Word: handler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been largely an affair for pointers, though a setter, Feagin's Mohawk Pal, won three times (1927, 1928, 1930). This year it looked as if a setter might come through again. Louis M. Bobbitt, a chain drugstore man from Winston-Salem, N. C., one of the first amateur handlers in years to go up against the professionals in this stake, was there with a flashy little setter called Sports Peerless who won the gallery's fancy with his cautious wiggling and creeping when close to birds. He found and handled nine coveys perfectly in his three hours...
...will inherit the Hofnagel power. When the baby contracts diphtheria Hofnagel prevents his son-in-law from administering antitoxin by shooting him in the shoulder, kills the baby with his own mumbo-jumbo. These events are developed in a sharp atmosphere of authenticity, tautly directed by Arthur Beckhard, expert handler of family groups (Another Language). Good performances: William F. Schoeller as Hofnagel, Jules Epailly as a rival wizard, Victor Kilian as a slow-witted yokel...
...first day out, Kremlin, pointer owned by Jacob France of Baltimore, found four coveys and three singles in a good heat, then dismayed his handler by pointing two rabbits. Two days later a young pointer named Dr. Blue Willing caused a sensation by getting lost for an hour and a half, after starting his heat with a brilliant find. For the first time in 20 years the brace in the finals belonged to one owner, Andrew G. C. Sage of New York, nephew of the late great Russell Sage. One was Superlette, nine-year-old bitch, who was runner...
...Rapid Transit- whether he would back properly on the other dog's find. Their chance came after an hour's run; Superlette froze directly in front of the gallery and the judges' stand. When Rapid Transit honored her perfectly without a word of advice from his handler. Clyde Morton of Alberta, Ala., the judges decided that his performance was complete. They did not bother to name a runner-up, gave him the $1,500 purse, a first leg on the R. W. Bingham Trophy, donated by the publisher of the Louisville, Ky., Courier-Journal and Times...
Your May 30 issue fell hard for Jake Handler's usual modest claims that Henry Romeike-Public Service are the biggest & best of all press clipping bureaus...