Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth fairway of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Course, playing his last round in the Augusta Masters' Tournament, Golfer Gene Sarazen last week made the greatest shot of his career. Hit with a spoon, from a difficult downhill lie, his ball flew smoothly to a green 220 yd. away. It rolled slowly toward the hole. It dropped...
...with bow & arrow has thrived in Oregon for years. Bowmen like the late "Art" Young used to go there for mountain lion, bear. Cassius Styles makes his famed bows, best in the U. S., of Oregon yew. Famed Oregon archers are: Homer Prouty, who has shot an arrow 466 yd. (a record) ; Dr. George Cathey, acting president of the National Broad Arrow Association, whose Oregon Chapter sponsored last week's bill. Dr. Cathey's greatest feat: killing two bears with broad arrows (hunting arrows with razor tips three inches long, one inch wide), one arrow to each bear...
...Iowa City, Jimmy Owen of the University of Iowa ran a world's record 60 yd...
...Kansas City, Glenn Cunningham, world's No. 1 miler, won a 1,000-yd. race from Elton Brown of the Kansas City Athletic Club...
...look like little leopards, are the fastest animals in the world. A cheetah has been clocked at 103 ft. per second, twice the speed of a greyhound. In Africa cheetahs are used for hunting antelope. Hooded and chained, carried to the field in carts, they are released within 200 yd. of the game, restrained from eating their prey, when they have killed it, by being offered hot blood in a long-handled ladle. On an African hunting jaunt, Woolworth Donahue caught his cheetah when it was three months old, cured it of rickets by lime injections in its spine...