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Uncle Lisha^s Shop. 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland K Robin¬ 
son. Cloth. 187 pages. Price, $1.25. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
Peggs, bootmaker and repairer, was a sort of sportsman’s 
exchange, where, as one of the fraternity expressed it, 
the hunters and fishermen of the widely scattered neigh¬ 
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rank or grade. The target will be the kneeling sil¬ 
houette figure mounted on a B target, and sixteen tar. 
gets will be assigned each team. The teams will be shot 
in pairs. Each man will be given forty rounds of am¬ 
munition, and the start will be made from a point more 
than 1200yds. from the line of targets. The targets will 
be exposed and withdrawn under the direction of the 
range officer in charge, according to a plan previously 
drafted, the details of which will not be communicated 
to the marksmen. Thus they will not know when a 
target is coming up or how long it will remain in sight. 
While the targets are down the teams will advance by 
command of their captain but under the general super¬ 
vision of the range officer as to speed and' alignment. 
At each halt before reaching 530yds. from the target 
the team captains will announce the distance by giving 
a superior or inferior limit, followed by the proper 
commands for fire, indicating the range to be used. 
The manned of determining the winners is as follows: 
For every hit on the target made by a team the oppos¬ 
ing team will at once lose a man and his remaining 
ammunition. A target once hit will be immediately 
withdrawn and will not appear again. The number of 
shots to be fired' at each halt will be determined by the 
captain of the team and for every wrong command given 
by a captain one man in his team will be dropped out. 
The corporals will not fire or be dropped out until the 
battle sight is ord^ed at 530yds., when they will begin 
shooting. At the longer ranges they will devote their 
entire attention to superintending the fire of their 
squad. Any man lost by a team will remain at the 
place \vhere dropped' out until the run is completed. The 
run will be continued until (a) one team has lost all 
of its men; or (b) both teams have exhausted all their 
ammunition. In case (a) the team not having lost all 
its men wins. In case (b) the team losing the least men 
wins. The match will be decided by the continued com¬ 
petition of the winners of each run. In addition to the 
silver trophy properly inscribed, the winning team will 
receive all of the net entrance fees, of $1 per man, in¬ 
cluding the captains. It is not improbable that this 
will amount to $400 or $500. The trophy will become 
the property of the team winning the match three times. 
Another new. match of great interest will be known 
as the Marine Corps match. For the last few years 
the Marine Corps has evinced a great interest in rifle 
shooting, and last year its' teams made remarkable 
records both at Camp Perry and Sea Girt, so much so 
that the officers of the Marine Corps, subscribed $1500. 
The National Rifle Association having recently estab¬ 
lished an annual membership, the match for the annual 
members will be shot at the same time as the match for 
the life members. Gold for a trophy to be known as the 
Marine Corps trophy, which will be shot for in August 
for the first time. The distance and number of shots 
will be two sighting shots and 20 shots for record at COO 
and 1000yds.; it will be open to everybody with any 
military rifle, any military_ sight, using any ammunition 
and shooting in any position. Ten per cent, of the net 
entrance fees will go with the trophy, which will be 
held for one year. The second, third and fourth men 
will) each receive 10 per cent, and 50 per cent, of the 
total net entrance fees will be divided into $10 prizes. 
The entrance fee is $2 per man, and as it is expected 
there \yill be at least 300 entries, there will be some¬ 
thing like forty or fifty prizes. 
In the championship revolver team match for teams 
of five a change has been made limiting it to any unit 
of the Army, Navy, organized militia and Naval Militia 
armed vvith the pistol, whose strength is not larger than 
a battalion of infantry or, a squadron of cavalry, with 
the exception that a regiment of infantry may enter a 
team from the commissioned and non-commissioned staff . 
officers. An organization may be represented by more 
than one team, but no man will be permitted to shoot 
on more than one team. The trophy will be the “sil¬ 
ver target,” presented by Robert S. Hale, of Boston, to 
be held for one year, together with a medal to each 
member of the team and 20 pr cent, of the net entrance 
fees. The other prizes are 30 per cent., 20 per cent., and 
15 per cent. A new rifle match is that to be known as 
the individual rapid' fire match, which will be open to 
everybody. The entrance fee is $2 and the prizes as 
follows; 20 per cent., 15 per cent., and 10 per cent., while 
55 per cent, will be divided equally among the next com¬ 
petitors, giving to each one a sum equal to 20 per 
cent, less than the third prize, until the amount avail¬ 
able is exhausted. Medals will be given in each class, 
together w'ith five prizes. In the annual members’ match, 
25 per cent, of the entrance fee will be divided into $5 
prizes, which will be in addition to the five percentage 
prizes. 
The interclub match has been changed so as to restrict 
it to teams of five from civilian rifle clubs and military 
companies, provided that no member of the team is a 
member or alternate of any team competing in the national 
team match. 
Great interest among the individual shooters will be 
attracted, by the Leech cup, Wimbledom cup and the 
Presid'ent’s matches, as well as the military championship 
match. Last year the prizes in the Leech match were 
as. follows: First, the Leech cup and a gold badge; 
second, $25; third, $20; fourth, $15; fifth, $10; sixth, $10; 
seventh, $10 and five prizes of $5 each. There were 300 
entries in this match, and based upon this number as 
that of t'ne estimated number of entries for the next 
match, there will be $600 or more to be distributed in 
prizes this year, against $115 last year. The winner this 
year will get the cup and a gold badge and 10 per cent, 
of the entrance fees, estimated at $60. The second man 
will receive 15 per- cent., estimated at $90; the third 
man, 10 per cent., or $60; the fourth, 10 per cent., the 
fifth 10 per cent., and sixth 5 per cent., while 40 per 
cent, wjll be divided' into $10 prizes. It is estimated 
there will be at least thirty prizes in the Leech match 
this year. The foregoing is true of the Wimbledon 
cup match, where the entrance fees are the same and 
the number of competitors usually the same as in the 
Leech match. The money will be divided on the same 
basis as in the Leech match. It is expected there will 
be about twenty-five or thirty prizes. There will probably 
be 200 entries/ in the individual long-range tyro match, 
where the entrance fee is $2. There will be gold, silver 
and bronze medals, and the six highest men will re- 
