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On his 88th birthday, recently, Winchester presented Adffopperwein with k, model 88 rifle and a model 50 shotgun in honor of the 50th ‘anniversary of his- historic shooting feat. gold', silver and jeweled medallions, and feted by world-wide nobility. He later improved his own record by missing only 650 of 60,000 thrown targets.
Just as today’s youngsters/ might worship a Mickey Mantle,' Ad Toppcnvein’s boyhood hero> had been.Carver. When the lattor’s record was broken by B. A. BaHlett, who rang up a score of 63,7.32 hits out of 64,pi7 tries, Ad jdetermined to champion his tumbled 'idol* He did this so ' eniphuticajlv that no one has since bothered to top “Top.” » /
For anyone who has any doubtat about the sitaraina and endurance associated with sUch a record, this is the way it is described by an article which takes you back to this event in the January issue of True Magazine:
“Short of an dssault on Mount Everest, it js difficult to think of an athletic feat calling for more' physical stamina than the goal Topperwein set for himself. The record he was gunning for had stood against almost continuous
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