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Fixtures. 
April 12-24.—Interschool championship of U. S. Albert 
S. jone^ Sec’y, A. R. A., Hibbs Building, Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 
April 19-24.—International small-bore rifle match (cable) 
between United States, Great Britain and Australia, 
50 men to a team. Albert S. Jones, Sec’y, N. R A 
of America. 
National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice. 
\\ ASHiNGTON, D. C.—In the report of “Rifle Shooting 
m the United States for the Year 1908,” which has just 
been issued by the National Board for Promotion of 
I, -a I ractice, much space is devoted to the National 
Kine Association^ of America, which is a central body 
under which military rifle practice in civilian. National 
(luard and other clubs is conducted. The tw'o organiza¬ 
tions work in conjunction and harmony, but are differ¬ 
ently con.stituted and perform different functions, though 
the membership is rnuch the same. The National Board 
for 1 romotion of Rifle Practice is composed of twenty- 
one members, headed by the Assistant Secretary of War 
President. They are appointed by the Secretary of 
War, and serve without compensation. This board is 
particularly charged with arranging for the great national 
rifle matches, which are shot each year and in which the 
National .Guard of each State and Territory is entitled 
to representation by one team, the other teams coming 
from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the two 
academies, W^est Point and Annapolis. Congress gives 
the Secretary of War a certain sum each year for prizes, 
medals, etc., fori the matches, and for other expenses 
connected with the work of the National Board. 
_ The National Rifle Association is a voluntary organiza- 
tiorj w'hich has many forms of membership, including 
life and annual members and organized rifle clubs, both 
mihtary and civilian. It receives no aid from Congress ■ 
3 nd is dependent for its revenues on dues, life mem¬ 
berships and donations by persons wishing to become 
patrons or benefactors. Life memberships cost $25, and 
annual memberships $2, while a gift of $500 gives the 
rank of patron, and $1,000 that of benefactor. The 
patrons are given life memberships for themselves, and 
the male members of their immediate families and bene¬ 
factors have mernbership for themselves or their nominee 
in perpetuity. The affiliated membership is open to any 
rifle club or association, regiment, battalion, battery, 
squadron or separate company of the army, organized 
militia, and equivalent naval militia organizations. This ’ 
meinbership is divided into a number of classes, in¬ 
cluding interstate and state associations, regimental and 
civilian clubs, and college and school boy clubs. The 
dues range from $2 to $25 per annum, according to the 
class of membership. The treasurer’s report shows that 
during 1908 the receipts from all sources were $6,850, of 
which $1,525 was received from life members, $683 from 
membership fees for clubs and $980 from annual dues 
of clubs. The) expense of sending a rifle team to the 
Olympic games last year, from which the team returned 
victorious, amounted to $6,445, which w'as all raised by 
subscription. In addition, about $400 was expended in 
welcoming the team_, which was also raised by sub¬ 
scription, and -the National Rifle Association gave the 
members of the team handsome gold medals at a cost 
of $400. 
It will be welcome news to those interested in the 
national rifle matches that Congress has seen fit to again 
throw them open to officers of the National Guard of all 
ranks. In 1908 a clause was included in the army ap¬ 
propriation bill restricting the matches to officers and 
enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and 
National Guard, below the rank of major. At the last 
annual meeting of the National Board for Promotion of 
Rifle Practice the rules for the matches were accordingly 
amended, but in the army appropriation bill effective 
July 1, 1908, the restrictive clause was omitted. With 
the approval of the Secretary of A-Var, the committee on 
rules has therefore revised the rules to permit the teams 
for the national match to include officers of all ranks, 
and to admit to the national individual rifle match and 
to the national pistol match, all such officers and en 
listed men, and in addition, members of the National 
Rifle Association and its affiliated clubs. The change 
will be heartily approved by those interested in military 
rifle shooting. 
Intercollegiale Gallery Championship. 
W^ASHiNGTON, D. C., April 8. —The rifle shooting cham¬ 
pionship of the universities and colleges of the United 
States on indoor ranges goes to the Pacific (loast for 
the first time. The judges appointed by the National 
Rifle Association to examine the targets made by the 
different teams which shot on their home ranges dur¬ 
ing all of last week, report that the team making the 
highest score was that 'of the State College of Wash¬ 
ington. Columbia University, of New York, the winner 
of the trophy last year, was second, and the- University 
of Wisconsin, third. 
This national competition, the second of its kind held 
in this country, is rapidly increasing in favor among 
the universities. It was inaugurated last year and only 
four teams competed; Columbia. University, Yale Uni¬ 
versity, Harvard University and George Washington 
University. This year twenty-one institutions entered. 
Harvard University withdrew before the shoot, owing 
to the team’s inability to secure arms with which to 
shoot. Three other institutions, Drury College, of 
Springfield, Mo., University of Idaho and the (College 
of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn., did not send in their 
scores, leaving seventeen teams in the race. The order 
in which these seventeen universities and colleges fin¬ 
ished, with their scores, are as follows: 
State College of Washington, score, 949; Columbia 
University, 923;_ University of Wisconsin, 918; George 
Washington University, 918: Massachusetts Agricultural 
College, 914; University of California, 908; University 
