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...Humphrey cottoned to each other even more. Hum phrey's dry, quick sallies in the wardroom often broke the atmosphere of heavy deliberation, to Ike's relief. And on deck, to Ike's surprise, Old Hunter Humphrey turned out to be every bit as good a skeet-shooter as Old Soldier Eisenhower...
Fifth man Jack Brophy fired a 72, his best score of the season, to beat Amherst's Skeet Ellis, 2 and 1. The two-over-par round was Brophy's best of the season. In sixth position, George Wheeling topped Dave Cummings of the Lord Jeffs 2 and 1. Brophy and Wheeling won the best-ball match...
Family Show. All week the skeet fields (24 in all) were circled by processions of competitors aiming at prizes in 38 major events, popping pump-gun .410s, banging cannonlike 12-gauges. Whole families were part of the show, fathers, mothers, sons & daughters, teaming up or competing against each other...
Glamor in Tweed. The tournament glamor girl was Cuban-born Carola Mandel, 31, wife of wealthy Chicago Department Store Owner Leon Mandel. A skeet shooter for only three years, steady-nerved Mrs. Mandel is already right up in the big time, last month won the Open High-Over-All title at Chicago, outshooting some veteran male marksmen to do it. In Dallas, wearing her regular plaid shirt & tweed skirt, despite the heat, she won the 20-gauge (100 out of 100) and small gauge (98 out of 100) competitions, for a split of the major women's titles with...
...lost out last year because he missed one bird. But this year he never wavered. When the din and the powder smell had faded away, he had raised his score to 250 out of 250 in the shootoff, to become the first three-time champion (1948, 1949) in National Skeet history...