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Show REVIVAL OF PIG STICKING, "Pine Toppers" In Training for Sport at a North Carolina Fair. OreeiiBhoro, N C A new Industry hns been hi ought Into this section, ono that promises to pioduce a very lively degree of lnteiett and which may succeed suc-ceed In revolutionizing a time honored sport that Is jet dear to those who frequent the fair grounds when tho open season Is on In fact, the ancient sport of pig sticking may ho lovlved If J. F Jordan hns his way about It and Is successful In breeding a type of boars that are Indigenous to tho soil nenr Manchester, where ho has a gamo preserve well stocked with different dif-ferent varieties of winged and four-footed four-footed things at which to shoot or spear tThese quadrupeds of tho genus por-clnus por-clnus are locally known as "piuo top-pert)," top-pert)," hut even Mr. Jordan's acquaintance acquaint-ance with verbiage because ho was formerly sheriff of this county does not enable him to tell how these frisky, long tusked boars havo acquired ac-quired their name. Tho suggestion was made, however, by Garland Daniel, Dan-iel, secretnry of tho Central Cnrollna Fair association, that the name Is based on the fact that these anlmuls enn outtop nnd outrun any other spec! mens of their kind on tho footstool and are so difficult of captuie that not even the fleetest footed negro can catch one. though given u big start by the boar Mr Jordan has two of these racers In training Each ono Is to bo let loobo on tin fair grounds on a certain day. nnd ilu- negro that captures his particular pig will be allowed to tako It hemic- fur fnnilly consideration nnd ludlgetftlon Ono of these racers has u refold of lumping 27 feet on tho level nnd It Is snld to ho Mr. Jordan's 1ioh If not tils full Intention so to trnln this speedy and active runner nnd hioml juniper that Its record shall bo brought to 115 feet. Anyway, tho spectacle of 11 hundred or moro blnck chasers after a pig that has been greased by the hand of nature promises prom-ises to bo one of thoso sights at tho fair that are alono worth tho pried of admission. |