Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-07-07 | Page 21 | Loss of Hands Doesn't Bother Turner; He Wins without Them

Loss of Hands Doesn't Bother Turner He e Wins Wills Without Them f 4 0 Photo shows how Colby Turner wraps the lines around the stumps of his arms while driving Inset Inlet Turner driving a anew anew anew new pacer Dig Frank 2174 Sitting In the grandstand of a mile half track a few days ago aco I listened to a little gossip of or some flame of or the who follow the he twice arounds during tho the harness racing season Funny bird this Colby Turn Turner r one of oC them remarked as a n big blE pacer IH drew draw a n sulk sulky wn the stretch Guess hes he's tho the only river who ever tried to drive a n bunch of goats without tho the assistance of ofa a n. n pair pall of oC hands I 1 looked a little closer and saw that t Turner who was driving tho big pacer had the reins wound around the stumps of his arms Tho The hands handa wrists and of tho the forearms were missing Yep said another theres plenty plent of those these mile mlle drivers who cant can't drive o with two good hands but Turner Turner Tur Tur- ner nor has never had ny trouble and anel hes he's held the leather over a few bad ones In his time II In tho meantime Turner had turned his horse hone near tho the eighth polo pole and scored down to the wire I watched him drive the mile mUe and ho he did It with all the tho finesse of a n man who was not handicapped by bythe bythe bytho the tho loss of or a R. pair of ot hands latter Later I looked Turner up UI In his stable table He lie was helping a stableman unhitch I and anyone who knows of ot the Intricacies of tho the buckles and straps of ot a a. racers racer's harness harnus will know that Turner has pret pretty good use uso of at his stumps when they learn leam that hes he's as fast as ns his helpers In getting the harness harnes on or off his horse hone Home tome thirty years ago ngo when he ho was ZUI about 7 or 8 years old Turner told me mo his father left him alono alone In a n hayfield hl where he was mowing Tho The youngster thought he ho would take a chanco chance of or driving tho the mower mower but before ho got very ery far tar he be was from tho seat scat and his hands were at D by tho the sharp knives Since that thaL time Turner has learned to todo todo do about everything with his stumps that the tho ordinary ordinal man an d does s with a pair of ot normal normal normal nor nor- mal hands hand Always Alway a a. lover of ot horseflesh ho went F 44 v r Y 9 k kry ry 3 E I r FN w pt t I I rt s. s M. M a L t f Into partnership with his Ills father tather In th the tho racing game came but It was not until five tho thoI I years cars carsGO ago GO that ho he would trum trues himself In In Int t n a race Since that time ho has bf bon been n a n awell awell well known figure on the tho mile half tracks Turner lives JIves at Wilmington a small smalltown town own In Ohio and It was there that he raised and developed the tho horse that was to make him famous Little Frank Or D DI showed ho such remarkable speed on the I twice grounds arounds that he was wan sold Bold to O. O A. A Valentine who has marked him In O I and won von more mora than with him Turner doesn't like Uko to talk about himI him him- self I dont don't usually have o much trouble with hor horses es he told me but I guess handling horses la is as ns much In the tho head as M It la is In tho the hands I have a pair flair of ot artificial hands but I find I can do better work on the track without them When hen 1 was young oung I learned to do about everythinG everything everything every every- thing with m my stumps and its it's sort of or hard to teach tW an old dog now tricks vo so sol voI I l usually manage to worry along without any store hands hand