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and all shooting is carefully watched by him. Every 
year there are community matches, every two years 
intercounty matches, and every five years a national 
civilian match. This match is generally held in Rome, 
and the occasion is made a legal and popular holiday. 
The government gives free railroad tickets to* repre¬ 
sentatives from the various branches, while other marks¬ 
men who attend are allowed 75 per cent, discount on the 
cost of railroad tickets. In the last match, which lasted 
fifteen days, about 30,000 men took part. The list of 
prizes had among the donors the King and Queen of 
Italy, members of Parliament, the cities, the counties, 
the government, ladies of nobility and others. The 
giving of the prizes is attended by the civil and military 
authorities. The King gives the prizes to the first three 
men in each class. 
In Switzerland there are more than 3600 shooting 
societies, with over 200,000 members. In 1902, the date 
of the last report received, 84,309 members qualified as 
marksmen. If the same ratio were maintained in pro¬ 
portion to population, the United States would have 
4,280,000 marksmen. 
The government of Sweden annually appropriates $153,- 
780 toward rifle practice, which is apportioned among 
grants to rifle clubs, to the national shooting societies, 
for ammunition, target ranges, target prizes, printing, 
etc. In 1905 there were 1850 rifle clubs in Sweden. 
National Rifle Association of America. 
Washington, D. C., April 4 .—Editor Forest and Stream: 
I beg to hand you herewith copy of a letter which is self 
explanatory. C. S. Jones, Sec’y. 
Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs. 
London. March 23, 1910. 
Albert S. Jones, Esq.. Secretary National Rifle Associa¬ 
tion of America, Plibbs Buildings, Washington, D.C.: 
Dear Sir:— 
Re International Match. 
Some recent changes in the management of this society 
under which, inter alia, I have been appointed secretary 
in place of Mr. Marks, have, I regret, caused delay in 
carrying out the preliminaries essential to the short range 
rifle match arranged between us. 
This, I hope, will not, however, involve more than the 
extension of the time for the completion of the shooting. 
As targets have also to be sent to Australia, to* save delay 
I have invited the United States Embassy here to put 
an identification mark on all the targets to be used in 
the match. 
I now send herewith 250 double targets for the use of 
your team. The following, I gather from the correspond¬ 
ence, are the conditions agreed upon for the contest: 
Teams of fifty men. Distance, 75ft. Fiftv shots per 
man, 5 shots to be fired at each target. The S. M. R. C. 
Standard Decimal target; any competitor to be at liberty 
to. color as much of the target black as he may desire. 
Rifle any. Sights, any, including telescope sights. Posi¬ 
tion, any authorized position used by the riflemen of the 
country in which the team is competing. Ammunition, 
any, provided the caliber does not exceed .23, or 6 milli¬ 
meters. 
The winning team will hold Sir Thomas Dewar’s chal¬ 
lenge trophy for twelve calendar months, and this society 
will present silver souvenir medals to each of the win. 
ning team. 
It is left to you to make such arrangements as to 
witnesses, etc., as shall insure that the conditions of the 
match are rigidly complied with by each competitor. 
I suggest the week ending June 11 next for the match, 
cablegrams announcing the scores to be exchanged on 
June 16. Should this, for any reason, appear to you in¬ 
convenient, the society would accept another date, not 
earlier, if suggested in time for me to communicate with 
Australia. 
The Society has been invited to open this match to 
other countries; indeed, it is the wish of the donor of 
the trophy, and I should be glad of your opinion upon 
the matter. Yours faithfully, 
(Signed) N. Lake, Colonel, 
Secretary. 
P. S.—With reference to paragraph 2, of this letter, I 
have been unable to make arrangements with the Ameri¬ 
can Embassy for marking the targets. All targets to be 
used in the match have therefore been stamped in my 
presence with the motto of this society—“Look Forward.” 
Philadelphia Rifle Association. 
Philadelphia. —The Philadelphia Rifle Association 
held its first outdoor competition for 1910 on Saturday, 
April 2, at its range, Lansdowne avenue and Cedar lane 
(near Llanerch, Pa.). The fine^ weather brought out a 
good number and many scores were shot. A pleasant 
surprise awaited the members when they found the club 
house and the target pits 'connected by telephones, a 
great improvement over the old method of shouting 
through a megaphone. This improvement is due to the 
personal work of Range Master Harry A. Dill, assisted 
by his nephew, R. Dill, and by Dr. Palmer, who kindly 
donated the apparatus. The scores made by the rifle and 
pistol shooters were as follows. 
The range will be open regularly every Saturday after- 
non and legal holidays through the week by special ar¬ 
rangement with the range master. 
Record match, 200vds., rifle: G. Scbnerring 227, 216, 
217, 210, 209; E. Williamson 204, 195. 190. 185, 182; R. L. 
Dubbs 208, 192, 191; H. M. Shaw 191, 182, 160. 
Honor target, 3 shots, silver medal: G. Scbnerring 73, 
E. Williamson 62. 
Military match: H. A. Dill 43, 41, 38; H. M. Shaw 38; 
Dr. E. A. Palmer 37. 
Pistol match, 50yds.: Dr. E. A. Palmer 92, S9, 86, 82, 
82, 80, S4, 84. 
D. W. Stubbs, Sec’y. 
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