Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...warm gun barrel acceptable to the fingers, attracted a dozen marksmen to the Watertown grounds on Wednesday. The changes made in the arrangement of the shooting shanty and the trap pits have greatly improved the grounds, and the men present seemed well pleased with the accommodations. The first match contested was at 10 clay birds, 18 yards rise, thrown from five angles. The scores were as follows: W. H. Slocum, 9; F. S. Palmer, 8; M. H. Clyde, 6; F. S. Mead, 5. On the conclusion of this match, sides were chosen for a team match. This event...
...that lawn tennis is so universally popular, a short account of its history will prove interesting. The inventor of the game was Major Walter Wingfield, of Her Majesty's Body Guard, and he introduced it in 1874 under the name of "Spharistike." The first match ever played was in Denbighshire, England, and the first public contest took place in 1875. The game was popular from the start. The trade offered Major Wingfield a royalty of $1.25 a set on his invention, which would have yielded him by this time over $1,000,000. He declined the offer, however...
...chandelier broken off the evening before, and had stopped up the broken pipe with a wooden plug. To his astonishment when he woke up at quarter of eight yesterday morning, his room was filled of gas, and to ascertain whether it was genuine gas or not, he struck a match, thereby having his doubts very quickly satisfied. The result of the experiment was an explosion so heavy as to be felt all over the yard. The windows of the room were, violently blown out over the sidewalk, the door was partly blown open, the ceiling was sprung, and the wall...
Shortly after two o'clock yesterday afternoon two elevens chosen from among the members of the Glee Club and the Pierian assembled on Jarvis for a match game. The Glee Club eleven was captained by Harrison, '86, and comprised the following men: Edgerly, '86, Shippen, Faulkner, Rogers, '87, Chollet, Lund, Wood, Swarts, Honore, '88, Naumburg, '89. The Pierian eleven was captained by Morrison, '87, in the absence of Cabot, and was made up as follows: Cary, Henry, Hood, '86; Hillebrand, Forchheimer, Zinkeisen, A. H. Osgood, '87; Gibson, S. A. Carpenter, B. Carpenter, '88. From the first it was evident that...
...secretary-treasurer, W. Oakes, '87; executive officer, F. S. Palmer, '87; senior director, J. A. Frye, '86; junior director, F. S. Meade, '87; sophomore director, M. H. Clyde, '88. On motion of Mr. Meade, the secretary was instructed to correspond with the Yale Gun Club in regard to a match. After passing a vote of thanks to the retiring president and secretary, the meeting adjourned...