Word: skeet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montana sportsman. He is daft about guns (his favorite: a .22 Hornet with a German telescope sight). His mind is encyclopedic as to velocities, trajectories. He and "Rocky"-Mrs. Cooper-hunt coyotes and bobcats together in the mountains near Malibu. In 1939 she won the California Women's Skeet Shooting Championship...
Dick Shaughnessy is known as bit of a miracle. Nine months after he shouldered his first shotgun, he smashed 313 consecutive birds in recognized skeet tournaments...
...following year, at 14, he floored the skeet fraternity by winning the national all-gauge championship with 248 out of 250. Since then, he has won more titles than any other skeeter. Last year he averaged .9910 out of 1,000 in tournament shoots, highest average ever recorded. No one has ever bettered his long-run record: 564 straight targets...
...week wore on, it seemed almost so. Even the women began to make perfect scores look like child's play. First, Mrs. M. L. Smythe, a 96-lb. Aurora, Ohio housewife, broke 100 straight - the first century ever chalked up by a woman in a national skeet tournament. Then, 19-year-old Patricia Laursen, a Rollins College junior, often called America's most beautiful athlete, scored another...
...nerve-racking last round, even dead-eyed Dick Shaughnessy hobbled one, finished in a three-way tie (at 249 x 250) with F. S. Hawkins, Dallas druggist, and Alex Kerr, Los Angeles sportsman. After two shoot-offs, Dick finally shook off his rivals, was crowned national all-gauge champion, skeet's No. 1 title...