Word: upped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week 3,000 armed men were massed on a plain near Port Clinton, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. All were picked shots. Over their shoulders were slung rifles with well-oiled firing chambers, speckless bores. The walnut stocks were worn, rubbed to an oily, deep brown. Across...
First fired of the 80 events was the Sobel trophy match, side arm competition for policemen. On one of the ranges that project from the three miles of firing line along the lakefront, was set up a double row of false house fronts. Targets swung in the gaping windows and...
Chill, ominous fogs gathered over Pebble Beach, obscuring the fame of California's golden climate. Then up stepped young John Goodman of Omaha, the boy who rides to tournaments in freight cars and plays good golf when he gets there. (He won the Trans-Mississippi in 1927.) At this year...
"Jimmy" Johnston has been entering the Amateur for several years, always starting well, seldom going far. In private life he is a St. Paul, Minn., broker with a big-brown-eyed wife named Betty and two children. Having gotten by Ouimet, who put him out at St. Louis in 1921...
¶ Lord Charles Hope of England at one point thrilled with his play as well as his title. After hooking four tee shots over a cliff to the Pacific's edge, he found his first ball playable, looped it up the cliff, holed a birdie.