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Show AGE IS NO BAR TO WINNING BARNYARO IOLF TITLE CHAMPION "GETS GOAT" OF OPPONENTS BY SLOW TACTICS, i j , , , 4 By BIl I V EVANS. The world series of "barnyard golf " is close at hand. During the week of February 20. Uie best horseshoo pitchers in the 'country, "gol dim? 'em," will compcto I at St. Potersburg. Fla. Most Interesting: of ill the entrants is John "Hog" .Miller of Rock Valley. ' Jo w.j. Miller is S3 years of are and feels rlRht pert, thank you.' He has been I pitching horseshoes for 26 years. He says there Is no reason why he shouldn't be good for 25 more. Barnyard golf has no stronger booster than John Miller. He maintains main-tains that any man of middle age or past, S tu, takes up horseshoe pitchlnK. Will never suffer from appendicitis or stomach trouble. VERY sl.OW PLAVKR Miller points to himself us a living example of his theory. He says he feels far belter today than he did :it 50. Miller gets the "goat" of a lot of players by his slow tactics. He takes a minute at each pitch He Insists he is the dark horso of the field. The veteran athlete, we must call him an .uhleie. because Miller insists horseshoes comes under that head, has two hobbies. One of them is raising champion Poland China hogs on 4ls 2000-acre ranch in the north. Tho other Is Spending the winter si St. Peters-burp Peters-burp pitching horseshoes. He savs he summers with the "porkers" and winters with the horseshoes. FAVORITES FOR THE TITLE Close followers of the game pick Charley Bobbitt of Lancaster. O., or Frank Jackson of Kellerton, la., to win the title. Fied Brust, ex-national champion, who makes Columbus. .. his home, hopes to regain the crown. George May. Akron (O.) fire fighter, also hopes to stage a comeback. come-back. He won the championship In 1919. NTo ball player or boxer takes better bet-ter care uf himself than these veterans vet-erans of the pitching lanes. They rise with the sun and spend the greater part of the day, and often some of the night, pitching horseshoes. horse-shoes. Down at St Petersburg a special string of electric lights has been placed over the pegs, for night competition. The St. Petersburg tournament will be conducted on five lanes laid out on tho floor of a wooden bowl with a Beatlhg rapacity of 5500. Pegs will be placed the regulation regula-tion 10 feet apart. The games will consist of 50 points each. The total number of points scored by the contestants con-testants will decide the winner. J dm Mm mm |