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Community-relations-minded shopping centers have begun to court strollers. ) Many open their doors before regular store hours; some are measuring off courses and issuing walkers' maps. The quarter-mile circuit at the Northwoods mall in Peoria, Ill., even includes half a dozen stations for stretching and light calisthenics. The Ward Parkway Shopping Center in Kansas City, a pioneer that has been welcoming mall walkers for 25 years, actually opens for three hours on holidays just to accommodate its habitual hikers...
...local hospitals or health organizations, the malls are also establishing walkers' clubs that offer T shirts and buttons, merchant discounts, occasional free breakfasts and, most important, mileage logs for members. Walkers keep as close tabs on their totals as runners do of their times. "I'm on my 600th mile," boasts Ruth Kaufman, 60, a member of the Galleria Mall GoGetters in Glendale, Calif. "I could have gone to San Francisco by now." Observes Pat Garmer of Peoria's Northwoods center: "Let me tell you, you don't get in their...
...distance specialist, Simon headed her high school cross country team. She claimed a silver in the two miles and a bronze in the mile at the illinois State Championships and was awarded best senior athlete/scholar at her high school in Evanston...
Going some place in a feverish hurry, though exactly where is the next question, a bay bullet called Spend A Buck streaked away with the Kentucky Derby last week, posting the third-sprightliest mile and a quarter (2:00 1/5) in 111 springs at Churchill Downs. Stephan's Odyssey finished second, more than five lengths behind, and the 6-to-5 favorite, Chief's Crown, was third. Far up the track, or at least it seemed so, came that old plug tradition, which may be losing ground even...
Because their horse previously won the Cherry Hill Mile and the Garden State Stakes in New Jersey, the two are in a financial quandary now that describes the changing standards of the sport. Ordinarily a smashing Derby winner points automatically to next week's Preakness, with further dreams at Belmont. But a $2 million bonus, on top of a $600,000 Jersey Derby purse, awaits the horse that can sweep those three Garden State races and the Kentucky Derby. The Jersey Derby comes nine days after the Preakness, and Spend A Buck cannot keep both appointments...