Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, he looked out of place beside his competitors as they went out to shoot 25 birds to decide the tie. A handicap in trapshooting is sometimes given in score, but usually in yards. At Vandalia, while 8,000 people stirred with excitement, young King shot at the 16-yd. line, Casey at 17, Scott at 18, Crampton at 21. The guns banged loudly, 25 times each in the tense stillness of the shoot-off. Scott missed his second bird, Crampton his sixth and eighth. Casey missed his twelfth, leaving young King ahead until he missed his 14th. Then Casey...
...Percy Williams, famed Canadian sprinter, with a pulled thigh muscle, over a sodden track: the 100-yd. dash in the fine time of 9.9 sec. at the Empire Games in Hamilton, Ont. England, with 25 points, won the meet; Canada was second with 17; South Africa third with...
...that these records were away below those of Newton made only a few months and years before this, and none seemed to know that the peerless runner George Littlesond of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, came to Madison Square, N. Y. and on Dec. 1882 covered 623 mi., 1,230 yd. in six days, the longest distance ever covered by a human being in that period of time, whether he be a Flying Finn or a Red Indian. Thus showing that in endurance the good old Anglo-Celtic stock of the Nordic race is second to none...
Killed. Edwin Jones Clapp, 48, publicity director for Motormaker William Crapo Durant, onetime Hearst financial editor, onetime professor of economics at New York University, onetime (1901, 1903-4) holder of the intercollegiate record for 120-yd. high hurdles; when he jumped from the roof of his hotel in Manhattan...
Interlachen is not a particularly long course (6,672 yd.) but it is perilously trapped. The narrow fairways put a tremendous premium on straight driving. The thick-matted rough seldom fails to cost a player a stroke whenever he strays into it. The greens of Stolon Bent are smooth but tricky to putt...