Word: clay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decided to hold the weekly meets on the grounds of the Middlesex Gun Club for the present. Their grounds are at Watertown and are reached by a ride of twenty minutes on the horse cars, which make trips from Harvard square every half-hour. The rates for balls and clay-birds are the same as at Walnut Hill, two and three cents respectively, in which are included all charges for use of grounds and trappers. There will be a meet for shotgun practice next Thursday, of which the particulars will be announced later...
...Carl Schurz is writing a book on Henry Clay...
There will be no matches tomorrow owing to the severe weather. After the Christmas vacation the glass ball and clay bird matches will probably be held either on the Watertown or Arlington grounds. Per order match committee. F. B. AUSTIN, Secy...
Eight members of the club entered matches at Walunut Hill Thursday. The first two events were well contested, and the shooting of all the competitors was unusually good. In the clay bird match, Mr. Godwin made the highest score yet recorded in any match of the club, breading nine out of the ten shot at, -a feat rendered difficult by the strong wind. A match at five pigeons was shot, at the close of the two regular shot, at the close of the two regular matches. The summary of the events follows...
Match 3.-10 clay pigeons from rotary trap, 16 yards. First, Frye, '86, W. S. Allen, '86, Foster, tie on five birds; second, Palmer, 4 birds; third Slocum, Ayer, Tweedle, tie on 3 birds...