Evening star., 1915-09-13
McAIpin Match Is the Sched-
uIed Competition at Sea-
girt Rifle Range.
PROGRAM is TEN SHOTS AT
200, 600 AND 1000 YARDS
District Rifemen to Content for Dry
den Trophy Wednesday-Will
Return Home Friday.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SEAGIRT, N j., September 13.-Mc-
Alpin day is on at the rifle tournament
when the team match, second in i'm
portance only to the Dryden, to be
shot Wednesday, is to be decided. Ihis
New YorRState Rifle Association con-
test, in which the District of Columbia
led in 1910, and finished fifth in 1914,
when Massachusetts won, for teams
of eight. ten shots at 200. 600 and 1.OOo
yards, is for the trophy presented ov
Gen. E. A. McAlpin of New York
Two individual matches were run on
today-the Northumberland. twenty
shot Rogers and the Keller aH-arouno
championship-twent shots with pls-
tol. revolver, % caliber rifle and -3o
caliber rifle, and fifty shots at clay
targets. This race, started last year,
is for a trophy given by Capt. Thomas
H. Keller of New York.
The District team will compete IN
only three more matches-one TUESDAY.
one Wednesday and one Thursday-and
leave for home Friday morning. not re-
naming for the individual contests the
last two days of the tournament.
Two-Man Team Match.
Tomorrow Capt. Ralph Alderman will
put three teams in the New Jersey state
Rifle Associations two-man team
match. at 900 and 1000 yards, won last
wear by sergt. Peter Lund and capt. w.
H. Ford, marine marksmen.
Wednesday the District team VIII
battle for the hree-thousand.oo
DRYDEN trophy, the most valued prize
Of the meet, which it never has quite
won. quitting second in 1903, 1906, and
again last year, when the marines. l,lo2
was eight points more than the Dlserlct
got. ..,, ,o,r ,,,;,, he
the smallest since the early days OF
the Seagirt shoot, now twenty-five
years old But four teams will com
pete (the District, the marines, New
Jersey and New York), nan the nun.
this year has been decided disap-
pointment to the management.
Matches Set a Week Late.
The matches were set week later
than usual in the hope that they would
attract teams on their way to the ma
tional tournament near Jacksonville.
Fla, the first three weeks in October.
but the Navy is absent, as 1t also will
be from Florida: the United States
infantry and cavalry, here uninter-
ruptedly from 1905 to 1914, are missing,
and SO is Massachusetts, the other 1914
competitor The Bay Staters absented
themselves, it Is stated, because funds
were lacking.
The District did not compete in the
McAlpin today.
District Team Takes Slump.
The District of Columbia riflemen
suffered a slump in the second stage
of the McAlpin match today and tum-
bled to last place. a total Of 20 points
behind the leading New York team,
which scored ISL. The Marines are sec
ond, with TAB, and New Jersey third,
with 734. The District team scored 73l.
Henshaw Wins Rogers Match.
Corp. r. N. Henshaw, Marine Corps.
shot to a sensational victory in the
twenty-shot Rogers mid-range match
at 500 yards, with a total Of SO, only
two short Of possible He was
pressed for the honors by Sergt. Joseph
second, with 81, and Sergt. Henry Aus
tin, who hit the targets for 96. Sergt.
8. G. Kase of the marines was fourth.
with a Sc. Austin taking third over
him through order of shots.
Other scores follow: Capt. w. H. Rich
ard, Ohio, 95: Piper. marines, "a: Full
len. marines, "a; Price, Jersey, "a Mar
tin, New Jersey. "a; Schriver. marines,
"a; Ruch, Jersey. 80; Hagen. marines,
80; Reynolds. New Jersey. SO; Cop
pedge, marines, 90: Clyde, marines, 80;
Tewes, New Jersey. 90: Sylvester. New
Jersey. 81; Smith. marines. 81.