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Show ' , , . , Here's Play In Barnyard Golf Equal to Homer In Baseball BY DE AM SNYDER. Is there another athletic pasiime to arise in America that will take its place in ihe near shadows of baseball, boxing, eolf and tennis For Rood n. m esrs they have looked upon ne came of pitching horseshoes to s stake as bpinjr a stupid stu-pid and rather i.lvlal member of he arts. This year with It! landslide lo tportl Of H kinds ha.s taken barnyard golf jfllonj; with il Seven states havp 'formed MSOClattoni since the first nf the venr and hoi .-eshoe fans sre hatch lng oil as proiirscuously as ruosqui iof on ?. Ftill pord. AKRON LEADS To the Buckeye association goes the honor of leading 'he procession and of furnishing ihe model orcanlza ! tion. Ms headquariprs are ai Akron Ohio, the home lown of Oeorce Ifa present national champion, and of I n cle Hughle Palmer, the 73year-'ld champion of the Industrial Horseshoe Pitching association. 1 nele Hughle is an inierestinc ' sketch He hol the Fame position ' as a barnyard golfer as John ( Rockefeller Rocke-feller docs in the Scottish game. kp j has not ended tnalr athletic hobbies i or dulled t h i ; i erilhuaiaam, LIFE-EXTENDER. Palmer looks al the sport of pitching ringers from hid ce as a life extender His sermon to the world Is "W h ill in the bleachers when you'd just 1 as well be playing the same oursei: ! He belieev ir. everyone tr'ing to hit home runs and 'ss ri igers instead of watching the otc fellow do it "F'olks at m In.e in life are eitner feeble : ent;acd in pushing up daisies dais-ies some here, unless ihey have a sporl hobbj and play t Hays Hughle. STEADY OLD BOY His eyes arc ail near an those of any athlete who wen! to Antwerp and lis nerves as stead as the face on ihe clock in ihe town hall tower The above picture looks like a I , frame up. But it isn't. The remark able play was made July 29, 1919 at Sleberlmg Field. Akron, Oh.c I Uncle Hughie Palmer slid these two r,ngers into the stake after Presi I dent Haynes of the National Horse j shoe Pitching league had stood up 1 Is pair of leaners In shoe ver-lacular ver-lacular it w?s a "horse" on Hayncs This is as great a feat in horscslioe pitching as l-.ttlng a home run In baseball i It takes an athlete to hurl n 2 pound bit of curved steel eihi eel above the ground io a stake 10 iie away. But that i nde Hur.hie' sp; cti at 73. He is entered in the National Horse shoe Pitching ton-nament in pr6gr'8i . at Akron during Ihe second week in i 'August |