Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1915 — LIEUTENANT GARLAND WINS PISTOL MATCH [ARTICLE]

LIEUTENANT GARLAND WINS PISTOL MATCH

Defeated All Comers In National Match at Jacksonville—Gets Gold Medals and $45. First Lieutenant Jerry B. Garland, of Company M, of Rensselaer, won the national individual pistol match at Jacksonville, Fla., last Friday. There were 191 entries in the match, including the leading pistol shots in the United States army, the U. S. marine corps, the national guard organizations of the entire country and representatives of pistol clubs. Lieutenant Garland’s total was 721 points, or ten more than the next highest man, who was Second Lieutenant H. L. Taylor, of the 21st U. S. Infantry. Corporal O. L. Dyer, of the 7th Infantry, was third, and Captain C. K. LaMotte, of the 19th U. S. infantry was fourth. A. P. Lane, of the New York Athletic Club, was fifth. The scores of the first twenty-five were published in a bulletin issued at the state camp grounds at the close of the match and showed that Lieutenant Garland not only won the medal and S3O for the highest aggregate score but alfeo won a medal and sls for the highest timed fire score, thus getting two gold medals and $45 out of the match. Lieutenant Garland has been a pistol shot as well as a rifle shot for a number of years and some five years ago at Fort Benjamin Harrison was second in a state match and the high individual in a team match. Since that time Indiana has not been paying so much attention to pistol marksmanship, hut Lieutenant Garland has kept up his practice and has become the best shot in the United States with a Colts army pistol. The match at the national competitive matches at Jacksonville, involved firing, slow, timed and rapid fires at ranges from 15 to 75 yards. Garland had the highest score at 50 yards, the highest at 25 yards timed fire and the highest aggregate. Only one other Indiana man finished in the money, that being Lieutenant Milo D. Snyder, of Albion, who finished twentieth, getting a medal and $5. His score was 78 less than Garland’s. The pistol match was the last of the national matches in Jacksonville and what is said to have been the greatest of all matches ever held came to a close last Friday. Lieutenant Garland is expected home today cfr Tuesday. He had a fine trip and received the pay of his rank, $5.56 per day, in addition to prize money and all travel expenses. No word was received aside from a letter soon after the matches opened as to how he fared in the rifle matches.