For the 2,000,000 horseshoe pitchers in the U. S. there is one question that has never been satisfactorily answered: whether it is better to throw a shoe so that it makes i^ turns before reaching the stake or so that it makes if turns. The 71 men and ten women who lined up in Chicago last week for the World's Championship Horseshoe Pitching Tournament were about evenly divided. In twelve courts on the boardwalk overlooking the north lagoon at A Century of Progress, they pitched into boxes six feet square, filled with blue clay....
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