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The Seventeenth Grand National Archery Meeting was held on July 4 and 5, 1860, at Bath.
Mrs. Lister won the first score prize, but Mrs. Atkinson won the silver bracer with 4 points.
Mrs. Lister won 2 points for gross score.
Mrs. Horniblow won the point for score at 50 yards, and Mrs. Litchfield won the point for hits at 50 yards.
At this meeting Mr. Edwards won the Champion's medal with 6 points, Mr. Ford, who took third rank, having won 4 points—namely, 2 for gross hits and those for hits at 80 yards and hits at 60 yards.
Ninety-nine ladies and 109 gentlemen shot.
The influence of hits as affecting the position of the winners of the best prizes was now entirely abandoned, and the order of the prizes taken from the gross score only, except when two had a tie in score. In this case the difference (if any) in hits was considered.
Want of space prevents the introduction of all the winners of best prizes, who vary in number at the different meetings from six to twelve, according to the numbers present; but it should be mentioned that at the earliest meetings the second prize was allotted to the maker of most gross hits. This rule prevailed up to 1851. In 1852, 1853, and 1854 the order of prize-winners was in accordance with the order of the gross scores. From that date the first prizes were named 'first, second, third, &c. gross score, and hits,' and the rule by which the order of the prize list was obtained was that the number of each shooter's position in hits was taken and added to the number representing his position in score. The lowest total won the first score and hits prize, and the next lowest the second, and so on. In cases where the totals of two were the same, the highest score would win. The application of this rule may be observed in 1859, when Mr. Richardson made the third score (812), but won the fourth prize; whilst Mr. Edmondstone, who made the fourth score, won the third prize. Mr. Edmondstone was second in hits and fourth in score (total, 6); Mr. Richardson was third in score and fourth in hits (total, 7).
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The Second Grand Annual Crystal Palace Archery Meeting was held on July 18 and 19, 1860.
Twenty-six ladies and forty-three gentlemen shot.
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The Eighth Grand Leamington and Midland Archery Meeting was held in the Jephson Gardens on June 12 and 13, 1861.
Twenty-six ladies and thirty-four gentlemen shot.
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The Eighteenth Grand National Archery Meeting was held on the Racecourse at Aintree, near Liverpool, on July 17 and 18, 1861.
Mrs. Atkinson won the silver bracer with 6 points. Miss Turner won the point for score at 50 yards, and Mrs. E. Lister the point for hits (44) at 50 yards.
The Champion's medal was again won by Mr. G. Edwards with 7 points. Mr. Golightly won the point for score at 80 yards, and Mr. H. A. Ford won two points for score and hits at 60 yards.
The wind at this meeting—on an exposed ground—was tremendous.
Sixty-four ladies and eighty-nine gentlemen shot.
Some better scores—Mr. E. Mason (446), Mr. F. Townsend (374), and Mr. H. C. Mules (365)—were made on July 19 in the handicap match.
The Grand National Archery Society was first established at a meeting of archers held at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool on July 19, 1861.
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The Third Annual Crystal Palace Archery Meeting was held on July 30-31 and August 1, 1861.
No other shooter made as much as 600.
Twenty-two ladies and thirty-seven gentlemen shot.
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The First Grand Western Archery Meeting was held at Bishop's Hull, near Taunton, on August 7 and 8, 1861, when fifty-three ladies and forty-two gentlemen shot.
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The Fourth Annual Crystal Palace Archery Meeting was held on May 29 and 30, 1862.
Twenty-six ladies and forty gentlemen shot.
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The Ninth Grand Leamington and Midland Archery Meeting was held in the Jephson Gardens on June 11 and 12, 1862.
This was Mrs. Horniblow's score on the first day. The round on the second day was not completed on account of the bad weather.
This was the best shooting of the first day. On the second day only 48 arrows at 100 yards were shot.
Thirty-three ladies and twenty-eight gentlemen shot.
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The Nineteenth Grand National Archery Society's Meeting was held at Worcester, on July 17 and 18, 1862.
Sixty-five ladies and eighty-eight gentlemen shot.
Mrs. Horniblow won the silver bracer with all the 8 points.
Mr. G. Edwards secured the Champion's medal with 7 points. Mr. H. A. Ford won the point for score at 80 yards, and the points for score and hits at 60 yards.
Some good scores—Mr. H. A. Ford (479), Mr. G. Edwards (447), and Mr. H. B. Hare (386)—were made on July 19 in the handicap match.
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The Second Grand Western Archery Meeting was held at West Harnham, near Salisbury, on July 9 and 10, 1862, when sixty-four ladies and fifty-one gentlemen shot.
Mrs. A. Malet and Mr. H. B. Hare became respectively the Championess and Champion of the West.
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The Fifth Grand Annual Crystal Palace Archery Meeting was held on June 11 and 12, 1863.
Thirty-four ladies and forty-six gentlemen shot.