Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nutcracker Suite, began his new season with the same pieces in the manner of a man who, interrupted, sternly repeats himself. The overture which Tschaikowsky composed to celebrate the repulse of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia, scoring it for such instrumental auxiliaries as a brass band, church bells, cannon shot and the like, was rousingly rendered by the New York Philharmonic. At the climax, a brass band of eleven players rose to their feet behind the regular Philharmonic men, added their jubilant blare to the strains of the onetime (Imperial) national anthem of Russia which composes the finale. Like musketry...
...three days, at Saranac Lake, N. Y., pistols have poked the frosty air, figures have shot over the ice, round and round a roped course, their skates knocking loud. Out of the shooting, the knocking, comes a new U. S. speed skating champion-one Francis Allen of Chicago. He competed in the 440-yard, the half-mile, the three-quarter-mile, the one-mile, the twomile, the five-mile races, scored 100 points; his nearest rival, Valentine Bialis of Lake Placid scored...
...Hagen's 4. The third hole is long. Walker's drive, his brassie, were perfect. He laid his hand on a light mashie, cast a wary eye at the pit of tawny sand that gaped at the right of the green. If this shot were perfect, if every shot he made that afternoon were incredibly good, he might be almost even with Hagen before defeat stopped him. His ball rose in air, pointed itself straight for the flag -and then curved insanely aside, buried itself in the yawning bunker. Walker wallowed after. He asked that a niblick...
...being a member of the intercollegiate winter sports union, was not concerned in the score, though ardently it competed with the others. Contestants webbed their feet with snowshoes, raced a 150-yard snowshoe dash; they laced long runners to their feet and maneuvered before judges (ski proficiency test) ; they shot down a steep bank on skis and into the air from a great steel thank-you-ma'am. Other events were: fancy figure skating, 3-mile snow-shoe cross-country race...
...four inches took second in the K. of C. high jump, at 6 ft. 1 1-2 in. His actual leap of 5 ft. 9 1-2 in. won third in the New England Championship scratched contest. The five foot handicap awarded to C. L. Pratt '28 in the shot-put added to his creditable heave of 39 ft. 7 in. gave him first place. Potter was second, with a put of 38 ft. 4 1-2 in. handicapped...