Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1918 — SETS HAND GRENADE RECORD [ARTICLE]

SETS HAND GRENADE RECORD

Gordon Sarre, Member of American "Legion, Establishes New Mark at Fontainebleau. That baseball is a fit preparation for one branch of the military service was shown recently when Gordon- Sarre, an American member of the foreign.. Legion, established a new world’s record at Fontainebleau for throwing the hand grenade. Sarre threw the death dealing grenade 70 meters and 50 centimeters, or nearly 215 feet. A. few years ago Sarre was a baseball player on one of the best known preparatory school teams in the United States. The former record of 60 meters and 67 centimeters, made on the Fourth of July, is also* held by a former baseball player named Shockera.