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...team even boasts a coach, Dick Shaughnessey, known to some as the Izaak Walton of skeet shooting. Under Shaughnessey last spring, the team shot its way to a second in the National Telegraphic Intercollegiates...
From Winthrop House the four visitors and Reed proceeded to the Mayflower Skeet Club in Holliston (25 miles west of Cambridge) for their weekly practice stint of knocking the clay out of clay pigeons. At the Club, they were joined by Coach Dick Shaughnessey, "Mr. Skeet", as he is known in American skeet circles...
...Shaughnessey won the national title at the age of 14, has shot on every U. S. Olympic skeet team, and currently holds the world's 20 gauge record of 446 birds in a row. A "bird" is a hard clay saucer approximately five inches in diameter which is spun into the air much like a discus...
...Shaughnessey, who gets no pay for coaching because he wants to retain his amateur standing, generally breaks about 995 birds out of every 1000 he shoots if. His five-man Harvard team can't hit like that, but hopes to win the national collegiate championship this spring...
...wrestler Fuller could enter either the 191-pound class or the unlimited division since he weighs in the neighborhood of 195. Last year in collegiate competition he ended as one of the best in the East, losing a decision to Henry O'Shaughnessey of Columbia in the final of the Eastern Intercollegiate heavyweight championships. The main obstacle in his path, however, seems to be one Henry Wittenberg of the New York City Police department. Regarded as the top amateur wrestler in the country, Wittenberg has not been beaten since he left CCNY 12 years ago. Fuller lost...