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There were three events, in which 11 members of the pistol team participated. First, the sharpshooters had to fire at a target 50 feet distant while sighting and aiming the pistol was reversed in so doing...
Hinckley won this event with a single well-placed bullet which jammed the machine's work before it had gone 11 inches. An accurate try of Richard G. Labovitz '38, blew his target right off its track. However, the star performance was Hall's Rather than hopelessly disembowel the toy, thus rendering it useless, he struck the starting lever with his bullet, thereby stopping the tank, uninjured...
After some spectacular maneuvers off Capri, the cruisers Fiume and Zara opened up against the radio-controlled target cruiser San Marco, firing live 8-inch shells at a range of eleven miles. An airplane circling above the target ship radioed to the Conte di Cavour that "the third salvo of shells hit the target squarely." Two planes then blotted out the San Marco with a smoke screen like the drawing of a quick curtain...
Next the fleet steams to the southern drill grounds for target practice. Firing five-inchers, gun crews from Harvard will compete with turret marksmen from Yale, Northwestern, and Georgia Tech...
...Target practice over, the battleships head for home, bearing a detachment of tired but happy jack-tars...