The Alaska daily empire., 1915-03-05
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Indian 1reat-Footracer
 The swii,est runner belonging to any of the indim tribes in south I western Oklahoma. White Buffalo the i Cheyonno, lives on his farm three miles South of Watongo He haa run and won moro foot races. perhaps, than any other living man in Che en. lire Southwest
 While Buffalo is Q Northern chey. enne, married to Southern Chey- enne wife, and was born in Montana 5t years ago. his mother beng @ Sioux and his father a Cheyenne war. rior named Red Hot Even as a very young man, White Bufialo's hair wac ! lgroy. fact whioh deceived numerous white mon who matched runners Of their own race against him.
 Look at the old man with the grey hair' was remark, often heard when White Buffalo walked to the line at the start of race.
 He is a strong, agile man today, more compactly built than most ln- dians, and Is still q swift runner But White Buffalo hos not run foot race for sixteen years, tho simple reason being that he was 90 long mbcat. abic that white men and Indians in Che surrounding country refused to run against him.
 There is no record of White Bufio. Hos best time for any distance. There were no stop watches in the Indian country In the days that he was run ninr. and, furthermore, winning tho race rather than the time, was the only matter that concerned the In- dian foot racers White Buffalo ran l any distance from 50 yards to a mile, his preference being 200 yards He could cover any part of the latter distance at maximum speed. He runs on his toes.
 These InLlan runners in Southwest ern Oklahoma knew nothing about ! professional training. White Buffalo talking lately of his racing exploits. said that preferably he atc only a siight amount of food for half a day before the race, to make his stom- ach feel good It was his custom to ' plunge Into Q nearby stream, spring out and as quickly as possible begin running His racing costume was a shirt and no trousers. For each race he donned Q new pair of buckskln moccasins
 Fooled Ringer
 Numerous white men now living at Watonga recall the running of White Buffalo when he was in his prime One oi them said:
 g always maryeled at his strength. swiltness and endurance. He seemed Co run like a deer or a thoroughbred, covering alI the way with ease and nghtness. A member of she notorious Maybray gang was once at Watonga looking for victims. Merely to give White Bunalo's pride sharp jolt. 1t was arranged that ho should be matched agoinst this ringer. The lat. ter was told to run clean away from the Indian Indians know little ubout iockeying in their sports and the white man was able to gain about 20 feet before White Buffalo was off But the white man failed to make White Buffalo Che butt Of ridicule The distance was 90 yards The May bray man was Q crackeriack, but he didn't have an inch to spare at the finish and would have been badly de. feated had the distance been 100 yards"
 crsatest Foot Race.
 The most noted Indian footrace in Oklahoma took place during fair at El Reno In 1898. among the entries being forty or fifty Cheyennes and O. number of Caddoss, Wiowaa and Co., manches. White Buffalo was heavily handicapped and required to run four sides of Q square while several of the runners were permitted 10 run diagonally across the square. White Buffalo conceded too much and was defealed by caddo boy who ran the hypotenuse Of the triangle and won the race
 White Buffalo says that the swift est runner among the Cheyennea in Che old days wa5 Little Fellow, many years dead. The best runner among the Arapahoes until recent years was an Indian named Kaiser, now fat and slow
 Indians do not quarrel over the re- suits of race Before the race is run each better tosses his money on 9 blanket and gets it when the lsin- nor is onnounced If wrangIes or ar guments should arise, the matter is settled by running the race 9 second time. The same rules govern horse racing among tho cleyennes and the Arapahoes.
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 Some Good Loeal Bowling
 In 9 match game at the Brunswick Alleys hast night Mr. Lorenzen, who would like Q match with any of Ju- neau or Treadwelrs pin artists. rolled up total of S1t 10 four games, mak-