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Wild ducks suffer from bad marksmen as well as from good ones. Shot that falls into the water sinks to the bottom where ducks mistake it for roughage such as gravel or sand. They eat it, die a month or so later of paralysis caused by lead poisoning...
Soon French warships in the harbor swept the rooftops with their searchlights while crack French Colonial marksmen tried to pick off the snipers. All Colonials used in the streets were white, the Government announced, but Toulon's electric plant and some Municipal buildings were put under guard of coal-black Senegalese. Vice-Admiral Louis Berthelot of the Toulon naval station declared: "The arsenal workmen have sent me a delegation saying that they do not wish to be linked with last night's bloodshed which they ascribe to underworld agitators eager for loot." Meeting in a suburb three miles...
...formal match tomorrow afternoon, the Rifle Club will oppose New Hampshire's marksmen and attempt to chalk up a victory against its last two defeats. The encounter will take place in Memorial Hall at 2 o'clock...
Bowing to a slightly superior team of M.I.T. marksmen, the Harvard Rifle Club went down to a 1341-1257 defeat last night in the Tech Rifle Range. The encounter consisted of a three-position match in which the ten men on each team hit and missed the target from prone, kneeling, and standing positions...
...score of the meet was calculated from the number of hits made by the five highest men on each team. Star performer for the Crimson marksmen was Parkman D. Howe, Jr. '37, who chalked up a total of 267 points. The second in line was Philip A. Straus '37, with a score of 252 points, followed closely by George A. Matteson, Jr. '36, who won 250 points. Fourth and fifth places were taken respectively by Malcolm S. Watts '37 and Spencer D. Howe '37, the first with a score of 246, the second with...