Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-29
DISTRICT GUNNERS
IN SECOND PLACE
Marine Corps Team Wins
$1,000 Dryden Trophy at
Seagirt Shoot.
SCORES 1,102 AS AGAINST
1904 FOR LOCAL CRACKS
Washington RiAemen Have Entered
Team in National Associations
Interclub Match. 4,

sEAG1RT, N. J., August 29.-The Dry
den trophy the costliest offered at Sea-
girt's twenty-fourth annual tournament,
was fought for today and was won by
the Marine Corps team, with a score Of
1.102 on the three rife ranges. The Dis
trict Of Columbia was second with 1904;
New York followed with 1.o74; Massa-
chusetts with 1857 and New Jersey
with 1.062. Army was last with 1.027.
On the first and also the second
stages Of the Dryden the District of Co.
lumbia ranked fifth. The six contest
ants had scored as follows when they
went to the final stage: Marine Corps,
757; Massachusetts, $50; New Jersey,
1913: New York, 72S; District Of Column
bia, 72o; y. s. Infantry. 70s. The Dis
trict Of Columbia scored 375 at 200 yards
and $50 at 600 yards.
District Best on Long Range.
By defeating the field IS points at the
1,OoO-yard mark. the District team pulled
from fifth to second place on the final
stage Of the Dryden and came in second,
winning 800.
The thousand-yard scores we're: Dis
trict Of Columbia, 366; Marine Corps. 345:
New York. 342: New Jersey, 329; Army,
BIB; Massachusetts. 318. Individual high
score honors for the District went to
Sergt H. F. Richardson, with 189.
The trophy is the New Jersey Rifle As
sociation's 5000 bn ME, presented by
the late Senator John r. Dryden Of New
Jersey in 1903. won in 1912 and again
last year by Massachusetts, twice by
New Jersey and by Ohio, by the United
States Marine Corps in 1908. the Cav
airy in 1907 and the infantry in 1908 and
The Dryden contest, open to teams Of
eight from the different arms of the
service, from the military and naval
academies and from the National Guard
Of the states. territories and the District
Of Columbia, Is ten shots at 200, 600 and
LOCO yards with any military rifle and
any ammunition.
Coaching Is Allowed.
Coaching Is allowed. Besides getting
the big bronze. the winning team gets
$3.50; the team making second best score,
$780, and the third best. $50
When the battle opened at 8 O'Clock
Massachusetts, was the favorits because
Of her victory in the McAlpin match
thursday on the same ranges and because
the eight Bay staters composing the
Dryden team piled up the tremendous ag-
gregate score in the individual Palma
match OF 1.747-twenty-seven ahead OF
the record score set by the United States
eight who won the Palma trophy at Of
tawa, Canada, in 1912.
Marine Corps Match Shot.
The divisional Marine Corps cup
match, under the auspices of the Ma
tional Rifle Association. was shot today
at 800 and 1000 yards. The cup was first
won in 1909 by Capt. d. c. McDougalI,
last year captain Of the Marine Corps
team in the national matches. Last
years winner was John w. Hessian of
Connecticut.
Two matches under the auspices of the
New Jersey Rifle Association, the all
Corners expert for the ARMS and the
man" cup and the Spencer 1,20O-yard
silhoutte six-man team contest, won the
last two years by the Marine Corps, were
The District Of Columbia Rifle Associa-
ton has entered a team in the National
Rifle Associations interc1ub match, post
poned until next Tuesday.
The superb craftsmanship that gave
William H. Richards Of New Haven
Conn.,, the $500 Nevada trophy yesterday
afternoon in haxy light by the score Of
145 out OF possible 15O-including a 40 al
loo yards-was exhibited by that vet.
eran member Of the Ohio state team
from 1910 to 1919 here last year. when
he put UP two world records.
He hit the sixteen-inch bulls eye twen-
ty-four successive times at 500 yards-ir
the Meany match-a performance thai
has not been equaled-and at loo yards
in the Spencer match, to be shot again
this afternoon, he scored "A out Of posi-
BILE 70.
Is O World Record.