Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-01
NATIONS COMPETE
IN RIFLE TOURNEY
international Event Opens To-
day on the Range at
Camp Perry.
AMERICANS IN CHARGE
OF ALL THE MATCHES
Teams Represent Fifteen European
Countries, the United States,
Canada and Argentina.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

| CAMP PERRY, Ohio, September L.
Inc first international rifle tournament
ever held in the United States opened
on OhtO's great range this morning.
TO continue through September 9.
Inc Canadians are yet to come
they are expected tomorrow-but the
teams of six nations took the war
path at the sound Of the bugle, the
Argentine Republic in command Of J.
Z. Gallegos, Peru in charge of E. F.
Odorlzla, France captained by d. Meril-
lon, president of the International I'm
ION of National Rifle Associations;
Sweden, commanded by DR.. Henenblad:
Switzerland - "free"-rif1e championship
OF the world fifteen of the last sixteen
years-in command of Conrad Slaaheli.
and the United States, whose team
forces are in command of four men
prominent in the shooting world-the
"free"-rifle team, Lieut.. Col. Glendie B.
Young, District of Columbia; the Pan
American championship army rifle
team, Capt. Harry Lay. United States
Marine Corps; the Palma team, Lieut..
Col. n. B. Thurston of New York, and
the revolver and pistol teams. Capt
Reginald III. Sayre of New York.
American Association in Charge.
These eight days are packed with the
contests of two organizations, all the
matches this year being turned over to
the National Rifle Association Of Amer
lea. The organizations are L'Union In
terantionale des Federations ct Associa-
tions Nationales de Tir (the Union of
International Rifle Associations), compos-
ed of fifteen European countries and the
United States, Canada and Argentina.
The Confedera cion Pan-Americana de
Tir tthe Pan-American Shooting Union!
and the National Rife Association of
America had added six matches. Eight
cen matches are on the card. In addi-
| ton to the array Of cups and other
trophies are cash prizes aggregating
about $4,000.
Nine re-entry Individual matches crowd
today. to continue nearly or quite to the
end of the tournament The InteTna-
tional Unions contest with the army rifle
at 3OO meters (52S yards) carries the
army rifle championship Of the world, the
victor getting gold medal emblematic of
this honor and also 500. The race is
through sixty shots in six strings of ten,
two strings standing, two kneeling and
two prone. This and the other 800
meter matches are shot from the 325foot
shooting house built for the tourney.
Pan-American Union Represented.
The Pan-American Shooting Union is
represented by four contests in these
mines. The individual army rifle match
for the Pan-American championship and
800; the maestros tiradores (expert rifle
mems match, 100 shots in strings of ten
within forty-eight hours; the individual
re-entry for twenty-five prizes ranging
from $500 to So, and the visitors cup
match, with the regulation army rifle of
= J1<w
the silver cup presented by Mr. John w.
Garrett, United States minister to Ar
gentina.
Four individual matches, added this
year by the National Rife Association of
America, also began this morning. The
grand international at 800 meters, three
shots within five minutes, with the free
rifles, carries prizes from 500 down. ag-
gregating 1856: the running deer; the
miniature on the associations gallery
competition target for the championship
of the world at miniature shooting and
the revolver and pistol contest for the
honor prize, silver cup, of the United
States Revolver Association, sixty shots
in ten-shot strings without interruption
and with the arm free from support.
District Team Coming Home.
The District rifle team broke camp this
morning and started for home, where it
Is due at 6:45 tomorrow morning Out of
Camp Perry it takes over $500 prize
money and the satisfaction Of having
won ninth rank in field Of forty on
the national match, where only five
teams defeated it on the skirmish. The
Districts skirmish was three points bet
ter than in 1911, its 50O-yard score TWEEN
ty-nine better and its 1,OOO-yard fifteen
better.
Lieut.. Col. Glendie B. Young Of the
District, captain Of the United States free
rife team. has designated the following
eight in order as members of the team:
Capt. Eddy. Ohio; Kneubel, New York;
Capt. Heidenerich, District of Columbia:
Artificer Sweeting. Pennsylvania: Capt.
Miller, Ohio; Lieut.. Col. Tewes New Jer-
sey; Sergt. Long, Massachusetts, and
Lieut. Simon, Ohio.
The Argentine-American Match.
At the end of the first stage of the
Argentine-American naval trophy match
today the Argentine team led by 10
points. The aggregate score now stands:
Argentine, 1,147, and the United States.
1O37. The following are total scores
made by each shooter at 800 meters:
Argentine team. Gregoria Pereyre, "a !;
Ataliva Yaniz. 336; Alferdo Pugnali. 22S;
Jose Barrientos, 2l5, and Francisco Ger
osa, 215. The United States scores were: