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Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice. 
Washington, D. C., April 30.—An earnest effort will 
be made this year to have the Military Academy at West 
Point represented at the National rifle matches, to be 
shot at Camp Berry, Ohio, in August. While the War 
Department is encouraging rifle snooting in the army 
and National guard in every way possible, even to setting 
aside $500,000 of the annual National guard appropria¬ 
tion for this purpose alone, and while the navy is pro¬ 
gressing by leaps and bounds, the National military 
academy still holds back. Without unfavorably criticiz¬ 
ing the academy authorities for the apparent lack of in¬ 
terest in this most essential feature of a soldier’s quali¬ 
fications, Brig. Gen. Bird W. Spencer, in the current 
number of Army and Navy Life, strongly contrasts the 
course of the military academy with that of the naval 
academy. Gen. Spencer was a member of the board of 
visitors to the military academy last year ,and gave the 
lack of rifle practice there much consideration. He 
points out that the success of the naval academy last 
year when it finished sixth in a field of forty-eight teams 
disproved the current opinion that no team could hope 
to finish among the prize winners unless composed 
largely of seasoned marksmen. “The difficulty at \V est 
Point seems to be the belief that the time for this work 
is too limited,” says Gen. Spencer, “but if I were the 
Comandant of Cadets I would make more time, even at 
the expense of something else.” After quoting the re¬ 
port of the committee on small-arms practice and the 
memorandum of Col. Robert L. Howze, Commandant 
of cadets, in connection therewith, Gen. Spencer quotes 
Lt. Col. R. K. Evans, executive officer of the last 
National matches, and who will be in charge this year, 
as follows: “Many competitors and spectators com¬ 
mented with surprise on the fact that although oppor-. 
tunity was given in orders, yet the U. S. Military 
Academy was not represented in the National match. 
In these comments attention was frequently invited to 
the fact that rifle practice is more especially the busi¬ 
ness of the army than the navy, and that while the 
military academy has time and enthusiasm for football, 
baseball, polo and tennis, it is absent from the National 
rifle match where the naval academy wins conspicuous 
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Continuing, Gen. Spencer comments: 1 hat the navy 
blue will humble the proud wearers of the gray in a 
rifle contest some day, unless the_ military academy 
‘wakes up,’ is a foregone conclusion. If the naval 
academy can produce the results which they did in 1907 
without seriously interfering with the education of the 
midshipmen in all their other duties, cannot the mili¬ 
tary academy find the necessary time to produce equally 
good results? The authorities at West Point do not con¬ 
sider it practicable for cadets to attend rifle competitions. 
Probably that ought to settle it in the minds of every¬ 
body, but I am sorry to say. I am yet to be convinced 
that it is impracticable to train a team which will re¬ 
flect credit on West Point by its victories, any more 
than it is impracticable to train a team to redound to 
the credit of Annapolis, as has been done in 1907. 
Neither baseball nor football can be used in. the life of 
the officer soldier. They of course serve to develop the 
muscle and develop the man, but wars are not fought 
with baseball bats or by kicking a bag of leather. On 
the contrary, rifle shooting is not only a clean sport, lout 
serves to develop the man as well, his eyes, his heart 
and every fibre of his being. He must be the highest 
type of athlete to shoot successfully, to score well in 
skirmish runs and to keep his head under trying circum¬ 
stances. Maybe it will take an executive order to bring 
the military academy team to the National inatch. If so, 
by all means let us have it, and at once.” 
At a meeting of the executive committee of the 
National Rifle Association, held in Washington, 
it was decided to send a team to London 
to compete in the Olympic Games this summer. A 
feature of these games will be a number of rifle matches 
on the famous Bisley range. The American team will 
consist of six shooters and probably two substitutes with 
a captain and quartermaster. A competition will be 
held on some range yet to be selected during June, at 
which the team will be selected. Any American marks¬ 
man will be eligible for the competition. The team will 
enter the international contest, each man firing 20 shots 
at 200, 500. GOO, S00, 900, and 1,000 yards using the new 
Springfield rifle. There will also be a team match at 
300 meters with any rifle, an individual match with 
military rifles at 1,000 yards, an individual match at 300 
meters in which any rifle can be used. There will be 
no cash prizes, but the countries represented by the 
winners will be credited’ with a number of points to¬ 
ward the total which gives athletic supremacy. 
Arrangements will be made by the National Rifle As¬ 
sociation for an intercollegiate match in June. Teams 
have been promised from Harvard, Yale, Columbia Uni¬ 
versity, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, etc. An 
inter-school match will also be aranged to be shot 
telegraphically. There are now about, thirty school¬ 
boy rifle clubs affiliated with the National Rifle As¬ 
sociation. 
Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Association. 
New York, May 2.—Scores made at Armbruster’s Park 
follow: _ 
Revolver, 50yds.: P>. F. Wilder 91, 93, 86, 86, 88, 82, 81, 
91; T. Anderton 93, 94 , 91, 90, 88; W. F. Hutchinson 79, 
80, 69', 80; W, L. Buchanan 80, 81, 76, 79, 83. 79, 82, 74; 
H. L. Seek el 79, 88, 76, 76, 77, 83, 76, 79, 78, 68; J. E. 
Silliman 88, 86, 90, 82, 86. 
Rifle, 200yds.: W. II. ’ French 218, 223, 227, 232; W. J. 
Coons, 205. 231. 202; M. Hays 211, 205; J. E. Silliman 
216, 221, 216, 226. , 
At 2628 Broadway, April 30, scores were made as fol¬ 
lows : _ 
Revolver, 20yds.: B. F. Wilder 89, 87, 86, 85, 85; R. M. 
Ryder 92, 84, 86, 86, 85; A. Knowlton 85, 73; H. A. 
Reitzenstein 78; Dr. C. Phelps S6, 79, 77, 73, 71; Mr. 
Blanchard 91; W. L. Buchanan 83, 78, 77; J. E. Silliman 
91, 86, 81. „ „ 
Jos. E. Silt.iman, Treas. 
