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...point margin over its land-bound compatriots. Scores of the fifle matches and the lineups of both aggregations were hidden under a thick wall of secrecy, but it was known that it was the first occasion in some time when the Navy Sci boys had proven themselves better marksmen than the Military Science Students...
...bigger, broader tournament, the national rifle and pistol matches became the War Department's baby. Today, through the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the War Department spends $500,000 a year to conduct the Camp Perry matches-sending to the tournament, in addition to picked marksmen from each branch of the service, civilian and National Guard teams representing each State in the U. S. To encourage civilian marksmanship, it offers every civilian contestant a service rifle or pistol, expert instruction, all the ammunition they can fire...
...small-bore title is what most civilian marksmen, the .22-calibre "squirters," shoot at. Winner last week, with a score of 3,187 out of a possible 3,200, was New Haven's Dave Carlson, 26-year-old apprentice toolmaker, who joined a junior rifle club when he was 15, was high man on the U. S. team that outshot 21 other nations in the 50-metre (prone) event at the 1937 world's championships at Helsinki...
...tournament (all others are at 100 birds), another precedent came perilously close to being smashed. Entering the 50-target final round, Miss Laursen was tied with three men at 199 x 200 (99 in her first round, 100 straight in her second), just one shot behind Perfect Marksmen Dick Shaughnessy and Charles Poulton. But, at the final 50, Miss Laursen got jittery, wound up with 246 x 250, had to be content with the women's championship (for the third year...
...Crimson marksmen excelled individually as well as collectively. Meyers of Northeastern was high man with 276 points, and Bedworth of Yale was third with 275. Captain Lem Hyde, with 275, Slim Goldberg with 274 and Les Rusoff with 273, all, of Harvard, however, became the other three of the top fie sharpshooters. Diz Dunbar, 266, and Bill Cooper, 260, were the other Crimson shooters, while Ted Miller and Larry Shaul acted as alternates. Next year's captain and letter winners will be announced later...