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Said President Holt: "A man can be a mucker [on the gridiron and diamond] and still get applause. The same tactics in the duck blind or on the quail field will bring him the contempt of his companions. Taking an average, I have found more outdoorsmen whom I admired than I have athletes...
...Quail 'Leggers...
...years U. S. sportsmen's magazines have carried advertisements of one M. E. Bogle of Memphis, Tenn., "America's largest producer of quail for breeding and restocking purposes." His reputation and output had waxed so great that when Connecticut's Board of Fisheries & Game last decided to re-quail the State, they ordered from Bogle. But the large shipment of "imported Mexican quail" which arrived in Connecticut looked strangely native. Several specimens despatched to Washington were declared by Department of Agriculture experts to be U. S. birds, the big brown bobwhite quail and not the smaller, bluer Mexican...
Tennessee game wardens sent decoy letters to M. E. Bogle. They shadowed his bird-cage trucks, finally unearthed a huge quail ring whereby two men in two years had bought and distributed 80,000 quail illegally trapped by farmers in Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama...
...wonderful last day might put him in the finals; otherwise the national field championship would be between Mary Blue, champion in 1929, and Yankee Doodle Jack. Mary Blue, white & liver pointer bitch owned by Standard Oil Tycoon Walter Teagle, froze to a point, tail raised high: a bevy of quail slanted into the air. Again and again she pointed, covered ground tirelessly, made only one mistake. Judges gave her the title, with Yankee Doodle Jack second...