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...other trainers in U. S. Turf history had ever saddled more than 100 winners in a year; no one had ever done it two years in a row. Long considered unapproachable by contemporary trainers, these records were last week broken to bits by a 32-year-old Brooklyn pigeon fancier named Hirsch Jacobs.* At Yonkers, N. Y. last week Trainer Jacobs, who a dozen years ago did not know the difference between a pony and a Percheron, saddled his 150th winner of the current season. With ten weeks of racing left, his total should reach 175 before the year...
...snake fancier is G. Edgar Folk, the authority on piscatorial problems William L. Rumsey, Jr., other lecturers are Theodore P. Theodorides on Greece, Karl Thayer Soule, Jr., on Mexico, Central America, and Haiti, and Duncan B.M. Emrich on Current Events...
...Orleans, U. S. deputy marshals arrested Albert Broel, 46, his friend and fellow Frog-Fancier Sylvester Schutt, charged them with advertising that their frogs would lay 25,000 eggs a year, that in 13 years a brace would return a profit...
...remarkable hookup among churchmen, politicians and pigeon-fanciers, some 3,000 pigeons winged industriously over large parts of the U. S. for several days last week. In Washington Representative Pehr G. Holmes helped Secretary-Treasurer Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor attach a little tube to the leg of a pigeon which promptly took off for Manhattan, carrying a message to England's grizzled old George Lansbury, onetime Laborite leader. In Philadelphia arrived two birds named Paul Revere and Betsy Ross. One fluttered aimlessly around City Hall before it was captured, handed to Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson...
...time he was 2 that he was the best boxer in Germany. Golden brindle, 60 lb., 23 in. at the shoulder, with white paws and chest, Boxer von Marienhof currently has the run of his chairman's ten-acre grounds, spends his mornings in the office where Fancier Wagner sells shares in him. His first U. S. appearance will be in the Westminster Kennel Club show next week...