Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1910 — Garland Finishes Sixteenth in State Rifle Competition. [ARTICLE]

Garland Finishes Sixteenth in State Rifle Competition.

Captain Geo. H. Healey and Sergeants Jerry B. Garland-and Don P. Warren returned this morning from the Fort Benjamin Harrison rifle range, where they have been for the past eleven days, the former as a range officer, Garland as a rifleman and Warren in charge of the rifltf pit detail. Garland done some very remarkable shooting and was only 9 points behind making the team that will represent Indiana at the national match at Camp Perry, Ohio. After making the third regimental team, Garland was one of 90 to shoot for the state team and then the 28th man in the 36 high to enter the elimination match for the Selection of the highest 24. He Just got in as the 24th man in this shoot and entered the final contest for the selection of the team of 15. He finished as the 16th man, only 9 points behind the 15th place. Monday in the expert’s match he ran a skirmish of ’93 points, which is only 7 short of the possible score and is the next highest skirmish made in Indiana this year. Sergeant Haynes, of Franklin, an old rifleman, made one skirmish of 94 points. 1 In the 800 yard tyro match Garland was fifth with a score of 47 out of a possible 50, and in the expert’s match he was sixth with a, total of 381 out of a possible 400, making an expert’s straight score at every range from 200 to 1,000 yards. His firing was regarded the most brilliant of any first year rifleman in the state and his total score in the expert’s match this year was 8 points higher than the score made last year by Lieutenant Basil Middleton, of Connorsville, who was the winner in 1909. There is every reason to expect that Garland will be one of the best riflemen in Indiana in 1911, when he hopes to win the governor’s medal, which is competed for annually. Sergeant John B. Gangloff, who has generally exceeded Garland in the local matches, got a bad start in the regimental match this year and did not remain for the state competition, although he was only 17th map in the regiment. Corporal Harrison Timmons was twentieth in the same match. Both are first-class riflemen and can figure in future competitions with practice.