the navy.
10 prevent any possibility of SINH
lar Misunderstanding in the future the
ru'es relating to the arms used in the
InatcheS were revised so as to provide
that the trigger pull must always be
at least three pounds Rife to be used
as Issued by the ordnance department.
without alteration or modification of
any Kind OF character whatsoever.
VOCATION OF this rule in any respect
shall disqualify team or Competitor"
new provision authorizes the ord
nance department to select star-e,,eped
rihes OF as high grade as can be pro-
uueeu' tor the use OF teams and in
olNlduals in the national matches.
All the ammunition companies have
been invited to submit bids for n,rS
nishing 100000 rounds of 30 calIber
ana competitive test will be had and
.he ammunition which Is the best will
DE selected for the matches. Tho ord
nance department will compete with
The private companies as last vaar
Inc allowance for preliminary practise
was slightly increased
RAPID FIRE PROGRAM
A great advance was made in tho
rules governing the distances and tho
shooting In the matches. Tho Soo
yard range was cut out entirely from
the national team and indiyidual
matches Instead OF the rapid fire
being on bulls-eye target "D, viii
De substituted for target "a" Target
carries the figure OF a man prono
and shot in the figure Will count
shot below the figure 4, and
envis ana 2 The competitors Will
pe hned up and fire by odd and even
numbers. the former firing first Tho
pieces VIII be loaded and when ALI ara
ready signal will be given and Tho
targets Will rise and remain I'm nosi-
ton for 20 seconds, and then disan-
pear. AS the targets come up the com
Peutors VIII sink TO the ground, with
ono Knee on the ground and an elbow
on The other knee. The Ave sbots
must be fired or otherwise each uncy-
pended cartridge Will count as a miss.
ana nrlng may be continued from the
time the target appears until It dis
appears Any competitor having a de-
lective cartridge. disabled piece or
more than five hits on his target
must fire again. Only ''battle-sights"
may be used in rapid fire.
similar change has been made in
the rules for the skirmIsh runs. The
sk,rmishers will DO assembled at a
point more than six hundred wards
from the target The magazines will be
nlled and one cartridge loaded there
non; FIRING VIII begin at 500 yards
and the targets will be run un and
continue In sight for thirty seconds
curing which two shots are fired the
competitor firing at will. The targets
"iil then be Withdrawn and the