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...Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge's Nancolleth Markable, a British-bred pointer with light orange markings, a blaze on his head, a strong back, a deep brisket, and what his admirers consider the finest legs and feet ever seen on a sporting...
Justice Townsend Scudder, judging the six, singled out the pointer, the Scotch terrier and the greyhound. Nancolleth Markable scrutinized his handler, then his owner, then the judge. At a wave of applause in the last minutes of the judging, he faced around to give the crowd a solemn look. When Judge Scudder handed his handler the rosette for first prize, he gave a jump and sniffed. To Gamecock Duke of Wales went the trophy for the best American-bred dog in the Show...
...looked best with six bevies and a single, but Shore's Carolina Jack was still in it. A 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...
...Roxie, Muscle Shoals Sam, Stoney Grove Bonny stood out well in the U. S. Field Trial Club's all-age stake-prelude to the national championships. this week on Hobart Ames's plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn. Winner was Rex's Tarheelia, liver-&-white pointer bitch owned by T. Carey Bailey of Baltimore, with George Feltman's Treco second...
Virginian, West Pointer, cavalry officer. Major-general of the Confederate army at thirty, and killed in battle before the fall "in the fourth year of the Republic," Jeb Stuart was, before any of these things, essentially a human, forceful personality. Fastidious in dress, possessing an excellent voice and sense of humor, and leaving poker and whiskey alone, Stuart was intoxicated with the beauty of Virginia, women and horses. Robert E. Lee said of him, "General Stuart was my ideal of a soldier." Which, according to the tenor of the book, was the one compliment Stuart would have desired...