Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...competition for the permanent challenge cup presented to the Shooting Club by E. Wigglesworth '08 will begin today and will continue for two weeks. Each competitor will hand in his score for 10 strings of 25 birds shot during this period, the best eight of which will count toward the cup. The cup is shot for every spring and fall and the winner retains it until the next competition. The present holder of the cup is C.L. Hauthaway...
...competitor is given the utmost freedom in handling the subject, but the committee suggests the following procedure...
...acceptable. This underlying condition has led to many sharp decisions and much ill-feeling--we cite no instances, but the air is full of them. This must necessarily continue, so long as the present system is adhered to. What is the use of having a competition, if the best competitor does not win out? The money itself is hardly a consideration, since there are other and less obnoxious ways of raising that. The sole actuating cause seems to be the idea that there must be a competition of some sort, while there is not enough other work to be done...
...others to qualify, keeping Geary of Fordham and Blass of Cornell out of the finals. The anxiously awaited race between Foster of Harvard and Dawbarn of Princeton in the final heat resulted in an emphatic victory for the former. Dawbarn finished only fourth and Craig was Foster's nearest competitor for first. Minds led for the first few yards but could not do better than third...
...seconds, with Piper of Harvard second. Hartranft of Pennsylvania made the same time in the fourth heat. He was closely pressed by Robbins of Yale, who took second. The fifth heat was a walk-over for Talcott of Cornell as Roscoe of Stevens was the only other competitor. In order to reduce the field to eight men for the semifinals, two heats for second men were run. The first was won by Welch with Piper second. Roscoe withdrew from the other heat and Robbins ran through the distance at his leisure...