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o Friday, Norember 23. 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TVTE TREE LIGHT SETS Zfj?y Cx LI .v F 4 I. ' ;r. j' -tepz JfTw JKT-A 'iSiZ' J"-Z ' .. & a a . -4 ' FINISHING WORKOUT at Olympic Village, near Mel bourne, Australia, Galina Popova (left), Russian sprinter nd long jufnper and Olga Kosheleva, Soviet sprinter, get drintf from Julian Grima. groundsman. (International) Is That So? p A never-failing source of camp fire argument concerns the top speed of mammals. Apparently I've added fuel tothe argument by ywriting pieces on their var ious speed--from the slowpoke two-and-a-half mile per -hour male to the cheetah of India, which is credited with 70 miles an hour, attaining an accelera tion of 45 miles an hour within two scjds! Sor our. American speed-king, f cited the prong horn antelope "at about 60 miles an hour." On the priwighom's speed, I was calie-l-and called hard by O P. Y- Whitney of Vanada, Mont. fcrrWhitney states that he h.as run down pronghorn with a horse, . his dog hag overtaken them, and he has timed them by auto at less than 30 miles an hour. TCbked With Authorities " Besides ray own observation I have checked with authorities. Among those stating "about 60 miles, per hour" are George C. Goodwin, of the American Mus mm .of Natural History,- who mys that a pronghorn antelope can do nearly a mile a minute; the Hitter's Encyclopedia, edited byRay Camp, which. says-that many bucks have been paced at iBO mites per hour, and several notorists tutve made reports of Pc4ng dogs at as much as 68 to g 70 fles per Sour. S,' Unless I get corroborative evidence backing me up from some of you outdoor readers, I'll have to eat. my words and lik 'ems (And" fo the person scorning up with what seems the bst answec to a pronghorn's eea whether cit favors Mr. Whitney or 3 me, 'makes no dif ference trie judges will award the weekly 30-volume set of ttie Encyclopedia Americana.) Let me give yoti stme quotes frm Whitney's correspondence which ha been running now q ver a year: World Record fol Dogs "The speed of horses and dogs Is a known quantity," he writes, g "A 22-second Quarter horse runs 40.9 milts fin hour. And the dog Damon Runyon," holds the worlffs racoed'for dogs, running th quartej at the average speed g of 34 miles an hour. "Now, Mr. Burns, for many years I have bean around aver age horses and plenty of prong horn and I've owned few coyote-and jacVrabbit catching dogs. Observing them- all well u to spaed, I have come to the conclusion that no animal that nir.s can at a race horse for oe-fourth or more! By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist "And at that, distance, I would include a cheetah." To back tip his statements, Whilney quoted Bob Seward of Ingemar, Mont., who has ridden the Montana range for nearly 40 years. Mr. Seward states that he too has matched the speed of a good horse with that of an antelope. Upon several occasions he has overtaken a herd before it was run down. Futhermore when he weighed 147 pounds he owned a horse which could outrun a herd of antelopes. To this 147 pounds add a 40-pound saddle which makes 187 pounds! Also j Seward states he has seen coyote i hounds outrun antelopes, j Time Feature Whitney says: "To account in part for the exaggerated antelope speeds, there is a time feature little understood in regard to overtaking animals. For the pur suer to catch the pursued, it is necessary to gain quickly. Hence, a man in a car attempting to come abreast, alongside the road, must drive much faster than the antelope is running before it angles, away. "Now Mr. Burns, whereas both of us may be wrong concering this matter, only one of us can be right. Right? Would you care to do anything about it? Come on out to Montana and I'll show -you that a cowboy on a good cow horse can bend or head a herd of antelope. To be more specific start behind them, pass them, and turn them in a different dir ection. All I ask is that the ' ground be hard and or dry, and the day pleasant. The results would show that the antelopes run under 30 miles per hour." All right, men, Whitney has put it on the line. What's your decision? 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