Word: traps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Atlantic Ammunition Company have offered a solid silver cup worth $100 for the best score made by a college shooting club at trap shooting. The cup is to be held open to competition for one year, unless won twice consecutively by one college team. There are to be three contestants from each college...
Ninety Blue Rock targets are to be shot at, thrown from a Blue Rock trap a distance of not less than 40 yards. Each contestant to shoot at thirty targets, 10 consecutively before leaving the score. The first ten to be thrown straight away. The second 10 at a right angle, to the right. The third 10 at a left angle, to the left. The shooter shall stand 16 yards from the trap if using a 12 guage gun, or 18 yards for a 10 guage...
July 25th to 29th, at or near New Britain, Conn., in charge of Professor W. M. Davis. Study will here be made of the structure and physical history of the Triassic sandstones and trap-sheets of this part of the Connecticut Valley. with special attention to the preparation of geological maps and sections...
Four years ago a number of sophomores, of the class of '86, desirous of obtaining better accommodations for trap-shooting than the clubs around Boston afforded, organized the Harvard Shooting Club. From the very first the 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...
...Club. A challenge has been received from Cornell, and a match may be arranged with that club. Both these colleges have flourishing gun clubs that number among their members many good shots; especially is this true of the Cornell Club, among whose members are Mr. Whitney, the champion trap-shot of New York State, and the White brothers, the crack shots of the Ithaca Gun Club. Our men will have to do good work this spring to be able to win victories over such opponents...