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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First fired of the 80 events was the Sobel trophy match, side arm competition for policemen. On one of the ranges that project from the three miles of firing line along the lakefront, was set up a double row of false house fronts. Targets swung in the gaping windows and doors, popped up and down in the street. Five keen-eyed Portland, Ore., constables shot them down like fugitives, scored 41 points out of a possible 50, won the match. A four-man team match of the slow and rapid pistol firing was won by New York City policemen...
Last and greatest event will be the National Rifle Team Match. To win this each branch of U. S. armed forces strives doggedly. Sights are smoked with candle flames so that a finer "bead" may be drawn. Shoulders are padded with sheep hide and rags to fend the recoil. Windage and elevation are shrewdly calculated, lucky pieces rubbed. Classic is the tale of one Infantry marksman who would not change his underclothing during his three weeks at Camp Perry, fearing it would affect his condition in the Team shoot. The great event, shot at 1,000 yards, is usually held...
...year.* Instead of repeating political platitudes about Service, Mr. Smith exercised his famed talent for reciting "the facts" and described the new building as follows: "It can house at one time more than 60.000 people, which is about half the population of the city of Syracuse, enough people to match the population of the city of Troy, three times more than the population of the city of Watertown. 10.000 more than there are in the city of Binghamton and three times as many people as are to be found in the largest village of the State. Only 24 counties...
Remaining was still the usual possibility: an All-California final between Miss Wills and Miss Jacobs. But all unexpectedly, it became international, for England's gaunt Mrs. Phoebe Watson in her semi-final match against Helen Jacobs, drove deep low arcs, came seldom...
Wood Pulp. Ten of the largest saw mills in northern Sweden, producing about one-fifth of Sweden's pulp and having assets of $75,000,000, were last week merged by the formation of a holding company to be controlled by Kreuger & Toll (financial company of the Swedish match trust). They will be given a unified selling agency and the holding company will build a new sulphate pulp factory...