Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-09
Jersey MARKSNEN
TO SHOOT IN OHIO
State Rifle Team and Peruvian
and Argentine Sharpshoot-
ers Leave Sea Grit.
IFrom a s.aT Corre.pondontI


SEA GlRT, Aug. 9.-New Jerseys
representative team in the National
Rif1e Association matches, the Ohio
State Association matches and the
international rifle matches will leave
Sea Grit for Camp Perry o., next
Tuesday night They will be accom-
panied by the national teams from
the Argentine Republic and Peru,
which have been practising on the
Sea Girt ranges.
Brigadier-General Bird w. Spencer,
nspector-general Of rife practise in
New Jersey, is not going 10 Ohio
with the New Jersey marksmen, and
mas designated Major William B.
Martin, commanding the First bat
TALON of the Second New Jersey reg
lment, to serve as the team captain.
ne New Jersey team has been picked
from the men who qualified as in
Stfuctors at the musketry school
which was held at the State encamp-
ment reservation this summer, and is
the strongest aggregation of shooters
that has ever represented New Jersey
In the big matches. The members of
the team are Lieutenant Colonel Will
lam A. Tewes, Major Winfield S.
Price, Major William B. Martin, Cap
tain Adolph II. Pfeil, Captain Will
lam A Baker, Captain Charles A.
Peterson, Captain Lawrence c. Dehn,
Captain Arthur G. Jaggard, Lieuten-
ant Charles r. Bohn, Lieutenant Ar
thur r. Phillips, Lieutenant Harry
M Disbrow, Battalion Sergeant ajor
Adon w. Muller, Sergeant George w.
Wright Quartermaster Sergeant
James A. Thompson, Sergeant Curt
o. II. Kayser, Sergeant Seth Eber-
hardt, Sergeant William Workman
and Corporal Elmer G. Tewes
By leaving here on Tuesday night
the men will arrive at Camp Perry on
Thursday morning. They will have
matches open on Friday morning
ajor Martin wanted to leave here
~paorro%.' night, but the necessary
angements could not be made.
ne Ohio State Rifle Association
ches will be shot from August u
10 %. The National matches will
follow from the 25th to the Goth. The
International matches will be shot
from September 1 to 9.
When they return to New Jersey
the State rifle team will bring With
them special train full of the
marksmen who competed at Camp
matches of the New Jersey State
Rifle Association, the International
matches and the events of the New
York State Rife Association. The
New York matches are to be shot on
the Sea Girt ranges this year, and
they will add materially to the ex-
ceptionally large schedule of events
already planned for the nine-day
shoot opening September II.
Finding that a number of the
foreign, teams intended to come back
to Sea Girt for the local matches
after the contests at Camp Perry,
matches which were favored by the
foreigners were added to the list of
events that had been arranged AS
a result there are forty matches on
the schedule of the New Jersey AS
sociation and twelve on the program
of the. New Workers.
A new match will be introduced
this summer. . 1t is known as the
North American match, and will be
shot alternately here and at Ottawa,
Canada, between teams representing
the Dominion of Canada and the
United States. General Spencer, who
is the president of the Association of
American international Rif1emen, has
given the trophy. There are four
stages of the match-200, 300 900 and
1000 yards.
Teams will be here from the foreign
countries and the United States
army infantry and cavalry, marine
corps, and twelve States have APP
piled for permission to send repre-
sentative teams for the matches. 1t
will be the biggest shoot meet in the
history of the Sea Girt rifle ranges,
and many of the worlds crack shots
will be seen