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The Great Twelves and Fourteens Lung^

���At top: The greatest game in the world is played with gray steel tubes of twelve and four- teen-inch guns that serve up thousand-pound pro- jectiles. These travel at one half mile a second and throw up cascades of white water that can be seen nearly ten miles away

��in oval above: The shell splashes into the water just short of the target and tosses a whirling col- umn of white spray into the air. You can easily fol- low it (picture on right) as It tumbles along, striking the water again and again, and skimming across the sea in great bounds

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