Evening star., 1912-07-14
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the subject, than has any other sin
gle man in the country.
Gen. Drain accompanied the Argentine
team as social representative of the Ma
tional Rifle Association and as the bearer
of an official invitation from the United
States government to South America
asking the attendance Of those countrie:
at the next years rife match, to be helc
at Camp Perry
Lieut.. Albert S. Jones, who accompa
MED the Olympic team, was statistica
officer at the tryouts in this country, anG
went abroad In the further capacity OF
representative Of the National Rifle Asso
citation. an organization with headquar-
ters in this city, of which he has long
been secretary.
Aside from the Argentina and Olympic
rife teams, the other winning American
small arms teams which have already
topped ali competitors abroad are the
Olympic shotgun and revolver teams. In
made a clean sweep of every shooting
event at Stockholm, with the exception
Of two unimportant revolver matches,
which have next to no Influence on the
gross results. In this connection, 1t is
pointed out that this country never sent
a losing team to the other side. and not
since an Irish team won q match at
Creedmoor, L. l., In the early sos, has
any shooting aggregation from across
the ocean taken q trophy away from
mo city in the country takes higher
satisfaction than Washington in the uni
form success which has attended Amer
lea at every foreign shooting contest in
which we have engaged this year." said
Frank J. Kahrs. Mr.. Kahrs is an au-
thority on arms and ammunition and is
a writer on shooting subjects Of ma
tional reputation. He himself is a dead
shot. with rifle, revolver and shotgun
alike. and is one of the most regular at
tonA kr a. RON IN,
the city. Mr. Kahrs is member of both
the rifle and revolver teams which are
to represent the District at the Seagirt
match next month.
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Similar success" continued Mr.. Kahrs,
lis confidently anticipated for the fifth
American rife team which landed in
France this week on their way to Biar-
ritz. where they are to compete in an
other International contest held there
from July 10 to 81. While abroad they
also will compete in the great annual
British rifle matches at Bisley. England.
The reason why Washington takes
particularly keen interest in these events
is that the District has the finest aggre-
cation of shots for the city's size in the
tina team, for instance. Although every
citizen In the United States had full
chance to compete for this team, two of
its members out of the full complement
Of eight were District men. That is to
say, the District Of Columbia. with pop
ulation of 343,OO0, pitted it's experts
against the whole country with popu-
lation OF more than 9O.OOO,OOO and in the
face Of these terrific odds it won 25 per
cent OF the places on the team. Isn't that
showing to be proud Of?
1T Is no exaggeration to say that in
any shooting contest the Washington
team is always considered a dangerous
factor, whether with rifle, revolver or
shotgun. Aside from Lloyd and Schriver,
two Of the best rifle shots in the world,
we have Sheridan Ferree, the third best
pistol shot in the United States Mr..
Ferree Is the captain Of the revolver
team which is to compete at Seagirt
next month, and under his leadership we
other members Of the team expect to
make showing that will give the best of
our rivals few palpitations Of the heart.
with the shotgun, the District can
show leading expert in Philip Steube-
ner. who has won a number of trophies
in national matches. Mr.. E. w. Ford
Is another expert with the shotgun. He
has to his credit the best score at the
doubles made in the District SO far this
season.
Brig. Gen. George H. Harries. COM