1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

The U. S. A. team came next. If the team could shoot withoutmaking a miss, it would carry off the first prize, even though thescore made might be lower than those of their rivals. Series afterseries was fired without a miss, and everyone, almost, began to thinkthat the American team would perform the task set and so carry offthe gold medal. But, on marking the last series it was found, however,that one of the team had made a miss. The shot had struckthe target just above the right shoulder of the figure, and so near,that, for a moment, there was an animated discussion on the question,“Hit, or no hit?” The teams, the leaders of the competition,experts, and newspaper-correspondents of all nationalities, all examinedthe “corpus delicti” with critical eyes. But it was found to be aclear miss, and this decided the placing of the three teams in question,the U. S. A., which scored 881 points, coming N:o 3, afterSweden and Great Britain, which were N:os 1 and 2 respectively.i) INDIVIDUAL COMPETITION WITH MINIATURE=RIFLE. DISTANCE 25 METRES.10 a.m. Friday, 5 July.Rifle: Any breech-loading rifle with calibre not exceeding 6 mm.,using miniature ammunition intended for competition. Any backandfore-sight, except magnifying or telescopic.Position: Any, without artificial rest.Target: (disappearing): reduced whole-figure, in zones (see fig. 00).The figure, 12 cm. high, appeared 25 times, each time for 3 seconds,with intervals of 5 seconds between each appearance. After eachseries of 5 shots, a pause was made for changing the figure.Number of shots: 25 shots in 5 series, with 5 shots in each series.2 sighters.The highest possible number of points a competitor could scorewas 250.Of the total of 66 competitors entered by 10 nations, 36 tookpart in the shooting, the placing being as follows:N a m eNationTotalpointsscoredby competitor.RemarksW. CARLBERGJ. H. v. HOLSTG. ERICSSONJ. PepéR. C. MurrayA. GyllenkrokW. E. PimmF. S. HirdSwedenSwedenSwedenGreat BritainSwedenGreat BritainU. S. A.1st prize Gold medal2nd prize Silver medal3rd prize Bronze medal25 hits696