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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 game has many variations, and may be called washer pitching, washer toss, washers, huachas or washoes (which is based on the similarity to horseshoes). [ 1 ] The object of the game is to earn points by tossing metal washers, usually around 2 inches (51 mm) in diameter, and 1 ⁄ 8 inch (3.2 mm) thick, toward a hole, usually denoted by a can ...
The horseshoe champion Jimmy Risk demonstrated his skills at the pit for Truman and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in 1946. [1] George H. W. Bush playing horseshoes at the White House horseshoe pit in 1992. A new 40 ft (12 m) pit was built by President George H. W. Bush on the South Lawn and unveiled on 1 April 1989 with 150 guests in attendance ...
“It’s a passion you can’t get away from.”
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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).
Walter Ray Williams Jr. (born October 6, 1959) is an American professional bowler and competitive horseshoes pitcher. He currently holds the record for all-time standard PBA Tour career titles (47), and total PBA earnings (over $5 million through 2022). [2]