Word: matches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club was a success. The grounds of the Middlesex Gun Club at Watertown were leased, and meetings were held every week. At first the members contented themselves with shooting for cups and medals offered from time to time by the club. Last year two new features were introduced - matches with outside clubs and an inter-class team match. Two matches were shot in the spring of 1886 with the Dedham Sportsmen Club, in both of which the Harvard team was successful. The inter-class match between four-men teams from the different classes came off on the 20th...
Last fall the team shot another match with their old antagonists, the Dedham Club, and were again successful, the score being, Harvard 64, Dedham...
...University of Pennsylvania Gua Club has accepted the challange of the Harvard Shooting Club to a match at clay pigeons. The match will take place on the latter club's grounds at Watertown about the middle of May. The men from the Quaker city are said to have a crack team, and without doubt will give our team a hard fight. The Shooting Club's dinner, which was to have come off next month, will probably be postponed to the evening of the day of the match, in honor of the visitors...
...Parker has a "great deal of enthusiasm wasted on him;" for "besides performing his usual course of circus-feats to amuse the spectators and the 'muckers,' and turning over the fence on his head, he made four stunning home runs, and played his base perfectly." The score in this match, 56-4, led the Lowells who had only defeated this same club, 47-29, to reconsider the remark of their captain, - that the "Lowells didn't believe thay would enter the New England tournament, as no club would care to try them...
...sophomore and freshman classes at Harvard felt the fever and both played intercollegiate matches with Yale, and were beaten 23 to 22, 38 to 18. In the sophomore match a "Sheff" man played on a Yale class team for the first time, by Harvard permission. The university game with Williams for the championship was twice postponed on account of rain, and at last abandoned. Yale again declined to play...