Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...practice match held after match A was won by Pike. The next shoot of the club will probably be held Thursday afternoon and all men who wish to try for the team should attend. Practice shoots will be held every afternoon next week to get the men in trim for the match with Yale. As yet no challenge has passed between the Yale and Harvard Shooting Clubs, but in all probability one will be forthcoming in the near future. Harvard challenged Yale last year, so it is really Yale's turn this year. The match will be held in Springfield...
...present activity is not confined to the candidates for the Mott Haven team. The football men have already begun their season. The weather seems likely to prevent out-door work perhaps for some time yet, but the preliminary work in the gymnasium is getting the men trim for the harder work which will come when the weather grows more open. As soon as possible the captain will work with his men out-of-doors; and will be able to divide them into squads for real football work...
...semi-finals yesterday Chase beat Potter, 6-1, 6-4; he then played Orcutt in the finals at 3 o'clock, and despite the intense cold, both men put up a strong game. Chase was in fine trim yet he had to use all his skill to beat Orcutt. The score...
...letter from Yale to one of the New York papers states that the Yale crew feel very confident of winning the race with Harvard. Both Rogers and Bolton, the two Yale coachers, admit that the crew is in pretty good trim, "although the fact that Harvard is saying nothing leads them to believe that their (Harvard's) crew is a first-class one." The Yale crew will take their last pull on the harbor on Friday, and on Saturday morning they go to New London and will be quartered at the Latham Brown villa, a large house situated...
...most zealous and promising ones will be promoted the fastest. Captain Cumnock is very desirous that new candidates-in addition to the ones below-present themselves this afternoon. The work for the first week will be light, just so that the men may get in good physical trim, and more men are very strongly urged to come...