o
Audrey Svvoape Gains Third All-Events
Mantle in
Thrt championships were de
termined yesterday in closing
Q'flti contention but an unprece
ttitad third crown in all-events
fcy Wexford's Audrey Swoape
Ctti th record-shattering effort
Ct pnnville doubles duo re
CaoiMd tB highlights of the fi
fMl Wtfc nd in -the Oregon
(Wo's fowling association's
(15 annual tournament at Med
O tctti Bolir,g lanes.
oln Hildreth. 17-year-old
'.Jto. 6i!m high student, with
t;t im Cls B singles, Marilyn
;Bt.N1 r.0 Ruth Howlett, Eu
fra wits a 1065, in Class B
(do!s, antf Evelyn Kobow,
;Lono, ith 1500 in Class C
(j'l-vat. trapped up titles in
dfae Sunday competition. The
ft,.non omn rolled in the
;it ohift Sunday.
fn M'l, kix championships were
4vA ovr the concluding
end of the six weeks tour
0c which opened on Feb. 2.
(Sc4tr tVithsiooo Aau!t
JTrs. Swoape. 160-avearge
contender, rolled 542 in doubles
(3-i$ 538 in singles on Friday
night nd with a 557 a week ago
for Trail Creek Lumber com
fftty had 1637 in Class A ail
ments. The score withstood Sat
urday and Sunday assault to
irn for her again the laurels
which she had claimed in 1946
Old 1947. Virginia Parisi, Port
land, 41 and 1942 winner, is
tronly other kegler to take the
KCTgr Heels
Face Tough
Task
our
ly JOHrt GRIFFI1I
United Press Sports Writer
North Carolina, knowing that
it faces the toughest job ever
IjSpded to the nation's o. 1
team, was squarely on the spot
today fJ the four-ring circus
jkhown as "tournament time" op
ied in college basketball.
Thi top-ranged, unbeaten Tar
rl)f!.i cfrned a berth in the
tournament Saturday
frtfc hen they won the At
lantic Cc5t conference tourney,
(ljut Cotch frank McGuire's
KJ'rtS now stands less than half-
wy Along the road to proving
(It Ho. 1 national standing.
Never before in history has a
(m called the "nation's best"
ftti$ asked to win as many post-(W-ason
gmes in a row as the
Tr Heels.
'ft&t Kto Hore
i"h total is eight games
thi in the ACC Tourney, and
then five more in the NCAA. By
contrast, second-ranked Kansas
ill need to win only four games
0J1 in the NCAA, to win the
Crown and so will third-ranked
O Kentucky and fourth-ranked
Soutlfern Methodist.
The Tar Heels wrapped up the
ACC title with a 95-75 romp
over South Carolina in the fin
e's as their Lennie Rosenbluth
outscored Grady Wallace, 38-28,
in a duel of all-Americans.
West Virginia nailed down the
last berth in the NCAA tourney
Saturday when it captured the
Southern conference champion
ship with a 67-52 victory over
Washington and Lee.
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AUDREY SWOAPE
All EnU Champ
OSWBA all -events more than
once.
Artice Wilson and Carol Du
zan, Prineville, on Saturday ex
ceeded the class record by 37
pins and the all-time high by 15
in rolling into top spot in A
doubles with 1148. The other
mantle to be claimed over the
week end was in Class C teams.
Bjork's Dairy, Seaside, took the
toga with a 2224, equal to the
record established in 1956 by
Club Yachats from the Oregon
coast.
Champs Listed
Ten leaders from the five pre
vious sessions on the Medford
alleys withstood challenge dur
ing the final three days. Champs
in those 10 categories are:
Teams Class A, Lucca
Lounge, Klamath Falls, 2513;
Class B, Starlite Lounge, Port
land, 2338; Class D, Pacific Log-
gerettes, Grants Pass, 1991. Dou
bles. Class C, Judy Johnson and
Edith Redfield, Medford, 1043
(new record); Class D, Virginia
Finch and Irene Doty, Roseburg,
840. Singles Class A, Helen
Rozman, Eugene, 607; Class C,
UO Ducks Tip
Oregon State
Eugene (U.R) Oregon
ended a dismal basketball sea
son on a joyful note Saturday
night by edging Oregon State
65-61.
Two players who will be
back next season, Charlie Frank
lin and Hal Duffy, led Oregon's
attack with 21 and 16 points
respectively. Ed Bingham, the
senior from Medford, added 13
points.
Dave Gambee, Oregon State's
third highest all-time scorer,
was "held" to 15 points but won
the PCC scoring title over Doug
Smart of Washington.
Best Job
Oregon finished its first sea
son under Steve Belko in last
place with a 2-14 record. But
Athletic Director Leo Harris
told the crowd before Saturday's
game that Belko had done "the
best coaching job in the Pacific
Coast Conference this season."
Oregon State, by losing, miss-
ed a chance to tie Stanford for
fifth place. The Beavers wound
up sixth with a 6-10 mark.
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300 17.71 20.16 30.14 55.38
.100 28.86 32.97 49.64 91.66
1000 53.89 62.21 95.64 179.56
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Robbie, Fisk, Portland, 534,
Class D, Marie Pletchmy, Wald
port, 499. All-events Class B,
Edith Redfield, Medford, 1508;
Class D, Lillian Olson, Rocka
way, 1291.
Starlite's score held up all the
way after the Portland club
rolled on the opening week end
of the tournament.
Two Class A defending
champs made unsuccessful bids
for second straight titles during
the last two days. Timber Struc
tures, Portland, team winner in
1956, managed eighth spot with
a 2397 this time. Dorothy Niday,
Vancouver, who won all-events
last year, finished In a tie for
third yesterday with 1613. She
was ninth in singles with 576.
Class A doubles action yester
day saw Gloria Johnson and Dot
tie Coudare, Albany, better the
old record by one pin with 1112
for second place. In Class B
doubles the leadership switched
hands three times during the
last week end. Sis Beck and
Helen Culy, Medford, rolled
1025 on Friday and Bernie Bar
tel and Lillian Moreland, Red
mond, 1035 on Saturday before
the Sunday 1065 by the Barthel
Howlett combination.
The 1043 carded by Judy
Johnson, McMinnville, and Edith
Redfield, Medford, on Feb. 23 in
Class C doubles, was the first
record to fall in the tourney.
Helen Rozman's 607 for the A
singles banner was her first 600
game.
Medfordites Rank High
Joy Fletcher, Portland, held
A all-events lead with 1606,,
going into the final week end of
the tourney but was bettered by
five ladies.
Along with the championship
performances by Mrs. Swoape
and Mrs. Redfield. there were
a number of other Medford wom
en among the leaders in various
categories in the final standings.
In the high average group,
Class A, Hawkinson Tire Tread
was seventh place team with
2406, Dell Christianson, who
bowled with Pearl McDonald,
Madras, had a share of ninth in
doubles with 1037, Anna Dale
Bohannon was third in singles
with 596, Mable Clark sixth with
582 and Vera Cummings 10th
with 575 and Mrs. Christianson
was fifth in all events with 1607.
Mrs. Christianson also had
high series recorded in the tour
nament with a 626 in team con
tention. Mrs. Beck collected
high game laurels with her 264
in doubles.
TEAM LEADERS:
4-iass , Lucca Lounge. Kiamam
Falls, 2513: Rav Butck. Grwham. 250R;
Hamilton 'Engine Sales. Portland, 277;
Eastside Bowl. Portland. 2549; Mid
way Market. Alhanv. 2420; Bauer Dis
tributing. Portland. 2409: Hawkinson
Tire Tread. Medford. 2406: Timber
Structures, Portland. 2307: Crater Inn
Motel. Medford. 2388; Embaco uowi.
Coos Bav. 2377.
Class R Star Lite Lounge. Port
land. 2338; Lundy Loeserettes. Wald
port. 2290: Farmcr'i Hardware, Red
mond. 2273; Wetles. Bend. 2264; Mar
lev's Sport Shop. Eugene. 2249; Wea
ver Safetv Station. Springfield. 2248;
Wooden Shoe. Medford. 2233; The
Town Shop. Klamath Falls. 2230: Car
rolls .Gresham. 2211: Chetco Hard
ware. Brookines. 2200.
Class C Bjork Dairy. Seaside.
2224: Pavless Drugs. Klamath Falls.
2222: Fashion Bazaar, Seaside. 2179;
Howell's Brake Shop. Silverton, 2167;
Hanscam's Center. Brookings. 2096;
Peterson Brothers Service. Station.
Eueene. 2096; Llninger's Rockettes.
Medford. 2086: Ashland Elks Lodge.
2082; Jacki Drive-Up. Medford, 2068;
Club Yachats. Waldport. 2061.
Class D Pacific LoggerettQS. Grants
Pass. 1991: Weiby'a. Silverton. 1965;
Grants Pass Lumber. 1926; United
State PI v wood. Eugene. 1904: Monk's
Drv Goods, Rockaway. 1888: Hart
man Orioles. Sweet Home. 1884; Mod
ern Beautv Salon, Grants Pass, 1868:
Fruitdale Market. Grants Pass. 1830;
Ayres Insurance. Waldport. 1815: Wo
men of the Moose, Roseburg, 1809.
DOUBLES LEADERS:
Class A Artice Wilson and Carol
Duzan. Prineville. 1148; Gloria John
son and Dottie Coudare. Albany, 1112;
Kathy Sasaki and Doris Allen. Port
land, 1103; Louise Carver and Colleen
Cole. Coos Bav. 1079: Velna Byrd
and Ollie Carson, Albany. 1074; Bette
Johns. Vancouver, and Betty John
son. North Bend. 1061; Lorraine
Shlsler and Runv Callisnn, Eugene.
1060; Mady Hudziak and Mable Vom
ica. Portland. 1052; Toots Hazeldine
and Eleanor Tischer. Portland. 1037;
Pearl McDonald. Madras, and Dell
Christianson, Medford, 1037.
Class B Marilvn Barthel and
Ruth Howlett. Eugene, 1065; Bernie
Bartel. Prineville. and Lillian More
land. Redmond, 1035; Sis Beck and
Helene Culy. Medford. 1025; Karen
Boardman and Rosalie Nelson. Bend.
1008; Margie Anned and Charlene
Reed. Woodburn. 1007; Alic Hyder
and Bernie Gunderson, Waldport. 989;
Bunny Chestnut and Cora Lantz, Ma
dras. 989: Fran Knudtson and Ann
Radigan. Roseburg. 987; Carotyn So
wardj and Bonnie Drury, Portland.
986; Louise Edwards and LaVonne
Ramey. Bend. 981.
Class C Judv Johnson, McMinn
ville. and Edith Redfield. Medford.
1043: Juanita Banta and Grace
Counts. Sweet Home. 941; Bonnie
BohJken and Evelvn Kobow, Leban
on. 939; Gelene Hills and Dorothy
Stearns. Newberg. 919; Frieda Pfaen
der and Joyce Meyers. Roseburg. 902;
Amelia Dick and June Terrell. Grants
Pass. 899; Mary Gillander and Midge
Lantz. Redmond. 895; Pat Dent and
Cleo Rogers. Brookings. 893: Mildred
Ladd and Fern Spear. Roseburg. 891;
Elaine Abbott and Laura Lewis.
Wooc!burn. 890.
Class D Virginia Finch and Irene
Doty. Roseburg. 840; Lucille Williams
and tern bimpson. Albany, 836:
Cathy Wolff and Esther Svaren. Ash
land. 825; Marge James and Julie
Otis. Brookings. 823: w anda Vinson
and Norma Wolfe. Sweet Home. 817:
Virginia Skramovsky and Betty Rid-
inger. Ainanv. an: rsnaron Aeee and
Joan Shetterly, McMinnville. 800: Eu
nice Johnson and Leola Gorton. Rose
burg. 797; Marge Fithian and Mary
Prink, Grants Pass. 794; Carmen Don
ovan and Betty Booher. Roseburg.
793: Helen Mouncer and Elna Mar
lantes. Seaside. 793: Carol Flaherty
and Faye Schade. Seaside, 793.
SINGLES LEADERS:
Class A Helen Rozman. Eugene.
607; Janet Harman. Portland. 597;
Anna Dale Bohannon. Medford. 596;
Bobbv Zaruker. Portland. 586; June
Eid. Canny. 584: Mable Clark. Med
ford. 582: Carol Duzan. Prineville. 577:
Muriel Slemp. McMinnville. 577; Dor
othy .Niday, Vancouver. Wash.; 576;
Vera Cummings. Medford. 575.
Class B Carolvn Hildreth, Salem.
S.M- Svlvtn tanfflrlt Til lam not 5T7
Edith Tuttle. Grants Pass. 534; Edith
Redfield. Medford. 531; Clara Her
rin. Cornelius. 531: Thelma Larson.
Grants Pass. 527: Rea Mae Janes. St.
Helens. 527; Gail Waring. Coos Bay.
527; Jean Lundy. Waldport. 524: Nor
ma Muench. Grants Pass. 521; Helen
Teen. Grants Pass. 521
Class C Robbie Fisk. Portland,
I sports!
Women's Golf
Awards for winter golf play
were presented last Thursday at
the Rogue Valley Women's Golf
association luncheon. Winter
play trophy went to Mrs. H. E.
Nulton. Mrs. RicHard Finch
placed second with third and
fourth places, respectively, go
ing to Mrs. Warren Lesseg and
Mrs. T. H. Culbertson.
November-December Ringer
awards (for low net in each
group) were won by Mrs. H. E.
Nulton in "A" group, Mrs. W.
L. Stark in "B" group, and Mrs.
Ward Samuelson for "C" and
"D" groups. January-February
Ringer winners were: "A"
group, Mrs. Noble Vincent, "B"
group, Mrs. Warren Lesseg and
"C" and "D" groups, Mrs. Fred
Conrad and Mrs. L. T. Ander
son (tied).
Low Net Play
Day's play for Thursday,
March 7, was for low net. Mrs.
William Schei won in "A" vith
a net 43. There was a tie be
tween Mrs. E. B. Radzweit and
Mrs. Ken Teeter in "B" group
with a net 41. Mrs. Fred Con
rad was the winner of "C" with
a net 47 and Mrs. Frank A.
Benesh won 'D" honors with a
net 43. '
There will be a board meet
ing at the Country cluub at 9:30
a.m. Tuesday, March 12, pair
ings are listed for Thursday,
March 14 when the play will be
"specs."
They were made up of those
ladies who signified their de
sire to be paired at last Thurs
day's luncheon. Other members
desiring to be paired in the reg
ular Thursday play are request
ed to telephone Mrs. F. L.
Flink (3-1536). The lady's name
appearing first in the pairings is
to call the other two to arrange
playing times.
THIRSPAY pairings:
Mrs. H. L. Bush. Mrs. Noble Vincent.
Mrs. William Blackledse; Mrs. Sam
Colton. Mrs. Frank Tamney. Mrs. War
ren Lessee: Mrs. H. E. Nulton. Mrs.
William Schei, Mrs. Dean Lambert;
Mrs. W. T. Clark. Mrs. Mahr Bevmers.
Mrs. Ed. Radzweit: Mrs. Edward
Sickels, Mrs. B. L. Nutting, Mrs. Wm.
Stark.
Mrs. Miles Doran. Mrs. Tom Cul
bertson. Mrs. Ed. Milne: Mrs. Jcrrv
Olson. Mrs. L. T. Anderson, Mrs. Ben
ton Smith: Mrs. W. A. Samuelson,
Mrs. Ted Groomes. Mrs. Reese Alex
ander; Mrs. Dick Knight. Mrs. J. W.
Harnard, Mrs. Darold .McDonald: Mrs.
Bettie Bovle. Mrs. William Kalibak.
Mrs. William Woods.
Mrs. Tom Harnsbereer. Mrs. William
Knope. Mrs. Wayne Safley: Mrs. Ed.
Gordon. Mrs. William Ruffner, Mrs.
Frank Benesh: Mrs. Lee Flink. Mrs.
Kussel Hevsell. Mrs. Robert Lock-
wood: Mrs. Belle Schenck. Mrs. Frank
Unmack: Mrs. R. S. Wise. Mrs. Dick
Alley. Mrs. James Dunlevy.
Mrs. Royal Bebb. Mrs. John Bunker.
Mrs. Ralph Barclay; Mrs. Ray Soren
son. Mrs. Floyd Somers. Mrs. Edward
Peer; Mrs. Harry Dowson, Mrs. Wayne
Mack. Mrs. Paul Dix; Mrs. William
Prentice. Mrs. John Pletsch. Mrs. Tom
McFadden: Mrs. Robert DeLorme. Mrs.
John Raapke. Mrs. David Lowry and
Mrs. R. R. Parsons.
Columbian Mile
Won by Delany
By UNITED PRESS
Ron Delany, repidly becoming
one of the most unpopular mile
champions in indoor track his
tory, leads the talent-rich Villa
nova University squad to Chi
cago this Saturday for the Daily
News Meet, leaving two East
ern meets with colorful but less
important cards.
Delany became the first man
in history to sweep all Madison
Square Garden miles two
straight years Saturday when
he won the Columbian Mile in
the Knights of Columbus Meet
that wound up the Garden sea
son. 534; Evelyn Fingerlos. Roseburf. 522:
Edith Green. Corvallis. 507: Helen
Carter. Roseburg. 500; Marjorie Davis.
AshJand. 495: Evelyn Kobow. Leban
on. 494; Sally Mareno. Roseburg. 492:
Ann Baylis. Bend. 482; Pat Allison.
iorvaui. 478; wuma Brown, van.
couver. 478.
Class D Maria Pletchmy. Waldport.
499: Hope Leader, Sweet Home. 466;
Marge Fithian. Grants Pass. 452: Laura
Morse. Lebanon. 451; Jean Sims, Val
setz. 477. Carmen Donovan. Rose
burf. 443; Lo Defenbaugh, Brookings.
441; Tex Mitcnel. Lebanon. 440; Em
elia Koch. Rockaway. 439; Delia
Hammon, Rockaway, 435.
ALL-EVENTS LEADERS:
Class A Audrey Swoape. Medford.
1'..": Carol Duzan. Prineville. 1617;
Dottie coudare. Albany. 1613: Dor.
othy Niday. Vancouver, 1613; Dell
Christianson. Medford. 1607; Joy
Fletcher. Portland. 1606: Nan toolev,
Bend, 1602: Bernice Elliott. Coos Bay
1061: Bettv Johnson. North Bend
1596; Gertie DeMacon, Portland,
Class B Edith Redfield. Medford
1508; Jean Lundy. Waldport. 1486;
Rosalie Jones. Woodburn. 1481: Dor-
othy Brannon. Albany. 1472: Bonnie
Faulkner. Albany. 1472: Virginia Wil
son. Medford. 1472: June Harrison.
Portland. 1454: Bernice Peterman.
Waldport, 1446: Charlotte Emery.
Portland. 1445; Marilyn Bartnei, fcu
gene. 1436.
Class C Evelyn Kobow. Lebanon.
1500: Sal v Mareno, Roseburg. 1435
Helen Carter. Roseburg. 1412; Wilma
Russell. McMinnville. 1391; Dorothy
Stearns. Newberg. 1380: Evelyn Mng-
erlos. Roseburg. 1354: Maxine Nicho
las. Lebanon, 1351: Edith Green. Cor
vallis. 1341: Elaine Sears. Ashland.
yaw. Lee Kirkenoan. iNortn ena,
1333: Alice Hvder. Waldport. 1333.
Class I) Lillian Olson. Rockawav,
1291: Sharon Cannon. Grants Pass.
1260: Laura Morse. Lebanon. 1253:
Carol Pippin. Grants Pass. 1250: Marge
Fithian. 1248: Gelta Mae Connell.
Woodburn. 1241: Pat Dent. Brook
ings. 1240: Hazel Sealv. Seaside, 1234;
Emelia Koch. Rockaway. 1232; Emily
nurtz. Grants Pass. 128.
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Coast Toga
Eugene U.R) Oregon State
won the third straight Pacific
Coast Wrestling championship
Saturday by racking up 78
points. Two other Oregon teams
followed at their heels, Oregon
with 65 and Portland State
with 41.
Individual champions were:
115-Red Skilling. UCLA: 123
Noel Neuschwander, OSC; 130
Lee Allen, UO; 137-Wilbur
Bauer, Portland State; 147-Larry
Wright, OSC; 157-Lou Taucher,
OSC; 167-Tom Findley, South
ern Oregon; 191-John Dustin,
OSC, and Heavyweight-Mike
Clock, Lewis & Clark.
Kalapus on
NW Ail-Star
Portland U.R) Two play
ers each from co-champions Lin-
field and Pacific were picked
on the all Northwest Conference
basketball team selected by the
coaches.
Bill Machamer and Jackie
Riley of Linfield and Ron
Barendse and Tom Bourgeois of
Pacific made the team along
with Bob Becker of Whitman.
On the second team were Don
Hoy and Ed Grossenbacher of
Willamette, Jerry Kalapus of
Pacific, Duane Brady of Lewis
and Clark, and Max Johnson of
Whitman.
Wall Victor
At Pensacola
Pensacola, Fla. U.R) Art
Wall, always a steady wage-
earner on golf's tourney trail
but seldom the big prize win
ner, guaranteed his 1957 success
today with a S2.000 check for
winning the Pensacola Open
tournament.
Wall, of Pocono Manor, Pa.,
had to come from behind to turn
the trick on the final 18 holes
Sunday overtaking Peter
Thomson of Melbourne, Austra
lia, on the eighth green with an
eagle and remaining in front the
rest of the way with a master
ful six-under par 66.
The Pennsylvanian's total for
the 72 holes was 273, 15 strokes
under par, and two strokes
ahead of Thomson who picked
up $1,500 with a 70-275.
Linfield Beaten
By LA Staters
Los Angeles U.R) Linfield
dropped its NCAA small college
basketball playoff to Los An
geles State 85-74 here Saturday
night.
Coach Roy Helser's Wildcats
trailed 40-32 at the half and
were unable to catch the host
school in the second half.
Jackie Riley of the s Oregon
school salvaged scoring honors
with 26 points while Bill Macha
mer hit 19.
Barbara Romack First
To Win 3 Major Titles
St. Augustine, Fla. (U.R) -s.
Barbara Romack, who says her
mind is more on romance than
on golf, Saturday became the
first woman to take three major
winter circuit golf titles since
the late Babe Zaharias' amateur
days.
The Sacramento, Calif., ama
teur used her new-found "re
laxed" putting skill to defeat
16-year-old Ann Middlemas of
Panama City, Fla., 5 and 4, in
the tournament finals over the
Ponce De Leon course here.
Monday, March 11, IS57
Is That So?
whenever a n outdoorsman
paces off his campsite; a salt
water fisherman spreads his
arms to give the measure of a big
fish; or a trencherman orders a
steak by the distance between
his thumb and fingers, each
harkens back to age-old meas
ures. Measure is so much a part of
our everyday living that we
hardly stop to think about it.
But our food, our clothes, our
clocks, the floor we walk on,
everything from atom to star, in-
eluding the type of this column
how wide, how high, how
widely spaced between lines is
all measured.
Without measurements, our
very civilization would collapse:
we could not bridge a river,
build an automobile, or a tele
phone, bake a loaf of bread or
build a skyscraper (wonderful
word, that).
Measure begins as far back as
the old stone age and it begins
with man's own bare foot and a
little stick he picked off the
ground.
In most countries- the length
of a man's bare foot became a
standard of measure. So firmly
fixed that there is a word for
'foot" as a measure in every Eu
ropean language, ancient and
modern.
Because men s -feet varied in
length, the standard varied: in
ancient Wales, it was nine inch
es reckoned in today's length;
in Rome, 11V4 inches; in Greece,
2i inches; in both Egypt and
early Germany, 13 inches.
The Greeks divided their foot
into 12 thumbnail breadths. This
12-unit foot passed into use in
Rome; thence the Romans took
it to Britain along with the La
tin name, "uncia" which means
a 12th part. This the Anglo
Saxons called an "ynce," and to
day we say inch.
Standard Inch Decreed
King Edward II of England in
1324, decreed that three barley
corns "round and dry" laid end
to end should be the standard
inch. But only the cobblers still
go along with this measure and
so our shoes are still measured
by this "barley measure."
A "hand" is either three or
four inches, the width of the hu
man hand depending on whether
you include the thumb or not.
The hand with the thumb, four
inches, is still used to measure
horses.
The distance a man can stretch
out his two arms in a straight
line is a "fathom," taken from
the Anglo-Saxon word "faethm,"
meaning chiefly in mariners' or
nautical measure for sounding
ocean depths. (And by fisherman
who want to show the length of
the fish that got away.))
A "pace" is the length of a
man's stride from the heel of one
foot to the heel of the other.
Usually, this is considered 2Vz
feet but when a man paces off
a distance for measure, he ex-
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tends himself and takes a longer
step and then the pace is counted
as three feet. The word comes
from the Latin "passus" which
means step. It is still used by
timber cruisers.
Secret Behind Measures
Now for that little stick early
man picked up. Remember? I
mentioned this at the outset. It
is the secret behind almost all
the world's linear measures. Be
cause it was not always easy,
convenient or accurate to meas
ure a man's bare foot or arms, a
stick the length of the average
foot was used, marked off with
regular even notches. Such
marked sticks have been discov
ered in the ruins of almost all an
cient civilizations. In fact, our
own world yard comes from the
Anglo-Saxon "gyrd" which
means stick but is prounced al
most like yard.
A rod is a stick, too a stick
long enough to reach across the
backs of four oxen yoked
abreast, or 16 feet. So, from
thumbnail (an inch) to a rod
(16 feet,) you've had it. Exactly.
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