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Last week the first full-grown, live (but molting) quetzal ever to reach a northern city arrived in Manhattan in charge of its captor, voluble Explorer Victor Wolfgang von Hagen. Its destination: The Bronx for a rest, then St. Louis...
First white man to see, accurately describe a quetzal was Robert Owen of England in 1840. Plume-hunters nearly exterminated the birds, which are now protected by the Guatemalan Government. The first live, baby quetzals were taken out of Guatemala by Explorer von Hagen three years ago. Three, all of which have since died, went to The Bronx Zoo. Six went to London. When last heard from two of these were still living. Chicago also acquired two young quetzals last...
...altitudes of 5,000 ft. or more, nests in hollow trees perforated by woodpeckers. From the nests, which are hard to find, the young can be taken during the nesting season. Surprised in their sleep, adults can occasionally be caught by hand. Natives also captured live adults for von Hagen by stunning them in the open with slingshots. If confined after capture, the grown birds are likely to beat themselves to death, unless they are given an injection of sedatives, but they soon become very tame, eating out of hands and perching on fingers. Their favorite delicacy: avocados...
Last week, before 7,000 eyewitnesses, the prestige of U. S. sport pickers was put to a test. On Detroit's dog-tiring, tricky Oakland Hills course, Gene Sarazen's "leftouts" teed up against Walter Hagen's "ins" in a two-day challenge match under Ryder Cup rules (four two-ball foursomes, eight singles matches...
...Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Sam Snead, Ralph Guldahl, Horton Smith, Paul Runyan, Dick Metz, Jim my Hines, Harold McSpaden, Vic Ghezzi! "From the boys they overlooked I could pick ten that would beat the pants off that team," sneered Sarazen - with a special glare at his old rival, Walter Hagen, chosen captain for the seventh time...