A Scottish immigrant who grew to monopolize the steel industry through vertical integration, but eventually sold out to JP Morgan
The free throw line is 2 inches by 12 feet, situated at the top of the lane/key. The back of the three throw line is 15 feet form the backboard/ 13 feet 9 inches from the center of the basket. (Distances are measured horizontally).
A story in the Ottawa (Ill.) Free Trader of July 13, 1906, reported Marjorie Bell, a senior at University High School in Chicago, had broken âthe worldâs record in the baseball throw for womenâ with a heave of 204 feet 2 inches, as measured by University of Chicago football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg.