Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trump the first trick scores 40, all others 30. Thus it is now possible to score a game (100 points) in three hands of one no-trump each-impossible under the old method of scoring odd tricks at 30, even ones...
...Scranton, Pa., competent enough to have made one other perfect game in informal competition, responded politely to the cheers of his gallery, learned that he would get a special gold medal with two diamonds, told reporters he felt "swell." Then, unnerved by his achievement, he rounded out his score with a creditable 203, a mediocre 169, for a 672 series that remained the best score of the day for only two hours...
...First to bowl a perfect same during the Congress was Billy Knox of Philadelphia. Date: 1913. Late last week Bowler Knox, after narrowly missing another perfect game, was leading the singles with a three-game score...
...Tokyo, pink with pride over his new certificate of merit in the art of jiujitsu, Chuyu Ota, 19, set out to throw chance passers-by met by night in the street near his home, boasted that he would make the number 1,000. Ota's score reached 15. Rolling up his sleeves, he accosted his sixteenth, crouched, took hold and suddenly spun into the air. Artist Ota crashed, dazed, to the ground, was picked up and taken to jail by the sixteenth, a Tokyo police department jiu-jitsu expert...
...Score: Yale 14, Harvard 1, Goals; Wilson 5, Dominick 6, Secor 4. Pony 2, Wilmill 2, Davis. Fouls; Wilson 2, Dominick 2, Secor 2, Winmill, Davis 3. Time; 7 1-2 minute periods, Referee: Thomas Brady...