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Show RIFLEMEN Til III GDJDJlit" First Outdoor Practice $t cess; Young Men Urge to Take Up Shooting, The first outdoor practice shoo. . ' season was held by the local rifi'1 on the Fort Douglis range Sunfe,.' lng. More than a score of shoot. C " in attendance, aB well as a B'1 ji' spectators, and from tho interest ; : by the participants it seems lit,.,'"' " Salt Lake City will be well rep, In the national matches on the Xt"-' ' sey. coast this year. ' 'u Sunday's event was handled In ,. " mlrable manner by M A tain, and Robert Harltness' rant?' - of the team. Plenty of anim: available and all euu-essed th h as being well pleased'wlth th. Jf"- : accuracy with which the tari;1' handled. larSeis,;. The only real drawback ton,, i champion team in the national t : v this year is the order rocemlv , '.V from the National Ktflo aso',-i.'': !-the !-the effect that eight members .-' team must be men who have no- "" ticipated in any previous nations U ' 1 Of course, Utah has plenty of rid : ers; in fact, every other man one r la a crack shot on anythine IrL ' speedy jack rabbit to the nS ; ": kaisers bobbing around In the "h ' gallery, but most of them aro ton ' ' Z est to display their skill n comL with .the old standbies In the 5, this is -wherein the drawbaek n1 i". Unless a sufficient number ol ntt ' '-' can be induced to turn out for ' once a week, the plan of placing a" team in the matches will haven" abandoned. It makes no dill- ", whether the embryo marksman (;' i' previous experience in the shoolini -J i-or i-or not his ideas of shooting will V ' tirely changed upon his first -the range, and the coach will tm " him into an expert in a very few 1, All that is necessary is good eyesi a desire to become a rifle shot " The trip across the United stit-- the Atlantic coast is really worth -than the remuneration received f year's labor, and the experience -through travel and the meeting ? perlenced rifle shots from all ovf- , country is valuable. To top this ; . the government provides, absolute1 a rifle, plenty of ammunition for ' tice and match shooting, and all rf fare and expenses . while away should prove the opportunity o( i t'me for most any young or'near-H-fello-w. . ' Practice shooting will be taken up Sunday morning on the governs range south of Fort Douglas. It is interesting to note in the lng scores that the men who have I-shooting I-shooting the small bores in the I-matches I-matches are near the top of th; when they take up the Springfiei the outdoor long-range work. RESULTS OF THE EIGHTH IV EVENT. jS"a me. .Score. .1 W. A. Kingsley 1S9 Ora Lee 198 Frank Hogan ' 197 r V. M. McConahy l Robert Harkness 195 i:i Total . 585 RESULTS OF THE FIRST OUT!'' PRACTICE. Name. 300 Yds. 500 Yds. Tot I Van Buren 41 47 8$ Kingsley 45 43 Si Badger 40 45 Si Keyser 44 40 81 Senter 43 42 S4 Arey 42 41 S! Sturgess 40 42 f! Sonnedecker . ...3S 40 73 Winwood 42 o5 77 Richardson 43 .. i. Stokes 40 IS Lee 45 .. o Pembroke 40 .. i Mack 40 .. |