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During the coming week, the shooting club will hold its semi-annual novice, scratch, and handicap shoots. The novice shoot is open to all members who have not won a cup or have not received the shooting club insignia. The handicap shoot is open to all members of the club, and handicaps will be based on the six medal shoots held during the fall. In the scratch shoot and in the two above-mentioned events, each man will shoot at 100 birds in strings of 25. Furthermore, at the end of the season a cup will be awarded...
There will be no shooting at the traps this week, but beginning next Monday the club will hold three shoots. During the first of the week, the handicap shoot will be held between the members of the club. There will also be a scratch shoot, and a novice shoot for those who have not won cups before. Cups will be awarded to the winners of these contests. The member having the best average of all the shoots this year will be awarded a cup after December 12 when the last shoot will be held...
...broad jump handicap competition in the baseball cage yesterday afternoon was won by E. H. Ruch '10, scratch, with an actual jump of 20 ft. 6 3-4 in.; G. P. Gardner '10, with 4 inches handicap, was second with an actual jump of 19 ft. 10 1-4 in.; S. C. Lawrence '10 with 8 in. handicap was third, his jump being 19 ft. 3 in. E. L. Parker '10 won the polovault with 2 inches handicap and an actual vault of 10 ft. 7 in.; S. C. Lawrence '10, scratch, was second with...
...Shooting Club, to increase the interest in shooting, has offered medals for weekly shoots to be held on Saturdays throughout the autumn. There will be a scratch medal shoot on Saturday, to be followed in the succeeding weeks by shoots in which the competitors will be handicapped according to their previous showing. Towards the middle of November there will also be the regular scratch, novice, and high average shoots...
...Ruch '10 won the cup in the handicap 16-pound hammer-throw competition yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field with an actual: throw of 138 ft., 7 in., and a handicap of 15 feet. B. F. Sherman '05, scratch, was second with 139 ft., 4 in., and J. C. Jones, Jr., '09, handicap '15 feet, was third with...