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the same methods would doubtless be successful. It is 
understood the National Militia Board will recommend 
that National Guard organizations place their ranges at 
the disposal of the school boys from time to time for 
practice, and that the officers of the National Guard 
assist in instructing the boys. A bill has been intro¬ 
duced in Congress providing for the encouragement of 
rifle practice among school boys and civilian clubs which 
has received the indorsement of the War Department and 
which will doubtless be endorsed by the National Rifle 
Association and the National Board for the Promotion 
of Rifle Practice. In many States there are detachments 
of marine, coast artillery and of the regular army where 
markers and scorers could likely be obtained without 
much trouble or expense. Indoor shoots have beep held 
in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, as well as 
in Washington, and increasing interest is reported from 
other cities. Up to the present time the work has been 
conducted by private individuals, but it is more than 
probable the Government will before long give it sub¬ 
stantial recognition. 
Jan. 12.—Announcement was made to-night at the 
annual meeting of the board of directors of the National 
Rifle Association of America that the Argentine Republic 
had invited the N. R. A. to send a team of American 
riflemen to Buenos Ayres to compete in the inter¬ 
national tournament to be held there in May, 1910, in 
connection with the celebration of the Centennial of the 
Republic, and have made the unprecedented offer to pay 
the entire expenses of the team from the time of leaving 
the United States until its return. In addition, the 
Argentine Republic will provide a number of prizes for 
the tournament, the first being $3,000 in an individual 
match. Gen. James A. Drain, the retiring president of 
the N. R. A. also announced the receipt of a check for 
$1200 from Hon. Robert Bacon, formerly Secretary of 
State and now Ambassador to France, to make good the 
deficit in the revenues of the Association for 1910. Last 
year the deficit was made good by Hon. George Von L. 
Meyer, Secretary of the Navy. Gen. Drain’s announce¬ 
ment was greeted with applause, and on his motion Mr. 
Bacon was elected a benefactor, and Mr. Meyer a 
patron, and both were elected honorary directors for 
life together with Secretary of War Dickinson and Lieut. 
Gen. John C. Bates, retired. 
The meeting, which was held at the New Willard, was 
attended by officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps 
and National Guard, and civilians from all parts of the 
country, and was the largest ever held. In his vale- 
dictory, Gen. Drain, who in his three years’ incumbency 
brought the Association to a high plane of efficiency, 
said he believed the Association had at last become 
national in character as well as name. He thanked the 
members of the board for their hearty co-operation, and 
referred to the increased interest in rifle practice taken 
by the high government officials. He recommended 
that the Association’s matches be conducted in 1910 as 
they were in 1909, by army officers and men. The work 
of the Association, he said, was to educate men and 
youths to the use of the rifle of their country, which 
work is based upon good, sound and wholesome grounds 
of public policy. A nation must be fit to defend itself in 
an emergency or it cannot continue to exist. Gen, 
Drain referred to the Hull bill to advance school boy and 
civilian rifle practice by the loan of arms and the fur¬ 
nishing of ammunition, and urged that it be supported 
with all the strength of the Association. The compara¬ 
tive failure of the rifle club movement to date he ascribed 
to the difficulty of obtaining rifles and the cost of th& 
rifles and ammunition. The Hull bill is indorsed by the 
Secretary and Assistant Secretary of War, Chief of Staff 
and Chief of Ordnance, and its passage, he declared, 
would give this country within a few years from 500,000 
to 1,000,000. 
The report of Lieut. Albert S. Jones, Secretary of the 
Association, showed that there are now affiliated with 
the Association. 32 State rifle associations, 87 regiments, 
53 separate military organizations, 81 civilian clubs, 18 
college clubs and 56 school boy clubs; total 327. The 
largest growth of the vear was in the school boy clubs, 
which increased from 27 to 56. Lieut. Jones reported the 
results of the school boy tournaments in New York, 
Boston, Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles, and of 
the International small-bore match with England and 
Australia, which was won by England. 
A similar match will be shot this year, and the permis¬ 
sion to use telescopes will be of advantage to the Ameri¬ 
can team, which is now being selected. It will be com¬ 
posed of fifty men, each firing fifty shots, at 25yds., 
with ,22cal. rifles. , 
It was announced that the Astor trophy had been won 
for the first time by the Morris High School, of New 
York, and the results of the indoor and outdoor cham¬ 
pionship matches among the university and college clubs 
were given. Indoor matches have been scheduled foi 
the winter between civilian clubs in the Interclub League 
and between college and university clubs in the Inter¬ 
collegiate League. Referring to civilian clubs, Lieut. 
Jones stated that of 81 clubs with 3,500 members only 
347 qualified in 1909, and with Special Course C of the 
War Department for 1910, the number would be less 
without the loan of rifles and free ammunition. “The 
cost of service ammunition is almost prohibitive to 
civilian shooters,” he said. “Governments abroad furnish 
service ammunition to rifle clubs at less than half what it 
costs the Government to make, and if the United States 
is really anxious to encourage rifle practice among its 
citizens it should provide a way to furnish them with 
ammunition at a cost of not more than one cent per 
cartridge.” He urged that the National Guard authori¬ 
ties throughout the country throw open their gallery 
ranges for the school boys and furnish them with in¬ 
structors and rifles to practice with. During 1909, 701 
school boys qualified as Junior Marksmen. 
The second week in January will witness the holding 
of three important meetings in Washington—important 
especially to military men and those civilians interested 
in rifle shooting. On Jan. 12 will be the annual meeting 
of the board of directors of the National Rifle Associa¬ 
tion of America; on Jan. 13, the annual meeting of the 
National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, and on 
Jan. 14 the annual meeting of the National Militia Board. 
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