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...white. From a tower the judge watched sharply to see which dog took the lead at the start, which turned the rabbit at a right angle, which made the kill. He raised a red or white flag to name the winner, doffed his hat to indicate a tie & runoff...
...chance to follow their noses for quail over the clover and corn-stubble fields of the Hobart Ames Plantation near Grand Junction, Tenn., and the judges in the 40th annual national bird-dog championship field trials, unable to name a winner, picked four for a runoff...
...National cannot wholly counterbalance. When Henry M. Curry's Homewood Flirtatious, paired with Doctor Blue Willing, found eight coveys and two singles on the first day of the trials, the judges might have suspected her of being merely fortunate until they saw her in the brief 30-minute runoff. Then paired with Andrew G. C. Sage's Sulu. Homewood Flirtatious found her first covey 50 seconds after she was put down. Two minutes later she nailed a single. As stylish as she was quick, Homewood Flirtatious backed her bracemate beautifully on Sulu's two finds, made...
With this record, the young Attorney General marched into last summer's Dem ocratic primaries for Governor. One of seven candidates, he ran first with Tom F. Hunter, a wealthy lawyer and oilman, second. In the runoff, three of the defeated candidates, including one backed by Pa & Ma Ferguson, promptly lined up behind Hunter. Jim Ferguson described Allred as "just a boy." Hunter described him as "a little boy with big breeches on." Allred retorted: "I'm old enough to run for Governor in my own name and that's something Jim Ferguson...
Only one New Dealer from the 73rd Congress-Representative Disney-won his renomination in the first primary. Three others, Schoolteacher Willie Rogers, who campaigns as "Will Rogers," Schoolteacher Wilburn Cartwright and Lawyer Jed Johnson finally made the grade in last week's runoff. Discounting retirements, personal fights and local issues, the fact seemed to remain that in Oklahoma support of the New Deal by no means guaranteed a Democratic politician success at the polls...