Word: gunning
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Yale won the intercollegiate gun shoot at the Westchester Country Club, New York, on Saturday with a total of 439 out of a possible 500 birds. Harvard was second, with 411, and Pennsylvania, third with 294. Harvard, Yale, and Pennsylvania were the only colleges competing as Princeton, who also is a member of the association, could not attend this year...
...deciding race will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. In the race yesterday, darkness made it impossible for the crews to line up accurately for the start, as the coxswains could see scarcely a boat's length, and had difficulty in holding their courses after the gun was fired. The finish was so uncertain that the judges have decided that the race must be rowed again at a time when it is possible to see what is going...
...University shooting team meets the Boston Athletic Association Gun Club at the B.A.A. traps at Riverside this afternoon. It is the first scheduled shoot this year for the University team, although it defeated the Paleface Association in a practice match at Wellington last Saturday. The men who will represent the B.A.A. are as yet not decided upon, and are likely to remain so until the last moment. The Harvard team will be comprised of the following men: B. M. Higginson '10, C. L. Hauthaway '10, C. F. Morse '10, C. F. Lewis '12, J. Heard, Jr., '12, and S. Mixter...
...rowed upstream from the railroad bridge to the finish line opposite the Harvard quarters at Red Top, and was started promptly a few minutes after 6 o'clock. By her method of taking shorter strokes in starting Yale gained a slight advantage at the crack of the starting gun, showing 19 strokes in the first half minute to Harvard's 18. But this slight lead was soon cut down and before a quarter of a mile had been rowed Harvard took the lead and settled down to a steady pace of 33, a stroke which was maintained for two miles...
This afternoon at 2 o'clock the University gun team will meet Yale in a dual shoot at the traps on Soldiers Field. The teams will be composed of five men, who will each shoot at 50 birds in strings of 25, thrown at unknown angles. The Yale team is very strong, being practically the same team which won the intercollegiate shoot last fall...