Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...insane desire to jump at it. His hair has no touch of gray about it, his step is elastic, he still sticks to his cricket or rowing club, he is in every way a healthy, active, full-spirited man, and yet when he looks on at a foot-ball match as a mere passive spectator, the idea crossed his mind that he is old before his time, and he almost wishes that he had some really self-satisfying excuse to justify his inactivity...
...cannot see its science, and who remember that to every man who hunts there are a thousand who play foot-ball, and that the percentage of accidents in the hunting field very far exceeds that of foot-ball accidents. He still reads that famous chapter descriptive of the schoolhouse match in "Tom Brown"-a chapter which, next to the other famous one concerning the fight between Tom and Slogger Williams, has been more read by English boys than any other of any other book in the language-as he used to read it at school. He recalls the private school...
There will be no matches tomorrow owing to the severe weather. After the Christmas vacation the glass ball and clay bird matches will probably be held either on the Watertown or Arlington grounds. Per order match committee. F. B. AUSTIN, Secy...
...current number of Forest and Stream is a communication from a college graduate on the subject of an inter-collegiate rifle association. This writer favors the formation of an association of American college clubs, which should hold an annual match either at Creedmoor or at New London during the race week. Another point which he advocates is the admission of graduates to the association on an equal footing with the undergraduates, this action of course making them eligible for places on the college teams. Unfortunately he mistakes the strength of the few college clubs which now exist, and overestimates...
Eight members of the club entered matches at Walunut Hill Thursday. The first two events were well contested, and the shooting of all the competitors was unusually good. In the clay bird match, Mr. Godwin made the highest score yet recorded in any match of the club, breading nine out of the ten shot at, -a feat rendered difficult by the strong wind. A match at five pigeons was shot, at the close of the two regular shot, at the close of the two regular matches. The summary of the events follows...