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Ballyhoo for the Westminster Kennel Club's Annual Dog Show is usually composed of statistics, freaks, photographs of puppies. Last week's ballyhoo contained the customary information that more dogs (2,837) were entered than ever before, items about a singular creature called the Welsh Corgi, news that dachshunds outnumbered all other entries. Newsreaders, however, were flabbergasted at one new note in the ballyhoo. This was the Woolworth Donahue Cheetah. Before the show opened sports pages contained pictures of the cheetah and its trainer, Publisher Eltinge F. Warner of Field & Stream. When the show began, patrons viewed...
Only hunting cheetah in the U. S., the Donahue cheetah has no name, sleeps on his owner's bed or in a kennel. Last week, after helping publicize the dog show, the cheetah failed to return to its normal function, that of publicizing Woolworth Donahue. Instead, left to its own devices in the Donahue boathouse at Palm Beach, it quickly ran away...
...Wilbur K. Hitchcocks of Mt. Pleasant, N. Y., raising English sheepdogs is fun. To their neighbors it is no fun. Last February a court ordered onetime Justice of the Peace Hitchcock to reduce his kennel of more than 40 dogs to "a reasonable number." Last week into Supreme Court at White Plains stormed Neighbor George F. Murphy, textile manufacturer, to charge that the Hitchcocks, in- stead of reducing their dogs, had permitted them to multiply. Retorted Breeder Hitchcock: "Dogs will be dogs." Neighbor Murphy cited noises and odors, described a chart kept by his butler of every howl, yelp...
...Sadlier not only breeds bloodhounds but champion ones which she herself trains. Because of her husband's interest in Trollope her kennel name is Barchester. At 3 a. m. police rolled up to the door and routed her out of bed. Mrs. Sadlier is a sportswoman born; her father, Canon Albert Darell Tupper-Carey, has the sporting post of Chaplain at Monte Carlo. Shaking the sleep from her eyes she called...
...favorite, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's High Quest, stumbled at the start and threw his jockey; on a sloppy track, at Belmont Park. ¶ S. L. Froelich's Sealyham terrier Gunside Babs of Hollybourne: Best in Show against 2,827 entrants in the Morris and Essex Kennel Club's dog show, biggest outdoor all-breed event ever held in the U. S.; at Madison...