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Sixty-seven years ago, when the National Rifle Association held its first tournament, sportsmen ran the show. But in 1903, when Congress recognized the N. R. A. and appropriated funds to help stage a 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...
...Navy-owned tools) within eight months. Curtiss-Wright Corp. accepted a $323,000,000 order for 20,000 more engines, 14,000 propellers, will be in production nn the order by next July. -Said Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, announcing the Pratt & Whitney order: "These fellows, as good sportsmen, are willing to take a chance even before Congress votes the funds...
This year, just a whip's crack from Westbury's famed old Meadow Brook Club, another hardy sport will bloom in September. On the site of the barren Roosevelt Raceway, into which four years ago a group of Eastern sportsmen sank $1,000,000 with the hope of bringing auto racing back to the East, another group of Eastern sportsmen has just sunk $100,000 to revive harness racing...
...group of sportsmen, having pitched camp, set forth to go bear hunting. They walk 75 miles due south, then 75 miles due east, where they sight a bear. Bagging their game, they return to camp and find that altogether they have traveled 45 miles. What was the color of the bear...
...speedy faltboot of the type used by German rapids-shooting sportsmen, the fleet will consist of canoes, kayaks, single sculls, wherries, and assorted skiffs. The H.C.A.A. has under consideration an amendment to its constitution which would permit small power boats to join in the venture. If so, they will be required to remain a respectful distance behind the manually propelled craft...