Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strikers from making deliveries. Boonville, 27 mi. north of Utica, became the focal point of disorder which finally required the armed services of most of the State Police. Some 400 farmers with axes and clubs blocked the passage of two Dairymen's League trucks escorted by a score of police cars. The officers hurled tear-gas bombs, clubbed the farmers. Just outside Boonville three trucks carrying 285 cans of milk were stopped by strikers and the milk poured onto the ground. At Van Hornesville, 50 mi. from Boonville, the pickets seized and dumped three cans of milk from...
...kept the Davis Cup in France so often before, held up his hand for silence. Working hard now and measuring every point, playing himself slowly back to his best game, Perry won the next two sets 8-6, 6-2. From 1-4 in the fourth Merlin brought the score up to 4-all, then 5-all. Perry, in danger now of slipping back into his panic of the first set, managed to break through Merlin's service with a love game. Then he won his own, for game, set, match and the first Davis Cup series England...
...Chicago last week for the World's Championship Horseshoe Pitching Tournament were about evenly divided. In twelve courts on the boardwalk overlooking the north lagoon at A Century of Progress, they pitched into boxes six feet square, filled with blue clay. In the qualifying rounds-high score for 100 shoes, with three points for ringers, one for a pitch within six inches of the stake-all but six women and 24 men were eliminated. Next day, the final round-robins started. A scorekeeper for each court measured the pitches with calipers, and a straightedge for questionable ringers. Using...
...Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, Ill., Mrs. Edward Foster Swift, relict of the meat packer, gave a Swift family golf tournament, for married members only. Husbands & wives played together. Play was over nine holes; each pair was allowed a handicap, combined net score only to count. Couples paid $10 to play, $20 not to play. Among the entries were the Theodore Philip Swifts, the Edward Swift Juniors, the Charles Henry Swifts. The George Swifts, the Charles Henry Swifts did not play, paid their $20 fines. Prizes were $30 in cash, a silver...
James Minotto, Arizona-ranching son-in-law, had played once prior to the tournament-the day before. He & Wife Ida May were allowed a handicap of 75. Their gross, combined nine-hole score: 161. But high net (for which there was no prize) went to Mr.& Mrs. Gordon Phelps Kelley (granddaughter) who posted a 91 after a handicap of 41. Low net went to Mr. & Mrs. Huntington Badger Henry (daughter) with a 77 after a handicap...