The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-23
Maybe, an Aston Pomance) and Four Years
Of Athletic Triumphs Is Thrusting
Strenuous Bobby Sears Into Second Place

the width of the continent. for the
Pacific coast had a sample of Boston
proves a few months ago. and ever
since has eagerly compared the feats
of the deadly rivals.
1t has been hard work. Miss War
rem admits that she has given uD many
pleasures for her art She has gone to
bed at Q o'clock after a simple sup
per of bread and cream and fruit when
ain the girls I'm her set were dining
sumptuOusly and dancing strenuously
She has risen with the chickens; girls
and men on their way home from
canoes nave caught glimpses of the
strenuous Connie moving her IA
theirs lawn chaperoned by the rising
sun
And one man fell a victim To her
suggestion. he was Cyril Hatch ten
mis- player Of sorts and some athlete
but he fell down on those grass-grown
steps painting and PROSTATE. Miss Con-
ME took the mower. the heavy iron
mower, and fairly pranced through
the operation, finishing the twenty
second step before Hatch had finished
/ putting and blowing
In the beginning, Newport and Miss
/ Sears did not take the rising athlse
! seriously But now all has changed,
Mr.. Hatch was not the only man 70
succumb 70 Miss Warren When she
was practicing for her twenty
walk, she used to trot around the cliff
walk. a mere bit OF three and a half
miles before breakfast. After a week.
( she walked there and baek-seven
miles
sad Heap OF silk Socks.
A very elegant person one day Of
fered TO walk with her. lie was Henri
Martin, the Beau Brummel of the Dip
/ lOmatic corps. 1t took his valet enc
I hour to prepare him for the frany. AT
/ ESQ the couple started out blithely;
they climbed rocks and jumped sand
/ heaps: the little attache kept up man
/ fully for the first lap. On the second
he was pink-cheeked, on the third, as
they rounded the marble house, he
was putting and breathless. and at the
end OF the fourth he sank gracefully
to rest in front of the Breakers, q sad
heap of purple silk socks purple silk
necktie. white fLannels and blond hair
The athletic Miss Warren offered
him a shoulder and patted him en-
cOuragingly. but it was no use. The
Beau Brummel painfully arose aE..
walked toward town, leaving Miss
Connie victorious. She finished the
walk and never told the sad story of
the diplomats undOing. With two
masculine scalps hanging from her
belt, Miss Warren was competent to
vie with her rival.
Just after the Martin incident Miss
Sears undertook her two hundred
mile walk on the Pacific coast. Miss
Warren tied her black hair back snug
~, girded up her armor and whispered
that she would walk TO TivertOn and
back along the Boston post road. a
distance of tWenty-eight miles
and I'll do it" she said, in four
hours"
Early one morning last June she
started from the Casino. She wore a
short white serge skirt. heavy low ties,
Norfolk jacket of serge and a white
sailor hat banded with black. She
looked very smart. At o'clock she
was swinging down Bellevue avenue
past the TOurO park and Countess
Annie LeaTy's cottage. She was in
splendid form. When she had passed
Oakland and Sandy Point farms. the
estate ca Alfred and Reggy Vanderbilt.
she was as cool as a sea breeze. and
her stunt was not half done.
Begins Home stretch.
At Tiyerton, the f0grteen-mile posi-.
she drank some milk and ate some
biscuits. rested a while and then began
the home stretch. Again In passing
the Vanderbilt farms she was cheered
by Mrs. Reggie and some of her home
guests. 10 was noon and hot, but hers
not 10 waver by the road side! She
waved q cheerful greeting ana
tramped on.
She had no automobile followers:
she just trotted along alone. She
reached Newport after l o'clock. beat
ing Miss Sears badly in point Of time
ana III condition.
Miss Warren has one great adVan-
tage over her rival. she never shows
the hardest exertion. Miss Sears &C.
cOmpiishes wonders. but her clothes
hair and face suffer. The Newport
Amazon looks as fresh at the end of
contest as at the bcginning-sh
has all the qualities OF a thorough
bred horse.
Miss Sears walk was far longer,