Word: pointer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME of March 3, you have as a frontispiece, a fine picture of the great Pointer ''Mary Blue," with the question "Is the Setter Better?" May I be permitted to answer your question at least for one Setter...
Princeton, on Sept. 2, 1929, in the Manitoba All-Age Stake, when he was barely 28 months old, in a field of 52 starters including Mary Blue, beat all of the best Setters and Pointers of America and Canada. In the final series in the Manitoba All-Age Stake, Princeton was paired against the Pointer, Mary Blue. The result of this test did not leave the Judges long in doubt that Princeton was the superior of the Pointer, Mary Blue...
Feagin's Mohawk Pal, with two legs on the cup, made his run in heavy going. Friends of the setter in the historic Pointer v. Setter argument were disturbed when this dog and his setter brace mate were penalized for false finds. But everyone was satisfied that Mohawk Pal found game enough to qualify for the finals...
...wind was coming up when Oilman Walter Teagle's defending champion, the Pointer Mary Blue (TIME, March 3) was set down. She found one less bevy-six to seven-than her brace mate, the Setter Rod M's Dan. But all could see she was the fresher dog at the finish. For half a heat in another brace the pointer bitch called Brighthurst Mary Proctor ran so brilliantly that she looked like a champion, but suddenly she folded up and it was Mary Blu against Feagin's Mohawk Pal- the pointer-setter final everyone had wanted...
...account of another setter who has beaten Pointer Mary Blue...