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Joan earned the right to compete in the champion-of-champions event when Florida Champion Clyde Wells was unable to make the trip. Joan was runner-up to Wells this year. Her coach, Fred Etchen, once a pupil of the great Annie Oakley and captain of the 1924 U.S. Olympic trapshoot team, was inclined to regard Joan's Annie Oakley feat as a fluke. "It wouldn't happen again in a thousand years," he said. In the 51 years of the Grand American Trapshoot, certainly, nothing like it had ever happened before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Long Shot | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

Boston College coasted to an easy triumph in the New England Intercollegiate Golf Tournaent at the Oakley Country Club Saturday, with a 298 score, 9 strokes ahead of the 14th place Crimson team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Place 14th | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...Crimson golfers will compete in a field of 118 top-flight New England golfers this morning in the opening of the New England Intercollegiate Golf Tournament. The 16 low scorers on the Oakley Country Club course qualify for match play, which begins tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst Tops Golfers, 4 to 3 | 5/12/1950 | See Source »

...following weekend, the varsity will compete in the New England Intercollegiate Play-off at Oakley Country Club and complete its season at Williams, May 22. The freshmen will conclude play a week from Saturday when they engage Nichols Junior College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matson Names Varsity, '53 Golf Teams; Green Match Rained Out | 5/2/1950 | See Source »

Brimming with colorful costumes and extravagant, Hollywood-style Wild West shows, the film is a fictional embroidery of the romance and rivalry between Sharpshooter Annie Oakley and Crackshot Frank Butler (Broadway's Howard Keel). Annie, who can't miss anything she shoots at, eventually learns that You Can't Get a Man with a Gun. She gets him by learning how to shoot and miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Side of Happiness | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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