The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-08-21

regimental championship which the
First District of Columbia toCz
year aso; the com eaIy team cham
pionsnip contest won the las svo
years b. the First Division OF 81 m
oia; the Sea Girt chan ioz4--z:5 race
for the metal indicative of the indi-
vidual championship presented by
Governor John r. Fielder of New
Jersey, the new all aroana champion
ship match with pistol, RTE and shot
gun for the trophy given by Colonel
r. r. Keller, Of New YORK; and the
revolver team match which the Man
haitian Rife AM Re- Oliver .~=ccia-
ton grabbed the last two years af-
ter Squadron = of New york lad
taken the honors eight years in 80
cess:on.
-Among the ten ma .cne5 s-1eduled
by the New York Rife Association
are the 1IcAlpia tropag. ,eal.s of
eight az 600 and 1000 vars, for
the trophy presented by General E.
J. McA,p.n; TIE Cra.kshar'- trophy,
teams OF six at SEQ and 500 ards,
Ger the $500 trophy Jone.c :. A.
C~-tkshank Esd; and the revolver
team contest for the 800 trophy
presented by Capt Reginald H. Say
re of the first troop, First Cavalry
formerly Squadron Al.
Demonstration of rife shooting
among the militia of the United
States is the object of radically new
national match rule in force this
year-the rule that gives enlisted
men OF ten of the twelve posts of
honor on the team. Ever since the
national match vas authorized by
Congress in 1903. shooting member
ship on the state and service games
alike has gone, for the most part, to
officers. Two years ago began
TO spread an idea that If rife shooting
and rifle tournaments were to serve
the cause OF national defense in a
thoroughgoing manner, they must
be brought nearer to the mass of
the shooting-to the enlisted men
not to the officers-to the fellows
who would carry the gun. It was
all too apparent that officers who
had become expert shots were hold
ing team membership too exclusive
~ in spite OF various elimination
rules. The movement for reform
started last year at the Camp Perry
RELOCATED its old time cracks to the
rear and sent into the fight team
composed entirely of enlisted men.
The New York team this year will
again be captained by Lieut.. Col. y.
B. Thurston, for a quarter Of a CEN
tury the leader Of the Empire State
By this new rule regarding enlisted
men New York loses two of its
most expert shots-Major Arthur
Kemp and Major A. F. Wells. The
states aggregation of enlisted men
is being trained on the Peekskill
range.
The New Jersey team will be COM
posed entirely of enlisted men and
will be in command of Major Will
lam B. Martin, for a decade a men,
Der of the state team. who in 1913
took the place of Brig. Gen. Bird w.
Spencer as team captain.
BY action of the further new rule
that team captains must rank below
colonel. the Massachusetts team
which arrives here the first week
for practice under local conditions,
loses its leader of the last four years
Col. Joshua D. Upton. He will
accompany the team, the captain of
which will be Capt. Kingsley Allen
Durham, ordnance department.
The District of Columbia team,
which is training on its range at
Congress Heights, will be in charge
of Lieut.. Col. G. B. Young, captain
IN 1911 and leader of the United
States free rifle team in the inter-
NATIONAL matches last year.
A further radical alteration in ma
tional match conditions this year is
that rule which is designed to allay
the dissatisfaction that has been
steadily rising among the guards
men the last half a dozen years on
account of the severe handicap they
We're under in competition with the
United States service team which
with endless ammunition and with
unlimited time for practice have
been able steadily to swamp the
militia teams when it came to the