Evening star., 1925-11-08

The target range will be open for
voluntary practice with markers on
duty today, and Thursday, November
II, and Friday, November 13.
Subsistence will be furnished by the
Quartermaster Corps of the Guard.
The duty will be without pay. but
certificates Of service will be furnished
to Government employees for duty per
formed as officials Of the match, team
members, or participants in the in
dividual championship match on No
vember IA and Is.
1T Will be noted" says an order
issued by the Guard headquarters.
that tyres can compete for 18 medals
and 60 cash prizes and that 10 medals
and 45 cash prizes must be awarded
to this class that former members OF
the national match rife teams can win
only one medal and one prize in each
match: distinguished marksmen- can
win only one medal and one prize In
the individual championship match.
This gives opportunity to every
man in the Guard to win a prize or
a medal, and 1t is hoped that entries
will be large"
The following detail of officials for
the coming rifle matches at Camp
Simms was directed in a special order
issued by National Guard headquar.
ters: Executive officer, First Lieut.
j. c. Jensen, 121st Engineers; adju,
tant, First Lieut.. r. CT. MacCartee
121st Engineers; statistical officer
Capt. Sidney Morgan, 121st Engi-
neers; range officers. Capt. Clarence
S. Shields. 121st Engineers, chief
range officer; First Lieut.. G. w. Johns
121st Engineers; First Lieut.. r. NJ
Second Lieut.. w. A. Knight, 121s,
Engineers: Second Lieut.. l.. S. Mann
260th Coast Artillery; Capt. James d
Eggleston, 260th Coast Artillery
mess officer, First Lieut.. G.. p. Dunn
121st Engineers.
Each officer is authorized to select
such commissioned and non-commis
stoned assistants as he may deem
necessary to successfully perform his
duties.
Again the band of the 121st Engi
neers, Meyer n. Goldman, leader
heads the list of units of the National
Guard of the District of Columbia in
the matter of attendance for last
week. For the seventh consecutive
week the band has retained its posi-
tion at the top of the list with an at
tendance percentage of 71.42.
Other units, in the order Of their
standing and the percentage of at
tendance, follow: Company A, 1st
Separate Battalion, Colored Infantry
662l; Company d, 121st Engineers
63.49; Company +, 121st Engineers
6215; Company c. 121st Engineers
1857; Company b. 121st Engineers
57l4; Company f, 121st Engineers
56.94; Headquarters and Service Com
pany, 121st Engineers. 54.76: Battery
b, 260th Coast Artillery. 1925; Bat
terry A, 260th Coast Artillery, 46.15
Medical Detachment, 121st Engineers
1888, and 18th Military Police Com
pany, 25.
Though admittedly far superior ir
shooting ability than its opponents
the rife team of the National Guaru
of the District Of Columbia was de
feated in its match with the &c
Corps Area team, which was fired or
the range at Camp Meade. Md, las,
Saturday. Some of the members Of
the local team seemed to have lost
their keen eyes for a period. and thus
brought the scores for the aggregate
of the team down to the losing point
according to those who observed the
match.
Col. o. S. Eskridge, U. S. Infantry
in reporting the results of the match
to headquarters of the local guard
said:
In the match the Sd Corps Area
team won against what would ap
pear to be a better team. Th.
corps area team had never shot to
gether until the day of the match anc
was made up of such material as
could be assembled without cost te
the Government.
Il have been requested by the mem
bers of the Sd Corps Area team tt
express their appreciation of the spirit
Of good sportsmanship shown by the
District team
Teams from other States in the
area did not compete. Col. Eskridge
informed guard headquarters that q
notice was sent to the Pennsylvania
State rifle team, and it declined tc
enter a team, and that the Maryland
National Guard did not answer the
notice at all.
The total score was 1910 for the
Sd Corps Area team and 1879 fol
the National Guard team, IL points
short of the winner.
The individual scores of the 81
Corps Area team follow: Capt S. S
Mclaughlin, Tanks, 1s9: Sergt j. H
Whitehead, 18th ENGINEERS 1873: F'irs,
Capt. j. D. Andrews, Corps of Engi
neers, 1877: Capt. U. L. Baldwin, In
fantry, 181; First Sergt S. Zromkow
ski, 29th Engineers. 1870: Sergt T. w
Snyder, 30th Ordnance Company, $50
Sergt. j. Capps, 18th Infantry, 176
First Sergt. j. d. Malenfant, Ord
nance Department. ia, and Corp
J. G. Richards, 34th Infantry. 1853
Capt. H. D. Woolley, Infantry, was
team captain.
For the District of Columbia Ma
tional Guard team the scores We're as
follows: Sergt. T. A. Riley, 189; Sergt
G. A. Voteva, 1873; Sergt. L. T. Needs
1872; Sergt. H. E. Riley, 1S1; Firs,
Shields, $50; Sergt. H. H. Green, 179
Sergt. F. B. Kaye, 178; Sergt. w. M
Slavik. III, and Master Sergt. F. F
Bernsdorff, III. First Lieut.. J. c
Jensen was team captain of the loca
team.
Orders have been issued at head
quarters. on recommendation Of the
unit commander, making the follow
ing reductions in the 29th Military
Police Company: Sergt. John w
Adams and Corp. Joseph B. Tennysor
to privates. The same order carries
the following promotions in the same
command: Corps. Guy T. Bolton and
Carl A. King to be duty sergeanrs.
Plans are being made for the ex
pansion of the armory facilities of tn.
260th Coast Artillery at Water anc
o streets southwest. This orsaniza
tion has much heavy equipment as 8
part of it's drill material, and in order
to properly house and protect IL II
needs additional space. 1t now occu
pies the Naval Reserve Armory, q
brick building, and has since put ur
on the adjoining property a large
metal temporary building to house
guns and tractors assigned to it. How
ever, this was insufficient and seyeral