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| volver championship in the Winans match. The regiment contributed five members to the State team in the national matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. The high water mark was reached in 1908, when every member of the regiment, from the Colonel to the newest recruit, put his shoulder to the wheel from May until October to establish a new qualification record, and well they succeeded. The regiment's strength was 674 officers and men, and of these only 15 failed to fire during the six months' target season. Every man on the rosters of Companies "A," "B," "C," "D," "E," "G," "H," "K" and "M" attended the range, and the resulting qualifications were 66 experts, six sharpshooters, 437 marksmen, 18 first-class, 12 second-class and 120 third-class, a record that is said to have been beaten only twice in the United States. Sergeant Gemmill again led the experts of Maryland with 433, 20 points above his nearest competitor. The State Match for the regimental championship of Maryland was won by the Fourth this year with the immense margin of 172 points over the Fifth Regiment and 295 over the First. The team was composed of Captains Ryley and Smith, Lieutenants Duce, Givan, Rogers and Lupus and Sergeants Gemmill and Renehan. The Governors Match was again won by the field and staff of the regiment over 13 other teams, while the Fourth finished one, two, three in the Adjutant-General's Match, Sergeant Renehan getting the title. Lieutenant James E. Givan, of Company "H," won the Gould match and the regiment was well up in the revolver events. To add impetus to the growing interest Lieutenant Henry E. Lupus of Company "B" presented to the State for annual competition a bronze trophy, "Infantry," the figure of a bugler in the act of sounding the "Assembly." The original conditions specified 20 shots at 200 yards standing and 20 rapid fire— an endurance test that always furnishes an exciting sport experience. Captain Wm. B. Brown, ordnance officer, also gave to the State a magnificent bronze to be shot for over a course from 200 to 1000 yards, embracing every position and every prevailing class of fire. This was known as the Distinguished Experts' Match, and was one of elimination, the competitors being required to make from 86 to 92 per cent, of a perfect score to prevent elimination, at the various stages. Members of the regiment have been active on the Board of Governors of the Maryland State Rifle Association, a body organized to promote rifle practice among civilians. The Fourth's gallery has always been open to the Baltimore Revolver Association and schoolboy rifle clubs, as well as to the Balti- Pagv Thirty-three |