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...navy outshot they army yesterday when it eked out a narrow six 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...
...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...
...yard targets at Ft. Belvoir, Va., Johnsons first outshot Garands in accuracy 404-393), then were outshot (348-405). The Garand seemed to stand up well under 150 rapid-fire rounds, was reasonably accurate. The Johnson was slightly more accurate at 600 yards, slightly slower in firing...
...Guard won the Navy's trophy. The Navy retaliated by winning the Chemical Warfare match. In the Infantry's skirmishers event (teams advancing against targets) the Washington National Guard team- three schoolteachers, four University of Washington undergraduates, three salesmen, a policeman, a farmer, a motion picture operator-outshot all the rest of the civilian groups as well as the services...
...hands of the military for one year was taken the Marine Corps cup when Civilian Richard W. Ballard outshot 1,385 competitors, scoring 99. Happy and proud was he, knowing that no other civilian had done this since...