Word: pooch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan track coach; of a heart attack; on the university golf course at Ann Arbor. Connecticut-born, he learned to run as a volunteer fireman, was a harness-mate of three fleet youngsters famed in later years as Princeton's white-polled Keene Fitzpatrick, Harvard's "Pooch" Donovan and "Mike" Murphy of Yale, Hill School and Pennsylvania, all track coaches. Never an amateur, Farrell became so famed a professional that U. S. backers sent him to England where he twice won the rich Sheffield Handicap. The Barnum & Bailey circus signed him on for its "Horse v. Man" race...
...Brownie, a nine-month-old pooch of indeterminate breed living in Pasadena, Calif, went the prize. His deed: dragging his mistress, a 13 month-old child, from before an onrushing motor car. Explained one of the judges: "He was only a pup and it was the first time an emergency had arisen, but instinctively he knew what...