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Show There are fads In athletic sports as . well as in all other things. In San Franciscp at tho Olympic club games Saturday, C. D. Baird walked an exhibition exhi-bition half-mile in two minutes and fifty-four and three-fourths seconds, beating the world's record of three minutes and five seconds, but nobody cares. A few years ago all New York went wild to see Rowell tramp it around the sawdust ring and be harvested a fortune while the-fad wa on. 'Today he, wouldn't get dimes, where he got dollars thea. ' |