The sun., 1919-07-28
CALDWELL TO SEE
BEST SHOTS IN U. S.
Thousands Of Marksmen, From
Every state, to Compete in
August Matches.
WARS LATEST DEVICES
Aviation VIII Be Feature
Night Entertainment Ar
ranged for Visitors.

The lake that covered Caldwell rife
range since the Morristown dam broke
Wednesday night has gradually disap-
peared from the basin in the Jersey
hills and the big range will be In ship
shape for the national tournament to
be staged there from August 4 to Au-
gust 80.
All during the food last week Lieut.
Col William c. Harllee, executive Of
ficer of the range, who more than any
other man Ia responsible for the won
derful shooting Of the marines. super
intended the work of building butts,
&C. with him was Major g. X. Shuler.
his right hand man, who won almost
every medal that nations gave in recog-
milton for vaior on the fields OK France.
These two officers have for years been
developing the system Of teaching
United States soldiers, sailors and ma
rines how to shoot properly, and to
them Is largely attributed the remark
able craftsmanship of the Yanks.
In 1915 Col. Harllee had the idea of
opening the ranges To civilians and try
ing to interest them In shooting. He
established a dozen big ranges all over
the country. the central one being at
Caldwell In 1915 the civilian teams
were allowed to compete in the rife
matches which were held at Jacksonville.
Fla This year the sport II popular
and It Is the intention OF the Colonel
to stage as many attractions as pos
sibls in order that the matches command
the attention OF the nation
Every state Represented.
Thousands Of expert marksmen VIII
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month. There will be teams from every
State in the Union. one civilian and the
other military. besides tho Regular
Army. Navy and Marine teams and
crack shots.
The intent of the Government this
year Is to welcome at Caldwell represen-
tatives of all branches Of American
Workmanship. Trick shooting will
not be allowed. The deadly markssnan-
ship that the marines at Belisau Wood
and Chateau Thierry so well demon
strated will be featured.
The gathering OF the rifiemen will be
known as the National Matches of 1919
and Is the latest OF long series Of
craftsmanship competitions Instituted
In 1903 and held annually for the pur-
pose of stimulating rife practice as q
nationa, sport, developing rincmsn hay
ing the attachments required of in
structors In rife shooting during the
war. and Of restoring to the United
States her rightful and traditional
place as the premier nation of marks-
men.
There will be the national individual
match opeu to anybody who wants to
shoot; the national pistol match and
In the last week of August the national
matches. Four cups will be given for
the National Rifle Association matches.
and there viii be a Presidents match.
which trophy is an autographed letter
from President Wilson and a medal.
There are planned hundreds of fea-
lures to entertain the visitors. Il is ex-
pected about $50 teams win compete,
and $4,000 attend the matches daily.
One of the Innovations arranged is the
"snipers course" illustrating the method
employed in training crack shots Of
the service for sniping In Europe
1t 10 being directed by Lieut. Charles
w. Hoadley. recently detached from the
Small Arms School OF instruction at
Camp Benning. Ga, and assigned to
Camp Caldwell Range as Instructor in
machine rifles and Stokes mortars. The
course will be shot with the regular
service rife. equipped with specially
constructed telescope sights. The OBJ
tect of the course is to enable the firer
to gauge accurately unknown distances
A French village. painted by Capt o. w.
Deming, landscape artist. will be used
as the objective of all firing. The viii
lage Ia $50 feet long and contains
twenty houses. a church and a town
hall.