TO HOLD PISTON MATCH

The first piston match for the University R. O. T. C. team will be held on Saturday, May 7, by telegraph, the Harvard team shooting on its own range at Waverley. Only first and second year men will participate, inasmuch as the training at Cornell is compulsory for the first two years only, the team being open only to these students. In the following matches with Oklahoma, Princeton, Yale, and Pennsylvania, the University team will include men from all the military courses.

All the men who have qualified as first or second class pistolmen, are practicing the record course at the range, in preparation for the meet. The team will be chosen as a result of the showing made in record firing, and in this practice shooting. The course of fire for record and for matches consist of two scores of five shots each at twenty-five yards, each score to be completed in twenty seconds; two scores on bobbing targets, visible for three seconds for each shot at fifteen yards, and two scores on these at twenty-five yards.

Twenty-five members of the Unit will stand on a two-day mounted hike this afternoon, leaving the Armory at 2.30 and returning tomorrow afternoon. Full equipment will be carried and winder uniform and barracks caps will be worn. The men will camp in "pup-tents" tonight, somewhere in the vicinity of Middlesex School.

A hike with the battery is planned for later in the spring; one platoon to be motorized, the other to be horse-drawn. The first and second year men will act as drivers and cannoneers, while the third year men serve as non-commissioned officers and as members of the Battery Commander's Detail.