Word: marksmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's national defense budget. The $300,000 is the sole Government contribution to a program which involves nearly 4,000 civilian rifle and pistol clubs in the U.S. These clubs are not the plush hunting clubs so graphically pictured in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. They are modest clubs of marksmen who, on their own time, on their own ranges, and largely with their own weapons, keep alive the art of rifle marksmanship. The contribution made by the U.S. Government is largely in the form of very limited supplies of surplus ammunition and equipment to those clubs which annually report...
...scoring 287 out of a possible 300 points, Warshaw led all Harvard entries and placed third in New England. His performance apparently assures him a ranking among the top 25 college marksmen in the nation...
Last week, on a lightning-swept -night in the mountains of Troodos, the reward fell due when marksmen of the Suffolk regiment shot and killed the young Sten-gun-armed terrorist...
...ever. Under the backboards, muscular Jim Loscutoff, once of the University of Oregon, is throwing his weight (225 lbs.) around with bruising efficiency. The soft, high-arcing long shots of quiet Bill Sharman are hitting so often that he is now being called one of the greatest set-shot marksmen in the history of the game...
...team lost only to the Coast Guard Academy while defeating eight other teams including the one from Yale. The Crimson marksmen and their scores were: John Leaves, 287; John Hessel, 282; Even Spelfogel, 282; John Liebes-kind, 276; and Nat Geary...