Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-06-08
Citadel Experts 30 Represent
State at the Camp Perry
Matches.

ScaCS de lAIO SoAA
Matches.
South Carolina will be represented
at the annual National Matches for
1921 at Camp Perry, Ohio, by four
teen men from the Citadel to contend
for rifle and pistol Workmanship
honors against the picked teams OF
all other states in the union, the
Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps
the National Guard, the R. o. I. e.
and the rest of the best performers
in small arms firing in the whole
country.
The M. C. S. C. team has been Sc
Iected from among all the members OF
the Military Colleges and rifle organ
izations of the state, as the most ex-
,pert shooters, to uphold South Caro-
liua's honor at the event of the year
in small arms firing proficiency.
Will Name Team.
The governor of the state, through
his military representative, Brig.
Gen. w. w. Moore, the Adjutant
General of the state, will commission
the team with the authority to go to
Camp Perry, Ohio, in August, to win
for the state the highest possible po-
sition in rife and pistol efficiency
against the crack shots of the United
States and its territorial possessions.
The choice of fourteen men who
compose the beam, has been made al
ter exhaustive tests carried out at
the local rifle range at Mt. Pleasant
during the last three months. From
over three hundred men firing, twen-
ty remained by sheer excellence in
Workmanship scores, to furnish the
first team of captain, coach, ten
firing members and two alternates.
Also second team of substitutes, in
case of unavoidable absence of any
members of the first fourteen. The
men have all signed papers stating
that they will be present as chosen,
barring accidents of serious troubles.
The fourteen men going to Camp
Perry to compete in the national
matches will probably have had the
most thorough schooling of any team
that was ever sent from this state.
The men have qualified for their po-
sitions on the team by their superior
knowledge of small arms, both the
service rifle and the service forty-fve
army automatic pistol, and by their
ability to hit the bulls-eye at any
range and keep on hitting it. In keep
ing with their other ability, finer
specimens of physical manhood would
be hard to find.
To qualify in the rifle game as shot
at Camp Perry during the famous ma
tional matches needs all of the above
virtues and then few more.
In qualifying these men as shooters
Col. Stogsdall and his most capable
staff of fellow officers who direct the
Citadel's course of action put the men
through the new regular army quail
fication course of firing during the
encampment recently held at the rifle
range at Mt. Pleasant, thereby bring
ing to the front ranks the expert rifle
men, sharpshooters and marksmen
which the whole command contains.
Experts on Team.
The experts compose the last twen-
ty frers who have faithfully reported
at the range every week since the en-
campment, and have received the
finer instructions which national
match team must know.
Under the guidance of Cadet Capt.
Edwin C. Perry and Coach M. B.
Paine, and with the help of the farm
er national match team members from
last years Citadel team, the men were
taken though the difficulties of all
ranges, two hundred, three hundred,
five hundred, six hundred and one
thousand yards, rapid fire, slow fire,
and the pistol course of twenty-five
yards. =
The scores made and the work done
on all the ranges were very gratifying
and the men improved rapidly up to
the last stages of the game, the two
hundred yard standing off hand and
the one thousand yard range, the
ultima thule" of the riflemen's ex-
ertions for supremacy.