Word: greyhounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since he invented it in 1919, a Californian named Owen P. Smith and his heirs have made more than $2,000,000 out of the mechanical rabbit. There are now 30 greyhound racetracks functioning in the U. S., eight of which are in Florida where 1,000,000 people watch the races during the 90-day season. Miami, where there are more people who do not know what to do with themselves than anywhere else in the U. S., is now the U. S. greyhound-racing capital. Two thousand dogs are quartered there every winter. Filling stations give out free...
Last week the Florida dog-racing season reached its peak. At the Biscayne Kennel Club, where Vincent Lopez' orchestra plays and Helen Morgan sings, a skinny, long-backed hound named Crafty Boy won the Florida Derby, most important greyhound race. At the West Flagler track a brindle puppy named George Elfrink won the season's major juvenile race, the $2,000 Nursery Stakes...
...England, greyhound raising is fashionable. In the U. S. it is practiced principally by Midwestern Indians, who have time and space to train their dogs. More interesting to breeders than last week's races is the National Coursing meet run semiannually at Abilene, Kans. for the purpose of testing speed and stamina. Short-lived, delicate, savage as wolves, greyhounds wear muzzles when they run to prevent them from biting each other to death. Extracting the live hare, traditional coursing quarry, does not decrease the cruelty of the sport. Greyhounds are taught to pursue mechanical rabbits by developing a thirst...
...only had his portrait etched but where he himself unveiled the work by yanking a rubber mouse attached to the cord attached to the curtain on the easel (TIME, Dec. 17)Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen's unofficial name is Duke. Last week, after reluctantly dismissing Greyhound Southball Moonstone, Collie Bellhaven Black Lucason, Sealyham Gunside Babs of Hollybourne and Pomeranian Wonder Son, Judge Alfred B. Maclay ordered Duke and Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge's fine white-&-liver pointer Nancolleth Marquis to trot around the ring again. He had them pose once more and then gave first...
Cheetahs, which look like little leopards, are the fastest animals in the world. A cheetah has been clocked at 103 ft. per second, twice the speed of a greyhound. In Africa cheetahs are used for hunting antelope. Hooded and chained, carried to the field in carts, they are released within 200 yd. of the game, restrained from eating their prey, when they have killed it, by being offered hot blood in a long-handled ladle. On an African hunting jaunt, Woolworth Donahue caught his cheetah when it was three months old, cured it of rickets by lime injections...