July 24, 1909.] 
'Rifle 'Range and Gallery. 
Fixtures. 
Sept 4-12.—United States Revolver Association annual 
outdoor championship matches. John Taylor Hum¬ 
phrey, Sec’y-'ireas., Box 218, New York. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Grand 
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Nktion&I Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice. 
Washington, D. C. — Those who propose to attend 
the rifle matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, this year will 
be interested in knowing that a larger attendance of 
visitors is promised than at any preceding match. Sec¬ 
retary of War Dickinson, himself a good shot with both 
the military rifle and the shotgun, will be at Camp 
l’erry for several days. Chairman John A. T. Hull of 
the House Committee on Military Affairs, will probably 
spend two or three days on the range, while the entire 
membership of the Senate Committee on Military Af¬ 
fairs is expected at the range for one day. The com¬ 
mittee will be making a tour of inspection of army 
posts at that time, and the itinerary will be arranged 
so as to bring them to Camp Perry for one day if 
possible. Gen. William Crozier, Chief of Ordnance- 
Representative I. R. Sherwood; Senator Dick, of Ohio- 
Representative Edwin Denby, of Michigan; Captain 
Leonard, of the General Staff, and Captain Kerth, As¬ 
sistant Chief of the Militia Division, will be among the 
distinguished visitors. It is a matter of regret that 
President Taft will be unable to arrange his Western trip 
to take m Camp Perry. He is a life member of the 
National Rifle Association, whose matches will follow 
the national matches, and as Secretary of War was 
greatly interested in the work of the N. R. A. and the 
National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, of which 
Assistant Secretary Robert Shaw Oliver is president 
President Taft will write the winner of the individual 
Military championship of the United States a personal 
letter of congratulation. The title goes to the marks¬ 
man who makes the highest record in the National in¬ 
dividual rifle match and the President’s match combined, 
j xt • the regimental and company matches 
of the National Rifle Association, which will be shot at 
Camp Perry, Ohio, in August next, will be thrown 
open to cadet corps. The progress made during the 
preceding year with shooting in the educational institu¬ 
tions justifies the belief that it will be only a few years 
until they are well represented at the national matches. 
Culver Military Institute, of Indiana, sent a team to 
Camp Perry last year for observation and practice, and 
this year will have a team on the ground ready to meet 
all comers Cadets who belong to rifle clubs affiliated 
with the N. R A. will be admitted to all individual 
matches, and their teams will shoot in the interclub 
match. _ Teams from Princeton, Harvard and similar 
institutions, not having cadet corps, will not, of course 
be eligible to shoot in the regimental and company 
marches, but individuals from such clubs can shoot in 
a large number of individual matches. The success of 
the young marksmen in late years gives the impression 
that it teams from educational institutions take to attend¬ 
ing the matches they will make the older marksmen look 
out for their laurels. 
It is probable that not more than forty-five teams 
representing the States, Territories and the regular ser- 
™ e ' w ‘ 1 ’ be on hand to compete at Camp Perry this 
year, lhis will be a decrease of five from the number 
last year. A number of States which do not have 
ranges, or which have ranges which need improvement, 
have reached the conclusion that for the current vear 
rnnLfu, do , more ?V lth the >r money by improving their 
ranges than by sending a team to Camp Perry. In many 
instances they are hard at work preparing for next 
vress 5 f C ° n *n St ‘ xt°- th ? jE 2 - 000 - 000 appropriated by Con¬ 
gress for the National Guard, $500,000 is set aside for 
cCL P rac t ,ce - This sum is apportioned among the 
States, and can be utilized for the purchase and Iquip- 
lS!?‘ w;n ra £, ges ' I 1 ? 3 few years is h °P ed that each 
a ^ ave l east one first-class range 
chase bv r thfl? f c P1 r nion exists as , *? the P r °hable pur- 
a L b I p U ' S. Government of the Ohio rifle range 
it* T ? Perry. _ Its purchase is advocated because of 
has a “rnrth °l- at il? n ’ 2 nd be . cause it is well equipped, 
On th» i ght , “ d requires no artificial backstops, 
onininn F ^ an .^’ t^ere ls a we ^ defined expression of 
■Washington 3 Th t,0I TT r 2 n &c should be established near 
secured S imn , The Fi Man " e Corps has recently 
l crea of Iand at Indian Head, about thirty 
miles down the Potomac from Washington, which will 
sites in'vir^ - th3t - b n r ? nCh ° f the Service A number o! 
heen 2 V wlthm easy reach of Washington have 
sufficient P l a C nH d t by army b ° a - rds W ' t J h a view of acquiring 
a, rffl f d for maneuvering and artillery fire, as well 
? S J'% Practice In addition to a fixed range, the a?my 
nractiVe° US T obtai .ning sufficient land to permit of rifle 
?o™Tl 2 0 M d tn S i e /nrn e condlt,ons - Eventually a tract of 
it i^oFi-l 5 ’, 000 .^ 6 ! m ?- y be Purchased. In this 
m Camp n p t e bbe, r y an t g hat the Government would care to 
Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Association. 
he folWb^’ ^ U,y 17 ~ At Armbruster’s Park, to-day, 
ne toi owing scores were made: 
11 S 4 ° oq r ’o- vA- G- Morgan, 84, 84, 87. 83 91 
Hicks ’ 75 ’ S2 > 8 «- i’ 
Allowing' scores™ Broadway - to ' day > ‘he shoot had the 
fe 1V 83 - 2 T 0yd T s - : pGiouf- A. Wendt, 85, 81, 80; P. 
lavs '90 87 j ' T' T E f. M n 8 :! n ' 86 - 84 - 88 ■ 83 - 83; M. 
HI#W'a'G^ 
-■ ». 87; J. E. Silliman, 89, 89, 83 ’ 83. ’ 
J. E. Silliman, Treas. 
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