Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-05
CRACK SHOT OF
ARMY OFF TO
DRILL team
Capt. McDougaI Has Had Var
led Experience in AcqIlir-
ina His Skill

The departure of the transport
Sherman this past week of Captain
McDougal, United States Marines, en-
route to Washington to organize the
rifle team for his corps to compete
in the national rifle matches to be
held at Camp Perry, Ohio, in the
latte rpaTt Of August, is matter of
interest to both the Service and to the
shooting public of the entire country.
Under his efficient leadership the
Marines were able at the last match
to carry off the national champion
ship after nine years of hard work
and peTseyering endeavor. Captain
McDougal will be doubtless the only
officer of either service to be ordered
to the mainland to participate in the
competition, as under recent instrue-
tons, no officer or enlisted man of
the army stationed in the Hawaiian
Department will be available for
either the infantry or the cavalry
team which will represent the army
there. Remembering the splendid
work of. the 1911 marine team and
hoping for success this year, it is
only natural that the marine corps
should select Captain McDougal for
this detail. For years the corps has
been regarding him as its leading
muskeytryman and it is no disparage-
.ment to any of the several other
marine officers who in other years
have captained the team, and who are
still available for this detail, to say
that the man Gnquestionably the best
fitted for the task has been chosen.
Inquire of any army or navy man
who has shot with the marines in late
years and he will say that among such
fine team captains as Hardlee-who
brought the marines to second place
in 1S10-ands Evans, several times
captain and member of the United
States teamI that took the Palama
Trojhy, from Canada some years ago,
or Green who shot on the victorious
team at the Olympic games in London
in 1908-McDougal stands without a
peer. IT,. 81. ~
And, he will further state, that
army or navy chances for success are
lessened considerably by this selection
but he will adolf he is a cavalry
mon-that if the cavalry can't carry
away the prize that he hopes Nc
Dougal will or if he is infantry, sub.
stitute his arm for cavalry and it's
his answer All of which goes to show
the regard the sister services have
for this same McDougal
Probably more than any officer of
his time or of any rank in the marine
corps, Captain MeDougal is behind
the great progress in shooting that
has been made in this service. AS
member of the marine team, he has
done splendid shooting, notably in the
team of 1906 when he was high man,
his team finishing sixth. In 1909 the
marine corps contributed cup called
the Marine Corps Cup to International
Rifle Association, whose matches fol-
low the national matches, to be COM
peted for by individual marksmen,
twenty shots at 500 and 1000 yards,
with any rifle, any sights and any
ammunition and McDougal, just as
though the corps had put up the cup
for him, went into the match and
made way with the cup with score
of 1S9 out of possible 200 against
some seventy competitors. 49,
Has Varied Experience
He has built ranges, devised a COM
bination telescope and range finder
ftnat has much merit, and two years
ago when the army board to revive
the present firing regulations was in
session at the School of Musketry at
Monterey, Cal, he was ordered there
to keep the navy department advised
as to- the progress of the revision, and
the army board took advantage of his
presence. to profit by his knowledge
and experience. His duties, at times,
have taken his to sea and on foreign
service where he was not available
for work with the team, but many a
team captain has thanked his stars
that wherever McDougal was, there
was some man in his guard on ship or
in his company who had bee ntaught
to shoot and that he could be sure
of as a snot for the team. Corporal
Farnham of the marines who in 1910
won the individual military cham
pionship of the United States and one
of the finest shots who ever pulled
trigger in a national match was a
product of Captain McDougaPs fin
ished instruction. Selecting a team
for national match for the marines
is far more difficult task than Sc
lecting an army team. To begin
with, the marines are small force
and they are divided into small de-
tachments and scattered over many
home and foreign stations.
The provision of the national
matches, that all teams shall have
at least. four men of their, twelve
members who have never shot on a
team before and that none or the four
leading teams shall have any man
who has shot in national match in
any of the three previous years,
works far. greater hardship on this
little force thaD'it does the larger
services as the narF~infantry or cav
airy teams of the army or the various
teams Of the national guard of the
several states: But the marines have
striven to overcome this by q very