Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-09
Dc. R|FLEMEN WIN
TOP GUARD HONORS
Sergt. Hugh Riley Is Seventh
High Man in Presidents
Match.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.


CAMP PERRY. Ohio. September ..
The District National Guard won
the highest honors Of any Guard team
I'm the country Yesterday when SerGt.
Hugh l.. Riley. Company +. l2lSt
Engineers. with score OF l94 out OF
a possible 200. walked away with
seventh place and bronze medal in
the Presidents match. the largest
event ever held by the National Rifle
Association.
For being high National Guards
man in this competition SerSt. Riley
receives an additional silver medal. a
cash prize and the trophy awarded
by the adiutant general
Corpl O. j. Tobey. u. 8 NJ. G.,
Salina, Okla, is also one of the
proudest men in camp, having cap
tured first place from the field of l,37l
entries with "A score of 1856. His
prize winnings are as follows: An
autographed letter from the Presi--
dent Of the United states, a special
Springfield rife. presented by the
Army Ordnance Association. a gold
medal a cash prize of $9i. an added
money nriZe of Sl00 donated by Stuart
Scott of New York City. cup pre-
scented by the Cavalry of the United
States Army to the high Marine and
a silver medal emblematic of this
latter trophy.
Narrowly Misses Prize.
The hopes OF any ritlemen of the
local Guard team winning a special
prize Of S25 offered by Col. John w.
Oehmann, commanding officer. l2lst
Engineers. District Building. to any
member of his regiment that finished
as high engineer" was completely
shattered when the bulletin announced
that First Lieut.. G.. j. Mold. Corps OF
Engineers, Lawrence. kans., had won
third place with score of 1873. just
one point ahead of Sergt. Riley.
Another thing for which the local
Guard has reason to feel proud is that
out of the remaining 13 team mem
bers placed i'm the prize money, rec
ord achieved by no other militia or
civilian team in attendance at these
matches.
Two of this group of nine, SerSt.
George T. NotaVa. Company f., 13lSt
Engineers. who took twelfth place,
with a score of 1873. and First Lieut..
Hugh Everett. jr.. Company \. same
regiment. twenty-siXth place, score,
1872. also received a distinctive badge
for having finished among the first
the Presidents Hundred
Local Rifiemen's Standing.
The names of all local riflemen who
placed in the prizes are as follows:
Gunnery Sergt. Morris Fisher. u. ;.
Marine Corps, Navy Yard, National
Capitol Rifle Club. seth place, score.
191: Second Lieut. Richard NJ. Cults.
jr., l.. S. Marine Corps, $40 Thirty
fourth street northwest. SD place,
score, 1888: First Lieut.. Thaddeus A.
Riley. Company +. l2lst ENGINEERS
10th place, score, 1SS; Capt. Just Z.
Jensen, Guard Ordnance Department.
140th place. score, 1877; Second Lieut..
Henry c. Espey, Company II, l2lst
Engineers, 1S5th place, score, lSb;
Serst, Prescott j. Blount. Battery A,
26Oth Coast Artillery. 1S7th place,
score. 1856; Staff Sergt. Baxter Smith,
Company f, 121st Engineers. 22Sth
place, score, 1S5; Staff Sergt. AleXan-
der ]. Thill 261st place. score, 1S4, ana
Capt Clarence $. Shields, Company r,
121st ngineers. 270th place. score, 1S4.
In the individual civilian club men,
hers' match two experts of the District
civilian team gained prize money.
Willis T. Frazier. 6629 First street. Ia
koma Park, captain of the Central
High School rifle team, won 43d place
with a score of % out of possible
100. and Richard G.. Radue, 1912 Mon
roe street northeast. George Washing
ton University rifle team. 55th place
with 81.
Ralph II. Mccarthy. 1882 Quincy
street northwest, National Capital
Rifle Club, kept the District on the
map in the 22-caliber small-bore
events by capturing sc cond place and
q bronze medal in the national cham
pionship match with $50 points out of
q possible 500. First place was taken
by MIR. G. B. Sheldon, Poughkeepsie,
n Y, with a score of 59l.
The small-bore Wimbledon event OF
81 entries also had two local shots in
the prizes MCCARTHY, winning sew
enth place, had a bronze medal with
q total of 80 points, and Leo kaseha'
gen, 3D. 1248 Irving street northwest,
National Capital Rifle Club, eleventh
place. score 80. The gold medal and
the Winchester Trophy went to ii
c. Wright, California civilian, with a
perfect score of 100.
Yesterday finished up the individ
uaI big.bore competitions. with the
exception of the national champion
ship match fired next Tuesday, ano
today sees the advent of the first team
matches-the enlisted mems. tht
championship regimental and the A
+. F-Rumanian Trophy. Those in
dividuals who made the best scores
in the recent events will be picked
for the teams, and the local militia
by reason of the excellent showing
by the rif1emen individually. has high
horac Of 4onpipU all other GHarC