Spratt Award

What U. S. dog performed the most heroic feat during the past six months? The Spratt's Dog Food Co. wanted to know for publicity reasons and to award a gold medal. Last week the judges reached decision.

To Brownie, a nine-month-old pooch of indeterminate breed living in Pasadena, Calif, went the prize. His deed: dragging his mistress, a 13 month-old child, from before an onrushing motor car. Explained one of the judges: "He was only a pup and it was the first time an emergency had arisen, but instinctively he knew what to do."

Some dogs honorably mentioned:

Nina, police dog of Marietta, Pa., who led her master to the barn where he found Bess, a prize cow, strangling to death with her head caught in a hay rack.

Pepper, a collie of Randalia, Iowa, who found 21 cows stranded on an island over which flood waters were rising, drove them into the stream, made them swim to safety.

Prince, of Holbrook, Mass., who grabbed his two-year-old mistress by the seat of her rompers, pulled her from a railroad track just as an express was rounding the curve.

Babe, a collie-shepherd cross of St. Louis, who, with the help of a stray puppy, fished a small boy out of a sewer.

Ming and Skipper, Chows of Portland, Ore., who stood off a cougar while their mistress escaped.

Mickey, a Florida terrier, who jumped in front of his small master and took a diamond-back rattler's bite. Mickey died.

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