Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-05
NEBRASKA SOLDIER
. SHOOTS 146 OF $50
Sergt. Speera, Fort Crook
Wins Presidents Match at
Camp Perry Meet.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
CAMP PERRY, Ohio, September S.
Sergt. r. L. Speera, Fort Crook, Nehrs
q oougnooy, Yesterday topped 1855 OF
Americas best rtfiemen to win the
Presidents match, tn most popular Of
all the National Rifle Association events.
Speera totaled l46 points out OF n
possible $50 over the 200, 900 and 1000
yard ranges. His skill viii be rewarded
by q letter Of appreciation from Presi~
dent Hoover, by the Farnsworth medal
presented to the high United States
1nfantryman, by the National Rifle
association association gold medal and by the Army
ordnance Association prize, q 500
Springfield S0-caliber sporting rifle.
second place was won by First Lieut..
w. j. Whaling United States Marine
Corps, who trailed Speers by point
ana who received the Appreciation Gun
presented by the United States Cavalry
to the high Marine.
henry ]. Adams, Fostoria, Ohio, shot
144 OF possible $50 and took the Edwin
II. Clark Memorial Trophy for the Lead
ing civilian or @. M. T. G. marksman.
The National Guard Association Trophy
went TO Second Lieut.. George s. Cook.
seattle, wash, whose IA also gave
MIN NTH place bronze medal. Ninth
place badge and the National Society
scabbard and blade prize were given to
Keith Weber, Iowa City, Iowa. 7th
corps Area Il. o. T. G. 143 tally.
Wins Engineers Plaque.
Gunnery Sergt. Morris Fisher, i4I5
I street southeast, U. S. M. c., won
tenth place medal with 143. The high
United States Engineer, Second Lieut..
Q. M. Meyers, captured the American
society OF Military Engineers Plaque.
His score Of 1872 was the same as that
OF First-class Qunners' Mate r. NJ.
who received the Crescent Athletic
Club Cup. Ensign II. F. Garcia led the
United States Coast Guardsmen with
| l4l, while Sergt. r. v. Wilzewski topped
the Cavalry experts with the same
score. A 141 tally also enabled Second
Lieut.. x, B. Schaffer, Vicksburg, Miss,
10 WIN the trophy offered by the Re-
In the Regular Service Division,
Norris Fisher got fifth money; Sergt.
David z. Schwartz, 18th Engineers Fort
Humphreys, 34th, lao, and Second
] Lieut. Robert *. McDonough, Engineer
| School, Humphreys. 53rd, l39. The
best the local Militiamen could ring up
was 13Sx150 by STAFF Sergt. Alex j.
Thill, Ordnance Department, State staff.
VINO obtained 31st National Guard
money. First Lieut.. Walter r. Stokes,
Medical Detachment, I2lst Engineers.
was S4th with O lower ranking, 1888;
Sergt. Frank M. Richards, Company r,
lst Maryland Infantry, Hyattsviile, 51st,
1877; Sergt, Henry M. Boudinot Com
pany 2. l2lst Engineers. 6oth, 1856, and
pany, 65th, 136.
The. civilian class included i've Dis
trict sharpshooters; william Cook, l7lO
Elgnteenth street, National Capital Rifle
| Club. 43rd, 1877; Stanley w. Dinwiddie,
2116. Q street, 99th, 1874; Willis T..
Frazier, Sd Corps Area r. o. T. c.,
Maryland University, l22nd, 1873; Doug
national indoor 5O-foot prone champion.
l40th, 1872, and Alfred II. Ye@nans, 1924
Nineteenth street. 145th place, 1872
points.
Scores ~ Out Of rs.
An Hillsboro, Ohio, National Guards
man, Sergt. Harold e. Brown, scored
74xT5 70 win the ffteen-shot, 1000
yard Crowel match over 1855 entries,
Lieut. McDonough, Fort Humphreys, OBJ
tanned ninth bronze medal for his 20
The District citizen soldiers found
the long-range shooting rather profita-
BILE, eight Of them placing In their divi.
sion: Sergt. Boudinot, fourth, "a
points; Capt. Just @. Jensen, Ordnance
Department, State STAFF, thirtieth, 70;
Corpl. Philip 9. Geraci, same depart
ment, thirty-sixth, 20; First Lieut.,
Thaddeus A: Riley. Company =. l2lst
Stokes, SEVENTEEN, So; Sergt. Franklin
r. Brickles, Company A. 121st Icngi-
neers, newcomer on the team who
thought he would never live to see his
name on q prize bulletin, eightieth, 6sI
STAFF Sergt. Thill, ninetieth, 81, and
Master Sergt. Donald A. Falk, Head
quarters Detachment, 2oth Division
ninety-second, 81.
The only civilians TO place wereH
Stanley Dinwiddie and William Cook.
who took nineteenth and sixty-ninti3
places, respectively, with scores of 70
and 81. Regular service lists Nee
Donough as sixth: Corpl. Fred e. Me-
Dowell, 18th Engineers, Fort Humpl@
reys, twenty-flrst, 70; Lieut.. Harley n,
Grogan, sos Van Buren, street, United
States Coast Guard, twenty-third, II,
and Sergt. Schwartz. Engineers, twenty
ninth, II.
| q. w. U. Freshman Sixth.
The National Rife Association indi-
vidual free rife match attracted 80
competitors, most of whom have shot
with the United States international
| team. Russell r. Seitzinger, Pittsburgh,
1
5Slx60O; Ensign Harry N. Renshaw,
Coast Guard, who was high gun on the
team that regained the world free rife
title from the Swiss last month at Ant
werp, silver medal, 54S. and Arthur NJ.
Thomas, TIT Massachusetts, avenue.
member Of the George Washington
University freshman team, sixth, bronze
medal. 514 points.
Eric Johnson, Quinnipeac Rifle Club.
New Haven, Conn, grabbed the Camp
Perry individual match on the small
bore range with total Of 295 out Of
a possible 800 points for his 10 shots
each at the so, 100 and 200 yard
ranges. First Lieut.. Hugh Everett, IT.,
I'd Battalion Headquarters, 121st Engi.
neers, finished fourteenth. 292 points,
and Sergt. Theodore L. Harrell, Ord
nance Department, twenty-second, 29l.
The scores fired in this event also
counted in the American Legion small
bore match which was won by John
Woolschlager, Gastorland, N. y,
with 293x300 Marine Gunner Ollie NJ.
Schriver, 1414 v street. U. S. M. c.,
retired, took eleventh place.