Word: clays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first meeting of the Sheffield Gun Club, at Yale, only 39 clay pigeons were broken, out of 90 shot at in the match...
...every student as high as that now occupied by the H. A. A. or the Boat Club. The mind's eye is filled with a pleasing picture of the future. A half-score of fine, level turf courts, and three or four times as many of hard roofed clay, scattered over the unused portions of Holmes and Jarvis fields, copying the portions not devoted to other sports, will present a pretty picture when of a pleasant May afternoon they are occupied by a hundred and fifty players busily engaged in outscoring and out volleying each other. After much long waiting...
...useless, as the soil is too loose and sandy, and that therefore each court would have to be made over entirely. The making of 50 Turf Courts, at their cost of about $150.00 apiece would be beyond our means, and therefore we have been obliged to resort to clay courts. Yet for players who are prejudiced towards grass courts, and also for tournaments, grass courts are preferable, and will indeed be necessary when the Inter-Collegiate Tournament is held here, and so we did not wish to have all the courts made of clay. A place on blames Field, north...
...making of thirty or move clay courts involves considerable expense, (on the average of $50 per court), the Committee decided that it was best to experiment with various sorts of clay, an determine during the spring which was the pleasantest to use, and which endured the wear best. Accordingly, as soon as the frost is out of the ground, five courts of various sorts, of brighten Gravel, Moorland Gravel, Ashes, etc. will be laid down. These can be played upon by the last week in April. During the summer 30 more clay courts made of that material which is found...
MATCH B. 10 clay birds; former prize winners barred. First, J. A. Frye, '86, 10 birds; second, *F. S. Palmer, '87, *W. H. Slocum, '86, 9 birds; third, F. Austin, '86, 7 birds; fourth, *W. L. Allen, '86, W. Aulton, '87, J. Simpkins, '85, 6 birds...