Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embarrassment at this faux pas began to play sloppy golf. The doctor started creeping up and at the 30th hole, the match was even. On the 34th Little was two up again, but Dr. Tweddell won the 35th. On the 36th. Little sliced his drive, made a magnificent 100-yd. iron recovery and putted his third shot to the lip of the cup. This left Dr. Tweddell, on in two but 25 feet from the pin, one more chance to keep the match alive...
...National Coursing Association members. The springy sod of Abilene's Coursing Park, best in the land, was selected after soil tests in 20 Kansas towns. Last autumn the park was planted with barley. Last fortnight it was mowed down to a bright green turf; a space 450 yd. long and 200 yd. wide was fenced by wire. Every day last week 1,000 to 5,000 spectators went to the park to watch the running of the National Coursing Association meet, top semi-annual event for breeders of racing & coursing greyhounds...
After two weeks of training, the jack rabbits at Abilene last week knew that their only chance for life was to beat the greyhounds to the burlap at the far end of the field. Each rump-bobbing rabbit raced 150 yd. over the greensward before a brace of dogs leaped in pursuit. One dog wore a red knit collar, the other a white. From a tower the judge watched sharply to see which dog took the lead at the start, which turned the rabbit at a right angle, which made the kill. He raised a red or white flag...
...Namb. His legs twinkled down the takeoff. He shot into the air like a brown bullet. When he landed he was f of an inch short of Nambu's mark but his 26 ft. if in. was a new U. S. record. Next day Owens won the 100-yd. dash in 9.5 sec., tying the meet record made in 1926. After two days of running, jumping and throwing, six meet records had been broken, the University of California at Los Angeles had defended its mile-relay championship and famed Glenn Cunningham had won a special three-quarter mile race...
...darkest fingernails, the broadest smile which, through all the vagaries of her career, has remained attractively inscribed upon her face as if it were a trademark. After playing about the pool and being photographed for three evenings, Eleanor Holm Jarrett last week finally jumped in to defend her 100-yd. backstroke championship. When she climbed out, she had made her title safe for another year and, as is her custom, had broken her own world's record...