| Show CHAMPION MARKSMAN OF UNCLE SAMS ARMY Gunsling Dick Sergeant of the Sixteenth United States InfantryHis Record on the Rifle Range ICoPlrllhl 1S91 The theory that a blue l eye shoals best has been exploited Tho chami Inn markunnn if the I United Slates army has a brown eye With three two brawn ycsh shoots with both ryes opvnhs has beaten all shooting rx onl At all dlitsnces In all IKiilllunn and under nil clrcumitancM Thl champion marksman to I now A member of the Hl > ttnlh Infantry Ills on bronio medal And till lU cold ones Ixar the name Itlrhartt N David ion Thee medals testily Hint In In I the best shot In the whole tnltd Htnlen Attar Hit comrades are ruuil of him and arc Killing to ill him against the world Divldson enlisted In 11M In utO hon won A thin class department hronso modal for marksmanship HIs comrades guyed him raying all his time would un occupied In burnishing hit medal whereupon Davidson replied that ho woul win n medal that would not need burnlihlnr A not he did In IMl ho won the first cold medal In file team Ulonglng la the depart merit of the Platte In Ml ho again carried off the first medal In this ram department with a scor that has never been beaten or 0111 equaled line Till famous scor wni CM 1 > olnl out of Is 1 posslbl IN Later at Port Bherldim Chicago ho captured Ih first data IIIIId medal for moving target Nollro I the object being nl a distance of 100 yards mid moving na fast aa n man moves In ordinary walking line milAn mil-an hour In JIM ht IVAN awarded the n1 rtlillnaulitied maik msn Boll i Irophj the llutrnl medal > Thl < la I the greatest honor Imsilble lo A marksman i In the army Ills wore mi til points i out of a poeilbl tOOTh tOO-Th jtli a veto all won with A Pprlngfleld rifle There has been no contest pinto 1 the new KrAItJornn rillo wai Inlrndiicnl In 1151 However 141 Ito n li I willing la try the new rifle I In a contest with any marksman In the Jn lnJ United mates This track sharpihooter 14 l Alto famous II fa-mous an the n1 rapid marksman In Use army In what In I known aa a half Paw back position In a eklrmlih ho has fired an ArA or 12 shots In M aw I units wbllo olhtra coull dlwharg only seven In she imo limp MilU making HUM rapid Photo ho holds hit gun In A ccullar pualtlon which has caused him to Iw I known throughout the army aa Uunillng Dick A remarkable fact In connection with this wlianl of 11141 rifle by she nay la I thai ht line very wnik rye UILSON ILLET3 I |
