Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several records were broken, notably the world's long-distance flight record with a yew bow. The Rev. L. L. Dailey, of Monmouth, Ore. shot an arrow 14 yards short of a quarter mile. Present U. S. Target Champion is Russell Hoogerhyde, 24, who set a tournament record score in the American Round-30 arrows each at 60, 50 and 40 yards...
...everyone expected him to-the first westerner to get on an international team. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. was at No. 3 where he could not be expected to make as many goals as he used to at No. 2 but where he could feed Pedley and Hopping long drives to score on. Big, young, hard-hitting Winston Guest was at back...
...monotony by reviving century-old civil war tocsins: "Death to the Unitarian Savages! Long Live the Holy Federation!" A few wags cheered "El Torito de Matadoros," champion Argentine Boxer Justo Suarez, now attached to the Argentine consulate in Manhattan. Five anti-Irigoyenistas ploughed through the crowd, fired a score of shots which brought down Parader Manuel Varela. At week's end no other signs of revolution were evident. President Irigoyen was furious to learn that by order of the Minister of War General Luis J. Dellepiane, a number of officers had been arrested, confined to barracks for no other...
...that make tennis doubles the finest sport in the world to watch. Tilden did most of the work for his side until Lott & Doeg broke through his serve in the first game of the fifth set. Tilden's long shape seemed to grow hollower after that. When he scored, he regained a momentary spryness, but when he erred his bad hip hurt him, and he rested on his racquet between shots. Lott & Doeg ran out the match, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 9-n, 6-2. In the finals they ran through Allison & Van Ryn for two sets...
...Policeman F. F. Shaylor of Portland, Ore.: an individual field pistol match at Camp Perry, Ohio, with a score of 49 out of 50. The other finalist, Andrew Ford of the Royal Northwest Mounted, had the same score, but was judged less able because when it came to shooting a man-shaped moving target he did not get his man as well as Shaylor...