Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Shooting Club will open a series of matches on Friday of this week, Feb. 24th. Match A will be open to all. Conditions of this match are: 10 clay pigeons at 18 yards rise, 5 angles...
...Match B will be a handicap, 10 blue rocks under same conditions as in match...
Cambridge has won the annual Rug-by-union foot-ball match with Oxford for the third successive year, by a score of a goal and two touchdowns to nothing...
...They are both great games over there, but more people go to see the Association matches. In championship matches for the challenge cup I. have seen 15,000 people on the field. Ten thousand is an ordinary crowd. They only charge six-pence (12 cents) to see the game, and a shilling (your quarter) for the pavilion. Of course, here we would have to make it a shilling admission, and two for the pavilion. How many times do we play a week? Generally twice, on Saturday and Monday, and I can tell you, two good matches in a week...
...contests, for instance, occur for the most part on Saturday afternoons, as provided by the regulations; and surely it can do no harm to college work if the whole body of students turn out to see the game. There is a healthful, pleasurable excitement in watching a closely contested match, which, if the element of betting is left out, can surely do no harm. If the game is won, is it not natural for the victors to celebrate their victory? What harm can be done by the discharge of a few fireworks, rockets and bombs, or the building...