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Show The Cache American, IxpranCache County, Utah Pace Seven SEiriG :a CIRCLE PATTERS S Slim, Prelty Frock Is Flattering Twosome for Matron All-Occasi- NeQ was about to ask What about ing together and all the discord flung the lease you gave Bellamy for an- behind them. 0U learn a little as the years But Rob stood In a sort of daze In other year?" but thought better of pass by. Not much. Just a little. it She did say, You just said you the center of the bedroom, as If he hadnt intended telling me this yet did not feel at home there. One One of the few things I've learned hand held his pipe as he puffed at this season, meaning 1945, is that Why not?" the word greatest Because it may fail," said Rob it, and he stood watching her as bed doesn't belong in coldly. It's a gamble, like all stock she moved about, turning the sport. There is no raising. It looks good now. The down, closing the window, taking such word. markets have been good for several her nightclothes from the closet and There never was years. With these sheep I ought to dropping them on the bed. and never will be a She went to his chiffonier and net almost ten thousand in one year. greatest" football That will make a sizable dent in took out a set of pajamas and handor baseball team Here are some our debts. And if it continues. In a ed them to him. a greatest golfer fresh pajamas for you. few years we'll be out from under. or "greatest pitchHe took them For Nell, the reversal of all she er or greatest Nell her as undid the belt of had been thinking and believing and Then, anything. The word CHAPTER XIX planning was so sudden, she felt skirt and stepped out of it, and is simply too big flattened out Why I then every- peeled off her sweater, he said to for the human race "Ive already started! said Nell, thing's all rlghtl Everything's set- her hesitatingly, I'm awfully tired. to handle. The word on her mettle now. T've written tled and arranged! Our future pro- I think I'll sleep in the other room. is different. Even the word Aunt Julia, In Boston. She hai a vided for and and "good Do mind?" you everything! great in sport has been overused huge circle of friends and acquaint He looked at his wife. Presently she found breath to say Look over the list Ty Cobb and ances. And two of my school it aloud, and Rob acquiesced. With just her slip on, she was Babe Ruth in baseball Jim Thorpe. friends, Adelaide Kinney and Eveseated In the low chair, one ankle Pudge Hcffclfinger, Bronko Nagur-sk- i. Yes, everythings arranged. lyn Sharp. Red Grange, and 20 others in And there's nothing to worry crossed over the other knee to untie You expect them to promote her shoe, her slender and beautiful football. bout" your business for you? legs shining in their long silk stockAmong the pitchers Cy Young. Not that way! Oh. Rob! Youre Nothing." Her tawny hair hung loose Mathewson. Johnson, Alexander, ci The words faded Into the heavy ings. being simply horrible! Nell sprang e skin on her and on. to her feet and stood by the mantel. silence. Nell's eyes flickered to Rob. over the pearl-likHer breasts. cheeks were exquisiteAmong the golfers Bobby Jones. I simply want to get the Idea," Everything all right nothing to flushed. ly Walter Hagen, Byron Nelson, Harry said Rob Icily. You wanted to tell worry about and yet between Without raising her head her dark Vardon. It to me, didn't you? Go on tell the them, this cold distance and strangeAmong the fighters or boxers rest I'm particularly anxious to ness. What made it? Was It Impos- blue eyes slid up underneath her Dempsey, Jeffries, Louis. I can give know, now that I realize you have sible once the habits of love had brows and she answered easily. Not at alL I think it would be a you 10 more. passed on the fact of my failure to been broken to mend them again? very good idea. I shall probably Among the greatest college footIn the relatives friends and Even of the when cause breach the your better teams Army 1945. Notre Dame ball sleep east myself." had been corrected? v 1943. Notre Dame 1930, Mini esota Nell was silent for a while, then Rob stared at the fire and said Charley Sargent never missed the Southern California, Pittsburgh. A1 drew a long breath and said, They slowly, I would have liked It if three weeks' autumn race meet at abania 1935, Michigan and Yale in won't have to promote my busiSaginaw Falls In Idaho, one of the the old days. All got d. maybe great ness. Theyll be glad to give me few major or "recognized tracks But none of them the greatest. lists of the right people to write to. in the Rocky Mountain states; and And they'll let me use their names Baseball teams The Cubs of 1900 had the same stables for his horses, 1910, the Athletics of as reference. And I've made out a The and hotel accommodations for himYankees at various stages. letter, setting out the plan, descripself, year after year. Taking his tions of this place and everything, All good few great rone the horses down the Continental Divide and we'd have to have pictures, and greatest. from a to several one high altitude all that can be mimeographed and thousand feet lower gave them an Who Is Football's Greatest? sent to these lists of people. And we have the complete set-uadvantage, and he liked the town PracIs Doc Blanchard greater than which lay in the long valley between Eronko Nagurski? tically no investment needed. Some Certainly not the Wauchlchi and Shinumo ranges Not yet. In fact Minnesota and guest cabins, yes Gus and Tim and and had a season of pleasant autumn Michigan camp followers will ted you could build them yourselves. weather. Bill Daly is And this is a lovely place, and you that fast there's beautiful country to ride in a greater offensive back than either Although the distance from Sarand plenty of horses! And Im an gents ranch to Saginaw Falls was Nagurski or Blanchard. And they not more than eight hundred miles, can be right. I can name you awfully good cook!" Nell said nothing more. In a mohe always shipped his horses by more than a few backs that mignt ment Rob asked, "You say youve rail in charge of his trainer. Perry be more valuable to a team than made out the letter?" Gunston, rather than vanning them either Nagurski or Blanchard or taking them in an automobile "Yes. Nell picked it up from the The greatest passer or the greattable and handed it to him. But trailer. This was because the high- est pass receiver? Sammy Baugh Rob put out a protesting hand. No. way made a rather precipitous deor Don Hutson. Maybe. But Greasy I dont want to see it, thank you. scent, winding down through sevNeale says he would rather have And I hope you havent set your eral mountain passes; and on the Sid Luckman than Baugh and Hutheart on this. Have you?" Divide, the unpredictable storms son combined. Maybe Greasy is Set my heart on it? said Nell sometimes made the road dangerwrong. Maybe he isnt. Who is ous or even impassable for trucks. Because I dont like to deny you doing to know? Greasy would rathBut he himself made the trip by er have Van Buren than any back any of your wishes. I know, said Nell hesitatingly. motor. he ever saw. Bert Bell of the Steel-er- s "Youre awfully nice about that. I There were always several events would rather have Bill Dudley wanted to thank you for for the in foe scheduled for value. I think Clint sleigh Gus Is making and the monwhich Sargent tried out his promisFrank of Yale is more valuable than key tree. I do thank you ever so ing youngsters, and one race, on either. much. the last day of the meet, with a I put this complicated problem up Rob brushed this aside. Its nothto Greasy Neale. Maybe Id rathpurse, which atI ing at all, he said indifferently. tracted an impressive entry. It was er have Clint Frank, he said. No reason you should not have As fine as in this race that Thunderhead was mean taken every way. what you want." to make his debut, and long before Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis are, Nell was silent After a while she school closed Ken had familiarized I dont think either can do all the said, "Rob, you know this isnt just himself with the past performances things that Clint Frank could do. of all winners of this big event. something I want for the fun of We can move into other fields to i-tthis experiment could have been Thunderhead had only to run the prove there is no such word as Isnt it? I thought maybe you worked out first, so that when I two miles on the Saginaw Falls greatest. were lonesome here with me alone. told you, I could have told you of a track as fast as he had run it at Man o War or Exterminator? You know it isnt that at all. fait accompli in the win. home to bank, money o War quit as a Man a a conRob, you arent even pretending to debts paid, notes met, a going o War is the symbol of racMan tell the truth about anything. For Ken to hang around his facern not just, as it is now, one But Exterminator Just a damned liar, am I? more hope, one more plan, one ther while the letter containing his ing greatness. won for many years from and ran That struck Nell as funny and more good chunk of wishful think- report card was being opened, or six furlongs to two miles from 120 even to allow the depressing event helped her recover her poise. Its ing. pounds to 140 pounds. told I because you that thing last Nell was leaning back in her arm- to catch him in the same room, As we move along I still say there summer that the horses would nev-f- T chair and made no answer. was so unusual that Rob McLaughis no greatest. There is neither an lin felt sure something was fishy. succeed and it made you mad at But, continued Rob,' since you individual star, a team or a horse me. And youve never got over beHe glanced up at Ken who stood have made it so plain that it was that any one can put above all othing mad. And I was thinking after- not the horses you doubted, it waiting beside his desk with hands ers in competition. Although Pudge ward that it was awful of me, to was only me too and any ability I might driven deep into the pockets of his Heffelfinger had one unchallenged have knocked everything so the to care for you and provide a bluejeans. Going to take your medhave football record at least. He was an horses and your work without havhe left the sentence icine and get it over with, are you? home for you in 1889 and just as good ing something else to suggest. So unfinished. he grinned, then looked at the boys 30 years later whqn he was 53. I tried to find another plan. Thats face again. That wasnt Kens usuThe clock struck eleven, and Pauly al report-car- d Who can say whether Bobby all. face the face of one Rob began to knock the ashes out rose from where she had been lying waiting, for a death sentence. On Jones, Harry Vardon, Walter Hagen of his pipe. "I hadnt meant to near the fire and staged an elab- the contrary, the sensitive face was or Byron Nelson was the greater golfer? Hagen beat Jones 12 and 11 tell you this, Nell, but Ill have to orate stretch, then ran meowing to now flushed with anticipation, in a match. But Jones beat now. Otherwise you wont be able Nell. in of the light played gleams depths Nell lifted her automatically. to understand why I say no to your of his blue eyes and one smile after Hagen 10 straight years in the U. S. "Thats true, isnt It, Nell? asked the other rippled across his lips. Open, where the blue chips were proposition. I am not going to condown. tinue to raise horses as the main Rob in a sudden direct manner. Read it, dad. Read it quick! What? he exclaimed, and watched closely Modern production line of the ranch. They Advantages "That you have lost confidence in as his father took the card and can be a side line. Im going to I ran across an Only yesterday me? raise sheep. studied it, item by item. who run the had not answer did Nell exclaimed Nell. immediately. But Rob simply didnt believe it He Sheep! dash against Arthur Duffy and Ber-ni- e that requires an enormous invest- Finally she said, Rob I didnt shook his head with bewilderment. Wefers, in the fast time of 9 0. ment! How could we possibly raise think you would succeed with the "Is this card phony or what? Do Dont forget, he said, this time told But I thats you know whats in it Ken? horses. you that the money for that? was over a slow track with bad not you personally To raised. What?" confiKen demanded Its already begin running shoes. Under modern conBut it was, met personally, he dently. with, although I did not make the ditions either Duffy or Wefers could I You was think didnt in Algebra. Ninety-tw- o Ninety-fou- r twenty thousand dollars from my Insisted. have beaten Jesse Owen, Paddock us did to pull n you? through, which I going Latin. have in Ninety-sevein Chemmight polo ponies or any other modern sprinter. You never took me into your istry, and one hundred in Engmade with good luck, I did make So, again, who is the greatest You Nell. out me cleans said lish. That of ten. didnt confidence, nearly The answer is nobody. sprinter? to Rob of a at were With the the the card. horses. Howd tell me you going exception pointed try different line. You kept saying it you get this? Was it just one com- Games are played under different young stuff cpming up Ill have nothconditions, where the modern bunch position? ing more to sell. But I have put was to be the horses or nothing. have all the better of the breaks You had to be excellent all year, "I suppose thats as good a way every dollar of that, and more too all I could borrow into a band of of answering as any, said Rob and write a perfect composition to in every way They get the faster tracks, the better equipment, the end up with. ewes. I investigated the sheep mar- slowly. better groomed and easier golf What subject did you choose? A sudden passionate protest flung ket thoroughly when I was in LaraI wrote about that time I tried to courses, the better coaching and mie. I was lucky in my buy I Nell to her feet Pauly hit the floor training in every form of sport, the I dont see why get the eagle feather you know think. I found these up at the with a little grunt. better chance to improve. so to Desmuch means Eain the down Red of the there near confidence the you! ranch, Valley Doughty There isnt a man connected with ert. Fifteen hundred Corriedale Ive never stopped loving you not gles, and the eagle chased me all the least bit. Suppose some of the the way down the cliff and stuck sport for the last 50 years, or a team, ewes. When are they coming on the confidence was gone? That would his claws in my belly and it was that could be called the greatest." be only human wouldnt ranch? asked Nell. really only my belt that saved me but of There has never been a greatest football player, a greatest baseball course I fixed it up a little. Theyre already on, said Rob matter between us! went to and feet a his fix about Rob as to it a Seems Mexican "Howd player, or a greatest anything else herder, you got up? Ive got In other words, sport has known and we drove ihem up from Lara- blowing the lamps out, and finally me that was hot stuff without any no superman, and neither has the hu Just that it sort of mie two days ago. We came in the answered, fixing." Ken waved his hands in a suave man race in anv other form of exist takes the heart out of a man. back way. It was sill possible, thought Nell, and explanatory fashion. Oh, I put enre. Unknown thousands with the "But what about Bellamys sheep eould have surpassed Theyre out on the back range as she walked slowly upstairs When in some romantic dope yu know, same break there. I saw them yesterday." people loved each ( ther as they had, the sort of things writers write I famous names. This outburst is a "If you saw sheep on this ranch nothing more would be needed than had it that I had a picture of my part answe to those who keep writ yesterday, you saw our own sheep just one looj- one word her name. girl in the buckle of my belt, so she irg in asking about the greatest in various lines. It is still worth sort of saved my life, you ses Bellamy left with his sheep weeks Nell There would be no forgiving ihile just to be good. (TO BE CONTINUED! or explaining lust a sudden corn go. 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