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Shooters were conscious of and honored the occasion. They knew that the opponents which the International team must try to defeat were neither the War-torn Belgians and Balkans, the game-killing Canadians or South Africans but the peaceable, phlegmatic Swiss, finest marksmen in the world...
...match was as long as it was close, the shooting lasting from 11 o'clock yesterday morning until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Each team fired one round offhand, one sitting, and two prone. J.B. Gregg '31, acting secretary of the Harvard marksmen, announced last night that the next meet for the Crimson team will be on May 13, when it will compete with the Boston College shooters...
...South Penobscot, Me., lightning struck a round ball on the steeple of a Baptist Church. When the ball began burning, ten Baptist marksmen shot it off the church with rifles...
...Concord, N. H.), the Rev. Endicott Peabody (Groton School, Groton, Mass.) and Dr. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School (Southborough, Mass.). To thousands of affectionate graduates, hundreds of respectful schoolboys, they are and always will be known respectively as "The Drip," "Pee-bo," and "Twill." St. Marksmen were saddened to learn last week that "Twill" had resigned. He will leave his post before the autumn. Headmaster "Twill" has earned his rest. For 36 of the school's 64 years he has managed and governed St. Mark's, punished and rewarded socialite children, dealt tactfully with...
...marksmen were assembled to shoot in the annual National Rifle and Pistol Matches. With prizes worth $40,000 (it is the only sporting event supported by Congress), it is to marksmen what the Kentucky Derby is to turfmen, the Poughkeepsie Regatta to oarsmen...