Monday, August 25, 2008

Duck race events still excite It's a long toss from Glendale, Calif., to Deming. Darin Kuhlmann made it worthwhile Saturday afternoon, throwing a tortilla 204 feet, 6 inches to win his age division (male, 17-to-54) in the Rotary Club Great American Tortilla Toss. It was the day's top throw among 55 competitors scattered in seven divisions. He beat Deming's Robert Nordorf by a foot on Tortilla Flats (Poplar Street). Each competitor got two throws, using tortillas of six to eight-inches in diameter, donated by Amigo's Mexican Foods. The discs were allowed to go stale, providing a harder body with which to get distance....

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