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Show jJL E. P. lUffi COiJTESTSAT LEIiS Shooting Competition Accounted Ac-counted Most Important in History of Army. I.CM.WS, May i. V,y tap AssAcaated I'ress.)ln the pre.-enae of Gent-r.fl John J. I'crsaiai;, can ma mlcr in chief of the : American expeditionary forces, and other ! liih officers of tho army, the A. 1H. F. ri.'le, pistol and muske-ry competi;ion, ac-, ac-, cu-anted the greatest marksmanship tour-tianient tour-tianient In the history of the United s'lales army, was opened on the d'Avours ranue, near Lonians, today. Genera! 1'ershln;,-. addressintr the contestants, con-testants, said It was an honor to be selected se-lected lo compete in a contest of this kind ami spoke of the importance of accurate shooting and the distinction which skill : w!lh the rifle bestows upon Ks possessor, j He nr' d tlie officers and men to carry i with them, wnethe.r the future lay with j the regular army, the national iriaird or t civilian life, the rcinitHU-r that palnstaii- ' im.; training and profich'tify in the use of firearms is a great national, as well as a Krc;Tt personal, asset. The scores today were preliminary slow fire at i'"1 yards, a')' yards and 000 yards and ranid fire at ."'' 0 and tiOi) yards. Qualificaiion scores ill probably bet: in tomortaiw a fternoon. lrlvate Karl Kennedy, a former Texas national tr nanism an, from the Hist infantry in-fantry stood at the lop of the list with . a score of 19 out of a possihle 10. lie beat Captain Augustus B. Hale, Sixth ma-cliine-Kiin battalion, a noted army siiot, bv two points. 'The scori-s of the next highest were: Lieutenant Kdgar H. Gerber, iioadiiuar-tcrs iioadiiuar-tcrs First It. KIT. Sergeant Joseph W. Tog'ac, Kleventh marines, 1". i.'aptain . V. "Walker, Sixth marines; Serjeant Guy It. Smith, Fifth marines; Captain AYaftor A. Meyer, army occupation occupa-tion center, and Sergeant Dave Grauber, oOtUh engineers. 1 each, Lieutenant Highland Michel, M2nd infantry; in-fantry; Sergeant Rubc-l J. Smrukal, Fifty-sixiit infantry; Senrennt A':ilter Bohreii, lllih infantry; (orporal J. J. Patterson, Sixth marines; Sergeant Theodore Theo-dore K. Crowlev, Fifth marines; Private Frank S. Spacliola. aTilst infantry. . and Serjeant Y. 11. Haines, 130th marines, 131 caeli. Lieu1e?;int James C. LKtell, Forty-sov-pnth infantry: Corporal Joseph Hoeklem. First ammunition I rain: Private Thomas Klmer. Xinth infantry; Private W. Zimmerman, Zim-merman, Sixtieth infantry; Serjeant John P. Hall. Sixtieth infantry; Private J. J. McCarthy. Twenty-sixth infantrv; Captain H. C. Fuller, tnarino corps, and Sergeant J. F. "Walters, Thirteenth marines, 132 each. |