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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taylor, Bates & Co.) to hunt woodcock, grouse, pheasant at the ancient Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing Club in Pike County, Pa., to shoot in South Carolina and the Florida fiats. He finds time also to be President of Manhattan's Leash Club, of the Morris County Golf Club, N. J. and he knows dogs. One of only four dogs which have twice won Westminster's Best in Show-all four were fox terriers-was John Bates's wire Ch. Pendley Calling of Blarney, in 1930 and 1931. Seven times Bates has been chairman of Westminster Shows...
...versatile Chairman Harry Peters (who last month insisted in a Metropolitan Museum of Art lecture that sport has influenced art more than religion) had entered, beside his greyhound, a lemon & white pointer named Sensation, which his son had bought "for a bark" (actually $50) from a Rochester, N. Y. farmer. Though best of the pointers, Ch. Windholme Sensation lost in the sporting group to a mere pup, Sportsman Dwight Ellis' gay English setter, Daro of Maridor...
...terriers, etc.). In London last week, at the same time as the Westminster show in Manhattan, was held the immense, 9,109-dog Cruft's Show (which in England is second in importance to the smaller Kennel Club Show). Day after Breeder Sheldon M. Stewart of Montclair, N. J. received a cable that his homebred Airedale Merry Sovereign had gone to best terrier at Cruft's. his homebred Airedale Ch. Shelterock Modest Smasher was named best of breed at Westminster. But a few hours later the fox terrier which had beat Merry Sovereign for the group award year...
...Fran Darien. Conn, down through the towns and villages flanking Long Island Sound, and in sections of New York City, the double feature was taking a decisive beating, ranging from 19-to-1 in Darien to 2-to-1 in The Bronx. Only reversals: heavy pro votes in Montclair (N. J.) Academy, East Orange (N. J.) and Rye (N. Y.) high schools...
Chicago. Fortnight ago a babbling, excited delegation of mothers and teachers, representing 260 units of the Parent-Teacher Association. 50.000 families. 150,000 children, cornered beaming, bespectacled Dr. Herman N. Bundesen. Board of Health president, in his City Hall office, asked his help in combatting double features. "We feel.'' said their spokesman, "that they are detrimental to the health of our children, due to the many hours spent inside the theatre, depriving them of their rightful amount of outdoor exercise and rest, and resulting in fatigue, eyestrain and overwrought nerves. . . . Two-and-a-half hours is long enough...