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| more Police Department, whose members received their instruction in revolver shooting there under Sergeant Renehan. In 1909, the qualified total was 420, including 58 experts, nine sharpshooters and 353 marksmen. Sergeant R. A. Helmrich of Company "B" was the State's highest expert with 423 points. Six of the regiment also qualified as expert riflemen in the course prescribed for the United States army—Captains Ryley. Eittenhouse, Buffington and Smith, Lieutenant Duce and Sergeant Gemmill. The regimental team again won the State match but was forced to extend itself to such a degree that it beat its previous years' total by over 300 points. Five of the members made the State team that later competed at Camp Perry, Ohio. In the National Match that year the Marylanders broke a world's record at 600 yards, scoring 559 points out of 600, in which the Fourth's men ably assisted with an average of 47^2 out of 50. In the national revolver match Sergeant Renehan outshot the entire country at slow fire and won a gold medal and special money prize.. The regiment being affiliated with the National Rifle Association has annually had a team of six entered in the regimental matches at national meets, where they always acquitted themselves with honor. In addition to upholding the Fourth's reputation in the team matches they have brought back prizes from the Dupont Tyro, the Wimbledon, Leech Cup, Marine Corps, President's and other national events. Notable performances were Sergeant Gemmill's 17 straight bullseyes at 600 yards at Camp Perry this year and Sergeant Forney's 146 out of 150 at 800 and 900 yards in the Herrick Match. At Sea Girt, Captain Rogers won the Press Match from a large field while others won prizes in the Hale, Spencer, Maxim, Libbey, Hayes, Cruikshank and Thurston Matches. The press accounts of the last named event had this to say of a Fourth Regiment marksman: "It remained for a Marylander to furnish the sensation of the afternoon. Sergeant Gemmill, of the Fourth Regiment, starting with a bullseye and for one hour turning nothing but the white five disk, was collecting quite a gallery back of his scoreboard and had shot to the very front of the race. On his twenty-ninth shot of the match an ocean, puff, gave him a four, one inch to the left of the bullseye, but it cost him first place, after the phenomenal record of 30 bullseyes out of 34 shots. First place went to Lieutenant Simon, of Ohio, of the Olympic world's champion team of 1908, who beat Gemmill one point. It is interesting to note that six others on the team that won the world's championship at Bisley last summer were trailing back of Gemmill—Doyle, Winder, Hessian, Lenshner, Martin and Semon." Pagf Thirly.fi,,1 |