Show BY SOLDIERS SOLDIER r MARVEL OF AC ACCURACY RAI Great Records Made by Urn Uncle Sams Sam's Men in Target Contests Washington Tul Tul Almost lovable able art or some or of th the target t r of Uncle Sams Sam's riflemen sta- sta In th time who will viii start Cor or the United States to for or a 1 place on the arm army teams to 0 shoot In the he great national matches to 0 be at Camp Perry Ohio In ug Aug- 1St Most of the practice b by the crack In the Philippines has been Ute tile skirmish system which provides n a severe test on no- no To understand what shooting I the he e skirmish J system means Imagine a aman atan man an tan dressed dr s ed In khaki whose color melts me Into rito to tho lie background of or dirt or burn burned rass n so that at nt 60 yards ards he ho 1 Is almo almost visible Invisible in lii n target et practice this mi man manI lEI I 11 by b a sized life Ue- Ue dummy The inn riflemen stand on a line lino tWO yan yards away way ray from a n dirt embankment vh wh n the ie c head anti and shoulders of time tho dumn dumm dummy arc re e exposed above the tho embankment roe seconds The dummy Is supposed suppose to rm bo bl the time enem enemy and three seconds Is lie tho length of time It would n nIre re- re Ire the Ito enemy to take aim fire tire ar and dge out of or sight Ight As soon as a the th enemy my appears tl the thc Idlers fire and anti continuo continue to fire Ire i as ig ng Jis UI the tIme enemy nem Is In sight As soc soon as S the h head u nd and arul shoulders ers disappear the ic men start toward till thu embankment behind elminti which the enemy enem I Is concealed as fast t as they the cnn can run reloading tho thons their guns tins ns as they go gohen When hen the thc enemy appears again ns-aln th men ien n fall fail to thu tho lie ground and amid fir fire hout tho thin three seconds tit tho hen hend head hend and 01 d shoulder Is exposed as 85 Cast ast as pbs pbs- sible ile When the enemy disappears th the tho thomen men en n again B aln leap to their feet an and in inyard run toward yard oward the enemy nemr until ho lie rapp reappears reappear when lien they again n throw lit themselves cs t ts to the ho s ground and fire In practice tn the enem nemy my appears every t ten n seconds his advancing and firing airing Is repented five e halts have been heen made th thlire the gore lire having hn been hee exposed four Cour times time Cor or three seconds each and the soldier ha Mug advanced ld Is 19 within 20 OO arts ds of the Time ho enemy Is then than examined ant and I ItI It ItIs Is I found that bo ho has 8 been ln pierced 2 25 os tho tim soldiers having used 30 0 o oro or OJ more ro rounds roun s of oC ammunition This i iId isField Is Held Field Id 1 under approximate wn war n an and Is what lInt thc they are aro doing In I the time Philippines and contemplate template on do- do mg In tho the United States State Captain R R. I IF H. 1 Allen of oC the thin Twenty Twenty- Infantry nOw how in the Philips Philip Philip- ines s who wh J will compete for or a n on ri tho time army arm team holds time the record for foi shoo mooting ling under the theu lie Australian u skirmish V em Beginning at rno fIJO yards nr s lu lie red 1 40 JO shots lots at the silhouette tte target find and making 3 ao 10 stopping opping ping at al OO yards hils its Captain Allen Alien a n shot ov rj second cond md and nod u a quarter that the tue target exposed and amid firing was possible as I and itt three out of or every four shots tenant found their dr r lodgment In itt the time head hC and shoulder der mr of an ami nil enemy peering over o the t. t By B the time time we have hn reached the time Allen ABen yard 0 yard line saul said Captain while bile 0 in Washington l. It Il ls is I sato safo to sa say sayat that at every ever man than of or the who has Ml d his imis heat heal al above o the tho ho embank embank- t- t has mento-has ent thas been killed Ol I or disabled and Our subsequent f Js attended with tic s hanger danger When hen wo we 0 started tho the total of ot skirmish practice a A record Hi shots lots on a figure Was vIas a good i- i several weeks week of or practice the tho team ant 1 averaged a 25 hits per man No Xo them themselves es el over enemy ly could commit expo expose o fire lire shots to long enough voik st s and id live 11 In tho time face of an nn attack b by Ruch cit sharpshooters I |