Word: clay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last regular meeting of the club will be held at Watertown this afternoon. The clay-bird cup will be awarded to the member who has won the greatest number of competitions up to and including the present date. In case of a tie, the competitors will shoot the tie off at strings of five birds, until one drops out. Members will take the 2 o'clock...
RUNNING HIGH JUMP.This was the most remarkable contest of the day. The ground from which the men jumped was hard clay, so that they did not slip, and gave them a from footing to spring from. The average jumping, as well as the record made, was the best ever seen at any contest in America. Six men, W. B. Page of Penn., The man who recently made a record of 5 feet, 9 inches, Harriman of Princeton, Richards of Columbia and Atkinson, Clark and Fogg of Harvard, were entered and all contested...
Match 2, 5 clay birds. First, Slocum, 4; second, Allen, Austin...
...clay-bird cup went to Mr. Slocum for the second time...
Match 1, 20 clay birds, 18 yards, 5 angles; cup match. First, W. H. Slocum, 17; second, W. L. Allen, 16; third, F. B. Austin...