Word: matches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday afternoon proved the best by far for shooting that the club has been fortunate enough to secure, The new match was opened under the most favorable conditions, and the score of all the contestants showed a marked improvement over the former records. The ten members present took advantage of the long afternoon to secure an unusually large amount of practice. The summary follows...
...shooting club will meet at Watertown this afternoon. A new match will be put on, at clay birds...
...match will be opened this afternoon, under the following conditions: Prize, a silver cup, to become the property of the winner of three competitions, not necessarily consecutive. Each competition shall consist of a score of 20 clay birds, thrown at 5 angles, 16 yards rise. Ties shall be decided at 18 yards, straight-away, miss-and-out. No preliminary practice will be allowed before beginning the score, except at the discretion of the executive officer. Entries for the cup, 25 cents...
...picked American team played their second match, preparatory to leaving for Europe, against our nine on Saturday. Several hundred people gathered in and around Jarvis to see the game, the majority being outside the fence as usual. The rain of the morning made the ground rather slippery and many times the players fell in trying to dodge their opponents. Our team was weakened by the loss of Hood, who was suffering from a sore hand, and of Henry, who came on the field late. Game was called at 3.30, Abbot facing the ball with his opponent in the centre...
four defence men, Goodale, Rueter, Williams and Bradford, proved too much for their opponents, and kept the ball well away from our goal. As a result nothing more was scored, and the game ended with the result of 3 to 0 in favor of the American team. Throughout the match the defence of the other side was clearly an over-match for our weakened offence, who seemed unable to keep the ball at their end of the field for any length of time. The Americans outran our team and excelled in throwing. For them, Gilmore and Nichols, Harvard's representatives...