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Show GIRL CHAMP AFTER RINGERS i ; Asbury Park; N. J.. Fob b. Horseshoes Horse-shoes hold the biggest interest for Mis- llarjorte Voorhi i siu- the champ. ' Won the national woman's horseshoe horse-shoe pitching title at Akron. .. last August. Training her piuhing arm I" tal ness. Even Walter Johnson iloesn't take as much pains in conditioning his pitching arm us she. "Cm going to v. in again at St. Petersburg. Pe-tersburg. Fla., on February Z'Z." she says, "If training can do it." Yon can't ring them unle you develop 'brains' hi your arm, "Hero's how I train to pitch horse shoes: swim every day. 'Showpr bath and massage- every morning. ' Discard corsets. "Pitch hundreds of shoes dally. "Concentrate on throwing ringers. Think I am going to win. "lSgl when and what I want. "Tha: makes a lot of things for a girl to remember. INHERIT! i) Kl I.I, "They say I've got a natural eye. But I think part of my ability at both horseshoe .ml quoits Is elite to heredity. My grandfather, whom everybody calls Tncle Bill" Manning, at South Piuinfioid. X. j.. was expert at both. l ather, mother, auntie and uncle could ring 'em. too." Miss Voorhees has a knack of do lng anything thai requires skill with eye and arm. She plays a good game of pool. After a week's practice with the cue she cleahed the boards on one run. she also bowls, plays tennis and shoots a rifle well. HERE'S H Her rules for throwing a ringer are: Look at tin- hub -lt feel away. Swing the shoe with a full arm swing. Stan swing a fool below the hip. Hold 'hue with thumb .nd index finK"r. Make the shoe turn two and one-half one-half tfmes as l travels. Hake II land flat two inet ICS 111 front of hub. open part of shoe engages the huh. If you have n natural aptitude to -do one thing, stick to It," she aays S w voojmz.EJ' " |