MAKING THE FUR FLY.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4348, 18 January 1938, Page 7

MAKING THE FUR FLY.

It is more than doubtful whether Romford’s experiment will catch on at other dog-racing centres, and we shall have cheetahs or other carnivora chasing the mechanical) hare instead of greyhounds. It was a well-known Wimbledon lawn tennis player who brought the animals back from Kenya, at whose suggestion Romford tried the cheetah experiment. But, though it certainly introduced a new thrill into clog-rac-ing. it was hardly a great success. In the first race, in which a cheetah was pitted against two dogs, the cheetah got off the mark first —beat the pistol, as the track athletes say—but nevertheless put up a record for the track, beating the greyhounds out of sight. In another race, between two cheetahs, only one beast put his heart into it. The other was thinking of something else, possibly how much more appetising than a scraggy mechanical] hare would be one of the fat bookies who were trying to edge back from the rails. The other cheetah caught the bare and proceeded to chew it up. Why not try gorillas? They are credited with doing the 100 yards in eight seconds dead.