1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

and to take all other needful steps, such as the construction ofshooting-butts, the erection of target holders and protected huts forthe markers, etc.What has been said above respecting the preparations for shootingwith miniature-rifles and pistols, holds good, too, for the clay-birdand running-deer shooting, and the Committee was obliged to putin order grounds close to Råsunda, one of the northern suburbsof Stockholm.THE COMPETITIONS.Shooting with Army-Rifle.The Chief Committee of the Swedish Shooting Association andthe Shooting Competitions of the Olympic Games.In consequence of a communication received from the SwedishOlympic Committee for the Olympic Games of Stockholm, 1912, theChief Committee of the Swedish Shooting Association, at its annualspring meeting, 29—30 April, 1910, determined that the VolunteerShooting Association should take part in the competitions in armyrifleshooting at the Olympic Games, and commissioned its Executiveto appoint a special committee for the purpose of drawing up a planfor a shooting-programme, which the Chief Committee was then todiscuss at its autumn meeting.The Chief Committee of the Shooting Association stated that itwas desirable to have the international competitions arranged asmuch as possible in accordance with the conditions obtaining inSweden, and that Swedish national competitions should also be held.At its autumn meeting in 1910, the Chief Committee of the ShootingAssociation approved of the sub-committee’s scheme for the programmefor the army-rifle shooting competitions at the Olympic Gamesof 1912, and commissioned its Executive to take measures for theselection of the members of the Association to represent Sweden inthe events in question.In addition to this, it was proposed that a petition should be presentedto the King- in- Council, begging for a government- grant tocover the expenses of the practice-shooting.Rifle=Shooting Committee.The Executive Committee of the Shooting Association appointed thefollowing gentlemen to be members of the sub-committee which was todraw up the scheme for a programme for the army rifle shootingcompetitions at the Olympic Games, 1912:679