Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-06
HIGH RIFLE HONOR
TO Be WON TODAY
Worlds "Free" Championship
Is Feature of Program at
Camp Perry.
DISTRICT MAN HEADS
UNITED STATES TEAM
Swiss Marksmen, Many Times Win
ners, Are Expected to Garry 9
Off the Trophy.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CAMP PERRY, Ohio, September 6.-The
team championship of the world at SOC
meters (32S YARDS with the free rifle
will be decided before the bugler recalls
the sharpshooters today-the first time
that title has ever been fought out on
American soil.
Since 1897 that honor has been decided
annually at various European cities
Milan. Zurich. Hamburg, Vienna, etc
under the auspices of the Union of In
ternational Rifle Associations.
Each competing nation is represented
by team of five. The marksman fires
120 shots in all from the inclosed shoot
ng-house40 standing 40 kneeling and
10 prone either on the 2x7.foot platform
or on the floor Each series of ten shots
must be fired without interruption, and
at each position the contestant may tune
up to the extent of ten sights.
Have Choice of Rifles.
Any rifle is allowed that has open
sights. the height of the wings protect
ing the front sight not to be higher than
the sight itself. Any trigger-pull is per-
mitted. SO naturally the firing-line is
alive with the sort of hair-trigger that
was responsible for the death of Corpora!
Michael Fennessey Company n, Sd
United States Infantry, the scorer. last
Wednesday. Any ammunition, too, is al
lowed; but the sling-the leather strap
upon which the American marksman is
accustomed to depend so much to steady
his aims taboo
The decimal target of the international
Union is used-quite unlike the United
States army target at which the con-
testants bang in all the American
matches. The bull's-eye today is twenty
three inches in diameter, but only 3.9.
inches of 1t count as ten, 7.S4 inches as
.. and SO on. On the American target
at 300 yards hit in the eight-inch bulls
eye scores ..
That the famous Swiss team will sweep
the field is the expectation of the camp
Fourteen out of fifteen times has it
captured the championship-the last dec
ade straight-defeating France. Sweden
Germany, Holland Greece and the rest
Of the eighteen countries in the Interna-
tional Union.
Little Time to Prepare.
Under the direction of Lieut.. Col. Glen
die b. Young, captain Of the District OF
Columbia team in 1907, 1910 and 1911, the
United States team has been obliged to
prepare itself as best it could in very
short time. 1t was not until id-July
that Col. Young was asked by the Ma.
tional Rife Association of America tC
take hold of the difficult work of round.
ing into shape United States team in d
Guns especially built had to be planned
and they were delayed in reaching the
range-a week after Col. Young arrived
Capt. Frederick H. Heidenreich. 70,
several years a shooting member. and in
representative of the District on this
all-American team. From New England
is Sergt. C~1rc B. Long of Massachu.
sets, the West Medford marksman who
shot himself into the military rife
championship of the United States last
year at Seagirt.
Lieut.. John H. kneubel of Buffalo
member Of the New York team for three
years and on the team that won the
Pan-American championship at Buenos
Aires in May. 1872; Lieut.. Col. William
E. Tewes. New Jersey Wimbledon cur
winner and member of the 1912 Palma
team; Artificer Edward Sweeting, the
bear hunter of Warren, Pa, who shot
up the camp in the national individual
match August %, and three Ohioans
make up the rifle eight. Capt. f. w
Eddy of the 1872 Palma and OF
the Ohio team at the Biarritz. France
International Unions tournament las,
year. where he won the championship
of the world at the standing position
and Capt Ernest Miller and Lieut.. Simon
of that Buckeye team.
Assisting Lieut. Col. Young is FRS,
Lieut.. Oscar Westover, 14th United States
Infantry team adjutant, and Ensign H
T. Bartlett, United States Navy, team
coach.
Swiss Team Formidable.
formidable band of sturdy men and
and world championship winning shots
has come down from the heights
and valley of Switzerland. Most emf
nent of all is Conrad Stahli of st. Gall
a lace designer, who has been on every
one of the fourteen victorious teams and
ship of the world. To vary the thing he
one year added the pistol championship
OF the world.
Jean Reich. a Rorschach engineer, in
1910 at Holland took the worlds cham
pionship. Casper Wiedmer, the st. Gall
riflemaker, who built the guns his team
and the French team are using, captured
the worlds championship in 1888, at
Hamburg Ernest Stumpf, a federal rail
road official at Rorschach, took the
kneeling world S championship at the 800
Milan tournament. Robert Burchler,
Zurich rifiemaker Ernest Uhler, an EN-
mishofen architect and Herman konitzer,
a Berne architect, are newcomers on the
team.
The captain of the Swiss team is Hugo
Neuberger, "a st. Gall business man,
known to American riflemen as the donor
of the Swiss trophy-a Swiss watch-for
the best 5OO-yard score the Seagirt
tournament, won in 1911 by Lieut.. G. c.
Shaw, captain of the United States In
fantry team, formerly of the District
Guard.
Switzerland Leading.
CAMP PERRY, Ohio. September g.
When shooting in the international team
match with free rifles was stopped fol
lunch today. officials indicated thai
Switzerland was leading, with the United
States second. the Argentine Republic
third and France fourth. AS some OF
the men are shooting standing and others
at the kneeling and prone positions there
is no way of determining definitely the
correct standings
PREHISTORIC MAMMAL.