The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
Camp Perry Shooting Matches To Attract
 Field of l,2OO Men

Camp Perry, Ohio, August 27 - From the pip pip" of the little 22's to the roar of the big .45's, million or more shots will sail across Americas largest target range here for five days starting Wednesday, September as a record breaking throng of civilian rifle and pistol shooters start in the chase for the championships at stake in the eS- year-old National Rifle and Pistol Matches.
 The war departments national board for the promotion of rifle practice, which Is staging the matches in cooperation with the National Rifle Association, is mak- ing arrangements to handle 1,200 competitors in this vast city of tents on the shores of Lake Erie. Most of these marksmen hopefulS, coming from every section of the country, already are on their way in order to arrive by Sunday for the opening Of the three-day Small Arms Firing School.
 Actual competition, however, fol- lows the instruction and shooting gets serious on Wednesday when the first three matches of the eight-match national champion ship are fired by the small bore rifle field and the pistol entries will have reached the one-fourth mark in the all-around cham pionship with the firing of three events. Both of those big aggregate title races will wind up on Satur- day, the fourth day of competition, leaving the remaining time to the firing of special matches like the Dewar International Small Bore Team Match, the International Pistol Team Match and the War Departments 37-yeaI I-old National Trophy Individual Pistol Match fired with .45 caliber service auto- matics.
 New Haven Champ
 The two defending national champions, Dave Carlson of the small bore rifle and Al Hemming of the pistol, will be back again this year as will the winners of the many lesser championships in 1940. Of the two big title defenders Carlson, of New Haven, Conn.,, is conceded a much better chance of repeating despite the fact his com- petition will be greater numerically than Hemming's. However, the odds still are against him what with the eight class champions from each of nine regions--72 top-f flight riflemen in all-being transported to Camp Perry at National Match expense.
 The free trips apply also to pistol, but bigger worry to Hemming is his own teammate, Harry Reeves, of the Detroit police pistol team. In oth- CT matches so far this year Reeves has left a long trail of broken rec ords and has whipped Hemming and every other high-ranking star he has met. So with. the national championship and top billing on the national pistol ranking list in sight, Reeves and not Hemming is the man on the spot here.
 Many other big name shooters will be here, too, like Lee Echols of Nogales, Ariz.; P. M. Chapman of Seattle. Wash: Walter Walsh of Washington, D. C.; Francis OCon- nor of Kansas City; Garfield Hud- dleston of Kansas City; Paul Spa- vor of St. Louis; Emmett Jones of Los Angeles: and Phil Roettinger of Wyoming, Ohio, on the pistol side. Highly-rated small bore en- tries will include Bill Schweit2er of Hillside. N. J.; Bill Woodring of Alton, H.; Thurman Randle of Dallas, Texas; Jack and Jim Lacy of New Haven; Fred Mott of Ash- stock. Minn.; Matt Canjar of Den- vile, N. O.: We're Hamer of Wood- yer: and Bud Wickersham of San Francisco.
 Mere Actlom
 Both the rifle and pistol fields literally will be out eunnlng for more titles in more matches than ever. Nine new pistol events have been programmed this year and there will be five additional small bore tests to make up c little for the necessary cancellation Of all 80 caliber service rifle matches.
 At any rate it is certain to Dc q larger program and c larger field from e civilian standpoint this year. For the War Department it will be another eueceNgful yeaT