Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-05
ID. c. RIFLE TEAM
| REPEATS VICTORY
Guardsmen Win SmaII-Bore
Long-Range Competition
for Second Year.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CAMP PERRY, Ohio, September s.
The District of Columbia National
Guard rife team yesterday enhanced Its
reputation as the Nations leading
| small-bore aggregation by winning the
! inter Club IGNORANCE championship for
| the second consecutive year and taking
second place in the inter-club short
! range event.
! The militiamen scored 755 points out
of q possible 800 to defeat seven rival
clubs and to retain possession OF the
Remington trophy. Second place and
bronze medals went to the Akron, Ohio,
Rifle Club for a ISL total.
Scoring 195 out of a possible 200
/ points on the 4-inch 200-yard range
bull's-eye, First. Lieut. Walter r. Stokes,
Medical Detachment. 121st Engineers.
the man who has done so much to
| develop rife craftsmanship In the local
| high schools and at George Washing
| ton University. easily led the field for
! high individual score. The other silver
| medal winners are as follows: Capt.
| Just C. Jensen, Guard Ordnance De-
partment. 1S9 out Of 200; First Lieut..
Thaddeus A. Riley, COMPANY 2; l2lst
! Engineers, 1856, and First Lieut.. EDWARD
| Company, same regiment, 1876.
The National Capital Rife Club en-
| tered the competition In order to make
victory doubly sure for the home town
and came through for third place
medals with a total OF 746X80O. Those
to shoot were Leo Kasenhagen, III. l24S
Irving street northwest, captain OF the
Sd Corps Area rifle team. score 1872;
John D. McNabb, 1880 P street north
west, Department Of Commerce rifle
man, 1872: Ralph H. Mccarthy. 1882
! Quincy street northwest, national small
bore champion in 1927. 1876, and Gun
merry Sergt Ollie M. Schriver l4l4 v
| street northwest. United States Marine
Corps, retired coach of the Central High
School rife squad, 176 points.
d. C. Team Finished Second.
The short-range event. which consists
| of 20 record shots at the 0.59-incb So
yard range bull and 20 at the 2-inch
/ lO0-yard range bull was won by the
Ohio State Rifle Club with 2,345x2 400
points. the Capital crew trailing them
led his team. but his total of 396 points
out of a possible 400 was so nearly per-
feet that he could not squeeze out the
! 8 tallies necessary for victory and pos
session of the Caswell Trophy. The fol-
lowing bronze medal winners comprised
the local citizen-soldier club.
Lieut.. e. A. Mcmahon. 393: Sergt
Harry e. Parsons, Company E, l2lst
Engineers, 800; Sergt. Philip c. Geraci.
Company D. same regiment. 389; Capt
/ j. C. Jensen. 1913. and Lieut.. T. A.
Riley, 367. It remained for one of the
| greenest and newest riflemen from the
District Of Columbia to shoot the really
outstanding score of the day, using the
issued service rife with iron blade
front sight and iron peep rear sight.
Technical Sergt Donald A. Falk, Head
quarters and Service Company, 121st
Engineers, ran 20 consecutive bulls
eyes, Is of which were in the inner
12-inch v. ring, in the National Rife
Association 600-yard match and cap
tured sixth bronze medal from 100
competitors and second National Guard
prize money from 331 competitors.
Capt. Jensen also shot Is v. pos
sible for ninth bronze medal and fourth
cash prize, but he used heavy pres
sure barrel Springfield rifle with tel
escopic sights. Using the same kind
of equipment Arthur N. Thomas. TIT
Massachusetts avenue northeast.
member last year of the freshman rife
squad Of George washington Univer-
sity. fired II v. possible for second
prize money in the civilian class of
1856 entries. Others to place are as
follows:
Prize Winning List.
National Guard-First Lieut. z. A.
Mcmahon, eleventh. 99xl00; First Lieut..
T. A. Riley, seventeenth, same score;
First Lieut.. w. r. Stokes, thirty-fourth,
s7x10o; sergt: Thomas A. Reneau,
Company D, 121st. Engineers, thirty
six, same score: Sergt. Philip G. Geraci,
same company. forty-ninth, 96xl00;
Capt Fletcher F. Bernsdorff, Quarter
master Corps State Staff, fifty-six,
same score, and Sergt. Harry B. Par
sons, Company e. 121St Engineers,
sixty-second. prize money. 95xlo0.
street northwest, National Capital Rife
Club, tenth. 9Sxl00; Alfred H. Yeo-
mans 1924 Nineteenth street northwest.
former Central High School star,
eleventh, same score: John D. McNabb,
National Capital Rifle Club, twenty
third, 97x1OO, and Leo Kasenhagen,
same club, twenty-fourth, same score.
Regular service. 2o5 entries-Gun.
merry Sergt Morris Fisher. 14t5 E street
southeast, United States Marine Corps,
| fifteenth, 99x100, and Capt. Walter A.
Wood. 18th Engineers, Fort Humphreys,
va. The gold medal in this event was
won by G.. M. Upshaw, California
civilian, with 19-V possible.
Seemingly never satisfied, the Capital
| experts went out ana pdBSeu !ouI Mo,
bronze medals, this time using the small
bore Wimbledon match as their snlplng
! grounds. All made 1913 zoo points
| with their 20 record shots at the zOu-
ward range, Capt. Just G. Jensen taxing
| third medal. John D. McNabb fourth
medal DR.. w. r. Stokes NTH medal
and First Lieut.. Edward A. McManon
! eighth medal. mia.
| r,luh. New Haven, Conn.,, led the lOU
| participants with new world record
| total of 1899 out of a possible zoo polnCS.
He was awarded the winchester trophy,
a cold medal and a cash prize.
| Finished In Money.
Tn the remaining events covered by
the DAVIS oficial bulletins the Dlstrlct
| of Columbia shooters were little below
! their average. The following finisnec
IN the money: Marine Corps Cup
match. 1885 entries, won by r. W.
l Rallard. civilian, Denver, Colo. SO lou.
Peculiar service, 228 entries, Ensign
charles C. Pyne, IT'S Eighteenth street,
S4th 96 x 10O and Gunnery Sergt.
Morris Fisher, u. s. M. c., 44th, 80
1 loo. National Guard group, $50 entries,
/ PVT william L. Spicknall, 81 Columbia
avenue. Hyattsville, Company F, ISL
Maryland Regiment. 14th, 90 lOU,
and Lieut.. w. r. Stokes, 4Oth, score
"a 100. Civilian class, 58l compeSi-
tors Robert H. Hartshorn, s0S WEI ,nc
ster street northwest, 35th. SO x !U0'
and Richard g. Radue, ll3tn' SS avI.
The oOO-yard Scott event, us partl-
c;nants won by Lieut. A. D. Kramer,
Navv. score. rs out of possible
SSs S..~t~ NJaffottal Guard group, DR..