Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hurdler Towns won the 100-yd. dash in 10 sec., the high jump at 6 ft., anchored a team that won the 880-yd. relay. His Troop F won the meet...
...Frank Gray Carroll, 35-year-old hardware merchant of Brecksville, Ohio: the Grand American Handicap, trap-shooting's No. i event, with a score of 100 straight targets from the 19-yd. line; in his first championship tournament, upholding the tradition that an "unknown from nowhere'' usually wins the title, never held twice by the same person; at Vandalia, Ohio. Tied for second place were eleven gunners, who broke 99 out of 100, a score which would have been good enough to win 31 of the previous 37 annual tournaments...
...Omaha, George A. Johnson challenged Cecil Higgenbottom to run a footrace. Mr. Higgenbottom has run 100 yd. in 14.5 sec. There are no time trials on Mr. Johnson. Each of the men has two wooden legs...
Lowest score on record for 72 holes of tournament golf is 262 by Percy Alliss of England, but this was made in the 1935 Italian Open over a diminutive course at San Remo which, only 5,200 yd. long, is 20% below U. S. championship standard. Lowest 7 2-hole score ever made in competition over a full length course has for the last eight years been famed Bill Mehlhorn's 271 in the 1929 El Paso Open. Last week Mehlhorn's astounding record, which all the best professionals in the world have since failed to equal...
...scoring at golf depends as much on the course as on the player. Arbor Hills is a 6,700-yd. course with five par 5 holes. Golfer Harbert's 268 (31-32-32-32-33-34-36-38) might have been better if reporters had not mistakenly told him while he was playing his last round that Mehlhorn's record was 266. Twenty-three strokes under par when he got his 24th birdie of the tournament at the 5th hole. Golfer Harbert weakened under the pressure of trying to break the record, took three over...