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B—10 SPORTS. THE SUNDAY STAR, \\"ASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 25 1937—PART ONE. SPORTS. W - Farr Lifts British Ring Rating : Ringer Throwers Set for Battle' SLESLONEHEAVY | <« Has Physical Assets of Great Fighter OF CLASS IN YEARS Tommy Is First Since Moir,: Burns’ Victim, to Gain Serious Recognition, BY GRANTLAND RICE. OMMY FARR isn't the first British heavywelght champion since Charley Mitchell to have a shot at the heavyweight title, #s somebody has said. When Tommy Burns had earned recognition for his claim to the title following the re- tirement of Jim Jeffries, he took it to Tondon and exposed it to the round- house swings of Gunner Moir, then the English champion, Now, Burns wasn't very big and he sn't a great fighter by any means— but he was the champton &nd & fight- ing champion &t that and Moir had a chance to reap undying fame by knocking him out. “As soon as the match was made I DUt & good bet on myself,” Burns told me. “I'd never seen Moir, but I knew | the English heavyweights weren't much good as a rule. Then, a couple wecks before the fight, the Gunner is boxing an exhibition one night I put on a cap and raincoat and neaked into a gallery seat to watch | him—and. as a result of what I saw, I | rushed out and doubled my bet.” Burns knocked Moir out in the tenth round, Wells Was Spectacular, , M[OST spectacular of English cham- pions in the last 25 years was Bombardier Wells. The Bombardier was a big, broad-shouldered, wasp- waisted, typical English heavyweight, a good boxer and a terrific puncher. But he wasn't built to take a punch. He never fought for the world title, but came over during the white hope era to fight one of the leading hopes, Al Palzer. The fight packed old Madison Square Garden and was sen- sational. Wells had Palzer, a blond | giant from the Middle West, on the floor in the AArst round, but Palzer €0t up and knocked him out in the second, Wells went back to England, won a few fights and came back, only to be | nocked out by Gunboat Smith. Jusy | about the time the World War got under way Wells was being knocked out in one round by Georges Carpen- tier almost every other night—or so 4t seemed. There followed a dismal procession of Eng heavyweight champions, none of them any good and most of them now forgotten. When Jack Dempsey visited England in 1922 there wasn't any one over there who could have lasted a round with him, a situ- ation that freely was acknowledged in several caustic articles in the news- papers. A vear later Tex O'Rourke was sent to England by a syndicate of Ameri- can sportsmen in quest of a heavy- weight who could be built up into an | opponent for Dempsey, but a year's &earch of the countr: in which | O'Rourke had the enthusiastic aid of every one he encountered, was fruit- less. A Laugh? Maybe Not. NOW Farr is in the United States with high hope of beating Joe Louis and taking the title home with him. A natural inclination on the part of American observers of the fist, acene is to laugh at him and his pre- tentions on the theory that it has been &0 long since England had a heavy- weight who could fight that 1t isn't likely Farr is any good either. This m; be true, but at least Tommy has scored some faintly im- pressive victories, which was more than could be said for his predecessors. He had outpointed Tommy Loughran and Bob Olin, who, whatever their shortcomings may be as the years rapidly overtake them, still are better than fair boxers, and his defeat of Max Baer was & pleasant surprise to his countrymen. Baer, having lost practically all his prestige in this country, went abroad in an effort to recapture at least some of it and scemed headed in the right direction when he was matched with Farr. Granted that Max never was a boxer and that the old spring had gone out of his legs, at least he still could punch, and the impression here Wwas that any American heavyweight, who could punch could walk into any British heavyweight and knock him bow-legged. That's what Baer thought, too. But he kept walking into Farr with- out being able to hit him, and Farr almost jabbed his head off and cut him over one eye and generally mussed him up. After six or eight Tounds of this, Baer was a battered 8nd badly discouraged young man, and Farr took the decision easily. Since then Farr has stopped Walter Neusel, and although stopping Neusel 15 no great performance—not even a novelty, as a matter of fact—some Americans who saw Farr do it liked the way he went about it and have sent back & very favorable report on him, Sturdy and Tenacious. ARR apparently has a sturdiness and tenacity that many other British heavyweights, at least in fair- 1y recent years, have lacked. He is a big fellow and put together like a fighter, with a rounded, heavily muscled chin, a thick neck, a broad ‘waist and strong, supple legs. He came plodding up from the Welsh coal mines, fighting every step of the way, and although he was drawing only coffee and cake money until he met Baer, he was ready for a big- money shot when he came to it. He must have known that night that Harringay Arena was packed with a mob that was there expecting to see the bombastic Baer rock him to sleep in a couple rounds. But, if this was 80, he gave no sign of it, but fought , & heady fight and scored a clean-cut victory. It was this fight that put him right in line for a shot at Louis. Had Jim Braddock defeated Louis, Joe would have gone to England to fight Farr. ‘With the winning of the title by Louis and the failure of negotiations looking to a return match between Louis and Max Schmeling, Farr was invited to step into the breach. He accepted with alacrity, disentangled himself from an agreement to fight Schmel- ing, and will be here in a few days. (Cepyright, 1937, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) 4 TOMMY FARR, Briton, who is in this country to battle Joe Louis mnext month, presents a fine pair of shoulders and arms. o 500D PROFIT SEEN INBIG RING PLANS Lucrative Shows Are Apt to Follow Bouts Jacobs Is Fostering. BY SPARROW McGANN, EW YORK, July 24—Mike Jacobs continues to hold the spotlight when fistic news is discussed. Long Shot Mike is determined to outdo the most pre- | tentious undertakings of the late Tex Rickard by staging four world cham- pionship contests in one evening at the Polo Grounds in September. ‘When a promoter offers a guarantee of $100,000 for a lightweight titular | scrap, he either is sure of his ground | or belongs in an insane asylum. Jacobs is doing that very thing. He has guaranteed Lou Ambers $60,000 and the challenger, Pedro Montanez, $40,- 000 for their scrap. As though this was a stab for the | ultimate in high-class promotion, | Jacobs has added a world bantam- weight affair between Sixto Escobar and Harry Jefira, a welterweight scrap between Champion Barney Ross and Ceferino Garcia and a middle- weight titular battle between Marcel Thil and Fred Apostoli for the grand- est display of champions versus the: outstanding challengers ever before staged on one card. | | | | Figures to Profit Well. JACOES is not as loony as his actions appear on paper. Mike estimates the entire card will cost him in the neighborhood of $180.000. Figuring that the card reasonably rates to draw $400,000, Jacobs will have plenty margin to credit to profit. Montanez and Escobar come high, and Jacobs figures he is better off giving these boys a guarantee than a percentage. Ordinarily Escobar would be entitled to 37!z per cent as the champion. Montanez, as the chal- lenger, would call for 12!, per cent of the purse. By paying them & guar- antee, Jacobs is making sure the per-| centage will be in his favor. Freddie Steele is bound to raise a squawk because Jacobs will introduce Marcel Thil as the middleweight | champion, but Steele has no one but himself and manager to blame for this state of affairs. Thil has a just claim to the title and is 8o recog- nized by the National Boxing Asso- | ciation. ‘The fans pay little attention to the rulings of that body, but its decisions carry some weight in something like 20 States. Had Steele accepted the $40,000 offer Jacobs made for him to fight Apostoli there would not have been any need of reaching into France for an opponent Strictly Up to Steele. SHOULD Apostoli defeat Thil, and the chances are that he will, Steele will have to come to terms and defend his claim to the title by fight- ing the Californian instead of picking the likes of Gorilla Jones, Frank Bat- taglia, Babe Risko and Charley (Hobo) Williams. Steele will be up against it and the chances are he will be unable to get more than $25,000, the price he had to put up to get a crack at the title, when and if he decides to bow to the inevitable. Lou Brix, acting for Escobar, struck a good bargain in getting $12,500 for the services of the little Puerto Rican. He is getting $7,500 more than he de- manded for Sixto to defend his title against Jeffra or K. O. Morgan. Jeffra will have a hard time getting down to 118 pounds. He has two de- cisions over the bantam champion. These were overweight. Jeffra looks fine at 124 pounds, the mark he has been showing in gym work, and Esco- bar may pull the same stunt he did against Indian Quintana, who, mak- ing the weight, was a one-punch vic- tim of the Carribean Tornado, Jeffra in Danger. JEFF‘RA will last longer than that, but he is in for a sound thrashing if he is weak at the weight. ‘The Ross-Garcia fight does not hold much interest. Barney whipped the Filipino twice and figures to do so again. The motive prompting the staging of this fight is to appease the wrath of the local commission, which insisted Ross should meet Garcia be- fore any one else. Ross 1s in line for a lucrative engage- ment should Montanez triumph over Ambers. A Ross-Montanez fight for the welterweight crown is bound to do $350,000 at the gate, and that is big money. This match would wind up the outdoor season for Mike Jacobs and stamp him as the most enter- prising promoter of all time. CONN TO BOX CORBETT Match in San Francisco Will Follow Bout With Chong. PITTSBURGH, July 24 (#).—Billy Conn, Pittsburgh contender for the middleweight crown, will meet Young Corbett in a San Francisco ring Au- gust 13. - On his way 'to the coast Conn will stop in Youngstown, Ohio, August 3 for a previously scheduled match with Ralph Chong, Chinese fighter. Farr also has the height and legs needed by an ace heary- weight. BY BURTON HAWKINS. ROM the standpoint of pro- moters, the boxing business, like & Kkiss in the dark, is some- times thrilling, but always risky. By this time it has become apparent that the element of risk here largely is eliminated if ringworms are enticed by the type of card which this caulifiower sector warrants. It is significant that every really worth-while fistic festival here has been successful. It also is worth noting that Pro- moter Joe Turner and Matchmaker Goldie Ahern, who have a monopoly on the mauling market in the District, have been connected actively only with two of seven cards which have drawn five figure gates. First-Class Ring Ciy. ABHINGTON distinctly is not & second-rate boxing city. Prom- inent folk in the game repeatedly have expressed opinions that this neck of the woods is fertile sofl for an enterprising promoter, Certainly the dice thus far have shown a happy knack of popping up with lucky numbers every time any- one has ventured to deviate from the ordinary and import fighters with reputations and pit them against a guy who has a fair chance of smear- ing his record. The latest {llustrative example of this was offered last week when 10,- 000 customers poured more than $18,- 000 through barred windows to wit- ness Freddie Steele, world middle- weight champion, dispose of Hobo Williams in eight rounds in the fea- ture of a show promoted by the Variety Club. It was an entirely sat- isfactory card from every angle. That show was a financial success, but more important than that, per- haps, it attracted fans who could be converted into regular patrons were they offered something worth watch- ing. Fans here repeatedly have demonstrated they will plank their do-re-mi on the line if tal- ent is presented. You probably wouldn't walk across the street to see Buck Jones in “Two- gun Kelly” if it cost you a dime, but you doubtless have paid six times that much gladly to peek at Arliss, Gable, Loy, the Barrymores, etc., in outstanding flickers. There is a sneaking suspicion that the boxing public is patterned somewhat along that line. Good Shows Succeed. BATTING average of 1.000 is fair- ly respectable in any league, and that's just what the District is hit- ting on its outstanding fistic pro- motions. Its stick mark for ordinary shows is indicative of their caliber, simply becauss nobody cares if Joe Blots keyoes Slugger Smith. —Copyright A. P. Wirephoto. Washington will emerge from this era of “two-bit” boxing cards when Turner and Ahearn realize there is a decided difference in the spelling and performances of champs and chumps. It is then and only then that Ahearn’s bleat of “We lose mon- ey” will be altered. Either th: will discove: mine and present more outstanding cards or suffer a more enterprising promoter to slice in on their monop- oly. Too many people have recog- nized this sector as an unharvested fleld. Unless there is a distinct trend toward more noteworthy shows, it is possible these same people will step in as rivals. COLONIALS ENGAGE NEW BASKET FOES Minnesota, North Carolina, Toledo, W. and J. Listed for Next Season. INNESOTA, North Carolina, University of Toledo and Washington and Jefferson are the outstanding additions to the 17-game basket ball schedule arranged by George Washington Uni- versity for next Winter. Max Farring- ton, assistant athletic director, ex- pects to add two more home games to the list. Top-notch Colonial court opponents of the last several years, Long Island, St. John's of Brooklyn, West Virginia, ‘Westminster and Loyola of Chicago again have been booked, with Long Island and Loyola appearing twice and three times, respectively, on the card. s promotorial team soon Book 4-Day Western Trip. THE L. I. U. Blackbirds, high in national basket ball standings for the last several years, will be played in Brooklyn January 19 and here on February 22. One of the schedule features is a four-game Western trip early in February, including games with Butler, Wayne, Loyola and Toledo. Last year's G. W. five, coached by Bill Reinhart, won 16 of 20 games. The schedule: NeDgcember 15, Davidson (tentative): 28, orth Carolina. 5 sota; 10, Elon; 19, Long Tand gt Brookivm N. oF.i 31 West Virginia_at Morgantown. W. Va. bruary 2. Butler at Indianapolis: 3 Wayne at Detroit: 4, Loyola at Chicago: 7. Toledo at_Toledo; o] 9, Westmihster: Wayne; 18, 8t. John's at Brooklyn, N. Y. Long Island. arch 1, Lovola of Chicago: 2. Lovola of Chicago: ‘5, Washington and Jeflerson at Washington, Pa. KNOWS HIS YACHTING. Harold 8. Vinderbilt is highly rated by yachting experts. They say he rarely makes a mistake in & sport in 'W:l:h 1t’s almost impossible to be per- PRELIMINARY TEST is a fistic gold | OPENS TOMORROW Month of Action Ahead in Evening Star Tourney. Frye Visits Today. HE average fellow thinks he's some shakes as a hoss shoe flipper. If you're curious to know just how keen you are with the irons an oppertunity is at hand. Tomorrow night the qualifying round of the ninth annual Evening Star championships will open on the Municipal Playground Department's new courts at McMillan Park. All the pitchers in Washington, Maryland and Virginia are invited, at no cost, to take a hand in a tourna- ment that will run for the better part of a month. The qualifying test will consist of 100 pitches, with three points to count for a ringer and one point for each shoe six inches or less from the stake. ‘The 16 high scorers from each State and the District will shoot it out in elimination tournaments for the sec- tional championships and the stars of these play-offs will gather in a grand finale for the Metropolitan Washington title. Continues Through Friday. “71'1'11 Bernard McCarty of the play- ground headquarters staff and Harry Woodfield, secretary of the Dis- trict Horseshoe Pitchers’ Association, directing, the qualifying test will start tomorrow at 7 p.m. and the six courts at McMillan will be turned over each evening through the following Friday to the tournament prelim. On August 2 and 3, the Maryland survivors will battle for the Old Line State championship; the Virginians will follow, on August 5 and 6, with Washingtonians scheduled August 9 and 10.¢ The piece de resistance of the tournament, the Metropolitan play-off, will be held August 12 and It was the plan of the tournament management to stage the entire pro- gram at McMillan, thus centralizing | the affair on one of the finest horse- shoe layouts in the country, but the | management is not adverse to con- | tinuing the arrangements of the past | if enough pitchers desire them. The | Virginia championships have been held | on George Thompson's courts at Falls Church and the Maryland play-offs at Brentwood. Scores of horseshoe | fans take in all the sectional events |and for these McMillan Park would be just about ideal. However, the horseshoe editor is open to expres- sions in the matter. Frye, Henson Pitch Today. i’ “HE prime favorite to win the Vir- | ginia and Metropolitan champion- | | ships, Deadpan Raymond Frye of | Orkney Springs, Va., is visiting Cla |ton C. Henson of Arlington, present State title holder and this afternoon | at 2 o'clock they will shoot an exhibi- tion match on Thompson's courts. Due to pressure of buginess, Henson has had little time this Summer to pitch horseshoes, but in recent work- outs at McMillan has begun to show the old Henson wizardry that once made him the outstanding flipper in this part of the country. He should be at his keenest when the play-offs arrive. Frye will be the defending champion in the annual McLean, Va. carnival invitation tournament to be held Au- | gust 4. Before issuing invitations to | the eight pitchers who will compete | | in this tournament, Chairman Henry | | Huschke will examine the scores in | the qualifying round of The Evening Star championships. Woodfields Gain Lead. N THE meantime, the pennant race in the District Suburban League is | waxing hot. The Woodfields in the last matches took the lead from Sellers Sales Service by 2 percentage points. In order, they defeated Brentwood, 7—2; lost to Sellers, 5—4, then com- pleted their schedule by cleaning up the Goode Cleaners, 9—0. In order to finish on top, Sellers must win 13 of 18 remaining games. The remaining matches: Brentwood vs. Goode Cleaners, Sellers Sales Serv- ice vs. Mount Rainier, Sellers Sales Service vs. Fleshman Ice & Coal, Mount Rainier vs. Brentwood, Mount Rainier vs. Goode Cleaners, The league figures: Team standings. Woodfields Sellers Hales-Service Fleshmans _ Brentwood & Goode Cleaners | Mount Rainier Breylor Totals______*19 41 1,115 186 ‘WOODFIELD REGULARS. Bill Woodfleld Mel Johnson 1,900 1.996 347 5.400 3 GOODE CLEANERS. Battiste 515 Smith Quigley Goodwin Auth e Graziant Reichelt Newcombe Totals 17 164 SELLERS SALES-SERVICE. Temp Jarrell. 21 170 1 Ed Henry 3 9 Joe Merryman 0 Chas. Fort 9 Woodward 76 1 480 10 107 19 Hoover Totals__ Lee Fleshman.. 2 S — § Fleshman™- 6 8 . Fleshman__ 12 18 376 *80 39 1.636 413 rieited games. o WOULD DIVORCE BOXER. VISALIA, Calif, July 24 (A.— Charging extreme mental cruelty, Mrs. Bonnie Burum Brubaker has filed suit for divorce from Phil Brubaker, heavy- weight fighter, Totals __ *Includes fo: ——— LIKES BIG BOATS, T00. Gar Wood, the speedboat king, likes to chat about how ocean liners should be built, and points out that in his opinton 100 much space is wasted. [2 166 13 BY PAUL J. MILLER, JR., America’s Authority on Social Chess. An Unsuccessful Suitor. URELY,” said the young man, after her father had declined positively to entertain the proposition, “you are not | prejudiced against me because I have | no visible means of support?” “No,” the old gentleman replied. “I understand that you once took part in a chess contest that was played by cable. Any one who can find fun in that sort of thing is too cold-blooded to get into my family, if I can pre- vent it.” ~—Life, Hesse: W-14, D-4, L-1. {NGAGING 19 opponents simulta- “ neously at the Social Chess Lounge, Parkside Hotel, Carl Hesse, one of the strongest class A players in the District, scored 14 wins, drew 4 and lost only 1 game—an excel- lent record considering the quality of the opposition. Conrad Willnich, who learned his chess as a lad in Europe, was the sole victor against Hesse. Refusing the proflered Queen's Gambit, Willnich developed a powerful position which Hesse realized on the twenty-fourth move was extremely em- barrassing and so resigned. QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED. White, Black Willnich. 14 i Beginning promptly at 8 pm. the “simul” continued until 11:15 pm, when the tournament director, Simon Naidel, proceeded to adjudicate seven | uncompleted games. Individual scoring of plavers: 1 rench Defence Charles C. Ragsdale Ruy Lopez 0 44 *Adiudicated gan Among the visitors present were Dr. Alexander Brooks, S. Maxwell, Albert Bass, William R. Russell, A Hesse, J. S. Ca Andrew Bakonyl, M. Knapp and Gen. Bc Norval Wigginton, assistant chess director of the Washington Social Chess Divan, announces a rapid-transit, pyramid teurney being: Kt-KKt5. this Wednesday, 8 p.m., Parkside Hotel. The public is invited to visit the chess lounge and participate in the 10- second melee. A gratis membership for one month in the Social Chess Divan will be awarded the victor in the speedy elimination contest. Ladies are welcome. Chess Problem No. 88. BY M. BARULIN, Second Prize “De Problemist.” BLACK—I11 MEN. WHITE—§ MEN. White to Play and Mate In Two. ROBLEM NO. 87, by N. Easter, is| solved easily in two moves, the key exhibit from the collections of Lide dell and Pfeiffer are distinctly unique, George P. Northrop, whose column, “In Chess Circles,” is a Saturday feature in the Newark Evening News, describes the museum exhibit: s are on display for range from anclent ully ~ designed unique r feature is a set wrought in iv belonged to Louis XIV. It shows & hat between English and East Indian armies and was presented 1o the King of Francs in J6K0 by the Ambassador from Siam. “Colonel Liddell has a story to tell on nearly sll his sets. It is his custom tn set @ price when a set is on sale at auction. and not to o above that price, pegardiess of now high any one else may It ‘When the Louls XIV set was on block. another chess collector outbid colonel. so he had to let it morning _the colonel's the caller was the man who had bought the expensive chessmen the day before. He said that Liddell could buv rom hi the price he had with the preceding on second thought he'd better not let 'his wife know how much he_had put out for & set of checs eces. So, the colonel got his chessmen ®o. Tt phone rang resemble the oldest Correct s prize trio Sergt Alt . the and " less Paul Hodges and Charles he other h: prefer three they say a * from the printed diagram alone Which do the thousand and one fans prefer? Another solving contest is in the offing. Chessmen on Display. ’I’HERE is & handful of big business men in the United States who make a hobby of collecting rare and curious chessmen Two of the better-known col- tors are Gustavus Pfeiffer. vice president of the Marshall Chess Club of New York City, and Cel. Donald M. Liddell of Eliza- beth, N. J. Following their exhibit of valuable | sets at the Chicago World Fair in | 1933, Pfeiffer and Liddell began to circularize the inner chess circles of | the world, with the expressed pur- |} pose of publishing a book depicting | e history of American and European chess, according to the type, fashion, Chesspourrl. H. SARRATT was the first Br: player to merit the title of master. When and where Sarratt was born or 5 | what the initials J. H. signify are not known. H. J. R. Murray. the greatest living authority on the history of chess in all its manifold forms, gives a concice analysis of Sarratt's place in Britich chessdom in the July ifue of the British Chess Magazine He has borrowed liberally from Philip W. Sergeant’s spiendid work, “A Century of British Chess.” An example of Sarratt's which the White men are plaved by Sarratt and an unknown juggles the Black pieces KING'S KNIGHT'S GAMBIT style in 18 Q-BT Mate To the six players tied for the May design and composition of chessmen. | The status of the grand opus on | chess antiquities still is uncertain. | But if you are motoring eastward this | Summer, a visit to the Newark (N. J.) Museum will be an eyeopener, for, until October 1, the museum is dis- playing a large and varied collection of chessmen, gathered from all parts of the globe. Famous for their Occidental and Oriental histories, the ehessmen on | Philadelphia tournament. tadder award, this is the suggestion: A year's membership each in the American Chess Federation and a copy of the 1936 year book on the Commer.ts, s'il vous plait This column welcomes chess humor, news and views and prints chess news exclusively. A stamped envelope brings o reply to queries. (Copyright. July 25. 1037, by Beul Miller.) OTHING is more infuriating to the genuine dog lover than to | ear some witless, fool | , on seeing a woman with a dog, “She'd be doing more good if she we: g care of a baby.” And not u e more untrue than the inference that dog owners, | dog lovers, or dog showers, do not have babies. Just a casual s of the most | active dog fanciers in this locality and there is no reason to believe that | Washington is unique in that respect | —reveals the interesting fact that the | average size family among dog breed- | ers is larger than the average among ! Rcently crowned champion, Glenmard Tattler, owned by Mrs. Carter Hall of this city. non-breeders. In at least three cases, local dog breeders having no children of their own have adopted youngsters. In two of those cases, they have adopted two each and in the third instance they are just waiting a logical interval to adopt a second child. Nor is it inconsistent that dog lovers should be lovers of children, for the love of dog has in it some of the ma- ternal, protective feeling that the love of children connotes. And, also, the raising of dogs generally necessitates the establishment of & home, the own- ership (technical or temporary) of a house and some grounds. And these are things that are but seldom owned in this year of grace except by fami- lies with children. All this is true of dog breeders. What of the pet owner? No doubt numerous childless women, particularly in Wash- ington, perhaps, have dogs. Do they have dogs instead of children, or do they have dogs because circumstances forbid their having children and dogs act as substitutes? Would they have children if they did not have dogs? One minute’s thought answers all these questions. Caught in the act! Coulon and | before an open fire. trying to go through a revolving door together. Sy Woolner, chairman of a com- mittee for Summer meetings of the National Capital Kennel Club, has some interesting plans which probably will mature in the next three or four weeks. He promises some resl in- novations in doggy activity for this locality. Be prepared to participate, Baldwin Clever Painter. ONE of the most interesting dog pictures I ever have seen hangs on the wall of Dr. Collins’ Veterinary white. red and white, blue roan (simi- lar to the blue merle of collies, but without the white and tan), tri-color or liver. Scotties may be one of numerous shades of brindle or a light straw color called wheaten, as well as black. A Great Dane may be black, fawn colored, brindle in several shades, blue merle or harlequin, white with black or blue patches, and sometimes even chocolate. Of course, some breeds are limited to one or two colors. Notably the Irish setter, which must be red. (I have seen some black pups in red litters, though.) Schnauzers must be gray or sandr. English bull terriers m be white, the colored brethren being co a di breed. Doberman come red and black and tan, and the black and tans must conform to a certain pattern There are some breeds which vary | not only in coat color, but in kind of Hospital. It is a life-size oil painting by a Washington artist, Robert G. Baldwin, of an English setter lying Although no part of the fireplace or fire is visible, one knows beyond any doubt that it is there. The warm glow of the firelight on the dog's coat is unmistakable. os is also the expression of dreamy con- tent that dogs get only when they lie before an open fire. There is none of the stilted formality of the posed show dog in this portrait, yet the dog obviously is a good specimen. Dog Colors Vary Greatly. EOPLE often do not realize that pure-bred dogs come in more than one color. A collie to most people means a brown, yellow or tan dog with more or less white on his neck and chest. A cocker spaniel is a little black or red dog, depending on what section of the country it comes from. Scotties are black, and so forth, ad infinitum. Yet the standards of many breeds, perhaps most breeds, specify several colors. Collies, although most often en- countered in the above-mentioned sable and white (sable in dogs being brown, not black) comes also in white, tri-color (black body with more or less white and tan markings) and blue merle (black spotted grey with white coat. Best known, probably, are the | fox terriers, which come with smooth | coats and wire-hair coats. Although to the casual eye they look dissimilar, | they really are the same breed. | Dachshunds are divided by coat, | smooth, long and wire hair; color, | red, black and tan, chocolate, blue, and weight, miniature, mediums and above a certain weight. ‘ It is certainly true in dogs, if no- | where else, that “you pays your penny | and you takes your pick.” When a Dog Is a “Winner,” “’HAT is a winning dog? The term often is used very loosely to | designate a dog which may have | placed third or fourth in a class It is not known generally that even blue ribbon winners at dog shows are not, technically speaking, winning dogs. A winning dog, in the American | Kennel Club definition of the term, is one that has defeated all the blue ribbon winners of his sex and breed | (the class winners) and been awarded the purple rosette or ribbon, which | carries with it the points toward | championship warranted by the num- | ber of dogs of that sex and breed | actually in competition on the day. To advertise a dog for sale or at stud as a winning dog when he has not won the purple ac- tually is to be guilty of mis- representation. DE PALMA HAS MILE MARK. Ralph de Palma holds the Indian- apolis speedway record for comn: tive miles driven with a total of 4,061, Your satisfaction with GLOVER'S Dowble Action FLEA POWDER is guaran- teed —or your money back!Tryit GLOVER’S KENNEL & FLEA SOAP thoroughly cleanses your dog, kills fleas and lice, relieves itching, aids in healing minor sores, beautifies the coat. 25¢ cake. Don't accept asubstitute. Insist on and tan markings), Cocker spaniels his mammoth Great Dane Eric s, may be black, red, buff, black and