PIGEON FLYING.
♦ ' TO "THI ?BKS3.'') BLENHEIM. September 23. To be Denned up in crates for two and a half days and to travel over 400 miles by rail and steamer to reach a race point only 90 miles from their lolts, to which they homed in just two hours, was th© experience of the Blenheim Homing Pigeon Society's pigeons which raced from Parnassus en Saturday. L . erat.d in dull weather, the birds struck a fair wind and put up the very fine velocity of nearly 45 miles an hour, tho first to trap bein? K. "Wooster's Wrong End, with H. Ward's Black Cruiser in close attendance; in fact, it was an exceptionally cose race, ce cnly six minutes separated the first twenty birds.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18186, 24 September 1924, Page 14
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