Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...players. Last week, with the town jammed to the last spare room by the annual pilgrimage of top U.S. dog men, Grand Junction's waitresses, its housewives, its postmaster, and the room clerk at its lone hotel had a new canine hero-a small (46 Ibs.) but dashing pointer-named Shore's Brownie Doone...
...three-hour field trials, dogs are judged not only for the number of birds or coveys they find but on their speed, range and obedience, their thoroughness in hunting, their style and manners in pointing, and their steadiness under gunfire. Last year's national champion, a pointer bitch named Sierra Joan, performed beautifully; so did a Winston-Salem, N.C. dog named Fast Delivery...
...morning he was to run, Brownie quivered with excitement and the early chill while trainers, judges and a booted-and-muffled crowd of 200 spectators mounted horses to follow the show. Brownie was released with another pointer named Spunky Pete, and the two raced madly out across the fields with the big cavalcade clumping cautiously along behind them...
...Every dog that competed in this year's National Championship was a pointer; in the last decade only one setter, Dr. W. Russell Trapp's 1946 Champion, Mississippi Zev, has managed to win at Grand Junction...
Babson grabbed an early 6 to 0 lead, but Wilson ordered a full-court press. The consequent Harvard drive, capped by Forrest Hansen's two-pointer, sent the Crimson ahead to stay...