REMARKS ON CAPTAIN WHITENS LECTURE. 
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Can any one doubt that the above scores are correct, and, if not, we 
have a fair measure of the unfairness of the present rule. The only 
score which the present rule would endorse is, Y.'s score, and W.'s score 
would have to be halved under it, 200 being the total for full credits 
for accuracy and time. Of course, if Y.'s score is 150, W.'s can be 
nothing else but 400. If the umpire's credits for Fire Discipline in 
the case of X., Y., and Z. be added, it will be seen that Z. wins, and 
he also wins if Y.'s time of 11 minutes 20 seconds, or his own time of 
10 minutes be taken as the standard for comparison; that he did not 
do so in reality is certainly hard on him. 
Whether the ammunition be limited and not the time, or the reverse, 
should not affect the principle of awarding credits that is by the “ rate 
of hitting." And this method of scoring is equally simple in either 
case, being in fact identical. 
Whoever tries to separate credits for accuracy, from credits for time, 
tries the impossible ; neither is of any value without the other, and 
neither can be rightly judged of, except in conjunction with the other— 
therefore I sympathise with Captain White when he says time allowances 
are never satisfactory or understood by the men, only I should like to 
be included in the men. 
The reason credits for accuracy (dummies disabled) are satisfactory 
in the Field Artillery competition is, because the number of hits are 
taken in conjunction with the fixed time for each series. To get satis¬ 
factory time credits you must take the time in conjunction with a 
fixed number of hits, which will give you the same result, as far as the 
relative value of batteries is concerned. What you get in each case is 
their relative rate of scoring or hitting. For example, suppose A. 
makes 100 hits in 8 minutes, and B. makes 150 hits in 16 minutes— 
16 minutes being the fixed time—the present rule trying the impos¬ 
sible, comes to grief and makes B. win; thus A.'s score is 100 for 
accuracy, plus 40 for time—total 140; B.'s score being 150. The scores 
should be— 
16 16 
A. 100 x — = 200. B. 150 x — = 150. 
8 16 
And A. wins, always supposing the number of rounds fired is left out 
of the question. If we reverse the process, using a fixed standard of 
hits, say 75, we get— 
75 75 
A. scores 8-= 6. B. 16-= 8. 
100 150 
Their merits are, of course, inversely as their times—therefore A.'s 
score is to B.'s as 8 to 6, which is the same as 200 to 150. On the 
whole I prefer making the number of hits the starting point from 
which to calculate the rate of scoring, using afixed " time. To do this 
it is not necessary to “ limit the time and not the ammunition." If the 
ammunition be limited and not the time, take the score for hits, divide 
it by the time in minutes and fractions of minutes, and multiply it by 
the “ fixed " time in minutes, the result will give the score for accuracy 
and time combined. 
