Canine Carnival

Where sunburned ball-tossers earn their weekly wage, at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, there was a new spectacle last week. The team was away. Some one had come and lined the field with white tape from deep outfield to home plate, where excited people stood waving rags, towels and handkerchiefs. If you watched closely, you would suddenly see flights of shadows whiz in from the outfield. They were spidery little animals with pinpoint noses, whittled bodies, pipestem legs.

The American Woman's Association had wanted money for a clubhouse, and busy Misses Anne Morgan and Miriam K. Oliver had arranged the shadow races as part of a two-day program new to local sport patrons, a canine carnival. The shadows were whippets. Other creatures performed-- a shepherd dog with ten woolly charges, a circus of Pomeranians, high-jumping hounds, racing police dogs-- but the whippets had a world's championship at stake and their fleet heats monopolized the interest of the tens of thousands of spectators.

Entered for the Grand National Handicap was Whitefoot, holder of the world's record of 11 2/5 sec. for 200 yd. (owner: James Gilligan, Lawrence, Mass.) The winner was Lion, a dun streak from Dalton, Mass., owned by P. A. and J. B. Draper, which went the 150 yd. in 8 4/5 sec.