Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those of pretty girls. Actually, archery is among the most strenuous of pastimes. At the National Archery Association's 57th annual target meeting in Lancaster, Pa. last week, major object of attention was not pretty Jean A. Tenney of Clear Spring, Md., who won the women's championship on the meet's third day, but the 106-man shooting line for the 1937 men's championship. In this grueling three-day event, each contestant fired 468 arrows at distances from 40 to 100 yards (two York and two American rounds). Each shot was the equivalent...
...arrow hunting, now earns his living by making tackle; and Ed Miller, husky Buffalo, N. Y. Customs Officer, whose quiver was made from a moose's foot. Any one of these or most of the other amateur or professional toxophilites in the running for last week's championship could have given any aboriginal American archer a handicap and beaten him. Indian procedure in bow & arrow hunting was to stalk a quarry until practically on top of it instead of depending on long distance marksmanship. When each of the 106 ablest bowmen in the U. S. had shot...
...looked as though Hare, previously considered likely to lose both his singles matches, was highly likely to beat Parker. If Great Britain could win the doubles match as well, or if Austin, always inspired in Davis Cup play, could reverse his straight-set defeat by Budge in the London Championship in June...
Lowest score on record for 72 holes of tournament golf is 262 by Percy Alliss of England, but this was made in the 1935 Italian Open over a diminutive course at San Remo which, only 5,200 yd. long, is 20% below U. S. championship standard. Lowest 7 2-hole score ever made in competition over a full length course has for the last eight years been famed Bill Mehlhorn's 271 in the 1929 El Paso Open. Last week Mehlhorn's astounding record, which all the best professionals in the world have since failed to equal...
...With Walter Hagen and Jock Hutchison, British-born James ("Long Jim") Barnes was the most famed U. S. golfer of the early post-War era. He won the Professional Golfers Association Championship twice (1916 and 1919), the U. S. Open in 1921, the British Open in 1925, retired from tournament golf because he was bored by it in 1932. Last week at Huntington, N. Y., when the -Long Island Open Championship was played over his home Crescent Club course, Long Jim Barnes, 51, decided it was his duty as host to compete. He chose the smallest available caddy, picked...