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National Board for the Promotion of 
Rifle Practice 
Washington, D. C., Feb. 1.—School boy rifle practice 
has made such strides within the past few months that 
those most interested in the movement expect that by 
Spring there will be a large number of clubs organized 
and hundreds v of school boys practicing on the ranges. 
Inaugurated about a year ago in New York city, under 
the auspices of the Public Schools' Athletic League, the 
undertaking has the hearty support and backing of tire 
.National Rifle Association, the National Board for 'lie 
Promotion of Rifle Practice, and the War Department. 
All have recommended to Congress an appropriation of 
$100,000 for arms, ammunition and prizes and the ex¬ 
pense of conducting contests open only to school boys 
or students of colleges and universities on the order of 
the one recently held in New York city. The average 
boy takes to a gun like a duck to water, an inheritance 
in most instances from his liberty-loving forefathers, to 
whom the knowledge of firearms was often a necessity. 
Restrictions imposed by city authorities upon the use 
of firearms and the disappearance of small game from 
the adjoining country has hitherto deprived many a 
youth from gratifying his love of this sport, at least 
until he became old enough to travel some distance after 
game or to join the militia or a man’s rifle club. As a 
result where one youth becomes proficient in the art 
of marksmanship a hundred grow to manhood without 
ever having more experience than that picked up from 
the use of an air-gun or a sparrow rifle, obtained by 
surreptitious practice. 
For a nation of the size of the United States, and for 
a people whose proficiency with firearms is to a large 
extent an .inherited talent, there is a great dispropor¬ 
tion between the number of men available for military 
service, and the number of men who can handle a mili¬ 
tary rifle creditably. Dependent as we are on the militia 
and volunteers when a resort to arms becomes ‘neces¬ 
sary, it follows that the first call to -arms would bring 
forth young men almost exclusively. Experience has 
demonstrated that such young men can be quickly 
trained in the use of a rifle, but they must also be in¬ 
structed in drilling, camp sanitation, and the other 
essential features of a soldier’s life. When it becomes 
necessary to construct companies, regiments, brigades 
and corps out of raw material, there will be little time 
for rifle practice. 
Under modern conditions the instruction of boys in 
shooting is attended with substantially no danger what¬ 
ever. First, they are taught to aim and fire a gun at¬ 
tached to a machine known as a “sub-target machine.” 
No ammunition is used in connection with this con¬ 
trivance, but the gun is connected with a needle-iike 
rod, so that it registers on a miniature target the point 
where the bullet would have struck on the regulation 
target had the gun been loaded. It is by no means a 
toy, for it has been adopted by the navy and many 
militia companies, and several thousand such machines 
are now being constructed for the French army. After 
the boys become proficient in aiming, they are put at 
work on ,22cal. rifles, which are of the same weight and 
which have the same sight as the regular army rifles. 
With the reduced distances and targets, the same re¬ 
sults are obtainable indoors as outdoors, except for 
light, wind and mirage, and by an ingenious system qf 
allowances for these problems may be worked out in¬ 
doors as well as on the open ranges. -After the stu¬ 
dent is thoroughly grounded in holding and sighting the 
,22cal. rifle, and learns how to correct his sights so as 
to allow for wind, he is taken on the range, and for the 
first time allowed to shoot the regulation cartridge in 
the army gun. By this time it is to be presumed he, is 
sufficiently familiar with its use that neither he nor 
his comrades will be in any danger from its handling. 
The recent tournament in New York for schoolboys 
and college students was most successful. The first 
night eighteen schoolboys won junior marksman medals 
with scores ranging from 43 to 49 out of a possible 50, 
firing five shots prone and five shots standing. Although 
intended principally for high school boys, other boys 
were permitted to shoot, the youngest being only ten 
years of age. Matches were arranged on the sub-target 
gun machine between various schools as well as with the 
.22cal. rifle. In the university match, Columbia, George 
Washington, Cornell, Harvard and Yale were represented 
by teams of four, finishing in the order named with only 
40 points difference between the two extremes. P. 
Agramonte, of Columbia, made a possible, which means 
the highest score possible, offshoulder, and K. Kroger, 
also of Columbia, made a possible, prone, as did J. W. 
Pattison, of George Washington, and M. C. Allen, of 
Harvard. The schoolboy team match, open to teams rep¬ 
resenting any public or private school in the United 
States not giving collegiate or university degrees, six 
on the team, was won by the Curtis (N.ew York city) 
High School, with a score of 509 out of a possible 1000. 
, The Commercial High School team lost by only one 
1 point, 568; Manual Training High School came in with 
9 5G4, and Morris High School with 563, and De Witt 
Clinton school with 561. Fourteen teams were entered, 
including the Paterson, N. J., High School, St. John’s 
Military School, New York Military Academy, Stam¬ 
ford (Conn.) High School, and Pingry School, of Eliza¬ 
beth, N. J. About two hundred schoolboys won the 
junior marksman’s medal, given for a minimum score of 
42, of which at least 20 must be made offshoulder and 
22 prone, out of a possible total of 50. 
A large number of prizes, medals, etc., were dis¬ 
tributed, and it is estimated at least 22,000 shots were 
fired in the competitions. 
Philadelphia Rifle Association 
The following scores were recorded Jan. 28, at the in¬ 
door range, 1506 Washington avenue: 
Rifle, at 25vds., possible 250: Goddard 238, 241; Dubbs 
236, 241; Hubbard 236, 239; Selin erring 239; Walker 231, 
233; Smith 231, 231; Blanchard 231. 
Pistol at 20yds., possible 100: Smith 81. 83 , 83, 86, 87; 
Spering SO, 83, 85, 87; Palmer 67, 69, 73, 82; Smith 69, 73. 
