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VOLUNTEER NOTES.

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VOLUNTEER NOTES. (BY "THE MAJOR.") This week one is naturally inclined to reflect fepon the doings of the Welsh marksmen at ISisley. Wales has never before made such a iapital show at a National Rifle Association meet- ing, and the Principality has a right to feel proud -<»f the representatives who did her such credit. Take the great competition for the Queen's Prise for example. A glance at the scores for last year and the present will show that the shoot- ing of the Queen's Hundred this year was a trifle Higher than last year, when Lieutenant Yates won the prize with a grand total of 327. This re at it required 336 to t§B for first place. The highest Wejsh scores last year were 318 by Sergt. W. T. Davies, 308 by Sergt. Tucker Williams and 306 by Private P. Jones, of Wrexham, an average 10r the three top Welsh marksmen of 310. This year Sergt. F..Jones made 336, Private Shannon §34, and Corporal Wiimot 332 an average of 334. That is to say, the average of the three most successful Welsh shots was 24, or nearly 8 per cent, higher than last year. Truly a wonderful advance. Now take the struggle for the St. George's Vase and what do we find ? Last year only one Welshman made anything like a show, and hid score was but 97. This year Private F. Hopkins, 2nd Welsh, put on 67 in the first stage and 45 at 300 yards, totalling 113, and Private Morgan, a Liverpool Welshman, made a like score, each securing a N.R.A. badge and £10. Colour-Sergt. Ball, with one point less, and Arm.-Sergt. Jones, 'I,he Newport veteran, made 105, all finishing near he top. But perhaps the finest test for all-round shooting are the N.R.A. meeting aggregates." ti these be consulted the point that Welshmen did grandly is the more clearly demonstrated. In the grand aggregate for scores in the Martin, Queen's first stage, St. George's first stage, Alexandra, Daily Graphic, Daily Telegraph and Uraphic Cyclist-Sergeant F. Jones came second, winning the silver cross and X15. The All,comers Aggregate Cap and £ 15 were won by Arm.-Serge. D. Jones, of Newport. In the grand aggregate A.rm.-Sergt Jone., Corporal Andrews. Private Shannon, and Col.-Sergt Jones all won bronze crosses and money. In the All-comers andYolunteer aggregates a goodly share of the spoils fell to the Welshmen. In the aggregates alone the Welsh- men brought home a cup, a silver cross, several bronze crosses, and zW8 in money. Quite the sensation of the Queen's competition, 10 far as South Wales was concerned, was the Shooting of Corporal Wiimot, of Cardiff, and Private Shannon, of Aberdare, neither of whom has any opportunity to indulge in long-range practice, but both of whom handled their rifles it 500 and 1,000 yards on Hatnrday in the most masterly style. Of Private Shannon I spoke some days since. CorpI. Wilmot, 3rd V.B. Welsh, who is a baker by trade, resides in Canton. By birth he is a Dornishman, having first seen the light at Cam- bourne in 1866. He has been in Cardiff for 16 years, and his shooting career began only in 1892, when he joined the Cardiff detachment 3rd V.B. Welsh. At the outset he met with great success, winning the recruits' prize with 33 points out of P, possible 35, a record for the battalion, and the same year he actually obtained second place in the open competition. In 1895 he won the Maclean Cup for the aggregate in a three days' competition. In 1897 he won the Detachment Cup. He is a wonderfully hard worker, and on the occasion of winning the Detachment Cap ut Cardiff two years ago had worked in his bake- Jiouse from 3 a.m. to 11 a.m. By midday he was ),t the Grangetown range, and by 8 o'clock the same evening had made the cup his property. It was the same determination that carried him to such a high pcsition in the Queen's Hundred last Saturday. It is worthy of remark that Corporal Wilmot would never have gone to Bisley had not Sergeant Starkey used every effort to persuade him. It's your seventh year," said Starkey, and a lucky one, you may be sure." So Wil- tnot decided to go. With what result the reader already knows. I sincerely hope that Lord Windsor's timely I Appeal on behalf of the Glamorgan Rifle Associa- tion will have a good effect. It has always appeared to me little short of a scandal that the wealthy people of the county support the associa- tion so miserably. I know of no county in Eng- land where such scant support is given by the monied classes to rifle shooting. It would be a (thousand pities if it were found necessary to cur- tail the present prize list. What is wanted is that more should follow the grand examole set by Miss Talbot, who not only subscribes most gener- ously every year, but who also allows the county meeting to be held each autumn in Margam Park. The 2nd Glamorgan Volunteer Artillery were not able to finish their competition at- Lavernock- on Saturday last owing to the large amount of shipping in the neighbourhood of Lavernock Fort. I understand that two groups— Penarth and Barry-are to compete at Shoebnryness this year on August 5th. The 2nd Glamorgan Volunteer Artillery hold their annual sports, by kind permission of Col. TTisher, at Radyr on Saturday next.

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