Camp Matthews
Open Pistol Tournament

SHOTS FROM ALL OVER

Pax to Hold Try-Outs; Duncan Fires Record

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. -The air test center here, owing the only Olympic shooting ranges in the Navy, will sponsor the preliminary try-outs to pict the team to represent the United States at the Pan-American games.

The local rifle and pistol club president, Lt. Comdr. John Ralston, Jr., announced that the 50-meter free pistol try-outs will be held May 2 and the rapid fire pistol events will be May 3.

No more than 32 may compete in the free pistol, no more than 39 in the rapid fire.

The air station club built its own shooting range, officials said, under the leadership of Charles L. Frazier, chief ordnanceman.

Meanwhile, it was announced Pax gunmen will have a big hand in the setting up the Navy's booth at the National Rifle Association convention in Washington March 21-27.

Chief Frazier will show how to match-condition service pistols and rifles.

Mr. Ralston will be there, along with other members of the Navy's 1958 pistol team: Lt. (jg) Milton Davis; Harold Barrett, chief yeoman, and John H. Lucas, chief aviation machinist's mate.

SAN DIEGO. - ActSSgt. Emmett D. Duncan posted a 796x800 score over a 50-foot indoor course during the Northern California State Championship Matches.

That was a national record and is the fifth to be set by Sgt. Duncan, a member of the Marines' Marksmanship Training Unit here.

SAN DIEGO. - Capt. William W. McMillan, winner of the 1957 National Pistol Championships, won the Camp Matthews Open Pistol Tournament here with total points of 2629-118x. John Hurst of the Los Angeles Police Department was a close second. Bad weather depressed the scores.

CAMP H. M. SMITH, T.H. - The Hawaii Marines skeet team, organized Feb. 3, captured four of six places in its first match, at Hickam AFB.

Pacing the event were SSgt. Ed Sweeney and Col. D. L. (Frosty) Cool, Marine team captain.

Col. Cool and Sweeney blasted 50 straight birds each then required and additional 50 to decide the winner. SSgt. Sweeney bested the colonel by one bird to take match honors.

Navy Times, February 21, 1959