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Show TEDDY SETS EXAMPLE. Makes Long Ride in Order to "Show" His Critics. Washington. President Roosevelt rode ninety-eight miles on horseback Wednesday, and when he dismounted at the White House door, more than seventeen hours after having departed depart-ed therefrom, he did not show any marked signs of weariness. The object ob-ject of his long day in the saddle, he explained, after his retuirn, was "to prove to the critics who have found fault with the recent order requiring all army and navy officers to make a physical test that if a president, who is not training can ride ninety, miles plus In one day without being laid up in bed thereby, It should not be too much to ask the men, who are supposed to be in the best physical training all the time, to ride ninety miles in three days." |