Word: strings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deep in the African jungle, the natives halted sharply, stiffened, passed the word. A leopard. Stalking began. Stewart Edward White was in the lead, in his hands a bow cut from the sturdy yew trees of California. The bow string was the length of the old cloth yard-27½ in., and it took 80 pounds of pulling power, and much skill to draw one of the 5½ -ft. steel-tipped arrows, also of yew, to the head of the bow. It was a clumsy thing, this bow, difficult to keep clear of the jungle undergrowth, not a thing...
...third day M. Veenstra, Belgian's second string, came down in Spain, 800.miles from his starting point and was forthwith declared the winner. Later, however, it was declared that he too landed on the sea and it appeared likely that De Muyter after all would be declared the winner, although Van Orman, who had landed unassisted, was preparing to dispute his claim...
...when the first game is on the New Haven diamond, and yet Spalding is obviously Coach Mahan's best bet for a win. The probable reason for this change in the usual procedure is that Pond is slated to start the game for Yale instead of the first string pitcher, Holibird, and Coach Mahan will take advantage of the opportunity by concentrating his force for the initial contest...
Along the low Ayrshire coast it is all boats and fishing and drinking your ale or "whusky" and going to the kirk. Between times, it is golfing. Everyone plays. The courses string out among the dunes like a ribbon spattered green and gray-green with the white flecks of bunkers through it, so that they say you can play a ball all the 20 miles from Ayr up to Ardrossan without leaving the fairway. Last week, at Troon, which is hard by Prestwick* and not so far southwest of Glasgow, Britain's golfing women inarched among the dunes...
...Schuylkill to watch one of the annual feature events in American rowing circles Saturday. The race for Junior eights was the semi-final event on the huge program, in which 47 crews participated. In the final race of the afternoon, the undefeated Navy crew added Pennsylvania to its string of victims, defeating the Quaker eight by three-quarters of a length in the fast time of six minutes 34 and two-fifths seconds. The record for the Henley course on the Schuylkill of six minutes and 25 seconds was made by the Yale crew last year in the finals...