Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1910 — SERGEANT GANGLOFF WAS HIGH MAN IN ALBION SHOOT. [ARTICLE]

SERGEANT GANGLOFF WAS HIGH MAN IN ALBION SHOOT.

Company M’s Top Sergeant Carried Off the Honors in Battalion TryOut on Strange Range. John B. Gangloff, first sergeant of the ,local militia company and for several years a good rifle shot, was easily the best of the twenty-seven contestants at the battalion try-out at Albion which concluded Friday morning, and not only outshot all the others at almost every range but established a score high enough to cause his company members to feel certain that he will be able to qualify as a member of the team that will represent Indiana at the annual national match to be held at Camp Perry, Ohio. Sergeant Jerry B. Garland, Lieutenant True D. Woodworth and Corporal Harrison Timmons also were successful in making scores that place them on the battilion team of fifteen. Garland was sth man, Woodworth 12th and Timmons 14th. X The competition at Albion was expected to be very spirited and Company M had hardly expected to have the high man, as the Albion company had two men on the state team last year and is the home of Captain Black, regarded as the best military riflemdn in the state. Black was not eligible to this competition, as he is no longer a member of the battalion, but the state inspqctor and instructor of rifle practice. He had taken a great interest in coaching the Albion company and it was expected that Albion would get about all the team. Lieutenant Valorious Clear was the third best in the state competition last year and Lieutenant Earl Smith and Sergeant Baldwin were well to the front. Gangloff went right after the .best shots in championship form and closed with a total of 211 points, while the second men, Lieutenants Smith and Clear, each had 197, Sergeant Baldwin had 195 and Sergeant Garland,/ of Rensselaer, had 189. The other qualifying scores ran down as low as 138, Corporal Timmons just getting in at the figure. Gangloff made high score at 200 yards rapid fire; high score at the skirmish run; second high at 200 slow fire, and second high at 1,000 yards. He shot consistently at all ranges. Lieutenant Clear was 6 points ahead at the conclusion of the 200, 600 and 1,000 yard ranges, but Gangloff shot the splendid score of 40 in the rapid firing at 200 yards and Clear made but 30. This gave the local, militiaman a lead of 4 points and in the skirmish run Gangloff improved his lead ten points, making 60 to Clear’s 50. Lieutenant Smith, of Columbia City, and Sergeant Baldwin, of Albion, had in the meantime, been climbing up on Clear’s score and Smith tied him, while Baldwin was only 2 points behind and Sergeant Garland was only 8 points behind. As the competition was held at “battle sight” instead of “peep” elevation, which the local riflemen had practiced with, they worked at a considerable disadvantage. The shoot was a very fine one, the camp site fine, and the range, although on very rolling ground, was a good one. There is a prpbability that next year’s battalion match will be held on the range of the local company, at Parr. The regimental shoot, which will be attended by Sergeants Gangloff and Garland, Lieutenant- Woodworth and Corporal Timmons, will probably be held week after next at Culver. The state match will follow at Fort Benjamin Harrison and the national match will take place in August at Camp Perry, Ohio Rensselaer hopes to land two or three men on the state team.