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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week, at Storrs, Miller jumped into the lead at the start. Shooting methodically, chin up, feet 12 in. apart, Hoogerhyde caught up with him the fourth day by breaking a record with 722 points for a single American round (90 arrows at distances of 60, 50, and 40 yd.). Day later. Hoogerhyde had: record scores for single and double American rounds, for single York round; a total score of 2,902; the title of National Champion for the fourth time. Miller had a record in the double York (144 arrows at 100 yd., 96 at 80 yd...
Last week, Jack Hagen was one of 447 players who shot five balls each on Salisbury's 148-yd. third hole in the World-Telegram's 1934 Hole-in-One contest. Odds against a hole-in-one are about 20,000-to-1. After 2,235 balls had been played last week, the closest to a winner was one hit by Edward Searle, 26, a Manhattan brick company sales clerk. It bounced across the cup, stopped 17 in. to the left...
When Thomas Montgomery ' Howell felt the tug on his 550-yd. line, it was a half hour before noon. Captain Thompson pulled up anchor and Mr. Howell's fishing launch moved out of the harbor into the ocean. Behind it came the Thalia, Mr. Howell's large yacht...
...amateur competition, was the No. 1 amateur girl swimmer in the U. S. Last year Lenore Kight, a pretty, dark-haired husky girl from Homestead, Pa.,* won four of Miss Madison's titles. Last week, Miss Kight successfully defended three of her championships, helped her team win the 880-yd. relay, but in the sprint which meant most ? 100-meter free style ? she came in second...
Another protégé of Coach Daughters is University of Washington's amazing Jack Medica, who, at the A. A. U. men's championships at Chicago month ago, broke the world's record for the mile in 20:57.8. smashing the records for the 350, 1,100 and 1,320-yd. distances on his way. At 19, he now holds seven world and eleven U. S. records. Son of an Italian office clerk, Swimmer Medica likes spaghetti, milk, beer. Excessively lazy, he walks as little as possible on his way to and from practice, lies dozing beside the pool until called...