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Show o INDIAN BOYS HAVE TALENT FOR RUNNING LAWRENCE. Kan. Mar. 3 In keeping with tribal customs on their native reservations, long distance run-j run-j nlng Is the favorite pastime of the In- dlan boys competing for tho track team at Haskell Indian Institute here I Of the 63 candidates vvIo unswored tho first call for track men, 31 felt the mllo and two mile events were the ones to which they were best adapted, "Tho large number trying out for tho distances Is due to the fact that during the past year there has been an influx of Navajo students from New Mexico and Arizona." explained F. W. McDonald, track coach 'On their native reservations, these students had often left their schools on Friday evening, eve-ning, going to their homes a distance frequently of forty miles. They ran pr actically all the way. On Sunday evening they would return to their BH HUH mHiH9BIB schools, arriving there is tlmo for thclf ilH classes Monday morning." IIIJ Illustrating the endurance of the IJ Navajo boys. Coach McDonald relet IIH cd the following Incident: I "Rex An. in .-., a Navoio student from IIIJ New Mexico reported for practice re- Jlfl contly Ho told nie he was a long dls- tunco runner. I gave him a suit, took IIH him out on the track and told him to jlH take a few lups until ho could get up IIH a good sweat and then beat it for the 1 hoi showers, In order to loosen up his muscles. I gazed on the most awk- j ward running form Imaginable as Rex started plodding down the track I left Rex and went over to the straight- BjH I way where the sprinters and hurdlers H were working out. When I returned PJH 'to the track an hour and a hull' hit- H 'or. 'lo nnd behold! there was Rex still I warming up. 1 aske d Mm Is he were not tired and he s.iid he was not. I fH was surprised that he was not breath- PJH lng hard. Ho remarked that the air was hnalor hen- than It was where "H he came from and It hurt him to .Jl breathe very1 deeply He said he had been running sines I left him. but he did not show any signs of persplra- fJH tlton on his body That's Just a fair illustratilon of Ihe way the Navnja 8JH boys at Haskell run. They run orosa-legged, necessitating very short 1 steps. Aman with a fair stride will cover as much In two steps as a Nu- PJH vajo docs In three. But the redeem- IjpjPJ Ing feature of his utrtd Is that he pjPJI leans far frontward, so that the weight eJpjpj of the body aids In the forward move- ' pjpjj Mm i I 1 j |