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Last week before Justice Bonynge came the case of Percy C. Reed, owner of the Nassau Kennel Club, operator of dog races at the Mineola fairgrounds. Year ago Mr. Reed was accused of gambling, but the case was dismissed for want of evidence. Mr. Reed now appealed to Justice Bonynge for a declaratory judgment approving his business. Justice Bonynge wrote a decision which made brisk reading. Excerpts: "The plaintiff operates under an ingeniously devised scheme, deliberately contrived to avoid the pitfalls of the Penal Law. In a word, he sells purchase options upon each dog in a race...
...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...
Author Peters writes at a loose canter, half businessman style, half hobbledygee, on the differences between English and U. S. hunting, kennel management, riding, cubbing, manners et al., helps fill his book by generous quotations, hunting songs, a nostalgic chapter on hunting with the Quorn, the Pytchley, other famed English hunts. With modest justice he calls his book "the random findings of an American business man who would that he could have been born a sportsman." Another sample of his seat on Pegasus: "Let us not forget that it makes a very great difference where...
...site in 1887, Patterson and his father became his friends, grew intimate also with Parrimans, Tilfords, Rogerses, Wagstaffs, Bakers. The Tuxedo colony grew up under Patterson supervision. Charles Patterson was head of the bank, the fire department, the park association helped run the hospital, horse show, kennel club...
...dachshund is among the most intelligent and efficient of dogs. It also shows definite signs of becoming the most popular breed in the U. S. Despised during the War, dachshunde suddenly became fashionable half a dozen years ago. Last winter, they outnumbered every other breed at the Westminster Kennel Club show. Last week, at the Lamington, N. J., pony farm of the James Cox Brady estate, occurred the first event of its kind ever held in the U. S.?dachshund field trials, patterned after Germany's Jagdgebrauchs, sponsored by the 40-year-old Dachshund Club of America...