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...persons know of its existence in the U. S. mainly from publicity given trifling episodes such as the one which occurred last week near Avon, N. Y. State police were advised by agents of the Rochester Humane Society that a cockfight would be held in the cellar of the Canawaugus Inn. When they arrived at the Inn, police found a score of cars, their lights extinguished, parked outside. In the cellar a fairsized crowd was huddled around a tanbark pit, where, in the hard brilliance of electric light, two gamecocks were silently and gracefully tearing each other to pieces. Police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cocks & Cockers | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...cockfight in the Canawaugus Inn last week was unusual only because it was interrupted in a way which cockers are usually clever enough to avoid. Otherwise it greatly resembled hundreds of others held every week all over the U. S. where the sport is illegal in almost every state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cocks & Cockers | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

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