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Show i ATHLETES FEEL BETTING EVILS IK CHA1'LES E- HOLWAY. the Amcrl- 3I P Professional sprinter, who has IK conned spiked show and competed In various countries, declaics that If there 91 ?? not so mch betting In England Vm ' wou,d bc better athletes In that ilM country. English professionals, he do- ? f J"; YR8te llme and energy trying jj . to fool the handlcapper, and this spoils qfl ; them In the long run. Ilolway has met l f and defeated some of the best profes- m slonals In the world and has much in- m I formation concerning athletic condi- I tions the woild over Some day. he iS afty3. Australia will produce an ath- i leuc team that will surprise the JM sharps. The climate thnre. he declares, HI ls Just suited for athletics and only Hi tl small population pi events it fiom wi' keen,nc breast with the countries AJll which enter teams in the Olympics. 31 ' In his travels Ilolway had an exccl- J lent chance to observe conditions and 121 tho methods of various athletes in mil training. In speaking of his wandcr-At wandcr-At in.Ki Und ouservat,ons Ilolway saya: iSII "If there was not so much betting I there would be more good athletes In Great Britain today. A profeKsionel runner wastes half of his career trying try-ing to fool the handlcapper and waiting wait-ing for the mark that ho considers good enough to win comfortably. There are always five or six like that in every handicap, where a man will be on limit, say sixteen yards, when he should be allowed about ten. The handicapper says, 'Well, here is a lad that has never won a heat.' so his limit is fixed at sixteen yards in ISO. Some one must be on that mark Th fellow who has fooled the handlcapper gUj on this big mark and the scratch man has no chance A man maj have a couple of runners, and if there Is not much betting they an saved for another an-other year, and sometimes two years, and thoy pet so used to not trying that thy never get to bc good runners. Here is the sccret of the American athlete's success. He is always trying. In England tho athletes do not try, and I include bovh amateur and profes-ional profes-ional one is as bad as tne other Simply Sim-ply because one amateur athletic meeting meet-ing has given a fifty dollar wach and chain runners, wait for this pme "I like England and was used vcr well by every one They are vcrv hospitable. hos-pitable. The reputation all American f athletes have when in England is Bjj shown thus The "English will say, ml i 'Wo can back So-and-so these Amer-Iffi; Amer-Iffi; l leans are always triers, and I have al-I al-I ujA ways felt proud to hear that sa'id Llil ' "Now, in Australia and New Zealand 'Jhf professional athletes and professional H(7 athletics are thought more of than the ju amateur, because the best times are m set up by the professionals, and the Tjnji people eeem to want to see the best, flU? no matter whether professional or If amateur. "Tho climate ls superb for athletics, ft and when one considers that there aro J mora peoplo in Greater New Tork than E? in Australia, New England and Tas-K Tas-K mania combined I think it Is a wonts won-ts derful country to turn out so many Jc good athletes. Jfcl "Every one loves sport in goneral, Rnd there aro very fow that do not in- dtilge n some pastime. I think the' Australians arc the biggest henrted ' people In the world. They certainly, like Americans and I find in many1 things copy American methods I "In South Africa the climate Is very hot. I could not produce my bcBt results re-sults consistently, although at limes I ran faster In Johannesburg than I ever ran In my life. Without a doubt in that city, where It Is 6,000 feet above sea. level, a man can run two yards faster in a hundred than ho could in Europe or America, probably due to the more rarefied air. I should imagine tho same results could bc duplicated In Denver from what I hear of It ' During my travMn In the last four years I have studied vcry branch of athletic sport, studied dfrfercnt athletes ath-letes and their methods of training and havr learned by experience tho best thing to do under certain conditions condi-tions Traveling Is educational, no mattrr v. hat the subject may be. and I have been able to pick up a knowledge knowl-edge of things that tho averago coach or trainer will perhaps never see " |