Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gutteridge (O); One-mile run: C. E. Green (C), and H. S. Townsend (O); Three-mile run: D. M. Wilson (C), and J. M. Humphrey (O): High hurdles: H.G. Harper (O), and I. R. Mann (C); Low Hurdles: Harper and R. M. N. Tisdall (C); Shot-Put: C. F. Cates (O), and Tisdall: Broad Jump: N. W. Revans (C), and W. T. Sartain (O): High Jump: C. G. Gordon (O), T. P. Noel (C): and A. E. Young (C): Pole Vault: W. H. Bayley (C), E. R. McPhee (C), and E. R. McGell...
...they brought a score card which Boomer, nervous, could scarcely sign. The figures scribbled on this card showed that Boomer had made a record-breaking 61 (33-28) for 18 holes on the St. Cloud golf course. The course is 6,507 yds. long. Boomer averaged 107 yds. per shot, including puts and approaches. For Gene Sarazen who came in third they had in readiness a white-tired automobile to speed him to the Gare St. Lazare where puffed a boat-train for Havre...
...person can ever have heard or imagined all its verses. Yet the basic story has simple, tragic dignity which does not depend on the length or bawdiness which always characterize its rendition. Frankie was a harlot. Johnnie was her man. But Johnnie loved Nellie Bly. So Frankie shot her man. "He was her man, but he done her wrong," explains every refrain. The verse at which singers usually break down in tears goes...
Such has been the history of many a U. S. scandal. But such was not the case last month when 19-year-old Howard, Prince of Sagan, son of the Duchess de Talleyrand, who was Anna, the daughter of the late wealthy Jay Gould, shot himself on purpose in his mother's Paris home. The press did not get wind of the story until last week. When the press came, the Duchess was ready with a frank, detailed and-most important of all-entirely literate statement; one that prevented garbling by scandal-monging journals. The statement said: "The Duke...
...Shot put--Rothert (Stanford). Distance--50 feet 3 inches. * New record...