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...Tony Lupien '39, a figure well known to College students, Bobby Doerr, often rated as the best second baseman in all of major league baseball, shortstop Eddie Lake, a Boston newcomer who had been enslaved in the Cardinal farm system most of his adult life, and Jim Tabor or Skeeter Newsome at third...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: AMBITIOUS CRIMSON TO FACE RED SOX | 4/14/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Skeeters | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

After Willie's death Editor Ellis made up an imaginary boy to edit his magazine for: Skeeter Bennet, a high-school sophomore 15½ years old, five feet four inches tall, weight 114 pounds. With 285,000 Skeeters reading The American Boy Editor Ellis bought out Youth's Companion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Willie to Skeeter to John | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...Okmulgee. Okla., who won the sub-small-gauge title with a record-breaking 98 out of 100, and then took the small-gauge championship in a shootoff after tying two of the sport's most seasoned gunners at 99 out of 100. The new No.1 lady skeeter of the U. S. is a 17-year-old Akron schoolgirl. Patricia Laursen. who has been shooting only two years but was good enough last week to break 96 out of 100. the best record any woman has registered at the national meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Skeeters | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...main event, the 250-target all-gauge shoot, a comparative oldster of 28, Henry Bourne Joy Jr.. turned in an extraordinary performance-a perfect score of 250, something that had never been done before. Skeeter Joy, son of the late Henry B. Joy, onetime president of Packard Motor Car Co. and famed skeet pioneer in the Midwest, lost his right eye in a shooting accident five years ago. now shoots left-handed-and better than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Skeeters | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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