Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
STOKES CAPTURES
/ THIRD IN SHOOT
District Marksmen Win Hon.
ors in Camp Perry
Rifle Competition.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CAMP PERRY, Ohio, September g.
Scoring 1886 points out Of a possible
100, First Lieut.. Walter r. Stokes,
Medical Detachment, 121st Engineers,
Of Washington, won third-place medal
in the national small-bore champion
ship event concluded here today. John
D. McNabb, 1880 p street, took eighth
bronze medal with 1856.
Being an aggregate of the individual
long and short range, the small bore,
Wimbledon, and the Camp Perry in
dividual matches, this event revealed
the consistency and holding ability Of
Eric johnson, Quinnipeac Rife Club.
New Haven, Conn, who topped the
field with 1910 points.
Lieut.. Stokes also captured another
in the small-bore free rifle champion
ship with a score of 262 out Of 800.
Having two world free rife champion
ships to his credit, this match, fired on
the international 100-yard range, 1.19-
inch bulls-eye was much to his liking.
Leo Kasehagen, Sd, 1248 Irving street.
Third Corps Area, Reserve Offcers'
medal with 257, while Emmett y. Swan
son, University of Minnesota Rifle Club,
won first honors with 269.
East OeIoatS WeSts
East and West met on the 200-yard
range of the 22-caliber field this morn
ing and shot 1t out for the Marks
man trophy, which was presented in
1928 by the Western Cartridge Co.
Three Capital experts, Kasehagen, Nc
Nabb and Stokes, helped the East down
the West with a 20-point margin Of
victory, the former team shooting 1924
out of 2,400. The eight men compris-
ing each team were selected from their
scores in individual long-range matches,
the winners receiving gold medals and
the losers bronze. Gunnery Sergt. Ollie
Corps, retired, who instructs the rifle
men of Central High School, oficiated
as team coach.
v. z. Canfield and j. e. Miller, Ohio
civilians, won gold medals and the
Hercules trophy in the two-man tram
long-range match with 1876 points out
of a possible 800.
Two teams from the District of Co.
lumbia National Guard each shot 773
out of 800 for fourth and fifth place,
bronze medals and cash prizes.
They are First Lieut.. Thaddeus A.
Riley, Company e, 121st Engineers. 388
out Of 400, and First Lieut.. Edward A.
Mcmahon, Headquarters, and Service
Company, same regiment, 1856; Capt.
Just G. Jensen, Ordnance Department,
State staff. 388, and Stokes, 385. The
lower score at 200 yards, the course
of firing consisting of 20 shots at each
of the 100 and 200 yard ranges.
In the second series OF unlimited re-
entry matches, the following local
money winners are listed on the official
bulletin: 500-yard metallic sight, S85
targets-Earle Stimson, National Capt.
toll Rifle Club, tied with six for first
money, score possible 800; Capt. Jen-
297, and Lieut.. Stokes tied with seven
others for twenty-f1fth, 294.
One hundred-yard metallic sight. 70l
entries: Stimson fifth, 292x300; Jensen
tied with two for twentieth place, 256.
Two-hundred-yard any sight, 338 en-
tries: Stokes, third money, 293x3o0;
Riley, ninth, 2s5, and Mcmahon,
twelfth, 2s2.
121st Engineers Win.
The official bulletin also shows the
121st Engineers to have won seventh
money yesterday in the National Guard
division of the championship regimental
team event with 522x600. The follow
ing men fired 10 shots standing. 200
yards, and 10 shots prone, 500 yards,
with the service rife: Sergt. Harry B.
Parsons, Company e, S8x100; Lieut..
Riley, 81; Sergt. Philip C. Geraci, Com
pany D, SO; Lieut.. Mcmahon, IS; Sergt.
Theodore l.. Harrell, Company e, "a;
Lieut.. Stokes, standing position only,
47x50, and Sergt. Thomas A. Reneau,
Company D. 600-yard stage only. As.
Against LOOT competitors in the
Crowell match, Corpl. Searched Hicks,
Company F, goth United States Infan-
try, Fort Benning, Ga. won with
possible score of IS. Chief Gunners
Mate Walter Morrison, United States
Coast Guard, Boston. was second with
a. and Lieut.. Albert l.. Lane, Engineers,
Fort Hancock, N. j., had the same
score but was placed third because he
did not have as many center shots
In the bull's-eye.
The Herrick trophy, presented by the
late Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, was
won by the United States Marine
Corps team with an aggregate score
of 1887 out of a possible 1900. The
Infantry was second with LIT and
the California National Guard third
with 1,776. The Ohio National Guard
team was In seventh place with 1,712.
The st. Louis police team won the
revolver trophy was 1894 by 1900.
Detroit was second with 1924 and the
United States Infantry team third with
1,291.