Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-07-21
DELAWARE'S EYES
ON CAMP PERRY
Determined Effort to Send Good
Rife Team to Represent the
Diamond State.

Prospects for championship honors
coming to Delaware at the Forthcoming
National Rifle Matches are considerably
brighter as a result of the fine showing
made by the newcomers at the Delaware
State Range last Saturday afternoon. A
good S lied bunch of beginners and former
service men put in an appearance and
after they had fired few strings, to iron
out the kinks, some good scores were
turned in. The old-timers present pract-
ically turned the range over to the new
men. The vets loaned them their pet
rifles and there was plenty of ammuni-
ton on hand for practice. No charge is
made for the use of rifles or ammunition
Adjutant General Wrkersham has turn
ed over the State Range to the contenders
for championship honors. so the Will
mington and Brandywine Rife Club has
decided TO keep pace with the generals
generosity by loaning the clubs rifles and
issuing the clubs ammunition free of
charge to those men who want to make the
State Team.
All of the men who were present Satur-
day will be given a chance for two days
practice this week, tomorrow afternoon
and Saturday afternoon. Other men who
are interested in rifle shooting and in the
trip to Ohio which will be made free Of
charge by the members of the team will
also be welcomed at the range either
tomorrow or Saturday Cars leave Fourth
and Market streets every hour and the
| O'Clock and O'Clock cars are the ones
favored by the most rifiemen. Beginners
or service men who have not shot rife
for couple of years should remember
that their scures will not be compared
against the scores of the regular shooters
Only SIX old shooters can go with the
team; the others must be new men who
have never before shot in a National
Match. This leaves the field wide open
for all the new men who want to enter
Their general interest and ability to learn
will weigh heavier in the scales than the
scores they make their first day on the
range.
Men who go with the team for the first
time this year will travel in distinguished
company, according to present rlnors.
Two or three men In Wilmington who have
attracted the attention Of the rifle shoot
ing world In the past, but who have not
shot for several years, have signihed their
intention of making the team. There is
no doubt but these men can come
back" as rife shooting is more or less like
swimming In that once learned IT is bar d
to forget When the Delaware team roster
becomes known at Perry they will be the
center of attraction if this rImor be true,
and from the showing made by the new
men last Saturday they Will remain the
center of attraction throughout the
matches. With SIX experienced rifemen
to steady new material OF the quality
that is showing up at the State Range
there is little doubt that the representa-
e - IL = -
heels to many of their rivals.
Men who make the team this year will
have the opportunity of witnessing the
first competitive target shooting from the
air ever performed at a National Rife
Match. The Army Air Service has an
nounced that planes will be entered in
the matches firing at silhouette and NOV
ing targets on the ground Just how many
planes will enter has not been announced
but there will no doubt be flock" of
them as this will be the first opportunity
the pilots and observers have had to try
their skill with the machine gun against
their fellow pilots. One of the other at
fractions will be a regular registered
tournament of trapshooters which will
be held under the auspices of the San
dusky Ohio Gun Club. Regularly au-
thorized team members will be issued
a certain number of shells free of charge
from government stores for trapshooting
when they are not busy on the rifle range
There is plenty of good swimming In
Lake Erie; short trips can be made to
Toledo, Sandusky, and nearby towns
during the week-ends, and Cleveland is
only few hours away. The men who
leave here the last of this month will
not only have the honor of bringing home
the bacon for their State but they will
enjoy a trip that is well worth taking