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Show Harness Horses Find Long Step at the End of Journey Wlien a trotter or pacer acquires a record ne;ir 2:01, the owner thinks that he has the next two-minutes performer, per-former, lint from 2:01 to 2:00 is a long journey, anil the statistical tables show that about T0 trotters anil pacers which acquire records of 2:01 or better bet-ter failed to enter the select circle of two-minute performers. There is one particular performer which went into winter quarters with a tab of 2.01 U that really appears to have a jrood chance to acquire two-minute two-minute honors in lO.'U, the three-year-old pacer Calumet Adam, 2 :01U which carried the colors of Calumet 1 farm, Lexington, Ky., in 1020 and 10,"?0. The chestnut colt stacked against I tlie best stake pacers of the year in j the $25,000 pacing derby at Kalamazoo Kalama-zoo last July, and over a track which is not considered fast, paced to his record of 2.01'. Sent away on a break in the second heat, he was out of It, but came hack and forced May E. Grattan to tramp the third and fourth heats in 2:01 and 2:02'i. Later tie paced another mile in 2:01U in a race at Springfield, 111. Glenna Collett became golf cham- pion at eighteen, in 1!I22. She is still champion in HC1, ami Collier's predicts pre-dicts that "the best part of her play Is still ahead of her." She is emphatically a champion whose altitude toward sport Is worth the consideration of all who play, whatever the game, in this frenzied age where only victory seems important. impor-tant. Somebody asked her once about one or two lapses in concentration that had cost her rather heavily in close matches. She had a good answer. "I play golf largely for the fun and the exercise I get from it." she said. "I know how important concentration on every stroke is, for there is no other way to he fairly sure you are going to hit the ball where It ought to go. But there is no fun in concentrating for three hours. That means nothing but work, and usually hard work. If I tried to concentrate correctly on every stroke I played I might play belter golf. Put I wouldu't get aJ much fun from the game." |