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Show COURSING SPORT TAKES FANS By STORM South Enthuses Over Western West-ern Form of Racing Great Dogs MI AM r, Kla.. April 12. Miami's new winter sport dog r;cing has "t-iken." Was northerners, used to about every senna t ion In the sport world, hav found a new thrill In watching long, lube, swift greyhound racing Just like horses do. DOGS FAVORED. The opening; of the trark of the Miami Kennel rhib drew a atwl of more than won, and they liked It. New York sportsmen, who have seen the races here, are seeking a track for I hit state and next year It Is the Iqten-tlon Iqten-tlon of the men who built the local rr,ict tn fnlQU liifljf JBqm-at,, JIavajlA., iiImu. hats bid for one. They hope. In the co urn of a few season, to establish estab-lish a circuit through the en. The common question is, how do they make the dogs run without live rnhhits. O. I', Hmlth, one of the promoter, solved thin question and ninUle possible ht e sport by the invention nf a device to carry s mechanical rabbit. n tiie outer rim of the track Is a mlnlatur ebn-trlc trolley from which a long arm ei tends and on the mid of this question and made possible the ley Is controlled by a man In a tower. MANY RACERS. In alt, there are about ?00 dogs now raring at the Miami track. The track la much like a horse-racing track having hav-ing It grandstand, paddocks, and Is a quarter-mile track. Hefore each race the six dogs entered In It are displayed In the paddock. Then they are led to the truck, where cages awstt then, at the various starting points, according to the length of the race, which varies with the different events. The dogs are put In the six comportments comport-ments In the cace and the electric rubbit Is whirled alout the track. CHASe BUNNY. As It speeds by the first time the dogs become frantic and rear about, mad to go after It. n its second trip, when it Is about thirty yard ahead of the cage, the do- are freed by the lilting of I lie door in front of the cage and they lunge after the elusive bunny. At the end of the race the rabbit dts-apears dts-apears Into a chute and the hounds are recaptured, feeling cheap, by their attendants. |