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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges to compete. If this plan is carried out, the tournament will probably be held in Cambridge, some time in May, and six or seven teams will be invited to participate. Shooting clubs are becoming so popular in the different colleges that it is thought desirable to extend the matches beyond the annual match with the University of Pennsylvania; and for this purpose, the tournament has been proposed, the end in view being to form a league of all the college teams, which will meet every year for a match, either on the grounds of the different colleges...
...Harvard Shooting Club shot against the Lexington Gun club at Lexington Saturday afternoon. Although Harvard's team was defeated, the defeat was not one which should discourage either the team or college as the scores mades by Lexington were remarkably good, and the conditions under which the match was shot were in favor of the home team, being new to the Harvard men. Each team was made up of five men each man shooting at twenty-five birds with the following results...
...second nine. It is to be hoped that the plan will not be allowed to fall through as in previous years but will be carried out until the end of the season. There will be daily games between the nines except on days when the 'varsity has match games. Such an arrangement must prove benefical in many ways. The practice will be much better than that afforded by the games with weak amateur nines or with nines from the smaller colleges. What is most needed now is practice in batting, and this will be well provided as the second nine...
...Shooting Club has announced a match with the Wellington Gun club for Saturday April 20, and one with the Country club team for Saturday April...
...amateur teams with which it is customary to arrange games. A manager for the nine will be chosen, and, in addition to the daily games with the 'varsity, games will be arranged with strong out of town teams to be played on days when the 'varsity is engaged in match games. The work of the second nine will, in a great measure, supply the need of good practice games which the captains of the college baseball teams have felt so strongly in the past few years. The second nine can be relied upon to play a game far superior...