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Show CRACK SPRINTER HAS NEW STUNT j Salt Lnk March 18 Not every . athlete train the same way. but here's a new method that spciiis to have then oil beaten when It copes to onglnalitv. ( reed Haymond. the crack sprinter of the University of Utah, claims to have become such b following ihc footsteps of a horse. The year Haymond burst into the limelight by breaking the state inters holastic records in the 100 and 220 dashes he! used as a running partner a trottei named Harmonica," famous around the towns near Springville Coach Weight of Springville high school which institution Greed attended, attend-ed, not naving a man who could show his star anything in the way of run ning, conceived the Idea that the action ac-tion of the fore legs of a good trotting trot-ting horse were theoretically the same as a pair of good pushers on a man. Harmonica was forthwith brought up to the school and taken out on the track. Huyniond was ordered to raise his legs as high as the horse raised its fore .egs. He practiced this every' day until he could keep in pace with the trotter, high stepping all the way. After a week or two the horse w.is speeded up and Hajmond also speeded. Some of the backers of the great little east bench athlete declare that on one day the trainer of Harmonica thought he would have some fun with Hamond and started his horse out on its fastest clip, so as to shake him. but at the hundred mark he waa still there and running strong. |