Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-15
Delaware Finished Ninth.

UeiaWare flnlshed Nfnth.
On Friday the first teas2 matches
We're staged. : The Delawareans got
hand and We're unable to pun up their
average at the 500 yard stage suf-
ficiently TO finish high. The Illinois
Civilians won the match, the Port
Clinton Trophy, with a total of $50.
Delaware finished ninth with 524 just
four points behind their neighbors
from PENNSYLVANIA who were eighth
with 52S. The Wimbledon, long range
championship of America, with 20
shots for record at 1000 yards, fol-
| lowed the Port Clinton Trophy Match
The n. +. A. On-hand Match, 20
shots for record at 200 yards. stand
ing position without any artificial or
/ body-rest, went-to the Marines Satur-
| day morning when Sergeant w. A.
4 Ashurst made a score of "a ont Cf
4 possible 100. Two other riflemen tied
Ashurst but his score took prec edence.
i Grier again placed the Delaware team
on the map by landing a place in the
/ winnings with a score Of 90. The Her
cules Match Saturday afternoon gave
Marine Gunner J. J. Andrews 0ppor-
/ tunity to show that he is still in the
form which landed him two places
last year. Andrews ran as hullseyes at
500 yards and took the Hercules tro-
ply. Corporal Bowen. also of the Ma!
rines, gave Andrews a close race fin
/ ishing with 43 bulls. Fred Manion with
80 out Of a possible so, F. r. Lesney.
md c. 3. Lister with As each placed
/ the Delaware Civilians once more in
the list Of money winners while Her
man Cook of the Guards put on the
same score and again put the Della
ware National Guard I'm the lists. The
| weeks shooting ended Saturday after
noon with the Il. o. T. c. Match. The
! University of Delaware sent no team
20 the national matches this. year but
here are four Of the boys on the Dela-
ware civilian team and two with the
Guard. Just six men We're required to
enter the r. o. r. c. match 50 the bows
organized a team and entered. Bill
Terrill, captain and mentor of tbs
civilian team was not permitted tc
coach the L. of d. men. AS a result
the Delaware r. o. T. c. Team shot
through the two stages, ten shots al
k600 yards and ten at 900 yards with
out a coach, Only one man on the
team had ever before attended
: National Match. Yet at GOO yards tbs
boys were in second place and at ! .0Ol
yards finished Sth. Their work wa.
highly gratifying. Shooting under tn,
handicap that they did the u. Of D
representatives won out over thei
ANCIENT rivals. Lehigh. and so are ia
from gloomy today. Lehigh made til
same score but the superior work Q
= the Delawareans at the long rang
placed them out in front. The weathe
has been nearly ideal TO date but tw
storms have hit the camp in the pas
twenty-four hours giving promise {
the beginning of the Equinox"
There has been only one match hel
so far in which one or more Of tn
Delaware contingent has not won
e place and while it is a dead certaint
u that every team in the National Tear
Match is going to know that it ha
been in a shooting match the Blu
Hens Chickens are confident that the
. VIII flnlSh well up toward the top whe
the nations rifle shooting classic
! shot. Several of the Guardsmen hay
- shown excellent promise, and the tear
should give a good account of itsel
: The smallest number of entries in an
one match this week was $50 Will
the average is between $50 and so
a Les" German. known by every traI
shooter in this vicinity, has the tnar
shooting instruction course under h
supervision and reports a waiting lin
: at all times of rifemen who an
: anxious to try their hand with th
:. scatter-gun, The curtain will be run
down, about September 22nd, on til
greatest meeting Of riflemen that thl
:. country. has ever seen.
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