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Show If' ' A I THE following Is what a report er gets for going to tha dogs: There are four states In which dog racing Is legal Florida, Arkansas, Ar-kansas, Massachusetts and Oregon . . . Tracks also are permitted to operate In 14 other states by let us call It special arrangement with local authorities . . . It Is estimated es-timated that more than 15.000,000 witnessed the races last year . . . Greyhounds, generally considered the fastest of all animals at any distance up to 550 yards, naturally natural-ly are preferred to whippets . . . A greyhound In full flight averages 35 miles an hour. They are not raced until they are fourteen months old . . . Females Fe-males usually continue In competition competi-tion for three years, while nwils usually campaign a year or more , . . Then, even though they still retain their speed, they are retired for breeding purposes. Blood lines are as Important as among race horses . . . War Cry, owned by V. U. Burnett, the author, au-thor, Is the Man o' War of the dogs . . . Aside from starring In a movie, he won 44 races In one year and was out of the money only four times . . . Other great sires are Traffic Officer, who goes back three dog generations (12 years), Meadows and Playgoer. Greyhound's Dinner Will Cost You a Quarter When In training the dogs are fed only once a duy ... On days when they are not racing they dine at six o'clock ... On working days (Florida has matinees as well as evening performances) thej must wait until after the races . . . New Tork Pout. WNU Service Box Score Is Mum on Cards Wanting Reserve Infielder THE Cards would like to trade a pitcher (preferably Walker or Hallahan) for a reserve Infielder (Jimmy Jordan or Woody English). Such a deal would strengthen the Gas House gangsters at the one point where they now are woefully woeful-ly weak. . . . Although he claims he is happy, Al Lopez looks thin and peaked and his friends Insist the former Dodger catcher would love to be traded to some club with a chance. . , . Charley Roman, the umpire, has a 391-acre farm In Kentucky, He quarters 30 to 500 horses and mules as well as 50 to 60 milch cows on it Cy Perkins, the Tiger coach, Is the best piano player among the athletes now stationed In this state. Ethan Allen and Pitcher Pete Ap-pleton Ap-pleton (nee Jublonowskl) are the runners-up. . . . Braves Field (or whatever they call the present Boston Bos-ton Beehive) Is the toughest of all big time parks In which to catch foul balls. That Is because the wind plays queer tricks while whistling whis-tling through the high stands. Soma of his pals Insist that Hank Graenberg's hideout was partly In- spired by the rule which prevents first basemen from attaching those oversize nets to their glovea thla season. They say that Hank never was a good fielder field-er until this gadget gad-get waa Invented and that he knows he will slump with. If you have a greyhound to dinner you should give him raw hamburger, hambur-ger, ground coarsely but with all the fat removed, pearl barley, splnch, tomatoes, oatmeal, dog biscuit bis-cuit and hominy grits . . . You mix all this together and, If It is a very special occasion, you add a few spoonsful of cod liver oil . . . I The ordinnry portion weighs a pound and a quarter, although some owners dish out rations as heavy as two pounds . . . The average daily cost for a dog's board Is 25 cents. Sixty to sixty-four pounds Is the Ideal racing weight for a dog, but there have been winners all the way from forty -seven to aeventy-four aeventy-four ... At the start of the season sea-son the weight of each dog is recorded re-corded . . . When competing In a race his weight must not vary by more than two pounds from these recorded figures . . . Similarly only a pound and a half weight variation va-riation Is permitted from his last weight. This Is to prevent cheating . , . There was a day (it still exists In too many places, as most dog racing rac-ing experts will admit) when unscrupulous un-scrupulous owners would fill their favorites full of food or water before be-fore a race.. Other owners used to celebrate "Be Kind to Animals Week" by sand-pnpering the pads of a popular popu-lar dog's feet. It was a very fine means of winning bets on long siiots, as you will discover If you try the trick on your own tootsies and then attempt to sprint a hundred. hun-dred. Owen P. Smith Invented the mechanical me-chanical rabbit whereby dog racing rac-ing was made possible as a public (and big betting) spectacle . . . That was in 1920 and . the first events were held ' at Emeryville, Calif. , . . The biggest of all betting bet-ting nights was at Springdale, Ohio, an outlaw track near Cincinnati. More than $325,000 was wagered. Incidentally, owners flatly deny the widespread story that a greyhound grey-hound which has caught the rabbit rab-bit no longer Is any good for racing rac-ing and, In fact, Is practically broken-hearted at the deception that has been practiced upon him. Greenberg ut it now. 80 he asked a pretty penny pen-ny In order that he might be In good bargaining position in case his fielding was held against him. , . . Harry Geisel, the American league umpire, and Mel Harder, the Cleveland Cleve-land pitcher, can (and loves to) do card tricks. Otto Miller probably la fixing to get himself tossed out of the "them was the days" union. The Dodger conch says that it Is much harder to hit now than when he was a star. Claims that the pitchers nili. In too ninny curves, screwballs and knuck-lers knuck-lers along with the fast ones. Lee Ballafant, the newest of National Na-tional league umpires, It a snappy young fellow but players are complaining. com-plaining. They say he passes Judgment Judg-ment on curve balls too quickly. Breailon, Card Prexy, IIa9 a Menagerie In addition to owning the Cards, Sara Hreadon also has title to half a dozen saddle horses, 12 dogs, a flock of guinea pigs and a six-foot snake". . . . The Brooklyn training train-ing camp score card lists eleven club otllclals, starting off with Prexy Steve McKeever and winding up with a scout named Melville O. Logan. . . . Ben Geraglity, the Vil-lanova Vil-lanova basketball captain who Is one of the most promising of Dodger Dod-ger rookies, studied Journalism at college. . . . Bookies, several of whom operate In the New York rings, are still being shoved around byvthe Miami Pinks. . . . There Is some little discontent at the Babe Kuth homestead because so few photogrnphers drop around this year. Torchy Koda, the very good Japanese Jap-anese golf pro who has been so popular pop-ular with the galleries during his present tour, Is only five feet tall and weighs only 125 pounds. . . . Charlie O'llearn, the Yale back who now operates on Wall street. Is the closest pal of Tom Yawkey. the youthful Bed Sox Midas. . . . There Is no need for Connie Mack to be Jealous, though. Mr. O'LIearn has no ball players to sell. . , . Although one of his sons is only three years old and the other seven, sev-en, the forehanded Freddie Llnd-strom Llnd-strom already has registered t!iin for future admission to Notre Dame. . . . Mickey Cochrane says it Is tougher to find good catchers than any other kind of ball players play-ers nowadays. Joe Dimaggio, the most talked about (and probably the best) ball player in the South this spring, has found-something to worry about This is the first time he has been far away from the family fireside and although he has noted no symptoms symp-toms as yet he fears that he eventually even-tually will become homesick. . . . The Phils turned down Burgess Whitehead before the Cards traded him to the Giants. Recalling When Johnson Kayoed Stanley Ketchell Not In the box score: Take It or leave It, but there are, people who Insist that Pete Bost-wlck, Bost-wlck, the millionaire steeplechase rider, wants to buy Brooklyn's Dodgers . . . Frnncis Aibertanl, recently re-cently retired Madison Square Garden Gar-den pugilistic publicist, once was a world's champion, lie won the title ti-tle in a typewriting speed contest at the old Garden thirty -five years ago . . . After Jack Johnson knocked out Stanley Ketchell, two of Ketchell's teeth were found Imbedded Im-bedded In Johnson's glove . . . Guy Sturdy, manager of the Baltimore Bal-timore Orioles, Is one of the most accomplished of the baseball men now hunting and fishing in Florida, lie lives In Klsslmmee. Even the ultra-careful New York Jockey club sometimes makes mistakes. mis-takes. Recently a two year-old was registered as Sophia Tucker when it should have been Sophie. Similarly Simi-larly another thoroughbred was officially of-ficially set down as Ruby Keller when the owner meant the name to be Keeler ... Jorge Bresca, the heavyweight; Louis Soresi, his manager, and Billy DeFoe, his trainer, train-er, all were born In the same month, March. Washington may get a franchise In the Eastern Amateur Hockey league next season. One of the big-time clubs Is planning to operate oper-ate a farm there. |