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'Rifle Range and Gallery. 
National Board for Promotion of 
Rifle Practice. 
Washington, D. C., April 25.—The “Report of Rifle 
Shooting in the United States for the year 1909, issued 
by the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, 
which has just been put in circulation, is a document 
which will be of much interest to all devotees of the 
sport. It is the most comprehensive document of the 
kind yet gotten out by the National Board, and is pro¬ 
fusely illustrated. It contains extracts from the reports 
of the executive officer of the national matches of 1909, 
Col. R. K. Evans, U. S. A., who is also executive officer 
for the matches of 1901. All the scores of the winning 
teams in the national match are given. There is also a 
copy of the bill for the promotion of rifle practice among 
the schools, universities and civilian clubs, with extracts 
from the report of the Secretary of War. In the report 
of the National Rifle Association, which is included in 
the report of the National Board, citizens are told how 
to organize government rifle clubs and the regulations 
governing the same are set forth at length. The rules 
and regulations under which arms and ammunition for 
such clubs may be purchased from the government, to¬ 
gether with the prices of the United States magazine 
rifle and ammunition, as well as revolvers and ammuni¬ 
tion, are given in detail. Interesting information is given 
in regard to rifle practice in institutions of learning. In¬ 
structions are given as to the organization of schoolboy 
rifle clubs, and a copy of the by-laws of such clubs, to¬ 
gether with a brief history of the rifle practice movement 
in institutions of learning. Various indoor and outdoor 
interscholastic and intercollegiate matches for 1909 are 
reviewed at length. The intercollegiate outdoor cham¬ 
pionship for 1909 is held by the George Washington Uni¬ 
versity Rifle team, of Washington, D. C., which won 
the trophy from teams representing Columbia University, 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, University of Penn¬ 
sylvania, and Delaware College, the matches being held 
at Sea Girt, N. J., June 19, 1909. The intercollegiate 
indoor championship is held by the State College of 
Washington, which won it from seventeen other com¬ 
petitors. During the year the competition was held. 
Thirty-seven preparatory schools entered teams _ of ten 
pupils each, and the match was won by the Morris High 
School team of New York city. 
An interesting review is given of the outdoor rifle 
tournaments held for the benefit of the schools of the 
District of Columbia on the National Guard range last 
November, and also of schoolboy indoor shooting tourna¬ 
ment, held in New York city, Philadelphia, and Balti¬ 
more. Complete plans for the construction of both in¬ 
door and outdoor ranges are also contained in the report. 
Secretary of War Dickinson has selected the officers 
to conduct the tests of the ammunition manufactured by 
the Government and by private concerns, which will de¬ 
termine what ammunition is to be used in the national 
matches of 1910, and in the preliminary practice. The 
personnel is as follows: General Bird W. Spencer, of 
New Jersey, and General James A. Drain, of Washing¬ 
ton, representing the National Guard for Promotion of 
Rifle Practice; Major W. H. Palmer, Seventh Infantry, 
New York National Guard, and Captain Charles H. Cole, 
First Corps of Cadets of Massachusetts, representing the 
National Guard, and Captain G. H. Stewart, of the Ord¬ 
nance Department, U.- S. A. 
The trials will take place at Sea Girt, N. J., where the 
concrete bases for the machine rests, which were in¬ 
stalled in 1909 for similar tests, are still available. The 
War Deparament has ordered one million rounds of am¬ 
munition from each of the four ammunition companies 
equipped to make such ammunition, and the Frank- 
ford, Pa., arsenal furnishes a similar number of rounds. 
All the ammunition is to be ready by May 1, and the 
tests will take place soon after that date. 
The National Rifle Association of America has selected 
Saturday, June 18, as the date for the outdoor cham¬ 
pionship team match for universities and colleges. The 
match will be shot on the range of the National Guard 
of the District of Columbia at Washington, D. C., and 
preparations will be made to give the college students in 
attendance such entertainment as the facilities of those 
interested admit. The intercollegiate championship match 
is open to teams of six from any university, college or 
institution conferring degrees, members of the teams to 
be in full academic standing in the undergraduate years 
of the institution represented. Each contestant fires two 
sighting shots and ten shots for record at 200, 300 and 
500 yards, with the standing position at 200yds., the 
kneeling at 300yds., and the prone at 500yds. The .30cal. 
military rifle must be used with any ammunition. 
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