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...firsts as pointers but pointers have won the more important prizes. Of the 16 dogs entered for the Grand National, run last week over the Ames Plantation near Grand Junction, Tenn., only two were setters and the favorite, if there was one, was Walter C. Teagle's white & liver pointer, Norias Roy, who won the Continental trials in January...
...Hospital.) Physicians found that a bullet had grazed Mayor Cermak's liver and lodged at the back of his abdomen in his spine. His condition was critical. Mrs. Gill was on the brink of death as the result of a stomach wound. The other three were suffering only from flesh wounds...
Tiny Pierrot of Hartlebury, best Pekingese (TIME, Jan. 30) and best toy dog, got swooping dabs from his owner's hairbrush as he bounced along. Close on his heels, in ridiculous contrast, stalked huge, brindled Great Dane Gunar von Hollergarten, best working dog. Then came liver & white Norman of Hamsey, an English Springer Spaniel who had barely beaten out famed old English Setter Blue Dan of Happy Valley for best gun dog. The ribs and muscles of snow-white Greyhound Boveway Beau Brummel, best hound, looked like delicately chiseled marble. His kinky jet hair and the crimson ribbon...
Died. James John ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, onetime (1892-97) world's heavyweight boxing champion; of cancer of the liver; at Bayside. L. I. A clever disdainful boxer, he knocked out John L. Sullivan in 21 rounds in New Orleans, after politely contradicting, in a Chicago saloon, Sullivan's famed boast: "I can lick any son of a in the world." After losing the title to Bob Fitzsimmons, trying unsuccessfully to win it back in two fights against his onetime sparring partner, Jim Jeffries, he earned a living by acting (Gentleman Jack, After Dark: or Neither Maid, Wife...
...associate such cheap tactics with one whose conduct heretofore was strictly noblesse oblige. A characteristic prodigality has always been the Prince's distinguishing trait. A good illustration of this was the time when, having only fifteen dollars between him and the park bench, he dined on caviar. Strassbourgh goose liver, and champagne to the tune of twelve dollars, left a three dollar tip, and then stalked royally out without a cent in his pocket...