Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-12
PUPILS WILL SHOOT
Rifle Tournament to Be Held
Saturday..
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BUSY
Practicing for the Various Matches.
Cups Offered for Winners
of Events.

With the annual school boys rifle tourna-
ment only two days away, the high
school cadets of this city are working
hard, each one bent on capturing a
trophy or helping his team land one
of the cups. Western High School marks
men are practicing three hours daily in
the rifle gallery at the Center Market
Armory.
The matches will be shot all day
Saturday at the United States Marine
Corps range at Winthrop. Md. and will
be conducted under the auspices of the
Interscholastic Rifle Shooting Association
of the District of Columbia. with Thomas
A. Davis of New York as range officer.
They are open to any member of high
school rifle club in the District of Co
lumbia under nineteen years of age. Two
sighting shots and ten shots for record
offhand and ten shots prone at 200 yards
on an "a" target having an eight-inch
bulls eye are officially announced as
some Of the conditions.
No entrance fee will be asked, but to
qualify each entrant must make not
forty points prone, for total OF
seventy-fve out of a possible 100 Com
petitors who make less than fifteen points
on their first five record shots Offhand
will not continue firing.
Marksmen's Medals.
Each boy who qualities will be given
q Junior marksmans medal" author
lied by the Secretary Of War. The
Chamber of Commerce has offered
medal for the highest individual score.
Inscribed champion School Boy Rifle
Shot Of the District of Columbia, 1911"
The high school cadets will have
championship shoot for the Gen. Oliver
Medals and the winner will receive the
title Champion of the High School Cadet
Corps, 1911." To the member of each
rifle club making the highest score the
National Rife Association will award a
medal for individual club championship.
The company team match for the COM
pany championship of the High School
Cadet Corps will be shot at 1 o'clock pm.
1t will be open to teams of four cadets
from each company in the High School
Cadet Corps. William B. Hibbs has pre-
scented q cup and medals for the winners
of this match. The cup will become the
property of the team winning 1t three
times, not necessarily in succession
Company III, Western, and Company b,
Central have won il in previous years
The intefeftfb match will be shot at
o'clock and is open to teams of boys
from any preparatory school rifle club in
the District. The National Rifle Associa-
ton has presented trophy for this
match and medals for the members of
the winning team have been presented
by Brig Gen William Crozier, chief Of
ordnance, L. S. A.
Team Championship.
The team championship of the high
schools viii be contested for at 5 pm.
1t will be-openz to teams of ten boys from
any public preparatory school in the Dis
trict. The cup in this match is called the
championship Dupont cup, and medals
will be given to the individual members
of the winning team, The trophy be-
comes the property of the team winning
it the greatest number of times in seven
years Western High and Tech have
each won it in previous years.
scented "a cup to be awarded to the boy
making the best aggregate score in the
interschool and interclub matches. 1t
has been won in previous years by w H.
Wells Of Tech and y. w. Miller, Central
Gen. Robert Shaw Oliver assistant sec
rotary OF war, has presented a. medal for
the highest score. For the boy who
makes the highest score the Chamber Of
Commerce has presented gold and
enamel medal. and a CUP will be given to
his school. to become the property of the
school winning it three times not neces-
sarfly in succession. Central High School