Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-06
18TH ENGINEERS
WIN RIFLE TROPHY
Washington Marksmen Rank
High in National Matches
at Camp Perry.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CAMP PERRY, Ohio, September g.
The 18th Regiment, United States En-
gineers, Fort Humphreys. Va, out
clasSed "A aggregations yesterday to
win the championship regimental team
match and the Rumbold Trophy. They
totaled 555 points out of a possible
600, four points more than the oath
Infantry, Fort Bennings, Ga Third
medals went to the Arizona National
Guard entry which scored $50.
The champions who negotiated the
10 shots standing at 200 yards and
the 10 shots prone at 600 yards and
their individual scores are as follows:
Corpl. Sam e. Alden, 95x1O0; SerSt.
Joseph H. Whitehead, "a; Sergt. Louis
kingsbury, 50; Corpl Hearchell r.
Hicks, %; Corpl. Fred E. Mcdowell.
81, and Sergt. David E. Schwartz, 8S.
Marine Corps Wins.
Scorie-, J54X600, the United States
Marine Corps won the American Ex-
peditionary Forces Rumanian Trophy
event from a field of 81 teams. The
United States Calvary was second with
553, and the California National Guard
third with $50. The Devil Dogs sl53
petition from 43 aggregaticns with
another 554. Second and third place
teams each scored $50, but the MasSa-
chusetts Militia outranked the United
states Infantry because of a HIGHER
score at the 600-yard range. The course
OF f1re was the same as that of the
regimental event.
The national Small-bore champion
ship. which is an aggregate of the in
olVloual short range, long range, VIM
bledon and Camp Perry matches, was
u D..s..
with a total of l ,073 out of a possible
LOO. Eric johnson, Quinnipiac Rifle
Club, New Haven, Conn, present holder
OF the trophy presented in 1919 by the
Rumanian government, tied Hamer, but
was outranked on his smaller 200-yard
scores.
First Lieut. Walter r. Stokes, medical
detachment. l2lst Engineers, District
of Columbia National Guard, took
fourth place with a 1869 tally, while
First Lieut.. Hugh Everett. ir, same
regiment, won the tenth bronze medal
with a 1904.
COrpl. Wright Victor.
Corpl. F. T. Wright, United States
Infantry, was announced winner over
594 entrants in the individual Palma
competition, which comprises the scores
made in the 800-yard Wright, the 300
yard Scott and the 1,000-yard Crowell
events. He dropped only 2 points out
of 225: Second Lieut.. Robert K. Nc
Donough, Engineer School, Fort
Humphreys, shot 220 for eighth bronze
medal and for eighth prize in the reg
ular service division. Sergt. Schwartz
of the champion Engineer Regiment,
finished thirty-third with 2l6, and
Gunnery Sergt. Morris Fisher, 1415 T
street southeast, U. S. M. c., thirty
seventh, ZIG.
Third money in the National Guard
group went to Corpl. Philip C. Geraci,
ordnance department state staff, with
2l7x225, and fourth prize to Sergt.
Henry M. Boudinot, Company E, 121st
Engineers, the most consistent tyro the
local militia has produced in recent
years, 216. Staff Sergt Alex j. Thill,
ordnance department, was twentieth,
score 213; Capt. Just c. Jensen, same
department, twenty-fifth, 212, and
Lieut.. Stokes thirtieth, I'll.
The Hercules Trophy and Gold Med
ais in the two-man team, long-range,
small-bore event were taken by Henry
j. Adams, jr, Fostoria, Ohio, and
Homer H. Jacobs, Dayton, Ohio. with a
combined score of 783x800. Capt. Clar-
ence S. Shields, Company e, 121st En-
gineers, and Lieut.. Everett we're awarded
ninth money for 773 tally.