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Doctor Blue Willing was the gallery's favorite but Norias Annie's trainer, Chesley Harris, insisted that his bitch had a good chance to win two years running. The most famed woman pointer fancier in the U. S., Mrs. Nina Billingslea of Tulsa, Okla., had a good bitch entered, Spunky Creek Joann. Snow and sleet delayed the start three days, pleased Willard Gay of Meriden, Conn., who had brought his family 1,000 miles to see what happened. Two setters disgraced themselves on the same day: W. D. Albright's Silvermont which was taken up after...
...quick, Homewood Flirtatious backed her bracemate beautifully on Sulu's two finds, made two more of her own in the next 20 minutes. The second heat of the run-off between Doctor Blue Willing and Sports Peerless, was a mere formality. When it was over, the white-&-black pointer Homewood Flirtatious got first prize-$1,500 and a leg on the R. W. Bingham Trophy...
...Washington, D. C., Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., 19, opened an envelope from the War Department and read those words of Adjutant General James F. McKinley. Great was the pride of handsome, serious-minded Cadet-select Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., son of a West Pointer (1911) now attached to the War College, and only living great-grandson of one of the Military Academy's most famed graduates, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson, Lieut.-General, Confederate States Army...
...Terrace of Blakeen's unofficial name is Duke. Last week, after reluctantly dismissing Greyhound Southball Moonstone, Collie Bellhaven Black Lucason, Sealyham Gunside Babs of Hollybourne and Pomeranian Wonder Son, Judge Alfred B. Maclay ordered Duke and Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge's fine white-&-liver pointer Nancolleth Marquis to trot around the ring again. He had them pose once more and then gave first prize-a rosette and a silver bowl-to Duke's owner...
...ducks, Publisher Warner got the idea of teaching the cheetah to retrieve. After two days the cheetah fetched dead or wounded ducks on land or in the water, delivered them instead of eating them. When hunting pheasant, the cheetah is less useful than a pointer. Instead of standing still, it runs after every bird, frequently catches one after it has flown by jumping in the air and knocking it down with...