Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 11 | Leslie Mann Sprinter as Well as Player

I Leslie Mann Sprinter I as Well as Player Leslie Mann Cub outfielder is one of I the fastest sprinters In baseball baseball lf if not I the fastest He used to do track work at Nebraska He tells of an Incident that happened 1 when he was with the Boston Braves at the training camp in I Macon Manager Stalling Stallings thought Wilson Vilson Collins was the speediest runner In baseball base base- ball said Mann Collins Collin had been on Oll the Vanderbilt university track team and could run all aU right and Dugey Bogey were ner also speedy sPeed and a foot t f race was arranged between nt de the tho three Then somebody e happened p to mention me I dont don't know who It was wal but at any rate Catcher Whaling made the tho announcement that he was waa willing to bet on me ins against tho the field He hud had any number of takers all nil placing piecing their money on Collins SomebodY Somebody Some Some- body measured off a n hundred yards by pacing although I believe it Jt was closer to HE lii We e started and I f finished first two yards ahead of Collins And Whaling Whalin cashed in It sort of or surprised the fe fel fellows fel- fel lows 1 S gue guess for tor Collins had b beaten nten Ty Cobb in a 1 foot race so 80 Im I'm told Looks as If It the tha gr great at Intellects of nt the nation were sUit still unable to compound com in m I antitoxin to combat cheer l u