Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1909, Page 15

'NATIONAL RIFLE MATCHES Great Contests Arranged Under Au- spices of Promotion Board. ON LARGER SCALE THAN EVER Rifle Association W Be fleld at the Time at Camp Perry, o National hes win WASHINGTON, D announeement is made of the program for the natfonal rifle matches under the aus- plees of the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice and those of the National Rifle Assoclation of America, which will be held on the Ohio state range at Camp Perry, Ohlo, In August The preparations for these matches are of & more elaborate scale than ever before and it is belleved that the attendance will exceed that of any previous match. Lieu- tenant Colonel R. K. Evans of the United States cavalry, who Is on duty with the Keneral staff and who has been executive officer of the national matches for the last two years, has been detalied by the War department for this duty in comneetion with the coming national matches, and this year will also act as executive officer for the National Rifle association matches. He will an enlarged personal staff and approximately 100 regular officers of he army will be assigned to duty in con- with the match. About 1,000 en- listed men will be on duty at the range, ¥ifty Teams to Enter. 1t s expected that at least fifty teams representing the states and territories, the infantr®, cavalry, navy and marine corps and the Naval academy will bo entered in he national match. Kach team is entitled to tweive shooting members and three al- lernates, an aggregate of %0. They are 1so entitled to three officers and are us- 1ally aceompanied by more. tn addition there will bo a large attend- wee of unattached members of the Na jonal Guard and ofvillans who will par- felpato fn the individual matches, as well \s teams from regiments, companies and rifie and rovolver clubs, drawn to the range by the maiches above mentioned, and those of the Ohio State Rifle assoclation and Dopar ment of the Lakes Rifie assoclation, and of (he Ohlo National Guard, which will immed.ately precede the national team match. Cong has fer me sing the competitors In the natlonal teas, 0, which will be d in the magei W concrete mess hall erected by th )t Uhto, In which 1,00 men can be fed sitting. Cong. ess has very materlally in- creased the amount of money for prizes in the national team match, the national in- dividusl match and the national pistol match. The Rifle adopted policy returning to the competitors the entire amount of the en- trance fees, less the actual expenses, either it the form of medals or cash prizes Ohio Prize Fine. The Ohio State Rifie association will have A prige list far in excess of previous years end there will be new matches of the Department of the Lakes Rifle assoclation, which will be shot for the first time. The smount of prize momey will thus be in- creased by from $6,000 to §10,000, and the whole program i the most attractive ever oftered for military rifle shooting in this country. The state of Ohio has gener- usly placed at the disposal of the various srganizaticris the magnificently equipped i@ extensive range, with more than 200 argéts. without further cost than the joceszary oxpense of operation. It will \niage and camp equipment . M siriking change has been made in the program for the national team. wa.ch, Horctofore the teams have been entored as one class, with six prizes of- fered, of $0, $200, $150, $100, §75 and ¥50. This year the toams will be divided into thiee classes, to be known as A, B and C, respectively. This classification will be made out the standing of the teams In the Iast natlonal mateh, the first fifteen teams constituting Class A. the next fifteen Class B, and the remainder Class C. States and territories entitled to representation, but rot so represented in 1908, will be added to Class C. There will be four cash prizes in each class, as follows: Class A, first, the national trophy (given by the congress of the United States), $460 in cawh; second, $350; third, $30, and fourth, §60. Class B, first, the Henry A. Hilton trophy and $0: second, $200; third, $26, and fourth, $200. Class C, first, the “Bronse Boldler of Ma thon,” presented by the commander-in-chief In beiialf of the state of New York, and $30; second, $200; third, $175, and fourth, $150. Every member of & prize winning team will recelve a bronze medal, the de- slgn for the three classes being different. Tatal of Prizes Larger. The total prize money in the national match Is thus increased from 3875 to $3,200 and the number of prize winning teams is increased from six to twelve, It will be poticed that the first prize for Class B have nection also National association has the Ak, fvrn o comue A m Need a New Sewing Machine If your wife hasn’t one now, why not buy her one to do her spring sewing We are not anxious to advance the interests of any particular factory, but if you want a sewing machine we will sell it to you—the kind you want -in a business way and at We handle the celebrated ball-bearing ‘‘ WHITE,” ‘STANDARD,"’ April 3.-Official | appropriated 13,000 I8 equal to the second prize in Class A, and the first prizse in Class C is more than the second prise in Class B, the second prise In' Class B being equal te the fourth A. and the second prise in € being the same as the fourth prise B 4 1t might be expected that occasion would arise when a team iIn Cla A might try a little jockeving In order to land & better prize in Class B than it could in Class A or in Class C than it could in Class B This has been providea for by the adop- | ton of a rule that no team shall be eligi- | ble to win a prize In a class lower than the one in which it shall have been rated for the year. Thus a team classified in C can win any prize in the match; those in class B are eligible to the prizes in classes A add B, while those teams which stood among the first fifteen at Camp Perry last year can shoot only for the prizes in class A, Teams in classes B and C making & total soere sufficlent to win any prise in & higher class must take the place and prize In the higher class to which such total score en- titles them. One Prize Per T No team shall be eligible to win more than one prige in the same national match. Hereafter each year the teams competing in the national match will be reclassitied upon the basly of thelr standing in the national match ¢+ immediately preceding. Any team which drops out a year or two will, on again entering the competition, be given & serial number according to fts standing In the last national match in which it shet. As & further preventive of possible Jockeying, the order of fire has been m: torfally changed. Last year the 200-yard rapid fire immediately . followed the 200- yard slow-fire, and the skirmish run came In between the %00.yard stage and the 1,00-yard stage, with which mateh ended. This year the order of fire will be as follows: Two hundred vards, slow fire; 600 yards, slow fire; 800 yards, slow fire; 1,000 yards, slow fire; 20 yards, rapid fire; a skirmish run. Qwing to the possi- bilitles in rapid fire and at skirmish the interest will thus be maintalned until the last shot In the match s fired, for many & team will change its standing in the final stage of the match and every team will go into the skirmish run with the possibility of winning any one of the twelve prizes, for of the highest possible total score of 4200 points, 1,200 of them can be made in the skirmish run, Change in Rules. In accordance with the action of con- gress in limiting entrance to the national matches to members of the National guard and of the regular service, the national board has changed the rules of the na- tional individual and the national platol matches by eliminating therefrom members of the National Rifle assoclation and af- fillated clubs. The order of fire in the national indi- vidual match will be the same as last year. In this match the skirmish run and rapid fire are shot first, In the hope of eliminating from the match after these, stages such competitors as are evidently out of It. Heretofore the prizes have been thirty-six medals, belng twelve ecach of #old, allver and bronze, with gold medals and 80 each for the highest aggregate score in slow-fire, rapid-tire and skirmish. The twelve gold medals were accompanied by cash prizes ranging in value from 30 @own to 5, This yoar there will be twalve additional cash prizes of $ each to accom- pany the bronge medals. Contests with Pistols. Tn the nattona) pistol Match the prizes heretofore have been four gold medals, fout silver medals and four bronze medals, with spectal gold medals for slow-fire, time- fire andl rapid-fire, all being accompanied by cash. This year there will be elght ad- ditional bronze medals to be accompanied by 8 each in cash, The aggregate amount of money to be distributed In the national team match, the national individual match and national pistol match is $4,110. There are no entrance fees to any of the national matches. The National Riffe amsociation matches this year will include several new and very interesting matches, the first of these to be known as the Evans Service Skirmish match, taking ts name from Lieutenant Colonel R. K. Bvans, U. 8 A., who will provide sflver trophy, The conditions are abmlutely unique, being different from those of any other rifle match in the United States. It will be open to teams composed of members of companies, battallons, regl- ment, brigades or dlvisions or authorised onganizations of the National Guard, army, navy and Marine corps, provided that teams will not contain any member who is not a member of the organization or of the Na- tional Guard of the state from whigh the team s entered. The teams will consist of one captain and two squads of one cor- poral and seven privates each. The officers and members of the team may be of any rank or grade. Kueeling Silhowette. The target will be the kneeling sithouette figure mounted on & B target and sixteen targets will be assigned each team. The teams will be shot in pairs. Each man will be given forty rounds of ammunition and the start will be made from a point more than 120 yards from the lne of targets. in Class the J on? Or if your present one is THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE The targets will be exposed anad withdrawn I under the direction of the range officer in eharge, according to a plan previously drafted, the detalla of emch will mot be communicated to the marksmen. Thue they will know when & target is coming up or hiow long it will remain in sight. While the targets are down the teams will ad- vance by command of their captain, but under the general supervision of the range officer as to speed and allignment At each halt before reaehing 530 yards from the target the (eam captaine will announce the distance. by giving a superior and inferior limit, followed by the proper commandes of firing Indicating the ranges to be used. | The manner of determining the winners is as follows: For cvery hit on the target made by a team the opposing team will at once lose & man and his remaining ammu- nition. A target once hit will be immediately withdrawn and will not apear again. The number of shots to be fired at eAch halt will be determined by the captain of the team and for every wrong command glven by @ captain one man in his team will be dropped out. Corporals Will Not Five. The corporals will not fire or be dropped out uatil the battle sfght is ordered at 5% varde, when they will begin shooting. At | the longer ranges they will devote their | entire attention to superintending the fire of their squad. Any man lost by the team will remain at the place where dropped out until the run is completed. will be continued until (a) one tcam has lost all of its men; or (b} both teams Have exbausted all their ammunition. Tn case () the team fot having lost all its men wins. In case (b) tho team losing the ieast men wine. The match will be da. cided by the continued competition of the winners of each run. In addition to the silver trophy, properly irscribed, the wine ring team will receive all of the nat en- tranco fees, of §1 per man, Ineluding the caplains. It is not Improbable that this will amount to $400 or $0. The trophy will become the property of the team win- nirg the match three times. Al other new match of great intérast will be known 4s the marine corps match. For the last few years the marine corps has evinced a great interest in rifle shooting “nd last year its teams made remarkable records both at Camp Perry and Sea Girt, 80 mueh so that the officers of the marine The run | | corps subscribed $1,600. Simultancous Matches. The National Rifle association, having re- cently established an annual membership, the match for the annual members will be shot at the same time as the mateh for the life members. Gold for a trophy to be known as the Marine Corps trophy, which will be shot for in August for the first time. The distance and number of shots will be two sighting shots and twenty shots for record at 60 and 1,00 yards. It will be open to everybody with any mill- tary rifle, any military sight, using any ammunition and shooting in any position. Ten per cent of the net entrance fees will g0 with the trophy, which will be held for one year. The second, third and fourth men will receive 10 per cent and 50 per cent of the total nmet entrance fees, will be di- vided into 8§10 prizes. The entrance fee Is $2 per man, and, as it Is expected there will be at least 300 entrles, there will be something like forty or fifty prizes. In the champlonship revolver team match, for teams of five, a change has been made, limiting it to any unit of the army, navy, organized militia and naval militia, armed with the pistol, whose strength is not larger than a battallon of infantry or a squadron of cavalry, with the exception that a regiment of infantry may enter a team from the commissioned and noncom- misstoned staff officers. ' May Have More Tham One. An organisation may be represented by more than one team, but no man will be permitted to shoot on more than one team. The trophy will be the “silyer target, presented by Robert 8. Hale of Boston, to be held for one year, together with & medal to each member of the team and 20 per cent of the net entrance fees. The other prizes are 30 per cent, 20 per cent and 1§ per cent. A mew rifle match ls that to be known as the individual rapld fire mateh, which will ba open to everybody. The entrance fee Is $2 and the prizes as follows: 30 per cent, 15 per cent and 10 per cent; while 66 per cent will be divided equally among the next competitors, giving to each one & sum equal to 2 per cent less than the third prise, untll the amount avallable is exhausted. Medals will be given in each class, to- gother with five prizes. In the annual members’ mateh 25 per cent of the entrance fee will be divided into 35 primes, which will be in addition to the five percentage prizes. The Interclub Mateh. The interclub match has been changed so as to restriot It to teams of five from elvilian rifle clubs and military companies, provided that no member of the team is a member or alternate of any team compet- ing In the national team match. Great interest among the individual shooters will be attracted by the Leech cup, Wimbledon cup and the president’s matches as well as the military champion- APRIL 4, 1909, Cost new $500.00—on sale Oost new $450.00—on sale Cost new $300.00—on sale Cost new $425.00—on sale Cost new $300.00—on sale An Opportunity beautiful new or all to know the best in tone-quality in pianos today is afforded in our wareroom Our Piano Department Is considered one of the finest in this countr Every piano we show has passed through a process of elimination in which it has been signaled out as the best for the money by careful and most critical comparison with every piano manufactured. 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A wise selection of a piano costs nothing. First and for m )st we urge the Importance o« TONE QUALITY A piano without this worthless—no matter what it costs. Hayde R Leeeh match were as follows: One, the Leech cup and a gold badge; 2, §25; 3, $20; 4 $15; 5, $10; 6, $10; 7, $10, and five prices of $ each. There were 300 entries in this match and based upon this number as that of the estimated number of entries for the next mateh, there Wil be $500 or more to be dlstributed In prizes this year, against $116 last year. The winner this year will| get the cup and a gold badge and 10 per cent of the entrance foes, estimated at $60. The second man will receive 15 per cent, estimated at $%0; the third man, 10 per cent, or $0; the fourth, 10 per cent; the| fifth, 10 per cent, and sixth, 5 per cent, while 0 per cent will be divided into $10 prizes, i Tn Leech Mateh, It is estimated there will be at least thirty prizes in the Leech match this year. | The foregolng is true of the Wimbledon cup match, where the entrance fees are the same and the number of competitors| usually the same as in the Leech match. | The money will be divided on the same basls as In the Leech match. It Is ex- pected there will be about twenty-five or thirty priges, There will probably be 200 entries in the individual long-range Tyro| mateh, where the entrance fee 1s §2. There will be gold, silver and bronze medals, and | the six highest men will receive 10 per cent | each. The remaining 40 per cent will be divided into $10 prizes, of which it is ex- pected there will be a large number. Last year 317 men entered the president's mateh, in which the entrance fee will be this year as follows: To annual apd life | niembers of the Natlonal Rifle association, | $3; all others %, post-entry $2 additional. At the end of the skirmish run all entries are eliminated except the first fifty, but| any competitor mot In the first fifty cin|plant people before their tombstones come | Het'y Greer entrance fee of 82, which was pald by a large number last year. It ls estimated the prize money in this match will be from $1,000 to $1,00. In addition to gold, silver and bronze medals, the first five competi- tors will ‘recelve 10 per cent each; the next tive, 6 per cent each, the next ten will re- celve 24 per cent each and 25 per cent will be divided into $10 prizes Fifty for Pre Tt is possible that there may be as many as fifty prizes In the president's match. In order to encourage the taking out of membership In the Natlonal Rifle associa- tion the entrance fees in a number of matches has been reduced to annual and Jifo members. In the revolver team match the entrance fee will be $7.80 to organiza- tions affillated and $10 to others. chomplonship company team match the fee will be $5 for organizations affiliated and $10 for others. In the champlonship regi- mental team match the fee for affillated organizations will be $10 and for all others it will be $2. In the Leech cup, Wimble- don cup, individual long-range tyro, marine corps and military champlonship matches the entrance fee will be the same for all, but the entrance fee for the president's match will be 83 for annual and life mem- bers of the Natlonal Rifle assoclation, while others will have to pay 8. The annual meeting of the National Rifle assoctation for the election of twelve direc- tors and other business will be held at Camp Perry Friday evening, August 27. 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