Word: kennels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best performance of the first week was turned in by Doctor Blue Willing's kennel-mate, Air Pilot Sam. This handsome pointer found five coveys and one single, but made a false point and obeyed none too well for his famed handler, Ed Farrior. The judges also liked Golfer Glenna Collett Vare's Tips's Manitoba Jake and G. M. Livingstone's Shanghai Express, called them back for a run-off when the first series was over. Shanghai started off with a false point, handled one covey with style and finish, then sinned heinously by flushing...
...suffered from malaria, retired for a few years to build up his health, there was no dearth of energetic contributors. From the magazine's point of view, most important of these was Charles Dara Gibson. To Life for $4 he sold his first contribution: A dog outside his kennel baying the moon.* Encouraged by a publisher who was also an artist, Gibson was joined in Life's early pages by such celebrated draughtsmen as E. W. Kemble (funny Negroes), Palmer ("Brownies") Cox, F. G. Attwood...
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...