Word: pistols
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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CHAS. DOWNER.HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB.- The second competion for the "Marksman's Cup" will be held to-day at Walnut Hill. The rifle shooting will be at 200 yards, off-hand; the pistol shooting at 50 yards, off-hand. Trains leave the Boston and Lowell station...
...Shooting Club has been given a cup to be awarded for excellence in "all-round" shooting with the shotgun, pistol and rifle. The shot-gun competition will be held at Watertown this afternoon, when each competitor will shoot at fifty clay birds. The pistol and rifle competitions will be held at Walnut Hill on May 26. Entries are free...
...same officers could summon a sort of "posse comitatus" of the students to quell disturbances about the college. "None belonging to the college, except the President and Fellows, etc., shall by threats or blows compel a freshman * * * to any duty of obedience." "No undergraduate shall keep a gun or pistol in the college or anywhere in Cambridge." Provisions are also made against students fighting. With the conservatism and foresight which ever characterized the fathers of the college, these regulations close with a clause providing for the punishment of "disorders or misdemeanors" which have perchance escaped them in the labors...
...city of New York men were uniformly light, and McElven, the anchor, the smallest and slightest of the four. The Columbia men were middle-weight. At the sound of the pistol, Both teams fell like lead to the floor, with Columbia slightly in the advantage. For an instant the red ribbon at the middle of the rope failed to budge, and then it just peered out of the snap on the Columbia side. At the end of the first minute Columbia had just about half an inch, and, although the City of New York's boys pulled sturdily, and their...
...compare well with Easton in size of body, but they are scholarly, toughened young men, and each one good in his place, They were: E. A. Pease, captain and 1; Percy Chase, 2; Franklin Remington, 3. The teams took hold of the rope, and waited for the pistol. When it popped, there was a heavy thud, as the eight men reached the floor exactly together. There was a mighty straining, and in two or three seconds the old ribbon showed to the advantage of Harvard; then it wavered, and as Columbia "heaved" it started to the blue side...