Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-19
STATE SHOOTERS
ARE DOING WELL
Senator GodcharleS Tells of
Work Done at National
Match

Match
The craftsmanship doings and
general activities OF the Pennsylva-
MIA civilian rifle team stationed at
Camp Perry. Ohio, who have been
! contesting in the National Rifle Asso-
citation and national rifle matches are
| given vivid outline in a letter Just
received by the Telegraph from Fred
4. Godcharles, deputy secretary OF,
| the Commonwealth. The team ap-
pointed by Governor Brumbaugh TO
take Pennsylvania's part in the con-
test is composed OF the following
rifiemen:
| Cassius A. Dunn. Harrisburg. cap
tain; Virgil b. Kennedy, Harrisburg,
coach, and Philip C. Schwartz,
Bloomsbury; Frederick A. God
charles, Milton; William Z. Enter
line, Camp Hill; ]. Randall Mattern,
Julian; Harry S. Flowers Lancas-
ter; Leroy V. Diebler, Rheams:
Jacob NJ. Weitzel, Lancaster; Daniel
W. Thompson, Frederick F. unge=,
DIR. Z. L. Denniston, Charles s. Ian
6is. Harry H. Appleton and Samuel
T. Durborow, of this city.
After pointing out that Camp
Perry is the Largest camp of the
kind ever assembled at one place In
the entire history of rife shooting,
and, as a small arms school, is quite
il; class by itself. Mr.. Godcharles
writes, in part, as follows:
The camp opened for us on Mon
day morning. September 2. when, 10
our pleasant surprise, Major z.
Claude Goddard. of Philadelphia, for
many years connected with rifle dem
onstration in the National Guard of
PENNSYLVANIA. was assigned to US as
our instructor. The bbys pitched
into the work with will and worked
hard to master the fundamental les
sons in the United States rife model
1917. This arm is now in the hands,
of the Army and is being used at the
matches. 1t is the best Army wife
in the world and is so acknowledged
by our Allies. The Hun knows this
also as a fact"
over 500 marksmen are stationed
at Camp Perry Godcharles states in
his letter, all engaged in active COM
petition. The individual teams rep
resenting almost every state in the
union, he Gays, are composed OF six
teen men with an equal number of
riflemen representing Alaska Sew
eral states. he says, have entered
more than one team. After praisins
the soldierly and manly qualities of
the student officers at the camp for
instruction, describing them "as hnel
q body of young Americans as one
could wish to meet anywhere Of
which there are six hundred, the
writer continues:
Large Range
There IS q battalion of infantry.
here on duty. 1t is made up of aliens
mostly from alien enemy countries,
but every man in that command is
a declarant or a recently naturalizedl
citizen. These boys do guard duty,
form the details about the camp and
attend the targets,
"The range here is the largest in
the country and consists of fifty tar
gets each at zoo, 500, 500 and 500
Yards and so arranged that the S00l
and l 1,000-yard matches can be shot
over half these targets. Then there
are innumerable pistol targets at 20,
so and 10 yards and others arranged
for pistol instruction and small cali
ber rife demonstration. There is
also range for proving sight byl
means of shooting triangles which
proved most interesting and instruc-
tive TO our members"
Getting down TO brass tacks" and
speaking of the rifle practice at the
camp, Godcharles writes in his let
ter:
THE actual shooting did not begin
until Tuesday afternoon when our
team was divided into four groups
under Messrs. Thompson. Mattern.
Unger and Appleton and the work of
proving our skill as marksmen be-
gan in earnest. The entire first week
was used in practice and each even
ing a lecture was given in the large
mess hall on some subject of I'M
portance to rlfiemen.s The entire
team attended them as a unit. They
were we'll worthwhile and given by
officers who have had experience.
One of the most interesting of these
lectures was given by Major God
frey on 'Sniping.' Major Godfrey is
a veteran of the British army. many
, times wounded and twice decorated
for bravery"
Continuing, Mr.. Godcharles writes
the following of the rifle matches:
Last week the matches of the
National Rifle Association were held.
These consisted of rapid fire matches
at 200 and 500 yards, the member
match at COO yards. The Marine
Corps cup match at 600 and 1000
! yards, Wimbledon cup match, Leech
| cup match at 600 and 1000 yards
and the Presidents match at 200,
| 500, 500 and 500 yards. There were
moro than 1000 entries in each of
these matches"
Doing Well
Those Pennsylvanians doing we'll
| in the matter of rife scores at the
matches include Lands who won
| fifth place In the members match.
| with a score of As out of a possible
| so. George w. Thompson making
| fifteenth place In the Marine Corps
cup match with registering 173 per-
| feet shots out of possible 200. In
| this contest Kennedy and Lands
were thirty-third and thirty-fifth,
respectively, with III shots each.
| Thompston again starred in the
! Wimbledon cup match according to
| Godcharles who says that this marks
man registered score of "a in this
| contest which was rated a very COM
mendabie mark. In the Leech cup
match, says the writer, d, q, Nc
| Gowan with a score of SO was forty
Gixth in line. Mattern and Denniston
with So each were 112th and 11Sth.