Word: matches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...billiard match between Vigneaux and Slosson will last five evenings. 600 points will be played each evening...
...YALE AND PRINCETON FOOT-BALL MATCH.Yesterday the long-expected foot-ball match, for the championship of the American colleges, was played by the representatives of Yale and Princeton in the presence of at least thirty thousand spectators, assembled in the new coliseum. A more sanguinary and exciting struggle has seldom taken place, and the list of killed and wounded reflects great credit upon both colleges. The match was played in accordance with the Roughby rules, one of which provides that the clubs used by the players shall each be four feet long, made of the best oak, loaded with lead...
...seven Princeton men wounded, two of the latter not being expected to recover. Robinson and Brown, of Yale, have each both legs broken, and Jenkins, of Princeton, has lost an eye and all his front teeth. The only incident which marred the gaiety of this most enjoyable match was the spoiling of the exquisite dress of a young lady well known in the fashionable world. A Princeton man scattered the brains of a Yale man all over the dress, but his apology was smilingly accepted, and the affair overlooked by the young lady's brother...
...pigeon shooting match at the Union Gun Club grounds, Hendon, yesterday, between Dr. Carver and Mr. Bingham, at the end of the day's shooting the scores for both days were as follows: Dr. Carver, 249 birds; Mr. Bingham, 244 birds. Today's shooting closes the match, the number of birds having been reduced from 500 to 300 each, by mutual consent...
Seth Jordan, of Boston, won the shooting match for $250 against Thos. Gibbs; of Albany...