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...PIGEON SHOOTING: - October, 1863, John Taylor killed 98 birds out of 100. This great feat was accomplished with 50 double birds, 18 yds. rise, 100 yds. boundary. This is the best pigeon shooting upon record in any part of the world...
...Shooting Club has challenged the Sheff. Gun Club of Yale to a clay-pigeon match to take place May, 1886. Yale is debating the feasibility...
...week, for tuition and board. During his stay with Dr. Woods, he was very neglectful of his academic duties, and on one occasion, when he was told for some misdemeanor to learn a hundred lines of Virgil, he gained a reward of a day to be given up to pigeon shooting by committing a whole book of the AEneid...
...fourth competition for the clay pigeon cup will be shot at Watertown this afternoon. Competitors will be able to complete their score and return in time for the Beacon game. Members will take...
Yesterday afternoon the third competition for the clay pigeon cup was shot at Watertown. The afternoon was favorable for high scoring, and the figures reached in the match give evidence of great improvement on the part of the shot-gun men. The cup goes to Mr. Austin this week on a score of 17 birds out of the 20, the highest score yet attained in this match...