Word: pointer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...basement, 3½-year-old Trick perked up for the final of the Westminster Kennel Club. Most of his five rivals, survivors of more than 2,500 carefully sifted pooches, were considerably more formidable in size and mien. Finalist Judge George H. Hartman moved from the sleek pointer (best of the sporting dogs) to the shaggy Afghan (best of the hounds), examining each dog with quick hand and practiced eye. When he got to the handsome imported German shepherd (working-dog winner), the handler slipped off the lead and the dog stood unattended, facing the judge with a pride...
...shepherd and the pointer were beautiful in long-legged motion; Trick, skimming nonchalantly through his paces, was a smooth and jaunty little Scotty. Judge Hartman didn't take long to decide. He picked up the blue ribbon and pointed to Trick. Said Hartman: "Not only one of the greatest dogs I have ever judged, but one of the greatest I have ever seen...
...woman from West Roxbury, "That follow can make his tall as tight as my fist; but I can't imagine what happened to him yesterday, why, it he'd just lot it hang it wouldn't have been so conspicuous, but he stuck it right out straight, like a pointer...