Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-06-11 | Page 13 | Gunners Break Records

GUNNERS BREAK RECORDS. Men on the Kentucky Do Some Remarkable Re-markable Shooting. NEW YORK. Juno 10. All records for Shooting with flve-lnrh guns were broken by four gunners of tho flrst-class battleship battle-ship Kentucky on the Northern drilling grounds, twenty miles outsldA Sandy Hook la?t Thursday. One gunner with fourteen shots a minute hit the target thirteen times The second gunner fired thirteen times per minute and hit tho target each time Two other men hnd e.irh twelve hits out of thirteen shots a minute The range t n inun yards and the target tar-get wns twenty-one feet by seventeen feet, consisting of a painted muslin .- n and floated on a raft. Rear-Admiral Evans, who was In command com-mand of the squadron, said It was shooting shoot-ing of which any good American might be proud. "If the squadron had been firing nt an enemy 6alu he. 'there would havo been no enemy in half an hour." Rear-Admiral Evans said that the squadron also established a new wireless tel( t:raph record for warships. Ho said that whllo nt Newport News the Kentucky Ken-tucky communicated with the cruiser Maryland off Cape Cod, Mass., 500 miles away. An eighty-word message was received re-ceived without a break.