Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1928, Page 6

(CLUB WILL RACE * WHIPPETSIND.C. Allen Hoffar Is President of | Organization Planning to ! Stage Contests. With dog racing steadily Increasing in popularity throughout the coutnry, dog breeders in many States have been turning their attention to the raising of dogs for track purposes and now ‘Washington joins the ranks with other cities with establishment here of the Washington Whippet Club. Organized last Spring by a group of local whippet owners who chose as their president Allan Hoffar of 3630 Tenth street, the club is planning to hold races in Washington shortly after ®he close of the Winter season. Training is Tedious. Back of the whippet's performance in funning 40 miles an hour along a straight course, bent on outdistancing his campetitors, lies months of tedious training, according to Mr. Hoffar. “The training of a whippet for racing,” he said, “is usually begun when the puppy t4s from three to four months old.” “The dog is then ‘ragged,’ or teased ‘with a piece of old cloth, which he likes to bite and hold, as do most puppies. He gradually developes such a desire for this cloth that the minute he sees 4t he springs for it, grabs it and clings to it tenaciously. “When the pupoy is about six months old he is taken to the ‘tapes,’ where he is taught to run n the single track marked off by a tape stretched about 10 inches from the ground. This is the most difficult part of a whippet'’s train- ing, and the most important, for, if, when racing, a dog leaves his track he is disqualified from the race. “The track is usually about 200 yards fong. A man holding the dog is sta- | tioned at one end of the track, while another man, whom the dog knows and iikes it at the other end, where be blows a whistle to attract the dog and waves the cloth which the puppy has Nearned to grab and chew. When the Bit- dog in training is released from his end of the track he makes a bee-line for the cloth being waved at the other end, After this process has been repeated innumerable times, the dog learns that he is ® run between the outstretched tapes. Diet Insures Endurance. “About six weeks before the whippet is ready to be raced he must be taken for a five or six mile walk each day, over hard, firm ground, in order to barden the pads of his feet. He is fed mostly meat, with perhaps. a small quantity of bran mixed in. This diet insures strength and endurance. “A whippet in a race runs at an average rate of 40 miles an hour and although the track is comparatively short, a winner is entered into several heats before the final eliminations, which necessitates his covering a lot of ground before he has attained success.” Mr. Hoffar said that he could not understand why people spent so much time in ralsing other dogs when they can, with so little trouble and expense, raise a whippet, which he considers one of the most intelligent, faithful and in- teresting dogs to be found. “They are sturdy animals,” he sald. “do not re- quire much care, and are inexpensive to feed. Mr. Hoffar has been a dog fancier for 50 years, but for the last 10 years has devoted most of his time to the care and study of whippets. It was not until the Spring of 1927 that he became sufficiently interested in whippet racing to enter the field himself. He then pur- chased a small female whippet, Darky, who had been entered in the Natfonal Handicap races held at Grifith Sta- dium and organized by Miss Hazel Grant Edgar of this city. Darky has since been entered in several races and is an expertly trained dog. Mr. Hoffar is now engaged in the raising and training of Darky's two puppies, Bit-O-Fashion and Gray Ghost, 4 months old, whom he hopes to have in shape for the races to be held in Washington next Spring. ‘Members of the club are now placing great hope in the new pupples which are being trained for the coming races. The members of- the-club are Mrs, Charles W. Stearns, Bernard Day, Wil- liam C. Sumner of Bethesda, Md.; Mr. and Mrs. William M. Stewart, H. L. Utley, George L. Goodacre, Carl: Dilli and Allan Hoffar, president and or- ganizer. O = A Great Opportunity! 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