Word: skeet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dick Shaughnessy. 14-year-old son of a Boston sporting-goods dealer: The all-gauge championship, No. 1 event of the National Skeet Championships; with a score of 248 out of 250, one better than his closest rival, 17-year-old Bobby Stack of Beverly Hills, Calif., who set a record by breaking 150 targets in a row; in St. Louis...
...Mangoon (Lone Wolf). He teaches sculpture and plays polo at White Sulphur. He once flew a planeload of pottery from Cleveland to Newark, paddled through Germany in a kayak, crossed Austria on skis, engaged in sabre duels with the student Korps Hilaritas of Vienna. Polo, aviation, duck shooting and skeet are his favorite recreations...
Packard's president is Alvan Macauley, a courteous cultured gentleman of 62 who heads the Industry's trade association. He likes to whittle period furniture and part models in his basement workshop, likes skeet shooting, likes to read in his bath. He is also a smart salesman who learned his trade under the late great John Patterson of National Cash Register. Months before the Show he began to hint broadly at a new low-priced edition of Packard's swank eights, super-eights and twin-sixes-but he kept his public guessing. Packard had dipped into...
...Skeet tries to duplicate the typical hunting situation of pointing dog, tense gunner, unpredictable game birds. Unlike trap-shooters, skeeters may not raise gun to shoulder until the target appears. That may be any time within three seconds after the shooter cries "Pull." Skeeter Henry Bourne Joy, onetime president of Packard Motor Car Co., has invented an electric variable timer which throws targets with unbiased irregularity...
Famed among skeet shooters are Louis D. Bolton of Detroit, who holds the world's long run record of 224 consecutive breaks (made with a 20-gauge gun) ; Ed Sransky of New Jersey, who broke the first straight 25 with a .410 bore (smallest) shotgun; the Waltham (Mass.) Gun Club, which holds the world's team record of 486 breaks out of 500 targets. Some famed skeet enthusiasts: President Alvan-Macauley of Packard Motor Car Co., Publisher Orson Desaix Munn of Scientific American, Major-General Hanson Edward Ely, Financier James Alexander Stillman, Brigadier-General William Mitchell, Bernt Balchen...