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Horseshoe pitching contest at the annual field day of the FSA farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona. Horseshoes is a lawn game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a lawn or sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at ...
The diamond was discovered by William P. “Punch” Jones and his father, Grover C. Jones, Sr. while pitching horseshoes in April 1928. Believed to be simply a piece of shiny quartz common to the area, the stone was kept in a wooden cigar box inside a tool shed for fourteen years throughout the Great Depression.
Washer pitching is a game, similar to horseshoes, that involves teams of players taking turns to throw washers towards a box or hole. The game has many variations, and may be called washer pitching, washer toss, washers, huachas or washoes (which is based on the similarity to horseshoes).
Horseshoe pitching is a quirky but prestigious addition to a calendar of sports events that attract visitors to Tri-Cities. This weekend’s Apollo Columbia Cup hydroplane races is just one example.
Although the latest version of Microsoft Word can still open them, they are no longer developed. Legacy filename extensions include:.doc – Legacy Word document; Microsoft Office refers to them as "Microsoft Word 97–2003 Document".dot – Legacy Word templates; officially designated "Microsoft Word 97–2003 Template"
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Alan Francis is a horseshoes pitcher from Defiance, Ohio. He has won the World Horseshoe Championship 28 times, in 1989, 1993, 1995–1999, 2001, 2003–2010, 2012–2019 and 2021-2024. That is the most anyone has won it (2nd place belongs to Ted Allen who has won 10).
“It’s a passion you can’t get away from.”