Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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WEEKLY SHOOT YESTERDAY.The weekly shoot of the Harvard Shooting Club was held yesterday afternoon at Watertown. The rules governing one of the matches have been changed for the purpose of making the scores more even, and the scores surpassed even the hopes of the directors. Heretofore the handicap in match B has consisted of birds given to those who were not prize winners. Yesterday the men shot at different distances, according to their averages in former matches. The result was that the scores, though even, with the exception of the two highest, were rather low; two and three predominating. Three...
...MATCH A-FIVE ENTRIES.C. Greene...
...MATCH B-NINE ENTRIES.W. S. Ellis, (14 yards...
...match B of the present series of matches of the Shooting Club, contestants will be handicapped by distance according to their records. Those who have never shot on the grounds before will receive a big handicap...
...match games outside of Cambridge shall be played upon Saturday, unless permission to play on other days is first obtained from the committee...