Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1915 — To Spend Month Shooting In Matches at Jacksonville. [ARTICLE]

To Spend Month Shooting In Matches at Jacksonville.

First Lieutenant Jerry B. Garland, of Company M, 3rd Inf., I. N. G., stationed jn Rensselaer, left Tuesday night for Indianapolis, where he will join the others who are to compose the rifle team at the national matches to be held at Jacksonville, Fla. The matches do not begin until Get. 16th, >tu the teams and the individual marksmen gather there for practice of two weeks or more bdfore the competitive matches begin. Lieutenant Garland took part in the twelve days’ competition in the state recenty and is in the vnest condition for shooting. He was supplied with a new star guage rifle before leaving ; Indianapolis. The Indiana team has never shot a really good team score, although there have always been several excellent marksmen on it. Two years ago Lieutenant Garland was the high man on the Indiana team, fourth high in the national individual and well at the front in all other matches in which he competed. He will be among the very best military marksmen in the world and will make them all shoot to defeat* him in the matches he enters this year.