Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club will open a series of shot gun matches, to run through three competitions, on Wednesday the 25th. The winners in each class will be determined by the aggregate of their two best scores. The entry in each match for the entire series will be 50 cents. Conditions as below...
...MATCH A. Open to all members. Five pairs, double birds, 18 yards rise. Prizes, a cup, and a Silver Medal...
...MATCH B. Open to all members, except such as are credited with a record of 10 straight birds, 10 single birds, 18 yards rise, five angles. Prizes, a cup, and 2 Silver Medals...
Rule 18.-In every match game there shall be one paid referee, and he absolute, and he shall referee all championship matches...
...Roosevelt, of the Union club, who recently graduated from Oxford, and won the heavy-weight championship while there, and Mr. Rutgers Van Brunt, of the Kuickerbocker club. The latter gentleman is a graduate of Harvard, class of '80, and, while here, enjoyed an enviable reputation as a sparer. The match was made to decide the championship of the two universities. The referee declared the contest a draw, but, as Mr. Roosevelt was unable to come to time in the last round, the championship appears to belong to Harvard...